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[00Twelve]

I quite like SHAMELADY. I think it works because of the juxtaposition - you've got a "lady", who is usually dignified and respectable; and you've got "shame", which suggests guilt and falsehood. But right now, the best I can think of is putting "malice" and "caress" together ... but neither MALICECARESS nor CARESSMALICE sound good, much less Bondian.

It's also four syllables. Too much to say. Many of the best one-word titles have a three-syllable thing going on. And not just Bond titles, either. Examples: FRANKENSTEIN. NOSTROMO. RASHOMON. LOLITA. DRACULA.

THUNDERBALL. MOONRAKER. RISICO. GOLDENEYE. Good point.

I'll give you SHATTERHAND, I'd have loved that one. SHAMELADY feels like a reach, but then who'd have thought MOONRAKER could have worked so well?

If we can get away with OCTOPUSSY, we can get away with SHAMELADY. At least it's sufficiently weird.

But OCTOPUSSY's got FOUR syllables!!

I just can't think of anything it could mean (unbridled genius that I am). Can't imagine that as anything but the name of a house/estate. Hard sell as a weapon moniker, p poor villain name, etc. But it wouldn't be confused with a Seagal-esque title, that's for sure.

[Harmsway]

But OCTOPUSSY's got FOUR syllables!!

Well, there's an exception to every rule. But for the most part, I do think the three-syllable rule holds.

I just can't think of anything it could mean (unbridled genius that I am). Can't imagine that as anything but the name of a house/estate. Hard sell as a weapon moniker, p poor villain name, etc. But it wouldn't be confused with a Seagal-esque title, that's for sure.

Things to which SHAMELADY could refer to a codename for an agent/assassin/operation/artifact of some kind. Lots of room to play around with that. I.e., "Shamelady" is an important sleeper agent who's vanished, and Bond has to attempt to find out what happened to her?

[coco1997]

A couple good fan-made one-word titles I've come across through the years:

SILVERKNIGHT
COLDFATHER
SMOKEHEART
KALEIDOSCOPE
MINDWEAVER
NIGHTSHADE
BLACKHAMMER

[00Twelve]

But OCTOPUSSY's got FOUR syllables!!

Well, there's an exception to every rule. But for the most part, I do think the three-syllable rule holds.

Oh, yeah, we shameladyfully forgot VERTIGO. Champion of the three-syllable rule.

I just can't think of anything it could mean (unbridled genius that I am). Can't imagine that as anything but the name of a house/estate. Hard sell as a weapon moniker, p poor villain name, etc. But it wouldn't be confused with a Seagal-esque title, that's for sure.

Things to which SHAMELADY could refer to a codename for an agent/assassin/operation/artifact of some kind. Lots of room to play around with that. I.e., "Shamelady" is an important sleeper agent who's vanished, and Bond has to attempt to find out what happened to her?

Get that screenplay started, dude.

[Lindén007]

How about: The Stockholm syndrome ?

[coco1997]

How about: The Stockholm syndrome ?

AKA "The World Is Not Enough".

[Righty007]

A couple good fan-made one-word titles I've come across through the years:

SILVERKNIGHT
COLDFATHER
SMOKEHEART
KALEIDOSCOPE
MINDWEAVER
NIGHTSHADE
BLACKHAMMER

"COLDFATHER" is your idea of a "good" Bond title?

Sorry but this is the epitome of a -1 post. I'd expect this coming from iBond, not coco1997.

Poof.

EDIT: Before this post gets raped with -1s, please consider the possibility that coco and I could be very good friends in "real life" and that this post could simply be a playful jab that isn't meant to be taken seriously.

Edited by Righty007, 09 November 2011 - 06:24 AM.

[coco1997]

A couple good fan-made one-word titles I've come across through the years:

SILVERKNIGHT
COLDFATHER
SMOKEHEART
KALEIDOSCOPE
MINDWEAVER
NIGHTSHADE
BLACKHAMMER

"COLDFATHER" is your idea of a "good" Bond title?

Sorry but this is the epitome of a -1 post. I'd expect this coming from iBond, not coco1997.

Poof.

You appear to have a strange obsession with iBond lately.

Another potential title:

TROLLPOSTER

[Righty007]

A couple good fan-made one-word titles I've come across through the years:

SILVERKNIGHT
COLDFATHER
SMOKEHEART
KALEIDOSCOPE
MINDWEAVER
NIGHTSHADE
BLACKHAMMER

"COLDFATHER" is your idea of a "good" Bond title?

Sorry but this is the epitome of a -1 post. I'd expect this coming from iBond, not coco1997.

Poof.

You appear to have a strange obsession with iBond lately.

