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Excellent, QBranch, thanks for clearing that up - and well done, we all owe you one! 👍
Best pic I have of the actual prop obit and clipping - note the death certificate sitting underneath.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51723552181_e597271a22_o.jpg
It’s in there. Third paragraph.
The base to Blofeld's bionic eye on the pillow at the party is a similar style to the Fabergé egg on display in OP.
Do we? That's a cool detail, where is that in the film?
There’s a shot where her Mom’s name and death date is clearly visible. She’s buried right above Vesper. They even put “VED. LYND” on her tomb that means “Lynd’s widow”.
Madeleine Swann: Is this really what you want? Living in the shadows? Hunting, being hunted? Always looking behind you. Always alone?
The early scene in Matera when Madeleine chides Bond about doing exactly that ....
James Bond: I'm not sure I ever had a choice. Anyway, I don't stop to think about it.”
The confrontation with Safin on Poison Island when Bond makes a similar remark, but which this time also encompasses the looking-glass villain that is Safin as well as the latter's intended or unintended victims ...
And, of course, there's the more obvious stuff about the gun under the sink and Bond not having to teach her a thing ....
Oscar Wilde having some Fleming and Bond connections, I noticed this similar quote and sentiment.
Off-topic I know but good God. I had forgotten how insanely well shot this movie was.
Oh my goodness YES. Fukunaga and Sandgren and their team did an outstanding job in creating images.
Another one to share. The endings of "Casino Royale" and "No Time to Die" fit together like a glove — particularly when one thinks about the Mr. White connection.
In the moment from CR, when the James Bond theme sings for the first time in the film, it is him truly becoming 007. The death of Vesper and his heart getting hardened. So when he says the iconic line "Bond, James Bond" — it's a sign he's 007.
But in NTTD, when Madeleine says the line — it almost becomes something else. Think about that question her mother asks her in the beginning "Is this who you love? Murderers?" That's almost Madeleine's character to a T, and of course that fear that she's repeated the cycle once more (the dynamic of White/her mom/Madeleine is the same as Bond/Madeleine/Mathilde before he returns). But then with what Bond does in that film, he transcends beyond being a killer. That line "Bond, James Bond" gets recontexualized from being the calling-card of an assassin to the name of a loving father.
(and of course, in both these films it is the last line of dialogue spoken)
Bond guesses that she's an orphan, and if her mum was a widow when she died then Vesper was indeed orphaned: great spot.
Ha! Came across this tonight when skimming through the movie. Basically the same shot composition. Time is a flat circle. Poetry, it rhymes. All that jazz.
Oh yeah, totally. I immediately picked up on the Safin/Bond parallel marching to the forest, with the key contrast being Safin=winter=dead and Bond=spring/summer=life. But the level of detail in it when they go inside the house — didn't get that until now. So good.
Yes, there's even a rear-view shot of Bond going down the same wooded slope towards the house that mirrors the shot of Safin doing the same thing in the PTS.
- I didn't know the Spectre symbol was called a "Septipus" (p. 12).
- It's interesting that almost all of the exteriors in Matera have very specific location markers. Squares, street names. I don't know if this was already possible or has been done, but one could probably take this and quite easily follow the action on a map. Maybe a future project. (p. 7 ff.)
- The secret MI6 lab apparently is called "C-minus-Two". Don't know what that refers to. (p. 19)
- Bond walking down the dock with fish in his hand is specifically described as "A Bond we've never seen before", which half-way clashes with the idea that the shirt and the boat are callbacks to Venice in CR, doesn't it? (p. 27)
- Obviously we know the "I will put a bullet in your knee. The one that works." line. I was just wondering, what is she referring to. I can't recall a specific knee injury and I don't think it ever comes up later that Bond has a bad knee. Is this just banter from Nomi? (p. 36)
- Again a question of typo or not. The Valhalla is identified as the "DB003". In reality it had the codename "AM-RB 003". RB for Red Bull Racing, with whom Aston Martin collaborated on a few supercars (with the Valkyrie being the "AM-RB 001"). (p. 36)
- It's kind of fascinating what is specified in the script and what isn't. The ship that picks up Bond after Ash's betrayel is specifically from CMA CGM (p. 60), earlier, it was specified that the car Leiter and Ash are in is a Ford Mondeo (callback to CR?) (p. 28). On the same page as the CMA CGM mention, it says "Bond (in windbreaker) lifts a sliding garage door to his lock up." which lacks detail from the finished film, but they specify the shipping company??
- Description of Nomi's reaction upon seeing Madeleine apply the perfume: "Nomi sees her applying the perfume and thinks it’s ‘for’ Bond." I never read that scene that way. Interesting. (p. 81)
- "Ash smiles like a fox eating shit from a wire brush." Sure. (p. 108)
- Now that I've gotten to the part with the red vial, I realize that the shot of Safin taking the hair in Madeleine's office isn't in the script...
- In the script, Safin's men are weeding the overgrown poison garden and not doing whatever they are doing in the water. (p. 113)
- The pool in the bunkers is described as a "bacterial acid farm". That doesn't really help. (p. 120)
- Finally one thing cleared up: The "tea" Madeleine is supposed to drink is indeed the plant that makes you compliant and it is specified as atropa belladonna, aka deadly nightshade. A quick wikipedia-ing identifies it as "one of the most toxic plants known" and it's effects "include dilated pupils, sensitivity to light, blurred vision, tachycardia, loss of balance, staggering, headache, rash, flushing, severely dry mouth and throat, slurred speech, urinary retention, constipation, confusion, hallucinations, delirium, and convulsions." Nasty stuff. (p. 122) And then it is made very clear that Madeleine is tricking Primo: "She shows him the flower floating in the cup. MADELEINE (CONT'D) (lying): It makes you blind." (p. 123)
- And finally, it doesn't say: "Bond dies" or "Bond is blown up". The description is "A massive wave of explosions ripple towards Bond in a strobing and flashing cloud of light. From afar, the island is turned to dust." (p. 143-144) So maybe there is hope? (No, there isn't. Sorry.)
And for the next Bond, Irma Bunt returns in Septipussy.