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Barbara Broccoli was in charge of that LTK sequence.
Yes. She was and what an action sequence that was! So very good to this day. I always get goosebumps when Dalton's Bond raises the half tanker and drives through the fire with Kamen's almost metallic Bond theme blasting out...Wow!
So who was in charge of the crater base explosion in SP? Gregg Wilson?
No idea. It's worth saying though that both those scenes are exceptionally well executed technically. The major difference is that LTK had a much better concept/script to work with.
Yeah. That true.
I think Gregg was in charge of the Austria Plane- Car chase if I'm remembering correct. Very novel and fun. I think it's probably the best action sequence in Spectre arguably, between the whole Day of the Dead bit, and the train fight.
Instead of just following the jeeps, landing at safe distance and then taking care of businees, Bond choses to attack the jeeps with the plane itself seemingly without a plan, and then, as predicted, crashes but eventually by sheer luck makes it so that he ends up at the exact same spot as the jeep with Madeleine in it, crashing into it. And to add insult to injury, they just had to cross-edit the whole segment with Q sitting in a cable car to make sure that any possibility of real tension was sucked out of the whole thing.
The only setpiece in SP that worked for me was the one in Mexico. From the tracking shot, to the music, the sheer scale with the huge crowd, Bond chasing Sciarra, the fight in the helicopter. Come to think of it, my favorite parts of both SF and SP are probably the PCS.
Agreed. The rest of both of those films rapidly unravel, plot-wise and action-wise, for me. But they sure do start strong.
Why yes, I'd love to see Moneypenny getting food out of her refrigerator during what is already a rather dull car chase.
Lighten up, it's a James Bond movie, this is a guy who escapes the Soviet Army in a cello case riding down the hills of Austria.
Yes I agree, although sadly veteran Bond alumni Terry Madden was badly injured on that set and had his career ended, so I guess it didn't go too smoothly.
I think what's missing is a bit of creativity in how Bond manoeuvres the failing vehicle. I dunno, perhaps he could have used the failing/smoking engine as a sort of smokescreen to dispatch one of the cars. Maybe one of the cars tries to chase him through the log cabin but can't make the landing the plane can because of its size. Or maybe one of the propellers could have been used to cut something that would crush one of the cars... I dunno.
I think that honor would go Timothy. I think Craig has been trying to escape that image with SP and NTTD.
I think they were leaning into it a lot with SF. But definitely, his Bond is a lot more relaxed and humorous in those last two.
Of course it is a generational thing. People like different things because that is what they are exposed to during their generation. My generation was brought up during a time when there was a Bond film almost every year and the entire pop culture revolved around secret agents in film and TV. It had such a profound effect on me that it became a part of my life style since 1964.
The older generation is still around and gets exposed to many things, and comic books have been around since the 30s or so: you'll find plenty of older people who like comics and continuation novels etc. - the first Bond one came out in the 60s. If you're into that stuff then it's fine, but there's nothing wrong with it either.
I could be way off but I think the reason that sequence went through such drastic changes from script to screen is because Craig hurt his foot/ankle during production.
Yes, and apparently it was under consideration anyway because Craig doesn't ski at all (obviously he wouldn't have been doing stunts, but just for basic shots it's needed).
When Pierce was rather conspicuously on the back of a cart for every shot in his ski chase it did look a bit rubbish. The shame of it is that it's one bit of action Roger could have actually done really well as he lived in Switzerland and was very comfortable on skis, but I think they didn't want to risk him on them.
I don't think it helped either that not only did it look rubbish, but the ski double didn't look or act at all like Pierce.
It's a shame about the potential ski chase in SP, it could've been really good.
I'd love a bit of ski action in Bond 26, I think it can often be an exciting action scene when done well. Thinking OHMSS, TSWLM and FYEO as examples.
I agree Roger always looked natural on skis, obviously as he was a keen skier in his personal life.
I haven't always had as strong a sense of place in the last three decades of the series as I have with the first three, even if the settings are utilised quite well for action.
Underwater action can be slow and often lacks any tension, even if it is dramatic in nature.
I think any action set on a train also helps convey the speed involved and can usually also give a real sense of danger and threat. OP is good example of this, with Roger’s studio work hanging under the train with a revolving sleepers and tracks beneath him working seamlessly with that of the stunt team on location doing it for real.
The same about the SF train fight.
I do think, especially when I am skiing, it is kind of amazing how often Bond gets himself into a pickle at the top of a mountain and needs to get down it fast quite often! When you're actually there you realise how implausible it is as there's just not many reasons to be at the top of a snowy mountain :D
That would go against audience expectation. Like not having the JB theme in it. The next one should go bigger, not smaller.