Another potential title:

TROLLPOSTER

Very good. I also like DOUCHEBAG starring Jacques Stewart as James Bond 007.

[Jim]

A couple good fan-made one-word titles I've come across through the years:

SILVERKNIGHT
COLDFATHER
SMOKEHEART
KALEIDOSCOPE
MINDWEAVER
NIGHTSHADE
BLACKHAMMER

"COLDFATHER" is your idea of a "good" Bond title?

Sorry but this is the epitome of a -1 post. I'd expect this coming from iBond, not coco1997.

Poof.

You appear to have a strange obsession with iBond lately.

Another potential title:

TROLLPOSTER

Very good. I also like DOUCHEBAG starring Jacques Stewart as James Bond 007.

Thank you for thinking of me; most kind.

Does look a bit like I did about twenty years ago. How very odd.

[WC]

A couple good fan-made one-word titles I've come across through the years:

SILVERKNIGHT
COLDFATHER
SMOKEHEART
KALEIDOSCOPE
MINDWEAVER
NIGHTSHADE
BLACKHAMMER

KALEIDOSCOPE is already the name of a 60s film with Warren Beaty, and is apparently a loose adaptation of Casino Royale but without the James Bond character.

[Shrublands]

What should the title of Bond 24 be? Fleming, Non Fleming?

I’m glad to see that this important debate has already started.

This was recently discovered down the back of the sofa at Goldeneye.

SHOPPING LIST

Eggs - 2 dozen

Cream – 2 large pots

Butter – lots

Gin – one crate (better make that two, Noel is coming round later)

Angostura Bitters (don’t worry if you can’t find this one, I’ve got most of a bottle left in the sideboard since last Christmas)

It would be an insult it Fleming’s memory if the title of this valuable document was not used as the title of the 200 million dollar Bond 24.

Why don’t they just put “James Bond will return in SHOPPING LIST” at the end of Skyfall?

Thank you.

[Jim]

What should the title of Bond 24 be? Fleming, Non Fleming?

I’m glad to see that this important debate has already started.

This was recently discovered down the back of the sofa at Goldeneye.

SHOPPING LIST

Eggs - 2 dozen

Cream – 2 large pots

Butter – lots

Gin – one crate (better make that two, Noel is coming round later)

Angostura Bitters (don’t worry if you can’t find this one, I’ve got most of a bottle left in the sideboard since last Christmas)

It would be an insult it Fleming’s memory if the title of this valuable document was not used as the title of the 200 million dollar Bond 24.

Why don’t they just put “James Bond will return in SHOPPING LIST” at the end of Skyfall?

Thank you.

Yes, everything that Ian Fleming wrote was a ) great and b ) must be used. Bond 24: The Sweet Tang of Rape.

[Shrublands]

Yes, everything that Ian Fleming wrote was a ) great and b ) must be used. Bond 24: The Sweet Tang of Rape.

Quite.

It will be nice to see Wilson describing it as, "the best kept secret in London", as the words The Sweet Tang of Rape fade-up from black on a giant screen behind him.



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[Thunderfinger]

THE HILDEBRAND RARITY

[RedshirtWilly]

James Bond: 007

[The Shark]

SHATTERHAND, SHATTERHAND, or SHATTERHAND.

If it turns out to be rubbish, we can then name it TERHAND.

[DominicGreene]

I once came up with a Bond title in one of my dreams, it was called

Queen of the Moon

What do you think?

[Captain Tightpants]

I'm afraid I don't like it. It doesn't sound remotely like a Bond title. The first thing I thought of when I read it was THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH, and that's not a comparsion that will end well for anyone.

[lechero]

CHRYSALIS OF DEATH

[JB007YH]

I think the producers should evaluate chapter titles from the Fleming books as future film titles. He had some good ones

[00Twelve]

Though there are still quite a few great story elements from the Fleming canon that bear mining, at this point the title should only come from within the context of the story. Otherwise, you get titles that they have to work really hard to awkwardly shoehorn into the script ("What a view..."). While Skyfall has that air of "Starring Steven Seagal, coming directly to a Wal-mart near you," I'm pretty confident that by the time the movie's over, it'll retrospectively get a lot of love and respect. Hey, it can't be as nonsensical as Tomorrow Never Dies, anyway.

[DamnCoffee]

What about 'SHY SMILE'?

The name of the horse in Diamonds Are Forever. Sounds cool.

[Tybre]

I have to say I do still quite like Shatterhand.

The more you say it the better it sounds. Except I imagine it reaches a certain point where it just veers back into the ridiculous, like if you were to say fun dozens of times.

