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Babs and Craig clearly think so. Personally, I think they dipped their toe into the formula Bond and got burned with SP. I think they are running back to what they know best, and pushing that direction hard.
Especially in Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.
In contrast to someone like Sam Mendes, his style is much less earnest and "serious". You wouldn't get much naval-gazing from Boyle. He's a bit too self-depreciating and self-aware for Cambridge-educated diatribes regarding overly considered themes.
However, watch any interview with him and you can see his passion and enthusiasm. He talks very intelligently about his films and the importance of them. He's an "arty" director, but his remit is to entertain and never speak down to an audience. You'd never catch Danny Boyle making something as self-serving and onerous a film as "Revolutionary Road".
I understand people are reticent about another auteur Oscar-winner, but Danny is known for making sharp, kinetic movies which are brimming with energy. His style is more akin to Edgar Wright and he has an abundant creative energy where he's really focused on the visuals.
Boyle has a hugely stylised sensibility. Which I love, but some I imagine will find his inventive and dutch angles insufferable after a while. I do think his regular DP, Anthony Dod Mantle tends to overly saturate the images, but I could live with it.
Boyle will bring a lot of heart and humour. People missing the cheeky irreverence will be more than happy, he's going to direct. But there will certainly be a "serious" element, I also think it's going to be a much more British film especially with Boyle and the current political environment.
Excellently put and spot on.
Yep excellent points.
'Kinetic' is the word which excites me most there. Everyone at EON is in need of a kick up the arse with an injection of energy which I think Danny will bring.
And let's not forget the Bond references in Trainspotting and T2 which shows that he and Hodge know their stuff and also have an appreciation for Barry's music so hopefully he won't compromise on not cranking up the Bond theme when it's needed.
I can only imagine that the powers realize the positive visual impact that Deakins had on SF. I'm all for weird angles and what not (I love the innovative approach taken for the original MI film from 1996).
But, at the very least, it will be interesting and certainly stand out from previous bland efforts. As a "flexible fan", who is willing to consider a very wide spectrum, I'm really looking forward to seeing what he will bring to the series.
Time for a Hodge season at home I think. I have not seen Shallow Grave for ages.
Like this, perhaps?
Art by Daniel Scott Gabriel Murray
I agree as well.
. It is interesting that the harsh, cold and stark features of Scotland are reflected as values within many of Boyles films (leading to the classic question of how artists are effected but their surroundings/upbringing)
Kincade IMHO was one of the most memorable supporting characters within the series and seemed to have a really good chemistry with Bond (a type of father figure with some wonderful lines) remembering that his screen time was minimal.
Bringing him back would not be a gimmick in terms of the time line and relationship. It's perfectly believable that they would stay in touch and circimstances would bring them back together.(and bring Bond back to Scotland)
Perhaps Kincade is killed by a load of gangland thugs as part of a dispute re buying the Bond estate/land (how many characters within the Bond universe does Bond genuinley care about) and we get some kind of grimey "Get Carter" urban action thriller? This would also deal with the issue discussed with Bond being stripped of tech and Scooby help. A personal vendetta with no gadgets and no help from the team. (sounds weird and way way out of the Bond comfort zone but, with Hodge and Boyle, "all bets are off" which I love. (anyone seen Harry Brown?)
How will the glamorous Bond world of cocktails, Astons, casinos etc meet the cold Boyle world of drugs, poverty, disfunction etc. Either they meet in the middle or something has to give big time: We have many months to work this out.
Every once in a while you get on a rant about something someone wrote and you see for whatever reason as offensive . Has it ever occurred to you, that it might be you who is getting things wrong? Maybe you're just not very good in perceiving meanings?
Worst of all, when proven wrong you don't apologize, but simply stay quiet for a while and then come back and just don't mention it.
Wasn't that done in Skyfall? Minus the silencer
Yes, but there should be more of that. Out of four films that scene lasted for all of 5 minutes, not even.
Really?
Bond sneaking round a council estate silently killing chavs?
I'd far sooner a spin off with Kincaide a la Harry Brown where he does it himself.
Great! Just what I had been longing for.
Having some massive HQ with the villain saying "See that some harm comes to him" with a pool of sharks and lasers is as far away from Boyle as the council estate is for Bond. That's what makes the situation really interesting. Something is going to have to be flexible.
Oh yes! More of those exotic places the last movies were awash with.