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Well he said Silva was up there with the greats. I like the look of him and Bardem is a great actor but I think it's a bit early to declare he's as good as Blofeld or Sanchez.
Just for the record - that was Mendes..
Daniel Craig On Playing 007: ”When I’m doing the movie I’m totally single-minded,” he admits. “I keep my energy levels as high as I can all the time. I want to inspire, and be inspired. And I’m lucky enough to work with some incredible people with vast experience. I was standing on top of a train in Turkey with this crew of people, I looked around and I thought, ‘You know, this is the best place to be for an actor.’ So I kind of give it all I’ve got, and then collapse for a while!”
Sam Mendes on staying true to 007: “There are quite a lot of new things in this movie, but I never had the intention to reinvent the wheel.”
Sam Mendes on Javier Bardem’s “Silva”: “It is larger than life in one respect but full of surprises — never entirely, at any given moment, exactly what you think it is, Javier takes some risks. But he’s an amazing actor and I think he gives you something you may consider to have been absent from Bond movies for a long time. Silva’s up there with the greats, for me, and that’s why I worked very hard to persuade one of the great actors of the world to do it…”
Ok then Mendes. It's the directors job to big up a film too.
Why not, if he feels like doing it?
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/seth-macfarlane-joseph-gordon-levitt-and-daniel-craig-to-host-saturday-night-live/
Specs are going around, that Muse might be doing the theme song. Not impossible IMO.
So people outside this forum had the same idea! I wouldn't mind if they did, I'm a fan \m/
The new album's release was delayed (it was first supposed to come out next week) but nobody seems to know why :-??
I think it may just be a coincidence that Craig and Muse appear in the same show.
I'm just saying that it's his job to say good things even if it's terrible, so when Mendes or other people involved say good things about the film it doesn't get me excited.
The actor plays Silva, the antagonist of new Bond movie Skyfall.
Starring alongside Daniel Craig, Javier resisted the urge to revisit past Bond films.
“That would have put me in a place where I have to run away from [those portrayals] or reach for them,” he told Empire magazine.
When it came to the physical appearance of Silva however, Javier and director Sam Mendes wanted to stay loyal to the roots of previous Bond villains.
Consequently, he underwent a relatively extreme makeover, dying his naturally dark hair blonde.
“It was an option for Sam and me to put something together that brings an homage,” Javier explained.
“And in that comes not only the look, but the way to portray them. Not just based on what is written, but also based on the history of all the Bond villains. You don’t want to step out of that.”
However, the Spanish star still manages to make his portrayal unique.
“Javier’s created something truly original,” Sam insisted.
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SKYFALL EXCLUSIVE: A first look at our Oct subscribers cover with Daniel Craig. His only men's magazine interview http://twitpic.com/apa6b7
On why he likes the Bond series: “I think what’s always fantastic about the Bond stories is that there’s always a darkness involved, but it’s a darkness with a sense of humor. A black humor. It’s about danger, but a good danger, because you’re in the hands of somebody who’s saying ‘bleep you’ to risk, ‘bleep you’ to dying.”
On the difference between blockbuster roles and lower-budget endeavors: “Bond movies live or die on their popularity. They force you to care about what people think. And I’m involved [in the films] on a very deep level. I have it in my mind all the time…So there’s that kind of pressure, and that’s an enemy in any art form, acting especially.”
On his role in getting Sam Mendes to direct the latest Bond installment: “It’s a very showbizzy story. I was at Hugh Jackman’s house in New York. It was a soiree – we were in a play together – and Sam [film and theatre director Sam Mendes] was there. I’d had a few too many drinks and I went, ‘How do you fancy directing a Bond?’ And he kind of looked at me, and he went, ‘Yeah!’ And it snowballed from there.”
"A black humour. It's about danger, but good danger, because you're in the hands of somebody who's saying, 'F*** you' to risk and, 'F*** you' to dying."
