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Doesn´t Bond, when he shows MP the video from the old M, say that he was trailing Sciarra for the last six weeks? Could be I´m mistaken.
- In the script, it's say there are 9 month that Bond have received the video of Judi Dench (http://www.commander007.net/2015/11/spectre-script-17-octobre-partie-1/)
- But during the shooting in Mexico, Micheal G. Wilson have said that Spectre is set two month after Skyfall (http://www.commander007.net/2015/04/spectre-le-point-sur-le-tournage-5-sous-le-soleil-de-mexico/)
No, he just says "I've been trailing Sciarra since then."
It felt like a few months. Nothing to hang that on other than a feeling. But it would make sense it wasn't just a week later - I imagine things like personal effects from Skyfall would take quite a while to be cleared by her majesty's government. Also the appearance of C and his team feels like it didn't just happen over night. So I'd say a few months at least. And you must be alone in wanting bond 25 to happen between SF and SP! That's madness!
Bond did not live in Skyfall since childhood! FFS! Also, what happened to Kincaid's dogs? Why didn't Bond adopt one for London?
I had the same thought, but I guess that Blofeld couldn't start mentioning people we had never heard of as that would have confused us.
That's because Skyfall is set four/six (to this day I have no idea in what year QoS takes place*) years after Quantum of Solace, but I agree they should have made one more film in between before going from rookie to veteran agent.
*Casino Royale is set in 2006 (the Venice sequence takes place in August if I recall correctly), whereas according to Greene's party ticket Quantum of Solace is set in 2008. Some suggested it took Bond two years to track down Mr. White, but at the beginning of QoS Bond and M discuss about CIA being displeased at LeChiffre's death, which implies little time has past. Also, it feels weird to think Bond is still grieving Vesper's loss after two years.
I apologise for my english.
QoS continues on directly (mere minutes) from CR. The year is inconsequential. Changing the ticket in Greene's party would only be drawing attention to an irrelevancy. The story is where you will find continuity, not in the detail, because it is the story, and not a time specific chronology, that matters. Think of it this way, the story exists - CR is looking at it through the prism of 2006, where QoS is looking at the same story through the prism of 2008. Basically, time specific detail is irrelevant. The SF story pitches Bond as a more seasoned agent and again, it is irrelevant how much 'specific' time has passed. Time in Bond's world does not adhere to reality.
Are there any missions in between the Craig films?? Since the new "M" says "Are you ready to get back to work 007", and we get the classified mission folder..: obviously Bond went rogue so what was the mission?
Agreed, it's like 'Lord of War' with Nicolas Cage where all the characters carry the same hairstyle/style of clothing in the entire film, despite the film covering the early 1980's to the early 2000's. Basically the director of that film decided to focus more on the story and character development than in being realistic about the fashion changes in those 20 years. Same with CR/QOS, the producers most likely decided to disregard the timeline errors (2006, 2008) and took more time in fleshing out the plot/characters.
What I can't understand is why they wrapped it up like this, just to take it in an entirely different direction for SP. Should've had the mission that was in the folder be Bond's mission for the 24th film.
It's not a mistake. They made CR in 06 and so every date is applicable to (roughly) when it was produced. They made QoS in 08, so likewise all dates correlate with that year. They aren't telling a story that is bound by an accurate 'time-specific' chronology. If you want to you can assume, while watching QoS, that the events of CR took place in 08. The point is, it doesn't matter (unless you're one of those people who fixates on inconsequential minutiae - it's a disorder, the name of which I can't remember).
Do you understand how writing and storytelling works?
They've just made it up as they've gone along, attempting to create a loose (or firm as the case may be) link between the films, while ignoring timeline inconsistencies between them. So they are internally consistent, but not so consistent timeline wise across the films.
This could obviously have been avoided with a little forethought and vision rather than retro fits, but it is what it is, and we have what we have. Some will ignore it, and some will fixate on the little details.
I hope we just get back to straight missions, like many here. This interlinked period has become tiresome imho.
Again, though, shouldn't there be a title card or something to explain the time jump? Most films will make the audience aware that a significant time has elapsed between scenes. Also, it doesn't really make sense to open a film directly after the previous one if they're going to jump forward shortly after.
The surveillance tapes showed the date being "July or June 2006"..
QOS happens right after CR in real time but there are references to the film being
set in 2008... "SF" 2013, "SP", 2015..
Here's the problem!
M died in "SF", so why would Bond get a message and go on the mission
two years later? It literally makes no sense. I think it's just typical continuity errors
they hope no one will notice. It is extremely confusing. Also, if Bond did go on other missions
why weren't more villains mentioned or what he did inbetween films mentioned?
Unless of course there were no threats and Bond just trained new agents and did surveillance work? Maybe Bond got the video message from "M" and it literally took two years to find
"Sciarro"? It's pretty confusing honestly.
Considering I have worked on several films and been a somewhat professional actor for 12 years I would say more than you will ever know.. It's a continuation error. No need to be a dick but what's wrong with speculating if anything happened inbetween films?
There is no time jump.
Not how storytelling works. Why does this need to be known? It doesn't.