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- Bond departs the Ocean Club in Nassau driving a 1964 Aston Martin DB5.
- Bond arrives at Miami Airport in the back seat of a 2000 Ford Crown Victoria taxi.
Question: How does OO7 get from Nassau to Miami, if nothing is shown in between?
CURSE YOU MARC FORSTER!!!
https://www.nassau-airport.com/parking.php
https://www.expedia.com/lp/flights/nas/mia/nassau-to-miami
http://www.miami-airport.com/taxicabs-shuttles.asp
Your theory is indeed the closest one,so far Richard !
Some other scenes where we didn’t need to waste the audience’s time with superfluous shots and instead let them indulge in the altogether more fun exercise of just guessing what happened themselves:
FRWL – In possibly the most tense scene of the series, Bond is on his knees at the mercy of SPCTRE’s top assassin. ‘Lumme Bond’s in a pretty pickle here’, thinks the audience, ‘I wonder how he’s going to get out of this one?’ Cut to Bond taking the money of Grant’s corpse ‘You won’t be needing this old man’.
So I’m gonna go with:
- The gold sovereigns, tear gas and knife in the case and the watch garrotte are shown.
-Bond tempts Grant into opening the case so that the tear gas goes off in his face, a fight ensues and Bond is being garrotted by Grant but turns the tables by stabbing him in the arm with the hidden knife in his case and then garrottes him with his own watch. [unseen]
- Bond empties the dead Grant’s pockets.
How Bond defeats this formidable trained killer who has him at gunpoint to me has no more consequence than how OO7 gets from the Ocean Club to Miami Airport. I see the results on screen, don't need convincing
YOLT - ‘There’s an exshpoldah button up in the control room. We’ve got to get up there.’ Cut to Bond coming back down after saving the world ,'Tiger we've done it'.
So I’m gonna go with:
- The exploder button and key are shown by Blofeld.
- Bond fights his way up to the control room, gets the key off Hans and somehow averts Armageddon. [unseen]
- The world is saved.
The prevention of WW3 to me has no more consequence than how OO7 gets from the Ocean Club to Miami Airport. I see the results on screen, don't need convincing.
MR– Bond gets pushed out of a plane without a parachute. Cut to Bond walking into the office and saying to MP ‘I fell out of a plane without a parachute.’
So I’m gonna go with:
- The pilot wearing a parachute and falling out first is shown.
- Bond miraculously chases down the pilot, wrestles the parachute off him. [unseen]
- Bond strolls casually into the office.
How Bond survives falling out of a plane sans parachute to me has no more consequence than how OO7 gets from the Ocean Club to Miami Airport. I see the results on screen, don't need convincing.
GE - Bond running along the top of a dam as he tries to break into a top level Soviet chemical weapons facility near Archangelsk. Cut to Bond knocking out the guard in the toilet.
So I'm gonna go with:
- The little entry hut at the bottom of the dam is shown.
- Bond somehow makes his way to the bottom of the dam and breaks in.[unseen]
- Bond infiltrates the toilet.
How Bond gets from the top of the dam to the bottom to me has no more consequence than how OO7 gets from the Ocean Club to Miami Airport. I see the results on screen, don't need convincing.
DAD – Bond is hanging on the edge of a glacier which is collapsing into the sea. Cut to him riding a snowmobile back to the ice hotel.
So I’m gonna go with:
- The parachute in the back of the ice dragster is shown.
- Bond grabs the parachute, breaks off the cowling and then as the ice collapses into the sea kite surfs the resulting tsunami to safety. [unseen]
- He nicks a snowmobile and his on his way.*
How Bond escapes from this impossible predicament to me has no more consequence than how OO7 gets from the Ocean Club to Miami Airport. I see the results on screen, don't need convincing.
*nb – this is the only one that actually improves on the original to be fair.
You get the general idea.
Swooooooooooooosh.
Well, truthfully I didn't watch Titanic, because I knew the ship would go down anyway.....
@TheWizardOfIce sorry, missed that, must've been the pasta-sauce in my eyes.
Bond slows his larger plane down through the mountain pass.
-- The small plane must match it, but with some difficulty.
Bond throttles up his damaged engine, spewing out smoke and oil.
-- The small plane must avoid that for visibility and to prevent fouling of its windscreen.
He therefore holds to the side.
Bond maneuvers for a left turn but first gets close to the rocky ledges to his right.
-- The small plane is forced into the mountainside.
Aircraft involved:
Douglas DC-3-G102A impdb.org/index.php?title=Quantum_Of_Solace#Douglas_DC-3-G102A
Aermacchi SF.260TP impdb.org/index.php?title=Quantum_Of_Solace#Aermacchi_SF.260TP
Here's a more expert breakdown.
Source:
https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/aermacchisf260traine/
so yes, a little movie magic put in there... But a very interesting explanation for sure.
We are in the minority on this Richard !
Hahahahahahahah!!! so funny...
I think I prefer Sean and Jill St John leaning one way then the other whilst trying (unconvincingly) to look surprised.
Indeed Wiz.
In fact i almost hope i AM wrong,because,if im not,then as you say its atrocious.
As @RichardTheBruce stated previously an insert shot of Bond lobbing the anchor over the side is all that’s required (and that could even have been shot in the studio when they realised they had forgotten to shoot it). Where we differ is that he’s happy for said shot not to be seen whereas I demand than when the film makes extraordinary claims such as boats inexplicably flipping in the air they back it up with extraordinary, or even ordinary, proof.
When the film makes mundane claims of Bond flying between the Bahamas and Miami we can take it on trust that he used a plane. This is the essential difference and why just saying ‘I don’t need to see it’ cuts no ice for me.
I agree...it pisses me off..even last night when i watched it i got a pang of annoyance.To me ,its the start of the arrogance and laziness creeping in that shows itself in the later films,especially SP.
The results on screen communicate to me the boat flipped. Taking a look at the available minutia, I didn't see anything to preclude that. So it flipped as surely as Bond arrived in Miami.
Then @barryt007's notion of the dialogue/grunt being "anchor" is fun to consider. It's an incredible thought, but it fits. I don't expect it's in the script and I haven't bothered to check the subtitles, but will eventually. It may never be truly supported beyond opinion . But this is the kind of entertaining little detail coming out of discussion that adds to the viewing experience for me. To relish.
So I'm definitely not so serious about this item, people can take it or leave it. Like the reverse tilt Mustang that was brought up.
Slow handclap for Marc Forster.
Cripes I hope @Risico007 doesn’t see this or he’ll take it as proof God must exist!
The alley side-turning is and will Always remain unforgiveable to me. Without it I'd hardly notice the car was on the wrong side. With it, you're taken out of the chase completely. But then again it isn't the only thing they goofed up in that film.
oh and as an addition to the miami-flight: there's another hint, as Dimitrios calls Solange he says he's 'on the last flight to Miami. That's the reason Bond rushes out, to catch the same flight.
I started it i think /:
Nope, I read it on these boards years ago. Sorry my friend, maybe I'm mistaken and it's in there, but it seems too much wishful thinking to me. A couple of years ago, when I still had a dvd player and tv, I tried to figure this all out, frame by frame. But the grunt is nothing more then a grunt to me. The Anchor and rope can be seen for a very short moment, so I'll stick to that version.
Thats a relief......at least someone else started it off,keeps my 'street cred' at a good to average level on here haha !!
Hahaha good point Rossy !
That will change in about 10 days as i'm off to the Philippines for a business venture .
Its definately something haha !
I did notice the flying boat, but chalked-it up as an editing issue. I have always been much more bothered by Bond and Camille surviving the parachute fall completely uninjured.