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Barbican Exhibition Puts Bond in Gallery To Mark 50 Years Of 007

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  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    This Barbican Exhibition really looks great. MI6's report and pictures on this, should be great as well. I'm going have to find the time to go and visit this place soon.
  • KanangaKananga
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    I went today and it was really great! It has almost everything from Tee-Hee's Hook arm/hand to the 'bloody' note left on Felix in LTK, I could get no photos of the inside as i was being watched by staff ( more staff then people :-/ )

    Skyfall and 50th anniversary posters are being sold in the gift shop for £5 but they all had sold out.

  • gt007gt007 Station G
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    Damn, you Brits are extremely lucky! The exhibition looks amazing!
  • myworldisenoughmyworldisenough
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    RogueAgent wrote:
    myworldisenough wrote:
    I've not yet booked but will look to do so shortly. Great to see some brilliant events for Bond 50th anniversary. I've done Beaulieu already, looking forward to an audience with Sir Rog & now this. Expensive but worthwhile experiences!

    Going to the Evening with Roger Moore too! Which one you attending?

    Sorry for delay! I'm going to the Mayflower theatre Southampton :)
  • quantumofsolacequantumofsolace England
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    I went this morning. Pretty good overall. Amused by how naff some of the props look in the flesh compared to on the screen. The costumes are the highlight for me. Seen up close you can really appreciate the craftsmanship (or perhaps that should be craftswomanship) that has gone into their creation. Inevitably the women's costumes are more eyecatching than Bond's, which mainly consist of variations on a theme. Of the three "areas" in the exhibition I think it's a pity that they left the least impressive until last. 'The Ice Palace', being just a single square room with the fewest items on display, feels a tad anti-climactic. The 007 shop isn't anything to get excited about. Basically the same old books that are easily available elsewhere - but frequently at a substantial discount in places like 'The Works'. Everything at The Barbican seemed to be the full RRP.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    gt007 wrote:
    Damn, you Brits are extremely lucky! The exhibition looks amazing!

    I concur. I don't even want to look at all this cool stuff. It just teases me, and leaves me depressed. :(
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    So I'm assuming that we're not allowed to take pictures? I hope that I can at least get a few iPhone pics when it's here in Toronto, but I'd love to be able to take my time and line up some great shots with a real camera. The problem with doing that with this type of exhibit is that there are always other people in the way...
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    A portuguese website has a video today about the exhibition with Lindy Hemming.
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  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Keep the vids coming, all!
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    http://news.sky.com/entertainment
  • gt007gt007 Station G
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    I'll say it again, I'm so jealous of you guys in England!
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited July 2012 Posts: 12,480
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    gt007 wrote:
    Damn, you Brits are extremely lucky! The exhibition looks amazing!

    I concur. I don't even want to look at all this cool stuff. It just teases me, and leaves me depressed. :(

    So you aren't going to see it?! Please do! Otherwise it's like saying that the sunrise was so amazing, I never want to see another one, it cannot be topped, so I will make sure I never get up early to see one again.

    Don't cheat yourself out of seeing this exhibit. I so wish I could go.

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    4EverBonded wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    gt007 wrote:
    Damn, you Brits are extremely lucky! The exhibition looks amazing!

    I concur. I don't even want to look at all this cool stuff. It just teases me, and leaves me depressed. :(

    So you aren't going to see it?! Please do! Otherwise it's like saying that the sunrise was so amazing, I never want to see another one, it cannot be topped, so I will make sure I never get up early to see one again.

    Don't cheat yourself out of seeing this exhibit. I so wish I could go.
    Believe me, if I could go, I would be there right this moment.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    4EverBonded wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    gt007 wrote:
    Damn, you Brits are extremely lucky! The exhibition looks amazing!

    I concur. I don't even want to look at all this cool stuff. It just teases me, and leaves me depressed. :(

    So you aren't going to see it?! Please do! Otherwise it's like saying that the sunrise was so amazing, I never want to see another one, it cannot be topped, so I will make sure I never get up early to see one again.

