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Can't help bit worry.
Both films were huge box office draws. MR was following Star Wars' lead, but it hardly tried to "ape" it and the box office proved it was with large success, not little. DAD's problems went beyond just the gadgets, it was a mess all around.
Claiming the MCU could be an influence is another huge stretch. It could be argued that Bond is a superhero, but a completely different thing than MCU in its approach.
Lastly, what's with the manipulated Idris Elba picture in the QoS pose? Why not just put it out there you think he'll be the next Bond instead of inserting that randomly.
Sounds like someone’s been watching too much Doomcock/Midnight’s Edge videos.
Better watch out! I hear PWB wants to cut off Bond’s penis and not shave her armpits!
Le Chiffre already tried that and look how he ended up. A cautionary tale if there ever was one. ;)
Those edits always make me chuckle!
I genuinely wish someone would take one of these and add the Fleming title The Property of a lady then coming summer 1991
I love Dalton as bond
Me too. Dalton's my favourite Bond.
I'm sure that could be easily arranged for someone that knows what they're doing.
What job do you get to consider Bond films in? I want that job :D
The more time goes on and we see the general dodginess and corruption around us, I tend to think that Carver is actually the most plausible.
Why go that length? Mass media are totally crooked, period.
Yes, Carver quotes from Hearst in the film. I have a book somewhere on that war and the "yellow journalism" that defined it. There were other inspirations for Carver nearer to our own time too, mind.
Without getting into details, I sell cybersecurity solutions. And nope, Carver is just a banal, by the number evil businessman, an amateur criminal. Silva is actually a proper hacker: doing something because he can. In the last few days, FujiFilm and JBS have been victims of ransomware attacks. That scene when Silva explains to Bond what he can do with a click, we'll, it's very, very, very true.
The same thing happened to the health service here where I am. No work phones, no work emails for two weeks now. Insane level of power that can bring systems to their knees in seconds.
That's the thing: Silva exists and there's many of him.
Well he literally mentions Hearst in the film! :)
I find hackers to be banal: the Carvers of this world are far more insidious and not amateur at all. The media barons who control our politics, choosing who gets to be the leaders in charge of our nations? They’re the real villains of our time, not some by the numbers hackers attacking some camera company. That’s just some criminals.
100%. It's been quite the experience seeing the impact it has had on the staff here. Thankfully my department has a lot of subcontractors so the work has carried on at a decent capacity outside the main system. Of course, the worst bit is the number of patients whose personal information has been compromised. Scary stuff.
The real Carvers would be more dangerous than the TND Carver, but I never felt Carver in the film was anything more than an eccentric amateur criminal who happened to have money. As for hackers, I'm still learning, but there's nothing banal about them. They now have full criminal networks, just like a criminal mob and they are now a serious threat to national security. And they're not merely hurting some camera company: banks, insurance companies, governments, academia, health organisations, all of then are targets, all of them are vulnerable. JBS is a major meat supplier, the most important in the world in fact. The ransomware affected a fifth of the US meat supply. Potentially it can have dire economic consequences, heck, in the future such attack could cause widespread famin. We're not talking about one dude stealing a pensioner's savings to buy himself a big screen telly. We're talking about very ruthless criminals highly specialised. At the induction I even joked that I felt like in a James Bond movie.
And Movie Carver, keep in mind, got most of his plot going not with his newspaper and radio empire, but with guns, a stealth boat, a magic torpedo, and some new-fangled thing called GPS. :))
Indeed, he was sort of hacking the GPS!
The loss of faith in institutions is more dangerous than whatever Reuters or CNN are "up to". During the COVID crisis, surely the paranoids and conspiracy theorists who don't believe anything in the "lying mainstream media" have done more harm than that media has.
Yes of course cyber security is important (Silva on the other hand is a petty criminal, doing it for personal revenge against one woman), but that doesn’t mean it’s the only important thing in the world and everything else is just chicken feed.
And if you only want to talk about Carver as depicted in the movie rather than the much more sinister media barons he represents, he was going to put a missile into Beijing and start a war, killing thousands. Silva’s hacking got a handful of MI6 agents killed and the ultimate aim was to kill one woman. If we’re talking petty criminals.. :)
I don't know much about the Prime Minister situation, but you're not right about Fox, Murdoch and Trump. Fox and Murdoch were not pro-Trump during the 2016 primary, and to some extent relished a Clinton presidency because of what it would do for their business model. They got with the program later.
Fox News was the first to (correctly) call Arizona for Biden and has spent the last six months scrambling to keep viewers from switching to new, even crazier networks. They're captive to Trump and their audience.
Edit: I had put "call Arizona for Trump"!
In Carver's case, I'd say it's the other way round. It's his motivations (controlling the world through media) that make him identifiable with real life barons - but it's obviously sensationalised to include the fact he has a private army, a stealth ship, and a missile.
In a real-world scenario, neither are small fry.
But people are giving TND's script too much credit. Carver's motivation is that he wants exclusive broadcast rights in China. And he uses military technology to accomplish it.
And in the real world, most mass media headed by a baron type generally report all the same regional and occasionally global events in largely the same way.
A creepier villain might be a Silva-type tech guy who controls events through fringe online media and has an actual ideology.
In the real world, it is the same people that own and control the mass media and the arms manufacturers, so it s pretty spot on.
But wasn't his control of the Chinese market just one step of his ultimate aims? He mentioned "world wide domination" in his speech in Hamburg. Granted, it's been a while since I've seen TND but I always found that his plan for China wasn't an endgame for him and he had plenty more things to come.
I'm going to bow down to anyone here who has superior knowledge of media barons (I know their names, that's about it!) as my initial assumption was always that their only ideology was money and/or power. That's what made it more tangible to me, in a sense.
Yeah, the TND script absolutely takes an inch and runs a mile with the concept and retrofits it to Bond villain archetypes with the private army, stealth ship lair, henchmen etc. but I do give it credit for going there at all.
Yes, when he decided to push for Trump over the other Republican candidates, he got elected. They don’t follow, they lead.
See also Brexit.
I very much recommend watching The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty on iPlayer. Ian Hislop made a great programme about fake news throughout history too, starting with Hearst of course who pretty much literally did what Carver was shown trying to.
No. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/05/why-rupert-murdoch-decided-to-support-trump.html
Of course Murdoch would support the Republican against Hillary Clinton, but Fox, and Murdoch specifically, was not pushing Trump in the primary. Murdoch instructed the moderator at the GOP primary debate Fox hosted to hammer Trump. It was widely covered.
Hoax, by Brian Stelter, is an entire book about Fox and its relationship with Trump, and is based on hundreds of interviews with people who work there. I recommend it.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/12/politics/rupert-murdoch-trump-tweets/index.html
[Of course, Doctor No was missing hands, and Blofeld had an egg-drop face due to scarring in YOLT, so perhaps Carver needed a disfigurement to be more upsetting. (Would a missing manhood have worked ? Or were they leaving that for AP's villain Goldmember -- hence his name -- to have that condition 5 years later ? Perhaps the producers simply realized that picking on someone due to their appearance -- ie, they're more hateworthy because of disfigurement -- has a base, childish aspect to it. Much can be made in a story wherein the hero has a problem of some sort and the villain is physically fine and charming -- as in Motherless Brooklyn -- to go against baser inclinations.]