[lechero]

I don't know about Shatterhand. All I think about when I hear the title is Karl May and The Old West. Not something I want to associate with a Bond movie.

[Pussfeller]

There may possibly be copyright issues, but the vast majority of audiences would not instinctively associate "Shatterhand" with a Eurowestern, or with anything else. Karl May never found an audience beyond central Europe. He's one of those peculiar authors whose fame spread only eastward.

[DaveBond21]

I am a big fan of these titles:-

SHATTERHAND

DEVIL MAY CARE

CARTE BLANCHE



I almost wish they'd been used as Bond film titles before now.



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[Trouble07]

Hi, I'm new here. I've listened to couple of very Bondish songs over the couple of years and I think they should use them for some of the next movies. I know they don't pick preexisting songs (yet) but here is my selection:

Bond 24 (presumably Craig's penultimate outing) should be called IF I LIVED FOREVER, using the song Pilots by Goldfrapp (mentioned in the song thread).

Bond 25 (Craigs final installment) could be NO GOOD ABOUT GOODBYE, using the song of the same name by Shirley Bassey (perfectly fitting with the 25th anniversary)...

Bond 26 could see the first black James Bond (presumably Idris Elba). It could be called THE MAN IN THE MIRROR and use Please by Cee Lo Green.

Bond 27 (Elba's second film) should be called THE FALLACIES OF MORNING ROSE and use Sour Times by Portishead.

Bond 28 (the last one of the Elba trilogy) might be STAR IN THE NIGHT SKY, using There's a Star by Ash.

Bond 29 (featuring a new, younger actor or possibly a JANE Bond) might be CRY ME A RIVER, using the song of the same title by Michael Bublé

Bond 30 could be DEAD END EYES, using Four Letter Word by Beady Eye as the theme song

I know, it's a bit far-fetched to use all these existing songs. But honestly all of the songs I've mentioned here are way better and more Bondian than those real songs for Die Another Day" or "Quantum of Solace"...

Alternatively they could finally start to use TWO songs each movie (as they did in 1969s OHMSS), a fresh song at the beginning and an existing one at the end, as I think all of these songs mentioned above deserve to be part of a future Bond film...

Edited by Trouble07, 29 November 2011 - 09:14 PM.

[WC]

Hi, I'm new here. I've listened to couple of very Bondish songs over the couple of years and I think they should use them for some of the next movies. I know they don't pick preexisting songs (yet) but here is my selection:

Bond 24 (presumably Craig's penultimate outing) should be called IF I LIVED FOREVER, using the song Pilots by Goldfrapp (mentioned in the song thread).

Bond 25 (Craigs final installment) could be NO GOOD ABOUT GOODBYE, using the song of the same name by Shirley Bassey (perfectly fitting with the 25th anniversary)...

Bond 26 could see the first black James Bond (presumably Idris Elba). It could be called THE MAN IN THE MIRROR and use Please by Cee Lo Green.

Bond 27 (Elba's second film) should be called THE FALLACIES OF MORNING ROSE and use Sour Times by Portishead.

Bond 28 (the last one of the Elba trilogy) might be STAR IN THE NIGHT SKY, using There's a Star by Ash.

Bond 29 (featuring a new, younger actor or possibly a JANE Bond) might be CRY ME A RIVER, using the song of the same title by Michael Bublé

Bond 30 could be DEAD END EYES, using Four Letter Word by Beady Eye as the theme song

I know, it's a bit far-fetched to use all these existing songs. But honestly all of the songs I've mentioned here are way better and more Bondian than those real songs for Die Another Day" or "Quantum of Solace"...

Alternatively they could finally start to use TWO songs each movie (as they did in 1969s OHMSS), a fresh song at the beginning and an existing one at the end, as I think all of these songs mentioned above deserve to be part of a future Bond film...

Sorry, but EON will never use existing songs for their Bond titles or the theme tunes. They always have original songs, and as for titles, they are more likely to be a play on words of an existing phrase than the actual phrase itself.

The songs you've listed will not conjure up anything Bondian if they use those as film titles. While Cry Me A River (the song) has certainly a Bondian sound, not only is it too well known but the actual name is more likely to be the title of a rom com flick or drama. As for Man in the Mirror, well I think more people are going to think of that Michael Jackson song. If I Lived Forever sounds like a parody of Bond titles, so that's out too.

[BourneAgainBond]

how about

FOR QUEEN & COUNTRY

they still have 3 unused ones left (property of the lady, hildebrand rarity, and risco) and then they could start using chapter titles from the books for bond film titles, if they please

Edited by BourneAgainBond, 27 January 2012 - 09:07 AM.