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It seems unlike the Bond franchise to miss a commercial trick but
philmophlegm described it as 'MI6 v Wikileaks' - the Wikileaks parallel hadn't occurred to me, but I can see what he means. I could watch Judi Dench's M being morally ambivalent and brutally pragmatic, then quoting Tennyson for ages, even though I don't normally have much time for Tennyson.
- They drove all the way to Scotland from London, and there was no shot of Bond moodily filling up the Aston with Super Unleaded from his preferred petrol pump!
- And no shot of M tucking into a Ginsters pasty or a Melton Mowbray pork pie!
- not really sponsorship, but those were SO definitely Calor Gas cylinders that got exploded, even if they did have the logo painted over. As someone with a house entirely heated by Calor Gas and a much larger cylinder sitting outside, I felt the need of one of those 'If you have been affected by issues raised in this..." helplines. I shall walk past that Calor cylinder with extreme caution in future, until I forget.
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Date: 2012-11-14 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-11-14 11:15 pm (UTC)Giggling over Bond moodily filling the petrol tank.
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Date: 2012-11-15 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-15 09:19 pm (UTC)I assumed the hatred was just dead parent angst?
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Date: 2012-11-15 10:43 pm (UTC)I am intrigued about the bit where M asks how old he was when they died, and gets told she already knows all the details. I wonder why and how she'd know that sort of detail and how he knows she knows, and how they died anyway.
The shower scene was indeed weird and creepy. :-/
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Date: 2012-11-16 05:32 am (UTC)IIRC, his parents died in a skiing accident, unless they're changing that (although they seem to be going so classic, I doubt they will).
Taking M out of the picture takes out Bond's most interesting relationship, IMO. Sigh.
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Date: 2012-11-17 09:17 am (UTC)I dunno, I just felt there was a faint hint of M knowing rather more about Bond's parents death than one might expect her to as their son's boss 30 or so years later.
I suppose if Bond is Craig's age, that would be around the mid-80's - though I think part of the attraction of the recent movies is that there is a sort of feeling to Bond suggesting the Cold War - even though he's clearly too young, that gives it a faint air of fantasy. Bond as a sort of Jack Harkness...?
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Date: 2012-11-17 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-15 02:23 am (UTC)I've been there, believe me...
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