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[shady ginzo]

in the Book bond recals the 2 assassinations which earned him his status as a "double o" and one of these i seem to remember he felt quite strongly about. confussed about the morality of the "cowboys and indiands" ethics of the spy world. I think it would be a nice first scene to show craig... BOND... perform this assassination and then maybe the immediate aftermath (kindda like the goldfinger intro)
imagine, an opening sequence in which bond stalks his target (possibly too close to Goldeneye?) and without a word striks when he is vulnerable leaving him for dead. dark? gritty? morally ambiguous? YES! these are all thingsessential in the book! and they should be equally important in the movie if what EON have said about this re-incarnation of bond is to be believed
this would also lend itself to the "closure" at the dramatic end of the book, where bond's ethics are finally carved in stone.

[Barman]

Hello one and all. Just joined the forum, though been a huge Bond fan for yonks and yonks.
Seems strange that no one else has mentioned it, but I think the perfect way to introduce Mr Craig as Bond is for him to walk from the right to left of the screen, framed in a gunbarrel and fire his gun at the camera before a red wash runs down from the top. It's worked for all the other guys!

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Hello one and all. Just joined the forum, though been a huge Bond fan for yonks and yonks.
Seems strange that no one else has mentioned it, but I think the perfect way to introduce Mr Craig as Bond is for him to walk from the right to left of the screen, framed in a gunbarrel and fire his gun at the camera before a red wash runs down from the top. It's worked for all the other guys!

Well yes we're all hoping for that...but a gun barrel alone isn't going to convince the audience he is Bond. He needs a really solid opening sequence to establish himself. That said, if there is no gun barrel...I will throw things at the screen.

A very warm welcome Barman. I'd like Rum Collins please.

[Harmsway]

Hello one and all. Just joined the forum, though been a huge Bond fan for yonks and yonks.
Seems strange that no one else has mentioned it, but I think the perfect way to introduce Mr Craig as Bond is for him to walk from the right to left of the screen, framed in a gunbarrel and fire his gun at the camera before a red wash runs down from the top. It's worked for all the other guys!

Well yes we're all hoping for that...but a gun barrel alone isn't going to convince the audience he is Bond. He needs a really solid opening sequence to establish himself. That said, if there is no gun barrel...I will throw things at the screen.

A very warm welcome Barman. I'd like Rum Collins please.

The Gunbarrel is there. Campbell said Casino Royale would have all the things that make a Bond film a Bond film (except, I guess, gadgets, Q, and Moneypenny).

[Eye Of The Tiger]

Hello one and all. Just joined the forum, though been a huge Bond fan for yonks and yonks.
Seems strange that no one else has mentioned it, but I think the perfect way to introduce Mr Craig as Bond is for him to walk from the right to left of the screen, framed in a gunbarrel and fire his gun at the camera before a red wash runs down from the top. It's worked for all the other guys!

Well yes we're all hoping for that...but a gun barrel alone isn't going to convince the audience he is Bond. He needs a really solid opening sequence to establish himself. That said, if there is no gun barrel...I will throw things at the screen.

A very warm welcome Barman. I'd like Rum Collins please.

The Gunbarrel is there. Campbell said Casino Royale would have all the things that make a Bond film a Bond film (except, I guess, gadgets, Q, and Moneypenny).

In other words the film will be missing several of the key ingrediants that make-up a Bond film, like Q, Moneypenny and gadgets.
And we will just be left with another plain ordinary average Bourne-style Film that lacks what most people love about the Bond films.

[Eye Of The Tiger]

Some films like Friday The 13th and Friday The 13th part 2 do not show the killer until the very end of the film. That's what EON should do with Daniel Craig as James Bond, only in this case never show Bond at all! We can just hear Craig and see the co-stars of the film. That way no-one will feel sick to their stomach during the film.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Hello one and all. Just joined the forum, though been a huge Bond fan for yonks and yonks.
Seems strange that no one else has mentioned it, but I think the perfect way to introduce Mr Craig as Bond is for him to walk from the right to left of the screen, framed in a gunbarrel and fire his gun at the camera before a red wash runs down from the top. It's worked for all the other guys!

