So, Basically Mr. White is
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Marc-Ange Draco in this Bond universe, and Madeline Swann is Tracy? Of course, the biographical details are different, but White is a super-criminal who gets Bond to take care of his daughter, who falls in love with the agent. There's all the reworking of Piz Gloria as Swann's therapy chalet and so forth.
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Let's bloody hope so
Do I imagine things or was there a first SP teaser trailer out with OHMSS music on it. I think I really have seen that, but can't find it anymore anywhere
Huh, nice pickup. That similarity between White and Draco never crossed my mind, but I think you definitely have something there.
Yes I believe the first SP trailer had a few bars with a hint of the OHMSS score
Edit: It was the second trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTDaET-JweU
From 1:45 pretty much till the James Bond theme at the end
Thank you so much! Yes, exactly this trailer I mean. Wonderful homage to Barry's best score.
Damn...now I want to watch SP immediately -{
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There is so much OHMSS in SP it's quite fascinating!
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To be honest, I think DAD worked well for the 40th Anniversary, it can be debated that EON went overboard with the OTT stuff of DAD, but then they did this with almost all the actors so far at one point or the other.
The lazer scene was the one I was primarily referring to. I hope we are not taking this thread off-course.
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in the book Smythe doesn't actually kill himself, deliberately, he manages to do it by accident (being in extremely poor health and passively awaiting death) while Bond gives him the chance to think about his crimes and inevitable courtmartial
in the film, we never see Smythe, instead Maud Adams tells his story, now with suicide added, and there is a moment of unease between Moore and Adams before she says suicide was the honourable alternative to the shame of a courtmartial and she is actually grateful to Bond for allowing her father the choice
SPECTRE complicates this further, with Craig appearing to be manipulative of the dead man's daughter and less than completely honest, then Blofeld replaying the surveillance footage of the actual event so the daughter can witness for herself
but the Draco/Tracy angle is definitely there too, especially with the Alpine allergy clinic and all the speculation the next film will begin with Swann's murder
there's big chunks of Thunderball, OHMSS, and the YOLT film in this one, the whole original Blofeld trilogy in one film
the Tiffany/Swann parallel is sort of there too, with her being the survivor of a very bad background who deserves a normal life, and Bond feeling he must choose between her and M (dialog from the DaF book)
the filmmakers just take scoopfuls of the old material, put it in a blender with a dash of Goldmember, and whirrr ... there's a new film
EDIT: just checked Fleming's text
after Smythe finishes his confession, Bond gives him a week before "someone else" returns to bring him home for courtmartial. Smythe himself assumes this is a blatant invitation to suicide, thinking "It was just a version of the corny old act of leaving the guilty officer alone with his revolver". Instead, Smythe goes scubadiving, manages to get himself stung by a scorpion fish, feels another coronary coming on, then is drowned by his beloved Octopussy who is attracted by the blood. In the secondlast paragraph, Bond, who did not witness this scene, assumes suicide while writing his notes. The deathscene goes on for eight pages! The filmmakers simplified that by just letting him use the revolver.
If insurance prevented Lazenby from skiing in 1969, the insurance companies would certainly prevent the Bond actor from skiing today. I don't think it makes much of a difference if the Bond actor can ski or not. And even if they did let the Bond actor ski, I can't see why Daniel Craig wouldn't just learn to ski. His workout prep for Bond must be a lot more challenging.