Unless they’ve recut it since you saw it, you’ve missed something. Gabriel mentions it in their first meeting, and they have him coughing up blood at least one other time after he’s diagnosed (in the club scene). Plus they positively dwell on his smoking and how he knows he’s passively-aggressively killing himself.
After Catwoman and Elektra, I don’t think you can continue making the argument that they are just making the movie the non-comic-reading masses want to see.
I often get the feeling that the guy who made that recent McDonald’s “I’d fuck a cheeseburger” ad works for a looooot of different big companies.
Well, for one thing. He is a bird geek, and American. He wrote “Birds of the West Indies”
Also, I can’t help but bring this up, because I remember watching “Jimmy Bond”, Cia agent on TV. I wasn’t alive in 54, but I remember watching the recording of that, the first recorded Bond on film, in which he was american. The following is from
Casino Royale was ‘Fleming, Ian’ 's first James Bond novel. It was the only one not sold to Eon Productions. As a result, CBS TV first adapted it for an episode of Climax! in 1954, starring Barry Nelson as CIA agent Jimmy Bond.
When plans began to adapt the novel as a motion picture, the original thought was to do a straight film of the novel. But with the success of Sean Connery’s Bond, it was decided the only way a rival Bond film could survive would be as a parody. The Peter Sellers sequence is the only part of Ian Fleming’s novel to make it into the film. The confrontation with Le Chiffre in the casino, the plan to discredit Le Chiffre with SMERSH and the villain’s execution by enemy agents are all in the novel. So is the notion of Bond writing a book on baccarat, and the element of Vesper being an enemy spy. Reportedly, Eon Productions has been trying to buy back the rights to Casino Royale for years, in hopes of someday making a serious Bond film out of the novel
SOme how, I believe that this makes all the comic book fans right, in the same way that religious people find the least bit of fluff as proof of miracles.
Heh. I’ll let you know next week. It came in my netflix yesterday, I’ll be watching it on the train Monday morning. That’s ok. I’m apparently the only person on the planet who hated Kill Bill I & II. I thought it was tripe to gag for. What’s worse, is that I reaaaallly like Keanu. Can’t help it. I don’t mind most of the stuff he’s in, and I want to do baaad naughty things to him.
Uuh. I digress. I’ll get back to you on the Garden State thing later…