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Here's a little thing I worked on last night. It's a tribute video for one of my favourite James Bond films, and my all time favourite Daniel Craig film, using Laura Mvula's song for one of my other favourite films, The Man From Uncle. Enjoy.
Now that is one great work of art!
Truly amazing.
I wish that bloody boring Skyfall theme could be replaced by this fantastic song!!
If you've made any other videos like this (especially Bond focused ones), I'd love to see them.
I always wondered if this was actually a real scene from a Fleming novel. But it isn't. The entire William Tell sequence is entirely unique, original and breathtaking. It twists and crawls the emotions from the viewer, from sheer fun to absolute disgust. From Silva's sick pleasure to Severine's uncomfortable yet totally believable fear....everything works. Everything. EVERYTHING! :-D!
This is troubling. Deeply troubling.
I really wish I hadn't seen that. Really.
Now it will be even more difficult to view that movie...
I'm not the biggest fan of the theme but compared the wailings on the wall its a masterpiece.
Also the humour is so much better, its like a different team made the film, plotholes yeah but seriously some thought went into it unlike its disastrous follow up.
I too prefer the humour in SF to SP. It's more woven into the narrative and sarcastic, rather than seemingly tacked on for groans. I can't argue with your assessment of the themes either.
Always loved the Don't Look Now homage. That is the kind of homage I love to see in Bond - not homages to Bonds own back catalogue!
Terence Young did homages to Hitchcock and Hamilton referenced Orson Welles in TMWTGG house of mirrors sequence. Awesome.
Yes I clocked the Shining reference with the drive up. A shame the Skyfall Lodge sequences lacked any of the tension that Kubrick brought. More Home Alone than anything else.
Hadn't thought about it with SP but I guess you are right.
totally disagree. Skyfall was fine as a title.
Spectre was utterly lame
I came round to it though and now have no problems with it.
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A couple of scenes really stand out for me. Bond and Severine's exchange in the casino is quintessential Bond. The Shanghai fight is up there with the Bond/Grant brawl in FRWL, and the courtroom shootout is executed to perfection. The minor plot contrivances aside, this is as good as Bond gets.
If only its successor was half as good...
Whereas Deakins and Mendes did give SF a good visual edge, i prefer Sp, probably because of the locations! Those who complain about the yellow filter tend to overlook the Bond/Severine scene in the casino, where they both look like extras from The Simpsons!
The Patrice fight, for me was too staged ,the Bond/Hinx scrap was far more exciting and the courtroom shootout was just ok. You'd see much better shootouts in any Cop TV show!
Oops, just realised this an appreciation topic! I really want to like SF, but its just too underwhelming.Craig is great though! (Had to finish on some kind of appreciation!)
I always thought the title was great and something I could imagine Fleming using, which is quite a feat in itself. SP, as a title, always felt a bit on the nose to me. I've grown to accept it given the sort of double-meaning, but I still see it as underwhelming, especially when the organisation are better realised in other films.
The reveal at the beginning of the final act is an opportunity for the scriptwriter to say to the audeince "you see now, were you paying attention?, now can you see ?" and you either get that right at the reveal (and realise that just returning there must be hard for Bond) or later. (if unsure, you do get it on second viewing), so it gives nothing away re the plot but offers the clue of foreboding and something really bad happening.
Compare that the title "SPECTRE" both in what it gives away to the audience in advance and what extra it adds re getting the audience to think and work things out.
The complete opposites and this really shows what very different movies they are in how they treat the audience.
The difference being is that the yellow/golden hue effect in the casino scene in Skyfall was achieved mostly by considered lighting, whereas in Spectre it was added as a filter in post-production.
I obviously disagree regarding the Patrice fight, which has been almost universally lauded, and my biggest grumble with the Hinx fight is that the filmmakers took away his metal thumbnails that had been so brutally established in the meeting scene. The sight of those going near Bond's eyes would've added much more tension. And I'd love to know which cop shows you're referring to...
It's always hard for me to compare SF and SP. They both have an equal amount of things the other does better, and I always look at them as a two-part adventure, meaning it's a real bugger to rank them.
They both join together to feel like one complete story, and could be watched back to back and feel very much like a two-part adventure, as so many of the same themes are shared between them. Because of this, in my mind it's difficult to separate them into two different films, especially since the creative team is largely the same, and even the cinematography of each retain a sense of visual artistry and class A composition, despite the filtering on SP.
I'd probably face the same conundrum with CR and QoS, but in the latter case the editing is so different and the cinematography far more arty than the former that it's much easier to view those two as separate films in their own right than SF and SP.
Does anyone else face this dilemma?