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Yeah I think that's his best Bond fight scene. Not too many of those weird punches where he cradles the baddie's face first! :)
Out of all of the Bonds, even though he's probably the least convincing 007 fighter, he must have done more screen fights than the rest of them put together. Maverick, Ivanhoe, 118 episodes of The Saint, The Persuaders, his 7 Bond films, all with often more than one fight per episode; other movies too... that must be a couple of hundred screen dust-ups.
My favorite of Moore’s fights is the yo-yo palace fight from Octopussy. Excellent use of direction and editing that really gives the fight a fast paced feeling.
Well hot damn, we're in preproduction people!
Aren’t development and preproduction different stages?
I guess you are correct. in development
It's oxymoronic in theory, but I think it's possible to do both. I can see a route where they can be more dark and emotional while also have more fun and humour involved, but I think it'll probably take a different voice in the writers room to get to that point.
I liked the talk during NTTD production about how Bond can still be old-fashioned and not-so politically correct, and actually play with how a man like that would operate in today's world in an interesting way. I think this can bring both humorous moments and darker moments in an authentic way.
Bond is slightly colder and more ruthless than you expect, his kills come as a shock after so much charm. He smokes and drinks and flirts a little too openly, but he only pushes it too far when it's self-destructive.
Random, but, I can say that, as a gay man, I never want to see Bond in bed with another man.
For all its faults, I thought NTTD did a really good job of putting Bond in the modern day, ironing out some of his more dated character aspects but still keeping others without laughing at him, and still making him feel like Bond.
Back in 2005, a lot of what made James Bond who he is still existed and still worked, but now we're at stage where things have changed massively and we're now gonna be having a James Bond who would've been born in the late 80s or early 90s, so overall I'll be interested to see how they handle it.
Depends. Splinter Cell is awesome to play but based on stealth. A Bond who has to hide in the shadows all the time sounds a bit dull. A little of that, however, might be cool.
I'd love a good Splinter Cell style stealth sequence, I think it'd be a great PTS idea and way to introduce a new Bond in a slick fashion.
For a PTS, yes, I can definitely agree.
I blame Mendes.
I don’t know why I keep picking at this thread. I don’t want the films to be a bad Johnny English-knockoff („Haha. He wants a big car, but the government will only give him an electric smart car. How silly!“). But I also feel like we can’t just be sitting here saying: The character has to stay the same AND he has to stay at his place in culture in society. On the other hand, the Bond films have been managing to imagine a world in which a British agent is still somehow relevant in world politics, so I guess they can do a lot of things if written right.
It's an interesting thought. I was dwelling the other day on the idea of a modern day Bond who still smokes in a society that's largely moved past it, so he has to pick and choose where he's able to find a moment to do so.
As long as he doesn't start vaping, I'm fine. ;-)
Yeah I thought their take on Bond in that story was a bit mad, to be honest; it would just turn the audience off him, wouldn't it? And Dalton didn't seem the guy to play it. I'm not sure Bond would ever be the guy to start thinking he's too old: he thinks he's amazing, that's kind of the point of him. They did have some good stunt ideas though.