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#181 Fawn

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Posted 26 May 2003 - 07:19 PM

Nothing to Everything


Sounds like a line from Cave Dwellers. "It is everything...and nothing. Goodness....and evil."

Hey, there's an idea! Miles O'Keeffe as the next Bond!

Or not...

How about some titles taken from other spy stories? Yeah, I'm thinkin' Le Carre.... "A Perfect Spy".... "Sandman" (in Smiley's People they called Karla, the bad guy, by that name, because people who got too close to him tended to "fall asleep")..... "Our Game" .....

I've always been partial to a particular Smiley's People quote, "The Dutch set him a honey trap, my dear, and he barged in with his eyes wide shut." Unfortunately, Kubrick already stole the title from that one. :)

#182 JBond007

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Posted 30 May 2003 - 02:37 AM

Forever Isn't Long Enough


I like this title too.

Hey, suppose you heard the next Bond game or title was called 'Forever Isn't Long Enough', would you be flattered or demand payment? ahah.

#183 ohmss007

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Posted 30 May 2003 - 03:46 AM

WHISPERS OF HATE or A WHISPER OF HATE -
Both are related to the very 1st edition cover of CASINO ROYALE.

#184 leinad

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Posted 01 June 2003 - 07:17 AM

These are the current titles of my fan fiction pieces over at MI6. They could be used as film titles:

The Beginning Of The End
Live for today, die for tommorow
Dawnbreaker
Bullets Speak Louder Than Words
Natural Instinct
Living Is Dying

My first post!!:)

#185 ChandlerBing

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Posted 03 June 2003 - 12:45 PM

Thunderfinger
Stickyfingers (Winona Ryder as the Bond Girl)
Ladyfinger
Butterfinger
Sore Thumb

#186 Jamie007

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Posted 07 June 2003 - 01:18 AM

Double Or Nothing

#187 fladragon321

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Posted 07 June 2003 - 04:04 AM

Bullets Aren't Cheap :)
Just kidding, trying to come up with name for Bond 21 is almost as hard for me as coming up with a name for Bond 31. I think the Star Wars fans have it eaiser guessing the name of Episode 3. Just as long as it's NOT something cheesy like:
Another Day Another Bullet,
License Revoked Again, or
James Bond's South American Vacation :)
I'll be happy. Just my 7% Florida sales tax

#188 FireKiss

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Posted 12 June 2003 - 11:29 PM

quantum of solace

#189 Tarl_Cabot

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Posted 13 June 2003 - 10:39 PM

"Here's one of my own:
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR"

That's a title of a Fred Dryer(Hunter TV show, LA RAMS) marine action flick-LOL

#190 RogerClemente

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Posted 17 June 2003 - 05:36 AM

Personal favorites that I've heard before:
PRESSURE POINT
AQUATAR (as apposed to Aquarius)
SHATTERHAND

My own contribution:
HOURGLASS

--Roger "Time?" Clemente.

#191 00Twelve

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Posted 17 June 2003 - 06:42 AM

OK, this is what the title needs. It needs to sound like something Fleming would have wanted, needs to sound good as a song title, needs to be relevant to the story or the characters (and not just some throwaway quip, if at all possible), and there are certain words in a lot of post-Fleming literary titles and Bond fiction titles that are getting REALLY redundant and unoriginal, such as die, death, kill, never, forever, live(s), and so on. They only sound dull to me if they are used as frequently as they are, and something I loved about Fleming is the spontaneous, patternless titles he came up with. He would never be repetitve in the themes of his stories and titles, but they all still held and hold intrigue. I really liked the use of the title "Die Another Day", and thought it was very Flemingesque, but it's unfortunate that it had to be so soon after "Tomorrow Never DIES" (which was originally going to be called Tomorrow Never Lies-much more relative). There are a lot of Fleming's title ideas that have never been used for films, for example. I like several of them.

Shatterhand (sounds great... make it about Dr. Shatterhand)
Risico (at least let Bond go to Italy)
The Undertaker's Wind (a little dated, but back to Jamaica, which brings us to..)
Shamelady (an old favorite, Involving Bond's Jamaican home)
A Whisper of Love, A Whisper of Hate/Casino Royale (I would die for CR)
My Enemy's Enemy (I do like this one, at least the sound of it)
All To Play For (Actually a GF chapter, could adapt for a "Most Dangerous Game" situation, which would be a headhunt for Bond)
The Eye That Never Sleeps (DAF chapter, but sounds great, and I know, it uses "never", sorry)
You Won't Have a Lover (Fleming loved his pronouns-YOLT,TSWLM,FYEO)
Danger Grows Wild (about opium smuggling-alludes to poppies)
Quantum of Solace (title only)

I also have begun to think of a few, but they may be no better.

