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Nevertheless, we have the James Bond story broken into 3 distinct chapters;
Early Career: Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace
End of Career: Skyfall and Spectre
Retirement and Legacy: No Time to Die
It's an interesting perspective to take as the first 20 films is really Bond perpetually in his prime, but rather in DC's run we focus on the formative moments of his career where he isn't necessarily at the top of his game. It's a huge risk but one that is quite poigniant and really gave the character an arc.
I'm OK with that TBH. I think you could make that argument for any Bond but obviously more tangibly for Craig Bond.
Hopefully that makes sense. I've been watching the footy and I'm well oiled!
I can get behind him having had a few years of separate missions. After all, the Bond of the books had a couple stretches of separated missions between all of the SMERSH/SPECTRE stuff.
Even then, SP implies that everything Bond faces in the missions we see stemmed from Blofeld, meaning essentially the films cover the "Spectre" missions, but I don't doubt there could have been many non-Spectre related missions that occurred between films.
Oh definitely, just that they weren't deserving of their own theme song.
Up the reds B-)
I think 007 missions intent, was to fill in that gap, despite the complete lack of coherence, as it was released with Skyfall as extra downloadable content.
It's too bad for that last one, because they could have just ditched some elements, and basically made them work with the Craig films.
I also would have loved Ash mentioning missions we have never heard of. He is supposed to be such a fan (or at least acts like it for their encounter), they could have put a couple of Easter eggs in there.
Never say never die again.
Forever.
Could have really fuelled the theory that all of the previous 20 films happened in between QoS and SF. So maybe it’s a good thing they didn’t go there [-X
Only if Felix was going round with a wooden leg
https://notperfectedyet.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/faithful-to-fleming-is-no-time-to-die-the-closest-adaptation-of-you-only-live-twice-that-will-ever-be/
One thing that Craig's era has over the Brosnan era, is the Fleming nods. As far as I remember, in the Brosnan movies there were no mentions of Bond's literary background apart from Alex mentioning his parents death in a climbing accident.
In the Craig era, we've had one full blown novel adaptation, and loads of references to his literary roots. Who would ever have thought we'd see Bond's parents graves, for example?
Really well written. Thanks.
It definitely is. I also consider Everything or Nothing as canon as well.
Blood Stone would have been an incredible movie. Would much rather have seen it as a movie vs a game. What a missed opportunity.