Solo4114
Master Member
Re: Bond 24
From the article, it doesn't sound as bad as all that. Like, we won't be getting quips galore. Just a bit of repartee between Bond and the new M, and Bond and Moneypenny.
It's important to remember that the last three films had Bond in a very different relationship with a different M. In the first film, he's a cocky, rookie agent. In the second, he's still a rookie, basically (since it follows immediately after Casino Royale). In the third, he's a seasoned agent who's gone through several missions with M, and who's dealing with resentment at having been treated like an "asset." Now we have a new M that Bond actually fought beside, and it's a whole different dynamic. You don't want to write it like the last interactions with M, and you don't want to write it like the old-days where Bond was just nonchalant and M was a crotchety old man. Ralph Fiennes isn't that M.
Similar deal with Moneypenny. She hasn't appeared in the last 3 Bond films, and prior to that she was just part of the usual over-the-top unsubtle gagfest. With Naomi Harris, we have a new Moneypenny who, again, has been in the field with Bond and had a flirtation with him, and who also carries around a bit of guilt at having, you know, SHOT HIM IN THE CHEST AND BLOWN HIM OFF A BRIDGE. Again, very different dynamic from any of the other Moneypennies we've had in the past.
From the article, it doesn't sound as bad as all that. Like, we won't be getting quips galore. Just a bit of repartee between Bond and the new M, and Bond and Moneypenny.
It's important to remember that the last three films had Bond in a very different relationship with a different M. In the first film, he's a cocky, rookie agent. In the second, he's still a rookie, basically (since it follows immediately after Casino Royale). In the third, he's a seasoned agent who's gone through several missions with M, and who's dealing with resentment at having been treated like an "asset." Now we have a new M that Bond actually fought beside, and it's a whole different dynamic. You don't want to write it like the last interactions with M, and you don't want to write it like the old-days where Bond was just nonchalant and M was a crotchety old man. Ralph Fiennes isn't that M.
Similar deal with Moneypenny. She hasn't appeared in the last 3 Bond films, and prior to that she was just part of the usual over-the-top unsubtle gagfest. With Naomi Harris, we have a new Moneypenny who, again, has been in the field with Bond and had a flirtation with him, and who also carries around a bit of guilt at having, you know, SHOT HIM IN THE CHEST AND BLOWN HIM OFF A BRIDGE. Again, very different dynamic from any of the other Moneypennies we've had in the past.
