Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by DavidLD (A) on November 18, 2008 at 04:33:42

In Reply to: RE: spoilers posted by Jazz Inmate on November 16, 2008 at 23:02:41

...Bond's relationship with "M" is at least as complex as his maternal relationship with Moneypenny, his adopted godmother, secretary, and in later episodes, administrative assistant. As it turns out, we learn that "M" is actually the older sister to Moneypenny, and Bond's biological mother. It turns out that M was forced to leave Bond on the steps of an orphanage (in the industrial town of Liverpool) when little Bond was only 18 months old..Bond realizes that M's last name is the last name of his biological mother, as he knew what "M" stood for, but as of the current QOS, he hasn't put all of this together quite yet.

It turns out that Bond is actually a love child of an affair M had with another young secret agent in training when she was only 19--and neither of them could pursue their rigorous training and raise bond, who even at 18 months, was a "handful" so rather than give up their careers, Bond ended up on the steps of the orphanage. M was quite a piece when she was 19 and the object of much admiration among many of the male agents in training then. M knows that she got to pursue the career she wanted that sister Moneypenny (note that M in agent M actually stands for Moneypenny, a familiar name starting with M for Bond) always wanted but never got to do, and further, she became an agent in large measure because she put Bond up for adoption, but she has always felt pangs of guilt over the "life choice" she made. Whenever Bond goes off the ranch, so to speak, she always wonders if things would have gone better had she "been there for Bond" and given up her agent career.

Meanwhile, Bond has spent his entire life in search not of a succession of one night stands as everyone thinks, but rather in search of a mother figure to represent something maternal he never had, being raised in an English orphanage and all. Of couse he is not absolutely certain who his mother was..he pretty much knows she had the "Moneypenny" name, but his secretary didnt seem old enough to be his mother despite the obvious maternal bond--no pun intended of course. Then he discovered that "M" stands for Moneypenny...and that is the reason M did not want him to utter the name because it was clear that Bond was really beginning to put two and two together and it would be only a matter of time (one or two more movies?) until he had this all figured out. Bond stayed with a variety of foster families in his youth, but he was quite a handful and alweays ended up back at the orphanage..he simply took the name of Bond from the last foster family he was with..not knowing what to do when he came of age he saw the opportunity to train at the English Spy Academy (the ESA). The name Bond was actually quite good because it described what he spent his entire life looking for,..a maternal bond he was never able to fulfill with all the succession of women he had sex with..but this going from woman to woman is typical of men who grow up without maternal love in their lives--and agent M knows that and feels all sorts of guilt.


The special effects were atrocious..the Crane scene in CR was amazing, but the DC-3 scene in QOS looked just like what it was, a plastic model plane photoshopped into a background frame by frame.

Somehow I can't get excited about a politically incorrect villian (however its spelled) whose big goal in life is to shut off the water of Bolivians, when previous Bond films have had titles like "The World is Not Enough" Am I somehow supposed to feel threatened and in danger because the Bolivians lack clean water? Sorry, I simply can't buy into the entire predicament in the plot--essential for a good action/adventure movie.

Next up--a plot in which a villian contributes to global warming by leaving the coal-fired electrical generating plants on longer than he should adding small amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere..you can see where this is headed...IMHO Bond films have been fun because they generally are NOT politically correct--i don't want to go down the "other road".

David