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[marktmurphy]

Was watching Live and Let Die the other day; I was thinking that if it only it weren't such a memorable (and funny) line
NAMES ARE FOR TOMBSTONES
would be a great Bond title!

[Pussfeller]

Blunt Instrument would make a good title.

[havok_007]

I always liked the idea of 'Nightfire' being a bond title after the game. Or something with Night in the title...

[glidrose]

"Lock Up Your Daughters and Virgins, James Bond is on the Loose!"

Or is that too long? Title song will probably need to be in 6/8 time.

[Major Tallon]

I like a discarded chapter title from Moonraker: Arrow of Vengeance.

[S K Y F A L L]

Golden Dragon ?

[AMC Hornet]

Something with lots of 0s in it, to placate those who insisted that The PrOperty Of A Lady or RisicO had to be the next title.

GOLDEN DRAGON works.

Edited by AMC Hornet, 30 March 2012 - 03:47 AM.

[JCRendle]

I think Fool's Gold is quiet Bondian...

[S K Y F A L L]

GOLDEN DRAGON is also a restaurant in the background of TMWTGG when leaving the Bottoms up club.

I think Fool's Gold is quiet Bondian...

Fool's Gold is a 2008 Matthew McConaughey movie.

[AMC Hornet]

THE FOOL'S GOLDEN DRAGON

Problem solved.

[JCRendle]

THE FOOL'S GOLDEN DRAGON

Problem solved.

Sounds like the title of a J.K. Rowling authored Bond novel...

[AMC Hornet]

Okay.

THE FOOL WITH THE GOLDEN DRAGON

Too derivative?

(Impressively fast work on that cover art, BTW!)

Edited by AMC Hornet, 26 April 2012 - 10:36 PM.

[JCRendle]

Cant take credit for the dragon, it was "borrowed" from google images...

[Single-O-Seven]

Okay.

THE FOOL WITH THE GOLDEN DRAGON

Too derivative?

(Impressively fast work on that cover art, BTW!)

FOOL'S GOLDFINGER

[AMC Hornet]

Are you the one who - in a thread about using repetitive key words - amended my suggestion "Live and Love Only Gold" into "Live and Love Only Casino Gold'?

[thecasinoroyale]

I think for Craig we need a 'token' Bond film title now...something with either 'Gold' in or 'Die'!

No idea what...but hey, it's a start! Wonder if it will be as cryptic as 'Quantum Of Solace' and 'Skyfall' or just straight bang in your face like 'Licence To Kill' or 'Octopussy'.

[Glockenspiel]

and yet talking about Fiennes role in bond 24 when we don't know his role in bond 23 isn't too early?

and Hey I want the title in the Credits

We know Fiennes role better, know.
Sony Pictures debuted the "Skyfall" teaser trailer for invited guests at CinemaCon 2012, the convention for the national association of theatre owners in Las Vegas yesterday.
The crowd in Caesars Palace were treated to the first look at the new James Bond film, which will be released publicly on May 25th when it is attached to the release of "Men In Black 3". It was part of Sony's 45 minute presentation of what to expect in 2012.
Various reports of what was contained within the trailer have hit blogs and forums online, and the details vary, but some of the key points are:
- The trailer opens with an evaluation of Bond in the form of a word association game. Dialogue is heard over establishing shots of London such as “Country”/“England”, “Gun”/“Shot”, “Agent”/“Provocateur”, “Murder”...“Employment”.
- The interrogation room is revealed to include M and Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) behind glass as Bond speaks. The last word is "Skyfall........ Skyfall", to which Bond replies, "Done" and walks up to the glass.
- A montage of fast cuts then follows giving glimpses at major action scenes filmed so far including the chase in London and falling from a height in to water.
- Bond is seen outside the Macao casino.
- The action wraps with a shot of the London underground train stunt.
- Over shots of coffins draped in Union Jack flags, Bond concludes the trailer by saying, “Some men are coming to kill us. We’ve got to kill them first.

[Single-O-Seven]

Are you the one who - in a thread about using repetitive key words - amended my suggestion "Live and Love Only Gold" into "Live and Love Only Casino Gold'?

It was not I, I'm afraid. Not that I recall anyway.

[marktmurphy]

I remember Jim suggesting a few years back THE MAN WHO KILLED THE WORLD. Constructed from others of course, but I rather liked that.

There's something about WHEN THE HEAT DIES DOWN that I've always liked; feels Bondy somehow. And there was a title in one of the young Bonds that felt about right: NO HOPE IN HELL.

[Pussfeller]

Or perhaps simply A HOPE IN HELL.

[marktmurphy]

Or perhaps simply A HOPE IN HELL.

Well, that is the chapter title, but it's a bit optimistic for a Bond title!

