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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote: »
    TripAces wrote: »
    Skyfall came out in the year of the dragon (2012), which was also a "Water Dragon" year.

    Is this the reason for the fireworks in Macau? A "new year" celebration?

    Certainly, the dragon (and water dragon) imagery is thick throughout the casino scene.

    I think the dragon/fire-breathing imagery also recalls the visual comparisons the film was making between the beast chimera and Severine (like her blowing smoke from her cigarette in the casino). In that scene she very much feels like a dangerous, dragon like being, with those sharp claw like fingernails and blackened eyes. Bond is like the gallant knight entering a fortress/castle of the beast to get at what he needs. Add to that the fact that Severine's boat is called the Chimera, and there you have it.
    Skyfall is like an ogre!


  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Milovy wrote: »
    Something I just noticed: when Thunderball's title sequence fades back into the film proper, the colours in the water resemble the French flag, matching the scene's location (Paris). Check it out: https://s4.postimg.io/bafoatyfh/Thunderball_039.jpg

    No way! That's so cool.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Milovy wrote: »
    Something I just noticed: when Thunderball's title sequence fades back into the film proper, the colours in the water resemble the French flag, matching the scene's location (Paris). Check it out: https://s4.postimg.io/bafoatyfh/Thunderball_039.jpg

    No way! That's so cool.

    And another thing most people probably HAVE noticed, coming right after this: Largo crosses the street literally in front of a car that nearly runs him over. It's great characterization, though I sometimes wonder if it was really a near Dustin-Hoffman-Midnight-Cowboy sort of moment.
  • IGUANNAIGUANNA
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    Midnight Cowboy features a great score by John Barry. '68 and 9 were fantastical years for him.
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
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    The use of mirrors and reflected images in the Daniel Craig era:

    They are all over the place!

    It starts with the CR PTS (where we see Bond's reflection at the sink) and it just continues through every film. Some other examples:

    CR: trying on the tux, after the stairwell fight, during the poisoning scene

    QoS: Rearview mirror of car chase, after the fight with Slate, opera house bathroom, rearview mirror when stopped by the police

    SF: Turkey hut, Turkey bar, digging out the shrapnel, reflective images in the Shanghai fight, shaving in the Macau hotel room, unveiling the mirror at Skyfall

    SP: Scene with Lucia, secret door at White's lodge, glass walls at the clinic, looking out the window of his room in Blofeld's lair, looking at Blofeld through the glass at MI6


    Also: a lot of odd geometric patterns can be seen in all four films. For example: interlocking squares and shapes in the La Paz hotel room and elevator (the elevator fight is shot through those shapes); same sorts of patterns in the Macau hotel and casino scenes; also, eight-starred interlocking shape is in the window of the L'Americain hotel room (shadow of which is on the wall when Bond finds the secret room).
  • Scaramanga12Scaramanga12
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    @TripAces lol I notice that every time I watch. Arrogant and also reckless, since he tries to kill Bond straightaway, which should have brought the armies of the US and Britain to the Bahamas to stop largo.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Craig wears sunglasses in each of his 4 films, the only Bond to do that.
  • IGUANNAIGUANNA
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    @TripAces don't forget the broken mirrors Bond shoots in the Skyfall title sequence!
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    edited August 2016 Posts: 4,554
    IGUANNA wrote: »
    @TripAces don't forget the broken mirrors Bond shoots in the Skyfall title sequence!

    Nice catch.

    Speaking of title sequences.

    If you look at the artwork in Bond's apartment in Spectre, one of the prints that got a lot of attention was the odd-looking silhouette, leaning against the wall, to Bond's right, as he sits in his chair. The print might not be a woman--at least, not in the conventional sense. It is likely a still from the QoS title sequence: an abstract-looking sand dune.

    I haven't had time to completely investigate, but I think this might be the case, around the time that the names of Andrew Noakes and David Pope come into view.

