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This time next year the majority of us will know if it delivered or not.
How 'bout with black, thick-rimmed glasses, also? Talk about creepy.
Fully agree especially if someone spouts out something that none of us wish to know unless it is in the appropiate thread? Don't complain about it either if you don't like what you read either as it was your own choice.
Thats just me.
That simply doesn't make any sense. It's like saying "Don't complain about any movie you have ever seen or any book you have ever read as it was your own choice to watch/read them."
I think it's a little bit like when a cook is preparing food but you don't have the patience to wait so you've already begun filling up on the raw ingredients. By the time diner is served, you may even be too stuffed to finish the whole plate.
Firstly, films and novels are distinct mediums, neither is in service of the other. Film has certain attributes that a novel cannot offer and vice versa. They are different artistic expressions and their authors/directors have two completely different goals.
In contrast to a novel, a script is totally at the service of the film it is attempting to depict. If you read it you are reading the director's interpretation of his vision albeit in a very basic form. You are not reading pages in a novel you are reading exact scenes and dialogue that will be placed in the finish film. It couldn't be any more different to a book-to-film adaptation.
People who are using this as a justification are deluding themselves.
Scripts provide the bare-bones: you have no insight into performance, production design, art direction, cinematography, etc. You get a very basic and stilted version of the film, however, what you do get are the raw ingredients. The nitty-gritty if you will, and most importantly you find out the film's secrets when you read it.
The correct place to see a film script realised is on the big screen. It's like when you read Shakespeare at school, it was a bit boring and your mind wondered and you started thinking about the girl across the class. However, when you saw that same play on the stage it comes to life and suddenly it's so much more visceral and engaging.
The same principle applies with film scripts. You will never be able to gain a proper understanding of the piece by reading a stolen script on your laptop in bedroom. You will never get the full nutrients you will from the film and now you will never know because you have ruined Spectre's secrets for yourself. The sad truth is that you will have to wait at least another 3 years before you have the pleasure of properly anticipating a new Bond movie.
Let's forget about the movie for a second. This is what RogueAgent wrote: "Don't complain about it either if you don't like what you read either as it was your own choice."
People who have read the script and are complaining about it are not complaining about the film (which is not even finished yet). They are complaining about the script they have read.
I've read an overall shooting outline. It's quite brief but covers the major points. Think clapperboard with some text. I'm very happy with what I've read. It gives me comfort that the movie isn't going to be a complete screwup. Sure, I may have done some things differently, but overall, very satisfactory.
Now I can't wait to see it realized on screen, with dialogue, nuances, changes (and there are changes coming since the shooting outline was not, by any means the final one) and the acting prowess of the amazing actors/actresses they have assembled.
It's has made me relaxed, excited, and anticipating what is to come next November.
I agree 100% with what you have said here. The impact on overall discussions is what is most annoying.
However, once one of those websites published their interpretation and opinion of the very early script draft about a week and a half ago, and it was picked up by many newsites and read by many not actually looking to find that info, the cat was out of the bag.
For me, the more recent outline only helped to assuage concerns I had regarding that very early leak.
I've sort of put the whole thing behind me now, and I'm just looking forward to the movie, comforted in knowing it's going to be worth the wait.
I do not mind knowing a few things, but small things. I enjoy watching a film fresh. I managed that for Skyfall, and I'm trying hard for SPECTRE. Definitely have no interest whatsoever in reading anything from the script or having anyone tell me something like that. Not at all on the fence about this.
And yet it's enough for the men in suits to ask to cut such and such scene :)
<font color=blue size=7><b>LALD has too many villainous characters.</b></font>
Disagree!!! The more the better as it gives variety!!! 8-X
I don't think so. It could be true of TLD (maybe) and QOS (although I would then argue that it had too little), but LALD had the villains very much centralized under the authority of Kananga, which worked perfectly.
I'll also say that Tee Hee is probably one of the most underrated henchmen of the entire series.
I always thought the bad makeup job of Mr Big actually worked, because it did not work: it looks ugly and creepy, unnatural.
The fates of a couple of villains aren't seen (Whisper, the taxi driver, the man on the street corner).
Kananga's death scene also seemed rushed to me as if the producers were wanting to quickly get to the Tee Hee fight.