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Right? It was awesome! If that's Romer's work, then kudos to the guy. In fact, the music featured in the trailer overall was great.
Maybe the child is lynch's character. Then again that wouldn't make sense.
Things like an invisible car - if done right - are okay with me. It's a stretch on an existing technology. That said...the fact that in DAD, Bond was a few feet from the car and didn't see it is too unrealistic compared to the actual technology. Not to mention how the moving parts somehow get camouflaged like the tires. Remove one or the other falseisms and I'd pass it as near-future acceptable.
Compare that with gene therepy where Mr. Moon turns into a completely different person. That's total unforgivable sci-fi BS. The fact that the plot is centered around it makes me sick just thinking about it.
That is why I have concerns with cloning. I don't have an issue with it necessarily, as long as it is kept within a reasonable proximity of reality.
Cloning humans? Fine. But if the clones are somehow supposed to share the same memories/experiences as if they're the same person, that's BS. Same thing with the anti-aging comments on here. Cloning doesn't translate to anti-aging. You can have the same looking person with the same traits grown in different periods of time, sure ok. But they're not the same person.
Given recent past treatment of futuristic things, I just don't trust that they'll keep it reasonable.
True. Not the same child.
@JamesStock : Here are some thoughts I had way back when this "cloning" stuff first came up over the summer:
1. In and of itself, cloning is no longer sci-fi. This is real and it is happening. The problem is that people see "cloning" as replicating humans, as though they go through a machine and turn into two (Nolan's The Prestige, come to mind). Instead, from a purely evil POV, cloning turns into a black market: of limbs, of organs. It may also be the cloning of children we may have lost. Think in terms of a black market of dna that parents pay to be stored "just in case." The possibilities (for misuse) are huge.* This is why the scientific community is struggling to figure out the ethics of all this. If you have a character like Safin, who doesn't care about ethics, then there's a serious threat.
2. Cloning is closely linked to genetic warfare and genetic testing, and this could also be what Safin is up to. The technology is there to genetically alter crops, and with that ability (on a large scale) someone could do a lot of damage to the world economy. Big time. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/16/frankenbees-genetically-modified-pollinators-danger-of-building-a-better-bee
There has been a lot of discussion about algae farming as well, and this could be coupled with the genetic warfare. If we are dealing with algae, however, we may also be dealing with guano mining (and then we're back to Dr. No.)
@Tuck91: Madeleine having a daughter makes a lot of sense, BUT...as @Contraband has reported, the stunt double for that young girl has admitted that this is "young Madeleine." Furthermore, if there is a daughter, she'd have a pretty beefy role, especially at the end. And as far as we know: the young actress in that rainbow coat has not been seen anywhere else, not on set, not on location, not in credits, nowhere. That's a pretty clear indication that her role in the film is limited to that scene shot last spring, on the lake.
* If we really want to twist the knife, imagine a plot in which Madeleine was actually killed years ago, when cloning was in its infancy. Mr. White hires Safin to create a second Madeleine in a test tube, and that's the one we have. Then imagine that White had her "death" restaged, at the same age, but in this case she is saved...some sort of sick redemption for White. Highly unlikely. Highly undesirable as a Bond plot. But certainly dastardly and deeply disturbing. This would be more X-Files than Bond.
When Blofeld says, “...it’ll be the death of him” could he be talking about Safin ? Possibly Swann holds the key to defeating him.
This makes it much more ambiguous.
Thanks @peter great to hear from you. You were a calming presence around here when the mood was far more tense with the hectic start to the production, everybody wondering if the script was in trouble and the release date being pushed back. How far we've come since then.
I agree that they did an excellent job of showing a decent amount in the trailer but still leaving such a mystery. At first I was shocked at how much they showed but now it seems it's only leading to more and more mystery. Exciting times ahead.
Half the time I hear "you." Half the time I hear "him." It depends on the speakers. I wish it were a little clearer
The other translations of the trailer all say “you”
Interesting, I listened to it a half dozen times, on my phone, and always hear “him” .
, even when I tried to hear , “you”
Speaking of Shatterhand, I have a feeling there will be significant reference to YOLT the novel in NTTD. Fukunaga's touch may be the driver here, and maybe Craig wanted a Flemingian send off for his era.
I also wonder if there's some Soviet-era backstory to who Safin or his parents are... maybe they were scientists working on some top secret bio/chemical technology. Perhaps after the fall of the USSR, that technology continued to be worked on in private hands. And how does David Dencik's Waldo fit into this Safin-Madeleine-Bond quagmire?
I gotta say, I've never been intrigued by a trailer this much!! And I'm loving the positive vibes from the press the cast has been doing, especially Lynch.
It's definitely 'the death of him'... and I'm sure they're referring to Bond.
He definitely doesn't say 'it'll be the death of you', he says 'it'll be the death of him', and I believe he's talking to Madeleine about Bond.
Also , the trailer may have been, in part , designed to confuse, so dialogue may be out of context.
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He isn't.
"When our secret finds it's way out... it'll be the death of him." while Madeleine is looking at the mask, crying?
Just because the trailer only shows Blofeld talking to Bond, doesn't mean Blofeld only talks to Bond in the film.
Blofeld is talking to Madeleine.
I'll give you this, I think this is 100% true.
I’m telling you, they’re messing with us with this trailer; there is some misdirection going on,
I'll bet all my money that "it'll be the death of him" is referring to Bond.
Talos, you could be looking at a winfall of $1.47 if you take me up!
When she looks at the mask there’s a large window behind her, that’s not the prison.
When she looks at the mask, I don't think she's in the prison, I think there's some editing happening, but I'm just saying the trailer is communicating to us that Blofeld is talking to Madeleine about how their secret (relating to the mask) will be the death of Bond.
We'll talk on April 3rd after everyone's seen the film and it'll all make sense.
it sounds like "him".. but he is in fact saying "you"
Madeleine ever speaks to Blofeld; I get the impression that Bond is at the prison to get information from Blofeld. To his surprise Madeleine is there to observe and analyze.
Of course Blofeld being the crafty fellow he is, knows that Madeleine is on the other side of the glass and plays both of them.
It’s clearly “ him”
Very tasty indeed.
it makes zero sense on any contextual level with he trailer that he says "him" - who is the "him" he is referring to? Safin?.. if thats the case then why would Bond care?.. "fine, let her secret be the death of him, i'm heading back to jamaica." (and roll credits)... you have to also take into context what he is saying to James directly before then as well - "James... you gave up everything for her, when he secret finds it's way out, it'll be the death of you."... ending it with 'him' makes absolutely no sense, as he was speaking to James about everything he gave up to be with her, so in doing so, he's put his own life at risk, rather than thinking it was going to be happily ever after..
Safin? Yes, he very well could be referring to him. It’s more than likely that Bond is at the prison to question Blofeld about Safin and his threat.
The connection to Swann is a complication that Blofeld is exploiting to get into Bond’s head.