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Surely part of the plot of The Shining is that it takes place in a deserted hotel whereas SP takes place in densely populated European capital cities, albeit mostly at night.
Hence there's nothing wrong with it in The Shining but in SP it is jarring.
However, it does give the film a surreal aspect, which may have been the intention. Mendes is sometimes too smart for his own good with all the subtexts, and tries to do so much more than just telling a plain, good old fashioned story.
There is also a somewhat 70's space effect to the torture chamber. It reminds me of 2001, or Star Wars, or even the old tv show Space 1999. There's something about the clinical cleanliness of the whole thing. Antiseptic almost. Also recalling the loneliness of space.
@TheWizardOfIce, it wasn't something that stood out to me at all in SP until more and more people started pointing it out; I initially caught onto the fact that Rome was incredibly quiet and lacking in people and cars during the nighttime chase sequence, but then it bothered me more when I realized there's not a single soul working in C's building, even though the system is live at midnight, the train isn't terribly populated, London is pretty empty in the finale, and this is all even more jarring when the PTS is the only "populated" moment in the movie, with over 1,000 extras with unique costumes. How they pulled this off, but couldn't put more background characters and extras throughout the rest of the movie is confusing.
Fixed.
I'm waiting to get a deal on 'The Kubrick Collection' on blu somewhere so I can experience his other classics for the first time.
Yes, the Kubrick Masterpiece Collection is very expensive, I'm waiting for a good deal as well, sadly the price seems not to change much on Amazon and other Swiss retailers.
I only have The Shining and 2001 on HD DVD.
I wish I had a translation for the rest of it.
Ah, thank you.
Good catch. Difference is, that style was "in" back in the late 80s. (See Don Johnson in Miami Vice.) It's been out of style ever since, which is what makes Oberhauser's sockless loafers so ... creepy.
I've always thought that too. A great moment.
1. Felix says 'You're slipping up 007 letting the opposition get that close to you.' This is presumably in reference to Capungo.
Bond replies 'They got a lot closer to you in Jamaica.' What is he referring to? If it's a DN reference at what point was Felix ever in any danger to justify this comment? Or are we to take it that Bond and Felix have had some other adventure in Jamaica we've never seen?
2. The guy at the airport tells Bond that he has him on the next plane to Geneva leaving in half an hour. Are you seriously telling me that in 1964 Geneva was such a popular route with exceedingly rich people ferrying their cars abroad that there was a plane every half an hour?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_United_Air_Ferries
This states that the Southend-Geneva route was discontinued so it can't have been that popular.
3. What's the point of the bulletproof shield on the DB5? Q states quite clearly that the 'windscreen is bulletproof as are the side and rear windows. So why compromise on handling and space to carry around a big chunk of metal that only serves the purpose of protecting the rear window which is bulletproof itself.
4. In the laser table scene Goldfinger states 'you have been recognised by one of your opposite numbers who is also licenced to kill'.
Who does he mean? Is this a reference to Goldfinger being controlled by Russia as in the book?
5. Bond clearly asks for his martini to be shaken not stirred but Mai Li ignores him as there is no sound of a cocktail shaker before she delivers him his drink.
6. The flying circus leader does a countdown before they release the gas: '5,4,3,2 - zero.' What happened to 1?
7. It's just struck me that all the soldiers falling over in unison isn't naff directing by Hamilton because after all they are acting and not really unconscious so it would look slightly faked. Fortunately the only witnesses are the pilots who hardly get the view we do at ground level hence they don't smell a rat.
http://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Goldfinger/pages/Goldfinger-195.htm
But when Bond wakes up, there are now six bottles in the fridge door.
http://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Goldfinger/pages/Goldfinger-198.htm
Not just extras. Lazenby in the pts comes to mind. Hunt asked him to do that and say what he always said while on set(the pts was filmed practically last). "This never happened to the other fellow". It had become a joke during filming.
And Connery does the same at the end of NSNA, of course.
smile on her face. Must not have agreed with the marriage ( Back story) :D
I wonder if this has something to do with the status of blondes in fiction.