[SPECTRE ASSASSIN]

Just checked out the 'Random James Bond Movie Generator' site and it came up with some amusing titles:

"The Spy with the Diamond Tattoo"
"The Quantam Rarity"
"No Deals from the Past"
"Never Send Flowers Again"
"Never Win, Lose or Live and Let Live" (favorite)

[License to Trill]

regarding music scores, the titles and credits-intros they've been consistenly good troughout the years AFAIK

here is one:

No Tomorrow

[TND contains the same word but meaning is different; it's dramatic, sort of larger then life, and ehm racy...]

ps. also comes to mind:
Hell Awaits

"Freefall" would be a good name; too similar with current (sequel perhaps)

Hot-Spot Galore [that's a joke]

Shadow's Waltz
[or something with Shadows]

One Way to Go [or "Nowhere to Go" which I am sure already exist]

No Place to Hide

All Time High [like the score]

My Spectre, Your Spectre
[or something with Spectre]

Cold Day in Hell

[Syndicate]

Maybe one of these could be the title

Permission To Die(nothing to do with the comic bok)

Light Of Day

Queen And Country

Stormfront

Death Before Dishonor

The Scorpion's Gate

[The Shark]

Stormfront

http://en.wikipedia....front_(website)

[AMC Hornet]

"Death Before Dishonor"

Starring Fred Dryer?

[Harmsway]

The trick with original Bond titles is that it's often quite difficult to find something that is sufficiently clever and sufficiently Bondian. When I brainstorm Bond titles, they often seem like Fleming rejects than titles the man would have looked at with approval. It's also altogether far too tempting to simply through "death" or "die" somewhere in some recognizable expression and think yourself altogether quite clever (ala, say, ONE DEATH TO DIE).

The trick of a great Bond title is to be something at once both pulpy and poetic, with a touch of the surreal. GHOST OF A CHANCE, perhaps? At the very least, it sounds like something Fleming might have conceived of and later rejected. Same goes for, say, DEATH HAS TWO FACES, which isn't altogether too terrible, provided the story had a good enough explanation for it. A SPY FOR A SPY? Now we're just getting silly.

And then there's the one-word titles. They can be pulled off by folks who aren't Ian Fleming (Gardner's novels gave us two good ones in ICEBREAKER and BROKENCLAW, though SEAFIRE leaves a great deal to be desired), but they're the hardest ones to pull off. There was a bit of Bond fiction that used the title SILVERTONGUE. Not too bad. I'm still waiting on EON to use SHATTERHAND and/or SHAMELADY.

[S K Y F A L L]

FOR KING & COUNTRY or

FOR QUEEN & COUNTRY - Might be a bad idea if the Queen were to kick it.

VALLEY OF SHADOWS - A chapter title from LALD

GOLDEN DRAGON - A restaurant outside the Bottoms Up Club in TMWTGG. - 'Quest' a Van Dam film is about winning a golden dragon statue. Roger Moore has a role in it too.

PISTOLS AT DAWN - A throwback to TMWTGG

S.P.E.C.T.R.E. - Would make for a great come back story?

SECRETS THAT KILL -???

Edited by S K Y F A L L, 20 May 2012 - 09:33 AM.

[FromDenmarkWithLove-007]

Hi there!

Lovely topic this one...
I really enjoy inventing some new titles for the bond films...in This case Bond 24...
Though here are just a few couples of my very own homemade name/titles for the New upcoming bond 24 adventure. I Think some of Them are very exciting and genius indeed. But Decide yourself...

1. SNAKELIAR

2. NEVER OR ALWAYS

3. SPIES DENIES/SOME DIES

4. DEATH AT DAWN

5. DOUBLE TROUBLE

6. HIN PUSTIKOV'S FINAL BLACKJACK (sounds incredibly Much As Like an Ian Fleming spy novel...to me it does)

...those were my six titles... How do you Like about them...please comment/reply if you Like.

[echo]

The trick with original Bond titles is that it's often quite difficult to find something that is sufficiently clever and sufficiently Bondian. When I brainstorm Bond titles, they often seem like Fleming rejects than titles the man would have looked at with approval. It's also altogether far too tempting to simply through "death" or "die" somewhere in some recognizable expression and think yourself altogether quite clever (ala, say, ONE DEATH TO DIE).

The trick of a great Bond title is to be something at once both pulpy and poetic, with a touch of the surreal. GHOST OF A CHANCE, perhaps? At the very least, it sounds like something Fleming might have conceived of and later rejected. Same goes for, say, DEATH HAS TWO FACES, which isn't altogether too terrible, provided the story had a good enough explanation for it. A SPY FOR A SPY? Now we're just getting silly.

And then there's the one-word titles. They can be pulled off by folks who aren't Ian Fleming (Gardner's novels gave us two good ones in ICEBREAKER and BROKENCLAW, though SEAFIRE leaves a great deal to be desired), but they're the hardest ones to pull off. There was a bit of Bond fiction that used the title SILVERTONGUE. Not too bad. I'm still waiting on EON to use SHATTERHAND and/or SHAMELADY.

I suspect Fleming's journalism career helped him find just the right titles; I don't know if he wrote his own headlines but it wouldn't surprise me.

Of the remaining four titles, I suspect we will see Risico and The Property of A Lady. I don't know about The Hildebrand Rarity and 007 in New York--maybe within the films somewhere a la "The Property of A Lady" in OP and "Diamonds Are Forever" in DAD.

I quite like Shatterhand and Shamelady. I also like The Rough with the Smooth, but then again, I tend to like the oblique longer "saying" titles (Live and Let Die, The Living Daylights, even For Your Eyes Only).

Edited by echo, 22 May 2012 - 02:31 AM.