How would YOU do it?
Sweepy the Cat
Halifax, West Yorkshire, EnglaPosts: 986MI6 Agent
Let's imagine that Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson are not satisfied with Marc Foster's Quantum of Solace and decide to approach you to make the movie. You only have to use the same characters and the basic plot. You can change plot points, creat action scenes and decide how everything goes. How would YOU do it?
1. Film the freefall/DC-10 sequence with stuntment as opposed to Craig and Olga in CGI
2. New theme song (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3qPqloLgo)
3. Replace the new MI6 with the one from Casino Royale
4. Slow down the gun-barrel (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfRJkBdZM0&feature=related)
1. Film the freefall/DC-10 sequence with stuntment as opposed to Craig and Olga in CGI
2. New theme song (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3qPqloLgo)
3. Replace the new MI6 with the one from Casino Royale
4. Slow down the gun-barrel (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfRJkBdZM0&feature=related)
Comments
2) Let David Arnold write the title song.
3) Put the gunbarrel where it belongs.
4) Call Pierce Brosnan and ask if he's got some free time...
Then we would get another DAF
More casual viewers who sit back with a bucket of popcorn and expect to be entertained MUST switch ON their brains otherwise they will NOT be pleased.
All viewers are required to ENGAGE and are expected you to understand Casino Royale.
This may be tough, but the movie is SMART and REWARDING but very, very, different.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Er... Brosnan wasn't in that one, Sweeps.
He should have plenty after Mama Mia.
Hands on your hips boys!
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
2) Ditch freefall scene
3) Ratchet up the paranoia factor against Quantum, make them more of a creepy cult with more hints at where this is going. Give Bond an attitude towards the cult that echoes wise guy attitudes to all cults eg Scientology, giving it a current topical emphasis
4) Mathis girl is traitor 'We have people everywhere'
5) Bond has a breather. Touches base back home, some London shots. We see his pad. Hint at more characters to come in mi6 location, a Spooks-style gang. Posonby?
6) Vesper ghost pops up via messaging or something.
7) Recast Camille so more haunting and ethereal rather than grumpy and two-dimensional. Ditch all the stuff about how she meets Bond and confronts Greene.
Campbell gets lots of praise but I wouldn't reuse much of his Villiers stuff, he dropped the ball there.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
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It's also called sarcasm
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
What are you smoking!?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Oh - I'd drop Dench and put in a new M!
I'd have a gadget backfire nastily, explaining Bond's traditional disdain. Maybe killing an assailant in a more gruesome manner than envisaged.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Except for the last bit (I'm a DJD Defender, doubtless a definition for Loeff's dictionary!
In all seriousness, is that one a joke?
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I think Mr. White would be a good "henchmen" or lackey (much better than Elvis) who is the only face of Quantum we see. While Blofeld's identity was never revealed in the early films, he was always seen giving orders. With Quantum, White can be the "mouthpiece" for Quantum's leader. Maybe we can get clues to Quantum's leader - a name, a location - but never, ever see him.
Am I the only one who thought M got shot when the firefight broke out during White's interrogation? I almost jumped out of my seat and cheered
I thought she was shot also but I did not have the same reaction to it as you did.:))
I was certain she was shot...or she was clutching her chest as if having a heart attack. Either one would have been acceptable.
1) Get it through somebody's thick skull that Bond is not a superhero. He's a very gifted, resourceful agent who finds himself in very extraordinary, almost insurmountable experiences. These experiences cause him physical anguish, metal stress and emotional duress -and until somebody understands how to convey Flemings Bond in that exact way all the Bond movies I watch will be nothing more than mildly entertaining. Hats off to CR for coming the closest in a long time.
2) That said, the scene (SPOILER ALERT) where Bond and Camille are trapped by the flames should be entirely redone. Slow it down, get them a little more gradually to the point where they realize they're trapped, then slowly, deliberately have Bond begin to ready his weapon. My Bond refused to enter a mission with a prescribed cyanide pill, and my Bond would not rush into a thought of suicide -unless his personal sacrifice meant saving 1,000's of lives. A la Moonraker the novel.
3) Greene needed more screen time. I didn't hate him enough. His death scene should have been redone as well. I didn't find it particularly rewarding. I get that Bond had grown by the end of the movie...but show me that growth AND have Greene get a death he deserved.
4) All scenes with MI6 and the CIA need to be redone. Both organizations seemed to come off as having a serious lack of intelligence or common sense. Suddenly M who heads up my hero's secret service has gone daft and can't judge character? My Bond looked up to and admired his boss. In the early novels he was almost puppy dog loyal to his employer. Felix Lieter's immediate boss was unbelievably thick in the head as well and made the CIA look incredibly daft as well.
...there's a quick 4 but I could go on and on and on.
I didn't hate Quantum but it was just so frustrating for me to see a movie that could have been so great miss the mark as badly as it did.
(Boy did I need to get that off my chest)-{
I think number 4 is a great idea actually - it would be an interesting twist and might've kept Mathis alive for future films
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If any of the UK filmgoers know what I mean by this, 6) reminded me of the sort of suggestion in those Orange 'turn off your phone' spots before the film :
"That's amazing - Vesper could video call Bond from beyond the grave on the new Sony Ericsson K890i, telling him who was blackmailing her and then using the built in GPS to give him directions. Genius!"
This is a link to the latest one featuring Angelica Houston if anyone who hasn't seen them wants a look http://www.orange.co.uk/film/25141.htm?linkfrom=hp4&link=column2_pos_3_link_photo&article=081101x1000x8brandanjelicahuston
Personally I would ditch the dogfight and I think it would've been slightly more convincing if they'd landed the plane (or just driven to the location) and ended up in the middle of the operations of building the latest dam and had some sort of standoff with more Quantum members etc - putting a few more faces in the picture for the ongoing story.
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Cheers lava'! Actually have Ms Huston as a Bond villain Irma Bunt type cos she is creepy in that clip!
Have Bond hire the DC-10, someone else flying it, then they drop out. He uses an inflatable dinghy as a parachute, but they end up on a frozen mountain slope - oh, hang on.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Stop the fast cuts on the action shots.
Greene is picked up by Quantum in the desert and knocked out. He awakens in a blurry way (shades of Bond coming to in CR) and we see it from his pov that he seems to be in a hospital with sexy nurses. He is paralysed from the neck down and can't speak but can only communicate by blinking. But Quantum have put him in their own torture venue (shades of Hostel) and intend to punish him. At first the girls taunt him by showing off their curvy naked figures, slowly stripping. Then it turns nasty - they smoke in front of his naked eye, blowing smoke across his retina. He has hallucingenic flashbacks to the head of Quantum, who now appears to be his father, played by Max Von Sydow. It climaxes with TV footage of vile sadistic torture intercut with shots of his loved ones, his sole eye gurning in its socket, forced open in the manner of A Clockwork Orange.
Babs had a fit when she saw it, apparently.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
After reading the book "Legacy of ashes" I fear the portrayal of CIA (and possibly MI6) is correct
It's scary how great minds think alike!
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