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| Date: 2007-03-04 10:25:06 |
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| For Bond fans, I'd suggest seeing Casino Royale with an open mind. For non-Bond action film fans, I'd suggest the same. … For fans of just plain great filmmaking, though, I'd say cast your net a bit wider. Haggis' script is pretty savvy and self-aware, Campbell's direction is competent, and Craig's Bond is very compelling; but the whole affair is pretty transparent nonetheless. There should be better cinematic opportunities over the holidays. |
| Date: 2007-03-24 07:33:46 |
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Now you've awakened the Bond geek. I know Ellipsis is the code that opens the doors, but it also has to be code for something else--there's something bigger here that is behind "Mr. White," Le Chiffre's shadowy boss in the movie of Casino Royale.
In real life, SMERSH was one name for the USSR's counter-intelligence operation--the word is a contraction for the phrase "Death to Spies" in Russian. They kill Le Chiffre in the novel Casino Royale.
Meanwhile, SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Revenge and Extortion, makes its debut in the book Thunderball (1962 or so). The book Thunderball was a novelization of a script Ian Fleming was working on with a producer named Kevin McClory.(And as we know, the movie was eventually made of Thunderball a few years later.)
SPECTRE gets introduced into the Bond movies in Dr. No and is in all of them up to Diamonds Are Forever, except for Goldfinger. I know what you're about to say, but no, the villains in From Russia With Love are all working for SPECTRE. From Live and Let Die on there's no more mention of SPECTRE or its boss Ernst Stavro Blofeld, "the man with the cat" (the baldie Dr. Evil is parodying), though in the pre=title sequence to For Your Eyes Only, we see someone who looks like Blofeld being dumped down an industrial smokestack.
As McClory was part owner of Thunderball, he was able to remake it as Never Say Never Again and to cast Max Von Sydow as Blofeld. All the Bond rights are back in the hands of the Broccoli heirs today, so presumably they could bring Blofeld back...or better still create some newer and larger crime syndicate.
I'm very happy to share this useless info and have more--far more--of it whenever requested. Or even when not. |
| Date: 2007-10-04 10:26:09 |
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| James Bond is back and he is alive and well. Any questions about Daniel Craig's worthiness are thrown out almost immediately as we are handed a film filled to the brim with exquisite action and explosive emotion. I squirmed in my seat with delight as I have not done since I was a child. What "Batman Begins" did for that franchise, "Casino Royale" does, and more, for Bond. For a while it seemed that he might not be able to well exist outside the confines of the cold war, but here we are given an entirely modern Bond with enough nods to the original that we can't be too upset. Maybe it's because this is the last novel yet to be filmed in the traditional Bond manner and it is Ian Fleming who has stolen our hearts not this incarnation of the super spy. However I like to think that someone actually just got their act together and concentrated on the film itself as opposed to who they could get the most product placement money out of. Congratulations. James Bond will live on for at least one more generation, and maybe forever. Great set pieces and one of the best chase sequences not involving cars ever put on screen, blended with beautiful locations and even more lovely women add up to the perfect cocktail with the twisting story line acting as the lemon peel in the martini, holding it all together. Many will come out saying that this is the best Bond film ever and I can not rightly say they are wrong at this point. Only time will tell that tale. However every fan can be assured that this ranks amongst the very upper crust of Bond movies, and Craig is no Lazenby. He lends a harsh wit and a thuggish charm to the character and by the end he's no longer the new guy, he is Bond, James Bond. A masterpiece of popular film-making and the movie we have been waiting for all year. See it early and often as it is sure not to diminish upon reviewing. |
| Date: 2008-10-30 16:19:59 |
User: Anthony |
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