Don't care for Hitch doing Bond, it simply wasn't his thing, that said he'd have been good doing the Craig noirish Bond where he is out of his depth a bit in a nightmarish world. That's the thing though, spy films tend to fall into those two categories; confident spy on top of his game being proactive or nervous newbie having the cruel cynical world revealed to him, the Craig template it seems, near enough.
Actually I'm being unfair, Craig is not quite in the latter category, looking already bruised.
Broccoli wanted Hitch to do Thunderball at one point but baulked at price I've heard. But by then Hitch was going off the boil a bit, as with films like Topaz, which is pretty interminable imo, one good set piece death.
Forget Bond, I'd love to see Hitchcock's work with today's resources. Could you imagine the tension he could create with HD, 3D and CGI ? I'm not talking remakes, but imagine if he lived in our time?
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I haven`t thought of it that way before, but you are right. Hitch allways liked the technical side of filmmaking and how to make it service the story. He actually made "Dial M for murder" in 3D and he would have loved the posibilities of CGI.
Alfred Hitchcock (it appears) turned down the chance to direct the first Bond film. At the time of the invitation by Ian Fleming he was pretty much at the peak of his powers having just completed North By Northwest, with Psycho just around the corner. If Hitchcock had directed the first Bond film, whether it was Dr No or Thunderball, it's difficult to imagine it being anything other than successful. The question is what would have happened next?
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That's the problem. I don't doubt for one minute that Hitch couldn't have made a terrific first Bond, but who could have come close to making one as good following that?
Hitchcock was doing espionage in the 1930s and 1940s. He made some of the best espionage films of all time. And To Catch A Thief (1955) demonstrated that he understood the James Bond type of character very well. It would have been nice if Hitchcock had directed Casino Royale in the late 1950s. He would have brought out the noir aspects of the novel and the suave charm of the character as well. He would have turned the card game into an exercise in suspense that we'd still be talking about today. He would have shown the escalating romantic tension between Vesper and Bond. He would have realized her character as fully as Fleming wrote her. Next to David Lean at about the same time, Hitchcock would have been the perfect director for Casino Royale.
Anything would have been better than the piece of shvt EON perpetrated in 2006 with that clueless monkey.
Richard
The top 7 Bond films: 1) Dr No. 2) From Russia With Love. 3) Thunderball. 4) On Her Majesty's Secret Service. 5) For Your Eyes Only. 6) The Living Daylights. 7) Licence to Kill.
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Actually I'm being unfair, Craig is not quite in the latter category, looking already bruised.
Broccoli wanted Hitch to do Thunderball at one point but baulked at price I've heard. But by then Hitch was going off the boil a bit, as with films like Topaz, which is pretty interminable imo, one good set piece death.
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So it's not just me then. Thanks.
Anything would have been better than the piece of shvt EON perpetrated in 2006 with that clueless monkey.
Richard