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"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." --H.L. Mencken
True. But he WAS already 007.
If in Bond 25 we would see a young Bond who inherit the 007 number from Lashana Lynch; that would be fine for me.
They didn't change the name of the account. I saw some screenshots from last year and it was just James Bond. Don't panic!
@matt_u ok
He didn't lose his Double-O status. He left. He's been gone. M has now assigned 007 to a new active agent. Makes sense. And it will make for some humour and tension between James Bond and Nomi.
He WAS 007, but James Bond, for reasons we will find out, left the service @Sani ... He's five years removed from being an agent with a licence to kill, living in Jamaica.
He didn't lose his Double-O status. He relinquished it when he left the Secret Service.
M re-assigned it. Simple as that.
And yes @Denbigh -- smart minds flock together and all of that, lol!
It s the same as always. Some "journalist" writes a piece or someone sees a headline and it spreads like wildfire. The most opinionated are always those who know the least, and people still think democracy is the ideal system?
An idiot has as much clout as a genius, and we all know which group outnumbers the other. Vastly. The powers that be benefit, of course. They would be cleaning toilets instead of governing if there was any common sense.
But he stopped being 007 at the end of the last film. He also lost it in Die Another Day too, and Casino Royale opened with him not being 007. I take it there are reasons why these are fine?
That's what I get for trying to be nice.
It seems so remarkably arbitrary to me. It's not like '007' is his superhero alter ego or anything; it's purely the designation he gets at work. It doesn't define the character in any way.
And not just nice, but very funny too. ;)
You would know! ;)
And why would it be wrong if Bond wouldn't be 007 in the movie and Lashana Lynch would have been 008? :)
Then you've lost the dramatic irony and the gag.
It's like saying 'why couldn't Silva have blown up someone else's Aston Martin in Skyfall?'. The point was that it's Bond's Aston Martin!
Now, I love that Aston; but I'm not complaining that they did it. By all means blow it up because it makes for a better scene, and it gets a reaction from Bond (and indeed me, as a viewer). Maybe the car lover and Bond fan in me would have preferred to see his neighbour's sportscar get blown up rather than that one, but I know that it makes the film better for it to destroy the car I like.
So for you to feel a reaction to someone else being 007 is good, because you'll be sharing Bond's feelings when he finds out, and that makes it a more interesting and involving film experience. If she had been 008 you'd feel absolutely nothing.
Yes, imho.
Deep down.... I think I knew it. When Fukanaga was hired, it started to look unlikely at best.
But they're secret? :D
No but it looks already more stylish (I know I know very early) than SP. I've seen some clips again, something just feels and looks off... And I don't dislike it THAT much....
What's wrong with a gimmick?
And if there's a gag with it as well, which you know there will be, much as you scoff; then even less problem.
Who's scoffing? I'm just saying that, unless there is another way it's gong to happen:
M: "Come in, 007..."
*in walks Lashana*
Hardly a rib tickler.
Though I admit, I am a little curious as to how that will play out.
I think Boyle’s version would have been even more non-traditional and probably ticked a lot of people off, especially if the rumor of Bond being incarcerated for most of the movie was true. I think for the most part the Craig era has done a great job of being different and doing new things while not straying too far from the Bond formula. I’m not certain, but I think we dodged a bullet by not getting Boyle’s film...