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I love the elevator scene. Not as a nod to DAF, however, which I think is probably coincidental, but as a reply to it. More tension, more suspense and more atmosphere too.
Usually listening to the music, trying to figure out which Batman film it's
From ! :D
CGI? That was not CGI. Craig does all his own stunts!!! That actually was Craig holding on, 20+ stories up. And he did it without a harness, too. The whole "hand slip" was improvised. ;)
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That is blue screen.
"One scene that was too complicated to shoot on location was Bond's infiltration of a Chinese skyscraper and subsequent fist fight — a sequence that sends Patrice the assassin flying out of a window. Bond stealthily grabs hold of the bottom of an elevator to follow Patrice, an effect that involved camera trickery but was no less demanding of Craig. "He does dangle," says Powell. "He's never standing, even if it's a blue screen set." "
http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/44136940/skyfall-stuntman-reveals-how-they-devised-and-pulled-off-the-movie-s-big-set-pieces
Yes, but in a franchise that prides itself on amazing stunts done for real, scenes like this do begin to pale in comparison. I wouldn't mind if it wasn't so bleeding obvious.
Even stunts that were done for real involved a little green screen or blue screen. Look at some of the Ski stunts, they used stuntmen who could ski fantastically, but when Bond's face had to be seen, it looked pretty obvious it wasn't them. Take this scene from The Spy Who Loved Me's PTS -
Indeed.
I don't see any rear projection when Sylvester skis of the cliff, neither do I see it when when the AMC corkscrews, or when Kananga steps across the crocodiles. That's my problem with the scene- the CGI is the stunt, which for me, has no tension.
But its not really an action stunt after all, is it? Its a dramatic moment where Bond follows a villain, nothing more. Would it be better with a stunt double when the point is to show how the ageing Bond is still wounded and not to his usual stength? I have no problem with practicality sometimes being the priority...
I appreciate your point, but this is nevertheless nitpicking at its silliest...
Sorry for not being able to understand the grave tragedy of blue screen being used for a short moment. My intellect is just not up to your level, I guess...
It's not nitpicking. It just another case of CGI in SKYFALL that took me out of the experience. That's one of the biggest sins that a film can commit, IMO. I'm not a SKYFALL hater, nor am I a lover. But the CGI really bugged me.
"Would it be better with a stunt double when the point is to show how the ageing Bond is still wounded and not to his usual stength?"
That's tenous at best.
But I apologise for finding something to criticise. I thought it was the purpose of this thread.
The purpose of this thread is not merely to criticise, but also to debate that criticism. I apologize for not agreeing with you.
If it doesn't qualify as nitpicking it certainly qualifies as sensitivity. A sensitivity you are entitled to of course... But if short moments of CGI is the explenation for why this scene is "the silliest in Craigs era" (I know that's not your statement)... well, then I can sleep well on Craig's behalf... :-j
I didn't lay on the sarcasm thick enough. :-O
That or Silvas entire plan which was ridiculous.
Well, yes. There isn't much else to complain about regarding "silliness" in the Craig era.
Elvis, Skyfall's CGI, Bond meets Kevin McCallister, Bond falling 100ft and surviving and perhaps the QOS parachute scene, and my list stops there.
How amazing it have been if Tanner take laptop back and trow it out of the window whyle the car driving around the thames or better M trowing out her self.
In his book, Lifted, Andreas Bernard states that the elevator became the instrument that illustrated social mobility. Before, it was the lower levels of buildings that were the residence of the upper class. Ever since, that has flipped. The higher up, the higher "level" of social class.
Bond is an orphan, and in this reboot with Craig, his childhood background has been revealed more than ever (in the films, that is). Remember what Vesper guessed this about him. In the Craig films, the elevator does indeed represent the social mobility that James Bond sought to achieve, due to deep feelings of inferiority. He lives in that world but is an outsider. And at one point his "ego" is so inflated that vesper won't even get into the elevator with him. No surprise that the elevator is the means by which she commits suicide. With the elevator plunging, Both "orphans" are taken down, by the higher order they can't defeat. This is why Bond's fight scene is on the stairs at Hotel Splendide and not the lift.
This is also why it's no surprise that the very opening scene of the reboot (in CR) is an elevator scene. Careful attention is paid to the floors Dryden is ascending to. And who's there already? Bond.
In SF, the elevator scene is equally important. Bond ascends, but from the outside, hanging on for dear life. It's symbolic of his own struggles to not only arrive at a higher point in life, but to stay there. CGI or not, the scene is symbolically important.
That is really fascinating.
I always understood that Bond knew her name from the beginning, but had not been formerly introduced and asked the question as politeness.
Texting, kissing, crunching through the film as to who she is ! ;)