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How about: ALWAYS TIME TO DIE...hey...you know, I started out trying to a fool and make some sort of lame attempt at a joke, but, gee, now I've gone and made up a title which I actually rather like !
Diamond from the Ashes
The Storm After the Calm
Coming up with a good title is impossible...Fleming always did it best.
James Bond 007 in: ALWAYS TIME TO DIE TWICE
The thing I love about all these titles is that when you briefly glance at them they actually seem plausible. It's when you actually read them that you go 'hold on, that's not right'.
That's the beauty of it. It could relate to anything - a mission, a weapon, a place etc. That and I guess FYEO has basically adapted that story for screen.
FAVTAK, on the other hand, is still game for adaptation. can see it being the set up of a film in the way the short story TLD was for its film adaptation.
Could be the title of a Sherlock Holmes story.
Those titles are all a little more literal than Bond titles, could be a fun game to “Holmes-inate” the Bond titles.
Dr. No becomes:
James Bond and the Case of the Man with the Steel Hands
TB: “A Study in Water”
Sounds like Never Send Flowers too....
I want to see Bond at Disneyland onscreen! I wonder if Dalton would be interested...
I've been lobbying for it for years. ;)
It is a good novel though. Well worth a read if you like a different sort of Bond story.
Everything or Nothing
Nightfire
Agent Under Fire
Otherwise it seems like word play on phrases and idioms and/or cool sounding words are the criteria.
Might Quantum of Solace have done worse at the box office because it’s too difficult for casuals/foreigners to remember/pronounce?
That is so true, actually. Thinking about it, I don't even remember anyone even referring to SF by name and that was really popular among general audiences - it was, indeed, always 'the new Bond film'!
Octopussy is lucky that they chose that title when they did, drafting off the '70s and just missing the extreme cultural conservatism of Reagan's second term.
It is quite amazing that it wasn't even the last Fleming title to be used :D
DEAD END
Good title !
For a film subsequent to NTTD, methinks. I think Bond 26 likely would not have another Die/Death title.
Speaking of which, it is funny how the titles - between books, stories and films - wind up seemingly contradictory. Of course, many of them are quite meaningless, and are just to sound cool and Bond-ish.
In the Negative as to Death occurring (ie, as in Not Now):
Tomorrow Never Dies
Die Another Day
Never Dream of Dying
No Time to Die (ironically, as it turned out, but this is focused on titles)
In the Positive (as in, someone will die, now or soon):
Live and Let Die
From a View to a Kill / A View to a Kill
Nobody Lives Forever
Win, Lose or Die
License to Kill
Death is Forever
High Time to Kill
Uncertain
The Facts of Death..rather depends on just what may be those facts. Never mind the story - focusing only on the title ! Considering the only two certainties are death and taxes, though - and, yes, this means going a bit deeper than the title alone, I suppose this one goes in the "Positive" column...
Apologies for any I may have missed...
"Life Of Lies"
Scene ''Words Are People Best Friend'' from QOS when Dominic Greene trow sand in everybody's eyes.
Life is gone with just a spin of the wheel (spin of the wheel)
I hadn't seen this photo before. I love it.
That's because it only exists in Balje's mind.