{"id":83,"date":"2010-08-13T03:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T03:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-08-13T03:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T03:54:39","slug":"did-he-say-bond-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/2010\/08\/13\/did-he-say-bond-james-bond","title":{"rendered":"Did he say Bond, James Bond…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poster for Inception<\/p><\/div>\n

I saw Inception yesterday. I loved it, the movie was exciting, action-packed and I dug the basic concept of the movie. I am not going to put any spoilers in this post so no need to worry. There may be many out there who have not seen the movie yet and I won’t tarnish your experience as so many bloggers seem to wanna do, dunces in the blogesphere.\u00c2\u00a0 I highly recommend Inception, it is long but the performances are wonderful, then again when you cast such great actors as Ken Wantanabe, Leo DiCaprio, Michael Caine, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy and Pete Postlethwaite you will have great performances.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, as so often happens, I found a new actor to enjoy, Tom Hardy<\/a> , who plays Eames in Inception gives a lovely performance.\u00c2\u00a0 Look for Hardy as Max in the upcoming reboot of Mad Max.\u00c2\u00a0 Why George Miller has decided we need a new Mad Max movie I have no idea, perhaps his taxman knows but I am sure that Mr. Hardy will give a fantastic performance.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He also played Handsome Bob in another of my favorite movies, RocknRolla<\/a> and apparently he was in Layercake, a movie many people I know seem to enjoy.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t get past the first 20 minutes, total snoozefest.<\/p>\n

Going back to RocknRolla for a minute, I love Guy Ritchie’s movies.\u00c2\u00a0 The first one I saw was Snatch, easily the funniest, edgiest movie that year.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw<\/p>\n

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Sherlock Holmes<\/p><\/div>\n

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels later which was good, Snatch was better.\u00c2\u00a0 I admit I skipped the next two movies that had Madonna in them.\u00c2\u00a0 Her talent doesn’t translate on the big screen, music videos she’s great in.\u00c2\u00a0 Guess it’s that acting and chewing gum at the same time that screws her up.\u00c2\u00a0 But then her true talent lies in self promotion.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyhow, Guy’s movies are great and if you haven’t seen Sherlock Holmes<\/a>, please check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 Robert Downey Jr. gives a masterful performance as Holmes.<\/p>\n

Now back to Layercake, oops I fell asleep already, ok, I’m awake.\u00c2\u00a0 Layercake, stars Daniel Craig, who is the subject of my next set of digressions.\u00c2\u00a0 Bond, James Bond<\/a>, what a mess has been made of my favorite spy’s franchise.\u00c2\u00a0 Initially, I thought Daniel Craig would do a fine job, as the Bond series was rebooted after Pierce Brosnan’s politically correct Bond was lukewarmly received at the box office.\u00c2\u00a0 History has shown us that you must have the right man portray James Bond in order for this to work.\u00c2\u00a0 Sexy, charming, very masculine – Sean Connery, devilish, debonair, witty – Roger Moore, dangerous, agile, versatile- Pierce Brosnan these are the attributes a successful James Bond must have.\u00c2\u00a0 Does the actor have to have them all, of course not.\u00c2\u00a0 But Bond must be sexy, Daniel Craig is not.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, he buffed up but Bond doesn’t have to have a six pack, he needs animal magnetism, that man you can’t take your eyes off of.\u00c2\u00a0 As one song says, “make you write bad checks”<\/a>– Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, even Roger Moore who was never my cup of chai, had it.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been six actors to play Bond.\u00c2\u00a0 Can you name them all?\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve named four.<\/p>\n

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Bond with a gun<\/p><\/div>\n

The stories have been getting weaker.\u00c2\u00a0 I read Casino Royale, it was an entertaining read.\u00c2\u00a0 The changes made to the story were fine.\u00c2\u00a0 As the reintroduction of Bond to a new audience, read younger audience, it was fine .\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoyed it but I couldn’t accept that Craig’s Bond was smart enough to do some of the things he did.\u00c2\u00a0 No, Craig doesn’t look smart, another characteristic Bond must have.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s the<\/strong> spy, yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 When Pierce Brosnan was Bond the stories weren’t very good.\u00c2\u00a0 Particularly, The World is Not Enough.\u00c2\u00a0 What a waste of film.\u00c2\u00a0 Long, boring movies.\u00c2\u00a0 The best stories, where Bond got into all manner of hairy situations and you wondered how he’d get out, with or without Q’s gadgets were done during Connery and Moore’s reigns.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably because those movies were based on Ian Fleming’s novels and all of the stories after are based on newer stories. Ian Fleming Bond novels written from 1953 to 1966 are:<\/p>\n

Casino Royale,Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia, with Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only – short stories, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, You Only Live Twice ( another really good book), The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Bottom line, this is what needs to happen if new Bond movies are to be successful.<\/p>\n

1. Find someone who can write a smart, interesting, entertaining spy script and someone who can direct said script without making it long and boring.<\/p>\n

2. Recast Bond.\u00c2\u00a0 Find a newcomer that can grow in the role over time.\u00c2\u00a0 A masculine man, physically agile, sexy and intelligent and young enough to age in the series, late 20s to early 30s.<\/p>\n

3. Bring back Q. We need Q, Bond needs Q’s gadgets.\u00c2\u00a0 In the tech age we live in it’s unbelievable that Bond wouldn’t have toys, guys that work at McDonald’s have more gadgets than Daniel Craig as Bond.\u00c2\u00a0 No disrespect to any Micky D’s employees.<\/p>\n

4. Change or recast M.\u00c2\u00a0 Give M back balls,\u00c2\u00a0 she or he shouldn’t act like Bond’s Mum as M has been written in the last few movies.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone who’s had a woman boss knows modern women are always much tougher on their employees than their male counterparts, fact.\u00c2\u00a0 A female M would be more like Maggie Thatcher, Hilary Clinton, or Jane Tennison- the lead character in Prime Suspect<\/a>, tough, unapologetic and determined to get the job done.\u00c2\u00a0 The maternal element is crap and the writers should be checked on it.<\/p>\n

5. Keep it British.\u00c2\u00a0 Bond is a British secret agent we Americans like that about him.\u00c2\u00a0 Get a British act to do the themes for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 I think the music scene in Britain is more interesting right now.\u00c2\u00a0 In America we are in a rap haze, there’s a huge lack of originality and basic talent in American music at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 I know there are more talented people out there but they can’t make it to the show or they won’t play the game either way that’s the situation with some exceptions.\u00c2\u00a0 The theme for Quantum of Solace was nauseating.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not use a young British act, like say, Muse<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The first time I heard Muse a friend played them for me.\u00c2\u00a0 After I picked my tongue off the floor and spit out the dust by saying “wow” I said that should have been the theme to a James Bond movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Muse is young and hip enough for the Twilight soundtracks surely there is room for that heavy, orchestral sound in a Bond movie.\u00c2\u00a0 The QoS theme was just loud, nails on a chalkboard aggravating.\u00c2\u00a0 Bring in some of what’s going on in England now culturally since you’ve rebooted it.\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of the world can deal with it.<\/p>\n

Ta luvs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw Inception yesterday. I loved it, the movie was exciting, action-packed and I dug the basic concept of the movie. I am not going to put any spoilers in this post so no need to worry. There may be many out there who have not seen the movie yet and I won’t tarnish your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_blog","category-movies","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}