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Agreed,a brilliant sequence...
If anything could be recognised :P edits all 0.3 seconds
Rubbish,Mr Kleenex...it is perfect nervous tension and panic,as that situation would be ;)
Plus Craig 'sonly line to White is delivered so brilliantly, QOS is in my top 10, I'd warmed to it before SPECTRE arrived but I see it even more keenly in the light of that film.
I also find the dialogue at times the best of the era, the dialogue in SPECTRE is easily the worst and that is even taking the awful clunkers in CR into account.
If Bond 25 is a blend of CR & QOS you'd get no complaints from me.
Yes the opening shot is nice but it's all quite gratuitous and does little if anything to establish a story.
I agree with those who say the film should have started in the safe house.
I actually love that poster. Better than the bland blue one we got in the states
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/pierce-brosnans-bond-frustration-1055519.html
"I tried to bring the Connery gravitas and Celtic soul to it, mixed in with the light touch of Roger Moore. I wanted to keep both of their spirits within my Bond, and at first I was very aware of it, and I was nervous about indicating or playing impressions of those guys.
"But then I made peace with it, and rather came at it with my own rhythm and sense of timing. You need the confidence of the gods to just stand there and try to deliver the lines as simply as possible."
What about Dalton and Laz, Pierce?
It makes sense he doesn't name Dalton. He'd just came after the man, and couldn't have copied him, as that approach wouldn't make him stand out, and the numbers showed the public weren't hungry for that kind of Bond anyway. Being traditional-not experimental-was what was called for. And funnily enough, too much of that tradition necessitated EON experimenting again in 2006.
Crazy talk. The opening is brilliant. QoS is for me the most enjoyable Craig entry
Bond has to survive, that's the motivation. If he doesn't get White to Italy alive, his leads that Vesper offered up die. What more story is needed?
This isn't to even say all action has to have some obvious story connection, either. It serves no story purpose for Bond to ski off a cliffside and pull a Union Jack chute, but it's iconic and glorious.
@bondjames, he would've had better material. Not dramatically better, maybe, but I don't think it would throw him into the circumstances of DAD, for example.
It just never seemed the right time for him. In the 80s he still looked boyish, and by the time he got the gig, the material wasn't there. GE was the perfect formula built for him, and they really just let it go after that point. Maybe Campbell just had the magic touch.
It shows how quick Quantum reacts to Bond getting hold of White at the end of CR ,and it's about Bond trying to get to the British safehouse,while under severe attack,with Quantum not even caring about all this happening in a public place .
Basically its showing the power and determination Quantum have ..how far they will go.
Which to me is a very important insight into how powerful they are.
My point is Pierce was ready made for where the audience wanted Bond to go post-Roger in 1987. He could have easily pulled off TLD with a few modifications. In a way GE is the TLD of the 90's. A transition film of sorts.
If you see him in The Noble House (1988) the man has Bond written all over him (not just in looks but in the way he acted). Far more than Dalton imho.
Anyway, it was not to be.
That's a fair point but surely the notion of "having people everywhere" - including the same room - is even more powerful and not really something we were expecting. It just felt like another car chase to me with little actual relevance.
I think she'd slap him back, and knock him over.
She would have slapped him if we were to go by Paris and Electra ;)
It was BIG relevance Bain..Bond had White and as far as Quantum knew,who who knows what he might divulge to the British...they just didnt count on the one agent they didnt want to have White : 007.