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remember, these are said to be senior people engaging in informal correspondence.
I would expect they would dash stuff off as quickly as possible. the correspondence is only meant to engage the person they are sending it to.
Some of the correspondence also looks like it may be English as non-first lanugage, some might be typos.
But if you are just trying to dash your thoughts out on the numerous items that might cross your desk on a daily basis, I think its going to look rushed.
Cap locks is just a way of typing faster. You don't have to worry about hitting the shift key.
We take a little more care with our correspondence here on the board, as we would ideally like all the other members to be able to read it without suffering too much pain ;) but a decision-maker-type in a corporate setting, I think would dash off notes as quickly and expediently as possible, while secretaries or personal assistant types would clearn-up and format any formal correspondence or missive.
Even this simple post, I had to go over a few times, to catch typos ,missing words, punctuation etc, and even then I'm sure I missed stuff.
But if you got a lot of stuff on your desk to plow through, meetings, people to talk too, stuff to review, decisions to make etc fussing over quick back-and-forth communication is really going to slow you down.
What I think they do, is that they eventually meet after reviewing the back and forth and then they thrash things out verbally, and if anything formal needs to be written up, that's what secretaries and admin assistants are for.
==re script leak, I really don't think this is a huge deal. Well it is but it also isn't.
Major media will report certain things, as they are already doing. We're already seeing the Sony leaks as a cited source in numerous media articles (bond is only a small part of the equation)
What will drive the success of this film is ultimately marketing and a well-produced film.
The marketers just have to continue their marketing efforts, and the producers have to continue with their film craft.
If the movie is up to snuff, it should sell zillions of tickets, just like its predecesssor,
and as we all know, all the plot elements that mattered in SF were fully leaked long before the films release, including the really big surprises, and that was without actual script leaks. Didn't hurt SF in the least.
KBO as they say.
They started working on the script back in early 2013. Why does it take them so long to write a decent screenplay???
https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/sony-watch-is-007-friendly-execs-position-imperiled/
No spoilers in post.
But it would seem that at some point EON has to do some damage control. The Sony hack is of course horrible as it is creating real harm to many innocent staff and it will no doubt seriously damage important big shot relationships. I feel badly about the thousands of Sony staff who are just trying to make a living and now have to worry about possible identity theft. I do worry about the endless amounts of garbage and gossip in that huge 10 year email data load and how it could really harm SP. My other big concern is their current cash flow. The Times story about Sony killing current filming is scary. One would hope that EON and MGM can carry the vendor and staff payroll costs re SP until Sony rights itself. Since all large companies are totally dependent these days on their tech., Lord knows how Sony is processing their billings and payroll given their network still seems mostly shut down.
For me, so far, the Bond end is not nearly as bad as the hyperventilating about Bond in the press makes it appear. Maybe this will serve as some major hype for the film, if the press doesn't dredge up more damaging emails. Big if. For sure, the Sony end of it is horrible and Lord knows where all the damage will lead.
http://gawker.com/new-bond-script-leaks-execs-scrambling-to-fix-awful-en-1670479885
Except that people at MGM are saying the same thing too (Not that it adds much credibility).
And not a word from production either. You would think if they were worried that the film is not shaping up in terms of audience expectations they would release some form of statement.
Instead, they are still filming and not holding anything back. This tells me that either the leak does not show the most recent changes that Mendes and co. brought to the script that addresses the executives' concerns, or perhaps they know we are being spoiled and saying "screw it, past the point of no return." For all we know, the same conversations might have arisen in Skyfall (bad 3rd act, inconsistent tone, weird dialogue).
Personally, I trust the crew to deliver a solid Bond film. Of course Mendes has directed bad films - just as Logan has wrote bad screenplays. And the fact that this was delayed and polished throughout the script just so they could get it right is something to be recognized.
My reaction (Joke only, no actual information):
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I think that is key. Only hyper Bond fans like us are following this closely. 99% of the people who will see this film will not be reading this stuff and will go see the film unaware of all the spoilers. EON will state that the shooting script has major changes from all the draft stuff online. And if the shooting script has indeed leaked, then they will make all kinds of changes just to undermine the leak. They are at least lucky in that they just started filming, and can still make changes.
I tried not to read to much but I heard that one of their complaints is that the climax isn't large-scale enough. Personally I'd prefer a more intimate and personal low-key climax. Not every big budget blockbuster needs to have a Michael Bay like orgy of explosions, cgi, and destruction.
This is probably more about the threat and motivation of SPECTRE/Oberhauser than "scale".
For the record I still think this will be Craig's last and if it isn't I think it could feel forced.
I think having another film when Bond comes out of retirement would ruin the character arc of this one (and so Bond finally walks away from MI6, perhaps finding peace.... until the next movie where he comes back and kills bad guys again) and also, since SP will tie together all the other films as part of one arc, it could feel tacked on.
The only way I could ever see a fifth Craig film working is if they let Blofeld live. Then in Bond 25 have Blofeld kill the woman Blofeld has settled down with and Bond can go on a revenge mission, they could use a lot of YOLT which would be cool. But even then I think you'd be sort of undoing all the progress of Bond's character arc in SP and it looks like Blofeld will probably die anyway.
The one thing I'm sort of unhappy about is the Blofeld plot. If it works well it could be cool, revealing that he's behind this intricate web of conspiracy leading back to CR. But it could also seem forced, melodramatic and unrealistic (Blofeld's dad loved Bond more than him... So Blofeld kills his dad and becomes leader of an international criminal organisation, then when Bond becomes a 00 he finds out and focuses all his energy on ruining Bond's life? It sounds pretty dumb to me, all that because he thought his dad liked Bond better).
Whether it should thematically be Craig's last film or not he's still signed on for Bond 25. There've been rumors for a while that SP and Bond 25 will be one interconnected story so this could possibly be a fake-out. There's a possibility that Blofeld won't reveal himself until Bond 25 as Waltz's character is never referred to as Blofeld. Or maybe Bond 25 will it's own stand-alone film and give a Craig a more classic film to go out on.
For this to work, they need to give Blofeld the voldermort treatment of villainy.
Waltz's character is referred to as Blofeld in the leaked emails. And Obenhauser seems to be the leader of SPECTRE since he's apparently behind the events of CR, QoS and SF. So I'm pretty sure he's Blofeld.
Either way I am excited and nervous if this is done right I will love it if it's done poor I won't...
My issue is
Or and I hope they caught that and corrected with the rewrites... all like the script and despite what's floating around filming started with with an agreed upon script. I remember both Craig and Mendes liking this script more.
Now third thing what if they do but we fans and general public don't buy it? Why o why did they start with Logan!!
As much as I love DC and want him in Bond 25 and beyond, I think he's done. He's going to be 47 next March. This means he'll likely be 50 when filming starts on Bond 25.
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I'll use True Detective as my conclusion. The first series brilliant and Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, was not flavour of the month and playing against type and this made it brilliant. The producers wanting to have another hit have gone for the safe option Farrell and Vaungh, actors they think can do this and on paper look like a cool duo.
What they should have done is gone for in TD2 is actors playing against type and picked John Malkovic Viggo Mortensen, who both would make very good Blofelds. However, I feel it is now time to bring in new talent and not go for what they think or who they think is cool and try have another SF as we can see makes very big problems.