Quantum of Solace [new James Bond film]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7206997.stm

Cor.  Not sure about the title (even if it is a Fleming title).  Hope it's as good as Casino Royale.

Can't get onto the official James Bond site at the moment to see any pics/trailers (due to fascist work internet filtering policy).  Is there anything up there yet?

[El Unicornio, mang]

At a press conference at the facility, reporters were shown a minute of footage from the new film, including Bond swinging on a rope after an explosion at an art gallery in Siena, Italy.

Want to see it now!!

[biggytitbo]

Quantum of Solace? WAT DAT MEAN?!

[shiftwork2]

Quantum of Solace? WAT DAT MEAN?!

At least it has a little mystery and doesn't include the words 'gold', 'die' or er....'moonraker'.

Back to basics I hope - so that's safari fashions and gags like:

Belly dancer examining belly: "I've lost my charm!"
Roger Moore after expert pause: "Not from where I'm standing"

Call me a dreamer.

[kidsick5000]

Quantum of Solace? WAT DAT MEAN?!

Shut it. Its enigmatic and all clever and that. Like Spandau Ballet.
I'm surprised it has been used by a perfume yet

On a different note. I saw Hitman with new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko.
OH yes and Hell-oo.

[boxofslice]

Quantum of Solace

I doubt it will be based on the original short from Fleming according to that wiki write up.

Might be nice to hear Bassey having a go at singing that during the titles though.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Oooh...pretty please change the thread title to remove that unnecessary 'the'.

Anyway, as a Bond-afficionado of many years (shut it!) I'm keen as mustard on seeing this bad boy.

Siena is a truly beautiful city - especially if the Palio is incorporated in some way.

But then they need to get out of Italy - the same location for two films in a row is fine as a linking device, but I'm more interested in seeing what gets cooked up in Panama and Bolivia.

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Oooh...pretty please change the thread title to remove that unnecessary 'the'.

Done.  I don't know why I added the "the".

[Ghost of Troubled Joe]

Gosh, that's a shit title. It'll probably be a good film though, "Casino Royale" was class.

[Doctor Stamen]

Using old Ian Fleming titles isn't a new thing anyway, they did it for Moonraker after all.

[olafr]

mrsix did a good pisstake of this elsewhere today.

[Pseudopath]

Gosh, that's a shit title. It'll probably be a good film though, "Casino Royale" was class.

I reckon they've only chosen it so they can do the same diagonal 007 thing as Casino Royale:



The new logo will probably be something like:

QUANTUM OF
             SOLACE
                7

which looks a bit shit if you ask me. They may as well have called it:

MR JAMES BOND'S
SHAGFEST BONANZA
                 7

[Saucer51]

                      PRETENTIOUS
                              BALONEY
                                    7

Seriously, isn't the title a bit complicated and high brow for the average Bond fan (including me)? Usually there's an element involved such as gold, silver, diamonds etc. Sometimes dramatic words such as live, die, never, forever are part of the deal. Therefore Infinite Polonium would be good, with Soviet-funded poisonings and a polo game thrown in for good measure. The villian is an oligarch who funds the polo team, putting him dangerously close to British establishment. Bond has to pump a disillusioned stable girl who is later bumped off in dramatic fashion on the Ruski's orders.

[Hobes]

                      PRETENTIOUS
                              BALONEY
                                    7

Seriously, isn't the title a bit complicated and high brow for the average Bond fan (including me)? Usually there's an element involved such as gold, silver, diamonds etc. Sometimes dramatic words such as live, die, never, forever are part of the deal. Therefore Infinite Polonium would be good, with Soviet-funded poisonings and a polo game thrown in for good measure. The villian is an oligarch who funds the polo team, putting him dangerously close to British establishment. Bond has to pump a disillusioned stable girl who is later bumped off in dramatic fashion on the Ruski's orders.

Scab Bastard. You do know theres a writers' strike!

[Panbaams]

Looking forward to this – Casino Royale was excellent.

"Quantum of solace" is defined here.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Having slept on it, I love it as a title.  I'm glad it's not a 'Die Another Day' or 'Silver Fin'-style amalgalm of vaguely Bond-esque words.  It also shows a committment to the 'return to Fleming' ethos, which bodes well.  I'm sold.

[Jemble Fred]

The title does jar at first, but when you know it's Fleming's own (and the reason behind it) there's literally no comeback. It would be nice if the actual characters and events of the short story make it into the film in some way – it would be very easy to stick in a dinner party scene with those characters etc.

Infinite Polonium sounds like a generic Xbox first-person shooter that nobody would buy.

[Backstage With Slowdive]

The original short story (in For Your Eyes Only) was one of Fleming's few attempts at trying to be a serious writer. Bond does nothing in it other than listen to another air passenger tell him a story about a wife who treated her husband badly. There's a slight twist at the end.

I suppose The Hildebrand Rarity would have been a worse film title.

[rudi]

Quantum of Solace
Might be nice to hear Bassey having a go at singing that during the titles though.

Darling, she doesn't have the range...

[CaledonianGonzo]

They'll surely plump for a title-free title track, a la 'All Time High' or 'You Know My Name'

[kidsick5000]

They'll surely plump for a title-free title track, a la 'All Time High' or 'You Know My Name'

Or do a Nobody Does It Better and just shoehorn/crash in from nowhere the title

ie "like heaven above me... THE SPY WHO LOVED ME"

Though I defy anyone to get their gob around Quantum Of Solace

[Backstage With Slowdive]

They looked at the title, and decided it had to be The Fall.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Though I defy anyone to get their gob around Quantum Of Solace

"He fondles his bollocks... in his quantum of solace."

Or a Griff Rhys-Jones style ukelele version: "Quantum, oh quantum, how's about you gimme some solace. Quantum, oh quantum... etc."

[Dark Sky]

I can't think of anything which rhymes with "solace".

Closest I've gotten is "challis", "polish", and "police".

[LeboviciAB84]

That's the Glaswegian pronunciation of 'police', I suppose?

Henry Wallis, Jonathan Margolis, Christmas In Hollis . . .

[Lookalike Mark Chapman]

Flawless? Gonzales? Wallace ...and Grollace?

There's always 'phallus', at a push. That James Bond isn't half a dirty shagabout.

[Dark Sky]

Mollusc?

[mothman]

Richard Hawley could get away with a song called "Quantum of Solace." He's got a kind-of Matt Munro vibe going on. Ish.

[actwithoutwords]

Life's not as hopeless as PC Reg Hollis/
There'll always be a quantum of solace.

[Angst in my Pants]

Bravo!