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Let me first say this @RC7. I do appreciate your criticism. But what I miss sometimes...many times.....in your comments is, that if you don't feel enthusiastic about certain choices they made for a particular scene, then how you would do it instead. How would you pull it off? What would you do instead of an ejector seat (which in this film really serves Bond, not the passenger. Call it another re-invention to an original Q-gadget)? How would you re-introduce gadgets in "SPECTRE"?
Please let us know. For me personally,
Sorry, but I completely disagree @NicNac. Ejector seats are not what Bond is about. There's so much more to it than that and to suggest it's needed is laughable IMO. It's not. There's enough of the film Bond injected into CR without having to resort to cherry picking nostalgic moments and reusing or reinventing them. You're right, 95% of the audience don't know Fleming, but his fingerprints are all over the best film of the DC era. A film not afraid to take timeout. I say this as a Roger Moore fan, someone who enjoys daft Bond. In essence I think the DC films have enough talent to take risks and don't have to be looking to the past.
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No you are right about using warmed up old ideas @RC7. I was really using ejector seats as a sort of symbolic point. It defines film Bond more than any other single ingrediant (arguably).
What I didn't want to see was a po faced Bond living in a dark and murky spy world, like a John Le Carre novel. Bond has to have a certain wow factor that makes it stand apart from the chasing pack. It needs humour, it needs a 21st century virsion of the ejector seat (not a literal 'ejector seat' I must add).
Must admit I have avoided so many spoiler posts that I'm not sure whether there is an ejector seat in SP or not. In other words, I'm not sure why I'm even in this discussion.
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I know, its not on purpose, but for **** sake. Pay attention please.
Actually, it is my logical interpretation of how this gadget would work in the film. It's not entirely 100% confirmed if it'll be like that. But I figured it out myself, because there's a parachute sequence included (not spoiler). But spoiler tags have been added.
http://cinemacon.com/schedule/2015-events/#horizontalTab6
Expect SPECTRE footage...would say more but leaks-sourced :P
This is the reason I stopped reading this thread, I'm only scrolling to see the photos. BTW, isn't there a specific thread where spoilers are allowed?
@Gustav_Graves,
I'm very sorry. But the lines between spoilers and no-spoilers become very vague, and will become even more vague especially during upcoming months. The entire sequence from Austria has been explained in that Empire Magazine article for instance and has been discussed here with no spoilers, like how the IceQ Restaurant will be used in the film.
Anyway, I was sitting at the terrace here in Barcelona, typing my previous post, and it's quite hard to include spoiler tags on a small smartphone. I am sorry, the spoiler tags have been added. Let's move on :-)!
I don't know :-)! But I reckon it'll happen
Well, for a kick off I wouldn't reintroduce gadgets. Like I said, I don't think it's a prerequisite. Whether they're believable or not is a moot point for me, as they're not essential. It seems like a crutch that can be avoided. If they're on the writers mind then that stems from a place of nostalgia not invention. As for what I would do, that's a difficult question as I don't know the context of the chase. What I would suggest is that an 'ejector seat' is not a resolution screenwriters would come to on any normal film, it's something you'd do if you were tapping into the history of Bond. It's hard to be original, but the idea of Bond
Luckily, I missed that discussion.
@antovolk and @jake24
Does this mean we won't get to see the teaser trailer on March 28th?
I didn't say they wouldn't work. I'm saying the classic cars wouldn't have the same effect--it appears that Mendes is focusing on the same themes as SF: the old world meeting the new. From that standpoint, with the cars, we have 21st century technology set against (in some cases) 1st century architecture.
http://websta.me/p/931277397889522270_1675440901
http://websta.me/p/931277031517067860_1675440901
No, not the first trailer, in fact what the leaks are saying will be presented at CinemaCon back up the March 28 for first teaser info.
Mods feel free to edit if necessary but here's what it will be (spoiler tagged because from leaks)
I think it's more nuanced than that. YES, Mendes is focusing on the themes he created in SF, but also the themes that Forster/Campbell created in the duology CR/QOS. The re-introduction of Mr White is an example. And off course the inclusion of another secretive meeting of a crime syndicate, like we saw in QOS. Can we PLEASE give Mendes some praise for making continuity work in his films??
On top of that, and many fans tend to forget that, the 2nd vlog is saying predominantly, that "SPECTRE" is foremost a Bond film about a mission. Hell, we want a proper good scene at M's office, where Bond is sent on a mission. We DO GET that ok? Moneypenny is NOT OUT in the field anymore, and it seems M is luckily completely desk-bound or at least working within the confinements of Whitehall. That's what makes me excited about "SPECTRE".
Yes, there will be a 2nd part of Bond's personal background story, but I think it will not have the importance as it had in SF. I don't think it'll make suffer Bond emotionally or will make Bond loose his sanity. I want to bet he's even more cool and calm, thinks more before he kills. That bit of personal background will not turn 007 into a loose cannon anymore or an emotional wreck.
Rome has pretty buildings, shiny new cars look cool
No, not the first trailer, in fact what the leaks are saying will be presented at CinemaCon back up the March 28 for first teaser info.
Mods feel free to edit if necessary but here's what it will be (spoiler tagged because from leaks)
Sorry, but are you talking about past year leaks or new leaks?? In 2014 they knew that CinemaCom would show that??
the Sony leaks from last year.
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