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I still can't believe people are still complaining about that, drives me absolutely insane ~X(
Patrice was hired to assasinate some asian guy, while Severine and her three "bodyguards" were in the same room in Shanghai. But why spent 4 million euro hiring Patrice? Couldn't her three bodyguards easily have taken care of the guy?
I'm sorry it's driving you insane, and you're right, it *is* a movie. But I was asking myself whilst watching it, what *kind* of movie am I watching; one where I'm expected to expect a consistent internal reality over the course of Craig's tenure, or one where I'm supposed to accept what I see in this film on its own isolated terms, ignoring anything that's gone before? I'm happy to do either, but I do think it's a problem to be caused to wonder this when I'm supposed to be fully engaged in the third act.
When your the government, nothing is illegal :)
I guess it must be there is more to an assassination than just killing the guy. You have to do something with the body and I'm sure there are more factors I'm missing. But, yeah, it did seem to be there more for the aesthetics than anything (why didn't he just go to the room with them and shoot him at point blank range?) but it was still a good fight scene. The last reason I could think of is that Sévérine is known for having three bodyguards and so any more and it would look suspicious. I know Bond references here having three bodyguards.
I'm comfortable with all the "misplaced" times, I look at it this way; CR was the first book and so really, what they did with this is kind of put the front bookend to the franchise finally into film. They added QoS as a secondary item to it. SF come where it does, at the other end of the franchise, a story in its own right. So if you ignore the age of the films and whomever was playing Bond, then the DB5 gets modified in GF, reappears once or twice therafter, and comes in to play here again in SF. I think its fairly acceptable that way round....... I dont see it as Craigs/connerys/Moores etc tenure. Its all Bond.
EDIT: Found it - "Boom! Boom!" by John Lee Hooker
That annoyed me.
It was a clumsy and somewhat lazy way for silva to escape.
The version in the film was by Charles Trenet.
Two so far if entering the dragons mouth is right. The other one is the door spy glass. Clever man.
Q was trying to hack into his laptop which Silva had tricked up to release him and hack MI6 system, so he had it pre planned, (so Q released him, accidently) he then went down to the underground via a hatch as Ben says above
Alan.......i bow to you for observing it so well =D> I get the bit with the hatch ,it was how he got out the glass box and past the guards that was baffling me....many thanks!
I'd be happy to look at it that way; it's just that on first viewing I found myself in a position where I felt like I had to quickly reconcile myself to *some* interpretation akin to yours and then try and get back into the story.
Skyfall is in Scotland
This therefore means James Bond is not English but is in fact Scottish
???
I'm guessing you're not a fan of the books.
(So was Connery. ;-) )
The Fleming novels make Bond's Scottish heritage very clear.
Yeah I saw that. But in the film itself he states that he is English. But really he isn't as he lived in Scotland first. Moving later on to England. Damn bond is a jock.
Bond, jimmy bond
Does he actually state that he is English himself? There were several references to 'England' when 'Britain' would have been more technically accurate - I assumed this was due to a fear that 'Britain' wouldn't be understood by some foreigners who use England as a catch-all term for the UK.
Of course, Bond is as much Swiss as he is Scottish.
It's a MacGuffin[/quote] :p
Definitely one of the less-sensical parts of the film. It's implied that a significant amount of time has passed between QoS and SF, so maybe the previous Q fitted it out at some point?
I personally didnt read anymore into it than that.