  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia
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    I always laughed at the gangster's comments during Goldfinger's explanation of grand slam, but somehow I never caught the one saying 'what is this a merry go round?!' when the floor is moving.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    TripAces wrote: »
    IGUANNA wrote: »
    @TripAces don't forget the broken mirrors Bond shoots in the Skyfall title sequence!

    Nice catch.

    Speaking of title sequences.

    If you look at the artwork in Bond's apartment in Spectre, one of the prints that got a lot of attention was the odd-looking silhouette, leaning against the wall, to Bond's right, as he sits in his chair. The print might not be a woman--at least, not in the conventional sense. It is likely a still from the QoS title sequence: an abstract-looking sand dune.

    I haven't had time to completely investigate, but I think this might be the case, around the time that the names of Andrew Noakes and David Pope come into view.

    That title sequence is so good, Bond needed a still from it on his wall.
  • IncompetentHenchmanIncompetentHenchman
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    The climax of LTK is foreshadowed - when he's being led into the truck by Killifer in the beginning a reporter asks him if he's associated with any laboratories in South America.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    YOLT is foreshadowed (the novel) in the novel DAF. When Bond talks to Tiffany on board the QE about relationships Bond explains that he'd probably run away from marriage and ask to be send on an assignement 'to Japan or something'.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    edited August 2016 Posts: 13,384
    And he also uses the phrase " We have all the time in the world " too in DAF (novel).
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    I just noticed that Bond has a sizeable scar on his right shoulder in DAD.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Re-watching TLD I never noticed before just how bad the airbase jailer's Russian accent is! The actor is obviously a die hard scouser and it really is painful to hear his attempt at an accent!

    I'm surprised he wasn't dubbed. The Bond films have always had good dubbing.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    Re-watching TLD I never noticed before just how bad the airbase jailer's Russian accent is! The actor is obviously a die hard scouser and it really is painful to hear his attempt at an accent!

    I'm surprised he wasn't dubbed. The Bond films have always had good dubbing.

    He is...I think he used to be in the soap 'Brookside' IIRC,or something similar..

  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Yep you're right he was in Brookside!

    Ken Sharrock was his name. Sadly only 54 when he passed away.
  • barryt007barryt007
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    Blimey...that just goes to show my memory is still as sharp as ever :-bd
    I didn't know he had died though.
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
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    Weirdly I can't pick any Scouse from his accent. Maybe because you knew him from playing a scouse character it seemed obvious to you
  • barryt007barryt007
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    It does slip out at times....especially the words 'at night'...try listening with your eyes closed Nackers,you might pick it up.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    I never knew who the actor was when I first saw the film, but it's always been painfully obvious he was a Scouser!

    Watching the film the other day I couldn't believe how little 'Russian accent' he actually uses!
  • barryt007barryt007
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    I know..i don't know why they do this ? why employ someone with a strong and different accent to the one they are supposed to portray ?
  • NicNacNicNac Administrator, Moderator
    edited August 2016 Posts: 7,571
    barryt007 wrote: »
    It does slip out at times....especially the words 'at night'...try listening with your eyes closed Nackers,you might pick it up.

    I'll be ready next time TLD is lined up. "I never told you to gerrup like"
  • barryt007barryt007
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    hahaha ...I'm surprised he didn't tell Kamran Shah,in his cell,to "caaalm down,caaalm down !!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Zukovsky has a horrible Russian accent as well.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
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    Countess Lisl has to be the most unconvincing Scouser.
  • DCisaredDCisared Liverpool
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    Hahaha that scene in TLD cracks me up every time! Maybe I can play bond with my scouse accent one day :D
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    LeonardPine wrote: »
    I never knew who the actor was when I first saw the film, but it's always been painfully obvious he was a Scouser!

    Watching the film the other day I couldn't believe how little 'Russian accent' he actually uses!

    Was that a Russian accent he was doing?

    I always just assumed he had graduated from the Sean Connery school of 'I can't be arsed doing the accent just get the writers to come up with some bullshit link to Scotland' as he's pretty blatantly scouse.

  • barryt007barryt007
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    hahaha that would explain a lot...
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