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Still loved it as I was well happy to see that scene from CS utilised but everything you say is spot on.
How much better would it have been if Madeline had had to support a groggy Bond and took out a couple of goons then gets herself into a grapple whereupon a still disorientated Bond launches himself at the guy and together they desperately choke/beat the guy to death in a scene similar to the stairwell in CR?
We dont really need the place to blow up but if it must it can be a chain reaction from the watch blowing, say, a tank of oxygen that they use to help resuscitate Bond earlier in the scene or something.
And instead of the helicopter, Madeline bundles Bond onto the back seat of a car and floors it and its Blofeld who flies out of there instead.
Great alternative ideas, both of you.
Well can't argue with that. Would rather have had the needles than the computer controlled drills but I took that on the chin as a modern update like I had to with the poker in CR. The fact we got it at all, pretty graphically for a 12 cert and with a hefty chunk of dialogue from the novel was the highlight of the film for me.
I didn't say it was a bad thing, and I'm sure that's the style many admire. All I'm saying is that it is more pronounced generally in the Brosnan era - TND and TWINE having lots of fun but mindless action and DAD not really paying attention to its plot. Nor am I a Brosnan hater, since GE is my favourite.
EDIT: and of course I don't think explosions and action scenes don't belong in Bond, without them they'd be colourless and dull!
My mistake. The Brosnan bashing got pretty hard here not to long ago and I admit I can be a little defensive. He's my favorite Bond and GE is my favorite Bond movie. No hard feelings. :)>-
'Easily places SP at number 3'?
Come along now Draggers. Are you seriously suggesting use of continuation material is enough to raise it above films that use solid chunks of Fleming material like DN, FRWL, GF, TLD and CR?
I do hope this theory would not extend to ranking DAD top if only the villains name had been David Dragonpol?
No, of course not. However, it did please me to see some Amis on the screen. I'm a continuation saddo but of course Fleming comes first!
And no, not even John Gardner could have salvaged the train-wreck that is DAD, even though it did already feature an Ice Palace. ;)
In AVTAK there's the horse racing sequence and fight in the airship and in TLD the fight in the back of the plane.
I guess they are more nicked in concept than anything because each scene is very different to how it plays out in the books but I guess there's something to the theory tha CS wasn't the first to pilfer from the continuation stories.
We know that the November script that they started to shoot on had the dinner-scene in place of the torture scene. I read somewhere, I think it was in "James Bond Archives" that the scene was written by Purvis and Wade in April.
If that is so, would that explain the lack of context with the following shootout where Bond isn't wounded in any way?
How did Bond escape the dinner and how did Blofelds lair blow up in the original script?
Yes, it was probably this (updated) one by the masterful John Cox of The Book Bond:
http://www.thebookbond.com/2011/11/deja-vu-mr-bond-surprising-similarities.html
I'm talking late 80s mate. There was Bond fandom pre Internet too!
Some of these are pretty desperate as well:
'Key West is used as a location'
That's using continuation source material? Really?
It was kinda. It was not in the leaked screenplay. The scene was added after the film was shooting. Perhaps it was written earlier and then removed from the final screenplay or the writers made it up during filming. I didn't mind the scene. Blofeld is a horrible bloke so he's entitled to torture James Bond!
Well as I was only 5 in 1989 I don't recall that period and obviously didn't become a fan until about 1993.
Interesting though that there was such an article in 007 Magazine. I recall that John Cox article being on the CBn Main Page in 2001.
Would love to see Colonel Sun adapted and updated with Craig's Bond
The camera work, the set, the editing, the sound editing, the acting, the lighting, really everything.
Waltz and Seydoux and Craig deliver Oscar worthy performances.
No, you most certainly are not.
I guess it kind of feels half-intentional, half-thrown in there at the last minute, since it wasn't in the leaked script.
Only comparable to the laser table scene in Goldfinger.
You've just helped me pinpoint something about SP that's been nagging at me for some time. Specifically, I have, for the past few months felt that there's something rather cold and remote about SP's tone, but was at a loss for recalling another film that has the same strange tone. Your use of the word sterile, however, jogged something in my memory--SP has the same tonal feel as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Thank you!
Combine that with the Shining-esque establishing shots of Scotland in SF and you can see that Mendes is a big Kubrick fan.
yes, I remember there being a documentary on the BBC about A Clockwork Orange when it was re-released after Kubrick's death and he was interviewed on that - it was how I first came across Sam Mendes in fact.