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How to solve the Bond Problem

posted 4 years ago by TheTwoYutes (238)
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Just like M, when she died she was replaced with Ralph Fiennes as the new Q....

Old Bond gets too old, retires, replaced with a new Bond, given the identify of James Bond, old Bond resumes their old life/identity.

Kinda like Dr. Who.

Then anyone can be James Bond if they qualify through Q to be called a Bond.

[–] pjl69 (2647) 4 years ago

What was the problem? The franchise has never before had a "Bond problem", so why should it now? If they continue strangling themselves with continuity, I'm done with the franchise. Time to get a new M, for instance. I never liked Ralph Fiennes in this role.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

That would be the worst thing they could possibly do.

[–] TheTwoYutes (238) 4 years ago

Why? It's a better explanation than "We've had the same James Bond for 60 years he just looks different after 3 movies"

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 4 years ago

Because now we are getting into the business of it’s actually a different character every time and that gives the woke SJW crowd free reign to make Bond a black, female, transgender in a wheelchair. Bond is a white, British, sexist misogynist, that’s his character and if you are going to deviate that far from his character you’d might as well just create a whole new franchise. Also based on previous movies it’s clearly obvious that it’s always the same person. I’ll be happy to expand upon that if you’d like me to.

[–] FFNogoodnik (778) 4 years ago

It's a better explanation than "We've had the same James Bond for 60 years he just looks different after 3 movies

No it is not, it is a horrible explanation as you then have to account for each version of "James Bond" knowing each version of "Felix Leiter" (or does your theory not apply to Felix ?)

You also have to realize that Bond already has a code name, it is 007. Why have two code names and have them be the same for each iteration?

Why HAVE the name James Bond as a spy name that is handed down from one person to another? The idea of a "secret agent" is to be secret Right?

If you REALLY want an answer as to why there are numerous James Bond actors "playing the same role" think of it this way:
Each film is a story where the writers are saying "we have this character, James Bond, we want to make stories with him using the back drop of current times." As this makes each story basically a stand alone story but not so much stand alone that they have to reintroduce the character every time it fits the films perfectly.

OR you can just not apply the current story telling techniques of today to stuff that is 60 years old. That was simply not how they did films then (although I am sure there are some exceptions) and applying today's approaches to it will not work.

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 4 years ago

This isn't really a problem at all.
And if you're looking to go recast Bond's sexual and racial identity like the other guy is implying, you still don't need to this either.

There's this idea these days this sort of continuity is needed for multiple installment film franchises and it's really not necessary.