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Ah, thanks. Because some of the music that is featured in the film and not on the soundtrack is actually quite "Barry-esque".
I'm not sure if this question has been answered or not but I'll ask anyway. How on earth did QOS cost 200 million dollars to make when CR cost 150 mil and Skyfall reportedly cost between 150 and 200 mil? Both CR and Skyfall looked like much more expensive films. What was it about QOS that was so expensive? It featured no huge Hollywood stars demanding 8 figure paydays, a director without any big hits to his name, it had a substantially shorter runtime than either of Craig's other films, and alot of the movie wasn't filmed in particularly glamourous or expensive locales. I doubt it costs that much to shoot in the desert. I don't know but QOS's budget has always been a bit of a mystery to me.
I guess that makes sense. But still 200 mil? Given the budget to runtime ratio QOS might be the second or third most expensive movie ever made (unadjusted for inflation).
Just been watching Octopussy, and at the scene where Bond is asked for ID by the black cop/guard at the airbase, Bond hits him with the door and drives off. The guard then fires a few shots into the air - obviously to alert others. I was wondering why - considering Bond was still within shooting distance - he didn't just aim for the car? Am I being thick or missing something or was it just easier to alert backup?
It's so he could give us a classic line!
"Captian, some nut just went through here in a stolen car. Wants the base commander. And he's wearing a red shirt!"
How the hell does Bond get his tank well in front of Trevelyan's train? Just from a logistics perspective? That Tanks goes, what, 10mph tops? The train goes 60-70mph on a straight line... Plus, how does bond know where the line goes? Did the tank have sat nav or something?
I'm pretty sure he does. It's cool because Campbell and MGW do point out a lot of easter eggs and goofs/bloopers throughout the film if you watch it with the commentary turned on. Same goes for the part when Bond holds up the binoculars to watch Xenia getting on the boat, and I believe he's looking through it with his left eye, then it cuts back, and he's looking through it with his right eye.
As @Samuel001 said, QoS were mostly shot on location. They were out on location from February to June and jumped across the globe to 5 different countries and on various parts of each country.
There were also a lot's of action that were being shot, also that on location which required huge logistical problems with staging, shutting down parts of cities etc.
I've heard that the most expensive part of the film is the first 15 minutes. The car chase caused a lot's of problems with a huge amount of damage that was caused to the cars, the whole staging of the car-chase (which in reality took place in three different parts of Italy) were costly.
To film on the rooftops in Siena it took special cranes to hang the cameras on, and those cranes required that the whole ground of the city had to be strengthen. So before shooting they pumped the ground with extra cement. That were quite costly.
The script changes made some locations that were originally planned abdundant and new locations had to be written in.
And of course, QoS had 900 VFX shots (more than double the VFX in CR) which also were costly.
Wow thankyou so much for that insight. We never got a very in-depth documentary on QOS and for whatever reason I never read up on it as much. Very interesting. If you know of any other details about it's costly production please share.
If anything this has made me appreciate QOS more. It doesn't nearly deserve the hate it gets.
Any recommendations of where to learn more?
Read the prodcution diaries on the MI6 hompage about QoS, and try to find articles from around 2008.
That's how I saw it, as well.
Here's a question I may have asked before. Did a Craig Bond marathon yesterday, and this always bugs me in SF, so it could just be a goof:
How do Patrice and Bond continuously manage to fire the rifle while they're fighting in Shanghai? It's bolt-action, yet it's pretty rapid fire during the fight.
It at night and there is only one old man on duty it's not that difficult .
I figured that was just a goof. It was worth it thought as the gunshots illuminating the two men briefly was really cool.
Here's a question for the OHMSS buffs. I was watching Everything or Nothing yesterday and for the OHMSS section Lazenby said during his first meeting with Saltzman Lazman told him that he'd acted in France, Germany, Hong Kong, all over the place. And apparently both Saltzman and Broccoli bought it. My question is when did Broccoli and Saltzman learn that their current James Bond hadn't a single speaking acting role to his credit? Was it during the production of OHMSS or after? I can't imagine two veterans like them being too pleased upon discovering that they'd basically been conned by a 28 year-old former used car salesman.
They were only looking to irradiate the gold which would essentially make it worthless and make Goldfinger's vast collection much more valuable.
So why didn't he score any Brosnan or Craig films? He can't have been busy for all that time can he?
I think, and I'm not entirely sure here, but he may have fell out with Cubby during TLD. I know that he did not like the experience of having to work with A-Ha.
Barry continued to score films right through the 90's. He won the Oscar for Dances With Wolves. His last work was the Kate Winslet film Enigma.