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New Bond Film Title
Submitted by Dustin on January 24, 2008 - 2:48pm
Thanks! Updated previous news story
Thanks! I updated our Dec. 31, 2007 news story on the film to reflect the official title.
Origin of the Strange New James Bond Title
User HollywoodChicago.com here. I have moved the below related information from user HankQ to this thread from another.
My friend, James H., is a very knowledgeable and comprehensive James Bond fan. He offers this explanation for the lastest 007 movie title, ‘Quantum of Solace.’
The title comes from the book, ‘For Your Eyes Only.’ A quick synopsis:
“Quantum of Solace” is not a spy story and Bond appears only in the background. Told in the style of W. Somerset Maugham, the tale has Bond attending a boring dinner party at the Government House in Nassau with a group of socialites he can’t stand.
Bond makes an offensive remark after dinner when the other guests have left in order to stimulate conversation. This solicits a careful reply from the elderly Governor of The Bahamas who tells 007 a sad tale about a relationship between former civil servant Philip Masters stationed in Bermuda and air hostess Rhoda Llewellyn. After meeting aboard a flight to London the two eventually married but after a time Rhoda became unhappy with her life as a housewife. She then began a long open affair with the eldest son of a rich Bermudan family.
As a result Masters’ work deteriorated and he suffered a nervous breakdown. After recovering he was given a break from Bermuda by the governor and sent on an assignment to Washington to negotiate fishing rights with the US. At the same time the governor’s wife had a talk with Rhoda just as her affair ended. Masters returned a few months later and decided to end his marriage, although he and Rhoda continued to appear as a happy couple in public.
Masters returned alone to the UK, leaving a penniless Rhoda stranded in Bermuda, an act which he’d been incapable of carrying out merely months earlier. But Masters never recovered emotionally, his vital spark never relit. The governor goes on to tell Bond how after a time Rhoda married a rich Canadian and seems to be happy, telling Bond that his dull dinner companions whom he found so boring were Rhoda and her new husband.
While the story does not include action elements, as other Fleming tales do, it attempts to posit that Bond’s adventures pale in comparison with real life drama. Bond reflects that the lives of the people he passes somewhat superficial judgments upon can in fact hide poignant episodes.
So there you go, then
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origin of the strange new james bond title
in specific regards to the book, “the spy who loved me,” it is considered to be generally one of the worst of the bond books (“the man with the golden gun” winning the coveted “worst of the lot” award in a landslide.) in its initial publication TSWLM was generally panned, but in its paperback printing (riding on the wave of bondmania, post “from russia with love,” “goldfinger,” and “thunderball” movie hysteria), sales went through the roof.
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as for the upcoming movie, it marks a first for the films in this: the movie takes up immediately following the events of “casino royale.” at the end of CR, we find bond introducing himself, “bond. james bond,” to the wounded mr. white. a rather crafty and ingenious use of a bond film standard, leaving it till the very end. isn’t that afterall one reason we buy our tickets to a bond film? i myself wondered for the entire film where the phrase was, and where the standard bond and 007 themes were. QOS will pick up from that moment on, establishing a storyline across the 2 films, a first for the bond franchise.
~ WCJ