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I don't see why bond couldn't travel to australia. Maybe bond could get stranded in the outback or stop an assasination then have a fight on the roof of the sydney opera house???, or scuba dive at the great barrier reef???. And for scenes that can happen in any country, well if they can happen in any country, why not australia then???
Or you would have DAD...
DAD is a great film, a well-deserved top 10 outing for me... A very Flemingesque performance from Brosnan. DAD is a like a massive middle-finger directed at the horrible film TWINE was. DAD was a return to basic - fun, spectacle, entertainement.
Why have such opposing views though on Bond vs non-Bond?
I'm certain even Fleming knew when writing his novels, plot was important. As has already been said, without the plot, nothing much else in a film, or anything else for that matter, would exist. It bides the whole thing together and allows for characters, gadgets and other situations to happen.
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Just my humble opinion. It is not a written rule that DAD cannot be loved by anyone, or that CR cannot be hated by anyone. How boring would this website be if everyone had the same opinions on Bond.
I would love to see Bond in Australia and New Zealand!
DAD would be in my top 10 if they had re-written the whole iceland and finale sequence. It was going great up until then, then it went downhill. Now its bottom of my list. But I see why you like it.
Notice how Mr Craig states that 'it is just me' that has this intention and whether Bond goes there or not 'I would love to shoot there', i.e. Craig is really saying an all expenses paid trip to film some antipodean Bond adventures would be mighty fine so long as he's in the role but wouldn't seem too keen on the idea if it was anyone else playing the 007 role
I wrote loads more about this yesterday but was unable to continue and the remainder of the work was not saved so I won't duplicate but just mentioned that it's an even bet Bond would be featured in Sydney, it's seems the most obvious outcome, while three quarters of the continent resides in the South East corner there are other areas to explore such as Alice Springs, Darwin and Perth for instance. You can see it now that if they ever went ahead with this is would no doubt feature Bond/Craig having some climatic struggle with some nemesis on or around the Opera House
I welcome a Bond in Australia type adventure, a type of Mission Impossible II remake from what I can remember, but please no Moore type nonsense of wrestling crocodiles and Paul Hogan cameos or rescuing Koala bears from trees, we don't need it
In TSWLM, Viv Michel is French Canadian and Bond was battling enemies in Toronto, before he hopped in his car and commenced his journey south to Washington. There have been several Canadian nods in the films; most recently Canadian actress Stana Kanic playing Canadian agent, Corrine, in QoS, but movie-Bond has never actually seen action in this vital Commonwealth country.
Bring Bond to Canada! Very soon! We even have a Pinewoods Studio branch in Toronto. Daniel Craig is also very familiar with the city, having shot Dream House here.
And as this local blogger details, Fleming has a strong WWII connection to the city, and the famous "Quiet Canadian," spymaster, William Stephenson, code-name Intrepid.
Toronto's St. James-Bond United Church, that Fleming was quite possibly aware of, was only recently merged with another church.
http://blogs.canoe.ca/parker/general/bond-st-james-bond/
"Fleming also worked closely with William Stephenson, the Canadian entrepreneur who became Intrepid — the key operative co-ordinating British-Canadian-American secret war efforts. Toronto was a communications centre for Stephenson and he helped establish Camp X, the super-secret training facility for undercover agents, on a farm between Whitby and Oshawa (now known as Intrepid Park).
Fleming spent some time in Toronto during the war. He was checking out Camp X to pick up anything his special commando unit could add to its repertoire, but he was also monitoring other secret activities going on in Toronto during his stay in 1942."
"As Fleming explained, he wanted his hero’s name to be a plain, ordinary British moniker so he was a point of stability as fantastic occurrences swirled around him.
Let’s assume that the ornithologist was the primary source for James Bond, but the little church in Toronto was a subliminal reinforcement.
Because….
St. James-Bond United Church was located at 1066 Avenue Rd., just north of Eglinton.
Also just north of Eglinton on Avenue Rd. you will still see red-brick military buildings that seem rather quaint. The buildings still standing are only part of a military complex that, when it was built during World War II, housed a secret scientific complex that was cutting-edge."
The blogger does take some liberties though. He asserts that several movie-scenes have been shot in Canada, although the only one that I am aware of, is the opening ski sequence to TSWLM.
He later gets DN mixed up with FRWL when discussing Bond-actor auditions, but his notes on Fleming in Toronto and the James Bond church are at least interesting.
We also have a Bond Street downtown, and a large "Quantum"-named mid-town condo complex.
Bond should be right at home.
Aussie
Centerpoint eye tower, Sydney.
Darling Harbour, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music, Sydney.
Luna Park, Sydney.
