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I like to joke that it's James Bond meets Harvey Specter
@dominicgreene, it'll be interesting to see how the studio system changes down the line. I'd like to live in hope that originality will be valued again in the industry, but I still don't think we're at the doorstep of a revolution in filmmaking. Movies are bigger and more expensive now and you have these studios who saddle themselves to old ideas rather than new ones because they think it's more risky to throw money at an untested IP than running with something that already worked decades back. The problem is that these remakes and reboots often produce stinkers and there are very few franchises or films that actually feel like they were worth being reassessed for a more contemporary time.
I don't think Hollywood have caught on to how bad their strategy is so far, but they're quickly learning it now. Audiences don't want to be fed garbage or things recycled from a film or series that most likely already did it better years or decades before, and they certainly don't like be fed political messages by a bunch of bean counters who assemble movies by what they think hits certain demographics. It's a slimy, slimy business and it's a shame that more original minds aren't being pushed to do their work rather than the same old hacks.
I don't think it was a TV film, pretty sure it was a cinema release. A very brave performance from Anne Reid, who had to strip off despite her advanced years.
I have enjoyed much of Dan's own promotional materials, especially when he is working with Sony. These two commercials especially dazzle me, the first for Sony Bravia TVs around the time of Quantum of Solace and the second around Skyfall's release that had a wider advertising goal of pushing a bunch of Sony products via the film's marketing:
The Bravia commercial is actually one of my favorite commercials of all time, from the photography and framing of the overall action to how sound is used to show off the features of their TVs and to create a cinematic viewing experience. Dan gives a performance as compelling and interesting as any of his Bond films in it, really visualizing the kind of exhaustion Bond goes through to survive. The commercial literally bombards the man with all sorts of debris and shakes him with explosions, but he still keeps standing as he does in the movies themselves. I also love the rapid and overlaid mix of voices and sounds that play over the commercial, like Bond is taking in every pin drop of his environment as a predator would in order to know when danger is coming.
And the heavy breath of a female
Being 50 today isn't the same for an actor as being 50 was three decades ago. Many actors stay in excellent shape, look after themselves and hit the gym when their next film starts pre-production. I have faith that Daniel Craig is one of those actors.
Even then, my Bond doesn't need a six-pack or arm muscles the size of a basket ball. As long as he's not wearing ten extra layers of fat, he could be just fine. Moore was excellent in OP, even without a bare chest that spelled "work-out junkie".
100% spot on
True. But DC's age is an issue if he keeps throwing himself into the role the way he has been. He doesn't want to play Bond if he can't take on the physical part of it--and that is admirable. He needed knee surgery during the SP shoot.
If Babs and Michael can convince him to pull back a little on the stuntwork, he could do it for another 6-8 years, for sure.
Dan gets injured both major and minor on his shoots, so it's not a sign of age, just that he gives it his all every time, often when he's warned not to. Fresh into it around QoS he had a serious shoulder injury that resulted in him needing shoulder reconstruction surgery, and he also sliced off the tip of one of his fingers somewhere along the line too. Sometimes it happens, but you get it fixed and move along. He operated the same as a younger man as he has an older one.
I am not saying that his age has caused the injuries. I am saying that recovering from them is harder on you when you're older. I know. This stuff kicks your arse as you get older.
I think he'll be fine. He got his knee injury, got the surgery and was back in two weeks so that the film wouldn't be delayed to 2016, so he has pain management on lockdown. He's also an old fashioned kind of man, back when male leads sucked up what happened to them and marched on.
That's why I said "pretty much everyone". He's the only actor I know of who supposedly keeps in character all the time on set. I've never really looked into it, though, so I have no idea how much of what gets written someplace is actually true (I'm sure some of it isn't), and how much is just typical internet/media exaggeration (which is common as hell, anyway).
That, too, I'm sure. But I assume he just feels he needs to do it that way. (And if that's the only way he can act then it makes sense he makes so few films.) Most actors just don't. It also doesn't seem sensible, but oh well. It doesn't make an actor "better" if they can't operate as themselves anymore on set - socialize with people as themselves or put on sensible clothing when needed between takes in order not to become sick. I think it's an overly serious approach, taking yourself and your job far too seriously, but maybe he just can't do it another way. (I once saw somebody say they'd want to see DDL work with Terrence Malick, just because it's sort of an unthinkable and crazy even as an idea, and DDL would be so out of his comfort zone. I can't even imagine...)
I don't think it's that, really. Even with very serious roles and movies actors normally joke around on set, talk about stuff as themselves, etc. Awards consideration and whatnot doesn't really come into it, they are just different ways of working - dependent on the actor more than the role/movie I mean.
Just some movie goers. Maybe more so of certain age or nationalities. I'm very interested in movies, and watch more movies than anyone I know (irl), but I don't give a crap about RT, nor does anyone I know (again: irl). I'm pretty sure some friends I've gone to movies with wouldn't even know what the heck RT is - and no reason they should as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah. It's pretty tragic.
Yes, but it does get much harder with age. Body doesn't heal as quickly, or indeed as well, so it'll be tougher all the time the older anyone gets. Not that actors can't acquire chronic pain from injuries on set (or off set for that matter) even at a much younger age, but it gets worse later on.
Not everything is harder. Some things are softer.
It can be done, but as has been mentioned, it's more difficult each time.
What is that? Is it slang for a boner?
I knew that
I just realized that Soderbergh seems to love his heist films. One of the earlier ones I saw was The Underneath, which I quite enjoyed.
I consider him the most fun loving of the really great talents of present. Especially out of sight to me displayed some genuine and brilliant narrating and filming approach. Contrary to it -and I know I'm in a minority with it - I consider the oceans movies a pseudo clever letdown.
Like Tarantino, he really seems to get the best out of his actors, and that is quite a skill.
I only really liked the first Oceans film. I'm not too keen on the sequels.