jobloffski
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ORIGINAL: jobloffski
The solution:
When Craig's run comes to an end, have him about to escape the jaws of death, but not make it.
Gasp: Bond dies on screen!!!
After a moment of 'big music' for the shock to set in, a scene where M takes a call, we see her side of it. She doesn't speak a word. Her face falls in response to what she is hearing, and a single tear trickles down her face.
She hangs up. Composes herself. Presses intercom:
M: Moneypenny, it's been confirmed. He didn't make it. You know what to do. Engage the ususal protocols. Code reference, double O, double Omega seven, replacement procedure. Activate.
Then,written into the lore of Bond is a reason why he's had so many faces. James Bond is a code name, for whoever will later take the mantle of 007. Then, there is no reason why he couldn't be black, because it would always be the best available for the job.
And it would add something the movies have yet to use: The idea that Bond can die, and some of the previous Bonds might have been killed in the line of duty too...
Bond remains the iconic figure, but the story adapts to suggest it's a role to be fulfilled, for propoganda purposes .
Whose the black goverment spy
Licensed to kill
To drive and fly?
Bond!
You're damn right...
(sorry about the Shaft intrusion (oo-er) couldn't resist
We've discussed this - Bond/007 is not an alias. Why else would Roger Moore be visiting Tracy's grave in For Your Eyes Only? Why's Bond been married before in Licence to Kill? Why does Brosnan wince when asked in TWINE if he's ever lost someone close to him?
It's the same character.
And to call all your 007s James Bond is the worst idea for a SECRET service to do. The most recognisable spy ever.
Okay, forget the idea of 'replacement protocols' as a pre-existing, previously unalluded to process. It was a suggestion not based on total knowledge of every nook and cranny of the history of the character. That doesn't preclude the basics of the idea being a new direction the films could take. Calling all 007s James Bond in such a scenario wouldn't be too stupid, since most of those who encounter him either become allies or become dead. Besides, Bond Baddies seem to find out he's a spy pretty quickly, anyway.
Fair enough to want to be consistent with all that has gone before, but its a big swallow already to accept the basis of the films as portraying exactly the same agent being fully active for over half a century. Far as I can tell the idea of what Bond represents has always been more important than realism anyway, given how the films have to move with the times to keep the franchise alive.
The franchise had to be rebooted big style after the bollocks quotientof DAD, and there is absolutely no bar to new elements of storytelling being added, it may even be a necessity to prevent stagnation occurring again. Having a Bond die on screen and then replaced within the context of the storytelling could actually STRENGTHEN the franchise, because it would allow the films to make a virtue of the fact that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Additionally, it's much better dramatically if a character isn't invincible. Fair enough for him to be the same person when Fleming was writing the books, but the films have played pretty fast and loose with Flemings words so often that by now, as long as the spirit of Bond survives, it should be a pretty open canvas.
I'm not insisting this is the only way forward or anything, just suggesting it as something that my ensure the films keep MY interest. And if they were to do something like this, and use that as a means to introduce a black James Bond (who would only be a passing phase during the ongoing series) I'd enjoy it. Hell, they could kill off Bond during an opening sequence and have a black colleague have to pretend to be Bond for the rest of the mission, to be told the jobs his if he wants it at the end of the film. (which would be a bit of a twist on previous films, given the number of times Bond has had a black colleague who ends up dead, no doubt some Bondaphile can specify what that number is, I'm just interested in a good story/original dramatic spin on established motifs )
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