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Just announced that the Bond In Motion Exhibition opens January 17th 2012
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http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/event_bond_in_motion.php3
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2012/jan/15/motor-museum-james-bond-in-pictures#/?picture=384459016&index=0
And this:
The Aston Martin DB5 seems a little pedestrian compared with some of the cars James Bond has commandeered in the past 50 years, but the sportscar classic will return in the next instalment of the spy's adventures.
One of the crew working on Skyfall, the 23rd film in the Bond series, yesterday said filmmakers had borrowed "a couple of DB5s", suggesting the car first seen in Goldfinger 48 years ago may be involved in a chase scene.
One of the original Goldfinger Aston Martins is the star exhibit of the Bond in Motion show at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire. The museum has been transformed into a rest home for vehicles developed by Q Branch since shooting began on Doctor No 50 years ago yesterday.
Highlights of the exhibition, which contains the largest number of Bond vehicles ever assembled, include the Lotus Esprit S1 driven by Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me and the Crocodile submarine from Octopussy.
Not all are in top condition. Chris Corbould, special effects supervisor for the Bond films, said the scuffs and dents on the cars used in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace were real, unlike the cosmetic bullet holes. "It brings tears to my eyes, doing that to these cars," he said. "For Casino Royale, the car did seven rolls, which broke the world record. We didn't set out to do that, it just happened."
Special effects team member John Holmes said cars such as the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish in Die Another Day were entirely different from standard models.
"For Die Another Day, we went along to Ford and said we needed a four-wheel drive version of the Aston Martin Vanquish and they said it couldn't be done. We said, just give us the cars, and we did it ourselves."
Bond actors sometimes get carried away, Mr Holmes said. One of his colleagues was sitting next to Pierce Brosnan in the Aston Martin used for Die Another Day when the actor was taking it for a run at Pinewood Studios. "All of a sudden they were driving out of the gate. It had Mickey Mouse number plates and no tax disc or insurance or anything. Pierce just said: 'Don't worry, I'm James Bond.' "
Several Bond girls visited the exhibition, including Britt Ekland, who played Bond's bumbling accomplice Holly Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun. She said she felt nostalgic for the days when directors could not retouch stunts with computer-generated effects.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/comeback-for-classic-aston-martin-car/story-e6frg6so-1226245833017
Bond actors sometimes get carried away, Mr Holmes said. One of his colleagues was sitting next to Pierce Brosnan in the Aston Martin used for Die Another Day when the actor was taking it for a run at Pinewood Studios. "All of a sudden they were driving out of the gate. It had Mickey Mouse number plates and no tax disc or insurance or anything. Pierce just said: 'Don't worry, I'm James Bond.' "
Also one could argue, irresponsible but hey, that was Pierce as Bond...
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I love the pause for the CR crash. Such great audio during that crash, if thats not too weird to say. None of it seemed to be foley.
Nice trailor! Thanks for sharing! Hoping to go in march!
http://www.vg.no/bil-og-motor/artikkel.php?artid=10076128
EDIT:
Translated the interview, which also includes a word with Ken Wallace:
Sitting on the hood of the iconic Aston Martin DB5, Britt Ekland reveals what the James Bond movies really are all about.
At age 69, the Swedish film diva, known for her role as Bond-girl in The Man With The Golden Gun, can still spin a group of press photographers around her little finger.
She showed that when she posed as hood ornament under the press viewing of the Bond in Motion exhibition which opens for audiences today.
Ekland exclusively requested being taken photos of with blitz, and acts skeptically to VG’s photographer who manages without one. Still, she takes her time for a chat.
«I get so many good memories from seeing these cars. You know, James Bond really is mostly about the cars. And the Bond-girls of course», Ekland says, blinking to VG.
«In my age, you prefer comfort, so I would rather had that one», she says, pointing towards a Rolls Royce Phantom III, the car of villain Goldfinger from the movie with the same name.
