A Paris Intermission guest starring James Bond

An IM conversation with friends and a call from Catt reminded me of the short nature of my Parisian interlude, so I decided to talk about something that is of universal importance and consequence: Daniel Craig is James Bond number 6!
I can’t honestly say he is perfect, but he will certainly bring new dimensions to the role. He was fine in Layer Cake, but James Bond? I think he can actually pull off the fabled magnetism, the style, the wit, and he proved that he could portray the haunted-killer character. However, people want Bond to be entertaining first and foremost,
Bond may kill without a second thought, he gives everything for the country he loves, his loved ones die or are maimed, and he washes it away with vodka. However, what makes the character tolerable is that he does it all with the façade of the English Gentlemen with a smile on his face while tossing out cruel joke. Dalton proved that you couldn’t just make a gritty action movie; you have to maintain the fun.
Casino Royale can make a very good film, its more character driven, and less spectacle then the other Bond stories. Tarantino has written several treatments of this story, and I would love to find them. Of course, I have my own vision of how to tell this story, but I trust the director, and the rewriter of the script (the original authors of the script, Purvis and Wade, I do not trust).
So here are Sage’s do’s and don’t for the film:
1.) There has to be a convincing romance with Vesper. Daniel Craig had it right with the best Bond Girl being Diana Riggs, but she is one of a kind so they’ll have to make do with someone close.
2.) Portray and cast Vesper correctly; she is a formative character for the young Mr. Bond. Jessica Alba apparently is campaigning for the roll (I found out with my broken French) and I think she would be perfect. Vesper isn’t the usual Bond girl from recent films; she is more fragile and flawed. It can be argued that it is her that ultimately drives Bond to his playboy lifestyle.
3.) Keep in La Vie del Rose (knowing the producers, it will unfortunately be a remix).
4.) Bond has to change into the superspy we know and love. He must realize that he cannot afford mistakes, and that the only world for him is the lonely world of the assassin, which he is what he is first and foremost.
5.) Sean Connery should be LeChiffre.
6.) Q should give the young Bond a crappy car.
7.) Bond should see LeChiffre’s Aston Martin, be angry that this enemy of England drives it, and should steal it. He is thereafter assigned Aston Martins.
8.) They should reference how Bond got his double O. They should also note that he is the best shot in the agency.
9.) Colin Salmon should stay as the Chief of Staff (Bond’s only friend in the department). The relationship was developing very well in the Brosnan era, and it could be a very good source of future plot work.
10.) They could maintain LeChiffre and his crew as a continuing bad guy, alla S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (bonus points for those who know what it stands for), but I like the end of the original story.
This is the end of my first Bond rambling. A FaceBook wall message from Nefarious Nathan brought me back to Paris. That sinister man will be here in Paris in December, and we’ll have to meet up.