Well yes we're all hoping for that...but a gun barrel alone isn't going to convince the audience he is Bond. He needs a really solid opening sequence to establish himself. That said, if there is no gun barrel...I will throw things at the screen.

A very warm welcome Barman. I'd like Rum Collins please.

The Gunbarrel is there. Campbell said Casino Royale would have all the things that make a Bond film a Bond film (except, I guess, gadgets, Q, and Moneypenny).

In other words the film will be missing several of the key ingrediants that make-up a Bond film, like Q, Moneypenny and gadgets.
And we will just be left with another plain ordinary average Bourne-style Film that lacks what most people love about the Bond films.

Doctor No didn't really have any gadgets, and Q was just some Boothroyd guy to most people. That is one of the best movies so I don't see why CR can't be.

[Harmsway]

Hello one and all. Just joined the forum, though been a huge Bond fan for yonks and yonks.
Seems strange that no one else has mentioned it, but I think the perfect way to introduce Mr Craig as Bond is for him to walk from the right to left of the screen, framed in a gunbarrel and fire his gun at the camera before a red wash runs down from the top. It's worked for all the other guys!

Well yes we're all hoping for that...but a gun barrel alone isn't going to convince the audience he is Bond. He needs a really solid opening sequence to establish himself. That said, if there is no gun barrel...I will throw things at the screen.

A very warm welcome Barman. I'd like Rum Collins please.

The Gunbarrel is there. Campbell said Casino Royale would have all the things that make a Bond film a Bond film (except, I guess, gadgets, Q, and Moneypenny).

In other words the film will be missing several of the key ingrediants that make-up a Bond film, like Q, Moneypenny and gadgets.
And we will just be left with another plain ordinary average Bourne-style Film that lacks what most people love about the Bond films.

Doctor No didn't really have any gadgets, and Q was just some Boothroyd guy to most people. That is one of the best movies so I don't see why CR can't be.

Agreed. And Moneypenny is hardly an essential element, IMO, and her moments have been forgettable or ridiculous ever since Lois Maxwell left.

I can't forget to mention that OHMSS pretty much had no gadgets, aside from the safe-cracker which I think doesn't really count, and that movie is also among the finest in the series.

IMO, the Q role has become increasingly played out in recent years. I really want them to scale back his role to the way he was in the Connery films - a short bit, but never really in it for any more than one scene. I'm not going to miss him for one film.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

Right, Q shows up in OHMSS but doesn't really have a role.

I would like to see Moneypenny myself, but I am not too worried about it.

If we get another OHMSS in CR...well, Babs finally got it right.

[Arrant]

Sad to say, Craig has already had his first scene as Bond.

A badly managed press conference in which he turned up looking like what he is, another average man, actor who happens too look good in tough guy roles.

What WAS Eon thinking?

C'mon actors don't sign on at 13 for drama and tap as a stepping stone to the marines...so why set up that stupid stunt.

Then they cap it all by leaving the poor man totally un-briefed so that he couldn't answer a single question.

As part of my former career I was trained in body language, but you didn't need to be to notice the number of times poor Craig looked at the Producers and Director, each time a question about the movie came up.

He hadn

[theseeker]

i've read a couple of the posts here, and 've come up with 2 ideas to put to you guys.

What about a simple scene with a guy

What if daniel craig is shown as a normal agent eg (prior to him being 007) cooly assasinating a previous 00 agent with a silencer(who had been caught playing both sides) on Mi6 orders, and then the camera shows him from the back only walking calmly out of the hotel or wherever unto the crowded streets of central london.He comes across a woman trying unsuccesfully to light her cigarette, he then brings his lighter out (cue the 007 theme) and then the grateful lady asks his name as he gets into a taxi..... Bond, James Bond (cue opening song by rolling stones lol must have an old school london 60's feel for nowadays