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The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill & The Property of a Lady happened ;)
Correct! And even better, Dalton was still Bond :D
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1987- After the death of 006, the government decide to test the 00 section by sending them to Gilbatar (and so TLD begins).
1989- LTK happened.
1990- After going rogue in LTK Bond is given a last chance. He's sent to Japan where he discovers Blofeld is alive and this brings back painful memories of Tracy dying. The YOLT book happens (with some changes like names, etc, based on what's been used before).
1991- TMWTGG book happens (again with some plot and name changes).
1992- Property Of A Lady (never made 3rd film) happened.
1993 to 95- Bond went on a fair few missions, one of them involving Zukofsky, where he gave him a limp. He also met Paris and left her during this time.
Robert Browns M had been feeling more and more stressed after Bond's failed assassination attempt and eventually he retires. Judi Dench arrives and when she finds out what Bond's been up to over the last few years, she has him evaluated (GE continues).
That was a great timeline! Thank you for letting me wrap my head around that! Bloody amazing @thelivingroyale
The fight Bond have with some henchman in the maintitle of CR stay symbol for fight him self trow the years and also Alec his death look like it not happend long a go if that part of GE be set in 2004 because CR is from 2006. In the original way the movies be made i see it symbol of Bond lost a friend and wil lose more people in the future/fight him self trow the years.
Teenaged Mutant Ninja Domino?! DId Largo survive, and use the nukes he stole to mutate her?! My God!
Oh man, THANK you for that!! Inspired!! :O =D> ^:)^
I think it's much easier and correct to view the bulk of GE as happening in '95. The PTS took place in 1986.
Very good, except I would put Bond shooting Zukowsky when USSR still existed as he was then KGB.
This was essentially done as a device of showing the Bond within his traditional Cold War setting and then juxaposing it with the reality of where the world had found itself in 1995. One of the big elements of GE is about bringing Bond into the modern world. The filmmaker's bravely decided not to reinterpret Bond in a modern context, they kept the character firmly in his Cold War roots and essentially dragged him kicking and screaming into the '90s.
I think this may have been the cleverest trick the franchise has done (aside rebooting with Daniel Craig) since they directly tackled many criticisms that were levied at the franchise; namely: Is Bond really needed anymore? Well in GE he showed he really was.
A way around this would be moving YOLT back to 89 (let's assume LTK takes place early in the year), moving TMWTGG to 1990 and then Bond can meet Zukofsky in either late 1990 or early 1991.
Yeah it really is quite odd isn't it? It's probably just a coincidence but then again nine years is a strange time frame. Especially since we've never seen a jump in time that far in a Bond film before or after GE. Assuming that the movie takes place in 1995, since it was filmed and released that year, then what is so significant about the year 1986? Chernobyl maybe? As a way to tie in the theme of the fall of the Soviet Union?
To a much lesser extent I always got a DAF vibe about the PTS. As if they wanted to sweep the last movie under the rug and pretend that it never existed. Or in this case the last two movies. See, Brosnan was Bond in 1986 just like he was supposed to be! It could also be true that I've put way too much thought into this. My apologies, everyone.