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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #45 on: September 15, 2005, 12:34:29 PM »
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I guess along with Orlando Bloom, Daniel Radcliff is one of the younger actors being considered for the role of Bond. Kind of...

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=32314

I have to say I find this both disturbing and intriguing. I don't know how I feel about a movie regaling James Bond's teenage years at Eton. It could be cool, or really dumb. I just hope that it wouldn't have so many sexual exploits--I'd particularly be sad to see Daniel Radcliffe as some hormonal teenage womanizer.

However, I do hope to continue to see Daniel Radcliffe on screen. I think he captured a depth and poignancy in the Harry Potter character. There are moments in the first and third film when my heart actually ached at the loneliness Harry was feeling. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but I really do think Daniel Radcliffe is an interesting and complex actor. If they wanted to explore how James Bond became a spy from a kind of pyschological perspective, it could be interesting.

(I do realize that by admitting that I like the Harry Potter films I am opening myself up for criticism. But I do, so there.)
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #46 on: September 15, 2005, 01:49:50 PM »
You've already gone into detail about your love for Disney Channel shows aimed at children half your age, so no, talking about Harry Potter at this point can only raise your credibility. :)
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #47 on: September 15, 2005, 02:14:43 PM »
/me makes disparaging remarks about old fogies who watch cartoons
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #48 on: September 15, 2005, 05:06:18 PM »
I resent that. I am not old or a fogie.  :P

But, yes, I do seem to have the humor of a fifteen year-old most of the time.  ;)
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #49 on: September 18, 2005, 08:17:49 AM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4256024.stm

Some titbits on how the next film will develop. No Q, no gadgets. The character will be under 30, and will be a colder, more realistic Bond than the Brosnan one. Goldeneyes director is back, one Martin Campbell.
Paul Haggis will be writing. Martin Campbell appears to have directed the apparently crap Zorro, and other than goldeneye I don't recognize a single film by him. I'm not much of a movie buff though. And Paul Haggis doesn't look like typical Bond stock - his last film was about a middle-aged woman becoming a boxer, and the one before that about racial tensions. Maybe they decided to bring someone in who doesn't write goofy plots as part of the new 'colder, more realistic' bond.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #50 on: September 18, 2005, 02:47:43 PM »
It's official they've ruined Bond, though I've known that since Dalton played him.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #51 on: September 18, 2005, 07:35:22 PM »
That Zorro was actually pretty good.

But no Q. No Gadgets. Under 30. Make him hip and sardonic adn dark.
Ick.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #52 on: September 19, 2005, 12:23:18 PM »
A Bond with no gadgets is not a Bond. But a bond without Purvis and Wade is a hallelujah miracle. So now I'm confused. Goldeneye was the best of the modern Bonds, and Paul Haggis is apparently an awesome screenwriter, so I'm sure they'll make a good movie, but...no Q? I want to punch somebody.

As for actors, I nominate Callum Blue.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #53 on: September 19, 2005, 12:29:20 PM »
you want to punch Callum Blue?
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #54 on: September 19, 2005, 12:35:43 PM »
well to be fair there was no Q or gadgets in the book Casino Royal.  Now if the film makers were gutsy they'd set the movie in the 50-60s as a prequel to Dr. No.
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Re: article: Bye bye, and Bye Bond
« Reply #55 on: September 19, 2005, 07:56:00 PM »
If they were really gutsy, they would tempt my wrath by ruining a classic series.
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