Until The Dawn
Lie In Waiting
By Any Other Name

and that's just the beginning. But, I have been triying to avoid the cliche "Bond title words" and anything alluding to the cold, since it's time for Bond to leave the snow for one movie. Anyway, tell me what you think.

#192 rubixcub

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Posted 18 June 2003 - 02:08 AM

Some good points there, 00Twelve.

I don't know if you'd want to add these to your second list, but I like one that someone suggested a while back- The Sun Never Sets, and I came up with one I thought was pretty good, The Funeral Chase (at least it alludes to death without using the words die, death, kill etc.)

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#193 antonio damas

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Posted 18 June 2003 - 06:45 AM

"One at aTime"...sounds corny.

#194 JmsBond007

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Posted 18 June 2003 - 08:00 PM

From Everything to Nothing

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Posted 19 June 2003 - 04:15 PM

When I started reading this topic today, I came up with the same name as Mister Asterik. Seeing that the NSA is going to be involved in Bond 21. There should be a scene in a casino either in Atlantic City or on one of the Steamboats on the Mississippi River. Maybe 'Blackjack's private Steamboat. But Blackjack could be the character 'Brokenclaw' renamed. Bond would be abandoned or escape on top of the St. Louis Arch. Or he could be the owner of the cruise ship from Seafire. Precredits Bond saves luxury liner etc. Or he could be a modern day Pirate ala Benchley's Island.

Blackjack
Looking for Blackjack
Blackjack Luck
Hit Me with Blackjack
American Blackjack

#196 shaolinfist

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Posted 22 June 2003 - 04:40 PM

I Got this from a chapter in Goldfinger...
'All To Play For'
That sounds like a Bond movie to me. Or a variation on it could be...
'All To Live For'
I think either of these titles would be perfect for Bond

#197 ChandlerBing

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Posted 25 June 2003 - 12:33 PM

Killing Ground
Ten Pints of Blood

#198 antonio damas

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Posted 27 June 2003 - 02:17 AM

One at a Time.

#199 ChandlerBing

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 03:17 PM

Pull My Finger, 007...the Bond movie where Q gets revenge on Bond for destroying all of his prior gadgets. In this movie Bond is issued a crappy, blue 1976 Chevy Nova for his adventures.

#200 TGO

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 03:38 PM

Here's one I've been saving...

Heaven Lies Between The Eyes.

Its a little long though, but it rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

#201 ChandlerBing

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 03:44 PM

Why not Heaven Is One Step Away?

#202 Tarl_Cabot

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 03:50 PM

'Champaign wishes and caviler dreams' :)

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 03:52 PM

oops I meant Caviar but Cavilier would be cool too. :)

#204 TGO

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 03:56 PM

I prefer my title, Chandler. No offence.

#205 ChandlerBing

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Posted 28 June 2003 - 03:59 PM

None taken. I just saw the one I wrote as a song title on the soundtrack to Back to the Future, if you can believe that.

#206 David Somerset

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Posted 29 June 2003 - 10:06 AM

1. When Hell is Full
2. Nobodies Are Forever
3. Zorin Could Swim After All

#207 00Twelve

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Posted 30 June 2003 - 03:39 AM

In my post a while back, I began to list a few titles that try to get away from the cliche-sounding words and titles that I have heard forever (like that word right there.) But, oh well, I like some of these anyway.

To A Woman In Rome
The Ride Of Your Life
Afterburn
Shades of Violet
From Red to Black
Tears Burn The Skin

#208 ChandlerBing

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Posted 01 July 2003 - 04:47 PM

The Incredibly Deflating Mr. Big.
Sex For Dinner
Midnight Snack
Deathcap
Robo-Bond
Our Apologies For Timothy Dalton
Our Man Lazenby
Moore or Less
Death Screams
Coitus Interruptus

#209 Le G

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Posted 01 July 2003 - 10:27 PM

I think that they should go with a Fleming tittle and story.

"Casino Royale"

But it has to be modified but the main story should be the same.

I also like

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Posted 02 July 2003 - 03:36 AM

You know, some time ago I myself hit upon the idea of Anthony Hopkins as Le Chiffre. Great minds think alike. I think that might be a good way to get him to do it, giving him the prestige of playing the original Bond villain.

Dave