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  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    Who composed the music that we hear DN? Because the tracks at the soundtrack is more or less not included at all in the film. Was it Monty Norman, and if so why didn't those tracks made it to a soundtrack?
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    It was Monty Norman but I have no idea why some tracks are missing from the soundtrack.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    The Doctor No soundtrack is pretty much like today's soundtracks. They have little to no music from the actual score and have random songs inspired for the movie in it.
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    Samuel001 wrote:
    It was Monty Norman but I have no idea why some tracks are missing from the soundtrack.

    Ah, thanks. Because some of the music that is featured in the film and not on the soundtrack is actually quite "Barry-esque".
  • edited December 2013 Posts: 1,778
    I can't tell you all how happy I am that this thread is still going strong. Since joining this site I really wanted to make atleast one discussion that would last.

    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.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I'm not sure about an answer, but it's nice to have you back @DoubleOhhSeven!
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    It's because it was an almost 100% location based film, more so than any of the other Bond films.
  • Samuel001 wrote:
    It's because it was an almost 100% location based film, more so than any of the other Bond films.

    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).
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    This is a bit of a self-explanatory one, perhaps, but it still intrigued me somewhat.

    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?
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
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    Radebe wrote:
    This is a bit of a self-explanatory one, perhaps, but it still intrigued me somewhat.

    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!"



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    I've seen Goldeneye loads of times but something struck me when I was watching it on the TV last night...

    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?
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited January 2014 Posts: 13,355
    That's one of the things you have to accept. I believe Campbell mentions how it wouldn't be possible on the commentary track for the film.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Samuel001 wrote:
    That's one of the things you have to accept. I believe Campbell mentions how it wouldn't be possible on the commentary track for the film.

    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.
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    I can't tell you all how happy I am that this thread is still going strong. Since joining this site I really wanted to make atleast one discussion that would last.

    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.

    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.
  • edited January 2014 Posts: 1,778
    MrBond wrote:
    I can't tell you all how happy I am that this thread is still going strong. Since joining this site I really wanted to make atleast one discussion that would last.

    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.

    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.
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    QoS and it's production is a bit of a special interest i have in my Bond-fandom. I'll just find it fascinating, clearly one of the more Bond productions!
  • MrBond wrote:
    QoS and it's production is a bit of a special interest i have in my Bond-fandom. I'll just find it fascinating, clearly one of the more Bond productions!

    Any recommendations of where to learn more?
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    MrBond wrote:
    QoS and it's production is a bit of a special interest i have in my Bond-fandom. I'll just find it fascinating, clearly one of the more Bond productions!

    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.

  • Here's a question I've had for a while. In GE when Bond is sitting on the beach and Natalya and him have their exchange Natalya asks him if he kills because he thinks that makes him some sort of hero. She then adds "All the heroes I know are dead". Can someone elaborate on that line. To what heroes is she referring to? The soldiers of the former Soviet Army? Her fellow computer programers who were murdered by Xenia and Orumov? While I'll admit her colleague's deaths were tragic I'd hardly call them heroes. That usually requires doing something heroic. They were killed because they were all about to become witnesses to high treason. I don't know, that line always came out of left field for me. It seemed like a pretty odd and random thing for a twenty-something year old computer programer (of all things) to say.
  • Anyone?
  • RC7RC7
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    I always read it as a generalisation. For a lot of people you can't be called a true hero unless you died for the cause. People feel uneasy about bestowing the title of 'hero' upon someone who survives a conflict, in which others have made the ultimate sacrifice.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    RC7 wrote:
    I always read it as a generalisation. For a lot of people you can't be called a true hero unless you died for the cause. People feel uneasy about bestowing the title of 'hero' upon someone who survives a conflict, in which others have made the ultimate sacrifice.

    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.

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    In TWINE how does Bond drive his BMW quite far into Zukovsky's caviar factory without anyone noticing?
  • MrcogginsMrcoggins Following in the footsteps of Quentin Quigley.
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    Mallory wrote:
    In TWINE how does Bond drive his BMW quite far into Zukovsky's caviar factory without anyone noticing?

    It at night and there is only one old man on duty it's not that difficult .
  • edited February 2014 Posts: 1,778
    Creasy47 wrote:
    RC7 wrote:
    I always read it as a generalisation. For a lot of people you can't be called a true hero unless you died for the cause. People feel uneasy about bestowing the title of 'hero' upon someone who survives a conflict, in which others have made the ultimate sacrifice.

    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.

    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.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Even if the Bomb was detonated, wouldn't locking Fort Knox contain the explosion since it's in an underground bunker?
  • Murdock wrote:
    Even if the Bomb was detonated, wouldn't locking Fort Knox contain the explosion since it's in an underground bunker?

    They were only looking to irradiate the gold which would essentially make it worthless and make Goldfinger's vast collection much more valuable.
  • edited January 2014 Posts: 12,837
    Why did John Barry not score any more Bond films after TLD? I assumed he'd retired but I read the other day that he was meant to score The Incredibles, which I'm sure came out after CR.

    So why didn't he score any Brosnan or Craig films? He can't have been busy for all that time can he?
  • edited January 2014 Posts: 6,396
    Why did John Barry not score any more Bond films after TLD? I assumed he'd retired but I read the other day that he was meant to score The Incredibles, which I'm sure came out after CR.

    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.
  • Barry came close to scoring one or two of the Brosnan films. I believe it was TND and TWINE, but you can find out the details in the originals thread.
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