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I was thinking about other ways that EON could alternate the gunbarrel. The main three that I could think of are Bond firing a machine gun or flamethrower at the viewer. Or one of the villains (preferably the main one) firing at the camera. I know they sound crazy, but they keep the tradition, while making it unique.
I’d suggest taking your loved one and enjoying one with them? Don't wait for a movie, 😂!
ROFL.
It was an extreme way to communicate that "Marriage can kill a nice relationship." Noting that the film follows the book rather faithfully, and Fleming's reported feelings about marriage, it is no surprise.
I'll start a relationship and sex advice thread, 😂
I’m the opposite; a great deal of my enjoyment from these films comes from seeing various parts of the world.
Now, with that said, I don’t want to see globe hopping just for the sake of beautiful, interesting locations; I want it to serve the plot.
Better dead than wed.
Christ I miss the Cold War.
Drax: Are we talking about real life... or movies?
DEKE_RIVERS: Both, Mr. Drax.
Deke would definitely have accepted a cucumber sandwich from Hugo.
The more overarching question that I would have is not ‘who would make a great James Bond?’ but ‘who would make a great actor to play James Bond, if the producers decide to go in ‘X’ direction?’.
I am not of the view that the actor who plays James Bond needs to be at Craig’s level technically (it may help the franchise if he is not) but something about James makes me think that he could be an excellent Bond, if the direction of the character is for Bond to become a (somewhat limited) generic, bastard himbo-type. I have not seen evidence of his range beyond that but that could be enough for the next Bond.
Given that I’m not in the movie business, that, for me, is the big ambiguity in all of this - we are trying to project our ideas of what Bond should be and finding the most appropriate actor on that basis.
The fun, for me, is in considering random actors and thinking about how the role could evolve based on their casting (and that is why I have enjoyed the discourse on this thread). On that basis, I could still imagine Egerton and Lowden bringing something very fresh to the table (as could Mackay) - Suter feels like he we would a very easy fit after Craig, whilst not being a radical (r)evolution.
It feels like I need to go back and brush up on all of these spotty kids who are now in the running.
I would say that it feels like a much better time to be a casting agent than back in the early 2000s - there is a sense of splitting hairs here amongst some exceptional acting talent, which was not there back in the days when Brosnan’s replacements were being discussed.
Apologies if that is at risk of blurring the line between two implicitly linked threads…
Sure, we don't need another "metoo",
Call it 'Keeping the British End up.' ;-)
That's an awkward remark.
Oh, I agree, @Venutius. That's also why I'm so pleased with the other locations. L' Américain -- a seemingly desolated hotel -- and the desert emphasise the introversion both she and Bond have embraced.
In many ways Mary Whitehouse was ahead of her time.
I hate that awful woman.
And yes, sex seems to be a lost element in mainstream cinema. I have to believe that people have become more prudish, and film studios a lot more nervous about it.
You didn't see 'Poor Things' then?
Unlike eating or arguing, sex is mainly a private experience, it seems normal to jump cut and let the viewer assume "what happened" when they both are in bed.
If you want a dose of sex scenes, I can give you a suggestion or two
Yeah, there's still plenty of sex in movies, but it's not just slapped in inappropriately or as mechanically as much it was in the 80s or whenever. It can be pretty boring to have it where it's not needed- I was watching the Beverly Hills Cop films for a bit of fun the last couple of weeks and somehow Axel manages to end up in a topless bar in each film. It's kind of pointless and just there for titillation - folks can just go to a porn site if they want that nowadays. And they do, and that's fine.
But this doesn't really have much to do with Bond films: there's only ever been one sex scene in the whole series.
How often do you see them fast asleep, or using the toilet?
Although Bond is possibly the action hero who's been seen in, even on, the most toilets, oddly. But never actually using them!
Or Saltburn. Even Oppenheimer had more sex than what we usually see from Nolan’s films.
As a whole, there’s more sex (or at least more explicit sex) in films nowadays. We’re really not in Mary Whitehouse territory, and studios actually used to be a lot more prudish about these things even when the Bond films first came out. In terms of Bond, it’s as much as there always was - technically speaking there are no sex scenes in those movies at all.
But if we’re going from how many women Bond beds and seduces in these films, I think there’s more a sense nowadays that it depends on what’s right for the story. Bond sleeping with Paloma out of obligatory trope contrivance probably would have felt a bit odd in NTTD (honestly, I know a lot of people criticise Bond sleeping with Wai Lin at the end of TND as it doesn’t feel in character for either, and I kind of agree). He shares a flirtatious moment with her though. It’s the same with QOS - Bond not sleeping with Camille works for the story, even though they still have a connection.
And it was unnecessary!
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And for Lazenby there was "Hilly, you old devil."