{"id":1076,"date":"2008-01-24T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/and-the-new-james-bond-movie-title-is\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T12:54:00","slug":"and-the-new-james-bond-movie-title-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/01\/and-the-new-james-bond-movie-title-is.html","title":{"rendered":"And the new James Bond movie title is …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The next James Bond film<\/a>, which until recently had the working title Bond 22<\/i>, now has a real<\/i> title: Quantum of Solace<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first glance, that doesn\u2019t seem like much of a Bond title: it lacks the explicit references to living and dying of You Only Live Twice<\/i>, Live and Let Die<\/i>, A View to a Kill<\/i> and The Living Daylights<\/i>; it lacks the ostentatious displays of wealth implicit in Goldfinger<\/a><\/i> and Diamonds Are Forever<\/i>; it lacks the who-it\u2019s-about or what-it\u2019s-about factor of Casino Royale<\/a><\/i>, Dr. No<\/i> and Octopussy<\/i>; it lacks the romanticism of From Russia with Love<\/i> and The Spy Who Loved Me<\/i>; it lacks the techno-threat secret-mission code-name quality of Thunderball<\/a><\/i> and Moonraker<\/a><\/i>; and it lacks the official bureaucracy implicit in On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service<\/a><\/i> and For Your Eyes Only<\/i>. And then there is The Man with the Golden Gun<\/i>, which fits both the who-it\u2019s-about and display-of-wealth categories, and may also fit the implicit-violence category.<\/p>\n

All of those films took their titles straight from the books and short stories of Ian Fleming. And the films that didn\u2019t<\/i> use the titles of Fleming\u2019s stories at least tried to sound<\/i> like they did: Licence to Kill<\/i> fits both the implicit-violence category and the official-bureaucracy category; Tomorrow Never Dies<\/a><\/i> and Die Another Day<\/a><\/i> also fit the implicit-violence category; and GoldenEye<\/a><\/i>, which took its name from Fleming\u2019s vacation home, refers in the film to another techno-threat and also has a hint of the old display-of-wealth. Only The World Is Not Enough<\/a><\/i> seems to stand out on its own \u2014 but those words happen to be the Bond family motto, as revealed in On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service<\/i>, so that title, too, harks back to the existing James Bond canon.<\/p>\n

If anything, Quantum of Solace<\/i> sounds like the title of a pretentious arthouse flick about a lonely particle physicist. But it turns out the new title has more in common with the titles of the Connery and Moore films than it does with the titles of the Brosnan films on at least one level \u2014 because Quantum of Solace<\/i> was the title of an actual James Bond story written by Ian Fleming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the filmmakers did such a fine job of rebooting the series with Casino Royale<\/i>, which was the first James Bond film to be named after an Ian Fleming story in almost 20 years, I admire the fact that they want to continue in a vein that at least pays homage to Fleming\u2019s writings \u2014 but I\u2019m having a hard time picturing the words \u201cQuantum of Solace\u201d on a marquee or hearing them breathlessly pronounced by perky entertainment reporters.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I can\u2019t help wondering now what other<\/i> unused titles the producers might turn to for the next<\/i> film. All of the novels written by Ian Fleming have been turned into movies already; and the handful of short-story titles that haven\u2019t been used yet are either kind of awkward in their own way, or are connected to stories that have already been absorbed into other films:<\/p>\n

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  1. Risico<\/a><\/i> \u2014 plot elements incorporated into the film version of For Your Eyes Only<\/i>\n<\/li>\n
  2. The Property of a Lady<\/a><\/i> \u2014 plot elements and titular phrase incorporated into the film version of Octopussy<\/i>\n<\/li>\n
  3. The Hildebrand Rarity<\/a><\/i> \u2014 plot elements incorporated into the film Licence to Kill<\/i>\n<\/li>\n
  4. 007 in New York<\/a><\/i> \u2014 sounds too much like a song by Sting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Incidentally, I had to laugh when Xan Brooks<\/a> of the Guardian<\/i> wrote: \u201cI pity whoever has to write the theme song.\u201d But it\u2019s quite possible for a Bond theme song<\/a> to make no reference to the title whatsoever; just look at Octopussy<\/i>, which featured Rita Coolidge\u2019s \u2018All Time High\u2019, or Casino Royale<\/i>, which featured Chris Cornell\u2019s \u2018You Know My Name\u2019. So that\u2019s not too<\/i> big a problem.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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