Okay, so @Kitty's Tune Tuesday this week has a theme of Best Bond Song from @sharazluke. My issue with the hashtag? I don't really watch any Bond movies.
I've seen most of Goldeneye and I played a ton of the N64 game. So, whatever.
I did, however, watch Tomorrow Never Dies.
So, quick story. When I was in high school, I was a band nerd. I went to this big weekend band event up in Lake Placid. It was cool. I had this big crush on a girl who was playing flute, so asked her on a date. We went to see Tomorrow Never Dies. 5 minutes in? She's out cold. Sleeps through the whole movie.
While growing up watching James Bond movies I never thought the villains were realistic. It turns out, pretty spot on. And we have watched one of them become that over the top, bombastic villain from every Bond film who does not even try to hide just how terrible he is. #JamesBond#YouKnowWho
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I've started watching all the James Bond #movies in order. I really haven't seen many of them. I love how some of the high tech spy gadgets of the 60's now fit in my pocket.
In the Deadline article I linked above, Barbara Broccoli hails #GoldenEye as a successful post-Cold War reimagining of James Bond. Recall, though, the plot starts during the Cold War (1986) and the main enemy is from back then even though most of the action takes place after the Cold War in 1995. I wouldn't say it was a bold reimagining of Bond. Brosnan himself says he emulated #SeanConnery and #RogerMoore.
It's true the movies have reimagined James Bond now and then, most notably between Sean Connery and Roger Moore. They've also stayed fairly close to the Ian Fleming source material. As bold as Daniel Craig's Bond may have been, it went back to the first Bond book, Casino Royale, to start. Later, Craig's run reused Ernst Stavro #Blofeld.
The movies may have created their own dilemma by killing off Daniel Craig's Bond, who had been successfully integrated into present day (now 2021). B/c that Bond died, the movies can't use anything from his run to help launch the next Bond. The best continuity would be a new actor continuing the previous actor's story. They're both playing the same character after all.
For example, even though Moore's portrayal differed from Lazenby's, there was continuity between the two. In #ForYourEyesOnly, Bond visits Tracy's grave, his wife Tracy (played by Diana Rigg) who died in Lazenby's movie #OnHerMajestysSecretService
While some may think Pierce Brosnan one of the less memorable James Bonds, all four of his movies had original plots not based on any Ian Fleming Bond books. I think the franchise needs original plots if it is to go on from here. They can't keep rebooting Bond and rehashing Fleming books.
It's funny, when they replaced Brosnan all of the sudden it was problematic that Bond was a bit more gruff and a bit less pretty. When Brosnan came on the scene in the first place, what was the problem? "Too clean, too pretty".
No one's going to be happy.
So I say fuck it, make him a happy Mexican kid. Give me Iñaki Godoy as #JamesBond, I bet he wrecks house. The guy killed it as Luffy, and that's basically the same character as #007 when you look at it.
Upcoming James Bond game Project 007 is being described as "the ultimate spycraft fantasy" (www.gamesradar.com)