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Sounds great!
Although, one idea that keeps coming to my head is, the white dots does all its usual movement to the right side of the screen, and still comes out empty, then Bond suddenly reappears and shoots when it gets to the centre? Just a way of saying Bond is back, the same way he faded out in NTTD's gunbarrel. Maybe a slight nod to NTTD.
Sounds good to me!
I’d be down for Urban to play Felix actually. I know he’s a Kiwi, but he did a bit of a southern drawl as Bones McCoy, and while I haven’t heard it I know he did a Texan accent for some TV show. Looking him up, I just realized he's 50, but he reads young and I think there's a bit more leeway for Felix to skew older, sort of like Dalton playing opposite Hedison who was 20 years his senior.
Matthew McConaughey will forever be the most perfect Felix Leiter that never was for me. I'd figured he was too old to pair with a new Bond at this point, but hey, going the Hedison route he'd technically still be fair game too.
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Regarding Felix, when I heard that Jimmy Dean was cast in DAF I thought that they had finally found a perfect Felix.
I never thought of that, but he fits Fleming’s to a tee!
Except that he's not blond, Felix was straw haired in the books.
Have all the Felixs so far been played by Americans and do our US friends feel he should be played by an American, given he is the most prominent US character?
Personally, I'd like to see a version of Leiter who is slightly older than Bond (let's say in his 40s alongside a Bond in their 30s). I think their friendship should already be established and they should have a familiarity with each other, much like in NTTD. I'd also like to see a Leiter with a mechanical hand and prosthetic leg too, who is ex-CIA and currently working at Pinkerton. Again, this doesn't have to be explained, but the main idea is he's more a 'man for hire', not quite a rogue as he still has contacts/connections in the CIA, but is essentially much less 'by the books' than we've seen in previous films. I think Leiter's humour should also be brought out more. Even Wright's Leiter was a touch brooding in CR and QOS.
I would really love this. It's more suspenseful when Bond is alone.
Dramatically/thematically it might be a bit problematic too. Remember, we're going to be introducing not only a new Bond in the next film but presumably a new 'universe' too. I think we need to understand and actually see things like how MI6 and the 00 section operate, get a sense of Bond's relationship with others at MI6 etc.
Yeah, the Bond film series has always been rather conservative in its storytelling. Even NTTD included time jumps that were shown in a linear way. I completely get what you mean about about it feeling very televisual.
Anyway, I feel even in Fleming the briefing scenes worked better when they incorporated more into the main narrative. They feel much more vivd and less 'cold' in MR and FRWL than they do in CR and LALD, while still maintaining that sense of espionage/secrecy.
I dunno, a part of me wonders what a Bond film would be like if they did something similar to the FRWL novel - that's to say the villains and the overarching plot is introduced first, tension is built up, and Bond actually appears later into the film (not quite as much as a quarter of the way through, but later than we're accustomed to, more like in DN if anything). We'd then see Bond first either on an unrelated assignment, return to MI6 and get his briefing from M, or simply begin with him in London. I have no idea if such a concept would work (it won't for all stories) but it'd be interesting.
That's great. I do wish they had kept the entirety of that final shot, though, considering the emotion on set and it would've only added a few extra seconds of runtime.
I think the next film is in desperate need of bringing back some of these old hallmarks. M briefing Bond in his office, in a fairly standard, linear, old fashioned way, after the PTS is something I really want to see again. And then popping down to see Q after a brief flirtation with Moneypenny.
It's been a very long time since we've had this (GE, before that TLD), so the producers can't be accused of going back to the same old same old again.
I guess we've seen all those things during the Craig era, just not in the context of that formulaic or 'traditional' cinematic Bond outline. Personally, I'm not all that bothered about incorporating these scenes specifically to seem 'familiar'. I'd like them to do something new with these elements in order to tell the strongest story possible while being creatively fresh. They'll also presumably have to rebuild this new Bond universe/MI6 team, so there's potential for something new.
I mean, just look at the M briefing scenes in the books, especially the early ones. There are these great descriptions of rain tapping against the window, the light from the green lamp spilling onto the desk in this dark room, M carefully briefing Bond. It comes off as very secretive, covert, almost insular. We really get a sense of the dynamic between these two characters (ie. the nice little touches such as Bond noting the significance of M calling him 'James' rather than 007, which is something I've always wanted to see in a film), as well as the nature of Bond's profession. I don't think we've quite seen anything nearing that type of atmosphere in the films. I'm sure they could convey such an impression through the cinematography, editing and acting of a future scene.
As for Moneypenny and Q... I don't mind too much. Neither are that big a deal in the novels, and if anything a Loelia Ponsonby type character could serve far more of a serviceable narrative function. I'd say she's more interesting a character potentially, and her involvement would mean a bit more of a sense of world building about the 00 section in this new Bond universe. I really don't care about Q. I'd like to see gadgets in the next one, again providing they do something slightly different with the Chekov's gun outline (I've pointed to the moment in LALD in the past where Bond's magnetic watch isn't able to attract the boat during the crocodile run, which is a cool subversion. I've also said that perhaps Bond could use his gadget in a slightly different way than it was intended, again just to keep things fresh).
Yeah I like this idea too, I think it’d be a nice way to strip things down and make Bond more of an enigma again, especially if they took some cues from the TSWLM novel and told the story from the girl’s perspective. You could have a PTS showing the beginnings of some evil scheme, tell the story from the perspective of a woman who’s found herself involved in it, and then through her eyes introduce the new Bond as an enigmatic figure who’s already on his mission, ready to sort it out. I think that’d be a cool introduction. It’d make him feel more mysterious and spyish, it’d be a nice palette cleanser after a few London heavy films, and gives them a nice sequel hook to grab a few headlines (bringing back M/Q/Moneypenny again).
Yeah, this would be nice. A different style all together for the new Bond.
Basically, send Bond off on a mission and leave him to it.
Yeah. I'm with this. I love Craig's Bond, but I want something different for Bond 7. A return to the old formula with an inventive mix is what's needed I think.
Absolutely, just a few extra seconds that mean a little something more to the fans who know the history of the shot. If only.
QOS was something of a race against time, but, that wasn't the plot, but the production. Whoopsy. Anywho - the results are very good !
You talking about the man who knew too much or QOS?