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Having 'James Bond will return' on the screen after killing him off is only one small problem in a large list of problems when it comes to the the ending of NTTD.
They certainly did all that, didn't they? And you have to hand it to them that they managed to shoehorn in the circumstance of also dying whilst saving his true love, and his daughter.
They did him in, in style.
The production team love him. The less decorated director and writers for NTTD would've been in awe of him.
I wonder if James Bond's death was pitched as the only suitable way to send such a superb servant of the Bond canon on his way.
And by extension, potentially a less effective way to climax the purely cinematic narrative of NTTD.
Any classically trained or theatre-hardened actor jumps at the opportunity to shuffle of this mortal coil. I am by no means suggesting that Craig openly advocated for the seismic plot beat, but he's the type of actor who'd be attracted to the idea.
If this is the case, then we are dealing with a classic case of lastmovieitis. Where the last instalment of a particular actor's tenure is more about him than Bond. These movies - think YOLT, think DAF, think AVTAK, think DAD - inevitably sink under the weight of accrued mental and physical baggage.
Lazenby doesn't count and Dalton was cut short.
Exactly.
I think the death should have been more May Day-like, i.e. with a clear purpose. No injuries, no blast doors, just Bond realizing he. cannot. leave.
I agree with Echo that it would've had even more resonance if they'd took out the prospect of him bleeding out, too. I'm one of those who don't think that he was going to die from blood loss (he got back to the control centre, re-opened the blast doors and climbed a 30ft ladder - that's not someone on the brink of karking it), but it would've emphasised the self-sacrifice if that element hadn't been there.
So he's probably alive.
Nice to hear you liked it. I'm happy for you.
I wish I could watch NTTD through your eyes.
Suggesting that the events to unfold in the next series happened before Bond died is equally weak.
The easiest way will be to wipe the slate clean. It's been done before, albeit without Bond dying.
Best ending ever? Not in my opinion. But, given the set up, it's really the only direction the story could have gone. Bond saves the world again and his family. Anything else would have required considerable rewriting.
I hope Bond's death is a one off for the series. Bond dying, real or fake, already feels terribly cliched. Of course the challenge after 25 films is how do you make a film that feels familiar without also feeling like been there, done that?
James Bond WILL Return...
As long as we're going full sci-fi with the nanobot thing...
Sounds like a METAL GEAR plot.
How to put Blofeld's cat amongst the double=taking pigeons.
The Bond Movies have been treading Metal Gear territory since the Brosnan era anyway, but it’s bit give and take, as MGS and Hideo have been waving their Bond flag for years. People talk about Nolan being influenced by Bond, but he’s been doing MGS since at least Inception too. Bond works surprisingly well with the MGS approach actually. Though… maybe they didn’t need to do the brothers thing.
Not!!!!!!
Since ghosts don’t exist, and Fleming has been dead for 60 years, it doesn’t matter what his opinion would have been.