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The main unit will film until the 5th of April I believe.
So it's a case of Bond getting to White before Spectre...
Come on.
Tomorrow it's already April.
The script is online since December, and the Judi Dench cameo was discussed here 3 months ago.
By the way: the link to it worked all the time. It was never down.
Nope - remember they cut a lot of lines together from different bits of the film for the trailer. Should be as in the script.
If yours has 12 1 14 in the filename then that's the one they're using and will likely end up the film.
No, it's the new one.
But I think they just changed this while filming it on set.
It's like Waltz asking Mendes: "What do you think about saying "James" instead of "stranger"? And Mendes answers: "Okay. Let's give it a try."
And then he decided to keep it that way in the movie.
Could be that he decides to put a different take in the movie where he says "Welcome stranger"
We will see.
As @Jan1985 mentioned, actors often suggest lines to a director during production, some directors are purists to the scripts they're working with and will say "No, stick to the script", others will say "Sure, we'll do a take with that line, see if it works".
Bond tracking down Oberhauser throughout the story is not the same as Oberhauser revealing his intentions in act one of the storyline. I'm not sure there is a clearly defined villain in SPECTRE.
Will continue on... and see how the story pans out.
I didn't get the relationship between Bond and Oberhauser. There seemed some tenuous link to Bond's past but it didn't really amount to much other than to allow Purvis and Wade to re-introduce a Texas Hold Em game back into the Bond universe. The card game felt like a rehash of Casino Royale. And Bond used his exploding watch to escape. I can't remember if the watch was mentioned earlier on.
I don't feel making Bond films with Bond's backstory as the main thrust of the storyline works that well. I found the storyline a bit cheesy. C turned out to be a cheesy traitor within. To be fair, when it's up on the screen with great action scenes, moody music, cool cinematography, good acting etc - I'm sure it will entertain many people but I've grown tired of the Purvis/Wade 'personal missions' Craig era.
Based on my first reading of the screenplay, I didn’t get how Bond knew the name Oberhauser. When he meets Q in Austria he mentions Oberhauser’s name but how did he get that name? Where/what was the source for that information?
I feel the storyline has no underlying threat. There is no great sense Bond’s world is in danger. I accept the Babs and MG have moved away from ‘Bond stopping the nuke from destroying the world’ type plots but I feel SPECTRE lacks a real threat. Oberhauser sees information as the new weapon, he can control anyone but what is control if we don't see what he gets out of it?
I didn't get any sense SPECTRE was SPECTRE. It felt like Eon got the rights back to SPECTRE and just used the name for the title and a way to link the previous films together. I'd have preferred SPECTRE using some weapon against the 00 division or the free world. Some real tangible threat. Spectre seemed a bit too low key in SPECTRE - just monitoring screens and committing terrorist acts. Not quite the scale of the old SPECTRE.
I thought the battle at Oberhauser's house/compund felt too similar to the battle at Greene's compound in QOS. Both locations set in the desert, both blow up.
Hinx just turned up where Bond was. I don't know how he tracked Bond - we never saw him tracking 007. He just pops up like Jaws version 2!
It's more of the same, I guess. Slightly contrived plotting, Bond escaping places with explosions, the villain having some backstory. Skyfall part 2, I guess. I wouldn't mind recasting Bond and trying to bring back some major threat to the world. Reduce Bond's backstory, reduce M and Moneypenny's role. New writers, clean slate again.
The plan is to get total control over all intelligence services.
And to get every nation to say yes to the plan, SPECTRE performs terrorist attacks all around the world to show them that they can't prevent it with their current secret services.
It's the aspect of this Bond tale that is steeped in reality. Although MI6 are still represented as the goodies of course.
Spoiler alert:
''He takes a drink of HEINEKIN.''
Bond has truly appalling taste in beer. What a luddite.
Then why come to the spoiler thread if you don't want to be spoiled? 8-|
Are your threads not getting enough attention so you need to remind everybody how much you hate the spoilers thread?
What? I am drinking Heineken right now. Oh yeah, I agree it does not taste good. It is just for getting drunk and forgetting about this board.
He got the watch from Q, obviously. The link is very tenuous indeed.
It's weak, which is what I expected, and not particularly creative as Waltz suggested. Very cliched unfortunately. Ober-Feld's personal motivation toward Bond isn't even necessary. His back story pre-Oberhauser is great and real, but brushed under the carpet in favour of this personal connection to Bond. That takes over when it shouldn't even be there. I sense intelligent audience members may feel patronised here.
Well that is the world we live in now. It was also a central premise of Skyfall, where Silva mocks Bond for essentially being a relic and living in the dark ages of espionage, running around and chasing spies. You can't make a modern Bond film where he is chasing after a warhead. This is 2015 and naturally Spectre have a more covert mode of operations and more subtle, nuanced end goal. Unfortunately this very credible motive is undermined by Ober-Felds sophomoric jealousy of Bond.
The modern Spectre is great and exactly what I envisaged it to be.
See above. I'm sure the fact that all these terrorist attacks are broadcast over the global media is tangible enough for an audience, and something we will relate very directly too.
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It's a minor comparison.
Ober-Feld knew Bond/Swann were coming. He was likely communicating with Hinx.
I think my main gripe is that M, MP, Q and Bond have all gone a bit Mission Impossible. Q has been in the field before, sometimes it makes sense, but Bond should imo be alone in the field or with a liason like Felix or Mathieu. I also don't appreciate what they've done with Eve/MP. She went from a field operative to a secretary and now she's actually doing stuff in the field again. But she's a secretary. Wait no, she's also eligible for field action?! Good grief. I would have written Eve as a field agent in SF, had Silva kill her instead of Severine on the Island, and then had a traditional MP who can help Bond with small stuff.
I think it's relatively well written as a piece, but with some very juvenile writing and Bond's sarcasm is on overdrive here yet without being charming. The final act is a weird one though. Not sure about that one, especially the ending which is certainly not Bond just going on vacation. The film as a whole definitely has many classic Bond elements, moreso than any other in the Craig era, but again is sort of stuck between two worlds. It's funny how Mendes is the one to have made the most fantastical films of the era, with CR and QoS being relatively grounded. Anyhow, some great scenes in there, particuarly Bond/White, which is pure Bond imo, and Bond/Swann's first meeting and train scene. Also the PTS will be wild. The film will look and feel spectacular - I'm looking forward to that as much as anything. I'm also sure the calibre of actor in the film will shine through; Craig, Waltz, Ralph, Seydoux, Wishaw are all top notch.