It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
To be fair, they turned Tanner into a weasly stooge for M to spy on Bond. Which is not Tanner at all, but it’s something.
M - Pretty much the same in the films, most especially Bernard Lee's.
Tanner - The guy Bond has lunch with and gives the heads up about a mission before debriefing.
Loelia Ponsonby - Bond's secretary that he flirts with at the 00-section offices. Gets replaced by Mary Goodnight, who pretty much fills in the same role.
That's about it. Moneypenny isn't really much of a character in the novels, she's just M's secretary that smiles at Bond as he passes by. I think the only real interaction they get is in the novel Thunderball, which may have actually served as the basis for how Bond and Moneypenny interact in the EON films. And Boothroyd is just a one-off character that gives Bond his PPK.
With Michael Goodliffe, he's been another white collar boy at M's office. With James Villiers, a bossy M replacement. With Rory Kinnear, some sort of a male secretary.
It bothers me in SPECTRE how he tips M about Bond's activities. Fleming's Tanner wouldn't do that, he would have turned a blind eye to Bond's rogue mission and let M discover that on his own.
Like a pupil sucking up to a teacher and spying on the class for him/her.
Not good or how Tanner should be.
I'll add this to the most stupid ideas I ever read across these boards.
Same. Mendes proved one more time he doesn't know Fleming at all and we all should be glad he left the franchise, hopefully for good.
[/quote]
I'll add this to the most stupid ideas I ever read across these boards.
I was joking, about the subplot. I would actually like to see Loelia make a appearance one day on film.
Same. Mendes proved one more time he doesn't know Fleming at all and we all should be glad he left the franchise, hopefully for good.[/quote]
It's a shame he went from 007 greatness to 007 averageness. Oh well many people can't pull off a great sequel.
That's the thing, he really isn't Fleming's Tanner, much like Mallory isn't Fleming's M, so it doesn't really bother me that this iteration of Tanner is acting more responsible as the chief of staff.
Tanner was supposed to fill C's role and then kill himself when Bond found him out (this came after Fiennes vetoed M being the traitor), because with all the change going on at MI6 he feared being pushed out. I actually quite liked that idea because it actually turned how boring and forgettable he is into a plot point (of course the useless exposition guy would be the first to go in a big shakeup), and his ending felt very in keeping with the guy who cowered behind the desk in the courtroom shootout in SF.
Ah, that's ok then. My apologies :D
I would really Loelia Ponsonby to be in the movies one day. You make it a Moneypenny rivalry as a starting subplot.
[/quote]
I realize now that sounds like something out of a Guy Hamilton-Tom Mackiewicz script.
In the books he's described as Bond's best (only?) friend in the service. To the extent that Bond has any kind of a social life, he occasionally has a drink or plays a round of golf with Tanner.
I think the movies could exploit this a bit. As mentioned, he could be more useful as an exposition machine, but also for fleshing out Bond's character and showing us his thought processes more. If Tanner (or Mathis) were used as a foil for Bond to think through ideas during his detective work, we could see him organically working through problems with him rather than having his "of course, Mr White!" moments.
Yes!!
Blimey,you get cornier by the day Q,you would make a great red coat at Butlins.
We have never seen this relationship in the films. The current version of Tanner is way more loyal to M then to Bond. I would like to see Tanner used as a way to colour in some lines of Bond. But much like the Moneypenny relationship has gone and the Q relationship as gone I don't think we have much of a chance to see the Tanner relationship.
Course this Bond doesn't decorate his place and makes the apartment look like it was just moved into. While Classic Bond was shown with a sense of decorating and style. It's hard for me to imagine this Bond even having friends. He's the lone wolf who lacks the style of previous incarnations.
To my mind this is what I would enjoy seeing in terms of relationships from the books and/or films:
Bond and M back to the book relationship. M the father figure that Bond has lacked in his life. I'd like to see M call Bond double-o-7 except when it's a more personal matter(course every bloody mission seems to have a personal nature since what Goldeneye?)
Bond and Moneypenny, bring back the flirting. Bring back some playful teasing. I don't care about #metoo feminists. They aren't your target audience anyway. Look at Connery and Moneypenny it wasn't too crazy but you knew there was tension there.
Bond and Q, I rather like where this relationship is now. Keep it as is!
Bond and Tanner, lets see Tanner do some buffering for when M has really asked for too much or is too demanding. Lets see Tanner and Bond on a golf course or having a dinner and chatting about life. A short scene would be good here and there.
Bond and May, most people don't have maids nowadays but damnit I think it could be fun to see a character in Bond's living space putting him through his paces. Give us a strong female character for Bond to occasionally but heads with and show another side to Bond's character. It wouldn't be too far a reach to think Bond would have someone check in on his place why not be her.