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It is strange to think that there was ever uncertainty — or, indeed, outright hostility — towards the idea of Daniel Craig as James Bond, Whether at the poker table in Casino Royale or escorting Queen Liz to the Olympic Opening Ceremony, Craig has grasped the character, moulded it, lit it from within, possessed it. It’s not hard to contend that Craig’s comfort in the role as conceived by Fleming, his ownership of it, is the most cogent and complete since Connery’s.
"The funny thing is," says Mendes, "I think if you ask Connery and if you ask Daniel, they would say, ‘I struggled with that character.’ Everyone has a sort of imagined Bond inside them, but when you come to it it’s a very complicated process. Because Connery’s no more like Bond than you or I, nor is his upbringing, nor is his class. And Daniel is exactly the same, class-wise. Is he a commander of the Royal Navy? No, Daniel’s a powerful soldier. But something in the friction that exists between those particular actors and this particular role makes it exciting for audiences. There’s some part of Daniel that’s able to play this urbane, sophisticated man of action, there’s another part of him that is reaching to play a man on fire, a man burning up from the inside, a man who’s right on the edge. That is the exciting part of Daniel’s Bond. And I think that’s the difficult part: to try and make sure that always remains even though it looks effortless. And that’s what you’ve got with Connery, too. At the end of the day he’s a cold motherfucker you just can’t fuck with!
"When we meet with Craig in early June just after he’s finished shooting, he hardly gives the impression he finds it easy playing 007. "When I’m doing the movie I’m totally single-minded," he admits. "It is to the detriment of my personal life, but fortunately I have a very understanding family and they understand that that’s part of it and that it’s all-encompassing. I keep my energy levels as high as I can all the time. I want to inspire, and be inspired. And I ’m lucky enough to work with some incredible people with vast experience. I was standing on top of a train in Turkey with this crew of people, I looked around and I thought, ‘You know, this is the best place to be for an actor.’ So I kind of give it all I’ve got, and then collapse for a while!"
Speaking of collapsing, Empire suggests from the evidence we’ve gathered that this might be the first time Bond’s age, or rather his ageing, has been directly addressed in an official Bond movie. "Kind of," the 44-year-old says, shifting around in his chair. He pauses. "It’s plot-driven, let’s put it that way. It’s part of the plot to do with where he’s at and how he’s feeling, as opposed to it being about something we’ve discussed through the whole movie. At some point it comes up." So it’s not a midlife crisis then'? “No, no," Craig laughs. "He doesn’t need to have one!
"He appears convinced Skyfall is a far stronger movie than his last Bond which, while a major commercial success, was considered a major qualitative dip after Casino Royale. "I really don’t want to put Quantum Of Solace down," he says, "but we didn’t have a script because of the writers’ strike, and I’ve done enough movies to know you can’t make a movie like this without a script. You can’t go in with just ideas. You can’t make those ideas work on the hoof in a movie like this. So when I first saw the script [for Skyfall] I was like, ‘We’re really in good shape.’ And visually we’re in very safe hands, too, because Roger Deakins is shooting this movie, which is phenomenal. It feels very modern — we’re shooting digitally — but I won’t lie to you, we tried to bring some of the feelings of older Bond movies into this film. We’re trying to make it feel as classic as we can."
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The actor, 44 — who has played the British spy in three films — believes the spoof series starring Mike Myers made it impossible to have jokes in the real thing because it parodied the movies too much.
He said: “Austin Powers f***** it. By the time we did Casino Royale, the Mike Myers spoof had blown every joke apart.
“We were in a situation where you couldn't send things up. It had gone so far post-modern it wasn't funny anymore."
I've been saying the same thing for years. I'm glad the producers and Craig recognized that the game had changed (and only wish some Bond fans would recognize it as well. ;-) )
Oh yeah I see what you mean. I though TWINE was pretty tame, but DAD went into Batman & Robin mode. sadly.