It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Everything at some time has been done.
line that can't be compared to something that's been done before, either in a Bond film or elsewhere'
No, it's terrible, sorry.
Anyway, one thing I agree with him on is that the PTS in SP is immeasurably better than the plodding intro to SF. He clearly wanted to make amends and I think he was successful. One of the best PTS in the series IMO. I like the way he talks about not needing to spell everything out during those first few minutes as we know it's Bond and we can just go with the flow. That much at least he gets right.
Lol, thank you for your OPINION.
P&W's point is that it's hard to come up with an over-the-top caricature when Trump is already that.
Well, we've never gotten Fleming's Leiter and Felix rarely has any purpose in any film beyond being a glorified stalker and/or slave for Bond. Wright's Leiter, at the very least, is written into films that make sense for him to be there, and some interesting things has been done with him, such as how QoS portrayed his struggle with morality. He feels there for a reason, while most of the other Leiter's don't. It only helps that he and Dan have good chemistry, and Wright can play him as a smooth, fast-talking kind of guy.
I'd love to see he and Dan's Bond reunited to take up arms.
Not to me but fair play to you.
I think Blofeld is the worst Bond villain of all time.
Same story as @QuantumOrganization above essentially.
Tanner too.
EDIT: Sorry for the double-post; not sure how to delete posts.
Unfortunately,i actually agree with that..apart from OHMSS he has been used terribly.
Wouldn't be at all surprised if Mendes is enticed back for one last go.
He had the look (basically an obvious American version/doppelganger of Bond), but I just like Wright for how he was acted AND used. No other Felixs meet those standards high enough, so I hope Bond 25 sees him back. The time is now.
Oh I'm not claiming we've had a run of great Felixes. To the contrary Felix has been astoundingly mishandled onscreen since the series began. Nor do I think Leiter necessarily has to be an exact representation of Fleming's creation (though the alternative takes we've been presented haven't been up to much at all). Heddison remains my favorite, and by coincidence (perhaps, perhaps not) he does hew closest to book Leiter.
I've enjoyed aspects of Wright's Leiter: the moment when he stops Bond as he's on his way to take down Le Chiffre, his brief interactions with Beam, warning Bond over drinks. But for the most part, across both CR and QOS, he's just been shown sitting somewhere and glowering. Sitting on a plane, sitting at the poker table, sitting in Beam's office. Glowering, glowering, glowering. Really not the best use of Leiter in my opinion. Wright's a talented actor. I especially dug him on Westworld. I'd love for the Bond films to do more with him.
Yes, that description fits Kinnear's Tanner quite perfectly, too. Interestingly, both Tanner and especially Leiter are portrayed as being much "chummier" with Bond in the books. It would be interesting to see that played up a bit more in the films. Bond is a human being. He can enjoy himself a bit. He can have "industry" friends and enjoy a good laugh with them every once in a while.