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Great instincts on the part of the Season 1 producers to identify that iconic scene from the Pilot, and continue to use it.
As @commanderRoss said it ties in with an all out assault on Uncle HQ by a Thrush assault team.
Riveting stuff. If we get an Uncle follow-up, hopefully Thrush will be reintroduced.
When I saw the SP scene for the first time, the Uncle scene immediately popped into my head.
in which Jim Dale also fired a gun. :D Blofeld's helicopter is an obvious
reference to Airwolf, along with the train sequence which is unarguably
an homage to Von Ryans Express. :))
This interview:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/skyfall/
What are some of your favorite title sequences in general, whether film or television?
As a child I loved the opening to The Man From Uncle. The way Napoleon Solo stands behind the bulletproof glass being shot at perhaps subliminally influenced my mirror scene in Skyfall. Get Smart was a good one. Man with the Golden Arm was a great visual. Oddly, I’ve never really taken a great deal of notice of title sequences. I didn’t set out to do them and I don’t do any other than Bond, which I do for fun. I’m really an advertising director and therefore shoot a lot of disparate types of things. I suppose I don’t think of myself as a title sequence director.
Hopefully they can squeeze out a sequel, and go full Uncle versus Thrush. They could keep budget under control if they put emphasis on script, story style and great music and then maybe make some money.
Wonder if movie will break even with video market. Theatre audiences seemed to recover after first week and decent word of mouth.
Saw blu-ray in HMV today. Did not like price. Will order on-line instead.
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It's like remaking the first Mission Impossible movie just about Phelps and Barney Collier's hostilities towards eachother whilst they fight neo-nazis as a laughable plotline, throwing in a bit of a Cinnamon Carter love rivalry to spice things up, and closing the film on an IMF throwaway line and forgetting everything else about the original show (no theme music, no taped-recordings, no nothing)... and hey presto - a new franchise is reborn. Though I'm sure some here might have liked that concept and actually bought the DVD steelbook edition. :-?
Actually, in some ways, that would have been better than what we got in 1996. At least, Phelps wouldn't have been turned into a traitor, and we'd have two more series characters in the movie. :-)
I'm kidding, but only to a degree.
But in defense of UNCLE they were upfront in the press about not copying anything directly from the series and making it completely their own take on the characters of Solo and Illya. They wanted to capture the tone of the series without duplicating anything from it. As filmmakers they wanted to make their own version of it. That said, I still think they did a lot better than any of the other remakes that did copy direct elements their respective TV series. The Green Hornet, The Lone Ranger, Wild Wild West, The Avengers, The A Team, The first MI (which had Phelps turned into a traitor and zero reference to rest of Phelp's IMF team. The following films still have not captured the tone of the original series which was extremely grounded in reality against the preposterousness of the plots. The music is familiar but not much else). And even though UNCLE did not directly copy anything from the series there are dozens of scenes and elements which parallel the original series such as Solo eating the sandwich in the truck while Illya is fighting for his life, Illya playing chess and threatening to take Gaby over his knee, approaching the safe and Illya saying "it's all yours", Illya's comment as Rudi burns " He fixed the glitch" and more all capture the "Tone" remarkably well.
You also overlooked the fact that Solo and Illya are politically opposed to each other while Jim and Barney both work for the same government. It makes sense that there would be friction between Solo and Illya while it would not make sense for the members of the IMF to be at odds with each other. Of course there is the fact that Rollin had a thing for Cinnamon......... so maybe a love rivalry would have work in there somewhere after all.
And then Phelps had a thing for Cinnamon in the second and third seasons.
The guy burning scene was vintage Uncle. Very well done.
If we get Part 2 I'd look to hype.it up a bit more.
Quickly get the characters into full Uncle operational mode. Tailor shop, HQ, triangle badges, girls everywhere, Thrush as world threat.
Go all in!
...and not just because Mad Max and Sicario are´t featured.
That is an odd list, perhaps as I have not heard of more than 50% of the movies.
There always are, but it is custom to name a familiar movie not some c-movie nobody in his right mind would watch.
So how did all those other films end up there?
Being pretentious knows no limits. ;)
True. I should know.
Color me skeptical based on the phrasing in the story. (Story suggests Guy Ritchie is in the running to direct Bond 25).