This afternoon, heat TV editor Boyd Hilton and I are having fun attempting to work the phrase "quantum of solace" into everyday conversation. I suggest you try it at home/work too.
Not to turn this into another discussion of Zombie movies, but... I liked Land, it was just a little disappointingly after such a long wait, plus as my first Romero zombie movie in a cinema.
Because I didn't pay enough attention to the pre-publicity for Land Of The Dead I mistook Asia Argento for Bouff and thought she was co-starring. I was consequently staggered and disappointed to find she wasn't in the damn film...
"the quantum of solace, he says, is a precise figure defining the comfort, humanity and fellow feeling required between two people for love to survive. If the quantum of solace is nil, then love is dead."
Really? I mean, really?
ReplyDeletep.s. So that I can correct my accidental badmouthing of one of my favourite films, please click here...
You're shitting me?
ReplyDeleteYep, really. It's been on the radio and everything! Every time I hear it, I laugh like some breed of drain.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh, you meant Land. I can see what you mean, although I liked Land a fair deal... and much more than Diary...
Did your jaw hit the ground as hard as mine when you heard? I mean what's it actually meant to mean...
ReplyDeleteQuantum- "any of the very small parts into which many forms of energy can be subdivided and which cannot be further subdivided."
Solace- "comfort in distress or disappointment or tedium."
So, 'a very small part of unsubdividable energy of comfort in distress and tedium'... it's not very Bond-like... it's not even very English-like! :)
PS: I thought Land Of The Dead was a fine film...
ReplyDelete...but I have no taste!
This afternoon, heat TV editor Boyd Hilton and I are having fun attempting to work the phrase "quantum of solace" into everyday conversation. I suggest you try it at home/work too.
ReplyDeleteIt will be a quantum of solace to me if I can!
ReplyDeleteNot to turn this into another discussion of Zombie movies, but... I liked Land, it was just a little disappointingly after such a long wait, plus as my first Romero zombie movie in a cinema.
ReplyDeleteBecause I didn't pay enough attention to the pre-publicity for Land Of The Dead I mistook Asia Argento for Bouff and thought she was co-starring. I was consequently staggered and disappointed to find she wasn't in the damn film...
ReplyDeleteThe Beeb just said the title comes from an Ian Fleming short story title... !
ReplyDeleteStill terrible though.
Yes, it's from the For Your Eyes Only collection. Presumably the next film will be called Property of a Lady or possibly The Hildebrand Rarity?
ReplyDeleteShame they spunked Everything Or Nothing on a Bond video game really.
PS - I really liked Land!
I think I know what it means.
ReplyDeleteSolace is obviously this company:
http://www.solaceenterprises.com/
Who sound evil from their blurb.
And Quantum must be some kind of midget bodyguard. He probably throws bow-ties or crusty undies or something.
It makes no sense. But then film titles rarely do... "Rancid Aluminium"???
ReplyDeleteHere's a good list of stupid titles:
http://www.angelfire.com/ut/TheEdge/StupidMovie.html
I actually like a lot of those titles, but the best has to be "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla".
ReplyDeleteMy much older dictionary makes it make sense: A desired amount of solace...
ReplyDelete...in effect 'A Crumb Of Comfort'.
If you want to be all serious about it:
ReplyDelete"the quantum of solace, he says, is a precise figure defining the comfort, humanity and fellow feeling required between two people for love to survive. If the quantum of solace is nil, then love is dead."
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only
I just help it with this seriocity biz, can I? I am a bad bad man...
ReplyDelete(Interesting quote though.)
What was wrong with the title Bond22 anyway? :)