Interesting. She was actually only 2 when her mother died.
Oh yes, I stand corrected (and updated my post accordingly). I got confised with Eva Green’s actual birth year (1980, not 1983).
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It was a little weird that they put her birth year at 1983 instead of 1980. It seems like she would be too young for the position she was in.
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Yes definitely. The notion of a barely-23yr old, fresh out of her MA and being in charge of 10 to 15 million GBP from the Treasury for no operational reason is simply ridiculous. Even in a class soxiety like the UK, it sounds utterly absurd. But then, a 26yr old in this position sounds more or less the same. In real life, Vesper would probably a balding, potbellied, self-important middle-aged man from middle-management. Someone very middle.
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I’d agree with that too, but a 26 year old is certainly more plausible than a 23 year old.
Yes, of course. Her age would also be a better fit with Bond’s age. There’s a wide enough age gap already without adding 3 fictional years.
Not to mention, this may be a weird connection, but Lynn-Holly Johnson was 23 when For Your Eyes Only released. But she was playing a 16 year old. It’s a little odd to make a woman Bond loves the same age as one he refuses for being too young.
Aren’t most women nuclear physicists by 23? 
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Well I’m told they originally screen-tested Mendel, but the train meeting didn’t quite work as well… 
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Bearing in mind, four disparate towns were used to create the fictional Civita Lucarna, I doubt the reality of a drive to the ocean would have been an issue - had they wanted to film it.
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Not to mention the multiple Egyptian temples in TSWLM🤓
Guys, you’re misreading a bit what I was maybe clumsily trying to say.
I’m not wondering how it would have worked filming wise, I’m wondering how it would have worked story wise.
With Bond and Madeline needing some time to walk from ocean to train, how would they have filled that time, both in terms of what conversation was had and in how to keep the excitement from slowing down. I was just wondering out loud how that would have played out…
Probably would’ve just cut from the car crashing into the ocean to Bond putting her on the train without explanation.
How potentially jarring that could’ve been might be one of the reasons it was cut before the shoot.
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The best way to go was to drive to the station, have the goodbye and go to the titles.
Even to have Bond crash the car into the ocean after the goodbye would have been a beat too much. And clumsily funny: what is more important for Bond to lose? Madeline or the car? Oh, and after the car he was really sad…
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I suspect it would be as awkward as the cut conversation between young Madeline and Safin after he pulled her from the lake…
“Sooooo… are you going to be ok after me doing that thing where I killed your mum? Would you like me to call social services? We should keep in touch.”
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The only way it could have worked was if they did that after he drops off Madeleine at the station.
Leave the station, drive to the next pier and do the TSWLM thing. We see him get out and swim to the surface while the Aston sinks down. Then a transition into title sequence.
And then most people would have said “We already had that in Skyfall, just with Bond sinking down.”
But it would at least explain why he has a different car later.
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Safin: “Also, I love you, but you are too young right now. In 20 years, I’ll come back when we are the same age.”
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Safin, clearly, was far more broken by Madeline’s dad than the hospital realised.
Looking at Craig’s run now…wasn’t most of it Mr White’s fault? There’s a Silva wildcard in the middle, sure, but otherwise all the major events stem from decisions White made.
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And, however we may look at it, Madeleine’s father was very much not a nice guy. The fact there appeared worse in the course of the tale doesn’t make Bond’s prospective father-in-law a saint - or even an ordinary middle of the pack crook.
Madeleine might as well have been Blofeld’s daughter.
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A circumstance Bond is aware of
“Oh, I see, you grew a conscience”
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