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Sure but it's now how the character was conceived. Why subvert Villiers into something he is not, just because his actor can play different types of characters? We're talking of a very secondary character here, not anyone central. People already complain that Bond is overshadowed by the Mi6 staff now Villiers needs some kind of character arc?
Now, how the character was conceived and where to go from there is entirely subjective.
I don't see the Tobias Menzies of today playing the old, defenseless, worrying and soft Villiers of the yesteryear. At the very least, he would be someone of an authority the way James Villiers' Bill Tanner was, an actor he was named after. And as such, there was a hint in Villiers' Tanner that he was capable of handling himself, so I don't see why Menzies' Villiers wouldn't be like that.
A man like him wouldn't be demoted to the secretarial pool, and those who aren't and have operated within elite branches even as desk officers like the 00-section, wouldn't be defenseless nothings. Charles Robinson was a testament to that, and he wasn't a 00 agent. And no, Robinson wasn't only an on-foot errand boy for M.
That being said, he's a great character and one of my favourites from CR.
I'm just trying to think of a more appropriate thread to best continue this in.
https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/523/the-minor-character-hall-of-fame/p6
Wouldn't he need a thread of his own?
Question: did they start working on what would become SP before they had the rights to Blofeld? If so who was the villain of the early drafts?
I remember reading about it, but I understand (maybe wrongly) that Blofeld was meant to be the African warlord (terrible idea by the way).
Blofeld was in the earliest draft of Bond 24 we know (and was indeed a African general in theses), he was removed after, and reincluded later.
It doesn't sound like him at all. Especially when the earliest drafts of that planned Bond film he was going to produce (that later became the basis for Thunderball) didn't include or feature SPECTRE but several of the drafts had Bond battling a mafia syndicate.
I'm sure I read an interview with Menzies a couple of years ago that he imagines that Villiers quit his job after seeing Solange and that he is now happily married doing something else. Far away from the ghastly terrors of the secret service.
Boy Menzies is sure a specialist at playing wusses. I'd love to find that interview.
Question : Simon Russell Beale, who often worked with Sam Mendes on stage, was rumored to have been considered for a role in what would become Skyfall. Any truth to it and anyone knows which role?
I see. Thank you.
I presume with the DVD transfers and TV broadcast copies, that no longer applies.
Seems like it.
I had always assumed that the card Bond received came from the hotel he was staying at. A quasi customary fortune cookie to go along with his breakfast. Not from Solitaire.
When they later meet he never thanks her for the warning so I never linked the two. Also, why would she help him after only briefly being introduced to him? How'd she know where he was staying?
So, is it considered common knowledge that it was Solitaire who sent it?
While we do see the card attached to a small hotel letterhead - whether the message was delivered via the hotel reception; from the waiter; or Quarrel himself, is another question. I'm guessing the message did not go through the reception, since Rosie was going under the alias of 'Mrs. Bond', and could have accepted it on Mr. Bond's behalf.
Thankfully it's not crucial to the plot.
And Bond says "get inside" (the car). Seems to me they mistakenly switched lines. Bond should say they're coming to get him, and the agent should tell him to get inside.
I can see that line in an online version of the script, but in the film itself it's completely inaudible. She makes a small sound like 'me' at the very most.
I just listened to it. As far as I can tell, she's saying "they're coming for me."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YVAq90lAqHU&t=4m25s