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Why was is worth noting that there were very few crew members to help work the set on location at 2AM in the morning while filming the scene when Bond holds Mathis?
Nobody often mentions this about Tom Hardy....he played in Layer Cake with DC. The movie that helped propel the latter to 007 status. Tom Hardy's character gave a farewell toast after DC's character death and Ben Wishaw became Q...Tom Hardy's casting would sure be symbolic. Plus the guy can play almost any character and immerse the audience into it, whether as a villain or protagonist. He also can play someone who like Craig, can make audiences sometimes question if he's the good guy or villain. Connery had that ability too. Bond was never played best when he made it to obvious he was the super duper hero.
In SF, SP, and NTTD, there were moments that deserved music but were under delivered similar to Adele's song being under-lyriced.
If they were going to bring back Grace Jones as another character even though May Day died....why couldn't they have more cameos?
The underground tunnel scene in SF is shot similarly to QoS: particularly the end of the Aston Martin chase in QoS with similar visual effects of the car passing through the driveway. In both films, a temporary MI6 Headquarters is set up in brick buildings with tunnels.
As Bond reaches the destination and exits the car, there is a musical score very reminiscent of the same theme introducing London in QoS or the end of Dead Don't Care Aboit Vengeance when the scene transitions to Kazan for Yusef and Corrine.
In both the QoS and SF brick building scenes, M's life is in clear danger.
Just rewatched SF recently, not bad. In so many ways, watching QoS before it establishes much of the foundation for the M and Bond relationship in the movie.
Absolutely! David Zaritsky is one of the more high profile ambassadors for QOS we have… if anyone is really going to publicly draw attention to the merits of QOS, it’s him.
Can people contact him to suggest a petition for a producer's cut of QoS?
When Connery returned to voice 007 in the FRWL video game, the director described the expansion of the story as a "director's cut" since both he and Connery were fans of that film in particular. Craig's 2nd movie, similarly has its "special moments" as he said.
The final scene showing M and Bond in the snow of Kazan outside of Yusef's apartment was necessary to watch before Skyfall right down to how M calls the concept of regret as "unprofessional"...this scene was shot with a cast and crew of only 7 people at the time (Craig, Dench, the two extras as guards running up the stairs, the director, cinematographer, and another crew member who took a photo before grabbing his boom mic).
Maybe David Zuritsky can help give even more new life than he already has to QoS.
What if we can connect him with the guy who played Yusef for an interview?
You mean yourself?
If you have his email address
The 2nd time was at the beginning of NTTD when he thought he was betrayed by another person he loved. The facial expression is noticeable that he has given up because he can't trust people anymore while staying in the car motionless.
I would argue the torture scene in Casino Royale was the first. He would have died with the whole world knowing Le Chiffre was scratching his balls, albeit he wasn’t close to death at that point.
The acting in that scene....but we didn't get to see just how much he died inside until QoS from Vesper's death.
I hope the series does NOT go back to it's old formulaic ways. DC worked hard to pull the series to a better place.
we'll just have to wait and see. All I know is that the next guy will have one hell of a job.
just noticed in the Bond Movie Meter that QoS has filled the third place for weeks. I guess that says something. QoS is far more popular, at least amongst fans, than you'd make up out of all the critiques you can find online.
Yeah, it's not seen that fondly amongst general audiences from what I can tell. CR and SF are the ones which stand out among younger, casual viewers. I think the editing is very an issue even now and the age old criticism of 'it's too much like Bourne than Bond' is still there unfortunately, even though this isn't applied as much to CR (but is there I'd argue).
Actually from what I can tell NTTD isn't unpopular amongst this demographic. It's still a bit divisive but it seems to be viewed better than QOS. SP is just a bit 'meh' across that board. To be honest, I really want to like QOS more than I do. There's much I like in it. It's just a hard film to watch because of it's overly fast pace, some of the editing decisions, some of the camerawork... I'm still not sure what the deal with Mathis was if I'm honest...
If you look at fairly objective measures like box office, and compare QOS to other Bond films for IMDb user ratings. Rotten Tomatometer numbers, etc. it easily rates alongside fine Bond films and isn't hovering at the bottom. So I'm thinking its reception by general audiences was and is fine.
And I'm comparing this to the loud reactions against NNTD during its release and after. By some hard-core Bond fans. General audiences again I think received it fine as they normally do even with pandemic effects.
Even at the QA with Marc Forster, BB and MGW....people were talking about CR and asking about bringing back the humor....it was so sad and ungrateful of them.
And they picked just the right guy in Mendes to do it /s
But it had good action and Greene is an underrated villain. Fields is also a lot of fun in her little part and I wish they'd made her the main Bond Girl.
BB mentioned that Bond's reaction was much more drawn out in the filming than the final product we saw. She said that Bond's sadness showed as Marc Forster had wanted to demonstrate Bond's realization that Fields represented an innocence that Bond once had before Vesper's demise and given that her death occured close to Mathis', Bond had a reckoning that his grief/depression/vengefulness from Lynd's passing was making him take those who respected him for granted.
The melancholic tone was further exasperated with the production becoming at times desperate with a lack of proper staff. This lack not just limited to writers available on hand but also the times which the crew was able to film certain scenes with the cast at locations abroad in parts they weren't as familiar with and most of the few available crew members often taking multiple duties than they normally would take.
Only because Forster turned down BB's offer to come back and direct the next one, though!
What a damn shame that is. Hell, we might've gotten an extra installment out of the series had he agreed early and work started sooner. If only.
Say what?