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Bond only has one off in the car (testing the gun), none when he rides the elevator and approaches Patrice, and I figure he puts them back on as he waits to get Patrice off guard (since he wants to question him), and then he only has one on when he checks the suitcase (because he lost one when Patrice fell after holding onto Bond's hand).
You're right. I noticed after a detailed view. Though he doesn't loose the glove. He must took them off in order to examing the suitcase metter.
And that's what I call the "magic glove".
Just a note.. but why? Trying to introduce a new style? Lazy?
LOL, the "magic bullet" was in no way magic (if one uses science and computer modelling based on the Zapruder film instead of diagrams based on assumptions) so perhaps there's a fragment of film somewhere that can explain why Bond puts his gloves back on...
No, Patrice is barely holding on to Bond's hand, and he slips as the gun comes off, the glove leaving Bond's hand and flying downwards (I presume) on the free air as does Patrice.
Perhaps there was a third gloveman on the grassy knoll?
'on a trail which was closed to the public for the day.'
anyone know the exact location of that trail?
It's in Glencoe, Scotland. Other than that, I'm not sure.
1) The persons who is dead in the hotelroom (except for Ronson) whom are they? Are they MI6 agents or are they allies to Patrice which Ronson killed?
2) What do Silva means when he says "Chasing Spies" does he refer to Bond's current assignment when he chases Silva, or what?
Firstly friend, at the 1st question, you mean in the beggining? Well if so, yes. They were MI6 agents that were hunting Patrice out.
And at the second question, i believe it is what yourself told, that he was chasing Silva.
While I love the montage music in OHMSS, it never seemed to me Bond's style to keep mementos. Well, maaybe Vesper's picture.
My guess is that it's Andrew Bond's car. Who knows, maybe he worked for MI6 too?
Old on for a second. Did they shoot something in Japan? I know that Silvas island was insured by the Hamisha Island outside the coast of Japan, but from what I know they did never shoot anything there. Or did they?
While most of it was shot at Pinewood, the faraway shots of the island are real.
Hm, intresting. I always thought that was a recreated model that was CGI:ed into the ocean.
I've been meaning to ask this for ages, thanks for reminding me.
It's real?! It looks fake.
Also, another thing; if the city had just been abandoned would the buildings really start to decompose and fall apart naturally? If so, how long do we think Silva may have been on that island for?
The real island were abandonded 1974, and Silva were abandonded 1997. So presumably he got around the island 1998-1999 dependning on if Silva escaped from the Chinese or if he was released by them.
I want a country!
I did a short answer on the "too much CGI" thread, now that one can check the strong fake feeling on the large screen, by freezing the image of the movie on the little screen : the large shots are indeed fake, it's not even a real view modified by CG, it's a whole reconstruction "inspired" by the true location, IMO.
Indeed I don't think anyone ever got there from the team, only a few FX photographers for the textures of a few buildings possibly.
Compared to the true island, they removed the green wild life aspect that is there. But they also increased the amount of damages on the building they face when they arrive (on the top left), which is the view closest to the truth. So on one side it means a longer time than in real life, and on the other a shorter one !
That's the sad thing about allowing CGI to creep into the movies. When somethingis actually real these days you assume it's just CGI.
Well on this second view for instance, the most blatant is that what is seen on the right :
is nowhere to be found on the real location, while it should be easy to find (house on the rocks outside the wall, etc). But even when you look at the rest, it doesn't match anywhere, you can find some buildings here and there, but the overall looks like inspiration, not reality.
The closest to the truth in the movie is this building,
but with more damages added (top left destroyed), and wild life removed.
Note that furthermore, Hashima doesn't feature anywhere in the production notes distributed to the journalists by Eon, while it lists many other locations.
That's also the sad thing about budget concerns : since they had a team actually in Shanghai, we've got more than 30 seconds of ininterrupted helicopter view of the real city to "use the money spent" (with possibly CG for the pool though !).
And since they could not afford to be at Hashima to do similar helicopter views (IMO just some photographers from the VFX team were there to take the textures of some buildings), we've got I think only CG for it, with almost matte painting only, and certainly no helicopter overview of it (you'd have to re-create many parts in full 3d, 2d matte-like would not be enough)
It's all well and good explaining that Q has left a trail digitally but of what? Even if it's things like Bond using his credit card at Mcdonalds on the way, how would Silva know? He wouldn't be able to check the computers of every single restaurant/pub/service station/cafe/fast food place between London and a remote Scottish mansion in the middle of bumfuck nowhere would he? Is it something to do with phones?
It's just a bit of bollocks. All this stuff is undermined by establishing the villain as an uber-hacker. Just another case of P&W thinking 'that'll do'. Why leave breadcrumbs? Why not just disappear and then issue a 'come and get me' once at Skyfall lodge. If Silva is the genius that's implied he's got it all covered anyway.