NB. I'm not that good at "explaining stuff". So please be gentle on me...
NB2. Please move if it's too spoilerish.
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A Quantum of Solace
Directed by: Martin Campbell or Matthew Vaughn
Starring
Daniel Craig ::: James Bond
Yael Bar-Zohar ::: Yakira Simcha
Tal Friedman ::: Amichai Rossetti
Jan Decleir ::: Kyrian Zographos
Judi Dench ::: M
Giancarlo Giannini ::: Rene Mathis
Sienna Miller ::: Loelia Ponsonby
etc.
PTS
- 2 weeks after the happenings in "Casino Royale" Bond is on a personal quest to find out who's behind the death of Vesper. This brings him to Uganda where he tries to infiltrate the LRA main HQ, acting as a reporter of the BBC who wants to interview the leader of this organisation. Once in, Bond and his two guides/allies (playing cameramen) blow their cover. Both guides are shot and Bond now tries to escape through the jungle of Uganda; being chased by land rovers, a helicopter and a heap of armed men (including armed children/as seen in CR). Ultimately, Bond faces off the leader of the RLA at the edge of an enormously high cliff over a big lake. The moment Bond, yet again, asks who's the big man behind all this, the RLA leader takes a cyanide pill. Bond throws him off the cliff, looks behind him where the small RLA army is coming right at him and he decides to jump. While we follow Bond's jump into the lake the PTS dissolves into the title sequence.
- The movie opens in Odense, Denmark (a nice little throwback to the Danish influence in CR) where a man sits at a terrace having some coffee and reading a newspaper. He sees another man entering a building, stands up, puts some money on the table and follows the other man into the building. The scene ends with a zoom out shot and the sound of a gunfight.
- M walks around in a cemetary in London where she finds Bond at Vesper's grave. Short dialogue where M tells Bond she pulls him of the Royale-case because of the intimacy with Vesper and what happened in Uganda. She does tell him she has another case for him.
- Rest of the movie in a nutshell:
Bond is sent to protect a man called Amichai Rossetti, an Italian with Palistinian/Jewish roots and former winner of the Nobel Prize of Peace (because of his efforts to unite the Palestinian and Jewish community) and who is now a target of attempts to murder him. CIA didn't want to get involved with the Israel-crisis, the Russians can eat the Israelis alive and Mossad rather sees Rossetti behind bars because of his involvement in the Israel-crisis, thus MI6 are the only ones to accept his cry for help. An extra incentive for Bond to be send is the fact that in harbours near the places Rossetti gives his speeches at conferences ships have been found filled with weaponery. Bond shall follow Rossetti in the numerous countries he visits untill both arrive in France and Bond gets kidnapped by a group called RISICO and it's leader Kyrian Zographos, the same group behind the death of Vesper. Their demand: kill Amichai Rossetti (they were in awe of his performances in Montenegro and Venice), as he is a danger for them and for society.
Travelouge for AQOS
Uganda/Australia/Denmark/Belgium/Austria/France/Israel (or Libanon)
Good to know
- The fate of Mr. White? Bond will clearly mention in the PTS - when asked by the new LRA-leader what happened to Le Chiffre And White - that he has killed him. Im not a big fan of the idea to start Bond 22 with the whole "Mr. White's villa"-sequence.
- Will this shake up the formula even more? YES. What about not even having a Bondgirl? (Yakira Simcha will be a Mossad-agent trying to figure out the link between Rossetti and the ships. She will interfere with Bond on numerous times - even at the end - but no chemistry will occur) I believe that after a film as CR it would be blasphemy to have a Bondgirl.
- Link with the short story? In Austria there will be a charity ball. It is here that Rossetti tells Bond the story from the short story (slightly edited to coincide with the death of Vesper and the effect it will have on Bond)
- In the same style as CR? Yep.
- Plot twist ala CR? Absolutely! The movie will establish the friendship between Bond and Rossetti. The moviegoer will be presented with the plot of a massive weapons smuggle by RISICO only to finally reveal that Rossetti is the big villain of the story.
- RISICO? An obscure terroris group who mostly funds smaller terrorist groups all over the world. This to prepare a massive revolution against the leading powers in the world.
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Hope you like this. Comments are welcome as this was originally the plot for a future fanfiction of mine (with slight edits to make this a proper CR-sequel)
Edited by Tajike, 23 November 2006 - 03:32 PM.
