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To paraphrase Tony Hayers, I think you're being a bit hysterical.
Smell my cheese you mother!
You say might use the term 'redundant change', I would say 'inane change' personally.
These little things annoy me.....a bit!
What do we have next black ops operatives announcing themselves...."hi I'm Chriscoop black operations department, pleased to meet you Mr akhbar.....
Apart from anything else we just dont talk like that in this country.
Any quite needless move away from the pen of Fleming will always be opposed by me. I agree the writers should not be messing around with these 'set in stone' elements of the James Bond universe.
It's like Bond going from chain-smoking to not smoking at all. Wish that would make a return.
Really or are you being facetious here, Creasey?
Why is that facetious? It's a staple of Bond that doesn't exist anymore, just an aspect of his character I always enjoyed that I wish would return.
Absolutely.
Everyone's happy with Bond killing people, drinking and shagging but god forbid he should have a crafty fag from time to time.
If you want to protect the kids then don't show Bond doing anything more contentious than eating organic lentils and watching The One Show.
No, sorry, I just thought you were jokingly referring to me moaning on like an old Fleming purist git! I agree, but it's not so big a thing for me as the proper organisation of the British Secret Service. John Gardner had Bond cutting down on the fags if not stopping them altogether. Ian Fleming said in a TV interview on 'Right to Reply' once that you simply can't have thrilling heroes such as James Bond eating rice pudding!
He also had Bond giving a one page soliloquy on how great he thought Disneyland was.
Best stick to Fleming Draggers if we're talking about how to define the character.
@TheWizardOfIce, agreed; we've become so desensitized to violence that they'd sooner remove Bond lighting a cigarette than Bond executing people. Odd prioritization.
Well, yes. That is an often cited example of where Gardner went off the rails a bit. I'd probably agree but my love affair with NSF forbids me to even countenance it. For the Defence I would call Exhibit A: the opening chapter of Ian Fleming's OHMSS. What say the Prosecution?
The only Disney reference I can recall in OHMSS is during the genealogy scenes when the family name is mentioned as having originated from a town called D'Isgny or something.
Pray elaborate Sir.
You mustn't take me so literally, old chap. ;)
Oh no, I was just referring to Bond reminiscing about his childhood on the beach there as an example of why his "inner child" might appreciate a bit of time off at Euro Disney. There's also the motorbike ride in 'FAVTAK' where he wishes he could just enjoy riding the bike for the first time rather than watch his back the whole time for a Russian assassin. I think the Euro Disney thing in NSF merely built on that.
There's no defending Gardner having Bond utter a speech gushing about Disneyland and you know it old son!!
It would be one thing if he had Bond say something like 'Even the child that once existed in Bond could appreciate the wonder of the place, but now, with his lifetime of dirty memories, it was a place he didn't belong.' But he goes way beyond that and you know it.
I do know it, but that was the best I could come up with. All will be revealed in full when I get my monograph on NSF up on the blog though I think I've got my work cut out for me in winning you over, Wiz!
If that stopped her from yelling 'James!' every 5 seconds, it wouldn't be a bad consequence.
:))
And people consider Jinx more annoying...
I mean Bond does have pretty good aim. Im sure he could be able to not hit her with the water.