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Agreed 1000%. A theory conjured up by ignorant minds who can't simply accept that the timeline simply fluctuates and morphs.
I disagree. I like the code name idea. I know it's not true. Officially, I just think of each new actor as rebooting the series. However, in my own mind, I like the idea of Roger M's Bond working under two different M's or Bernard Lee's M working with three different Bond's. It brings a continuity to the MI6 that I find appealing. Plus, it accounts for the Bonds having different personaities.
Exactly this!
Bingo.
I feel that QoS' justification of an Italian actor playing a Frenchman by putting in a reference to his "code name" was just unnecessary. They stripped down everything else including "Bond, James Bond" and left in this gobbledeegook?
EXACTLY! @echo
Why did we need that horse bugger? Mathis was a perfectly satisfying character until they de-fleming-inized him entirely by smoking up this code name stuff right before the character dies! This doesn't serve the story at all anymore. At this point it's nothing but redundant confusion. Killing off Mathis was a move I struggled with at first but could learn to accept. However, now I'm left with questions. Am I supposed to like this character? How true was his 'friendship' with Bond? Who were his people? ...
Absoutely spot on. Its a retarded idea dreamed up to cater for the most cretinous members of the public who are incapable of divorcing an actor from a character.
As far as I'm concerned Maibaum came up with it in brainstorming session in OHMSS pre production and Cubby and Harry quickly decided if was utter bullsh*t and thats it.
The very fact that Tamahori voiced his support for the theory in 02 should be enough to tell you that if you subscribe to it you are an utter moron.
I dont even know why we are still discussing it - next thesis please.
To be honest I don't really care for that line, I just don't take it seriously. Mathis is Mathis, codename or not, it doesn't matter. Bond is one person.
Nobody ever questions why Biggles can be an air-ace in 1918 as well as in 1945. Nobody questions Buck Danny flying in WWII and in the eighties as well. Just because Bond, as a secret agent, has a number attached to him doesn't make his name a code either.
<font color=blue size=7><b>Brosnan should have been given his Casino Royale.</b></font>
Saying that though, I'm not sure why they decided to make CR an origin story in the first place. Craig was 38, bit old for a rookie, so it just seems pointless imo. @DarthDimi future thesis there maybe? CR didn't need to be a reboot/origin story?
Agree wholeheartedly!! He definately had one more film in him. I don't like how he was so uncerimoniously dumped just because of his age. One last film as his swan song would have been nice.
Thesis 156: Disagree
Wow, good point, @SaintMark! A mo(o)re down-to-earth plot, a human Bond rather than a superhuman Bond and a physically less demanding yet intellectually strong adversary? I can see where you are coming from. To be fair, I hadn't thought about it but now that you mention it, I can fly with it.
Good call - I was about to say the same thing! I would have loved a 5th Brosnan, but not CR
Thesis is as far off as Dinosaurs for me. In other words, I can't go along with it
For the last time, Brosnan should of quit at the end of the last century on a high after the success of The World Is Not Enough. By 2002 had aged significantly for me, a bit like Connery and Moore towards the end of their respective tenures but maybe not quite so much. Craig was chosen in 2005, he did a great job in his debut, and would of had him every time in the part in retrospect, instead of if they had decided to stay with Brosnan and make what would of been an ill advised fifth release. Maybe I just can't look beyond that. If not Royale, then some other title, bottom line is, Brosnan was simply a bit too inappropriate for the part by a certain time, just as Connery was after '65 and Moore after '81