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Well, the Bond 21 rumour-mill starts rolling before DAD even gets a world-wide release...
Dark Horizons is reporting that Hong Kong director Tsui Hark ('Black Mask', 'Zu Warriors') is in talks to direct the next 007 flick. Would be an interesting choice, though I'm sure it's a little early in the day to start betting money on this.
Could signal an interesting shift in style if this is true though?
Sounds like cobblers to me.
The Bond style comes from the producers ticking the Bond list. Nice locations - check, nice car - check, women in not many clothes - check, gadgets - check. The directors seem to be employed to make sure the camera's pointing in the right direction and to tell Roger Moore which eyebrow to move. They're not there to add their own style.
Much as I love the OUATIC films, Tsui Hark would be a pretty bad choice IMHO. Check out Time and Tide to see a film where storytelling suffers as a result of the director's "style".
Originally posted by neverland
The directors seem to be employed to make sure the camera's pointing in the right direction and to tell Roger Moore which eyebrow to move. They're not there to add their own style.
I disagree. Martin Campbell, Michael Apted and Lee Tamahori are hardly "hacks for hire". Roger Spottiswode is perhaps best forgotten.
Originally posted by neverland
The Bond style comes from the producers ticking the Bond list. Nice locations - check, nice car - check, women in not many clothes - check, gadgets - check. The directors seem to be employed to make sure the camera's pointing in the right direction and to tell Roger Moore which eyebrow to move. They're not there to add their own style.
Roger Moore?
When was the last time you saw a Bond film?:confused:
That's what I was going to put too!:lol:
Originally posted by new
Roger Moore?
When was the last time you saw a Bond film?:confused:
Yesterday afternoon - Octopussy - and what a timeless classic it is too.
And I don't think the Bond director's are necessarily "hacks for hire", but I just think a Bond film shot from various jaunty angles just wouldn't be the same, and unless a very tight reign was kept on him, that's what a Tsui Hark Bond would probably look like. And if you have to keep him on a very tight reign and stifle his style, what's the point?
Although you never know, maybe they're after a drastic change of direction. I hope not though. The Bond franchise ain't broke, so why fix it?
I say the biggest news to Bond 21 is whether or not Neal Pulvis and Robert Wade stay on as writers, good story writers, but screenplay and dialogue, Goldeneye's Bruce Frestein is great, perhaps a merging of them both, but storytelling, good storytelling is what I think will be the news on Bond 21, directors are important, but will need to be given something really original yet true to Bond, but something to get Bond involved with the villian throughout.:smokin:
i've said it, and i'll say it again, Bond movies that use a check list and arent looking for a distinctive director are just agrovating the problem in producing Bond movies by the numbers. Why not watch the other 20 or so movies if you want to watch the tired formula instead of insisting that the next director should have no artistic style and stick to the tired mold? :brickwall
Dark Horizons is reporting that Hong Kong director Tsui Hark ('Black Mask', 'Zu Warriors') is in talks to direct the next 007 flick. Would be an interesting choice, though I'm sure it's a little early in the day to start betting money on this.
Could signal an interesting shift in style if this is true though?
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Sounds like cobblers to me.
The Bond style comes from the producers ticking the Bond list. Nice locations - check, nice car - check, women in not many clothes - check, gadgets - check. The directors seem to be employed to make sure the camera's pointing in the right direction and to tell Roger Moore which eyebrow to move. They're not there to add their own style.
Much as I love the OUATIC films, Tsui Hark would be a pretty bad choice IMHO. Check out Time and Tide to see a film where storytelling suffers as a result of the director's "style".
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Originally posted by neverland
The directors seem to be employed to make sure the camera's pointing in the right direction and to tell Roger Moore which eyebrow to move. They're not there to add their own style.
I disagree. Martin Campbell, Michael Apted and Lee Tamahori are hardly "hacks for hire". Roger Spottiswode is perhaps best forgotten.
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Originally posted by neverland
The Bond style comes from the producers ticking the Bond list. Nice locations - check, nice car - check, women in not many clothes - check, gadgets - check. The directors seem to be employed to make sure the camera's pointing in the right direction and to tell Roger Moore which eyebrow to move. They're not there to add their own style.
Roger Moore?
When was the last time you saw a Bond film?:confused:
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That's what I was going to put too!:lol:
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Originally posted by new
Roger Moore?
When was the last time you saw a Bond film?:confused:
Yesterday afternoon - Octopussy - and what a timeless classic it is too.
And I don't think the Bond director's are necessarily "hacks for hire", but I just think a Bond film shot from various jaunty angles just wouldn't be the same, and unless a very tight reign was kept on him, that's what a Tsui Hark Bond would probably look like. And if you have to keep him on a very tight reign and stifle his style, what's the point?
Although you never know, maybe they're after a drastic change of direction. I hope not though. The Bond franchise ain't broke, so why fix it?
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I say the biggest news to Bond 21 is whether or not Neal Pulvis and Robert Wade stay on as writers, good story writers, but screenplay and dialogue, Goldeneye's Bruce Frestein is great, perhaps a merging of them both, but storytelling, good storytelling is what I think will be the news on Bond 21, directors are important, but will need to be given something really original yet true to Bond, but something to get Bond involved with the villian throughout.:smokin:
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i've said it, and i'll say it again, Bond movies that use a check list and arent looking for a distinctive director are just agrovating the problem in producing Bond movies by the numbers. Why not watch the other 20 or so movies if you want to watch the tired formula instead of insisting that the next director should have no artistic style and stick to the tired mold? :brickwall
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