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My theory would be:
Bond's chilling at home outside, hears something.
Speargun walk by window.
Finds some sort of message that gets him into town.
Meets Felix/Ash in the car outside, in the street. Agree to meet more formally. (dusk)
Bond enters nightclub (bumps into Nomi).
Bond and Felix chat at the bar.
Bond/Felix leave the bar to complete their chat. Ash tailing. ("There's a young lady...")
Bond goes home. Nomi follows. They share a drink.
She steals something or warns him off or something.
Bond rings up someone (M?) from his deck the next morning ("I met your new 00...")
Bond takes a little trip to Cuba.
Perhaps, but then why bump into him on the street and in the club? I assume that maybe he notices that his 'tripwires' have been sprung so he can tell someone has been to the house. When he enters, he finds a note, or something symbolic that tells him Felix is in town.
Sorry, carry on.
@AgentM72 I think you pretty much nailed it.
But we have forgotten one scene: Bond with his gun out at the villa during daytime which would mean we have two different (trespassing?) scenes: speargun and handgun.
And will we see action scenes at all at the villa/beach?!?
Yes that's what I thought, but I guess the recent shot we had of Bond holding his gun (where he's wearing a short sleeved shirt as opposed to a tee) might have just been him getting his gun out of the drawer ready to go somewhere.
Funny to think if the film had come out when originally planned and they were running to the kind of schedule the 80s films were made on, they'd be shooting the next film now! :D
Gun with jeans, gun in shorts, speargun in shorts
Ah yes, good call; I'd not seen him pointing it with jeans before, just getting it out of the drawer.
I presume that the speargun/pistol scenes are the same one; he just picks up the gun once he's inside.
I'm personally hoping for something like a funny/character building moment with the gun + t-shirt/shorts, where Bond is trying to fish, can't succeed, and finally just gives up and shoots one. (Reverting to his real skill set, hinting at the caged animal who isn't really cut out for this soft life and has latent skills he's wanting to use, etc.)
I would say that this is all very plausible.
Absolutely right. The journeyman era is over.
It's true that Bond films have been turned into "prestige pictures," and increasingly demand huge talent, both sides of the camera.
But all that talent doesn't come cheap, and if the 'Blockbuster age' is ending, one wonders where the budgets will come from. . .
Perhaps. But it is important to note that Daniel Craig was virtually a "nobody" when cast as Bond 16 years ago.
If Bond doesn't have the budget, nobody has it, apart from maybe Disney. Ergo there just wouldn't be much of a market for talent above what Eon is willing to pay. And lower budgets don't have to be a bad thing. Sometimes it can breed creativity and attract people who are more interested in making a good film than getting that Bond cheque.
No, not really. He was starring in movies, the sort of films he was interested in, as well as several prestige TV series which he headlined in; he was a pretty big name in drama circles. I certainly knew his name beforehand: I was surprised when it came up. He was making a few Hollywood movies too even if they weren't great stuff. He was probably a more credible name than the previous two actors (even Dalton, who I know has the 'Shakespearian' epithet but was really making episodes of Charlies Angels, potboiling US mini series and naff comic book movies :) ).
Spectre had a budget that was around 40% more than Mission Impossible Rogue Nation the same year (MI's budget was $150m), and although you can see where that money went in places, equally in terms of spectacle it's not like the MI film was lacking all that much. It does make you wonder if Bond couldn't take a lower budget.
And I know some of that is marketing, but that's where the product placement is supposed to help out isn't it?
He looks like he was forced to do that...
I was thinking he seems a bit croaky there even, but it's no business of mine :)
I detected a little bitterness from Gemma after Daniel's well wishes. (Am I reading into that too much?)
I have watched it a few times, now. I dunno. Kind of odd. "Daniel Crehhheg...thank you for that wonderful message." She did an odd twist of the head with her arms stiffening on "...that wonderful message." Then again, she seems uncomfortable with the whole thing. LOL.
No.
She has recently spoken out against her QoS role saying she wished she had never taken it. I guess at a time when Bond could be viewed as 'toxic masculinity' an actress might want to distance themselves from the franchise. But she'll happily take Aston Martin's money.
That’s not exactly hypocritical. And just because she thinks Bond women roles could be better it also doesn’t follow that she bears any grudge against Craig.