My Name Is Bond
Jean-Paul Bond. Producers promise a navelgazer with “Quantum of Solace.” Boston Herald’s James Verniere mulls the deeper meaning of it all:
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re a James Bond movie.
In case you haven’t heard, the title of the 22nd entry in the 007 series is going to be - wait for it - “Quantum of Solace.”
“Quantum of Solace?”
OK, I understand it was the title of an Ian Fleming story from the 1960 collection of Bond tales collectively entitled “For Your Eyes Only.” But does “Quantum of Solace” have a groovy, egghead vibe or sound like pretentious twaddle?
Please discuss among yourselves, Bondage lovers.
The Fleming collection includes the stories “For Your Eyes Only,” “From a View to a Kill” - already appropriated for mediocre 1981 and 1985 Bond films - “Quantum of Solace,” “Risico” and “The Hildebrand Rarity.” Isn’t “Risico” the maker of Ritz Crackers? “The Hildebrand Rarity” sounds more like a case for Sherlock Holmes or something you’d order at a steakhouse. It has yet to be used for a film.
In the meantime, by the reasoning suggested by “Quantum of Solace,” we could rename the bedrock Bond films “Dr. No,” “From Russia With Love,” “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball” in a likewise manner, and, voila, we would have “A Kilowatt of Robotic Appendages,” “A Very Slavic Inamorata,” “An Asphyxia of Gold” and “A Spheroid of Mighty Electrical Discharge.”
Coming up next? “A Tantra of Bondian Malaise” and maybe “The Kabbalah of Espionage.” How about “The String Theory That Loved Me?” Or, perhaps more to the point, “Way Better Than Those Stupid Jason Bourne Movies.”
“Hildebrand Rarity,” anyone?
OK, enough cruel mockery from Herald low brows. Here’s what the Hollywood existentialists have in mind. AP:
Producer Michael G. Wilson said the title, chosen only a few days ago, was taken from a story by Bond creator Ian Fleming that appears in the collection “For Your Eyes Only.”
“We thought it was an intriguing title and referenced what happened to Bond and what is happening in the film,” he said.
Daniel Craig is returning as Agent 007. He picks up where 2006’s “Casino Royale” left off, with Bond contemplating revenge after his betrayal by his true love, Vesper Lynd.
“It is not a revenge movie,” said co-producer Barbara Broccoli. “It’s a lot more complicated than that. It has lots of action but it also deals with the inner turmoil Bond is feeling.”
Barbara Broccoli? I bet that name involved a lot of inner turmoil on the playground growing up.
Topics: Hollywood
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:58 am on Saturday, January 26, 2008
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January 26th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Meh, the Bond movies started going downhill with “From Russia With Love”.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
“Barbara Broccoli? I bet that name involved a lot of inner turmoil on the playground growing up.”
Laugh if you will. Not only did the lady inherit the name from her father, the late Albert R. (Cubby) Broccoli, but she also inherited his production company and the rights to the James Bond franchise.
That much money will soothe an almost infinite amount of inner turmoil.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
You missed the really good news about Q of S.
It starts an hour after the last movie.
In other words, Daniel Craig starts off in pissed-off, blue-eyed-asskicking mode. Not Roger Moore overblown stunt sequence that has nothing to do with anything mode, followed by meetings in M’s office, slide show of our fat elderly European baddie, etc.
January 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I’m still trying to get used to the idea of a blond Bond who looks like a truck driver.