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For me, they should have developed that "hatred" she has for Bond even more, and walk that fine line of tension. Maybe have Bond fall for her first, and I think it would make sense because he had a version of that tension with Vesper. Then have the train scene be a moment of conflict for her as when she helps Bond, she seems to find feelings developing.
In the car on the way to the base, make it more Madeleine notices that Bond takes her to comfort her. She's conflicted but she takes his hand.
I also think it would've been more interesting if Bond didn't tell Madeleine that Mr. White died, or just says that he was dead when he found him and found clues to her, or something. Just to make that scene in Blofeld's base where she finally sees it be more meaningly and gives more of a reason why Bond wouldn't want her to see it.
And then when you get to the part with the drill it can be more of a conflict. Is Madeleine gonna try and save him? No. Yes. We know she hated him at first, and know she knows he helped her father kill himself, but she did also feel something for him. And she knows he wants to help her.
And then she decides to save him. No I love you. They just find this level of appreciation for each other in this moment, and then, in London, I think Madeleine and Bond should be kidnapped in the car crash instead of her going off on her own for no reason.
Then by the bridge sequence, the conflict with Bond and Madeleine, and Mr. White's death, and more ongoing conversations about whether Bond's life is worth it... have him walk towards her. Throw the gun maybe and then they go off together - leaving all the I love you stuff for No Time to Die after an appropriate amount of time.
Or maybe he could just have banged her in the speedboat at the end and then we never hear from her again?
It’s gonna be different but not that 360 degree different. TLJ was actually the opposite.
If they can make that plot element, that relationship, seem organic then the film will already be something to appreciate writing-wise.
I expect Bond to NOT be a different entity than Fleming's Bond, even though that bridge has been crossed many times over the years.
And when EON do annoyingly cross that bridge, they often try to bring it back directly afterwards (YOLT>OHMSS, MR>FYEO, DAD>CR, etc.)
They never stray too far from the origins of Bond, regardless of ridiculous wolf whistle car stunts, Tarzan yells, CGI ice surfing, double taking pigeons, invisible cars, etc.)
More like The Rise Of Skywalker approach.Given that movie did all it could to retcon what The Last Jedi did and actually seemed like an apology for it.
They’re not picking up everything SP established in order to retcon it. On the contrary Cary clearly wanted to expand it, since there was a lot of cool but underdeveloped material.
That's what I meant! Got the movies confused, ha!
As dumb as the foster brother thing is, I rather NTTD just flat out never bring it up again rather than work to retcon it. Blofeld already has more grievances with Bond than just the daddy issues, like foiling the Nine Eyes plot and getting him arrested by the government. The foster brother thing would just be moot by that point.
I believe they will show their brother love but Blofeld won't be talking about his father and daddy Issues anymore which is good thing imo.
I don't know if you should be too worried about them releasing Tenet worldwide weeks or even months ahead of the US date.
"One source in close contact with the studios tells Variety that if Warner Bros. and Disney were facing a scenario in which Europe and Asia open first with “Tenet” and “Mulan” followed by the U.S. a couple of weeks later, “they’d do it every day of the week.” “The problem is they don’t know when the U.S. market is going to open up, and they’re not comfortable going longer than two weeks due to piracy.”
https://variety.com/2020/film/global/tenet-global-box-office-international-exhibitors-forgotten-1234710870/
I think Bond will wait for an optimal window even if it takes waiting November 21. The same can’t be said about WB since they’re not in a position to postpone the film until everything is kind of “pre-Covid”. Too many movies to release and that will be ready to be released.
Good point, thanks!
It will be incredibly disappointing to have waited all this time if it's not one of the best Bond films.
If anyone has any confidence in this product (I hesitate to call it a film) at this stage they’re in La La Land.
From Russia with Love was a mess until they got into the editing suite!
Indeed, if you take all the action out of that film you're probably left with about 20mins of film!
As for NTTD itself I fully expect it to be the definitive Craig Bond film making the '06 CR look like the '67 CR.
The issue here is that they “winged it” on TND because they committed to two-year turnaround. And made the deadline.
The situation we find ourselves in now is a flagging team “winging it” after a cushy four year break.
DAD and SPECTRE both had three years gaps and both are appreciably worse than TND.