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Thought so. Now, keep your politics out of Bond as well as this thread just like the rest of us are doing, and go get a life.
That first one – Eventyrslottet (The Fairy Tale castle), is an amusement park castle opened in 1999.
Edit: and the second one is a mansion, actually – built between 1899-1900. Gamlehaugen (as it's called), does have an interesting exterior though.
No.
Yet you've just done exactly the same.
Have you checked the windows in your glass house or checked the colour of your pot recently?
That would be DAF:
"Lift, or perhaps I should say [FOR OUR AMERICAN AUDIENCE, AS WE ARE BOTH OBVIOUSLY BRITISH AND TALKING ONLY TO EACH OTHER], elevator."
eheh, bad research on my part. Only a google search in fact. Damn ;)
I could imagine a Villa La Gaeta (CR) styled scene at Gamlehaugen though.
+1
Seeing as there's a lot of discussion on castles and snowy mountains, I'd love to see some fantastic inspiration drawn from Where Eagles Dare (which, in my opinion, is the greatest spy film ever made) involving infiltration, cable cars (also done in OHMSS), and some fantastic stealthy scenes around it. Fukunaga can make the tension work beautifully with such sequence.
This sounds incredibly intriguing.
Certainly agree their and would love to see it!!!
In terms of cable car, while I like the idea in principle, I'd rather they not go there. The cable car scenes in OHMSS & MR are incredibly iconic, as is the one in Where Eagles Dare. Whenever they've done anything which recalls the past in any way lately they have screwed it up royally for me, and I can't see this time being any different. So ideally I'd prefer something that hasn't been done.
I do like the idea of more undercover spy work and infiltration though. That could work nicely and it's been a while .
There's also this one from Johnny English Reborn:
Amen.
That sounds like a Sherlock Holmes mystery to me for some reason.
Imagine Bond in that situation, taking cover by the wall, listening to the guard's footsteps, his suppressed Walther in hand, breaking a cold sweat, the fear of getting caught running through his nerves while at the same time he does his best to conceal it. A situation of terror. That's the beauty of it. Unfortunately, we've very rarely seen Bond in pickles as such. For Your Eyes Only could've had that, but the finale at the St. Cyrill's monastery was poorly executed.
That's why I like it so much ;)
noun
noun: melodrama; plural noun: melodramas
1.
a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.
So with the SF scene I referred to, Bond is pi**ed off with M and lets his feelings be known. This, for me, is in keeping with what has happened and fits the tone of the movie.
However, in SP, we have the step brother rubbish which really is a bolt on and can be described as sensational and exagerated with an aim (failed) to up the emotion. That is a 100% attempt at melodrama
I think we have to be fair in drawing a line between emotion that has been created within the plot as it developes and "bolt on" extras which are there to boost the emotion and can be spotted a mile off. I really do hope that the team for the next film can see this obvious line so we can still have some emotion.
Exactly. I made this point a few pages back regarding melodrama and some people's misinterpretation of its meaning.
There's a big difference between "drama" and "melodrama". SP is very guilty of the latter, both in the foster-brother stuff and the somewhat sketchy Bond-Madeleine romance that leaps and bounds its way to an "I love you".
Drama only becomes melodrama when it stops being believable or becomes highly exaggerated beyond established reason. I believed most of the relationships and the dramatic fallout of certain situations in Craig's first three films, so they work fine. They're not always to my personal taste or liking, but they work in the context of which the filmmakers intended to.
I think Fukanaga is - all things considered - quite a subtle filmmaker, so melodrama would not be something I'd worry about.