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Not at all. This has never featured in a Bond movie, so I'm all for it and very excited. It's going to bring a hell of a lot of colour to the film.
What I like about the poster is that it is heavily photoshopped and posed.
It's got a throwback appeal!
I like that Bond is sexed up as detached man-of-action on mission, with steely look of determination, much like the old '60's '70s Bond poster caricatures.
Craig does look very fantasy Bond-like in that shot.
So now that a SP Bond-look has been established, going forward, let's also mix in the busy stuff, like girls, guns, fire and lots of stuff blowing up, with Bond right in the midst of it all.
Now, with all the great action and location settings, not to mention potential set pieces, planned for SP, there is potential for a great throwback Bond-busy poster. Craig's determined facial expression is perfect for such a poster.
The potential- the silver Aston, the orange Jag, Bellucci stretched in exotic pose, Seydoux looking sexy fierce, snow, planes crashing, land rovers crashing, the new Piz Glora retreat.
Day of the Dead scary imagery in Mexico.
The potential for a great poster is here. And sure, do some of the mimimalist stuff as well, why not.
But there is potential for a great throwback poster too.
Bond is back and with full mojo intact. Celebrate I say!
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Floats have been featured heavily in "MR" and "TB". Now also in "SP". It is not original @RC7. You should be against it :-P.
Now that would be an Homage. ;)
I'm hoping that next time the entire cast is made up of animals, for the sake of originality.
All great artists do this don't they? I am a huge Rolling Stones fan. The Stones legacy timeline parallels the Bond film legacy almost exactly.
Post classic-era Stones has been re-working familiar riffs and early brilliance to great effect for many years.
The SP floats are an inspired riff on both TB and MR, as is the fresh Piz Gloria like setting.
Personally I love it! This blending of the familiar with the new. One can do this when one has such an extensive and lush canvas of material to work with.
The production moving along.
According to a news article posted the other day
Rings a bell?
I bet you're right. Her pictures are just so clear and plentiful, I assumed she was right there.
Same time tomorrow?
It's 100% motif. You could put a picture of a DB5 up basically anywhere and people will instantly think James Bond. Besides, I don't see Mendes taking it up any notches. It gets basically the same screen time it has for the past 20 years.
As far as the other stuff, I think you need to delineate between a movie remake and various themes and images. I don't see anything unoriginal about using consistent characterization and theming. To take your argument to it's logical end we should have either a 7 foot tall Ghanian or a Thai judo champ as Bond because the average age British white guy has already been done.
It's not a bond film to me if we don't see bond wearing that dark long sleeve, black pants, spy outfit. I mean come on guys, I used to love seeing SC and RM sneak out at night wearing that outfit and doing actual spy work...
Honestly Craig's films have been so much like the Bourne films that I am glad that they are actually including the DB5 and including scenes that will remind us of old films.
If they are bringing SPECTRE back then yes I would love to see Blofeld, Ima bunt and other characters from past films turn up... I don't know why some people are getting mad that they are doing things that are Bond traditions..
Umm oh no bonds ordering a martini, he is driving a DB5 (a car that hes been using for 50 years), he's wearing a tuxedo or oh no Bonds wearing a blue button up with khakis... Im sorry but if we didn't do traditional bond things this would just be another shitty action movie..
OHMSS or a remake of LALD ! :))
Or both. :D
Mr. Hinx is also 50% Jaws and 50% Tee Hee (another LALD reference)
You could put up a picture up of the Golden Girl, or Baron Samedi, or the Lotus Esprit, or the Golden Gun etc etc and people will instantly think 'Bond'. I'm not denying it's iconic, but a film doesn't rely on it's presence the way it does the theme tune. It's an intrinsic part of the films tapestry. Just look at the stink that's been kicked up about moving the GB, not even getting rid of it. The films can easily live without the DB5. They did. For decades.
You're misinterpreting my argument regard nods, homages, etc. I just don't think there's any need for things to ape existing iconography. The SF intro was shot in Istanbul, but it's distinctly different from FRWL. In SP we have a
Re. The DB5 and Mendes taking it up a notch I was referring to it being the one from GF.
I also can't understand the hate for the DB5 returning. It's Bond car. Simply as. I know it was destroyed in SF and I know fans love nitpicking as to why the GF DB5 somehow turned up in the rebooted series. But does it really matter? Bond and the DB5 go hand in hand. It's like the Doctor and his TARDIS, they are both intrinsically linked in the public and moviegoer's consciousness. That particular Aston Martin is an important part of Bond's iconography, it's one of the small vestiges of the series' past it will never be able to get rid off.
In terms of Bond's look in the poster. I always thought Roger Moore looked his coolest in the finale of LALD and I'm surprised it's taken this long for EON to replicate the look. I think it's near impossible that Temine and Mendes were not aware of Moore's look in the film and were trying to capture the same sense of danger and swagger, albeit allowing Craig to put his own spin on it. However, do remember that in LALD the filmmakers were also deliberately trying to emulate another massive star when dressing Moore for that scene; Steve McQueen.
Everything is derivative of something. Nothing these days is truly original, least of all the Bond series.
I didn't think SF was a nostgalia fest. It deliberately kept a few nods mainly to honour the 50th anniversary. But aside the DB5, the Moneypenny reveal and M's office, the film itself was truly original. The complaint the film most often had levelled at it was how it didn't feel like a 'Bond film' to most and was too personal and emotional. For instance, the film totally does away with the traditional primary Bond girl/love interest and instead focusses on a 70 year-old woman thusly making her the female lead of the picture.
I think people here are focussing on very small elements and not looking at the bigger picture.