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Inspiration/Origin of the Gunbarrel

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edited March 2012 in Bond Movies Posts: 2,635
Now that i saw that 'gunbarrel with coloured dots' on 'What you want to see in Skyfall?' thread, i'd want to know How or What did the directors had in mind to do something like the gunbarrel. I mean, no one would think of that, but it just combines with Bond. Anyone knows what had inspired the directors, to do the gunbarrel?

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited March 2012 Posts: 14,582
    All I know is that they nearly didn't put it in DN. It was a spur of the moment idea, IIRC. And boy, did it pay off.

    EDITED - Thanks Dimi ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Indeed, it was a spur of the moment idea - and Maurice Binder's at that. Hail to the king!
  • KanangaKananga
    Posts: 367
    It was a last moment idea, everyone at the time thought it was a camera lens!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited March 2012 Posts: 24,183
    I must say I find the 'origin story' of the GB in CR pure brilliance.
  • 0iker00iker0
    edited March 2012 Posts: 501
    I also thought at the begining that it was a camera, it wasn't untill the third Bond Movie I watched I guessed that it was a gun-barrel.
    I found this in the extras of my YOLT dvd, it's about Binder and all the title sequences he made and they also talk about how the gunbarrel was created
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    DarthDimi wrote:
    I must say I find the 'origin story' of the GB in CR pure brilliance.

    Where can I find this 'origin story'?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,582
    I think @DarthDimi means the guy in the bathroom is the originator of CR's gunbarrel.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    That's precisely what I mean, good sir. ;-)
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
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    DarthDimi wrote:
    That's precisely what I mean, good sir. ;-)

    I think its rather cool how Bond's first 'hit' is behind the gun barrel we see for all 23(?) films.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited March 2012 Posts: 14,582
    And I agree it was extremely clever. Just when the audience thinks, "Aw, man- they left out the gunbarrel", Bond picks up the gun and spins around. BLAM! Genius with a capital J.
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    I think its rather cool how Bond's first 'hit' is behind the gun barrel we see for all 23(?) films.
    I never thought of it like that. That makes it even cooler.
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