The security footage in the Bahamas in CR was from July 2006 and since CR takes place over the course of a month and QoS picks up immediately after, we can safely assume they both take place in 2006. It gets muddled from there as we are never told how long SF takes place after QoS, but I always thought it took place in 2012. Spectre is then I believe supposed to be about 6 months after Skyfall placing it in either 2012 or 2013.
Yes, the cctv footage Bond looks of Dimitrios sending a text to Mollaka dates when the Madagascar chase was, but do we know all of CR takes place over a month? Weâre never given no dates after that, we have no idea how much time passes between events.
Are we Really discussing continuity and timelines in a film series of 57 years duration?
When will the penny drop fellas?
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You meanâŚitâs fiction???
I thought it was a documentary all this time!!!
My mindâŚblown!!
Anywhooo, point is, whilst the Craig era has allowed Bond to acknowledge his aging, it does mostly retain the 4 minutes in the future quality of its predecessors.
Would much rather Bond and Swann to have broken up, and during the course of the film find out what went wrong.
It will be interesting to see if itâs Swann who has the past connection to Malekâs character.
Actually, thatâs even likely, considering they are bringing Swann back and donât have her live with Bond at the beginning of the film.
That would also tie in with their concept of telling a long cohesive arc for Bond in all the Craig films. He just cannot escape the problems Oberhauser/Blofeld has created for him. And Madeleine, as Mr. White´s daughter, will be intentionally or unintentionally entangled with that business.
I don´t think they would bring her back just to be a damsel in distress or to have just a cameo (oh, hey, that was the gal Bond left the service for, right?). She will have to be an integral part of the plot.
So, the above mentioned idea of the relationship having failed, but Bond actually having to revisit Madeleine under new circumstances is really something new. Bond always loved women and left them. Now he has to go back to a very special one. And maybe he can save her (and himself) this time for good.
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Thereâs another good reason not to have Bond and Maddie living happily ever after in their little beach hut in Jamaica and driving around in off-road cars, with Maddie having flashbacks and being killed later which causes Bondâs return to the service: Bourne Supremacy.
Would be a feast for the haters.
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Oh, yes - totally forgot about that.
Madeleine.
Swann.
Remembrance of Things Past.
Flashbacks are significant to Proust, too.
Itâs a smidge pretentious, isnât it? Bond used to pinch stuff from kung fu movies.
I suppose itâs in the tradition of calling characters Gogol and Pushkin, if even more on the nose.
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The obvious question here: who is guilty of that?
Did P&W suddenly get the urge to show off their âwe have read the classics, tooâ-capability?
Or did Mendes think: hah, if I have to come back for this I will sneak in some references the average moviegoer will not get!
In any event, Iâm looking forward to BOND 25 naming the villain Christopher Marlowe.
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If this Madeleine is not killed by having her drowned in tea - or in Bondâs equivalent, mud - I shall be most disappointed.
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Given the imagery used in Skyfall & Spectre, Iâd suspect Mendes. Mr White echoing Prometheus in particular would suggest those references are a Mendes addition.
SoâŚFaux Blofeld in DAF?
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The image of Charles Gray dipped in tea shall now scar my soul. Pleasingly.
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As well it should . "Welcome to Hell Blofeld " indeed
Of course, he should be nibbling away on some cookies he specially imported to Jamaica while meeting Felix.
Marginally less distressingly, I wonder if there is a definitive list anywhere of these naff classical literary references - the writer(s) playing the Iâm-slumming-it-here-but-please-look-at-all-the-Gogol-and-Pushkin-on-me game - in the Bond films? I suppose Mallory might be another one, although that was only one l.
I suspect Skyfallâs - ââŚand now, from nowhere, some Tennysonâ - is an 'ommidge to how unsubtle this sort of thing was.
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The use of the name Mallory, partnered with Dench quoting Maxwell Knight, was possibly Logan trying to demonstrate that his research wasnât just watching Bond movies.
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If they were true to the joke, she could at least have offered him a biscuit and a cup of tea when first meeting him - my doctor does this. How I would have laughed my head orf.
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Bringing âToscaâ to QOS also indicated a slight nod towards getting⌠more intellectual.
Then again, Stromberg already indulged in classical music while dispatching his secretary to the shark department. And to show off I should be able to name the composer and the piece - but I cannot.
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