How real should Bond get?
#1
Posted 06 December 2006 - 08:09 AM
Casino Royale seemed to be pretty real at times, yet, most of us acknowledge it was still within that stylized reality that Fleming's Bond inhabits, and I think that's fairly accurate as well. So, what would a totally real Bond entail? Because I'm thinking it'd be more like a Michael Mann film, or close to it...however, I must say that that prospect doesnt seem that bad.
#2
Posted 06 December 2006 - 09:04 AM
#3
Posted 06 December 2006 - 08:11 PM
I don't think that there is a risk of James Bond turning into a copy of Harry Palmer.
#4
Posted 06 December 2006 - 08:18 PM
I think LTK marks the extreme in the realism range. It went so far as to become common. Drug crime. Ugly violence. The world of low budget action. There was noting Bondian or special about the world of LTK, IMO, and I don't want to go back there...ever.
#5
Posted 06 December 2006 - 08:27 PM
Was DAD really more extreme that Moonraker or YOLT?
I think LTK marks the extreme in the realism range. It went so far as to become common. Drug crime. Ugly violence. The world of low budget action. There was noting Bondian or special about the world of LTK, IMO, and I don't want to go back there...ever.
I couldn't have said it better. LTK never really struck me as a Bond film at all except that the main character was named James Bond, and in coincidentally had some of the same characters as the real Bond movies. I would have to agree with Zencat.
The problem with DAD's scf-fi nonsense is something that happens every few years in the Bond franchise unfortunately. Let's just pray that all of the future Bond films, stay more in the middle of the spectrum.
#6
Posted 06 December 2006 - 09:00 PM
Was DAD really more extreme that Moonraker or YOLT?
I think LTK marks the extreme in the realism range. It went so far as to become common. Drug crime. Ugly violence. The world of low budget action. There was noting Bondian or special about the world of LTK, IMO, and I don't want to go back there...ever.
I couldn't have said it better. LTK never really struck me as a Bond film at all except that the main character was named James Bond, and in coincidentally had some of the same characters as the real Bond movies. I would have to agree with Zencat.
The problem with DAD's scf-fi nonsense is something that happens every few years in the Bond franchise unfortunately. Let's just pray that all of the future Bond films, stay more in the middle of the spectrum.
They might stay there...but really it's all cyclical and I imagine it will continue to be so. Sure they learned some lessons from OHMSS, from LTK, from DAD...but it's still going to bounce around.
#7
Posted 06 December 2006 - 09:11 PM
I think some of us seek these entertaining stories to partially escape the sometimes-grim realities of the world. So if I want to see something as real as what's actually happening, I wouldn't need a movie to show that to me.
#8
Posted 10 December 2006 - 04:56 AM
#9
Posted 10 December 2006 - 04:42 PM