“There’s no news like bad news.” -Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
“Cuckoo!” -Christoph Walts as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre (2015)
Really, both of them are insane!
This scene from Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) has to be one of the weakest a Bond villain has ever looked. Who signed off on having the end of this scene? Cringe!
I’ve always thought that Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) Tomorrow plot in TND is one of the most realistic/plausible villain plots of the entire series – controlling information and the media is a very powerful thing (hat-tip Elon Musk/Twitter). I’ll give credit to the double-entendre anchorman quote to Carver, but his end “imitation” of Wai-Lin’s (Michelle Yeoh) fighting skills is nothing short of the “pathetic” word he elicits himself. Gross!
The Tomorrow Never Dies opening title card
There, I said it. And yes, it is better than Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as 007 in GoldenEye (1995). * GASP *
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Elliot Carver (played by Jonathan Pryce) retypes a headline of his Tomorrow newspaper to make it more sensational in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
He had to type the headline himself? Didn’t have an editor? And an unnecessary, sensational change…crazy!
