However a Fleming title that doesn't work as good as the others for me would have to be The Man With The Golden Gun. Just "The Golden Gun" would have maybe been more powerful.
The man is what's important, not the gun. A book or film called "The Golden Gun" would make me think it's something Indiana Jones is trying to find. James Bond is after the man, not the gun.
Very true. Scaramanga is the objective here. Always loved the title.
1. For Your Eyes Only 2. The Living Daylights 3 From Russia with Love 4. Casino Royale 5. OHMSS 6. Skyfall
I don't mind Die Another Day, my favourites are FRWL, OHMSS, TMWTGG, TSWLM, FYEO, TND, TWINE and CS. I don't like Quantum of Solace. In Dutch it's 'De Kwantum Soelaas theorie', no idea what it means or what it has to do with the movie. Maybe it sounds better when I'd know what it means. And I don't really like Skyfall, it's such a dull name. I think the house desirved a better name. The Propety Of A Lady should have been great for that movie because of M.
From the Flemming books I don't like 007 In New York, and also Risico and TPOAL
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Best: Thunderball - For me this title just sounds so powerful and intriguing and James Bondy! ) And I think it provides a nice aural and visual cue to what could happen if Bond's mission fails (i.e. Spetcre carries through with its threat to set off the nuclear warheads and BOOM!!!! A Thunderball!!!!
Worst: Tomorrow Never Dies - I understand that Bond film titles sometimes make little sense, but this one really irks me.
From a quick look at Google Translate, it translates as 'Quantum Theory Soelass' - of course, I may be wrong, but it's pretty weird.
Literally translated it's 'The Quantum Of Solace Theory'. But I searched to know what Soelaas/Solace means, it means: ensure that thing don't get worse, or something. In some sort of romantic, or tragic way. So I can understand the relationship with Vesper, but not with Quantum then, because Bond never loved Quantum. Well that's what we think 8-)
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For those outside the UK who may not be aware ON HER MAJESTYS SERVICE is stamped on official documentation. Fleming cleverly worked that into his book by simply adding the SECRET into something that the British people would have been familiar with.
Quite right - and a number of the (best) Fleming titles were puns / plays on words - eg From Russia with Love (From x with love as a typical sign off on a postcard), You Only Live Twice (once being the standard term) and of course my favourite Live and Let Die (the polar opposite of live and let live). Even The Man with The Golden Gun could be seen as a play on the Sinatra film The Man with the Golden Arm.
The problem with the modern versions was that they missed the intelligence of those earlier times and became stunningly obvious - Die Another Day being as mind-numbingly banal as LALD was witty (some would say, just like the films)
The Problem is that by the Time of LTK, they had ran out of Fleming Titles (Apart from Risico, The Hilderbrand Rarity, Property Of A Lady, Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace) So they had to come up with completely new Names for each Film.
Maybe they could use some of the Chapter Names from the Fleming Novels as Film Titles? -{
1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
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Die Another Day is the worst for me. OHMSS or LALD for the best.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
I could think of a couple of modern British Government Terms that could be used as Bond Titles -
The Deficit Today
Austerity Tomorrow
The Coalition sometimes Happens
QUANTITATIVE EASING SPECTRE's plan is to flood the market with so much excess cash that it loses all value, causes the collapse of Capitalism & ushers in a new moneyless society. Gordon Brown turns out to be Blofeld with David & Ed Milliband as the Spang Brothers. Caroline Flint is the seductive femme fatale who gives Bond the run around.
The Problem is that by the Time of LTK, they had ran out of Fleming Titles (Apart from Risico, The Hilderbrand Rarity, Property Of A Lady, Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace) So they had to come up with completely new Names for each Film.
Maybe they could use some of the Chapter Names from the Fleming Novels as Film Titles? -{
They still have three Fleming titles they can use, or four if you care to count "007 in New York". Risico would probably be the easiest to use. Since so much of the Risico story has already been used, I would be okay with them using the title and giving it another meaning, like the name of a villain.
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Very true. Scaramanga is the objective here. Always loved the title.
From the Flemming books I don't like 007 In New York, and also Risico and TPOAL
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I like your picks. (Believe me, I understand how difficult it is to narrow your choices down to one each!)
Worst: Tomorrow Never Dies - I understand that Bond film titles sometimes make little sense, but this one really irks me.
From a quick look at Google Translate, it translates as 'Quantum Theory Soelass' - of course, I may be wrong, but it's pretty weird.
Literally translated it's 'The Quantum Of Solace Theory'. But I searched to know what Soelaas/Solace means, it means: ensure that thing don't get worse, or something. In some sort of romantic, or tragic way. So I can understand the relationship with Vesper, but not with Quantum then, because Bond never loved Quantum. Well that's what we think 8-)
" Her Majesty's secret Pleasure" is a bit too suggestive for
a Title.
Quite right - and a number of the (best) Fleming titles were puns / plays on words - eg From Russia with Love (From x with love as a typical sign off on a postcard), You Only Live Twice (once being the standard term) and of course my favourite Live and Let Die (the polar opposite of live and let live). Even The Man with The Golden Gun could be seen as a play on the Sinatra film The Man with the Golden Arm.
The problem with the modern versions was that they missed the intelligence of those earlier times and became stunningly obvious - Die Another Day being as mind-numbingly banal as LALD was witty (some would say, just like the films)
Maybe they could use some of the Chapter Names from the Fleming Novels as Film Titles? -{
I could think of a couple of modern British Government Terms that could be used as Bond Titles -
The Deficit Today
Austerity Tomorrow
The Coalition sometimes Happens
QUANTITATIVE EASING
" Nicola Sturgeon : The most Dangerous woman in the world !".
Good Lord, man!
They still have three Fleming titles they can use, or four if you care to count "007 in New York". Risico would probably be the easiest to use. Since so much of the Risico story has already been used, I would be okay with them using the title and giving it another meaning, like the name of a villain.
Apart from that one obviously
Unless someone at EON goes insane, I have to believe they would never stoop that low! :v
Some good. Some... not so good.
The Hilderbrand Rarity could be turned into the Name of a File that Bond is sent to find
Number 1 on that list is still my first choice.
I still can't see why people want "Shatterhand" over "The Garden Of Death". The latter is more unique IMO.
Also, why do so many people want "The Undertaker's Wind"? Can't they see the obvious toilet-humour?
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
I respectfully disagree. The Garden of Death sounds much more like a generic title to me.