Bond's Childhood
CmdrAtticus
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After seeing Skyfall again this week, I've come to consider the idea that - according to the history of Bond's childhood as it is written in the film, Kincaid was introduced as a surrogate father.
Based on Fleming's bio of Bond, his father was a rep for an armourments firm.
It could be said that this would mean he was abroad for a lot of the time leaving him only with his mother and Kincaid (and probably one or two housekeepers and even a nanny). I think Fleming imagined him brought up as he was (minus any siblings).
This would mean Kincaid may have been the main male influence most of the time at Skyfall. He would have helped Bond learn to shoot and hunt as well as how to survive out on the moor - something that would have bolstered Bond's independence and helped to mature him early as well as given him skills that would help him as an adult agent.
With his parents death, Bond would have turned to Kincaid for the emotional support he needed and Kincaid would have helped him get past this trauma and encouraged him to leave Skyfall. Having his aunt step gave him a new surrogate mother to help him through his young adult years and school.
Creating Kincaid was, I believe, a logical choice for the film and for helping to understand how the young Bond became the adult 007. Now I wonder if they would ever resurrect his aunt for a light scene in a future film. It's an interesting idea. Who would play her? Someone like Maggie Smith?
Based on Fleming's bio of Bond, his father was a rep for an armourments firm.
It could be said that this would mean he was abroad for a lot of the time leaving him only with his mother and Kincaid (and probably one or two housekeepers and even a nanny). I think Fleming imagined him brought up as he was (minus any siblings).
This would mean Kincaid may have been the main male influence most of the time at Skyfall. He would have helped Bond learn to shoot and hunt as well as how to survive out on the moor - something that would have bolstered Bond's independence and helped to mature him early as well as given him skills that would help him as an adult agent.
With his parents death, Bond would have turned to Kincaid for the emotional support he needed and Kincaid would have helped him get past this trauma and encouraged him to leave Skyfall. Having his aunt step gave him a new surrogate mother to help him through his young adult years and school.
Creating Kincaid was, I believe, a logical choice for the film and for helping to understand how the young Bond became the adult 007. Now I wonder if they would ever resurrect his aunt for a light scene in a future film. It's an interesting idea. Who would play her? Someone like Maggie Smith?
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There's only one other person like Maggie Smith- solid theatre background, respected cinema work, titled, Oscars....
But there may be a problem there....
Willing or insisting ?
Maybe they will reveal more throughout Craig's tenure. It's a tricky scenario though because if you divulge too much, it will force you to reboot at somepoint once you get wrapped up in continuity. I like hearing snippets throughout each film. I prefer Bond's backstory to be described more in the novels.
As I've posted before, an easy solution would have been to let the animation during the credits show us some of the details about the Bond family. Then a flashback or two in the movie might have been all it took -- I would actually prefer the movie to have opened with the scene of Bond finding out about his parents and hiding in the tunnel instead of having Kincaid tell us that. It would only have taken a few minutes of screen time. They could easily have cut from a boy Bond hiding in the darkness to the adult Bond in bed with the woman. But a John Logan script is always clunky, and I've never thought Mendes was that great a director.
Bad idea. Bond is not the kind of films where you show long flashbacks of the lead's childhood. Flashbacks has only been used once (in OHMSS) and only to visualize what was on Bond's mind. I think the little insights we got from dialogue was quite enough, not only because his childhood wasn't central to the plot but mainly because Bond's background should be a bit of a mystery.
We don't need to explain Bond's behaviour as being the result of a traumatised childhood - he's not some driven, borderline psychologically- challenged individual like Batman. IMO Bond's parents' death made him become tough and independent - his service experience and unique inherent characteristics made him who he is (a double-O) ... And maybe a little intervention by Kincaid.
Yes, I agree. I think we've been given enough on Bond's background.
you don't know Eton (don't even ask about white biscuit)
M and Moneypenny setting up the target, Q giving a few toys, then Off Bond goes
For some major "Badass" Spy adventure stuff.
I want to see DC drive or fly something rediclous like an apache helicopter or a concorde from a museam lol.
Flying between the buildings very low to the ground.
changed into a speedboat. When Clarkson drove it
on the water he even asked " play the Bond !"
quad in on you tube, and it can shift on the water. -{
I don't think you'll see flashbacks of little Jimmy Bond learning to ride a bike, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the deaths of Bond's parents play a role in the last two Craig films.