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I think that’s in the Norway cabin and the glass is a coincidence.
You can see safin is in winter clothing Plus there’s no reason for safin to be in London dressed like that.
I don’t think bond and safin meet until the scene in the trailer where bond mentions playing god.
I suspect something sort of similar to Blofeld in SP - a scene or two in the first two acts, but most screentime just in the third act. 40+ minutes is fine with me so long as it's used well. Dr. No barely had any screentime but it was used so perfectly it didn't matter. The buildup and execution was perfect. Safin / Rami Malek is one of the aspects I'm most confident in going into NTTD.
Imagine a Craig film where the third act is the best part.
Imagine a Bond film where the 3rd act is the best part.
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DN, YOLT, OHMSS, TMWTGG, LTK, and GE are a few that arguably qualify IMO.
If we imagine that the facials scars is something he's carried with him for years, maybe the use of masks is (or were) there to hide them.
I know i usually don't understand you, but . . .
wtf?
What kind of work do you do, @M_Balje ? Is it film related?
I agree with this list for sure! FYEO maybe as well?
I stand by my original point of Craig's films specifically not having a third act in sight.
Only SP failed. CR's third act was culled straight from Fleming; both QoS and SF had satisfactory, isolated, duels with the villain, followed by a reflective denouement. There is little to complain about, as fas as I see.
Another hypothesis @Tuck91 : they might have been using parts of the same props for both places.
I do remember watching CR for the first time and the sinking house bit starting and thinking ‘we don’t need an action scene here- the plot is actually working better than the producers realise’. I think they lost confidence a bit and thought they needed a Bond action scene because it had been a long time without any action, when the audience actually just wanted to see how Bond would react to Vesper when he found her.
Skyfall actually feels much more confident on that front: there’s barely any action it and you don’t miss it.
I agree that CR, QoS and SF all had strong third acts but admittedly OP was talking about the third act being the best part of the movie. As much as I love all three third acts neither of them is the best part of the movie (for me).
The rest are weak especially Spectre.
Actually yes, Skyfalls third act is pretty great, but to me it doesn’t hold a candle to it’s first act. Largely because the first act was so great.
QOS as well, I must admit. CRs third act feels tacked on (and I don’t see how it’s straight from Fleming), and I get bored with it, and Spectres third act... well...
Wholeheartedly agree here, except I suspect I enjoy Spectre more than you ;)
CR’s is very good, but not better than the first two-thirds of the film. I personally like the action-based change from the novel for the sake of the movie; each ending works for each version. The very last scene is awesome.
QOS’s is also very good, but I’m not sure if it’s the film’s strongest part or not. QOS is consistently good IMO.
SF’s probably is my favorite part, but I admit I’m probably in the minority there. I love almost all of SF too.
SP’s is very weak.
Agree with most of this, with the exception of CR being a favourite and that SF didn't do it for me in any acts of the film.
I sure wonder how NTTD will compare to Craig's previous four.
0-10 min: Norway PTS - Safin, young Madeleine
10-15 min: Titles
15-30 min: Italy flashback - Bond, Madeleine, Primo
30-35 min: Porton Down/London current day - Nomi, Waldo?, Primo?, M?, Moneypenny?
35-45 min: Jamaica - Bond, Felix, Ash, Nomi
45-80 min: Cuba - Bond, Nomi, Paloma, Waldo, Primo, Felix?, Ash?, Safin?
80-95 min: London - Bond, Nomi, M, Q, Moneypenny, Tanner, Blofeld, Madeleine
95-130 min: Russia climax - Bond, Nomi, Madeleine, Safin
130-135 min: London/Jamaica denouement - Bond, M, Madeleine?
+1, apart from SF I enjoy all of DC's third acts, CR's I have always loved and don't agree they should have gone down the same route as the novel and the Venice sinking house sequence is incredibly inventive and thrilling, much better than the Miami segment, infinitely in fact.
That final moment with White is one of the best sign offs of the series.
QOS is fantastic, drips with danger and suspense and the closing bit in Russia with Bond confronting Vesper's boyfriend is terrific as well as the final bit with M.
SF love the Scotland finale and seeing it with a live orchestra last Sunday confirmed that even more. My only issues with that film are Silva's scheme and some of the dumb dialogue that Q mutters in the scene where Silva escapes, yes it is very similar to the Joker in TDK but the rest of the film and Bond accepting his next mission from M as well is brilliant, a pity the next film couldn't of continued as this implied.
SP The crater base and the London finale is dreadful and Bond and Swann in the car is embarrassing, only poor third act of the era for me.
David Dencik (Waldo) also shot scenes in Jamaica.