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The eventual return of Moneypenny and Q. More gadgets, not just technology. To me that was all a certainty. (That line was also mocking bureaucracy and their contempt for OO7 and his tools and methods.)
Let us remember though.....Mission Impossible 5 learned from QoS.....Has anyone seen the opera scene from that film? It's totally a tribute, not an imitation, but a kind tribute to QoS with the Tosca Opera scene.
Around that time, Tom Cruise also got to play alongside Olya Kurylenko, aka Camille, in roles similar to that of a Bond-Camille relationship. The movie was called Oblivion!
Sure, but it shows how good of a film QoS was. No Mission Impossible movie can make up for the missing better sequel to the film's storyline, while the Bond producers still have a chance to do so as Daniel Craig is here.
Camille thought she was buying inside information from one of Greene's geologists. Greene knew this, so he killed the geologist in advance and replaced him with Slate, whose job it was to kill Camille for her betrayal. Bond got to him first, kills Slate, then replaces Slate as the geologist (who was already replaced by Slate, being killed by Greene and dumped into the water). That's how I always saw it.
So did Bond rip off the free running over the roofs from Jason Bourne who did so in Morocco?- Or was that an imitation, or even a coincidence?
I found the Opera scene in MI more layered than the Opera scene in QoS, which was nice but in comparison rather tame with the MI opera scene.
You're welcome, and absolutely, the writers could've been a little bit better in making that point stand out more clearly.
The Bourne ultimatum came in 2007 and CR in 2006 which was filmed in 2005. There is a proper documentary as well how they get to know about free running as well. The only thing bond copied was Shaky camera which was a trend of a lot of films at that time.
And the editor and the stunt coordinator from that Bourne movie. ;)
Sure but that doesn't mean it has copied stunts as I said Casino Royale came before ultimatum (for which you said it was rip-off how can someone rip-off which was released more than an year and performed even before that) not a single action piece has been shot which anyone can say was ripped or copied frame by frame in bond. Cast or crew work for multiple films it's not like they are bind to work with only one, for instance Lea seydoux work in mi4 that doesn't mean she came in bond film to do the same thing she did in mi.
The parkour action from CR was impressive and undoubtedly seen in the French parkour action movies which were pretty decent. For me the CR parkour chase is easily the best Craig era stunt.
I enjoy that Forester tried different things. I like the way each city is introduced. It shows some style and is different from other films. I like Fields and feel if there was an under used character then she would be it.
I love the opera scene and the fact a group would hold a meeting in such a public place. I thought it was very Bondian. I love when Bond comes on the radio and the rats start to scurry and Bond starts taking pics of them.
I may have to do my ranking again and somehow I think QOS will be higher in my listing and more likely above CR.
Please make that list soon, looking forward to seeing it.
I think that with QoS, the producers really had it in mind to follow up on many of the lose ends but it never came to fruition.
So much potential they had....as it's been said before, QoS is one of those films that gains fans with time, each viewing gives off a new package of gifted subtle presents. For example, when you watch the opera scene, notice how people like Guy Haines talk about "The Canadian"....later on guess who that Canadian is!
Each transition to a new city was carefully crafted in QoS, compared to the confused movies known as TWINE which ended up as one of the most cliched Bond movies that helped bring down the series further towards DAD. Everything from the title card to the score (The Dead Don't Care About Vengeance) being a symbolic reminder that Bond was traveling all over the world to get one step closer to Quantum and finding Vesper's betrayers, to the way the camera shot was done, all the way to the very weather and time of the scene (day/night/sunny/snowy) including all the five elements were utilized well.
This movie really marked the fact that the Bond movies could be Oscar caliber if they don't try to be Bond movies.
Anyone here notice the subtle effectiveness of the transition scenes such as when Bond is chatting it up with whoever is driving the Range Rover in London to Craig Mitchell's apartment? The film has that ability to make you feel like you're seeing things from the protagonist's view as though you are alongside them in multiple scenes. For example, the chase through the opera house restaurant (great editing), how the song Quantum is played when Bond finds clues and seeks information, in all the scenes in which Bond and Camille are in the desert (both after parachuting and also when they go to ambush Greene & Associates as he advises Camille to dig two graves...all the way up to the point where Bond is waiting for Yusef at the apartment.
The film did a very effective job throughout of including the viewers and while certain pieces needed to be put together through further viewings the film isn't one that people can easily get bored with.
So, perhaps the film deserves a more direct follow up but that would take years to accomplish so that more viewers would be caught up on its true contributions to the series.
Was he talking about Mathis? I doubt Mathis was a friend of Greene.
Straight up execution, too, one bullet right in the face. One of my favorite kills of the Craig era.
No I don't think Bond is going to shoot Yusef, I think that is the point about Camille's line to Bond about vengeance.
The inner battle,and Yusef can see it as well.
Plus it was a great twist for M, who was annoyed at Bond "killing every lead!"!
Whatever you think of QOS before that, you have to admit that's a great final scene with Yusef. Craig looks great in that sequence too.