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Don't even get grandpa started on what went through his mind when he saw the word "Octopussy" on the shelves of his local bookstore! :)) :)) :))
That's nice, and of course harks back to Goldfinger's lyrics.
Such a coldfinger.
One of Fleming's best tricks was to twist a proverb, which many other authors have also tried, but it is a knack I don't seem to share (so far)
However someone else might be able to adapt one in such a way that it still has meaning in a James Bond context, but isn't too corny?
A Gun In The Hand
The Heart Grows Colder
Louder Than Words
A Spy Has 9 Lives
All That Glitters Is Not...
... Change It's Spots
All's Fair In Love And Espionage
The One Eyed Man
An Ounce Of Prevention
The Eye Of The Beholder
Curiosity Killed The Spy
The Better Part Of Valour
... Breeds Contempt
Every Spy Has His Death
Fortune Favours The Brave
On Her Majesty's Pension List
The Bond Awakens
The Last Double O
The Rise of Bond
The Wrath of Bond
The Search for Bond
The Bond Home
The Undiscovered Bond
The Revenge of Broccoli.
Kingsley Amis' "Colonel Sun" is still unused
How about "Professor Plum"?
Yeah I really like a lot of those, much better than most attempts, I think. 'Fortune Favours The Brave' is one I've thought about before too. I like 'The Heart Grows Colder' a lot too.
'Heart' seems a Bond-ish word that hasn't been used much before: I think 'CROSS YOUR HEART' works in terms of being half of one of those proverbs, without saying the 'die' bit :) ... or even just something like BLEEDING HEART feels fairly Bond to me.
It’s biblical sure but there is something Bondian about it when we talk about non Fleming titles
ONCE AND FOR ALL (Where the villain plans to "kill James Bond once and for all")
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I remember that; I really like that one.
Reminds me of another which someone else came up with; was it Gobi-1? They did a lovely poster using it:
DOUBLE OR NOTHING
It just sort of works I think.
Some others on a kind of deadly game theme:
MAY THE BEST MAN LIVE
SURVIVOR TAKES ALL
TRUTH, DARE OR DIE
Maybe a bit naff in places, but that's the fun isn't it? :)
I didn’t mind the two Brosnan ones but Craig’s annoys me as I have been banging the drum since 2018 for The Garden of Death and we got that plot point but not that title it was like Craig kicked me in the sack
I never actually hated Gardner's 'Never Send Flowers' as a title.
An hour long special in which James Bond is forced to pimp standard stuff like alarm systems, smartphones, knives, gold-plated watches or strollers all glorified with a "Universal Exports – Q Branch" logo. Most of the time, Bond is teamed with Q, who plays the expert and answers his questions. M, who needs the funds for MI6, does the voice-overs explaining the audience how to order, and Moneypenny is the smiling hostess who doesn't say a word. Some of the iconic dialog from the films is also clumsily reenacted with lame puns ('Do you expect me to die?' 'No, James Bond, I expect you to order this Q Branch tactical jacket at 555-438-9234'). And during pre-taped segments, muzak arrangements on synth of John Barry's classical themes play in the background.
Bond's discomfort grows over the course of the program, with clear signs of PTSD, and he asks repeatedly if Q Branch alarm systems will prevent some Silvas from invading your childhood place and killing your boss or if the Q Branch security camera is effective against Blofelds who try to kidnap your partner. Eventually, when he has to sell a "Universal Exports by Q Branch" cocktail set of glasses and shakers, he turns into a weeping mess by mentioning it can serve Vesper Martinis.
The Flower Who Poisoned Me
And it's not even a pun!
In addition to the title that, I think, could very well be suitable for a new actor's first movie, Morgan's concepts could also be very well used down to line. Probably not for a first movie, but definitively for a second, third ou fourth installment. Not the death of M of course, but the general idea of seeing her (or him) threatened by the son of a former lover could still be very different from Skyfall. Supposing M stays a man, he could have had in the past an affair with the wife of a foreign diplomat or head of an intelligence service, whose son aspires to use this compromising information to gain access to something (secret data, experimental weapon or whatsoever).
Yes I liked the sound of that treatment, it sounded like there were some fun ideas in it. And of course M having a personal issue could even link in slightly to the Moonraker novel situation, where M also comes to Bond for a favour.
All of the hacking stuff was added much later of course, so maybe they could come back to some of those ideas at some point and it not to feel like Skyfall.
Yeah it would be bolder than most Bond titles but I could see it working in its starkness.
I quite like A HOPE IN HELL for a while.
I really love the idea of a terrorist organization using various antiquities selling them on the black market ala Live and Let die to be a plot of bond 26
For that you could in theory use The Undertakers wind making that the e name of a rare Rembrandt or something of that nature
Too many syllables, and the average layfolk may not know how to pronounce Heracles.
I'm sure MGM has figured out that titles that are catchy and easy to market to the average person sell. Granted, No Time to Die is super generic.
Risico is viable.
Property of a Lady and Hildebrand Rarity are good for literature, but they're not what you'd name a big-screen action movie.
It's only 7 letters yet it's a word that almost nobody has used before. It's the perfect kind of hashtag for social media and algorithms. It's a word you can google and have only Bond-related content show up.
I think the next Bond film should find a title like this.
Fortune Favours the Grave