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Exactly!
Bond and Nomi get there by air/sea as there is no way to get to it otherwise. Kind of like Bond and Kissy going there by sea to climb the mountain.
Judging from all the masks, Safin’s wardrobe and what looks like a model of the building the bases is hiding under.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESMXFfqXYAYh52M.jpg
EDIT. The one thing I wonder about is will we only see the exterior building from the air briefly? Or will Bond escape it in similar fashion to the book?
Could Bond and Maddy in the water be an epilogue with him presumed dead?
There's the whole Japanese thing in there with his character too!
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Ans didn't Burns come in to work on the NTTD script a little? Could it have been some minor tweaks, based on how well-researched Contagion was?
@00Dalton7 In an norwegian article, production designer Mark Tildesley said (before being hushed by PR-people) that Safins lair/bunker was an abandoned diamond mine, with seems to me be a key point in the plot otherwise he wouldn't have mentioned it, right?
Why use the island as an exterior? (asking myself now). Are there really diamond mines out there located on islands?
It's all a very fair theory... we don't know enough to rule it out!
My own theory is that Safin's island is meant to be somewhere in the Kuril islands... at least that would explain the Japanese influences. And ending with an amnesiac Bond in Madeleine's arms would be a very fitting ending to the Craig era.
That angle is new. Where did you find that? Maybe we can find more hidden stills
After DAD, I'd rather the Eon series never mention diamonds again!
https://www.commander007.net/2020/nttd-le-point-sur-la-promotion-8/
My bad. Not new at all. I have it in my archive
Ak ok.
Diamond mine? The parallels with Die Another Day keep stacking up!
Interview was in the norwegian newspaper VG. I have it somewhere in the archive
The Norway chase in NTTD looks very grand, it could easily pass for a PTS, when it isn't. I think that's something the older Bond films did very well, Spectacle all through....whether the plot was engaging or not. Although, NTTD even with the strong-looking plot, has many spectacular moments, which is a good thing.
Yep that has always been my idea as well.
No masks, kimonos and bonsai, the architecture of the base influenced by arguably the greatest modern japanese architect (Ando) vs. all the Russian connections like the car plates, the villain's name and obviously the signs on the liar's walls being in Russian.
Plus, we know Bond and Nomi enter the base by sea, we know that they shot in the rocky volcanic shores of Maratea, Italy, scenes from the end of the final showdown and last but not least the Faroe look like a perfect place for doubling some Kuril island...
Film shoots looking to return.
That would be really interesting. I think Denbigh makes a good point the timelines dont make sense but that doesnt seem to be a huge issue for EON if the emotional pay off is big enough. Would also make the scene with Oberhauser talking about Bonds experiences of loss more meaningful in Spectre.
Do we know how old Madeleine is? By the time Bond met her (2015), she had already gone through all of her medical training and had spent time with Médecins Sans Frontières. After that, she opened the clinic, and had probably been at that for some time. Given that it can take 15 years of education to get licensed and then adding her practice on top of that, she was likely 35 years old (maybe even older) when she met Bond. This means she was perhaps 26 at the time of Vesper's death. However, she still would have been in medical school in 2006.
Let's not forget, though, that Madeliene seemingly had no knowledge of the interrogation room at Le Americain.
Seems reasonable to me. We have to imagine there have been many missions in his world that we haven’t seen on a big screen. Thus making him a seasoned agent.
But "each" film Bond has his Naval military experience, plus some tenure at MI6 before being considered for a double-O position. Which has its own special requirements and initiation. It's an important point that whatever experience is brought with a person, they must step up their game tremendously.
Calling Craig Bond in Casino Royale a rookie is kind of silly. Though he's new as 007, yes. He's moving through what Fleming described more briefly as the first two kills, then an important mission. And it's not automatically wrong to have the character-defining crystallization of the character (Vesper) more toward the beginning of his 00 status. It probably makes more sense in this case.
It's also a Bond staple that he's at odds with the bureaucrats. Set up to be out of date automatically and in question.
Some differences from the novel, sure. Just good story-telling for the film and the franchise.