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Skyfall is a good title and it actually means something in relation to the film.
And until EON announce the title NTTD is a homage to a previous production, then it's just all conjecture.
Or at least a Death Café.
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What a mad concept that is !!
Weird.
I mean, it’s hardly conjecture. Barbara Broccoli very deliberately chose NTTD.
NTTD was the title of a 1958 film produced by her father – the same man who will have his name on 2020’s NTTD (in fact, his will be the first name on the credits). Plus, the 1958 film has numerous soon-to-be Bond crewmembers involved.
It’s clearly a very deliberate nod. Otherwise, we are looking at the mother of all coincidences. Which I highly doubt…..
I think they were struggling with the title – perhaps, Broccoli always had NTTD in the back of her mind.
Come on.
The connection is just so obvious we don't need an official confirmation.
Love the title BTW. I just love the vintage vibe it gives to me, just like the font. NTTD screams of the Golden Age of movies. It's elegant and cool.
I'm not so sure. NTTD is such a generic title--it's been used by two films and a Columbo episode--that I'm not entirely sure this wasn't a coincidence. And if it wasn't, it's still shameful: EON couldn't come up with a decent title, so it nicked one from a forgotten film that frankly wasn't in need (or deserving) of a tribute. Just because a film involved Broccoli, Maibaum and Young doesn't mean it needs honoring by title-borrowing. If so, Bond 26 will probably be called Zarak.
Pretty sure I didn’t write that quote
Really? Strikes me as the sort of title that, if it were Fleming, would be lauded.
I´m repeating myself, but I don´t agree at all that TND, DAD and NTTD have similar connotations.
Exactly. I’m immediately reminded of those couple titles when I think of SF too. It fits right in with the series. There are better and weaker titles, but personally I like all of them to an extent. NTTD immediately clicked for me and was even better when I learned about the Terence Young and Cubby Broccoli history!
My apologies, it was one of those multi-quote quotes and I scrambled who was saying what. Error fixed.
Skyfall is not a bad title (at the time it reminded of Skyrim), but certainly isn't as good as Goldfinger or Thunderball, because those titles consist of extremely unusual word pairings that create new concepts, whereas Skyfall is just a one-word condensation of an old concept, the sky falling.
I'm sure you're right, but i thought BB may have mentioned the connection when they announced the title....to you know, show that it wasn't just plucked out of thin air. And if the title is a little homage to Cubby then why the delay in announcing it? But hey ho, what do i know....
And neither GF nor TB have such a gloomy connotation. Wether that makes SF worse or not is probably up to personal taste.
As you can clearly see, Eon are no dumbs when it comes to letting the fans do the viral marketing for them ;-). How long took it for that info to be spread? I think it was a few hours.
The sky is falling.
How many people had to ask what a “Thunderball” was? Not even Tom Jones knew what he was singing about! Sorry, I’ve got to chalk this one up towards Fleming bias.
I can’t see your logic there: it has just as much meaning. And I’d say all Bond titles generally have ‘gloomy’ connotations: or is Live and Let Die supposed to be positive? :) Coming in like a Thunderball isn’t exactly a positive thing.
Seriously, LALD and TB are rather extrovertet titles, which have to do with how badass the protagonist is. SF connotates more introvertet themes than extroverted ones. Bond doesn´t strike like the falling sky, or as if the sky were falling, but rather, the sky is falling. That´s pretty gloomy.
A Thunderball is a ball of thunder. Next question please.
And my point was that Thunderball is an unexpected word combination and concept, whereas Skyfall is the condensation of a familiar phrase. My point still stands.
If you have to ask... ;)
Bond 25 should be have been Silverd**g.
+1 same, thanks for that @RC7
So much action = No Time To Die
Wrong Adreline / Wrong blood = Wrong reasens = No Time To Die
No Risico = No Time To Die
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No Time to live = No Time To Die