NZ
Te Papa Tongarewa ( The National Musseam of NZ), Wellington
Wellington Airport, Wellington
Skytower, Auckland
Milford Sound, Milford
To me it says Craig would love to film in Australia in a Bond or non Bond film as he loves the country, 'it's just him' something he personally would like to do. As for anyone else playing Bond doing it, I doubt he really cares. I have no idea where you've got that idea from, maybe reading too far into it?
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bond should go to australia for bond 24
Do they still do log rolls in Canada? I seem to remember them floating huge amounts of timber down rivers in the Yukon. That could be a good place for a fight, trying to keep upright on moving logs.
As for Australia? I have been there and enjoyed it but I dunno there are still many more exotic cities then Sydney and Melbourne.
What about Darwin? the Reef? Perth? then there are the Land Trains, Tasamina, AFL/Rugby, MINING, ALL THE KNOWN minerals in the world can be found there. News flash to you Aussies, Aussieland (Bills Food) is Exotic to Americans and move of the rest of the world.
So lets say Quantum are hiding in AUS? Like you said its "plain jane" vanilla not much happens there....which would be perfect if you want to stay clear of the pain. HQ in AUS or NZ would be a great idea in a mining complex. Then you have the shipping, military, secret, test, haarp bases. Isnt the US building a base in Aus to protect against china?
What about Kangroo Island? The MASSIVE lakes of Torrens, Gairdner and Erye that are north of Spencer Gulf?
Think of it this way: if something could be moved from a nominated country (like Australia) to Greenland with a minimum of fuss, then it's generic. If it could happen anywhere else in the world with equal ease, then Bond would only be coming to Australia for the sake of the location.
No. There is no "protecting against China" because China is our biggest trading partner. The United States is increasing its troop presence in Australia for the security of the region, but it has nothing to do with protecting against China or any other country.
But there is nothing to connect them to Bond. There is no reason in Australia for Bond to visit those locations other than to visit those countries.
For example, this is Bagan, an ancient city in Myanmar. For years, the country was controlled by a military junta. But the junta disbanded in 2010, and the country is in the process of introducing democracy. This could be used in a Bond film: a villain uses Bagan as a base because he enjoys the protection of the junta. So long as he is there, he is untouchable. But when the junta disbands, his protection is gone. He is now fair game for anyone who comes looking for him. Bond could visit Bagan in pursuit of him, or perhaps an associate that the villain hid there.
Australia, on the other hand, doesn't have anything like that.
I can't help but thinks this too.
I don't want to sound negative toward Australia and NZ but it isn't exotic and would't particularly offer an aethetcally pleasing backdrop to a Bond film unless they were shooting out in the desert and this has already been done recently in QOS. City wise, the urban landscape is plain and offers nothing particularly interesting to look at and the same goes for New Zealand. If they were to shoot downunder then I think NZ would be better as atleast in the rural areas the landscape is more diverse - mountains, forests, lakes, rivers and a bit of desert. Urban wise though...boring! There are many American cities out there that could double for Australian and New Zealand towns and they wouldn't have to spend as much of their budget on getting there.
Sydney on New Year's Eve would be interesting, since it's the first major city to welcome the New Year. Aucklandites will no doubt disagree with that sentiment, but Sydney's fireworks display is usually one of the most spectacular in the world:
There's usually half a dozen barges in the harbour used as fireworks platforms, and the harbour itself is usually crowded with boats.
The only problem with shooting New Year's Eve fireworks is that shooting would only get about half an hour of filming time on one night of the year. And maybe ten minutes at nine o'clock for the family-friendly show. It would also be very difficult to control drunk crowds - a chase on jet-skis between the boats in the middle of the fireworks display would look spectacular, but it would be impossible to control all the boats at any one time. And all it would take it one drunken party to get in the way and the whole thing could very well be a disaster.
I am going to get shot for this but they do reckon the London NYE fireworks beat Sydneys this year (and may be even last years)
Theres a hat tip to James Bond in there as well..
As they are currently shooting Skyfall in London at the moment I think they missed a trick not having Craig move through the South Bank while the fireworks were going off.
Like I already said, australia has a ton of locations that would make great scenes. Imagine if the villian captured bond, then shot him in the leg and left him to die in the outback. Or bond is investigating a dead double 0 and, aftger following clues, scuba dives and finds the body hidden in the great barrier reef. @Virage showed some great buildings in his post, imagine bond tracking a bad guy to that airport then they end up fighting on top of that massive tower. And for the scenes that can take place anywhere, well they can take place in australia then. Kylie minouge can be an aussi bond girl.
difference is, kylie is actually an ok actress :) but yeah I really want to see bond in australia