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'Quantum of Solace' Natural Resource Revealed?

SPOILERS: Gemma Arterton possibly reveals what villain Dominic Greene is after...

http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/01/2...ond-james-bond/

With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, you can see why the studios and producers behind the James Bond films want to keep plot and cast details under wraps for as long as possible. Some cast members are finding levels of secrecy befitting a super spy somewhat scary, however.

Gemma Arterton, who plays Agent Fields in the upcoming “Quantum of Solace”, was asked by reporters this week about the plot of the new movie. Apart from telling us that she meets Bond in Bolivia, and that there is “a lot of oil” involved, she gives little away.

Arterton, who starred in the recent comedy “St. Trinian’s”, explained how each copy of the script was individually named, so that should one go missing, the studio would be able to identify the guilty party.

“You have to work out what you can and cannot say,” she said. “It’s quite hard for me who has a bit of a motor mouth. I’ve been learning for the last six months to think before I speak.”

Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson said the title of “Bond 22″ was easy to keep secret because they only thought it up a few days before the official press launch on Thursday. Even so, some Web sites devoted to all things Bond had correctly guessed the new name well before that.

When Daniel Craig was unveiled as the new Bond in 2005 amid major fanfare, the cat was already out of the bag. His mother had told a regional newspaper earlier in the day.

So oil it is, it seems.

Oil sort of ties in with the sticky end comment, come to think of it.

Well, after all our more or less serious guesses in another thread, maybe oil is not a bad idea. OK, it's the same "natural resource" as in TWINE, but it's so important nowadays that there seems to be few other challenging resources.

I figured as much. Perhaps "Green Planet's" prospectors discover a massive, new natural well and in gaining control of the land it's on, can establish a position of supreme market authority?

Yeah, I suggested in another thread that perhaps Fields will die with having her head submerged in oil thus choking and suffocating her. Then Bond finds her dead body in the same manner as Jill Masterson.

It's true. It feels considerably more important and crucial than it did back in 1999.

That said, while the choice of oil is no deal-breaker for me, it's a little disappointing that there isn't a slightly more original angle.

No, really, I don't think this would be as visually attractive as the golden body of Jill Masterson... She would look like a cormorant stuck in an oil slick!

Yep...I'm thinking the iconic imagery and "sticky end" are one and the same. Drowned in oil, and left naked for Bond to discover. I'd put money on it.

Seems like a rather crude way to kill somebody.

Erk! Really filthy... and not very discreet, with drops of oil everywhere on the carpet... Nobody ever thinks about the cleaning ladies?!

I wouldn't. Not only does that go beyond homage into the realm of silly, nonsensical rip-off (moreso than DIE ANOTHER DAY ever did), the villain hasn't started drilling for oil (and why would he want to waste it by killing her... it's not like cheap gold paint). Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be an "oil obsession" on Greene's part to justify such a bizarre usage.

Lord, I hope that's not it. In my mind, the homage could still be FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, and even if it is GOLDFINGER, it's not going to be an oil-coated death.

Yes- I'd agree with that.

Oil, huh? Yeah, a little bit of a let down, but in the name of reason and practical sense I forgive them. Maybe we’ll be seeing a little bit more of the inky substance than we did in TWINE? Aside from the titles sequence, we never saw any Texas tea, just the pipelines. Unless you count that caviar pool. That looked a bit like…

Wait a second!!! She never once confirmed in her statement what kind of oil!

Could be olive! Or baby?

Hmmm…