James Bond 24 - Part 3

[Rodrigo90]

Bond has always had that cocky and brazen schoolboy charm to him. Sheepishly insulting a teacher to their face in a classroom, just to get the satisfaction of hearing a few giggles from his fellow school chums

 

[StarLord]

...Just leave out the garlic sauce...gives one terrible trouble with the loo and nothing is less alluring than a gentleman running with poo dribbling down his sock braces and into his fine Oxfords. Doesn't bare thinking about old chap!

One who chooses garlic sauce deserves nothing less than the description above.

 

[Rodrigo90]

One who chooses garlic sauce deserves nothing less than the description above.

Too true...too true

 

[Pink Ranger]

...Just leave out the garlic sauce...gives one terrible trouble with the loo and nothing is less alluring than a gentleman running with poo dribbling down his sock braces and into his fine Oxfords. Doesn't bare thinking about old chap!

Worst ... Q briefing ... ever.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Worst ... Q briefing ... ever.

And now to warn about the dangers of constipation on the field, 007!

 

[Hyde]

So next week for my Media Studies mock exam it'll be based around James Bond (what I'm studying at the moment), and a big part of the exam is coming up with your own title for a Bond movie and justifying it. You also have to storyboard the opening scene for the movie.

I'm stuck on titles and since I was never the biggest Bond fan to begin with, I figured I should go here for help. Any ideas?

 

[Pink Ranger]

So next week for my Media Studies mock exam it'll be based around James Bond (what I'm studying at the moment), and a big part of the exam is coming up with your own title for a Bond movie and justifying it. You also have to storyboard the opening scene for the movie.

I'm stuck on titles and since I was never the biggest Bond fan to begin with, I figured I should go here for help. Any ideas?

From a branding perspective, the elements of a classic Bond movie title include the following:

- often based on a popular English-language idiom but modified in some way (for your eyes only, you only live once, live and let live)--you may have to rely more on this characteristic, as I assume you don't have an actual script to base your work on (i.e. a story-specific title like Goldfinger, Goldeneye or Octopussy)
- should have at least a double, if not triple, meaning attached to it (You Only Live Twice reflects Bond's ability to live large, escape death, and also the fact that he "dies" in the movie as well; Live and Let Die reflect Bond's vengeful nature, but also the fact the film deals with death-related mysticism as well)

When storyboarding your opening scene, remember that it should also function as a self-contained story. The best opening scenes are almost written like a James Bond short story, that you read before you read a James Bond novel. In some ways it's like the old days when they'd show a cartoon before the real movie begins.

 

[SpideyFan866]

So next week for my Media Studies mock exam it'll be based around James Bond (what I'm studying at the moment), and a big part of the exam is coming up with your own title for a Bond movie and justifying it. You also have to storyboard the opening scene for the movie.

I'm stuck on titles and since I was never the biggest Bond fan to begin with, I figured I should go here for help. Any ideas?

Halt and Cease Fire

 

[baerrtt]

Daniel Craig's 007 met Tracy in the 007 Legends game. Be nice if it happened on screen even if we know it doesn't end well.

I remember hearing at the time of the game's release that EON wanted to make all the pre Craig Bond films fit his canon and 007 Legends was their way of going about it.

 

[Rodrigo90]

I'm writing a story about Bond being stalked by an assassin that he can't see...
And the villain is based on Jimmy Savile

I call it
"A Kiss Goodbye"

 

[Dark Raven]

From a branding perspective, the elements of a classic Bond movie title include the following:

- often based on a popular English-language idiom but modified in some way (for your eyes only, you only live once, live and let live)--you may have to rely more on this characteristic, as I assume you don't have an actual script to base your work on (i.e. a story-specific title like Goldfinger, Goldeneye or Octopussy)
- should have at least a double, if not triple, meaning attached to it (You Only Live Twice reflects Bond's ability to live large, escape death, and also the fact that he "dies" in the movie as well; Live and Let Die reflect Bond's vengeful nature, but also the fact the film deals with death-related mysticism as well)

When storyboarding your opening scene, remember that it should also function as a self-contained story. The best opening scenes are almost written like a James Bond short story, that you read before you read a James Bond novel. In some ways it's like the old days when they'd show a cartoon before the real movie begins.

