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A unique idea. I’d go with Sixtine instead, as she shapes him in FAAD, in more ways than one.
The novel isn't Fleming's best, but I'd love to see the final act of The Man With The Golden Gun make an appearance in a film. Maybe set it in a place known for its alligators for an extra slice of jeopardy.
So either Australia or Florida.
Never thought about it that way, but you are absolutely right!
Oh, absolutely. I can think of a few that would be quite cinematic. I'd love to see Bond swim with barracudas. And prepare himself physically and mentally for a mission. And I wouldn't be against a giant squid. And some other fairly exotic situations.
A twist could be if there is a public figurehead „Head of MI6“ and then there’s M who really controls it all and then the plot is around that entanglement. Maybe they could even get the real Richard Moore to cameo! That would be funny. But probably way, way, way too convoluted.
I always wondered if it'd be feasible to get a lower royal in a PTS, but I'll take Richard Moore.
The Mission: Impossible movies got Wolf Blitzer, you never know.
Wasn't Blitzer in SF too or am I making that up? Definitely not confusing him with Huw Edwards/his cameo in that film by the way.
Yep, Bond sees Blitzer report on the Vauxhall Cross explosion from the bar in Turkey before coming back.
That's it. Not American so I'm not really familiar with that reporter. It's cool that they actually got real life news presenters to do actual cameos in that film though.
Still always ridiculous to me how Bond is jolted back into action because some miscellaneous bar in Turkey gets live CNN reports.
Yeah but I guess more likely the bar would have CNN on than BBC World.
I still love Martin Lewis turning up in TWINE; and as I remember BBC News had had a refresh of its onscreen presentation by then, but because Bond was watching an archive clip they actually got the correct previous set and look of BBC News for the scene. Nice work.
Is neither M mentioned to be the boss of MI6 in the Craig films then? Never noticed that.
I wouldn’t claim that. I’d have to go back and rewatch it and frankly I think it’s unlikely. My thing is that they all of their actions and circumstances make more sense if they aren’t the Chief of a major government agency with 2.500+ employees, but rather something smaller.
One of numerous things about SP that I get irrationally annoyed about every time I see it. Why does a copper on the street know what a Double-Oh is?
One of those examples is from a ridiculously campy film that doesn't take itself seriously, while the copper on the street is from Spectre.
Everyone knows it, even those undercover drug cops in LTK for example, or even an assassin for hire like Scaramanga knows who Bond is and to the lesser extent knows what MI6 is.
Ooh, good point.
Well Judi M expects the coppers on bridges to recognise her car! :)
True. That's also something I'd change!
I am kind of itching at doing a proper content analysis of the books and films about M's role and any descriptions of MI6's structures and the people working there. I obviously won't do that - that's a full-on media studies thesis - but it feels like there could be some surprising differences between what people think is in there and what actually is.
Might be a bit of a tangent, but it makes sense that M functions the way he/she does in the Bond stories. Of course Fleming himself seems to have been inspired by his superiors in the Navel Intelligence Division (John Godfrey is the main one noted specifically). This was during WW2 as well, and Fleming's interactions with these superiors would have been about intelligence units and that sort of stuff. Ok, maybe not as fantastical as something from his Bond novels, but it's still very specific 'nitty gritty' stuff in a relatively covert setting.
There is certainly bureaucracy in Fleming's MI6, but it's a far cry from something in a John Le Carre novel - a writer who did actually work for MI6 - with offices full of rather unassuming men. M is more a 'man of action' (more larger than life than a character from a Le Carre novel) and certainly one who Bond respects. Often in the novels it's that personal connection, that sense that M sees Bond as 'his best man' that gets the plot rolling (ie. in CR and MR his gambling skills spurs M to put Bond on these jobs, in YOLT, DN and TMWTGG he decides to send Bond on specific missions in order to get Bond 'back on track', in TB he decides to send him to his weird health clinic and even afterwards he shares his personal theory about where the warheads are etc.) So it makes sense from a story and the individual writer's perspective that M plays the role he does. In the films while the dynamics between the various M and Bonds have been slightly different in each version, that 'he's my best man' idea is still central to every M. It wouldn't change if he were only the head of the 00 section and would in fact probably be strengthened.
Everyone knows it, even those undercover drug cops in LTK for example, or
I think this is somewhat explored at Kim Sherwood's Double Or Nothing Novel.