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Are you from German decent perhaps?
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Glad I'm not the only one that finds QoS fun at times.
Hey! Me too...
I feel like it was probably my favorite part about SP. To see Mr. White again in the first scene of being hooked up to an IV similar to how he was at the beginning of QoS was obviously a bit of homage. It was interesting in how he was a source of Vesper's demise and yet his departing gift was to entrust Bond with his daughter's life.
It was quite different to see Mr. White in the condition he was and I agree with some fans here that it would have been better had he been revealed to be Blofeld but all in all the story fit together and to have SP acknowledge QoS, even mentioning the word "solace" in one scene, and having desert landscape shots on 35mm film again, it was definately a sequel worth nearly 8 years in waiting.
Mr. White's return was well-done all in all, and it just might be a good thing that the missing last scene from QoS didn't make it to the theatres, by Marc Forster's decision: White may have been wasted in that one scene to not be brought back for Spectre.
@dramaticscenesofQOS, I agree. I used to be upset about how White was cut from the ending of QoS, because I was worried that the arc would never be touched on again, especially after SF came around with a new vision for the era.
I was ecstatic and very moved then, once I heard White's voice in the first SP trailer and how he was being presented as a haunted shell of his old self. I really respect how he was written into the film, very naturally and with a great importance. He's there for just one scene, but those few minutes really do make an impact. I also like that the film didn't bother with telling a story of redemption for his character. Instead we see him as a man who tried to turn noble too late, and in doing so realized that he'd died with nobody to keep him company but himself. It's a very stark, haunting image to have of White, but I think the tragedy of his character will keep him from being forgotten for quite a while. I definitely loved his use there and how he was employed to recall the past films visually and through his words. It's quite a crazy thing that the man Bond shot and stood over in CR all those years later was teaching him a vital lesson on how to live, a lesson even he failed to follow soon enough.
With me,it is only beaten by the train fight,but its my 2nd favourite for sure.
Yes! Nice observation! I think of this, too!
I am from the Netherlands and really curious what you have been smoking prior to writing this entry. ;)
And I think had they made Die Another Day the film it was supposed to be, with the torture at the beginning, it would've suited Craig more than Brosnan. It's crazy, but I really think Die Another Day and SPECTRE have a lot of comparisons.
A surgically altered baddie, ice palace and space laser are the Craig era all over. Good point.
I think the nearest direct comparison to DAD is DAF, but take your point - there are many similarities between various entries.
@DarthDimi, they're carbon copies, don't you see? So myopic of you...
SP also works as an actual film, that you could use to teach in film school about how to stage scenes, shoot action, inject theme into a script, etc. DAD would be a headliner at the Razzie School of Bonkers Films, but no where else. ;)
I agree the two are only comparable in being the lowest points of either actor's tenure. And I like your analogy, though I find it a little inapt.
SP is like someone uncorking a bottle of red wine, drinking the wine themselves, and then giving you the cork to gnaw on.
DAD is like a refreshing soda (super sized if you please) that you get three quarters of the way through before somebody spits in your drink, and then you look down at it and go, "I don't want this anymore."
Plus there's the eventual Michael Madsen Retrospective. Just a matter of time.
With SP I had been promised & expected finely aged expensive wine, but then I realized the bottle had been left out open for too long and had oxidized, leaving the distinct bitter aftertaste of vinegar.
With DAD I always knew I was getting soda, but I thought it would be Coca Cola. Instead of the 'real deal', I realized I had been given generic store branded cola which someone hadn't closed properly, thereby letting all of the fizz out. So it ended up being stale, but still quite a bit sweeter than the bitter wine from above.
That is true; there has to be room made for all the pretentious French cinema and the overexposed Citizen Kanes of the medium.