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Well I wouldn't say Hedison is the best Leiter, I don't think he is, but he's ten times better than Terry.
Terry has proven to be a good actor in many non-Bond works, so I have no doubt he would have fared better in LTK. I can’t hold TLD against him because it really was a nothing role and there wasn’t time to get acquainted by his Leiter.
Having said that, people have enough trouble with the DB5 and this certainly wouldn't have helped things lol
Seriously? How the hell were they going to explain away a bloody SATELLITE DISH falling on top of him?
"Hello James. Satellite? Oh that was only a flesh wound." ;)
It was a reboot, pal.
A possible future storyline at some point, in any Bond media. I’m basis though.
But, regarding your opinion in itself, I must admit that I am not convinced: on the one hand because I don't think that previous adversaries should be brought back (whether created by Fleming and even more so when they are original), on the other hand because one of the characteristics of Silvia is that he is excellent throughout the planning but very bad as soon as he is on the filed. While Trevelyan was an exceptional agent, Silvia was a rather bad operative who was unable to swallow his cyanide poison. Bringing Trevelyan back is also bringing back an elite field agent, capable of hand-to-hand combat against Bond. However, the whole theme of Skyfall is the confrontation between new and old, Silvia embodying the novelty in the world of espionage, disconnected from the concrete and acting in the digital world. Trevelyan would not have had his place here.
Maybe rename it into The Carver Media Group, lol. They were doing dirty deeds outside of their media world.
Maybe not for TND, but I always thought GE and TWINE could have been linked yet remain independent movies. Heck, have the big showdown between Bond and the head of the Janus Syndicate in what would have been DAD and you might end up with a better movie!
I doesn't take much to improve DAD ;))
SPECTRE certainly was the better one.
Janus the two faced god and Colonel Moon/Gustav Graves almost works anyways. Would have been cool if the Brosnan era had its own archvillain/evil organization.
That's what happens when you keep adapting MR. ;)
Like I said, they missed a big opportunity there. Have Trevelyan the field commander of Janus, the visible face of the outfit so to speak, turned to the "dark side" by some high ranking KGB officer or something. GE remains a standalone, but you have a recurring menace that you establish in the first Brosnan movie. Since Russia is present in TWINE in some capacity and Zukovsky is back, it would have made some sense. Come to think of it it would have strengthened his whole tenure.
I wish MR had been adapted even once! Hell of a novel.
1. Set it in its own timeframe ?
2. Change it to the present, now that private space work really is underway ?
3. Keep the lady lead and Bond apart from each other, intimately, with her engaged to a British military officer ? It would not be the first time that the lady lead and Bond do not -- as they said in Laverne and Shirley -- "vodeeyododo." Bond and Camille did not romance each other. Without running each film through my wee little mind, I think that was not the only time that particular non-occurrence occurred...ahem, yes, deliberately awful English for fun...in the films
4. Keep the "everybody rockin' a moustache !!!" thing ?
5. Flesh it out with some additional material ? Looking back on it, is it enough to fill a two-hour film ?
6. Add another switch not found in the book ? Because the switch in the book has been used now in the films and more than once...
That said, even the most faithful adaptations of the books have never been that straightforward, always adding a new things in order to make them play more cinematically. Like in the book we jump from the Orient Express to the hotel room, while the film adds chase sequences to make Bond’s journey back more dangerous and thrilling (though I always felt the boat sequence was one chase too many).
Somewhat agree with you there. I am not sure why, but the Bond films didn't get the maximum potential out of them looks wise...
Yes, I absolutely dislike Marlohe's look in the casino in SF. Always loved her look at the airport (in the trailer) and was disappointed that it was finally cut.
Same goes for Gemna Arterton: she looks better in other movies.
Not particularly.( My own fav five in a row must be FRWL,GF,TB,YOLT,OHMSS.)
Perhaps Craig’s entire tenure as Bond will be my five in a row, someday after I see NTTD. I’ve enjoyed each entry thus far already.
I can understand for Severine: she's a prostitute and she's meant to look exotic and mysterious. She looks better when she's about to get shot, ironically enough. To be fair, I think they pretty much struck gold with all the others.