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Swann is metafor changing later in something ele's . Inspyred by story of Ugly Dug. Like we get Hans & Grietje in Skyfall (Breadcrumbs by light with M and Kinkade). I think it was idea from John Logan, brother thing and earlier Silva Rat / Willem Tell story be his idea too i think.
I expecting story of Rat guy from Hamelen have been next, follow the leader element. Even without John Logan. But in NTTD we get The shapes scene, simalar meaning. Refer to: Follow a leader as a shape.A better metafor. This was a nice trow back to QOS phone scene (Dog fight).
Loosely translates to 'Pale King'.
I think it has more to do with either his codename being "White" or him just being a pretty pale guy..
Talking about White and SPECTRE: The twitter-account @BondWriting recently posted screenshots from the script of the SP scene at the end of which White kills himself. In the scripted version, he tells a story about Blofeld: The two of them where part of a rogue French Foreign Legion unit somewhere in a desert. They were stranded by a sandstorm and "the weakest of them all" (Blofeld) cut the throats of his eight comrades and only left White alive to carry the corpses and use them as rations for their trek out of the desert.
Extremely dark backstory for both White and Oberhauser.
Christoph Waltz's Blofeld is such a cutesy cinnamon roll little goober.
I wouldn't imagine him doing any of that.
I dunno, to me, Waltz gives off both of these vibes at the exact same time.
That's pretty interesting to be fair. I do like the scene we got in Spectre though.
Although I would have kept in the TV screen showing Spectre as more of a real world threat. Maybe to add to the action, I'd have added Mr Hinx and a few goons showing up to kill Mr White, then having Bond trying to protect him for information, but failing to do so and Bond escaping from Hinx then when they meet later on in the train, it'll be set up how difficult Hinx will be to kill
Am I the only one that has put two and two together? He sets the watch off, kills the nanites (the Poison) and they can all drive off into the sunset.
A plot hole even James Bond could drive through without damaging the Car.
Turns out there were several props made for the film that either got altered, hardly seen or didn't show up at all.
Well, Q says they are eternal, which heavily implies that they can't be killed by the EMP. We have to assume that the man who built Bond's EMP watch would have tried it on the nanobots that currently are threatening humanity.
It's a bit of a cop-out to be sure and it probably is a hangover from the seemingly last-minute switch from a biological to a technological threat, but it's not like they could/should set aside a 5 minute scene in which Q goes through all the things he tried to kill the nanobots with and how that didn't work. He has a sample in his lab. He says they can't be destroyed, once they are inside your system. We have to take his word for it.
There is the very, very dark possibility that by the time Bond sacrifices himself, he isn't actually infected with the virus or it isn't as permanent as they think. Neither he nor we have any way of knowing whether that red vial actually is a working virus targeted at Madeleine and there is the outside chance Q screwed up and Bond's EMP could have killed the virus (he didn't use it after his fight with Safin but he could have, if he thought it would help) or there is some other way to get rid of it. But that is kind of bad fandom in a way. The script surely is convinced he is infected and there is no way out.
Even for the biological weapon, before Covid, this stuff would already flow better with some kind of fantasy dimension that makes it look less of a real-life threat and doesn't make the audiences anxious about it. When you involve miniature robots even if it makes no sense (the robots couldn't pass and multiply from person to person until they reach their target), it becomes slightly "magical", and you simply need to get it justified by some technobabble from Q.
My father served for decades in the French reserve army, in the Army Health Service. It mostly involved going to congresses every year in some nice large French city, to have lunches with old friends and a few bottles and attending some conferences. One of them was about biological weapons. It is an open secret that most big nations had or still have some biological weapons program despite the treaties, to develop new weapons or to provide a strategy and treatments if they were under such attack.
Every expert starts by mentioning a huge problem with these weapons, that makes them a very low possibility. If you use them, you're facing a lot of collateral damage for you if the bacteria, the microbe or the virus gets carried over within your own borders and kills your own population.
In No Time to Die, it's also mixed with recent news that have nothing to see with biological weapons. Some government agencies are pressuring tech companies to leave some passkey that would only allow them, in extremely rare circumstances, to recover data from very bad guys without bricking their smartphone.
However, every security expert will also tell you that the agencies could be quick to abuse this functionality and that hackers would ultimately manage to exploit what's actually an intentional backdoor in the systems.
And that's what happens with M and Heracles. The weapon that was developed to target select criminals without killing anybody else was, like every best laid plan, quickly reverse engineered to allow criminals to kill entire families or ethnic groups, achieving exactly the opposite thing that M wanted.
Well that is one of the aspects that hold NTTD back from being an absolute classic, for me personally. That idea is in the film, sure. It's a very good idea and one I wished a Bond film would actually interrogate fully. NTTD doesn't. There are no consequences for M for doing this, not even a hint. Bond is kind of angry with him for a bit and he seems anguished for a couple of minutes and then we are back to business, really. Same goes for having the world's most dangerous criminal/terrorist be able to continue leading his organization right from inside a high security prison, btw.
There is no hint that this virus could stand in for other technology that might be more realistic, like the encryption backdoors you mentioned. We can come up with the parallels (and I think you explained it very well. Thank you for that.) but they are not clear in the film at all. At least to me.
There is also no real interrogation whether this is a good thing, a bad thing, necessary or unnecessary and under which circumstances. It happens and then we deal with the fallout and that's it.
Now, I don't necessarily need a redo of the hearing scene from Skyfall (even though it's great) and Bond doesn't have to go rogue again and again and again. But for Craig's entire tenure they have signalled towards interrogating what national Intelligence apperatusses are actually doing in the 21st century and what kinds of problems and dilemmas something like a 00 section would pose and come up against and they always shy away from it and instead focus on Bond's personal, emotional struggles. CR is the only film that doesn't really go there and Skyfall is the only one that at least somewhat commits to it and has a thought or two about the state of the world and of MI6. Those are the two stand-out films.
I don't know why this turned into a rant, but it is really bothering me. I love the Craig era, I really like NTTD and I know that Fleming isn't Le Carré. But I would love, love, love it if they found a writer who had a bit of a better grasp of what any of this actually means on a level that goes beyond MI6 good, Americans grey, others bad.
More seriously, it’s extremely likely that M will suffer serious consequences and will at least be fired, even if Britain doesn’t share that they secretly developed a weapon which fell into the wrong hands and could have wiped millions or hundreds of millions if it had been shipped to the prospective buyers. The unauthorized missile strike on an island which is already disputed by two countries is more than enough to have some serious impact and result in M being fired to satisfy Russia or Japan. The funeral wake at his office may be the last time this crew will meet (and it’s definitely the final time we see this cast) but it isn’t M’s film and it isn’t about Nomi taking over. It is the story of a man called Bond.
You say that, but in real life, to shady higher-ups in the government really get arrested/go to jail for their huge mistakes?
Of course not, and they should all be locked up.
Wasn't it "contested" or something? Isn't that different than being privately owned?
Thanks for the reply @QBranch.
Huh?
Surely no intelligence chief would have any such authority, which the film seemed to acknowledge in that earlier scene. Nor would any real-world admiral act so directly without direct communication with MOD, itself under the jurisdiction of political oversight--the only entity that could authorize this. It's not even a question of going "rogue". I don't think that's how the chain of command could possibly work in such a scenario.
Even in a fictional setting like that of NTTD, that missile strike could only have been authorized by political entities. Surely M & MI6 would only have been in a position to "advise" on the best timing of such a strike--and not directly authorize it?
Although, the missiles are already launched at that point, right? Seems like I have to find another moment before that…
Or do we just continue with everything since the torture scene in SP being a dream, including the entirety of NTTD?