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This is the the thing though. It has happened before, and not that long ago either. It's why I keep banging on about LTK, because I get a similar experience to that as I do reading a Bond book.
CR also gives off a similar experience, for me. That was one of the few times in a Bond film were we saw Bond screaming out in pain at being tortured, then in a period of hospitalised recovery, which pretty much occurred in just about every novel (if you can ignore the travesty of DAD's opening torture and Brozza in his Castaway recovery beard).
We obviously are never going to get the exact same experiences from watching the films, but we do get glimpses of the books occasionally. The quieter moments of Bond travelling reflect the books - Bond arriving at an airport, scouring his hotel room for bugs - actually most times we see Bond in his hotel room evoke the books - one of the reasons why I like Dr. No, LALD, OHMSS and TMWTGG so much.
I am encouraged by some of the shots we have seen in the NTTD trailer, with Bond in Jamaica. These look like those quieter book moments I describe.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool
Yeah I never understood that: or indeed how he managed not to put a hole in the painting! :)
Maybe it was some sort of more complicated situation where the people in the room thought she was working as a middle person, putting the buyer in touch with them who owned the painting, and when the buyer gets killed they get scared off so she can take the painting? I don't know, but there must be some reason for him not to be in the room which suggests she's not working with the others in the room. I don't quite get it myself.
It is fun that it reappears very briefly in Madeline's room in Spectre though! :D
I never noticed that before!
Also known in some circles as a "rad herring" :))
That is actually very cool, and I had never noticed it before.
https://www.thebondbulletin.com/the-paintings-in-spectre/
Very interesting read. Maybe Blofled stole many priceless paintings such as 'woman with a fan' and 'le pigeon aux petits pois' and uses them to lure prospective wealthy buyers, and their money, into positions where he's able to assassinate them and take the money. Just another revenue stream for Spectre.
Yes I had to have it pointed out as it's extremely blink-and-miss-it. But it is a lot of fun, and a very nice little easter egg to make the 'author of pain' stuff slightly more plausible :)
Heh! Fantastic: I didn't know about the Picasso. Lovely touch.
Yeah there's something there, isn't there? I'd like to know what the idea is behind the con. It's actually quite Fleming-ish to have a little almost self-contained side story in there which ends with murder. You could imagine him spending a few paragraphs describing how the plan has worked over time. Plus of course Patrice's assassination method has its routes in Bond's first or second kill from the Casino Royale novel.
This is pure speculation on my part: but Patrice was being played by Silva as much as MI6. He was a pawn. The job in Shanghai wasn't necessary, and neither was the stealing of the hard drive; Silva had the means to hack into MI6--even off a laptop in Istanbul--and get that list. Instead, Patrice is sent off to Shanghai on a red herring so someone in MI6 will chase after him. Just like they did in Istanbul. Notice that Tanner knew where Patrice would be. Hard to fathom that an assassination attempt and Patrice's movements would be that easy to uncover. But they were.
And the result is one of the best scenes in the franchise
Once it's established that Silva is a point-and-click villain, who thinks all that "running around is so dull," then all of it not only stands up to scrutiny, but makes it a fascinating film to dissect. Silva's motives and methods negin to make sense.
Point and click villains are inherently dull. That's the point at which the film loses its way IMO. Up until the death of Berenice it's reasonably okay. I find the whole London part really underwhelming. The final act is an interesting idea but I just don't get grabbed by it. And since it's been pointed out I can't get Home Alone out of my head.
That's definitely your problem.
IMHO, it's too easy to explain the many plot holes that have already occurred throughout the story in that manner.
I am a passionate fan of Skyfall, but to claim Silva's plan makes sense is a stretch too far.
Give me time. I'll convince you. It all makes sense. LOL
Actually, no. It's not.
The entire motor of the film boils down to Severine's line: "It's amazing the panic you can cause with a single computer."
It seems like a throwaway line. But it is the key to the film's plot and theme.
There is a sad irony in Silva's need to humiliate M through cyber warfare, but yet kill her in a way that is personal. He has the means to do the former but not the latter, and he is too narcissistic to realize it. SF deals with this theme perfectly: note Q's discusson about "sooner or later a trigger has to be pulled" and that Bond's Walther makes more of a "personal statement."
Or not pulled. Which does on the bridge with oberhauser
That's pretty cool, yeah I'd not thought of it like that.
Yes, that theme continued in SP. M makes mention of it with C.
I get that he isn't a Bond fan. He's clearly someone who likes the type of movies he shoots, which are often more thoughtful, elegant character-based pieces. All the fuss and 'silliness' (his word, not mine) of Bond probably felt too frivolous. I suppose he thought the franchise wasn't known for it's artistic merits or in-depth characters (maybe he had just watched DAD...lol).
Though he does come across as a bit of a sourpuss. Channelling his inner Professor Yaffle.
Nonetheless, SF is bloody gorgeous
There is a separate thread, asking whether or not Casino Royale is a masterpiece. In my mind, it can't be considered such when two Bond films later, Mendes and Deakins showed what masterful filmmaking looks like. CR is arguably the better story, with a better Bond. It's a fantastic script. But SF is the better film. In the video below, Mendes explains how he convinced Deakins to come on board. He also gives some credit to Campbell for his recreation of Bond that he was able to then play around with.
But its just a poor film otherwise with a laughable screenplay.
imho, it's the best original screenplay in the series.
I agree, I do wish though they had tightened up the story regarding Silva's "years in the planning" escape.
I think it's rather refreshing to hear someone who's worked on one not trot out the old 'oh wow I've been a Bond fan since I was a kid!' story! :)