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How to 'fix' Casino Royale

posted 11 years ago by knawdas
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Want to make this movie sensical (well, considerably more so)? All you will need is a minor degree of movie-editing know how.

* Every Bond movie needs a pre-title sequence, so try cutting the opening titles and putting them right after Sir James's estate explodes. Experiment with transitioning from the titles into the "Sir James Bond is back" scene. Putting the titles here allows some time to pass for Bond to get back into the swing of things.

* Now the major fix - put the Evelyn Tremble story together. Move the entire Mata Bond sequence to just after Cooper's training; and after the Berlin Wall blows up, THEN have Sir James enter Vesper's office. If placed correctly, Evelyn being fitted in Q Branch should lead directly into the shot of his plane landing, before he punches the customs man.

* Put the brief pre-title scene of Evelyn and Mathis before the car wash scene, where it was meant to go.

* For extra credit, try adding a gunbarrel at the start of the first scene of the cars arriving at the crossroad - I recommend using the one from "Dr. No." (Bonus points if you dub in a pop-gun sound, like Feldman intended.)

Seriously... by just shuffling things around a bit, the movie becomes MUCH better and far easier to understand - to the point where I have no idea why no commercial release has attempted this. It's so obvious.

[–] DwightFry 11 years ago

Might work but, wouldn't the whole Bond estate scene be way too long for a pre-credits teaser? I'd try having it until "The true, one and only, original, James Bond" cutting to Niven doing his up-and-down chair exercise, as a gag. "THAT is James Bond?", and cut from that to the credits, having the rest of the scene afterwards.

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[–] Pearsey 10 years ago

Suggestions sound good. I'm watching it again right now and I'd cut out the entire Scottish castle scene. I think the parts with Peter Sellers are great as well as the International Mother's Help sequence in East Berlin.

[–] greenbudgie 10 years ago

Your suggestion is a brave attempt to bring sense and continuity to a hodge podge of a film. I think I would edit it down to 90 minutes rearranging the scenes and music that I like about the film. But to do that I would have to sacrifice sense and continuity. I would just let what I find the more pleasing parts of the film just wash over me 1960s pop art style. It would be much more enjoyable to me editing the film that way.