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Makes sense since he’s the founder member. A criminal enfant prodige.
When NTTD was released, someone posted an "illegal" video of Bond's death, filmed in the theater. I downloaded that but haven't looked at it in weeks.
I just did. I slowed it way down and froze the image in the last frame in which we see Bond. Holy crap.
As someone who views DC's Bond as Jungian in nature, as embodying the duality of man, what I saw made the hairs on my neck stand up--for lack of a better cliche.
His image is split in two. Not his body. We see no blood and gore. What we see are two of him, one magnified and superimposed over the other, just as the screen goes completely white.
:-O
Hey, weird dream-like gun barrel fading to white, scene of Madeleine as a child, Roger Moore-era henchman with robotic eyeball, Vesper's grave blows up (and it was all me, James!), Felix dies, mouthing off to M like crazy with no repercussions, loses 007, suddenly regains 007, all of SPECTRE dies at once in the same room (during Blofeld's birthday party no less), somehow strangles Blofeld to death despite the fact he's in maximum security, cutting apples in the kitchen for long-lost child, driving a Volante now, trying to find daughter's missing stuffed bunny and save the world at the same time, imminent death by hail of missiles, Madeleine says, "Bond...James Bond." Sure sounds like Bond ate a few too many hot wings right before bedtime, doesn't it?
It surprises me that fans of the cinematic Bond moan about a break in tradition when the gun-barrel isn't right, yet seem to happily accept a break in tradition that is killing off the man himself.
I feel a similar paragraph could be written for any Bond film, basically. Also, Blofeld wasn't strangled to death.
Dream logic.
Or: "strangles Blofeld to death...then realizes it was actually robots that killed him!"
Most statistics are also completely fabricated on the spot to trick people.
For the umpteenth time *sigh*
You don't have to like it. Nevertheless it happened.
You'll laugh.
You'll cry.
Three bucks.
Good-bye.
I've made the point on here before that it felt like a cheap shot. It was certainly a 'we can do it now' thing. It's gimmicky, and it doesn't even work anyway if they say he'll return in the credits.
People talking about Hamlet earlier. That's a single story, not a film franchise made by the same company about the same (supposedly) character and his adventures. It's completely different.
"Getretener Quark wird breit, nicht stark."
And in Bond 29, this villain introduces Bond to his daughter, and you know...
Yes, which's why I've actually been trying to talk myself out of seeing it as EON killing Bond just as a gimmick. I ask myself if NTTD wasn't a Bond film, if it was a standalone, a one-off movie about some other character, would the death of the hero at the end actually work? Would it be plausible, dramatic and pack an emotional punch? And I think it would. So, yes, internally, in that story, the death of the protagonist works. But...but...when the protagonist is Bond? I'm struggling to reach an accomodation with it. Because it's not a one-off movie about a heroic but tragic figure. It IS a Bond film. Fictional character? Sure - but one I'm invested in. Too invested to just shrug at his death and look ahead to Bond 26 as if this is par for the course. I dunno - I suspect I'm always going to be conflicted on this one!
Yes, that's where Shakespeare went wrong, killing Hamlet off when he could have built a franchise - King Hamlet, Hamlet & Juliet, Much Ado About Hamlet, he could have made a fortune!
Of course there is a World of difference between re-watching the same story, where you know the titular character dies at the end, and watching a series of stories, where one has become accustomed to seeing the main character triumph and live, to suddenly seeing that character killed off for shock value.
With Hamlet there is no "last one" there is only one play featuring Hamlet, so the analogy doesn't hold water
Yes, this gets to the heart of the matter
James Bond is not Sydney Carton or Danny Archer, he's only been dead a few moments when the audience is informed that "James Bond will return"
If anything, to me, that weird animated short film "In Service of Nothing" is a far more offensive end to James Bond; he's old, trying to continue the life he has, hiring prostitutes because he can't find women any other way, it's sad and depressing. Likewise, I have a friend that is a huge Batman fan, and drew a connection that Alfred used to be an army man before he joined the Wayne family, and maybe James Bond would take a similar path, and I told him Bond would eat a gun before he became anyone's butler.
If Bond has to end, and he does have to end because he's mortal, NTTD was a brilliant way to do it.
I've always maintained that Bond's true motivation is to feel. He's clearly numb, which is why he pursues only the dangerous missions, the women, drink, and gambling. NTTD finally gave Bond the opportunity to feel and have that feeling returned to him. He stayed behind to make sure the doors stayed open and the villain's plot would be ended. Certainly, there was room in the story for him to jump into the water and barely survive. But he also stayed because he finally found what he'd been looking for his whole life, and to return to life would mean it would be taken away again. To me, there couldn't be a better endgame for James Bond.
Live with it.
P.S. If you are an ultra-avid fan of the Craig Bonds, like me, this film is always going to jar you. The other Bonds (besides Dalton) I’m lukewarm to at best, which is why this is so difficult as a fan.
Wait for him to "return" of course
This is all junk, but the second half of your post has some great advice in it.
Thank you.... I think :))
I’m saying that it backfired on Paramount for killing Kirk. Film made about 73 $ mill, and was expecting to make $120 ish(domestic) That’s a lot for 1994. Wasn’t referring to NTTD’s box office. Didn’t clarify enough on my part. Paramount and Berman meant to kill Kirk as a shock stunt to make money, and to make sure everyone understood that The Next Generation cast was the flagship Trek vehicle at the time (passing the torch deal).
That's right, James Bond's are like buses - if you don't like one, another will be along in (some period of time).