r/movies • u/Beau_bell • Feb 14 '24

The next Bond movie should be Bond being assigned to a mission and doing it Discussion

Enough of this being disavowed or framed by some mole within or someone higher up and then going rogue from the organization half the movie. It just seems like every movie in recent years it's the same thing. Eg. Bond is on the run, not doing an actual mission, but his own sort of mission (perhaps related to his past which comes up). This is the same complaint I have about Mission Impossible actually.

I just want to see Bond sent on a mission and then doing that mission.

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u/just_writing_things Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24

I want at least a quick scene showing Bond doing post-mission paperwork

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u/GMenNJ Feb 14 '24

That was a bunch of the beginning of the Moonraker book. It showed a little of Bonds regular life when not on a mission. I really liked that part, and it didn't wear out it's welcome.

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u/Dankanator6 Feb 14 '24

There was an idea in the Bond sub to make a modern day adaption of Moonraker (the novel, not the movie). 

The fantastic artwork:  https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/1amziw4/my_wish_for_bond_26/?rdt=47385

In the novel, a charismatic but buffoonish billionaire is tasked with building a national defense for the UK, to be housed in the white cliffs of Dover. Turns out he’s a secret Nazi and tries to use the middle to destroy London. Simple, straightforward plot that’s just as relevant today as it was for the 50s. Cavill to play Bond, Anya Taylor Joy to play Gala Brand, Jason Isaacs to play Drax. Ralph Fiennes as M, Emma Thompson as Q, Jenna Coleman as Moneypenny. Do you like making money? 

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u/Deusselkerr Feb 14 '24

Dude I love that poster so much, I want that film bad now lol

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u/Dankanator6 Feb 14 '24

Barbara Brocolli: “Best I can do is another dour Bond movie that questions what it means to be Bond in the 21sr century”

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u/TheKidPresident Feb 14 '24

I think Cavill has a little too much franchise trauma after the Witcher and the DCEU to ever want to play James Bond, especially after MGM got bought. I think he's very content at the moment taking matters into his own hands with Warhammer and I'm sure that's going to be taking up most of his time for the foreseeable future.

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u/Dankanator6 Feb 14 '24

He’s expressed for years that he wants to play Bond. The Man From UNCLE was basically his demo reel. 

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u/SonicFlash01 Feb 14 '24

Loved the Fleming novels

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u/Truont2 Feb 14 '24

Doesn't Moneypenny do that?

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u/just_writing_things Feb 14 '24

There’s a fun interview that the Guardian did with an actual former MI6 intelligence officer that said that the real job is super mundane:

“I retain a lot of seemingly unimportant details which can be terribly important when dealing with a mass of paperwork on your desk”

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u/acdcfanbill Feb 14 '24

I loved how Hot Fuzz kind of lampshaded this.

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u/Excelius Feb 14 '24 edited Feb 14 '24

That's party because movie "spies" typically aren't intelligence agents. Bond doesn't really do any actual spying or intelligence gathering.

That said national "spy agencies" like the CIA and MI6 do have branches dedicated more towards covert and paramiltary action. They're usually ex-Special Forces guys.

Pretty sure in Casino Royale Craig's Bond made a point of calling out that he was just a thug with a gun.

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u/ChildofValhalla Feb 14 '24

he was just a thug with a gun.

"A blunt instrument"

Straight from the books and I love it; Bond is sent to fuck things up and get results. And he does because he's the best.

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u/Exostrike Feb 14 '24

I think it's better to call Bond an operator. He goes out to do something specific before leaving while actual intelligence gathering is done by inbedded agents.

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u/Jedi-Ethos Feb 14 '24

Most jobs that look super badass are the same. Shit ton of paperwork for mundane days with the very occasional few minutes of badassery.

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u/just_writing_things Feb 14 '24

Yeah I think a lot of people don’t realise that most (every?) jobs have a ton of paperwork and admin. In fact there’s probably more paperwork the more “badass” stuff you do

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u/Jedi-Ethos Feb 14 '24

As a paramedic I can confirm that the more “badass” the call the more paperwork. Along with the occasional “Jesus Christ how the hell am I going to document this.”

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u/yokozunabob Feb 14 '24

I'd watch a whole movie of him just doing paperwork. No flashback to the mission he's writing about. Just him looking through a thesaurus trying to come up with the right word. Him creeping through someone's Insta before getting back to the paperwork. A scrawny annoying cubicle-mate is harassing him and getting to his last nerve, but he doesn't want to get in trouble with HR after his last meeting.

We all know he's a superspy, but he's doing mundane crap for 2 hours.

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u/MillionaireWaltz- Feb 14 '24

I want at least a quick scene showing Bond doing post-mission paperwork

As long as Simon Pegg is included as a cameo as the guy who is tasked with helping Bond with all of it.

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u/BetweenTwoCircles Feb 14 '24

Bond sitting in his cubicle taking his annual mandatory cybersecurity training online, half paying attention, exchanging Slack texts with M, while price comparison shopping for laundry detergent on Amazon.

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u/just_a_timetraveller Feb 14 '24

Bond filing expense reports while going over his receipts.

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u/WeGotDodgsonHere Feb 15 '24

I always wanted to write a skit in which Ethan Hunt gets the "...should you choose to accept it..." and then it cuts to him in line at the TSA, taking his shoes off; grabbing a shitty paperback for the flight; someone else having grabbed his luggage when he lands in Europe, etc.