From:  (Craig Webb)
Subject: Re: 007 WILL BE BACK
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:57:55 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Followup-To: alt.fan.james-bond

In article <1992Nov4.162406.9784@news.columbia.edu>,
pw15@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang) wrote:

> I think the new James Bond movie should be a sort of domestic affair in which
> something happens to MI6, like maybe some corrupt individual makes it high
> enough in the UK government to do something (I don't understand or know
> much about politics in UK. I'm having enough trouble understanding US politics
> as it is, so maybe this isn't such a great idea but it might spark a few of
> yours so I guess I'll post it) like retire M and disband the 00 Section, and
> move Q Branch to something like warfare or whatever. 007 gets assigned to a
> cushy assignment but finds out (since he'd go nuts in a desk job. 

shades of "Never Say Never Again".  007 was "teaching, not doing";This M
didn't
believe in the value of 007 or his section.

> This I get from reading GOLDFINGER and shoot I can't remember the name of the
> story - it's the third story in the reissued version of "Octopussy" that
> had to do with the Faberge Egg) that the new guy in charge is not a very
> nice person at all and wants England to blow up or something (revenge motive?
> I'm vaguely following the Hugo Drax story here from the MOONRAKER novel).
> So although the new head of British Secret Service is evil, he or she is
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I really like this!

> endorsed by the collective UK government officials, so Bond has to kill him
> without getting in trouble with his own country and perhaps there is a part
> where he gets caught and is tried for treason or something like that. 

Yeah, OK.  How can this be really 'visual'?

> Music I think should be done with a lot of power and patriotism. My pix for
                                                        
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Agreed!

> soundtrack performers would be Iron Maiden (they had Paul McCartney do a
> soundtrack, so why not Iron Maiden?). SOmehow "License To Kill" (Gladys Knight,
> wasn't it?) just sounded too wimpy to be about an assassin or fit the mood of
> the story. Opening sequence song is very important. "Live And Let DIe" was
> perfect. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" also fit very well. To me, "The
> Man With The Golden Gun" was just too jazzy and not serious enough (heck, 
> neither was the movie), and "Nobody Does It Better" although a great song 
> would have been more appropriate had the story been based on the book rather
> than about two competing spies who I get the impression didn't care diddly
> squat about each other. Or Black Sabbath might be a good choice, now that
> Ronnie James Dio is singing for them again. Majestic sounding vocals with
> a lot of enthuthiasm (sp?) in the performance. They did very well in the
> HEAVY METAL movie soundtrack (during the "Taarna" sequence when the
> barbarians are destroying the city and killing everyone, you hear "The Mob 
> Rules," which they wrote for that part). Just as long as Rick Astley doesn't
> do it. a-ha did pretty well on "The Living Daylights." 
> Just my thoughts.

Yeah, some of the music was more approriate for elevators!
"Heavy Metal" has a great soundtrak; Especially like "The Mob Rules" too.
I think Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden could be great.  What about Robert
Plant?

Good stuff, Thanks
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