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I'm down with this. Personally, I would prefer something like Fleming's FRWL when Bond discusses Tiffany and their break up.
Although it would be interesting to see Bond and Dr. Swann have a go at being in a relationship. Maybe something along the lines of Fleming's Bond views on hypocrisy regrading the "inevitable" breakup of their union (taken from the novel DAF I believe?). Bond isn't happy, Swann sees it, ergo she calls it off. All set against a typically Bondian escapade...
Careful dear Wiz. They've lifted a passage from Colonel Sun, so they are open to pilfering the continuation novels. Best not give them any ideas, you don't know who's watching this forum...
Well EON's lawyers it would seem if the rather panicky new thread just started by @DarthDimi about posting copyrighted pictures from Bond films is anything to go by!
Watch yourself there son. Any slagging off of P&W carries a sentence of 20 years hard labour in Kim Jong Babs totalitarian state.
I'm steering well clear of the SP bluray thread from here on in case the EON Stasi come for me in the night for criticism of the regime.
I thought of something like this too. That way she'd be out of the picture, but there'd be no one to blame. No one to get revenge on. It'd be interesting.
If Blofeld wasn't returning then maybe you could get away with a quick mention of their breakup. I love the idea of that happening someday as well but if they do it with Madeleine then they'd be ignoring crucial elements of the last film. Which wouldn't be the first time in Bond history, granted. It would just make SP look like a mistake that needed to be swept under the rug.
Or- it's the start of a new dead horse being beaten.
OR- they will surprise the s&@t out of us!!
Who knows....?
This was my idea too. Just have her die in a car crash or something similarly tragic yet mundane.
I'd say all of them as well, Dalton included, recognizing that this particular trait isn't one that Dalton particularly excels at.
Craig's version of non-chalant comes across, for parts of the film, as boredom. Now, I can't say that I particularly blame him, as he had to know he was working with poor material, but it's there in a way that, aside from Connery's understandable frustration while working on You Only Live Twice, we haven't really seen before.
Just like Camille in QOS.
Two words: Tiffany Case. In the novels Bond mentions their relationship didn't work out.
As some already suggested before - open with something like Blofeld escaping or, as one interesting theory I saw elsewhere suggested, have someone from higher up (Haines maybe?) force M to release Blofeld when he threatens to blackmail. Then Bond/Madeleine in an idyllic location and then she is kidnapped by SPECTRE operatives - probably when someone from MI6 like Tanner visits him and then they'd be also killed. Roll title sequence and only after, when Bond returns to MI6 does M 'reveal' to him that Madeleine is dead (so Bond doesn't go off looking for her) and urges Bond not to go off hunting for revenge like he did after Vesper. He then assigns Bond a seemingly unrelated mission in Japan and off we go with YOLT...obviously with changes to fit today's perspectives I.e. not have Bond disguise him self as a Japanese worker etc. As that plot is running, we can then have the B-plot of M, Moneypenny and Q working together to find and rescue Madeleine, who is actually alive.
Then at the end, have her go with the MI6 team to Japan to reuinte with Bond once he defeats Blofeld, but then Bond will have lost his memory....which actually thinking about it would be a chilling callback to the torture scene in SP - "he dies not knowing who you are", and then end the Craig era with the rest of MI6 apart from M, MP and Q, believing him dead, while he lives an idyllic life with Madeleine as he does with Kissy in the book.
SP was how it ends for Craig's Bond. Do another reboot with the next Bond.
My fear;
They kill off Madeleine and have a revenge plot. As others have said, this would be beating a dead horse and starting over the same story arc from CR. These so called "intence" and "serious" elements grew old, tired, and clichéd far faster than anything in the Connery through Brosnan era. My hope is that they won't do this since it would essentially be a remake of OHMSS and they have said that they won't do remakes.
Secret possibility number 3;
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Wow, suddenly too much agreement here. I'm going to another thread where I can disagree in peace.
I like this idea. It's a creative way around the corner they painted themselves into with Spectre.
One tweak I might make to it would be for Bond to actually be the one to go after Madeleine and leave Q, M, and Moneypenny back in London. Maybe it's tweaked in a way where Bond veers off his current assignment because he finds some reason to believe that Madeleine is alive in Japan, giving him reason to disobey the mission given to him by M because he's believed her to be dead based on what M has told him.
I'm not sure how it would ultimately go, haven't given it that much thought, but Bond's pursuit of Madeleine would lead him to Blofeld and his castle and garden of death. Bond could free Madeleine and kill Blofeld but sustain the injuries that lead to his amnesia and the ending that you've described, with Bond not recognizing her and them being forced to either move forward under that new reality or go their own separate ways in an extremely heartbreaking fashion. This way, in the course of events in the film, he'd know that Madeleine was alive, therefore adding to the heartbreak of the ending.
She turns to her lover: "I just had the craziest dream. You were in a fight to the death with your foster brother over LeChiffre, Vesper, White, Silva, M, and possibly Greene. It didn't make sense that they were all jumbled together, but it was so vivid."
He says: "That's crazy. No more glüwein for you before bed, darling."
"Whatever you say, Franz."
As he leans in to kiss her, we see that her lover is Oberhauser, without the scar and decidedly not Blofeld.
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Or, more likely, they'll open with the brutal killing of Swann by Blofeld, sending Bond into a tailspin (he confuses Vesper with Swann, etc.). M sends him on one last desperate mission, Magic 44 (although it occurs to me that Nine Eyes is not dissimilar to Magic 44). Bond finds Bunt and Blofeld (who, like Bond, has gone a bit crazy), leading to the inevitable and fatal showdown with Blofeld at the end. Stir in a modern Kissy Suzuki and an amnesiac trek to Russia, and let Craig go out on the bittersweet ending at which he excels.
The real question will be if they carry over M, Moneypenny, and Q to the next Bond actor.
Reading this thread, what such creative minds, we need to see more fanfiction here. :)
Everyone who read the novels "Trigger Mortis" (Pussy Galore) and "From Russia With Love" (Tiffany Case) know how Bond dealt with a love relation break-up. Especially in "Trigger Mortis" this is very nicely done. I would love to see some proper relationship turmoil, followed by a sad and teary Madeleine saying: "Then this is it James! Time to pack my bags :-< ".
It's something that has never been done before in a Bond film. And let's face it, Bond can't have a long-lasting love relationship. Especially not in an ongoing big franchise, in which continuity has become pivotal as well. Screenplay writers can obviously turn this into a tense verbal fight between Craig and Seydoux. It also makes sense, as in "SPECTRE" Swann was already doubting a relationship with Bond.
So what I just said makes sense. Spend like 5 to 7 minutes on a believable send-off of the character Madeleine Swann. And put this scene shortly after the main titles sequence or after a mission briefing in London. Then you can bring in the entire core plot and (villain's) scheme in a fresh and believable way, without all the personal background stuff dwelling on during the entire movie.