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Other major locations: South Africa or Sri Lanka for some kind of street chase and a bit of sunshine.
PTS: Australia/NZ - there are plenty of perfect backdrops in both countries, and given that our accents aren't usually considered exotic enough you could have a chase scene with minimal dialogue, hence PTS.
Canada is another country that surely must be visited soon.
They have a tendency, recently, to present a sort of homogenised, half-imagined version of locations, despite being there. I think I've said before, they did it with London in SF and SP. It comes across as a tourist checklist. There's lots of London that could be used to add a more distinct flavour in future.
You're right. It'll be a damn shame if another movie does the job before Bond.
I cant see BOND25 having anything to do with London after it being involved in QOS,and then heavily in SF and SP....
They used London in RN, although it was probably even more 'I Love London' than SF/SP.
The did in the original MI as well,back in 1996..again long before the recent Bond films started using London more in TWINE,3 years later.
Hell, yeah.
Hmm, which Bond film comes to mind when reading this :-) I only hope they don' try to make Bond disguise as a Japanese ;-)
Not a film, but the last series of 24 was set in London and (aside from the geography being off at times) I felt like they did a brilliant job of this. It really felt like they made great use of London as a location. You had scenes in the city but it also featured mosques, pubs, etc. You had scenes in the suburbs and scenes on council estates. In fact it was these every day locations most of the action took place, while the usual tourist hotspots were mostly used as backgrounds for the political side of things. The only scene that stuck out as very "look, we're in London!" to me was the Wembley scene but even that had context in the story so it didn't feel too contrived. All in all I thought it was really well done, and a much more authentic feeling portrayal of London than what you'd usually expect from Hollywood (Bond included). To be fair though it was a TV show so they did have more time, but as you said @bondjames, Kingsman had a decent stab at it so I reckon Bond could do better too.
Maybe some time in the Colorado Rockies
Some big city action in the heart of L.A. Hollywood too.
And as a nod to Fleming's TSWLM, maybe Bond can arrive in Toronto and do battle with Spectre agents, and then travel south through upstate New York, where he might find himself at an isolated motel, with beautiful girl being terrorized by a couple of thugs.
Bond discovers the motel is actually cover, for a secret underground Spectre base below.
Live and Let Die was filmed, in part, in New Orleans ( my home town). I have to say the city came off as a bit bland, and the waterways where the boat chase was filmed were old hat; I grew up fishing them. Visually they are not very impressive.
That's definitely true, and Bond films must always have a little bit of the extraordinary in them. I've always thought they could have done a better job in showcasing New Orleans in LALD.
You are probably right, but I thought that's what happened in the US this year.
Exactly my thoughts. I would add traditional craftsmanship as well.
Now that we're on it, time for 007 to play another round of golf too.
The Great Wall of China needs to feature as proposed for LTK.