jobloffski
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IMO that's the only way to see QOS, since it clearly was never meant to act as a standalone piece, but as the 'fallout' for Bond's psyche/character of falling in love with Vespa, being betrayed by her, being so livid he momentarily considered putting a bullet in her head, then deciding he still loved her, desperately trying to save her from drowning at the end after shooting out the floating supports of the building that created the circumstances in which Vespa would die.
He's not a happy chappie when he's cradling her dead body in his arms. And he's trying to deny all feelings of any kind for her when he say's 'Job's done. The bitch is dead. Because it's his fault she's dead, so the grief can't ever be gotten over, and the betrayal can't ever be apologised for.
It would be pretty ludicrous to go straight from Bond weeping over Vespa's body to good old fashioned Bondism in the next film, and I believe it was never part of the plan to even try that.
The relationship with Vespa nearly made him the man he wanted to be, a happy man, able to believe he has a chance forget about all the spying nonsense. How it ended smashed him into a million pieces, and he remains in those pieces until the 'please shoot me, don't let me burn' type request towards the end of QOS gets through his self absorption and he gets a small amount of comfort from being able to save the girl's life this time round.
His character was raised high by meeting/loving Vepsa and had had a long way to fall, he hits the ground, and survive, to then be able to become the Bond people keep bitching he isn't so far. In fact, the opening titles of QOS feature that very image, Bond, falling, and falling and falling...he hit's the ground. He gets up and walks away.
I believe that is the 'point' and 'theme' of QOS, and the baddies weren't outlandish in the way some people wanted because the film was about Bond's character development.
Nothing was known about quantum so, but although the film revealed little on that score, it did reveal that the baddie sang like a canary about Quantum, and that will without a shadow of a doubt be reflected in the next film, when Bond v Quantum will probably take on the 'battle of giant egos' stature that has had its absence mourned recently.
But James Bond, 007 is a man who is broken on the inside, who will take on Quantum and it's various head honchos with something approaching glee, because he will taking on those who are to blame for him being broken on the inside, and this surface sheen of enjoying his work will provide everything the naysayers want, in terms of flippant comebacks, dastardly deeds, and pussy galore (sorry).
That's what I think anyway. The building work has been done, the scene has been set, and now the 'world' of Bond has been remade after the shitpile that was die another day. the filmmakers can bring on the fun elements. Hopefully I wont have to dig out this post and eat every word when the next film comes out, but the way I see the current situation and how CR and QOS, as one big story have set up the possibility of the kind of Bond movie some are begging for is:
Job's done. But the bitch(ing) isn't dead.
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 14/1/2011 1:46:45 AM >
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