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I'm not aware of there having been any official theme songs under consideration apart from Jack White's with Alicia Keys. I recall there was some unknown artist who did a very pastiche take on a Bond song and promoted it on YouTube as being "in consideration for" Quantum of Solace, but that wasn't really the case. The song Arnold wrote and had Bassey sing, "No Good About Goodbye," does borrow a theme from the film, but it was made after the fact.
I'll draft the petition for a small fee as I balance work and school tuition at the moment.
@Junglist_1985 can help the community by promoting it.
The only time I approve of such things is when a piece of work was cut against the will of a Director. And I’m not talking about franchise pictures because that’s part of the game, I’m talking about an auteur, like Welles or Stroheim, who both were subject to such treatment. BLADE RUNNER is a more recent example. The STAR WARS films illustrate the futility of the practice; down the rabbit hole.
The theatrical Aliens and The Abyss were both edited by Cameron, yet his extended cuts are superior...
Well, it works a hundredfold better than the screamfest that is AWTD. I can't stand it so much I've never actually seen the titles properly. I never new there were throwbacks to OHMSS and TSWLM in there:
QoS was scored during editing of the film...that's why the music matches the scenes so well.
It is his best. For a couple of years after the release of QoS, there were classical concerts all over the world playing music from the film, notably Night At The Opera.
The film's own Bond 007 theme which is played when Camille is dropped off at the train station and the scene cuts to Kazan, Russia could have been used in future movies. Arnold has such talent that his music was reused in future Bond films without his input.
Absolutely, particularly "The Abyss" which is immensely better.
I think it would be better if it was only Keys singing. I watched the film again tonight and the song kind of worked. One thing I noticed, the sound on this film is incredible. The sound effects on the PTS are very effective. And of course, Arnold's score is fantastic. The guy knows the Bond sound.
CR and QOS are the best of the Craig era. As always, it's a shame the films didn't continue in this vein.
I concur. And they came out so close together that we were fooled into expecting that trend to continue...
If only they had. I think it would have been quite something. Another thing I noticed watching the film tonight, how much location work is in the film. Makes such a difference.
It's just so sad because QoS was so deep towards the end. It showed you how Bond's inner emotions really felt in a world so cold with only few people who could understand what he was going through. Metaphorically, Camille was like a ghost of Bond's inner psyche. Her being dropped off at the cemetary and never being heard from or seen again just as Bond was off to Kazan to confront Yusef and get a little bit of solace from Vesper's circumstances....I miss the CR-QoS-Bloodstone Daniel Craig storytelling.
The Vesper arc ended there, with the necklace in the snow. The perfect coda to the story. Or so it should have been...
Nobody would get solace like that in an instant. Matera grave sequence was needed at the very least. No way Bond decided to change his mind on an instant and not carry the hurt for a while.
Instead it excelled in historic and epic ways. Living through Bond history, priceless.
Danny Boyle tried to make it that way. And when he didn't get his way, he spoiled the ending of NTTD.
He didn't spoil a thing. I think the filmmakers would consider him in the future.
Trying to make that into a NTTD damnation is a mistake.
Where's @Germanlady to come cancel me?
:)) this person who hasn't posted in four years really lives rent free inside your head, huh?
I am still baffled....I called out Bond's death and she starts calling me all kinds of names and gets me cancelled, LOL.
Obviously he would always carry that hurt with him. But that should have been it with reference to Vesper.
Much as I love NTTD the 'forgiving Vesper' moments just felt odd and hollow to me.
Agreed - i really like the rest of the Matera sequence but the sudden loop back to Vesper and especially the “I miss you” line didn’t work for me at all. I much prefer the fadeout from the necklace in the snow in QoS….
CR was made with a lot of confidence and hard work.
QoS was made with a lot of hard work albeit rushed. The crew worked harder to accommodate the schedule. The mood on the set is reflected in the air of melancholy felt throughout the film.
Skyfall was fun to make for the actors although Judi Dench was sad filming her last shot.
SP was filmed while DC was fighting lots of pain and also enjoying the Morrocan dessert. That whole dessert scene was a homage to the dessert in QoS, even up to the point of having a hotel in each of the locations featured.
NTTD was filmed as a large farewell and seemed enjoyable for the cast and crew.
If the franchise was adapting to Jason Bourne style filming for CR and QoS then went full Marvel and Nolanish....they could have taken a lesson from the 4th and 5th Jason Bourne movies.....they were critically less favorable among audiences and were immediately forgotten.