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Just swap Union for Quantum.
Never Dream of Dying and High Time to Kill are my preferred ones.
It's ridiculous to think using a certain title would make you create a certain movie.
agreed!!!
I don't think it sounds good by modern standards - though having said that I could imagine a harry Palmer film being called that - or a Bourne book.
Live and Let Die, A View to a Kill, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Die Another Day. 4 films out of 23 is "done to death?"
I always thought that the post-Fleming book titles were terrible - they sound like something that I would have thought was cool when I was 12. Too cheesy, until Devil May Care and Carte Blanche came up. Both of them sound vaguely Flemingesque to me. Especially DMC - it sounds light and fun, but on second thought can have a sinister interpretation as well.
One thing that I don't agree with is using Fleming chapter titles. Most of them are quite cheesy and overdone; to me they sound more like bad detective novel titles than titles of Bond films...but a lot of them were chosen by the editors, not Fleming himself IIRC.
Am... No. Yes, It would be a nice title.
Was thinking of silver related titles!
Shame Craig's already starred in it in un-related Bond material but think "Archangel" would have been a good title, could have been a password/weapons system
Plus I fell in love with the way some mocked up prospective fan-posters looked when i googled it;
http://jamesbonderies.free.fr/index.php/07/risico/
plus on a simple aesthetic level Risico fits with that interlocking 007 logo thing that is going on in Craig's era lol
Fleming's working titles Death Leaves An Echo, The Undertaker's Wind and The Inhuman Element are all good too.
Some of Fleming's chapter titles are worth a punt as well, e.g. The Moguls of Death, The Wizard of Ice, etc.
And then there's Shamelady.
I like not knowing what the title means. That sounds strange. In Skyfall, it could mean any number of things. It's ambiguous, because the Sky (probably) isn't falling. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a great title, considering Bond almost quits his job. From Russia With Love and Thunderball are great titles too, because you have no idea what they're about until you see the movies.
Weaker titles are too obvious. The Man With The Golden Gun is clearly about a man with a gold gun. Licence to Kill (as much as I love the movie) is an awful name. It feels like an 80s cop show - and who didn't already know that Bond had a license to kill.
Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day are just awful too. They both contradict the plots. Tomorrow (the newspaper) does die along with Carver. As for Die Another Day - that takes out a lot of the danger from the movie. Sure Bond might get captured, but we know he'll be okay - it says so in the title!
Bloodstone is clearly about conflict diamonds, and I feel like that's just too cliche for Bond movies.