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I'm a like nothing more than pissing people off myself @Royale65 but even I would baulk at letting the invisible man ruin another Bond film with his lurking in the background just to annoy someone on the internet.
But of course that's the most offensive thing about Rory - he's not actually that offensive. Jinx at least I can loathe with a passion but Rory is just the international baseline of dead average. Kind of like the prime meridian GMT of mediocrity.
Bleh! I meant Spectre!
Both Q and Monneypenny are awesome! :D
I like NH, and I like her as MP. But I don´t like that especially MP in her current incarnation is no pole for Bond and the audience. As I said before, she´s more like Goodnight from the TMWTGG film. I don´t insist on the classic Maxwell MP, but I would insist on such a kind of polarity. Otherwise MP is much too replaceable.
She seems a bit uncomfortable with it. May be she's not a very good actress. I'm not sure. She just seems awkward. I think it's cos she went to Cambridge - they tend to be a bit stiff.
I feel a slight stiffness coming on...
As charming as she is I think being a not very good actress is the most likely contributor.
She first came to my attention in the 90s revival of kids sci-fi show 'The Tomorrow People' and she was a little awkward in that. Or maybe it's just a personal affectation.
Yes, very much so.
Ditch the actors who play them. Both talented actors, but both enormously miss cast.
I think the solution to Moneypenny and Q getting too much screen time is simply reducing their screen time. By all means EON should try to keep these characters fresh - but going forward, I'd prefer a "quality over quantity" approach to their scenes. If the actors aren't happy with that, they are free to walk. In the meantime, let's not link EON's questionable creative decisions with the actors. The actors don't call the shots.
Amusingly, however, I guess Fiennes did veto M's reveal as a traitor! That's a major piece of input. I think Bond fans should be grateful to Fiennes for respecting the character and demanding a change. Say what you will about his performance, he clearly cares about the work he's doing. With Fiennes, I think that M is in very good hands. (Anyway, I think I've gone off topic.)
I don't think they demand screen time, but EON or Mendes wanted to expand their roles and these actors were chosen specifically for that purpose. So now they feel as if it's a regression (or a slight to the actors even) to return the characters back to their previous capacity.
We are all grateful for Fiennes' refusal to portray M as the traitor, but he should have never been put in that position to begin with. It just highlights how troubled a production SP really was. Still, you've got to give credit where it's due and Fiennes did the right thing. I agree with you that he seems like a stand up guy.
Just imagine if a lesser actor had been cast as M. I sometimes think about that and shudder at the possibility of M (Mallory) actually being revealed as a traitor. I think Fiennes deserved a higher ranking in the Great MI6 Staff Game for this reason alone. If one were to assign an MVP to each Bond film (now there's an idea for a thread), Fiennes would surely receive behind-the-scenes MVP for SP.
Mind you, following on from Skyfall, making Fiennes' M a traitor in SP would have made no sense in any way, shape or form to begin with as he was literally willing to put his life on the line to save Dench's M in just the previous film (he even had the arm-sling to prove it). The idea should never have made it to script-form, let alone be placed in the actor's hands to be read over.