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Because the title should be appropriate to the film. There's no point shoe-horning in a Fleming phrase or chapter title when you can have a title which suggests some relevance to the picture while maintaining an essence of Fleming. To be fair, SF is the first original title they've nailed and I'm hoping they do something similar next time. As has been said above, 'Tomorrow Never Lies' would have beaten SF to it if they hadn't dropped the ball in the way they did.
Exactly. I say use a title that sounds Flemingesque and of course fits the story, if it is directly from Fleming, then all the better.
So if for argument sake Logan creates a character Alberto Risico we can use that title right?
As for Fleming titles, Risico is probably the best, although a chapter title like `Magic 44' could work too.
What about "Death for Breakfast"? ;)
If they can find a Fleming title which fits the story and does feel forced, then they should use it. But if they call the movie "A whisper of hate" - no matter what the scrupt is, or even before writing the script - just for the sake of using a Fleming title, then they better avoid it.
on principle I agree with you, but sometimes authors find the story after the title, it is one way to be inspired. If I'm not wrong it was also sometimes the case of Fleming himself.
You're right, and there's nothing bad about it as long as it doesn't feel forced.
Risico is out since they used elements of that story in the 1981 film, FYEO.
Parts of Property of a Lady were used in OP.
There were only like 13 books and about 5-7 short stories. After 23 films they have used up all the titles. So why not just keep making their own?
TLD and FYEO were based on short stories.
I have read somewhere here that they wanted to include an abridge version of it in the movie, when Mathis talks to Bond in the plane. It would have been perfect there, and made the title way more relevant.
Interestingly enough, there is a good deal of The Hildebrand Rarity that could be used in a film.
The Hildebrand rarity is a rare sort of fish. The story has nothing to do with espionage, but there is plenty of death and drama that could be adapted in a movie. So could the fish and the title.
from what I saw, they pretty much covered the Hildebrand Rarity in LTK
Right. As far as I know they only aspects from The Hildebrand Rarity that made it into LTK are the name Milton Krest, the Wavekrest, and a man beating his lover with a stingray tail. I'm not sure there's much that could be adapted into a film. The whole story Bond is on vacation.
This.
'The Hildebrand Rarity' is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
not much that could transition well to film, i meant.
and I kinda got the same vibe from the movie Krest and the story Krest, especially in the scene with him and Lupe on the boat
It has been a little overkill with those, havent it?
Still, would love for a Bond film to be called DEATH TO SPIES.
Those have definately been overused. It's almost become a parody in of itself. The worst was Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day being released only 5 years apart from one another. I can't tell you have many people I've met who always mix those two up. Tomorrow Never Dies Another Day or Die Another Day Tomorrow. Skyfall gets my vote as the best original title EON has come up with. It has a Flemingesque sound to it.
AVTAK is a great title imo. LTK is simply lazy, they should've ignored the bloody yanks and gone with Revoked. SF definitely gets the best original title accolade for me, too.
Maybe its just me but isn't the phrase "Licence Revoked" somewhat American? I've never heard the phrase here and I'm British.
I'm just looking it up online. Seems I'm wrong :-S