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I think the film has a lot going on as it is and C doesn't get his chance to "shine" as a bad guy. He's too little too late. Also, SF brought in Mallory to move MI6 into new management. Now SP brings in C to move British Intelligence into a new era. While Mallory turned out "on the right side", C becomes the obvious villain's stooge. And that's the problem, I think. With Blofeld introduced early on, who cares about his 'surprise' subordinates? I think that's why his character fails to fulfil so many. Wouldn't you agree, @mtm?
I think fans and general audiences come to Bond films partly for the exotic locations and the glamour of it. If they didn't go globetrotting, I think they'd have to work harder on the story and having a more engaging plot.
I think if they went down the Moonraker novel route, they would need the film to have more tension and suspense
I couldn't agree more. Globetrotting is among the many Bondian tropes that makes James Bond forever loved and enduring.
Yeah. Matera too to be honest....for more action.
How about re-introducing Quarrel? In, of course, a seriously 'updated' version...
Things I'd like to see back, after rewatching CR this afternoon.
Persol sunglasses (lots and lots)
David Arnold (just get the man back already)
A modern Aston Martin (that ultimate/final edition of the DBS sounds good)
An up tempo song (give it to Benjamin Clementine)
Style over substance, and yet, substance over drama
Exoticism and escapism done without shame (let's go to Japan again, modern Japan is incredible and it can be juxtaposed to the more traditional Japan)
A womanising Bond with a chivalry touch (no shame in that)
Better cut suits (let the man breathe, please)
(Relatively) Affordable Omega(s) - that one goes straight to the watch market
I'm sure there's a lot more.
Also, not for this list, but rewatching CR made me feel I really, really miss Judi Dench. Really do.
Imagine jumping down to the next pod to rescue someone. that'd be mental
Funnily enough I think Tiger is one of the few characters who could have his own spin-off (he’s got his own train! Imagine him and Aki doing supercool spy stuff around Tokyo etc.) but I wouldn’t be desperate to see him in a 007 film again, no. Plenty of room for new characters.
If we have M, then you must be...T!
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On the other hand, Tiger back... I would say yes to that. Who would play him today, I wonder?
Or Hideaki Itõ.
C is a careless, controversial c***. Concluded.
I don't mind less globetrotting, although someone here once suggested a faithful adaptation of MR with the settings of the movie MR. That's an intriguing notion.
I also think that since Kissy Suzuki was never introduced by name, she is fair game, and I think there's room for a new Tiger. That being said, I doubt they are going with YOLT the novel anytime soon...
Interesting! I hadn't thought of these names.
The way out - if they were to use these characters - is to once again start not caring about continuity. Or rather return to a more floating continuity, in which if called upon by a screenwriter, something like the plot of the first 20 films has roughly happened to this new Bond and he largely knows places, characters and plots that we know. So we don't get a scene in which some Dikko Henderson stand-in says "They call him TIGER!" and everyone is supposed to react to that. Instead, Bond and Tiger just know each other, because we know that they know each other. It doesn't exactly have to have the backstory of YOLT, but it would free the story to go to a new place instead of being stuck between just a re-hash and too much of a divergence.
To be fair, that is how Craig plays it: Bond just says "Catchy name". I'm not really sure the music swells ominously all that much really, either.
I quite like seeing the characters meet, but it doesn't have to follow for each one. Quarrel (or Jr) could happily turn up with Bond already knowing him, it depends on the situation I guess.
I'd like that to mate. Think it'll ever happen though?
I think the only reason Craig's Bond was referred to as Commander in NTTD, was because he lost his 00 number and more importantly to give him the authority to demand the missile launch
I'd be fine with a character like Quarrel, or Tiger Tanaka , Kerim Bey or anyone else for that matter appearing in a future Bond film. But preferably not in a remake.
We had Quarrel in DN in '62, then Quarrel junior in LALD in '73, eleven years later.
Are we supposed to see this character as the offspring of DN Quarrel? Is Bond a codename? Or can we just suspend disbelief and just let the writers give us a slight variation on Bond's Caribbean ally, without it being a big issue.
It's treated like an important moment, even though it means absolutely nothing to anyone in the movie and its irrelevant to the story, so its intended entirely for the audience, provided they already know who Blofeld is of course.
It's a bit like how whenever Craig's Bond spins around and shoots at the camera it's for our benefit rather than any of the characters; Eve's reveal as Moneypenny etc.
Exactly. It’s delivered with this dramatic weight that is totally unwarranted in the context of the story. It makes no sense for Blofeld to deliver his name like that. The filmmakers obviously were expecting the audience to gasp with surprise and delight. For me it was the equivalent of a very unfunny joke followed by a cymbal crash.
I think so. Although it's less significant a revelation to that film.