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The Property of a Lady
The Hildebrand Rairity
007 in New York
Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Never Send Flowers (Have been a good alternate title of Spectre)
Operation Ruthless
Bird With a Wings Down
Eyes Set To Kill
Legend To Die For
Shortcut To War
The first 3 making biggest chance to be title of Bond 25 and Bond 26 i think.
''Take It Easy Mr. Bond'' sound more like: Slowdown Mr Bond / Calmdown Mr Bond. Dutch people will possible think about Thunderball, because Calmdown Mr Bond is ''Kalm aan Mr Bond'' in Dutch and Dutch title of Thunderball (Blackbear pockets) novel.
Hmm ... yes I knew about that ... inspired? Or scraping the barrel to get a title with somthing related to Fleming?
24 even cheekily adapted it for 24: Live Another Day
The Garden of Death: sure I do kind of like that Craig hasn't had a single death die or kill title in his tenure and also as I pointed out titles like Risico The Silver Phantom heck even The Hildebrand Rarity could all point to the location of the finale and work with the pattern (my personal favorite is The Hildebrand Rarity and with Spectre hinting at it...and Craig back in 09 saying the producers did like that title but were waiting for the right time..) I have to be honest and say The Garden of Death is probably the location title many hardcore bond fans and casual Bond fans will like the most.
Blofeld: again assuming bond 25 is the garden of death and many of the loose ends from Spectre are wrapped up here (Swann, retiring from mi6 etc) except of course for Blofeld then yeah I would like this to be the final film and chronologically it makes sense
We are introduced to Quantum/Spectre in Casino Royale
Learn more about them in Quantum of Solace and see bond destabilize it
See then Quantum/Spectre I guess strike back in Skyfall (seriously if they were on the outs with Jesper Christian would of been that hard to have Guy Haines in Skyfall maybe as the person trying to push Bond and M out to pasture)
Spectre we meet the head
The garden of death Blofeld authorizes one more bit of pain for Bond
Blofeld bond and Blofeld have one final confrontation.
Of course then by this point Hiddleston will in theory be 38/9 and the marvel world will be largely behind him and he can take on Bond 27 with ease
My thoughts only of course
I think it could work. You'd have to use Bond drinking as a framing device. Off the top of my head: PTS in the TSWLM mold. M needs him for something, Moneypenny explains he's in *insert country here*, we get a cool action setpiece. When he returns to London, M gives him an assignment involving a girl from his past. Lets say she's an allied agent (American probably) and he has to extract her from some hostile country. Later in a bar, before departing for the mission, Bond finds himself drinking a particular bourbon, and reminisces about how he met the girl. He met her on a mission. They were both investigating the villain at some sort of party/gala/event thing, and before their introductions (Bond, James Bond) they struck up a conversation at the bar about good bourbon. Bond recommends her his favourite.
This past mission would form most of the plot, it'd be where the stakes and villain are, some world saving adventure. At different points in the story we cut back to the present day with Bond trying to track down this girl (to extract her, his current mission) and coming across visual cues that remind him of what happened last time he met her. The present day story would basically be Bond coming to terms with having to see one of the many girls he's abandoned over the years, wondering what he'll say and how she'll eact, while the main plot, the flashbacks, would be pretty much a buddy movie with him and this girl working together to beat the villain. When the past story concludes, he leaves her in bed after telling her he'll be right back. In the present, he finds her dead. He was too late, she'd been murdered, and near the body (lets say it's in a flat, a safehouse) is a half empty crystal whiskey glass. It's the bourbon Bond recommended her that he was drinking at the bar earlier.
I know that's probably too sombre and pretentious for a Bond film but the title could work is my point. Other than that, I really like Shatterhand as a title. Risico is okay. Property Of A Lady, The Hilderbrand Rarity, are both awful imo. But then I'm of the opinion that a Fleming title doesn't necessarily mean a good one. I still think Quantum Of Solace is the worst title of the series.
I like The Hildebrand Rarity quite a bit as well as The Property of A Lady. I think what is often forgotten is there was variety in Fleming's titles. Live And Let Die followed Casino Royale. Two completely different sounding titles. I think some of the later film titles has lost that sense of variety.
As for chapter titles I'd throw in The Elegant Venus and Seascape With Figures. They'd fit in with the more romantic sounding Bond titles.
Well. 100 mins to 120 mins I think should be the aim. So I do agree.
My quick list
1. Risico
2. The Hildebrand Rarity
3. The property of a lady
4. Blofeld
5. Shatterhand
6. A whisper of love a whisper of hate
7. The quickness of the hand
8. Operation Bedlam
9. The Silver Phantom
10. The Garden of Death
11. The Death Collector
12. The rough with the smooth
13. Death leaves an Echo
14. Midnight Among the worms
15. Valley Of Shadows (my personal favorite among the chapter titles)
16. The Nature of Evil
17. Dead Reckoning
18. Hot Ice
19. The Beautiful Lure
20. The finger on the trigger
21. All the time in the world
22. Reflections in a double bourbon
23. Pink lights and Champaign
24. The pressure room
And all of these could work beautifully... Honestly I think as bond fans we are lucky considering how many great (and not so great but passable) titles Fleming had...
The Navel-Gazer
Makes me think of lent.