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Case for: this is a throw-back to the days when the villains chewed up the screen and engaged in long dialogue (rants if you will) with James about their plans for world domination. No one will do this better than Pacino.
Case against: Pacino? Really? He's too established and won't be able to get past himself to get into a new character. If he makes that whoo-ahhh! noise from Scent of a Woman I will be very upset.
Seriously, what do you think?
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RE: What do you think of Pacino being cast?
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Feb 26 2008, 11:40 AM EST
Spacey would be very good. I'd want to see the performance adjusted a little because James Bond is a more dark and grown-up genre (in this incarnation, anyway) than Superman and needs a darker, drier villain.
You know what James Bond REALLY needs in the villain department? Here, I'll tell you what James Bond really needs. He needs a Rene Belloq, someone who brilliantly psychoanalyzes and subtly influences everyone he talks to. (http://mkfreeberg.webloggin.com/non-intimidating-movie-villains/, jump halfway down the page.)
Bad-guy-against-bad-guy intellectual conflict is always fascinating. Going all the way back to the Connery days, Bond movies have used this to great success, but sparingly (except in CR and FRWL -- two of the very best).
We need to see a whole lot more of that.
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