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Interesting points about Silva. I think I wrote the other day how it’s a misreading of the film when some people say Silva wins. By his own standards he completely fails, and even blowing up MI6 is fruitless in the long run.
I think he’s a wonderful villain. I love the parallels between him and Bond with both being M’s best agents, suffering due to M’s orders, and going off the map for a time before returning after being ‘dead’ as it were. The major difference is when MI6 is attacked Bond realises he has a job to do and selflessly returns, while Silva effectively goes mad because of personal vengeance. While Bond returning for a higher duty is his redemption in this story, Silva’s motivations are what lead to his undoing.
I do like Amalric though, I do believe him as a slimy, unhinged baddie. I guess he's perhaps not very big in his performance which makes him slightly unmemorable, but I think he works really well in the film. I often think he could have played Le Chiffre and done a good job.
I actually think the Craig films all had pretty good baddies really, less hit and miss than Brosnan's or Moore's.
Imagine if they got rid of Medrano and had Greene be who killed Camille’s family. At least there would be a bit more conflict between Bond and Camille because they have the same target but where he wants information out of him she just wants to kill him.
That's actually quite neat. I like it! I think Camille in QOS is a character who shows Bond the pitfalls of going for revenge, hence why he doesn't kill Yussief by the end. This would have tightened that a bit more and strengthened it.
We could have gotten a more streamlined fight between Bond and Greene too. Instead of cross cutting to the General and Camille we could have gotten a TB type thing where Greene is about to get the upper hand on Bond, but Camille kills him just in time. Perhaps they'd need to find another way for Bond to get the information about Quantum, but that seems like an easy rewrite (I dunno, maybe Greene says something about Vesper to taunt Bond during the fight that gives him a clue about Yussief, which is very in keeping with the character being a nasty little sh*t who gets inside people's heads). And Greene would have gotten a better death.
Is the death in the desert a homage to The Eiger Sanction?
That is literally the same situation as with Le Chiffre though: they want to bring him in so they can interrogate him. And I think there's not much wrong with Le Chiffre's role in that story.
Yes that's nice, although I do like all of the stuff with Greene seducing Medrano, and then revealing that he's screwed him at the end, that is good.
They could have done more with Camille's journey though- the underground dam is kind of like what the stingers were to Bond in LTK, the moment where they realise there's more going on than just their personal revenge.
What I liked about Greene was that he was an "out in the open" villain: a very public figure. To most he was a successful businessman and political influencer, even presented himself as eco-friendly (the Greene Project fundraiser was a nice touch). But there is a dark side, of course. I really thought Blofeld should have been portrayed similarly.
That would be crazy.
Olga does not get enough credit for this film. I think she's good in it and has easy chemistry, especially with Amalric.
Like SP, QoS has solid building blocks that don't quite cohere--IMHO there were too many disconnected action sequences. Another draft of the script would have helped.