| Kantor said: How did you feel about Q basically becoming Moss from the IT Crowd? I thought he was incredibly annoying and one of the weak points of that film. |
I had to google the IT Crowd to see what it was. Is that a playful jab at me for not being British and are you trying to prove once again that Americans like Daniel Craig more than people from the UK? :p I may not be an expert on Biritish sitcoms or from there, but I saw you compare Whishaw to John Cleese. Any Bond fan know that the "real" Q is Desmond Lleweln who was Q up until The World Is Not Enough. Cleese was only in two films... Did you start watching the Brosnan films first? This would explain why you like the Brosnan era and think of John Cleese as Q. This is not me picking on you. Just an observation.
My point is that I can understand where you are coming from about the Craig films being "un-Bondlike"if you indeed started watching the Brosnan films first. There are times when I want to see Sean Connery or Roger Moore stroll into the office at MI6 and converse with Lois Mawell's Moneypenny, get instructions from Bernard Lee's M, and gadgets from Desmond Llewelyn's Q but that's not going to happen. It is very different, but I prefer this era to the Brosnan one by a longshot. Part of me probably didn't like that era because I thought that far too many things changed and I suspect that you may be going through the same thing. The thing is that this series has, does, and probably will rock for quite some time. I even like the Brosnan movies (just not as much as the others). What a wonderful series of films this really is.
To finally answer your question about Whishaw, I thought that casting a young and geeky guy as Q makes sense in today's age because young people are by far the most proficient with new technology. An older guy gets baffled by newer stuff (this older guy includes himself in this statement). I also think that Fiennes will do a great job in his role as he is a tremendous actor and the verdict's still out on Naomie Harris...
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