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The Rolls Royce Spectre kind of reminds me of that too, although it's enormous. But Bond in a Rolls doesn't feel right.
But in truth I'd prefer him to stick to the Astons. They feel closer to the spirit of those 30s and 50s Bentleys to me, and they look nicer too if you ask me.
What would you mean by this?
I think it’s the tendency in Bond for aspects of the previous actor’s era to remain at least for the first film in the new actor’s era. And anyway, similar ideas seen in the Brosnan era were done as well in the Craig one (which isn’t unusual considering it’s the same producers and/or writers). Same more broadly for aspects of the previous actor’s way of playing Bond. Something tends to stick (but as I said I think every actor has done a great job at playing the character in their own way).
But "here to stay" has a slight sinister bent to it. Like here whether we like it or not.
Aspects of Brosnans bond carried over into Craig, sure, but they weren't "here to stay" in the sense that they're permanent fixtures that we just have to learn to live with. When in comes to art, nothing is beyond reproach.
Depends on how you look at it, but fair enough. I guess what I was trying to say is I can imagine Bond 26 not being unlike one of Craig’s films.
To paraphrase Le Chiffre, nothing sinister intended!
Not too mention, multiple books, comics and video games. We are truly lucky.
Exactly.
Obviously, I enjoy the prospect of a new Bond film very much, but I'm not going to waste my life craving more substance when we've got so much of it already. We'll get another Bond eventually. When? Someday. Why not now? Because the people making these films aren't making them right now. What can we do about that? Nothing. Complaining online won't speed things up.
...Unless you're a DC Snyderverse stan, or a Sonic the Hedgehog fan...
Unfortunately many of us already watched those during the last 6 year wait from 2015 to 2021. :(
I am glad the Bond fans don't hold that kind of power over EON.
Great. We can watch them again. Or we can watch other things. That's how it goes with most film series, except the ones that people complain about for piling up new release after new release.
Do not check out the Serpent Green colour, it's wild!
I read that Bentley didn't want John Gardner to put any gadgets in Bond's car (besides a phone). I wonder if that rule would apply today, or they soften to the idea of optional extras after seeing the following partnership success with Aston.
I didn't know that, how strange. As I remember Horowitz has one of Bond's Bentleys fitted with bulletproofing.
Can they do that? It's a book, there are no real cars involved.
Yeah. Same here. I love the car. It could easily be a car Bond 7 uses majorly and memorable in just 2 of his films, so it doesn't dominate his era like the DB5 did with Craig's Bond.
I think it does suit Bond pretty perfectly. It's also big, grey, old and brutish; so kind of aligns with the cars Fleming gives Bond the best of anything we've seen in the movies.
Yeah. It's got a sinister look to it. It also looks like a car that would easily pass for the Batmobile. Although, it's a car one can easily imagine Brosnan's Bond using, as it looks too outlandish for Craig's Bond. Just curious why it was in NTTD, though. Maybe they changed their mind from featuring it extensively.
No action I think, but they shot the scenes with Nomi driving it; they then replaced it with the DBS Superleggera. The shot of her picking Bond up as he walks along the road for example has a CG DBS there- the real shot was done with the Valhalla.
As I remember there's a bit of a clue to that in the trailers- I think one of the trailers has the car without a numberplate which then got added in a later trailer or the film.
The funny thing is with the Valhalla that the film took so long to get released that Aston actually changed the design of the car between the shooting and release of the film!
Connery had the "you've had your six".
Moore had "sheer magnetism darling"
Dalton had "I got the message".
Brosnan had the aston chase with xenia, "ladies first".
Craig had the foot chase on the big crane, and the seduction of solange "no, for one".
Quite agree. I wouldn't mind it becoming the new DB5 to be honest. Reminds me of this great segment from TG: