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Glass half empty/half full. It also gives you the chance to do something never done in a Bond film. There's a lot you can do with Madeleine.
Agreed. There is plenty that can be done with her, even if some of it isn't entirely original. It wouldn't be as though it would have to be a case of Bond being domesticated and dragging Madeleine around with him everywhere he went. I think their relationship, even if they didn't quite earn the "I love you" towards the end, was the best part about Spectre. There's no reason why the dynamic between them couldn't be similar moving forward.
Someone around here yesterday had a solid idea of having her kidnapped after SPECTRE attacks her and Bond early in the film, only with M telling Bond that she was killed, allowing him to move forward for the rest of the picture thinking she's dead, only to discover towards the end that she in fact isn't. Not sure how the middle of the film would go, but it would set up a great opportunity for an amnesia ending that would really be a punch to the gut.
Far fetched? Well apparently not as much as you may think. This was allegedly one of Paul Haggis's rejected (thankfully) ideas for QoS - just replace Maddy with Vesper and SPECTRE with QUANTUM.
So let's get rid of Craig. Dump him. And reboot again. Complete new adventure. Better :-)?
Firstly, I write for a living so don't tend to share story ideas. Secondly, there's actually no point sharing ideas because people have made their mind up on this subject. Thirdly, there's some debate to be had on here over what constitutes a good idea. I've heard some generic piffle lauded as genius.
Well, this is a forum. Not the EON-sharedrive of Neal Purvis & Robert Wade :-).
Ah, the old whipping boys.
That's something that could be interesting.
That would be ironic, as it's likely to be P&W writing again, is it not? So they may have boxed themselves into this corner.
After how poorly retconning worked out in Spectre, I would hope that EON would never venture down that path again.
(see what I did there?)
@chrisisall, I believe you snappily argued your point in a pithy and reasonable fashion by underscoring that your view, just like the views of everyone else on this forum, is simply an opinion and not a scientific fact with the inclusion of the acronym IMO. Or thereabouts.... :D
This could work. Q mentions MS and Moneypenny shushes him, or vice versa. It would get rid of Madeleine, and give the MI6 players something to do.
Frankly, I thought the only chemistry that played was hers with her father (even though they never shared a scene).
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When left completely on its own, it's a serviceable to solid film. It doesn't reach the heights of the previous Craig films, but it's fun. I do think it would be interesting to see if I felt that way had someone else gotten the role of Madeleine, as I seem to have reached the conclusion that most of what I liked about Spectre derived from Lea Seydoux selling me on a character that the writers didn't really do much for.
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