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I think you can still be big within the same country. A large chunk of SF took place in Britain and it didn't suffer for it. I don't necessarily mean Bond 26 either, it's just something I'd like to see at some point during the next era.
As for where it could be, aren’t EON trying to shoot their Othello in Doha? Maybe it might pop up in Bond 26 (it’s quite an interesting place to film potentially with good central city visuals, a port which has some cool exterior imagery and a large aquarium, desert, some great architecture). Not sure if it’ll happen one way or the other though (Qatar’s a bit of a controversial country to put it mildly, so perhaps not worth it).
Because in a transfer from another country, there should be a purpose, a story, another narrative that would happen in that place, and how it would mix in with the general plot, and it's a hard thing to do, unlike a one or two locations only.
Very few Bond films (or maybe two, at least in my estimation) had achieved the multiple locations but could still work, the examples are OHMSS and MR, and because they have straightforward plots, one scene could lead to the clue, a missing piece of puzzle to fully investigate the plot.
The first 90 minutes of MR is one beautiful shot after the other where all the money is up there on the screen. And they took advantage of every location. Venice? Let's have that chase through the canals. Rio? Those cable cars surely would make for a cool setpiece (ludicrously used for a segment in 007: Road to a Million, btw)
DN : UK, Jamaica
GF : Central American country, USA, UK, Switzerland
OP : Central American Country, Germany, UK, Russia, India
AVTAK : Russia, UK, France, USA
GE : Russia, UK, Monaco, Cuba.
Bond films travel. I’m trying to think of one with less locations?
LALD: San Monique, UK, USA
TB: Bahamas, UK
DAF: USA, Netherlands, UK
Which normally adds us to main location, UK for briefing and an intermediary location to find clues before the main location.
A short list of directors is a good thing right?
Yeah. Good picks. Same here.
There's always snowboarding but there they run the risk of seeming like they're trying too hard to be "hip" (DAD PTS, I'm looking at you).
On the other hand, I think train scenes almost always (always?) work in a Bond film.
Trains are always cinematic. In everything genre a train is a wonderful set.
A parkour footchase that ends on top of a crane was original. A bikechase on the rooftop of a very large building was original. Fighting inside a haywire helicopter over a huge crowd was original. A car chase is not, a fight on top of a moving train is not and a big shoot-out is most certainly not. But action in the snow pretty much still belongs to Bond. We had skis, a cello case, a snowboard, snowscooters even a plane in the snow. Maybe it's time for Q-department to come up with something new, like:
I don't mean the entire film should take place in one country. Obviously you would have scenes in the UK and probably somewhere else for the PTS, but I like it when the films stick to one or two countries for the bulk of the running time, as opposed to flying all over the place.
Yes, but in all those films apart GE, there's a good deal of time spend in one or two of those places. DN in Jamaica, YOLT in Japan (Bond never actually sets foot in Russia or the US), GF in the US and Switzerland (I'm not including the UK as that's usually a given), OP in India and Germany (again Bond never sets foot in Russia), and AVTAK in France and the US.
Like I said, I don't mean Bond shouldn't travel at all.
But you can still have that number of locations within one or two countries, excluding the PTS and scenes in Britain.
But going back to India does give us the glorious tiger double take.
Is that a Nerf Football?
Snow machines.
Or a car from Q Branch battles three huge snow plows.
Yeah I think the weirdest is NSNA (they didn't quite understand Bond) - it takes place in two practically identical locations which are thousands of miles apart: the Bahamas and South of France. Pretty different places to visit, but on screen they look almost like the same place!
LALD and LTK have the same problem. There is not enough contrast.
Yeah, I think it could work for a future Bond film, so long as there’s a good variety within that main location.
Perhaps we could have a fictional location/island or whatever? Something the film could really make its own.
I don't need to see Bond on skis again unless there's an entirely new angle to it.
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It's not about how many or how few countries the story takes place in, it's the story.
Mod edit : @CrabKey this is becoming a habit. It has been asked that members do no multi post like you had done. Just two minutes apart from the previous post.
Please use the edit function. It's not that hard.