{"id":183363,"date":"2021-02-02T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/time-die-spectre-james-bond\/"},"modified":"2021-02-02T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T15:00:43","slug":"007-no-time-to-die-needs-to-distance-itself-from-spectres-attempt-at-a-shared-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/007-no-time-to-die-needs-to-distance-itself-from-spectres-attempt-at-a-shared-continuity\/","title":{"rendered":"007: No Time To Die Needs To Distance Itself From Spectre’s Attempt At A Shared Continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die<\/strong><\/em>, has had its release date pushed back yet again<\/a>, 007 fans are wondering if they\u2019ll ever get to see the gentleman spy\u2019s latest adventure. Cary Joji Fukunaga\u2019s movie faces\u00a0more pressure than usual because it has to pull the franchise out of the slump that the previous film, Spectre<\/em>, put it in. One of Spectre<\/em>\u2019s most glaring flaws was its attempts to tie all of Daniel Craig\u2019s Bond movies together in a shared continuity.<\/p>\n

When Bond tracks down Blofeld in Spectre<\/em>, the investigation needlessly ties him to the Quantum organization from Quantum of Solace<\/em>. Then, when he finally finds him, the scarred megalomaniac tells him, \u201cI\u2019m the author of all your pain,\u201d revealing an elaborate, years-in-the-making plan whereby he was the mastermind behind the deaths of characters like M and Vesper Lynd. Since this clearly wasn\u2019t planned from the beginning, it doesn\u2019t really line up and has a \u201cSomehow, Palpatine returned\u201d air<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n

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This forced continuity was seemingly a response to the MCU\u2019s success with serialized storytelling, but serialization is crucial to how Marvel\u2019s superhero stories are told on the page. The sprawling cosmic worlds of the Marvel universe and the dozens of Avengers now on the team\u2019s roster open it up to long-running storylines involving a variety of characters. But the Bond franchise is just about a spy who goes on a mission<\/a>, cracks the case, gets the girl, then does the same thing over and over again. Its movies follow a loose formula and the fun comes from how that formula is executed. Spectre<\/em> tried to upend the formula and position itself as a chapter in a larger narrative, but why? That undermines Bond\u2019s legacy. If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.<\/p>\n

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Going back to Ian Fleming\u2019s source material, James Bond stories have always been standalone adventures that could take place anywhere on the timeline of Bond\u2019s career<\/a> and it wouldn\u2019t make much of a difference. In the spirit of Fleming\u2019s novels, the Bond movies have always been episodic installments with no connective tissue besides recurring characters like Q and Moneypenny. The focus of each movie or novel is the mission at hand; there are no overarching narratives and very little is known about Bond\u2019s life outside his work with MI6.<\/p>\n

Spectre<\/em> wasn\u2019t the only movie of the Craig era to imply that each one directly follows on from its predecessor \u2013 after the opening car chase in Quantum of Solace<\/em>, Bond pops the trunk to reveal Mr. White, who he was tracking down at the end of Casino Royale<\/em> \u2013 but Spectre<\/em>\u00a0was the first to make it the focal point of the plot. In its middle act, Spectre<\/em> becomes more preoccupied with trying to make its unnecessarily complicated story work than actually entertaining the audience with one-liners and action. The result is one of the worst Bond movies<\/a>, and No Time to Die<\/em><\/a> is doomed to the same fate if it doesn\u2019t buck this trend and get the franchise back to its roots.<\/p>\n

Each Bond movie needs to be a self-contained spy thriller with plenty of high-octane action and escapist fun. The less complicated the plot is, the better \u2013 it\u2019s just there to get 007 from one explosive action sequence in an exotic country to the next explosive action sequence in a different exotic country. With the story of a retired 007 being reluctantly called back into action to face a sinister villain played by Oscar winner Rami Malek<\/a>, No Time to Die<\/em> is primed to stand on its own \u2013 but only if it can let go of almost everything from Spectre<\/em>.<\/p>\n

No Time to Die<\/em> is bringing back some cast members from Spectre<\/em> \u2013 including Christoph Waltz as Blofeld and L\u00e9a Seydoux as Dr. Swann \u2013 suggesting that it will indeed follow on from that movie\u2019s story threads and the threads it forced between Craig\u2019s previous Bond movies<\/a>. With any luck, the connections to Spectre<\/em> will just be a part of the setup. The movie can clear up the franchise\u2019s now-muddled timeline in its first act and then become its own thing, sort of like Thor: Ragnarok<\/em> did with The Dark World<\/em>\u2019s forgettable story threads.<\/p>\n

Pigeonholing the Bond movies in a linear continuity with connected elements seriously limits the creative freedom of the filmmakers. James Bond is one of the few franchises that a director can jump on at any point and provide their own take on the character and his mythos<\/a>. Every filmmaker has their own vision for a Bond movie, and given the opportunity by Eon, no matter what happened in the previous movie or what\u2019s going to happen in the next movie, they can translate that vision to the screen because each movie stands alone. If they have to fit in with an ongoing storyline \u2013 paying off previous teases and setting up future sequels \u2013 then that will cease to be the case.<\/p>\n

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