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JAMES BOND - Quantum of Solace Trailer !

Gotta get this one out. Courtesy of Moviefone. The official teaser trailer for the next James bond film, Quantum of Solace. Quantum of Solace is a James Bond short story by Ian Fleming and a part of the For Your Eyes Only collection.

What does this title mean anyway ? Let’s see:

Quantum:

–adjective 6. sudden and significant: a quantum increase in productivity.

Solace:

4. to alleviate or relieve (sorrow, distress, etc.).

So we know James is not a happy man after losing Vespa in Casino Royale, so I’m thinking this is a story about revenge. Slashfilm points to a USA Today article (I’ll paraphrase):

Quantum of Solace picks up where Casino Royale ended, with Bond working his way up the chain of command of the terrorists who blackmailed his lover, Vesper Lynd. Quantum of Solace comes from a short story by 007 author Ian Fleming, and it’s not a spy story but a tale told to Bond about another couple’s tragic romance. The short story has nothing else to do with the movie…

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I was sold on Craig after watching Munich and was thrilled after Casino Royale. He is the baddest of all Bond’s. Whereas Connery may have started and defined the role, Moore gave us a more playboy Bond, Dalton (often underrated) was the toughest one and probably closest to Fleming’s version, Brosnan was a welcome refreshment but was never taken to the heights they should have with him in the role, but Craig is the epitome of James Bond, bad ass mofrain to the Nth degree.

This is one of the rare films I am waiting for as Hollywood continues to release cartoon CG and Pop Corn fluff, this one is looking like it’s going to deliver.

Here is some Wiki’age on the orginal Short Story by Ian Fleming for those of you who simply crave more:

“Quantum of Solace”

“Quantum of Solace” is not a spy story and Bond appears only in the background. Told in the style of W Somerset Maugham, the tale has Bond attending a boring dinner party at the Government House in Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau with a group of socialites he can’t stand.

Bond makes a remark after dinner when the other guests have left in order to stimulate conversation, about always having thought it would be nice to marry an air hostess. This solicits a careful reply from the elderly Governor of The Bahamas who tells 007 a sad tale about a relationship between a former civil servant he calls Philip Masters, stationed in Bermuda, and air hostess Rhoda Llewellyn.

After meeting aboard a flight to London the two eventually married but after a time Rhoda became unhappy with her life as a housewife. She then began a long cuckold|open affair with the eldest son of a rich Bermudan family. As a result Masters’ work deteriorated and he suffered a nervous breakdown. After recovering he was given a break from Bermuda by the governor and sent on an assignment to Washington to negotiate fishing rights with the US.

At the same time the governor’s wife had a talk with Rhoda just as her affair ended. Masters returned a few months later and decided to end his marriage, although he and Rhoda continued to appear as a happy couple in public. Masters returned alone to the UK, leaving a penniless Rhoda stranded in Bermuda, an act which he’d been incapable of carrying out merely months earlier. But Masters never recovered emotionally, nor recaptured any spark of vitality. The governor goes on to tell Bond how after a time Rhoda married a rich Canadian and seems to be happy.

When Bond remarks that she hardly deserved her good fortune, the governor says that Masters had always been rather weak, and that perhaps Fate chose Rhoda as its instrument to teach him a lesson. Bond deduces that the dinner companions whom he found so boring were Rhoda and her new husband, and he tells the governor she was much more interesting than he had thought.

While the story does not include action elements, as other Fleming tales do, it attempts to posit that Bond’s adventures pale in comparison with real life drama. Bond reflects that the lives of the people he passes somewhat superficial judgements upon can in fact hide poignant episodes.

Characters in “Quantum of Solace”

James Bond
Rhoda Llewellyn
Philip Masters (a false name used by the Governor to refer to the man in his anecdote)
Governor”’

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