Use of rain in Bond

Thunderpussy

Only two Bond films show rain CR & QOS. I wonder if with the new take on the character these are being used to show as a kind of metaphor or visual cue the emotional state of the new Bond as both films deal with love,betrayal, loss and revenge.And now that it's been delt with we'll never see it again.
I know after Italy in sunshine, it's dramatic to show London then in rain,But the've cut back to london in every other film with no change in weather.
I'm probaly reading too much into it but with most movies everthing is there for a reason and this kind of stands out to me.

Solaris

It is highly possible and is a very good analysis. But I also think that it is also highly to do with the new so called realism of Bond. In reality rain is a regular occurance, so this new more realistic Bond must experience rain at some point. Whilst the old Bond's were set in a much more hightened reality and offered escapism from everyday life by showing Bond's environment at constantly sunny.

Loeffelholz

I don't think it's any accident that only Craig's Bond films have depicted precipitation B-)

It was basically a mission statement of Ian Fleming that (paraphrasing): The sun is always shining, the sky is always blue, the locales are never boring...etc. Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman built the franchise on that foundation, and it worked extraordinarily well.

But now, I'm anxious to see more weather. I love that we've now seen both rain and snow. Next (now that we've twice broken precedent), I'd like very much to see Bond in a life or death struggle somewhere---in a torrential downpour, the likes of which Akira Kurosawa dumped on his scenes in classic films like Rashomon, Yojimbo and Seven Samurai B-)

JADE66

It's true that weather rarely plays any role in a Bond film aside from cold and snowy in the mountains to sunny and hot on the beach. There was, however, that snowstorm in OHMSS. I think it's right to assume that a more realistic Bond will require more realistic surroundings. This includes the weather.
Craig's Bond gets beaten up, cut, filthy. There's no reason he can't get drenched in a downpour.B-)

LazyBee

Its a technique commonly used in media and literature called "Pathetic Fallacy", where a characters emotional state is conveyed through the weather. It is not surprising that the two gritty and darker films contain this technique.