Right behind her stands the most iconic car in the Bond series, the one she just jumped down from the hood of, Aston Martin DB5, Sean Connery’s car from the movie.
«When I was young we (she and her then-husband, Peter Sellers) had an Aston Msrtin just like that. But ours was a cabriolet of course. »
Over 50 different vehicles from 50 years of James Bond movies have their place in the National Motor Museum, about a two hour drive from London, in the idyllic Beaulieu manor.
The Museum, with over 250 cars showing the development of motor vehicles, is mostly for the car fanatic. But the Bond exhibition, which lasts throughout the year, can make movie enthusiasts of any age gaze.
Aston Martin DB5, used in Goldfinger, was the first car the factory ever made, but in the movie, Q has given James Bond some extra equipment to use: An ejector- seat, bulletproof screen and machine guns.
In the opposite corner of the room, stand the two cars from the craziest car scene from the series: The one from Die Another Day, where Pierce Brosnan, drives for his life against the villain Zao, who follows him on a frozen lake driving in his green Jaguar XKR.
Bonds Aston Martin V12 Vanquish is so special that it is the only car of the exhibition in a glass display. The Bond car got a good advantage over the Jaguar in both horse powers (450 against 370) and top speed (315 km/h against 250 km/h), but Zao on the other hand, has heat seeking missiles. In the very last second, Bond saves his life by making the Aston Martin turn invisible - in a scene being played on one of the walls behind the cars.
«It’s the most beautiful car scene of any Bond film. Those two cars dances just like in a ballet, it really should be accompanied by opera music», says Vic Armstrong, who directed and wrote the stunt scene, and has played numbers of stunt scenes in the Bond films.
«The cars got hero roles, just like Bond himself. These are cars that are to expensive for the ordinary man, but Bond can crash and destroy as he like. »
Two of the cars that have gone through most are represented in a «before» and «after edition »: Aston Martin DBS, that Daniel Craig drives in the two most recent Bond films, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.
In the first of the two, the stunt crew made a record when they rolled the car around seven times, in a scene where Bond just barely manages not to run over his girlfriend Vesper.
In the next film, they wrecked seven cars during the opening scene.
The exhibition does have room for much more:
Here you’ll find the legendary Lotus Espirit S1, from The Spy Who Loved Me, which turns into a submarine when Roger Moore drives it over a pier; and BMW 750 iL, which Brosnan remote controlled with his mobile phone from its backseat in Tomorrow Never Dies.
Also included are several curiosities more for Bond fans rather than car enthusiasts: Like the crocodile-sub Moore uses in Octopussy, and the Cello case that Timothy Dalton runs down a slalom hill with, in The Living Daylights.
While Sean Connery was watching from the ground, Ken Wallace flew his homemade mini-helicopter over the volcanic mountains.
In You Only Live Twice, Bond shoots down four attacking helicopters from the criminal organization SPECTRE from his «Little Nellie». But actor Sean Connery only made studio scenes where the mini helicopter was raised with a steel wire. In the 84 flights required, former engineer and RAF-pilot Ken Wallace was behind the controls.
«Sean Connery was a pleasant chap, but he spent most of his time in the studio, so I rarely saw him. I was never nervous, even today I would rather fly Little Nellie than anything else », the now 94-year old man says to VG.
Produced and presented by Stewart and Orla Kelly.
Listen to the broadcast below...
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/specials/jamesbond.html
Where did you hear that out of interest?
@myworldisenough I follow Beaulieu on Facebook and they said on there yesterday. It is also now on their website.
WELL.......MAYBE ITS TIME TO START CUTTING OVERHEADS!
Ha. The wheels ride is so dated, but fun though. It's a great place but they need to update the facilities to the 21st century. The wheels ride is the same from when I was little years and years ago.
Me too - wait till spring, I think
May go in my Birthday week in April.
Duration: 20 minutes
Quality: Good