    Don't cheat yourself out of seeing this exhibit. I so wish I could go.
    Believe me, if I could go, I would be there right this moment.

    Oh you're stuck in another country, like me, aren't you? Ah well, we can check it out online as much as possible.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    No photgraphs allowed at all which is very frustrating! The only stuff you could get a photo with were in like a concourse section between the show rooms. Like the sinking house from CR, Zorin airship, and a section of beachwear worn by Halle Berry, Ursula Andress, Sean Connery and Daniel Craig.

    You are watched like HAWKS by the staff, great exhibits mind to see in person and would recommend going.
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    Today portuguese newspaper i (yes, a single letter is the name of the journal, how appropriate) published an article on the Barbican collection (even calls attention to it on the front page http://www.ionline.pt/sites/default/files/capa_10_07_2012.pdf). The article is available online: http://www.ionline.pt/boa-vida/james-bond-50-anos-estilo-transformados-exposicao#
    but I took some of my lunch time to translate it :D

    James Bond. 50 years of style transformed into exhibition

    By Diana Garrido

    "50 Years of Bond Style" is in Barbican, in London, and commemorates half a century of 007 in cinema with more than 400 objects, props and images from the 22 films.

    Bond, James Bond, is more than a secret agent with a heart big enough to accommodate all the beautiful women that crossed his way. 007 is a style, a trend setter whose aesthetics have influenced fashion and design along the 50 years of the secret agent in cinema. After the Queen's diamond jubilee it is time for James Bond to commemorate its golden jubilee on her majesty's service.

    As celebration, the Barbican, in London, has inaugurated the exhibition "Designing 007: 50 years of Bond Style", with objects that made, and still make, the history of James Bond. From sets to clothes, together with the mythical Aston Martin DB5 (that made the sales of the cars from the brand sky rocket at the time), and a real size wax Sean Connery in Madame Tussaud's style, along with sketches from sets and wardrobe. There are over 400 objects and props that tell the history of the secret agent at queen's service. Everything thanks to the total access to the archives of the 22 films granted to the exhibition curators, the fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave and Oscar awards winner and responsible for Bond's wardrobe Lindy Hemming.

    The fun began in 1953 with "Casino Royale" of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Only 9 years later would the secret agent gain live on screen, with Sean Connery inaugurating the series in Dr No. In total there are 22 James Bond films, with the 23rd, Skyfall on its way, and 7 men have incarnated the character.

    In the Barbican exhibition none of the heroes was forgotten, neither were the Bond Girls or the villains.

    The revolutionary aesthetics of the 007 films began in the first film, when actress Ursula Andress in the role of Honey Ryder, comes out of the see wearing a suggestive white bikini, to the scandal of the most conservatives minds. That unforgettable bikini is, of course, part of the exhibition, side by side with the orange bikini Halle Berry wore on Die Another Day and a recreation of the shorts Sean Connery wore on Thunderball.

    There is also no shortage of all kinds of gadgets created along the years to satisfy the espionage needs of 007. Pens, cigarette holders, glasses and such, equipped with tiny cameras or venomous darts capable of putting an elephant to sleep, as well as Scaramanga's (Christopher Lee) golden gun, the villain of The Man With the Golden Gun.

    But not only of objects is made the exhibition. There are excerpts from films and interviews of the tireless masters of the backstage, like John Stears, responsible for special effects, who confesses he needed to have a drink before drilling a hole in a brand new Aston Martin for Goldfinger.

    Amongst the curiosities are the promotional posters of several of the films, some with embarrassing photos of the actors, together with promo phrases as inexplicable as "And twice is the only way to live!" (from You Only Live Twice).

    The exhibition, patent until the 30th of September, will travel the world for the next three years.


    For those of you wondering who is the other guy in the front page, with a villain-appropriate face, he's the Minister of Health :(
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