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Thunderfinger, you charmer. Hazelnut is your middle name. :D
OK - I found this rather by accident. Hope you all enjoy this. Maybe some have seen it ... I don't know. It's Léa Seydoux on how to be a Bond Girl. I really enjoyed this. Great nods to previous Bond films. Calling @CommanderRoss ...
Right back at you.
Ahh, getting it on with her lickity boo...
;;)
After seeing her in that green dress in the dining car I want to see more of her! :D :D :D
@Lancaster007 I thought that was ok, he himself does look different enough (and acts a lot better). I just didn't like the fact that he is captured and thus must break out in the next film. It was good enough if he'd vanished in the explosion. And they still had to take out C too. Oh well. Overall I did enjoy the film a lot.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/how-spectres-opening-scene-pulled-836200
NOTE: We do NOT need spoiler tags here anymore. So all readers beware.
Thanks for that info, @royale65. I've only seen SPECTRE once so far. I go again in 3 and 1/2 days. I'm happy to say that for my first viewing of it I was able to just open up and soak it in, without analyzing it. I loved the entire opening sequence. So if it was more than a one master camera take, which it was according to Hoyt van Hoytema himself in that article, that is fine with me. I bet people jump on that, too, as a negative (oh they were trying to be sneaky and make it look like one long master shot!). Bollocks. I think they were trying to make an interesting, exciting, and visually stunning opener - and they succeeded. I don't care at all if it was one camera or three or ten; the result is beautiful. Hoytema said they wanted to do a reverse - start small and then widen everything, go big ... it just sounds like he wanted to be creative with it. The article references Birdman (I have not seen it), A Touch of Evil (saw it a long time ago) and The Player (saw it in the theater, again many years ago) - that's fine. My point is I was not watching SPECTRE and saying to myself "oh what an awesome, long master shot that is!" or "oh he's going for a long master take like in "The Player"). No - I just went along for the ride, let this film be what it is: a very fine, excellently shot Bond film. :>
During the film, I enjoyed all the characters, including Oberhauser/Blofeld. If it were camp or referencing YOLT far too much, I would have been bugged a bit by that, sure. But it wasn't. Come to think of it, that is a fine line to walk (for Mendes and Waltz).
Yes, @OHMSS69; Mike Myers has a lot to answer for. :O)
I think it's like they felt they (producers & Mendes) had to go with that particular look (and cat, too!) for Blofeld as that is the general public's image of that character - and the public would want that familiarity in general. Yet they did not want Blofeld to look stupid, overblown, camp, or ridiculous. Not easy. I didn't mind the cat either, by the way. ;)
These are the beginnings that I love most, just off the top of my head: TSWLM, TLD, FYEO (even with the awfully fake Blofeld being dumped down the chimney stack), OP, CR, GE, TND,TWINE, SF, and SPECTRE. I do find SPECTRE to be wonderfully filmed (I don't care how many shots/cameras), beautiful, exciting, and right up there with the best.
I think Hoytema was going for a slightly different look, the way to unfold the film; not just ape a continuous long shot that would be very similar to A Touch of Evil or The Player.
On my third viewing sat in the cinema (on my own) waiting for the legend 'James Bond Will Return', can't understand why that wasn't at the top of the credits.
As far as PTS goes, my favs would be (in no necessary order) SF, OHMSS, MR SF really got the old blood pumping !!
I liked SP okay it was no better or no worst than most of the others.