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And also I heard that Grace Jones backed out because there was very little screen time for her; the Cuba party sequence made sense to me for that reason as well, but maybe the Taschen book shines a light on some of that as well.
I think he might be slightly stunned from the EMP. While it's true they target electrical circuits, having a small one go off right in your face might be a bit of a shock.
...not as much as it was for Primo, mind you! :))
As a cinephile, I've encountered this paradox before (e.g., LADY MACBETH, an objectively accomplished drama, yet far, far too bleak for my tastes), but I never imagined this would happen in the Bond series.
The direction is commanding, the cinematography opulent, the performances all well-calibrated...and yet I'd rank NTTD somewhere in the mid-tier (even though, by most metrics, it's a better film than higher-ranking installments such as THUNDERBALL, or LICENSE TO KILL or QUANTUM OF SOLACE).
Frustrating.
I agree completely, but a quick moment of her in passing, replacing the camera hanging on a different meaningless Spectre agent, would have been cool.
She could've been one of those 3 uglies who were carrying around the bionic eye for Blofeld to view the proceedings...and get poisoned by the nanobots
That would require Grace Jones to be ugly, which is impossible.
I know what you mean. I feel that way about SF.
Would have been cool, but I agree with the sentiment that this film didn't need any more side characters. A nod at the party would have been awesome, anything more would have been too much. I can see why they cut it.
I would have preferred a cameo by David Harbour, in Cuba, as a member of Spectre, which gives Bond (and us) a moment of pause.
I'm with ya here. NTTD is really well made (even if I disagree radically with the writing). I have also never re-visited A Clockwork Orange since my 2nd viewing decades ago. It doesn't matter the pedigree; some movies go down a path I will not enjoy.
Fun thing, a German Bond Fan Site wrote about David Harbour having a short return as Greg Beam to be offed early in the movie (Cuba?), but apparently it was just a rumour, and nothing came off it. Never heard about it again.
And Grace Jones was in the 1980's invited to perform a song live at the then very popular game show "Wetten dass?" ("I betacha..."). She insisted to be announced with the words "Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise for the one and only GRACE JONES!". The host would have none of this, saying, that she would get a "standard" announcement. So, she refused to perform and left.
And I'm not complaining, I quite liked it, but I wonder if anyone else noticed it?
Well in DAD, Bond walks into the Royal Rubyeon Hotel barefoot, soaking wet, unkempt, looking like a vagaBOND rather than James Bond....and is warmly welcomed by its Manager Chang...
Maybe Managers just don't judge the book by its cover when its Bond ;;)
I could be way off base here... but wasn't that hotel in DAD something of an MI6 safehouse, and Chang very familiar with Bond?
I cannot think of a manliest death scene in the history of cinema…
Shot three times, beaten up, infected with nanobots, his world completely collapsed and about to be obliterated by missiles, but he finds the strength to comfort his lover, even to smile. He doesn’t even flinch for a second.
NTTD really cemented Bond as the ultimate hero.
It’s poetic that he’s been killed by British missiles.