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Makes you wonder what his backstory is as he's undefined for the most part.
True. would that mean Spectre stole White from Quantum?
That makes him (at-least) the second actor from my all-time favorite movie to also appear in a Bond movie. Bill Weston, who was a stuntman in 2OO1 and in several Bond movies, played Blayden Butler in TLD. According to Michael Benson’s “Space Odyssey: Kubrick, Clarke and The Making of A Masterpiece”, Weston would almost blackout from oxygen deprivation after filming his scenes.
Or that Spectre absorbed Quantum. I quote Q: "...they were all part of the same organisation. Le Chiffre, Quantum, Sciarra, your friend Mr Silva."
Well, as Q is part of the opposition, he needn't getting things right of course. Le Chiffre wasn't 'part' of anyorganisation, or at least that's not the feeling I get from CR, but rather working for any organisation that would hire him. That's why M is hellbend on getting him alive. Obanno for sure wasn't part of it and white says something in the lines of 'all we can do is introduce you', meaning they are not part of the same organisation.
Come to think of it, perhaps White was liason between Quantum and SPECTRE as well. Would make sense why he'd run after the money. They were de facto stealing from Quantum.
Both his movies have a good deal of clever improvisation from Bond. Bond has of course always improvised himself out of situations, but in Tim's films he deliberately goes into confrontations that cannot be planned.
His initial conversation with Kara is a total mystery box for him, and you can see his brain working a bit as he bluffs Kara. It's clear from context and body language that he had no idea what would happen when he confronted Pushkin either.
In LTK, he has two conversations with Sanchez that require improvisation as well. He goes straight to his office at the casino and can't have any idea how it will go. Later, you can see the moment when he realizes he can set up Krest.
Maybe it's a minor thing, but I really love this theme in his movies, and I think it's pretty rare to see Bond dive into a situation he knows he'll have to spontaneously bluff through. It seems like a proper Dalton thing....
Well, if the SPECTRE of the novels is anything to go by, Quantum is probably played bij SPECTRE, definately not a subsidiary. SPECTRE stays out of sight and lets others do the dirty work.
Yep, that's definately something to love in the Dalton films, and Dalton thereby delivers on his promise to go back to Fleming's Bond.
Ah yes, because we all know that the latest films still adhere to Fleming. /s
Yes, but I was merely pointing out that the films don't intend to follow that structure. Unless you were both talking hypothetically and not rationalizing something that isn't.
Thank you. It's a bit like choosing the name of the Denise Richards character in TWINE so one could make those Christmas puns, no more.
Yes indeed, as if that was needed with her. Still, she was the hottest thing on two legs at the time.
But I digress. I don'ttake any theory on how it all falls together seriously. I do like the excercise though as it makes it all work a little bit better. SP was the one-and only Bond film I thought lasted too long whilst I saw it the first time in the cinema. Even with DAD I didn't feel like that. There were too many things to take you out of the story and the 'interconnection' was certainly one of them. But with White as liason in the back of my mind it doesn't irritate me as much.
He almost does though, by his own people.
Yes, I thought about that scene, but it isn t quite the same.
No, it's not, but that's actually one of the things I like about that sequence.
As someone said, "Quantum of Solace" = "Terrorist Organization of Comfort".
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It could really be him. Good catch.
Talk about catching:
I love such statistics.
Is he captured in FRWL? Does the scene before the train fight count?
He isn t taken to the villain s hideout in TLD, unless you count the Afghanistan sequence, and think the Soviets are the villains. He goes to Whitaker s base on his own account.
So need to check that out!