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To be fair, even though Elektra isn't introduced her whole scheme is already in motion before the title sequence even begins, so in context the song works fine that way.
Never realized Sheryl Crow's was supposed to take from Paris' perspective. She such a waste of a character, it's kind of weird to use her as a focal point for a song, especially since Bond gets over her so quickly.
This! Originally in TWINE the boat chase came after anyway but they thoughg it wouldn't be big enough for a pre title but I'm sure cary won't worry about topping SP. He might go for a less js more.
That’s what I’m hoping for.
They might not want us the audience to know what happened between safin and swann all at once.
I think we might piece it together from bonds point of view
I was thinking along those lines too. Perhaps the Safin/Young Madeleine ice chase will be interspersed throughout the movie as either a memory, a dream, a flashback, or a secret about her past she later divulges to Bond.
But here’s my take on how things will play out, though:
- Logos.
- GB sequence, opening to:
- PTS. Like a lot of other people on here, I think we’re in for a little mini movie before the titles, and it may be the longest ever (15-20
- minutes). Here, we’d have the “love montage” in Matera, or scenes of Bond and Madeleine enjoying life - akin to the OHMSS montage with Bond and Tracy; this would include the Easter Procession/burning letters. Following this would be, of course, Bond paying last respects to Vesper; tomb ambush; the DB5 chase scene with Safin’s goons, Primo heading it up; then after the chase (motorcycle and DB5), Bond and Madeleine split ways, leading to:
- NTTD Titles sequence. Ends.
- “5 Years Later” (a nod to GE)...
Beyond that, not sure. There’s so many moving parts in this film that it’s difficult to predict how things will play out.
-Gunbarrel
-Norway
-Madeleine under the ice and Safin shoots at her
-Titles (underwater oriented)
-Madeleine swimming at the beach with Bond
My guess is Safin wants her alive. But she falls through the lake so he's shooting a wider hole to save her, not shooting at her
I like that idea. You could call it a PGS. And a time jump of 25 years is quite clever.
Never said it was new footage. But I was sure someone had added some of the old footage before the mgm lion pops up. But you're right, it's the official one.
I'm quite into the idea that the film opens with no gunbarrel and then we get a brief 3-5 minute wordless sequence on the lake before the GB.
I would typically be of the opinion that Norway was the PTS, but Billie's song heavily implies that we will see Matera first. She even said in the Apple interview with Zane Lowe she was given the opening to read in order to write an appropriate song. This pretty much confirms that Matera is the PTS.
Also, I think we get a bit of a clue that young Madeleine is actually Lea Seydoux if the last shot of her pre-GB is her under water and the first shot post-GB is Seydoux underwater.......see here:
I also couldn't think of a more Bondian image to open the film post-GB than Lea Seydoux in a swimsuit.
Though it would be fourth Bond film not to open with the gunbarrel.........which I know is blasphemous to some. Though in this suggested context the opening is more of a 'coda' before the story beings proper.
Gunbarrel
Norway
Matera
Title Sequence
London? (scientist kidnapping)
Jamaica
And so on.
Dad jokes aside though, my hunch is that with all the emphasis on classic Bond that the gun barrel will be in its rightful place at the start.
I'm guessing one of two scenarios following a gun barrel opening.
1) We'll have a very short Bond-less PTS with the Norway stuff
2) It will serve as a prologue to Matera (perhaps cutting directly to Maddy in bed with Bond and thus serving as a dream/flashback while contextually just being said prologue) and then on with likely the longest PTS in the series
I guess time will tell!
I really wanna see the iris open on Norway, plus I don't think the gunbarrel could be incorporated that well into a scene that doesn't have Bond in it, and I think to cut from Norway to black and then having the dots would just be weird imo.
The bigger questions are - the design (I'm personally hoping for Brosnan-esque with the 3D lighting, that remains the best hands down) - and whether it'll be in the full IMAX aspect ratio.
Omg!!! That got me so hyped! Can't wait for april.
yeah, she's a bit... late.
Uhm, I expressed the idea of a cut between young Madeleine being pulled out of the ice and adult Madeleine emerging out of the sea in the present literally 24 hours ago. On the other hand, the gun barrel in-between the two scenes is not a good idea for obvious reasons.