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Are you seriously trying to suggest that the producers of the Bond films assassinated Desmond Lewelyn so that they could give John Cleese a bigger role in the next film?
Cleese will be in the next film, certainly. But he was in TWINE because Lewelyn had been pestering the producers to give him an assistant for quite a few years. While certainly Cleese was being groomed to take over for Lewelyn, I think the producers and various PTB were expecting Lewelyn to be in film 20 as well -- in fact, if he hadn't died, he would've been.
Now, as to what Cleese will be called ... okay, Wes, did you even SEE TWINE? I doubt it, because you apparently operate on the assumption that "R" was Cleese's character's name. IT WASN'T. When was he called "R"? When Bond says to Q, "if you're Q, does that make him R?" Aside for that, no one calls him R. He does not call himself R. For all we know, he is "S" (for Slow, or Stupid).
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Sorry Jeff, while you are tecnically right, the fact that he was credited as "R", the only name he was given was "R", and that in all interviews, merchandise, and official gump, he was called "R", tends to indicate that he'll be called "R" in the next film.
I do agree that there's a possibility he'll be called "Q", but then they might also keep that, er, name empty, to honour Major Boothroyd and Llewelyn.
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Well, then, are going to re-name it "R"-branch?
Always seemed to me Q was Q because he was the head of the Quatermaster Branch (Q-Branch, for short). Just as the person in charge of MI-6 is called M.
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Liam: Ah... See, knowing nothing about "Doctor Who" other than the fact that he time travels in a phone booth and has been played by forty-two different actors, I had no idea what a "time lord" was, so my eyes kind of skipped over that...
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Fair enough. For a boring (but short!) explanation, the Doctor (who isn't called Dr Who. He isn't. Ever.) is from Gallyfrey. Which isn't a gay Irish club, but a planet.
Time Lords, when their body receives a traumatic shock or somesuch, rather than dying, have the ability to regenerate their bodies. This results in them looking different. And having slightly different personalities. It also allows a TV show to last 30 years. It also allows the BBC to deceide that one of the biggest sci-fi shows ever, that's been successfully sold all over the world, and that makes the BBC a shit load of money in merchandise and other stuff, isn't worth making. So the cancel it. Bastards.
Er, anyway, a Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times. So he can have 13 bodies. The Doctor's have been:
William Hartnell Patrick Troughton Jon "Worzel Gumage" Pertwee *all dead* Tom Baker (who's probably getting nervous. But he was in the remake of Randell and Hopkirk. And he rules) Peter Davison Colin Baker (who isn't related to Tom) Sylvester McCoy (who was good. Honest). and, in the film, Paul McGann.
Fun, no?
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Now that I think about it, I do think each actor's "Bond" is a completely different character. As for what happened to Connery's Bond, you only have to look so far as "The Rock."
For those of you who haven't seen this flick, after Alcatraz (known afectionatly as "The Rock") is siezed by vengeful US Marines, the FBI recruits John Mason -- a Federal prisoner -- to help liberate the island. Mason is a British national who has been imprisoned by the US Government for nearly 30 years after he stole, and hid, microfilm detailing "national security" secrets of the US Gov't: who killed JFK, the truth about Roswell, etc.
Anyway, Mason, SAS, was sent by the British government to get the microfilm. He escaped from Alcatraz: the only person to do so.
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ok... you didnt get me. I know no one actually called him R. i own all the films on DVD, ive seen TWINE plenty of times to know this. IM SAYING that i bet he will be called R in the next one to make things easier on the audience.
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Yeah, I have seen The Rock. At first I thought the movie was gonna suck, but in the end it turn out to be pretty ok.
Wes1701E: You have all the bond films on DVD? cool! Your lucky man. I wish I had the cash to get all those movies on DVD. As a matter of fact, I wish I had the cash to get a DVD player!
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Pshaw. They should get John DeLancie to play Q.
Wouldn't THAT drive some people insane?
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Yes! Because no-one (NO-ONE) thought of that joke about, ooh, 12 years ago!
Wouldn't it be funny if Lando was played by a fat bloke with peacock hair! And Londo was played by smooth talking Billy Dee Williams!
LAUGH!
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quote:Sorry Jeff, while you are tecnically right, the fact that he was credited as "R", the only name he was given was "R", and that in all interviews, merchandise, and official gump, he was called "R", tends to indicate that he'll be called "R" in the next film.
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in geological time, a year and a half is an insignificant portion of an eyeblink.
but in internet time, entire online cultures can rise in fall in the length of that five hundred days. its an awful long time to hold onto an 'i told you so'
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