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I like Calvin’s videos. He’s most likely right about the first rumblings of Bond 26 being mundane registering of companies or renting of studios rather than an actor’s casting being leaked. Heck there’s been no sign of a director or even a confirmation of screenwriter(s). While I admire Johnson as an actor I don’t think he’ll be our next Bond, and as Calvin hinted it’s worth noting that these people’s agents often get them into the same events as Broccoli
Luv these and ur profile pic, well done!
I haven't watched the video yet, but yes I feel like we need to build some kind of automated social media bot that just posts in regular intervals: "Until they have incorporated B26 Ltd. or something like that, they have no vehicle to pay people to do screentests, let alone a lead actor!"
We have speculated before about how they might throw out the playbook because Craig somehow convinced them that the actor is the be all end all of the films and everything else falls into place after that. Even then, I can't see them throwing decades of business best practice out of the window. Yes, they might go actor before screenplay, but I can't see them go actor before budget. Imagine they sign Tom Hardy for 20 mil a film and then MGM can't come up with more than 150 for the entire film. Yes, it's unlikely given Amazon's coffers, but that's still not how your run a business.
Indeed. It’s also telling how this rumour about Johnson has developed. We’ve gone from reports of him being the front runner to him apparently having filmed a gun barrel sequence.
I’m just waiting for an article to come out claiming he’s actually shot the entire film.
This. Next.
Actually, I'm glad there weren't any. The "bad" Bond girl gets old pretty quickly and too often becomes a lazy trope. Fiona Volpe was great. After her, I found most of them derivative.
Yeah, I agree. Also that might be Seydoux's best performance to date. She still looked very dangerous even when disarmed.
I can understand it not fitting with the stories they had but at the same time when you're making a conscious effort with the Bond girls overall, why wouldn't you consider one that remains an antagonist throughout the story? I sometimes wonder if hesitancy with female villains is their demise, do producers and writers worry they'll be antagonised if our main hero has to dispatch of a female character directly?
But then if that's the case, why is a sacrificial lamb more accepted by them than a female antagonist considering the criticism that trope gets? Or is that because its easier to portray a Bond girl being killed by the villains as opposed to Bond himself?
Actually they should have explored this in Monica Bellucci's character, Lucia Sciarra, she had a potential to be a Bad Bond Girl given her backstory and her connections to SPECTRE.
I do find it lacking on equality, I mean if there's a female baddie and Bond killed them, then that's when Bond look at each equally, he used his Licenced To Kill for women the same as he did on men.
He used to kill men, but why not have a female baddie too? Like the Craig films always portraying women as innocents who became sacrificial lambs like Solange, Strawberry Fields, Severine, and nearly with Lucia Sciarra, like women should always be good and only men could be bad.
It's a bit of equality to have a female baddie at least.
You've got a cool look. Bond or not, you wouldn't look out of place in the movies.
First it was this:
And now the silencer.
Haha, I know.
Bond gets enough bad press by having casual sex with women, let alone killing them….
Given the high profile campaigns (here in the UK, at least) against male violence towards women, not sure Bond shoul be going there
You could play David Dragonpol. Villainous parts are always more fun.
I think it depends on how this hypothetical female villain and her death are portrayed. I think if Bond were to kill her in the manner he did Green in QOS, or even Safin in NTTD, there would be more complaints of that ilk. It's worth noting though that both these villains were notably weaker and less of a physical match for Bond, and Bond's killing of them were especially cruel.
If, however, this female villain were more along the lines of Silva - that's to say they're a physical and intellectual match for Bond with, let's face it, more interesting motivations - then I don't think it'd be as much a problem. Their death won't likely be a case of Bond breaking their arm or leaving them in the desert with a can of oil, but in the context of a more equally weighted showdown. Heck, I don't think Silva and Bond even fight each other directly (that's to say they don't have hand to hand combat), which is the case with a lot of Bond villains, so if the producers were keen to avoid comparisons to male violence against women with such scenes then it'd be a very easy thing to accomplish.
Personally, I'd like to see a female villain or henchwoman. Plenty of great actresses around who could do it and it'd open up a lot of creative possibilities that could be interesting.
I think the question of their death is probably key. A sacrificial lamb is generally killed by a villain, someone already morally in the wrong. If you think about it, Bond very rarely kills a female villain directly. On the top of my head I can only think of Onatopp and Elektra. He throws Fiona Volpe in harm's way, but does not pull the trigger. The others are killed by the villain or a henchman. I don't think it's incidental.
There's also Naomi in the helicopter in TSWLM but that was at arm's length I suppose. It's interesting that he never directly killed a woman in the original Fleming novels and short stories either. Irma Bunt is knocked out by Bond's stave and her fate in the dissolving Castle of Death is unknown (unless one counts John Pearson as canon which is problematic for several reasons). The closest he came to a kill outside of that was shooting "Trigger" in the hand in 'The Living Daylights' and she probably lost her hand there as opposed to her life. Bond hesitates to kill an attractive woman, a theme explored in TWINE with Elektra King.
Ha! That would be a non-speaking part. Coincidentally I'm watching American Psycho.
I'm game.
Maybe you're thinking of the deaf mute twin brother Daniel Dragonpol? David Dragonpol could certainly speak, being an ex-actor in John Gardner's Never Send Flowers (1993). One of the most interesting and bizarre villains Gardner came up with and my namesake as a tribute to him.
Yes, thanks I'm not alone in feeling this one, I always thought of it, I just see themselves rather than Bond himself, for me, I want my character on the front with being the actor on the backseat as a driving force for the character to move, like a puppet, you don't see the one who's moving the puppet, but you see the character themselves.
Even Craig for me is already getting famous by the time he took the role because of Layer Cake, but then he's still owned the role because he's not a high A-lister like yes Cavill, Cumberbatch, and etc.
To be honest, this is why I think yes, like Connery, or Dalton, or even Lazenby captured the role so very well, because they let the character took the front position and let their personalities as themselves hide in the backseat.
Character first, actor at the back of the character, that's probably the most important, not just in Bond even at the other films.
Don't let the audiences remember the actor, let them think of the character that you're playing.
I'm in for the villains, but when it comes to the Bond Girls, I think that's fine, think of both Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg, both are really famous and popular coming from The Avengers, but they became so memorable in their respective Bond Girl roles, Halle Berry I think was an inspired casting, it's only the script or the writing that put her down.
I would also add Michelle Yeoh who's really a star and popular at the time of filming TND, but she carried the role very well too.
I still defend the choices Bond the character makes, in regards to women. There is a misdirected attempt by many in the media and critical circles to paint Bond as a misogynist when nothing could be further from the truth. I have even changed my mind about Patricia Fearing, the one character I had always believed to be mistreated. In fact, Bond does not turn his sights on Fearing until he sees that she is in cahoots with Lippe. At that moment, she becomes an asset. And that's when he makes his advances.
There are few women in Bond films who are not assets or marks. And those who are not are generally treated with respect and concern. See Tilly Masterson and Plenty O'Toole, as prime examples.
OK. That's all for now. Carry on. LOL