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Indeed.
Yes, I had thought of that one myself. We seem to be raking up quite a few references here.
Ah yes. Well done sir
=D>
Of possible interest.
Fantastic. Thanks for posting :-)
A snippet from a United Kingdom that no longer exists. I'm not even a Brit but that video sometimes brings a lump to my throat.
Also, each time you have Bond chasing someone or being chased, having childs in the crowd would make the scene go from unrealistic to blatantly unrealistic. The passerbys who avoid him or avoid the villain are always fit, adult people (= stuntmen and stuntwomen). No overweight people who can't jump two meters at the last second, no kid who would stay still in front of the car, stuck by fear. Also, the director want "nice people" sometimes anyway : can you spot an overweight person , an elder people, or a kid in the crowd at the horse race in QOS for instance ?
In TLD opening, Remy Julienne's son who drives the white car that faces the Land Rover, has a child in the backseat. But all the passerbys who jump to avoid the Land Rover are fit adults (and one even jumps to his death :) ).
I've already wrote about this scene about five times here I think but anyway : in the French Alain Delon movie "Trois Hommes à Abattre", there is a chase that's basically as unrealistic as the other movie chases, but the end is a bit different :
It starts like a joke (the "slow down because of our kids" sign)
but then just after the bad guys car
oh oh
the hero has to stop and let the bad guys escape
Then the hero and the kid paralyzed by fear look at one another for a moment, the hero has just let the killers of his best friend escape, but he can't show any bad feelings.
Nowadays it would be a reminder there's no way you can be a "responsible driver" in action movies, not sure they would dare to do such things.
Very interesting, thanks for that. Yes, I too had thought of the family in that TLD PTS scene, though I didn't realise a stunt driver was at the wheel of that white car. Well spotted!
Gosh I love that song. So perfectly placed in the movie too.
And there are also mentions of Bond's childhood in CR and SF of course.
True. Something of an origin story for James Bond, to be sure. Also there are mentions of Bond's childhood in the original Fleming Bond novels, namely LALD, OHMSS and YOLT.
I agree, this is fascinating, thanks for sharing Suivez ce Parachute. I will need to watch that movie.
Me too. The list is forever growing of "To see" it seems...
I would get custody of my daughter so she could stick her head in front of the tv! :))
Touché.
@BigGayIsland and @Dragonpol, neither of these posts contribute anything to the discussion. They are spammy at best. The first post is a useless remark no-one wants to read, the one word post 'Touché' to a useless remark is questionable. If one wants to avoid the accusation of just boosting up their post count, it might be wise to also avoid this kind of posts.
That I will, sir. Sorry for my silly post. Please forgive my self-indulgence. You should be by now hopefully be aware that I rarely post in a flippant manner, @DarthDimi.
For an example of this, I did have this thread renamed to something less vague when it was threatened with closure if you look back through the thread.
I would have to agree on that one - and, may I add, his alter-ego.
Yes, there's something in that, for sure. But there was a great radio drama play on BBC Radio 4 back in January 2006 called 'From Father, with Love' and it documented the relationship between the author Ian Fleming and his young son, Caspar, for whom he wrote the book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang after having used it as a bedtime story. So he did certainly have a legacy left for children too, let's not forget and that radio play did present a very different caring and surprisingly doting father side to Ian Fleming. Of course the children's book went on to become a very successful musical film produced also by Eon Productions.
Of course, Haggis wrote a draft of QoS in which Vesper turned out to have a kid from a past lover. Nixed by the producers, thankfully.
He'd have to accidentally blow himself up of course.
On a side note, am I the only one who found the children in DAF utterly irritating? I don't know why, but I always hated them. Even and actually maybe especially when I was a child.
This kid always makes me smile.
The water balloon boy is great, if only because he serves as a great foil for Tiffany. That entire carnival segment of DAF is one of my favorite in all of Bond. Zambora indeed!
That moment is deliciously campy, @Perilagu_Khan. I love it too. Especially the kid's tone. "Who's she? Your mother?" Only in DAF is such a thing possible. :-)
I prefer no children at all in the Bonds, unless as background characters. The kids running behind Solange on her horse? Perfectly acceptable. The elephant selling boy in TMWTGG? A very uncomfortable scene.
Anyway, what use do kids have in a Bond film? Are we going to buddy Bond to a youngster so we can have that generation conflict that hasn't been funny since 2500 BC? Are we going to make Bond a family man so we can have scenes of him and a kid gaze upon the stars, meanwhile petting a dog? Will Bond find the chosen one who will bring balance to the Force and analyse the midichlorian content in his blood? Or worse still - yes worse - will be find a child in peril that Bond has to rescue? Perhaps we can have Roland Emmerich direct that film. It's going to have a dog too, and the American president, and a world threatening catastrophe and a budget of 350 million.
I'm sorry but when I watch a Bond film, I don't need the presence of kids, neither in my theatre nor on screen.