The titles are also usually associated with very powerful imagery - life, death, love, money, power, time, elements of nature, body parts etc. There are several precious metals/ jewels, and also several military/espionage allusions

Dr No - might actually be the blandest title, but it's the first.
FRWL - Not only is it a way of signing off a postcard, but it has love, and Russia is a powerful image as well.
Goldfinger - gold in the title - a precious metal/ body part
Thunderball - powerful weather element
YOLT - play on a common saying and also has love in the title
OHMSS - military/ espionage link - usually it's just On her Majesty's service
DAF - both a precious stone and a time element
LALD - play on popular saying, plus has both live and die in it
TMWTGG - precious metal again
TSWLM - espionage/ love imagery
Moonraker - element of nature
FYEO - military usage/ body part
Octopussy - imagery of both an octopus and woman's genitalia
Never Say Never Again - not an official Bond but still a Bondian sounding title - play on a common phrase and also has an absolute
AVTAK - kill/ death in the title
TLD - life/ time element
LTK - Kill and military usage
Goldeneye - precious metal/ body part
TND - Time element, an absolute (never) and death in the title
TWINE - World is a powerful image - world domination
DAD - Death in title / play on popular phrase
Casino Royale - imagery of gambling/ money etc
Quantum of Solace - this has most people baffled
Skyfall - apocalyptic imagery/ nature element

 

[Marvolo]

Never understood the confusion with Quantum of Solace's title.

Quantum means a small amount. Solace is relief from grief. Bond is in grief over Vesper. The film's plot and his arc in the film is him trying to find some small relief from his grief. It's one of the most literal titles in the franchise. It also references the evil organization in the film. Haters be damned, it's one of my favorite titles in the franchise.

 

[Dark Raven]

Never understood the confusion with Quantum of Solace's title.

Quantum means a small amount. Solace is relief from grief. Bond is in grief over Vesper. The film's plot and his arc in the film is him trying to find some small relief from his grief. It's one of the most literal titles in the franchise. It also references the evil organization in the film. Haters be damned, it's one of my favorite titles in the franchise.

It's not confusion about what it means. It's a confusion about how it fits in with the pattern of all the others as outlined above. Sure, it has a mysterious sound and look, but it seems really rather abstract.

 

[regwec]

Precisely. It's an overly ornamental title, with none of the wit or wordplay of most others.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Specter of Solace.

 

[regwec]

Constipation of Melancholy.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Melancholy of Constipation.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Solemnity of Flatulence

 

[regwec]

Isolation of Incontinence.

 

[Dark Raven]

Everyone seems to be channelling the Undertaker's Wind.

 

[AnneFan]

The Time Will Wait has a decent ring to it, I think. Or perhaps Lawnraker, Goldenpie or Thunderbowl.

 

[Dark Raven]

Chris Evans's movie, "Snowpiercer" had a kind of Fleming sound to it, except that Snow isn't as mysterious as the moon.

Besides, Snowpiercer was Brosnan driving around in wintry conditions in Die Another Day.

 

[Marvolo]

Precisely. It's an overly ornamental title, with none of the wit or wordplay of most others.

It is ornamental I'll give you that, but there's no better way to say what Quantum of Solace means in a title. "007: The Five Stages of Grief" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Craig's titles in general have kind of stepped away from the old naming a scheme. Casino Royal and Skyfall weren't witty or using wordplay in a clever way. They were just straightforward titles derived from an important location in the films. They may bring it back with 24 tho considering that Mendes has essentially brought Bond back to the days of Moneypenny, Q, and male M, and possibly Blofelld.

 

[Dark Raven]

It is ornamental I'll give you that, but there's no better way to say what Quantum of Solace means in a title. "007: The Five Stages of Grief" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Craig's titles in general have kind of stepped away from the old naming a scheme. Casino Royal and Skyfall weren't witty or using wordplay in a clever way. They were just straightforward titles derived from an important location in the films. They may bring it back with 24 tho considering that Mendes has essentially brought Bond back to the days of Moneypenny, Q, and male M, and possibly Blofelld.

Casino Royale was the original Fleming book though, so that's not really in contention. And it still has the imagery of money and playing for stakes.

Skyfall was just made into a straightforward thing in the movie, which was actually rather disappointing that it was something as mundane as Bond's ancestral home in Scotland. It would've been much better if it were an operation (like Operation: Thunderball in "Thunderball"). But nevertheless it still has an apocalyptic ring to it, and it's not that different from titles like Goldeneye (which was the satellite), Moonraker (which was the shuttle) or even Thunderball (which was the operation).

An issue of Iron Man (issue #123) from the classic "Demon in a Bottle" storyline did a play on Casino Royale, giving it the death imagery which is so prevalent in Bond titles: Casino Fatale.

 

[ThePhantasm]

I think "All the Time in the World" would be a great Bond title... reference of course to Tracy's tombstone.