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Good points about Craig wasting his talent by trying to be a little Moore-like at times. Please elaborate on why the reinvention will be the end of Bond as we know it. I have a similar feeling but can't articulate why.
DC got the blessing and praise from all the previous Bonds and is the last actor to have had it from both SC and RM. DC has acted a bit hesitant with the fans, while RM was a class act who embraced and welcomed them all the way. RM drove one of the newer Aston Martins from QoS to one of the premiers for SF. QoS was the complete opposite of what a RM movie would be like and yet he rose to the occasion to represent the series as a former 007. I hope DC will work with the next 007 actor since he said "don't be sh-t"...out of all the actors to play the role, he's really the only one to have had consistent creative input as a producer or writer with many of his films. The producers wouldn't be as sad of Craig's end as 007 if they hire him behind the scenes.
Craig is a bit elusive...he doesn't spend too much time with fans and doesn't attend most awards ceremonies....good for him but RM would always rise to the occasion for fans. At some points DC's attempts to push away from Bond shows too much with the audiences such as when he didn't provide the voice for the previous 007 video game, Legends, which was crap....perhaps that's why he didn't voice the role.
MacBeth is a production gift from BB to DC. It's admirable of this actor to truly show his thespian talents unlike most famous actors. For many audiences, he could be their last 007 actor because someone like me would not go to the theater to watch another formulaic Bond movie that goes over the top.
Did anyone else here watch it?
Jason Connery was there....you wouldn't expect a Connery being there if SC was alive. So sad that there were so many tributes over the years that RM would attend but SC would seemingly avoid.
Back when QoS came out, MGW was explaining how DC reminded him of Steve McQueen...DC has sometimes, not always been a little hidden like SC over the years. Hopefully he can take more from the advice of Hugh Jackman who embraces his fans and represents wolverine with frequent references every now and then. DC took a page out of Jackman's book with Logan for NTTD.
It's hard to imagine the new guy as Bond, if the last guy is still behaving like he were still Bond in interviews.
I do hope Daniel looks back at his time as Bond with fondness
I have no doubt he does, the speech he gave, albeit short, on the last day of filming NTTD speaks volumes.
And on RM: I've always said the man had far more talent than he's been given credit for. He made it all look so easy. Well, it wasn't. finding his balance and making it all seemingly the same character - take FYEO vs MR vs LALD. Films whih are tonally utterly different, and yet nobody complains that they are, tht it isn't the smae Bond, etc.
"The antenna that hit your crotch in San Francisco? It was me, James."
Baron Samedi: "Remember the slide whistle, James? It was me! It was always me!"
RM never explained the ending and it is only said on imdb that producers were planning to have Baron Samedi return.
He can still return. he is immortal and trancends timelines.
True!
DC paid a nice homage to Samedi at the beginning of SP enough to maintain the respect of his own Bond's story arc.
To avoid fallouts and missed opportunities for fans (i.e. not showing up at welcomed events), the producers should reevaluate their contracts to reduce drama with the actors.
Almost each one had some issue and it's often unavoidable to get it nailed right 100%:
SC (no need to explain more),
GL dropped the ball even if his agent poorly advised him
TD didn't want a 3-movie deal at the studios' behest
RM kept the public hanging and production auditioned different actor for OP
PB wanted to negotiate more money while not having been involved in production quality to merit much interest from the producers, plus he didn't seem very happy when getting introduced with Bond music when presenting at awards shows towards the end of his run
DC was contracted for 5 movies but after just 3 he kept dangling the return, stopped voicing the video games, and didn't appear for much Bond related events.
-meanwhile the producers and many fans wish he had been contracted for a couple of more.
-The video games are no longer produced in the Craig storyline when they were only getting interesting with BloodStone.
There are some good actors who are contenders for the 007 role but the lesson we need to learn from the time gap between QoS and SF is to keep the story and production quality on a higher note, the actors close to the producers with more involvement than just acting on screen, and before marketing takes place make sure things are coherent and make sense for the actor's story arc.....whether you like it or not, each actor had their own thing going just by not being the same person as their predecessor. The DC story arc was just more honest, original, and open about it. That is why the producers have a better chance of either using a good well-known actor for a shorter period across no more than 3 films if they want a movie by 2027 or using an unknown actor whose quality of acting is good like a hidden gem. The lesser-known actor can be more likely to demonstrate a sense of loyalty to the series as DC did....he may have been ungrateful in outside interviews but when he was working in Bond productions, he sure worked hard. The producers have plenty of research to do beyond sitting behind a desk in auditions.
Also, that song Still Holding On by Conjure One would have made a bigger emotional impact had it been used. You never hear the tunes of Another Way to Die play throughout most of the movie. There's a chord from Still Holding On along the lyrics of "There's nothing I could do...." and the intense build up in the end before the song picks up again and ends in its last verses truly beams (pun intended) a titles sequence transitioning into the film's next scene. If only....
@GadgetMan this song really would have set the tone of perseverance with Bond that SF spent time in the middle trying to signify.
Here is something no one asks.....have the recent Bond themes in the last 3 movies been really good in terms of quality or do they win awards mainly because most movies don't put as much effort and hard work into their soundtracks and scores anymore? There was an article from a few years ago asking if the film soundtrack is dead.....
Yeah, maybe the song would have worked @dramaticscenesofQOS even if I can't see it. But then again, Daniel Kleinman has a way of making us accept and love the songs :)
This is one of few, in any, franchises that has its songs fit into a music video style presentation to immerse an audience whereby art is emphasized despite being in a current state of society where movie studios meddle too much into every aspect of a film. Had SP and NTTD not had as much studio meddling we would likely have had more down-to-earth settings and features in those films (no subversive flying jet, no Spanish music overplaying in the Cuban sequence which drowned out Anna DE Arma's talent).
QoS shows him at his lowest point internally, though the movie is a high point compared to most entries that went towards fantasy.
Please like and comment on it if you have IG and ask if they Eva Green did the photo shoot with him or if she was photoshopped!
What's funny is I just finished making this photo recently.
She wasn't photoshopped - it says in Some Kind of Hero that Eva spent a day on QOS having the photos taken.
I always enjoy seeing this type of dedication, no matter how small it is.
Wow, who knows what deleted scene might have happened?
Barbara Broccoli told Eva in 2006 (after one of the CR premieres) that she was actually going to be in QOS and when BB and MGW hired Forster, they told him that they wanted her in flashbacks and new scenes where she was 'haunting' Bond. Forster was vehemently against it and persuaded them to drop the idea, so she ended up just doing the Vesper and Yusef photos.
Her haunting him....this could have happened in a later film too.