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The DANIEL CRAIG Appreciation thread - Discuss His Life, His Career, His Bond Films

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  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,594
    On giving advice to new-comer actors on the set of Knives Out: "It's not my place."
    On James Bond: "We kill him or I'm not doing it."
    ;) Kidding of course!
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    Posts: 4,589
    mtm wrote: »
    About time he picked someone up on how it's pronounced!

    Quite sweet that he's still friends with Mark Strong, his Our Friends in the North co-star.

    Their scene in Flashbacks of a Fool is exceptional.


  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    edited December 6 Posts: 4,589
    My quick film review of Queer (random notes).

    1. It's a good (but not great) film. Yet having said that, it stays with you for a long time after leaving the theater.
    2. Daniel Craig is exceptional, will likely get a nom. But the film doesn't have enough universal appeal to get him a gold statue.
    3. The soundtrack is brilliant, both in song choices (especially "Come As You Are" by Nirvana) and the Reznor/Ross score. The songs seem anachronistic...
    until the end of the film. Then the song choices make sense.
    4. Not as sexually explicit as I expected.
    5. Not as "mind blowingly" Lynchian or Kubrick-esque as I expected.
    6. Jason Schwartzman almost steals the film.
    7. The full frontals left me with "a slight inferiority complex." LOL
    8. I thought Kuritzkes' script needed to ease us into Lee's character, to allow us to get to know him better. His situation and motivations are not clear at all. They needed to be. It seems as though Kuritzkes was of the mindset that his audience will already know a thing or two about Burroughs. In reality, most won't bring that kind of prior knowledge into the theater.
    9. There are a number of funny little moments, including...
    one laugh-out-loud moment in a restaurant. That was a nice touch.
    10. It's not until the film's final chapter that...
    we really sense Lee's loneliness, and then the themes come crashing down upon us.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Posts: 7,594
    Thanks for the review/breakdown Trip! I'd like to check this out sometime.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,627
    Red_Snow wrote: »
    Daniel Craig on the Awards Chatter Podcast.

    There's a transcript of this here:

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/awards-chatter-daniel-craig-queer-bond-typecasting-1236074049/
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    Posts: 4,589
    Not sure if anyone else saw this. Certainly, my friends across the pond would not have access to this broadcast...


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