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Separately, why would Trump influence a delay to Bond films rather than boost the schedule along? Wouldn't "troubled times" draw audiences looking for a break from reality?
People who shouldn't be in power get there all the time, it happened at the start of the millennium and it's happened again.
The Bond films already focus their story (the Craig era in this case) on highly pressing current day issues and evils, and have since the first one in 2006. They're so on the nose with their depictions of the world as it is that the movies have even gotten flack for it.
I agree here. There is certainly a stagnation in this genre.
Whether we like to admit or not, EON has tended to be a follower of trends over the years, rather than a creator of them. That could be on account of their writing team or it could be on account of other factors. They look for elements & themes that have worked elsewhere recently and then tend to incorporate them into the Bond films, with a Fleming and Bondian touch thrown on top.
The bottom line is that most big franchises seem to be somewhat adrift right now, apart from the 'superhero' genre that is chugging along, drawing from the pages of its comics & the SW franchise. So I can imagine they are at a bit of a crossroads in terms of where to draw inspiration.
Not true, every Bond song has been written specifically for the movie, even though the lyrics may not suit the film itself.
That's my point, we're due another paradigm shift soon. We're still running of the fumes of 2006, and some franchises even earlier than that. Looking around, Brexit/Trump just seems the most likely trigger of that shift in media and culture.
I meant the meaning of the lyrics, obviously, not whether or not they were written for the films.
It wasn't exactly debunked. A second news outlet (The Wall Street Jounral) came along, also saying there *had been* negotiations between MGM and the Chinese but the talks broke off late last year.
Stop to think about it. MGM having those talks would have put talks with other studios about a Bond 25 distribution deal on the back burner.
Yeah they wasted a whole year when they easily could have a deal by now and its not trumps fault that MGM would waste a year trying to get a deal done with china. For one I know it would be a huge boast money wise but I just wouldn't have trusted a communist government running bond. China already without trump being in there from the Obama years are trying to take over the south china sea with thier man made islands and cheat when it comes to trade. Anyways MGM just needs to get on its horse and do something and not be wasteful because eon sure doesn't like it.
Yeah they could have used mr. White alot better kind of wasted his potential by just killing him.
Good
I don't understand the idea for wanting all these spin-offs. I think some have mentioned in the past that they would want spinoffs for the entire MI6 team, but why? A two-hour film of MP sitting behind a desk or two hours of Q making gadgets doesn't sound exciting in the slightest. What would a Mr. White spin-off entail?
It's like Hannibal Lecter, or Michael Meyers; the more we learn, the more water-down they become.
Agreed. Not everything needs an explanation.
I can't imagine a better end for him than SP. His send off showed a heart behind a monster, and in doing so made one of the best character statements I've seen in the series. He's now a top ten minor character for me.
That's exactly what Brady was getting at: he's a monster (for the events you described), and he manages to show heart by not killing Bond, and helping him find his daughter/track down and stop Oberhauser/ESB.
I think White could swallow the thought of a general attack (i.e. destroying the plane on the tarmac in CR and the whole water scheme in QoS) leaving some women/children dead, but I took his SP comment to mean that women and children were being straight-up executed or murdered, and that was something he couldn't stomach.