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Anyhow, I still maintain that they should first find a killer story, a narrative that would serve a good spy thriller, one for the ages, and then have a very Bondian Bond meddle in it, no excuses, no personal angles except the ones he latter finds himself embroiled in, just St George killing a big old mean dragon with style and panache, and please...GOOD WRITING, not a single cringeworthy word, and no ramping cameras, handheld Bourne cams, lousy CGI, and no new gen pop artist ballad.
My wishes, just my wishes.
Shacks! I liked this, it's such a cool line! It's almost very Connery-esque, I could imagine Connery's Bond saying it.
Right? Best line since "This never happened to the other fella..." ;)
The humorous quote is based on a letter Twain sent to a newspaper reporter who had asked Twain about rumors that he was dying. Although it's not an accurate quote, it would really fit within the context of the series, and be a bit tongue-in-cheek, and brave.
A dream of mine if that line would make it into Bond 26, a great line to introduce the new Bond actor in a cool and witty way with that line.
This!
I could support the supporting characters making slow appearances throughout movies. Some (such as a classic villain), should be foreshadowed before making an appearance. Maybe a appearance by an MI6 character from the original books. Ronnie Vallance, for example.
Yeah. Agreed. Also, maybe like GE's teaser trailer, Bond 26's teaser trailer starts slowly with the Bond theme and then on the screen the following pop up one after the other.... It's a new era, Villains are more sophisticated, SO IS HE! Bond then walks and shoots at DEAD, it then turns to and reads as ALIVE. Bond then walks from the shadows and into the light and close to the camera, smiles and then says "You thought wrong". The Bond theme now becomes thunderous with quick cuts of scenes from the film :D
Oh, I don't know...the SP teaser trailer was pretty spectacular. Whoever edited that together probably should have edited the entire film.
@Univex - If Bond 26 isn't a killer story, the series won't last long. If you're going to boldly go where no series has gone before by killing off your main character, when you bring that same character back, you better have something spectacular in mind.
I believe there are plenty of clever ways to reintroduce Bond in the PTS. Certainly no shortage of good ideas posted on this thread. The real challenge will be what happens after the title scroll? Reinvention and rebirth carry a lot of weight.
I'd rather have it be someone whom we didn't saw coming or unexpected but have multiple films or shows under his belt, please surprise me, EON.
I don't think it'll be Dirisu either, but you never know. For the record I think he's very capable of doing it, and I don't think he'll be passed because he's black or anything like that. I just suspect it'll be a case where he'll likely have other commitments or he might not be quite the actor they're looking for. He may not even want to do it. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.
For me, it's Harris Dickinson that springs to mind when thinking about a younger actor with that gravitas, screen presence, and physicality. I don't know if it'll be him either for the same reasons as Dirisu, but I personally think he checks quite a lot of boxes and could do it.
No, I don't think there is. There's only me - Mr. Blank Slate. Everyone else carries preconceptions, and we need a fresh and unexpected Bond, so we can instantly connect.
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If Blofeld gets to work with Mini-Me this time, then Pacino could repeat his well-known liine: "Say hello to my little friend !"
Fresh and unexpected. Agree. if a known actor is chosen, his appeal is really the role or roles he's played. That's why we know him and like him. In my day Connery and Lazenby were unknowns before Bond. I had seen some of Dalton's roles, but nothing that connected him with a recurring character. Same for Craig. The series doesn't need a star Bond, it just needs a great Bond in a great story.
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I've been on a 80's Bond film kick for the past few days and it struck me how the 80's really are where they perfected the formula of what a bond film is, and after that certain aspects began to fall to the wayside. Rewatching Octopussy, I was struck by how much of the film is communicated visually, bond arriving by boat, being escorted around, breaking out of his room, sneaking around and seeing Orlovs chopper land. The modern films have lost this little interlude space, giving things for things to breathe, and it makes them feel far move simplistic in their construction, less sophisticated. Bond walks into the hoffler clinic, dialogue scene starts, Swann is grabbed, action scene starts. It's extremely basic, and this is why I say the bond films in the 80's were really about at good as we got, because it felt like they have an extra dimension to how they were put together. Another example is the Afghanistan sequence is TLD. People on horseback riding through the rocky terrain, some gorgoues cinematography and Barry's incredible soft score, its a level of craft I just don't think we touch anymore these days. When Bond lands into England at the end of SP, its immediately into meeting up with M, an emotional scene where Madeline and Bond part ways, and then BOOM right back into action beats, straight into the climax. What happened to letting the score and visuals take centrestage for a brief moment, again it feels like we understood how this all worked back in the 80's and then we started going backwards.
Another thing that I noticed the 80's films knew were important to a bond film is something I'd term "fantasy opulence". This is wealth and taste taken to a level that it becomes almost cartoonish, think of Dr No's base, Strombergs Atlantis, Octopussys Private Island, auctions, weird food (stuffed sheep's head) etc. I remember as a child this is one of the aspects that stuck with me, because it felt unique to bond. Modern bond film villains have a lot of funds at their disposal, but their interest seems to be technological and ultilitarian, but they don't seem to have the same interest in accruing a vast fortune as say Goldfinger or Blofeld in the old days did. Remember Kamal Khan is just a greedy man who wants money, at the end of the day. The modern day villains all seem to have another motive and, funds and a large facility are necessary to carry out those plans, but personal enrichment doesn't appear to matter to them. I don't get the sense Safin is in it to make himself mega rich and retire.
This is another aspect in which I think the films have gone backwards. Technology is certainly important in bond, but to my mind it should always be married with this old-world opulence of chandeliers and flattened bear rugs, aquariums filled with exotic fish (or a little octopussy), huge dining tables, portraits on the walls, vintage cars etc. That's what really gets the imagination going, and makes Bond films unique IMO. It seems to me if we want to make the films great again, we really need to go back to where we left off, and pick things up from there - bring back classic bond.
Unlikely. An undiscovered 30-year-old actor with the charisma of a star...
Well, she wasn't 30 but Daisy Ridley was undiscovered when she did STAR WARS, I felt she gave a good effort given the material.
Even Daisy Ridley was a working actress (albeit in a smaller roles) in film and television before Star Wars. John Boyega was more or less the same. For James Bond though, I doubt an actor with even that level of experience will fare well. Maybe we'll get another Henry Cavill type auditioning, but I don't think so. They'll likely be working character actors with plenty of mid to larger budget sized film and television under their belts, often in the lead or heavy supporting roles.
Not because she's trying to appear virtuous.
What would be honorable and brave is if she picks a classically handsome actor who has the chops to be Bond.
Anyway, it's pretty unclear at the moment who this role will go to. Much like 2005 there's no real successor here in the public's mind as opposed to when Brosnan finally got the role (yes, I understand EON had their sights on Craig, but again this is very much in the public's mind, and while he was seemingly their favourite they had a wide ranging list of actors and auditioned several of them). I can think of at least 10 names, and I'd like to think all of them would make great Bonds. For EON it's just about finding which one they prefer and can get.