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Nicely put! I'm also a fan of SP, and the car chase isn't that bad, particularly the second half of it! I still get far more out of it than I do SF!
I wanted to voice my agreement too. When people moan about this chase, I just don't know what they're talking about.
Spectre wasn't having brunch. It wasn't Saturday afternoon. I don't know what those streets should look like in the middle of the night, but it can't be that crowded.
And going all the way through this series, very few films have car chases through very crowded streets (have you seen TSWLM?). The ones that do tend to be pretty low-speed (LALD) or edited in a way that annoys moaners anyway (QOS).
As @DarthDimi points out, there's an aesthetic theme going on with Spectre, and an inexplicably crowded city centre wouldn't fit with it. It's not like the people who put eight million extras in the PTS somehow forgot to populate their movie: it's designed.
Yeah. I mean the film is full of ghost imagery. The title is a synonym for "ghost", it begins with the words "the dead are alive", it shows a day of the dead parade, we see a message from a dead M, newly found photos of dead people, Oberhauser back from the dead, Bond and Mr White as two "dead men walking", and we end in the ruins of MI6.
All of the main characters are actively hiding. Bond is hiding from M, Madeleine from her father's world, Mr White from Spectre, and Spectre is hiding from everyone. We visit Bond's dark and desolate flat, Lucia's isolated home, Mr White's secluded cabin, a remote clinic, a secret base on the desert, a safe room, and a condemned building.
The whole movie is thematically involved with ghosts from the past and people trying not to be found. Spectre looks exactly as it should.
Voila! That's a perfect analysis, @ProfJoeButcher. I couldn't have said it better. The charm of the film, for me, is that Bond and Madeleine look like the loneliest people on the planet, both deprived of their parents (M included in Bond's case), yet find each other amidst all that.
That I agree with too. The Blofeld plot was clumsily handled, though it doesn't ruin the movie for me. And if Blofeld had been hiding in the shadows -- why oh why didn't they just show us the back of a seated man's head? -- it would have been even more appropriate for the film.
Blofeld is obviously the perfect villain from Bond's meta past, and a wonderful counterexample for Craig's Bond. Bond has learned over the course of the previous three movies how to move on from his trauma and not be ruled by it, or obsessed with vengeance. Blofeld and C can only see a future based on destroying the past (the 00 section, Hannes Oberhauser, whatever), while Bond can hold the Vesper interrogation tape and not freak out, instead being snapped out of it by Madeleine, his promise of a better future.
The dynamic between Bond and Blofeld is my favorite in the series. Blofeld is constantly trying to get into Bond's head, failing first figuratively, and then in a literal sense. He can't break Bond because Bond has "better things to do". Bond has found some peace (a quantum of solace, you might say!), and poor Oberhauser/Blofeld never found a way out, and probably doesn't understand how Bond can be so unaffected by his efforts. I think it's great.
Sorry to be so pretentious, I just love this movie. :-D
Ohhh...so YOU'RE the one... :-)
Love that analysis.
I'm thankful that Spectre is getting some love in our community.
The Scubacraft - Spectre's Q-Boat:
The Scubacraft is a real world vessel and can dive, just like the Q-Boat from TWINE! 👍
Thanks for sharing those photos and info.
Talked with the guy about Bond and film in general during the entire evening / night. One of the many fond memories I have from my time in Rome.
The car chase they filmed a few weeks after I had left, but a friend sent me some footage she filmed. I regretfully lost that when I changed phones a few years later.
And so, we come to the end of our behind the scenes look at Spectre.
Tomorrow, it's the final film in the Daniel Craig era, and the latest film in the EON series of James Bond films.
No Time To Die
I showed up for Spectre, but I reckon it have to go all the way through this thread when it's done...
No Time To Die
Just one of the many unique things about him.
Fukunaga = Blofeld confirmed 😅
Speaking of fish, here's some snapper:
Wow! Who's the hunky stuntman - or should I say, studman - that could give Dan a run for his money? He might be single - look out Rachel!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6980375/Daniel-Craig-cruises-Caribbean-sea-hunky-stunt-double-filming-Bond-25.html
There's been a break-in. Yeah, a heartbreak-in'.
Yes! It makes total sense!