Barbara Brocolli "Kathleen Kennedy-ed" the Bond franchise
There is a reason women weren't put in charge of properties for men and boys in the past, folks. It wasn't because of discrimination, either. Discuss.
shareBarbara has been working on the Bond films since The Living Daylights and has been in charge since GoldenEye. You're right though, she waited 35 years to hatch her evil scheme just to piss off you guys.
Go crawl under the rock you've been under and let us enjoy some good storytelling and actual character development for the character rather than the same formulmatic films we got for decades.
You can go back to your Twilight fandom, NEWB!
share...actual character development for the character...
LOL. He's dead! D.E.A.D. Dead!
Character development!! 😂
Brilliant! share
"Storytelling?"
May I please see if I got this straight:
You want to take a character who is a distant, cold blooded killer, womanizer, alcoholic, who cares about no one, doing covert ops action, who uses high tech gear, saving the world...
...and change him into someone having character development, and family drama?
So, changing everything it once was, into something completely new and different ....but have it be the same thing?
Am I clear on that?
Kind of like "Hey, lets throw out 50 years of everything that made it the successful action franchise that it was, turn it into a reality TV styled soap opera", is that right?
Do we have a unified definition of what the word "Change" means?
Change: verb 1. make (someone or something) different
If it is DIFFERENT, and no longer the SAME, then it is not James Bond anymore. Right?
The Craig version of Bond is the closest we've gotten to what Fleming wrote, including falling in love and having a child. The films basically always portrayed him as a superhero, but Craig actually made Bond feel like a real person which I applaud, even if I don't always like what they did with the character.
The next Bond will likely be very different, but hopefully they keep some of the things that made the Craig interpretation so dynamic.
I noticed you did not answer my question: if you change something completely, is it still the same?
never read the books or even needed to.
the movies exist.
for fifty years, the movies succeeded as is. not sure who thinks its a good idea to 180 all of that.
regardless of what they come out with next, it WILL offend SOMEONE. it always will because the easily offended are easily offended. fucking up our entertainment, pointlessly.
Bond is still the same character he's always been, he just isn't the one dimensional never changing character he's been since the character stopped developing in the 1960s. If you don't like it the fine, but it's not a coincidence the best films in the series are the ones that lean into Fleming and the original character he developed. Other than having a child and having to consider that life during the finale, there's nothing in this film that so dramatically rewrites the Bond character that he becomes unrecognizable.
share...it's not a coincidence the best films in the series are the ones that lean into Fleming and the original character he developed.
Yes, like the brainwashed Bond attempting to murder M storyline being taken directly from Fleming's TMWTGG novel and adapted into everyone's favourite Brosnan entry, and one of the best films in the series, Die Another Day.
Or like when they took Fleming's (as written on the page) moronic clueless idiot of an "intelligence" agent and had him think the best chance of lying low / keeping the head of the intelligence agency safe in Skyfall would be to take her to a completely cut off location, open to attack from all sides, and ride it out Macaulay Culkin style from a dangerous threat.
Great to see that Bond lifted directly from Fleming's pages... share
If Craig Bond is the closet to what Fleming wrote. Than its probably a good thing that Albert Broccoli jettison that shit to make Bond something people actually wanted to watch.
shareIf only there was more in the way of good storytelling and actual character development here.
I found it the same kind of depressing, dour, downbeat movie that the last two have been.
The problem with all new actors, no matter what gender, no matter what shade of brown, no matter who they screw and how, is that they just are not too interesting.
So, that is the issue. Find good actors, write them good characters, and things will take care of themselves.