During the holidays. Though I suppose, with a half a century of global warming, snow during Christmas in the Alps does seem a little weird.
This is a great video. And though it's unofficial from the perspective of the producers I like to believe in my own head canon that the gangster from Diamonds Are Forever is the same gangster in the pre-credits sequence of The Man With the Golden Gun.
That's great. I hadn't picked up on Dr Vogel in NTTD. As for Marc Lawrence in DAF and TMWTGG, it could work, although he seemed little more than a thug in DAF whereas when he arrives on Scaramanga's island it's implied that he's a top hitman? It's definitely plausible though. (Good old Marc Lawrence, did TNG and of course DS9 where he, obviously, played a gangster! Was just watching From Dusk Till Dawn the other day and he even shows up in that!) Next question, did Klaus Hergersheimer originally work for NASA before getting a job checking radiation meters? It's also plausible that Shane Rimmer was playing the same character between YOLT and DAF, though it's unlikely this person then went on to join the navy and rise to captain a nuclear sub inside of 6 years One of my minor annoyances/things I want them to change in the franchise is to get rid of Tanner and give all his stuff to Moneypeny. This way you get to still have MP as a character, but she at least is more than a secretary, she's M's most trusted assistant.
I do appreciate how Tanner was a stuffed shirt in both TMWTGG and FYEO and his later incarnation in the same timeline is still a stuffed shirt, only less abrasive. So Tanner basically feels like he could be the same guy across the Moore and Brosnan Eras.
Did I miss something, or did they skip Felix Leiter's appearance in Never Say Never Again? Also, if they count NSNA at all, as they did with Blofeld, Moneypenny, and Q, wouldn't they have to count Domino, Largo, Lippe, and any other named character that also was in Thunderball? And finally, am I overthinking this? I do need answers.
You're right. They had several NSNA characters, but not the ones you mentioned. Bit of a slip up, as they say...
Given the film's non-canon status in the EON film series I can't really target much blame, though. It's just one step above the 1967 Casino Royale in likability and just as unofficial.
One of my greatest regrets of the films is that they never bothered to make Tanner a more integral part. I suppose the same could be said for Mathis, but I get why it went introduced for so many years. Still, they didn't have to kill him.
The trouble is by the time you get to Spectre you have great actors playing M, Q, Moneypenny and Tanner and you're trying desperately to give them stuff to do with mixed results. I mean Moneypenny is great in Skyfall and then she's just a fucking secretary from there on. Q goes to Austria in Spectre which feels shoehorned in. M isn't treated well in either Spectre or NTTD with Bond being incredibly disrespectful in both films. At least M gets some action at the end of Spectre. Another reason to merge Tanner into Moneypenny IMO.
I like that idea. The thing I liked most about Tanner was how it was always implied he was the person Bond hung out with off the clock. So, not only would that finally leave the yucky sexual harassment aspects of Moneypenny good and buried, but it would add the fun twist that Bond's best mate is actually a woman.
And then there's the legendary background cameo in AVTAK by Maud Adams that this video expounds upon. For a long time I thought the woman walking in the background of San Francisco when Bond is talking to Chuck Lee of the CIA and frequently pointed out as likely being Adams was indeed her, but apparently not.
Though she does have a cameo in the original BOYS IN THE BAND, which is arguably as great as any Bond film except THUNDERBALL.
What I was trying to say was by the time of "Thunderball" the James Bond movies were basically just taking whatever flavor of month or theme and diving right into it Thunderball- Water You Only Live Twice- Bond goes Asian OHMSS- Snowy settings
Goldfinger---Kentucky From Russia with Love---suitcases Dr. No----mango songs Diamonds are forever----gay treachery Live and Let Die----balloon men The Man with the Golden Gun----nipples The Spy Who Loved Me----shark blockbusters Moonraker----lasers For Your Eyes Only---Bill Conti? Octopussy---twins Never Say Never Again----tragic news mid-dancing A View To A Kill---Walkenmania The Living Daylights----ghetto blasters Licence to Kill-----Wayne Newton Golden Eye----don't ask or tell Tomorrow Never Dies----media kings The World is not Enough-----neck torture Die Another Day-----Jinx the Oscar winner Casino Royale----Venetian tasers Quantum of Solace-----Bourne-ish cuisinart cutting Skyfall-----nostalgia Spectre----evil's relative and No Time to Die-----viruses
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the latest name to be linked with Bond. Supposedly he had an audition in September and impressed Barbara, Michael et al. Assuming he did audition I'm guessing he'd be one of many, but it is interesting if he did blow them away. I think he has the physicality for the role, and at 32 he could potentially be Bond for some time. I'll be honest he wasn't someone I'd thought of but I can see it now. I hope it is true because it at least means they're auditioning actors and are actually taking some positive action!
Hmmm, I think he’d be good, but on checking the story online, it seems to have originated with The Sun. So, maybe one to still treat with caution