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To a significant extent? I must have forgotten about these incidents. I only remember minor scenes. Certainly we've had physical Bond girls but I'm not talking about these players and I never liked Lin or Berry's characters. Their fighting roles were too large and Bond worked with them for too long. I remember Sir Godfrey doing a bit of fighting in AVTAK in the underground factory at the stables. That was fine. Yeah, you get some of Bond's allies engaging in a bit of gun play. No problem. Kerim in FRWL for incidence at the Gypsy camp but I really don't like the thought of a character who has been a secretary in the entire history of the films and the books to suddenly be doing this and especially for a good part of the film. It's an almost complete character change. It's almost like suddenly deciding to have Miss Marple, after many years, learn karate and have her engage in fight scenes.
I wonder who was responsible for this bulls*** Moneypenny back story. You know, after CR and even QOS to an extent (although this film had way too much action for my liking but I heard later on that the lack of story was due to the writer's strike) I finally felt like they were back on track. The films (including Skyfall) had got darker, more Flemingsque with greater character work and grittier action scenes and now they pull this rubbish. Character development is good but it must be good character development. One must remain faithful to long, established characters.
And no, I do not want a Jinx or Wai Lin kind of role for Moneypenny. But I like the back story for this Moneypenny.
All I'm saying is that Baz has his sources, he might get some things right but we should never forget his info is only as good as what his "sources" heard. I really think we shouldn't make a storm in a glass of water over this. Having said this, I prefer MP to stay in her desk and that is what we got at the end of SF. However, I don't mind her popping up somewhere to give a helping hand (e.g. DAF).
That was my thought when SF ended: Fiennes is such a big actor, and to justify the paychecks of Whishaw and Harris, are they always going to get more screentime than fans may want? Instead of having the traditional Bond flirts with Moneypenny, meets M for the missions, meets Q for the gadgets, and he's on his way, are we going to have more of Q and MP in the field with M always in sight?
If they want to make a movie of the three Moneypenny books I am fine with that, if not Moneypenny should be a part of the movie but not as sidekick. Q as sidekick in LTK was ridicolous as well even if the man is funny as a whip.
Agreed.
"I keep thinking that if they wanted a female agent then they shouldn't have casted Harris as Moneypenny. Moneypenny is a secretary. There are still plenty of women in the business world that have secretary/administrative assistant type jobs. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not a statement that women can or should only do those types of jobs. We just had a female M so it's not like this series is being degrading towards women. If they want to put a woman in the field then so be it but please keep Moneypenny behind her desk where she belongs."
Agreed too.
I don't think Harris was even very good in Skyfall.
Bond in Ireland? Wouldn't be opposed to this but I would like Bond to go to more exotic countries too. It doesn't even make much of a difference what countries Bond goes to in the films as he visits so many in the course of one movie and only spends a few precious minutes in one place or else they are all interior scenes, then he moves on to his next destination. Unfortunately it's not like in the older films where Bond would spend longer in one place and soak up the culture like in the books. We used to get much more exterior shots too. London in Skyfall is an exception in terms of the post 80's films.
Logan also commented that he would be working on the Sam Mendes-directed Penny Dreadful TV-Series while in Ireland, as well as continuing work on his Bond 24 script. He went on to say that he would take the next few months to absorb the scenery and consider writing it into the script.
Does this mean that preliminary location scouting for Bond 24 has begun? How far along is Logan's script? Do you want Ireland to feature as a location?
Why wouldn't they, it is cheap and I am sure the film industry gets a tax break.
Anyway, would be a good opportunity to see something of those islands.
Any Irish shenanigans would surely involve Mallory, given his character's history in the Troubles.
There'd have to be a character/s Paddy and Seamus though.
Ireland doesn't bother me as a locale. But not as a main location perhaps.
I'd LOVE Bond to visit Ireland. As one of several places, sure.
But I'd really enjoy the Irish scenery in a Bond film.
I'm with this. There's definitely something they could do with Ireland, and if Deakins is on board, it would look even more beautiful, but I don't want any personal ties to the characters or anything of the sort. Just send Bond away to stop the bad guy.
I think Belfast would be just the kind of place Bond would go and perhaps find himself in a dangerous situation or covert meeting. The M connection would make sense too. I don't know what the surrounding countryside in Counties Antrim and Down might look like, but in the early 1990's I dated a lovely black haired au pair from nearby County Donegal named Terri (yes, yes, yes I loved her gentle yet a bit gravelly lilt from smoking lots of Marlboro Reds, especially when intimate and in the dark ;) ). She spoke fluent Gaelic, and showed me pictures of her home town near the coast and the county was wonderfully scenic with mountains, shorelines, castles, etc, it sounds like it would be a nice location.
Plus @CraigMooreOHMSS could get a job out of it!
It's a beautiful country, but very similar to Scotland. Naturally it has it's own identity, I would say it's slightly more lush, where Scotland can be very barren. I guess it depends what other locations it would be offset with. I'm sure they'd avoid the palette and tones of SF, so perhaps it would be ok. I'd personally be happy to see what they could with it. It would be a decent pre or immediate post-titles location, before Bond finds himself in a more exotic locale (please EON).
I tend to agree with this. There needs to be sharp disparity from Bond film to Bond film. A brief stop in Ireland could be okay, but as a major setting it would be too similar to Scotland. There are dozens of locations that would be more suitable for B24, IMO.
more Guinness that's where they were going wrong