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I'm so glad we got the cut they gave us. The first 20 something minutes of CR were put together by the best!
SF and SP needed to have a PTS like theirs, for QOS I always thought that, although short, it was too big and all over the place. They might as well have cut it and made the chase with Mitchell the PTS. I would like for Bond 25 a PTS like CR: one mano a mano confrontation, or something in similar scale.
I disagree. The boat chase was overlong and added to the Bilbao scene it made the whole PTS overlong. The Bilbao scene was short, efficient, it showed Bond as both professional and cool while being a pro, it also created an element of mystery (who saved him and why?). Sometimes less is more and the PTS of TWINE is a perfect example of this.
The final cut of the MI6 attack turned out much better. That one right there just dragged
Thanks! I understand you need to listen to your target audiences, but this time I think it was a lack of vision by Apted. I wonder if the same audiences would have reacted the same to the PTS of CR.
I don't think I've ever seen that deleted version before. It was have been so much better to have Bilbao, opening credits, then that. It was much more in depth and would have been very throwback-ish to the days in which meeting with M came right after the credits.
I was wondering why in the Connery - Moore era of Bond, they never had any recurring actors for Felix and Blofeld?
M,Q and Moneypenny are small roles, but they do play a recurring role in each film. Felix and Blofeld do not. Any actor would have to commit to playing the role over too large a time frame. It would be nice for continuity purposes, but sadly unlikely to happen.
I liked Sting in Dune. He really fits as a completely mental Nazi experiment.
Thanks for your detailed reply. I don't want a fantastical comic strip cartoon character. I want a believable three-dimensional Bond, and to achieve that, I want him to rely on his own intelligence, not on Buster Keaton-esque stunts, like hanging off a fire engine ladder in the streets of San Francisco or slamming a motorbike into a wall on a bridge to fly off and land on a train below, or magically jumping out of a window. These kinds of stunts are cheap. They take little imagination by the writers. They undermine Bond as a thinking, emotional human being.
I'm a little confused. Are you saying you'd have preferred Bond to just leg it down the fire escape in the above sequence? That would've made for thrilling cinema.
Maybe in TSWLM he could have just skied down the blue run to a waiting Ford Mondeo?
GE: why bungee when I'm sure he could have inched his way down the rockface at the side?
If these stunts take so little imagination why has there not been a truly quality stunt since the crane jump in CR?
Feel free to come up with a list of these 'cheap' and unimaginative stunts and send it to EON because I think they are struggling at the moment.
You must love the Mendes era where he eschews anything approaching an impressive stunt in favour of more time devoted to Bond being a 'thinking, emotional human being.'
Persinally I don't see why we can't have both and that's why OHMSS is the guvnor and the escape from Piz Gloria the daddy of Bond action.
You have thinking Bond (using the inside of his pockets rather than a gadget to escape the cable car room), then Buster Keaton (if you will) Bond (hanging from the cable, skiing on one ski), then emotional Bond (scared for his life while he's strangling the guy on the cliff top and sitting by the ice rink).
Never bettered.
In both cases I can think of many good reasons: you don't want to be associated with your father and you need a good nom de guerre in the line of work you have. I wonder if anything was said from EON shedding some lights about it.
In regards to LeChiffre, I guess that was down to Fleming's penchant for peculiar names.
As fans though we can always patch these things up in our heads. For example we can always assume that Madeleine changed her name so as she wouldn't be found by Quantum or Spectre, and LeChiffre is just a code name.
Quite the naughty habit, that.
I am talking about the book here of course, that story wasn t adopted in the film.
Can anyone confirm this?
Also, regarding the ending, has a bomb been planted in Miami? If so how was it transported there?