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@Minion, I'll do you one better: when I watch Brosnan's films any scene is ruined if I so much as spot his hair moving even slightly out of place. If his hair slings down in a thick comma on the right, it best be like that THE WHOLE SCENE. Don't even get me started on Sean's hairpieces in his movies always moving about. No consistency at all, and people dare to call him the best Bond of all! Gaaaaah!
;-)
The detail here is off the charts. I’ll be looking over this for days. Very cool stuff. Adds a great deal of detail to the opening of QOS. And people knock the editing without mercy. However, the flash editing, cuts, while Bond is initially I’m the Aston Martin are uncanny in my book. You can hear the engine roaring, and the score...just incredible for me. Plus the breathtaking scenery.
My ribs are hurting laughing from this. Oh my goodness. @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, you are the man! You nailed any points and feelings that I share. :))
:)) agreed.
What the hell did they use to secure Pierce's hair with, especially in GE, it just looks SO impractical - and stays impossibly well coiffed throughout numerous sweaty action set pieces.
Hair & Make-up dep. never had it as busy on Bondfilms as during Brosnan's reign #:-S
I don't know if this has to be pointed out, but most of my comments are tongue-in-cheek. There is no way the locations are supposed to be this far away from each other in the universe of the film. Especially the move from the lake to the quarry looks like it is supposed to be basically just on the other side of that tunnel in Tremosine and not a 300 km drive.
And yes, even though there are some problems with the chase in general, the opening shot gliding across the water and then flash-cut to the bonnet of the Aston and *extremely loud* engine noises always makes me sit up straight.
Am I crazy for respecting that and thinking it's kind of rad?
Yes. This is where I was coming from as well. Plus, just looking up the locations, pics of relative location markers, and so on is also what I was getting at. I understand what are saying about the length etc. But it’s fun and will be cool to research the locations. Offbeat questions: any idea what Mr. White’s house would be worth? That’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen (home included). Looks like his work as a “doctor” paid very well ;)
If you google 'Casino Royale ump', you'll see the image of Craig holding the gun while wearing sunglasses, which looks as though they may have filmed additional footage on White's property.
Information is a bit scattered and sometimes contradictory, but it seems like the Villa was seperated into several appartments in the 1980s. One page says there are 22 apartments in there, which seems a ridiculously high number. At least one of those apartments can be rented for short stays at about 250 € per night.
Imagine coming to your holiday rental and a guy gets shot in the leg on the front porch and then thrown into a car boot :-O
:)) Yes, that would probably deter any future stays
Question: How does Camille know Bond? She just invites him to her car without meeting prior? And how does she know where exactly he'd be?
Then, she immediately shoots at him over a misunderstanding. If she knew about who he was prior, she would've known that he wasn't actually trying to kill her. If she didn't research who he was, then how did she know where to find him?
Also, how two dimensional does a hitman character have to be to carry a briefcase with just a gun and a picture in it? And how does Camille miss at point blank?
Bond is at the right place at the right time; where Camille was meant to meet the contractor (in front of the hotel he was staying at).
It's a misunderstanding, but one involving a gun and a photo of her, so it's a pretty enormous misunderstanding.
Two dimensional? Maybe. But it's just Slate, he's in the film for one minute. It felt Bondian enough to me.
I don't recall exactly, but I seem to remember Bond deftly handle nearly being shot at point blank range. I don't remember this feeling odd at all.
Just my thoughts.
EDIT: " If she knew about who he was prior, she would've known that he wasn't actually trying to kill her." She didn't know this man as Bond, she knew him as a contractor set up to meet with Camille, by Greene.
Yep, checks out to me.
Great explanation 👍
You get the no-prize!
Yep, I see he has. Plenty of popcorn, brought his sleeping bag. Very good, Chris. ;)
I do like some part of QOS very much - just not certain technical/craft aspects of it. Fine acting throughout, though.
As promised, my final paper submission of an ecocritical look at Quantum of Solace:
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a0bdd020-3a34-43d7-a98c-132cc20b52b6#pageNum=1
Beautiful stuff, I'm glad you remembered to link us! Can't wait to read it later. And kudos to you for remaining objective when it calls for it (something I'm incapable of doing with this film, I have way too much bias and love for it to be that sane and level-headed).
Luckily, he, or Eon, realized he was the most interesting character in the Craig era still alive after QoS and included him in SP.
He should have been Blofeld, though (if you want to keep Oberhauser, make him Mr. White's Largo). It all would have made more sense.
1. I have no problem with the theme song, I liked it, in fact I can listen to it many times, much better than No Time To Die (dare I say it).
2. Camille is one of my favorite bond girls, much better than Madeleine Swann for sure as a match for Craig's Bond.
3. Craig at his prime here, no "too old for this crap", no "retired" thing. He is serious, cold hearted assassin, gritty.
4. As David Zaritsky (Bond Experience) said, this film has all the elements of a bond film, moreso than Licence To Kill, as David said, after watching it, he will go outside whistling the James Bond theme, and very confident, because Bond is doing bondian things.
5. It left me wondering what Diamonds Are Forever could have been, if they went down this route.
6. All in all, it's not one of the worst bond films like the critics or the people making out to be.
Then there's how it matches up with the end of CR, and how the end of that film is supposed to be the big 'Bond as we know him' moment, complete with the line and theme. But then QoS immediately goes for the affirmationed angle and it undercuts it somewhat. Again, I love the last scene of QoS on it's own, but it doesn't come together for me in context. Yeah yeah, I know, Writer's Strike, but I was wondering if anybody has a Watsonian explanation.