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That’s very different. It’s more a riff on Keystone Cops than anything else, and many films beyond Bond play up that trope.
For example, the CIA is never portrayed as villainous, but it does feature a corrupt buffoon like Gregory Beam who uses special forces to target Bond and in the end loses his job while Felix gets a promotion.
Only some of the Mujahidin became today's enemies, not all.
Except for China.
And Isthmus.
Interesting (and of course ludicrous) that there is so much politics involved. It seemed to me that Warner/Discovery going through made it pretty clear that Amazon/MGM would also be done pretty soon, but apparently one has to wait on one committee confirming a commissioner who will then break a tie about whether this will be fought in court, where it is then a totally different question, whether the deal stands or not. Fun.
I suppose this means yet another long gap between Bond films?
Putin is spitting image of Kronsteen!
Regardless of the recent trends I would guess that the very, very positive response to the Cuba sequence in NTTD will have an impact on Bond's next direction.
I 100% agree that going forward for Bond 26 they should recast everyone. With the way NTTD ended it would be crazy and unacceptable if they carried over any of the core actors from Crzig's era.
I’ve said it before, but I can imagine for the next Bond his background would be an amalgamation of all previous films, with the exception of him dying. He might have had BOTH Vesper and Tracy. Blofeld could be in prison, or perhaps at large, or maybe even dead (which I doubt because I think EON will reserve him for later). The films don’t even have to necessarily acknowledge that. It can simply be inferred.
As long as he's dropping his kid off at kindergarten before he leaves for missions, this works for me.
I've long said I want to see the "Benzos in Champagne"-version of Bond, but now that you equate it with this iteration of Batman - which I am wholly uninterested in - I'm slightly hesitant. I don't really need strung-out emo-BDSM Bond. My idea for that would have been more pop, colours, tempo, debauchery, not Pete Doherty. But as you said, they'd never show him using drugs as a helpful tool in the matter-of-fact way Fleming did (different times and all that). I'm not sure how exactly BBFC ratings work, but I would assume portraying drug use as useful to accomplish missions without any kind of come-down or negative effects is on their naughty list. And again, I don't really need to see Bond having a hangover or withdrawal symptoms...
Ha ! As we know - with all movie characters - they gotta go to the bathroom, too, but - unless you're watching an early John Waters flick - we don't get that...actually Divine ate dog feces in Pink Flamingoes, and taking drugs is a choice unlike voiding one's waste (not a matter of choice) so I KNOOOOOWWWWW this analogy is stretched.
What can be more problematic for some of us as audience members is how characters supposedly without much money get to live in spacious quarters in London, New York, etc...
Good heavens, who'd need pain pills after ingesting so much alcohol ? So, he may have been beyond need and into addiction or choice.
So...while we're nearly on point...Should Bond have eaten the Scorpion ?
And for me, there were always different Bonds: Connery-Bond, the one.off Lazenby-Bond, the Moore-Bond, Dalton-Bond, Brosnan-Bond, and Craig-Bond. Wirh Moore and Dalton there were refeences to Lazenby's Bond. But Brosnan had nothing in common with his predecessors. With Craig, we ssw him on his first mission, and then on his last one, in which he dies. I don't have any problems with a new, younger actor portraying Bond.
In hindsight, it's interesting that both Moore and Dalton played into Connery continuity, as Eon was very openly worried about both actors not being accepted by audiences, hence the constant reminders that it's the same guy.
Continuity in the Bond franchise likely just comes down to how confident they are audiences will accept their actor.
I think back then it was also based on the feeling that the role was bigger than any actor playing it. And 30+ years ago audiences weren't so familiar with the concept of "reboots" and cared less about strict continuity. Now people do because franchises keep rebooting and strictly demarcating their continuities, as in comic book films where Marvel maintains a tight sprawling continuity and DC keeps restarting theirs with characters like Batman.