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An Interesting Statistic - All Bond films from The Living Daylights to Spectre ...

tigers99tigers99
edited October 2015 in Bond Movies Posts: 582
Use location supertitles (the script that appears on the screen to tell us the location)

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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    TSWLM did too, as did Octopussy (on some prints).
  • tigers99tigers99
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    LALD too.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited October 2015 Posts: 17,787
    tigers99 wrote: »
    LALD too.

    Oh, yes! I'd forgotten about that one, but you are right about the continuing theme from TLD to SP. :)
  • tigers99tigers99
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    Yeah sometimes it seems quite superfluous - In SP Bond says to MP that he's going to the funeral in Rome
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    tigers99 wrote: »
    Yeah sometimes it seems quite superfluous - In SP Bond says to MP that he's going to the funeral in Rome

    I think it's just a modern feature of films (and TV news of course). Most films probably use titles nowadays.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    I remember on some corny comedy that the scene opening to an iconic pic of the Eiffel Tower but at the bottom subtitle Paris ..duh lol
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited October 2015 Posts: 17,787
    mcdonbb wrote: »
    I remember on some corny comedy that the scene opening to an iconic pic of the Eiffel Tower but at the bottom subtitle Paris ..duh lol

    Funny! Yes, sometimes the subtitles in films are superfluous to requirements. :D
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    yeah lol I think that was Naked Gun but I was too embarressed to admit I'd seen it.

    I do know one thing albeit trivial. Ever since AVTAK they have never shown a side shot of M's office both oriignal and the new one ...until SF.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Anything else anyone wishes to contribute to this?
  • tigers99tigers99
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    Close the thread dude
  • dinovelvetdinovelvet
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    Interestingly in SF there's no subtitle to announce Istanbul, we (or the audience who didn't obsessively follow production, rather) don't really get clued in until we see the Grand Bazaar. And even then I'm sure there were plenty of people who still had no idea what city this was.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
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    Yea but SP has one announcing London of all places ...and if I remember correctly the Eye is in the shot so duh.

    Btw technically this thread isn't about any statistic ...that always throws me off. I keep avoiding it because I think math is involved :D
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    I believe OP is the first Bond film to have subtitles for the foreign parts? When the Indian guy says 'That's my bed!'
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
    edited November 2015 Posts: 7,526
    I thought this was going to be how they alternate between major Casino and Hotel setpieces for every film after GoldenEye:
    Casino in beginning of Goldeneye
    Hotel in TND where all the Paris Carver drama happens
    Casino in TWINE featuring scenes with Electra and Valentine
    Hotel in DAD, tricky one to remember for me, but there's the hotel Bond enters looking like Castaway? Does the ice palace function as a hotel?
    Casino Royale
    Hotel in QOS, "We're teachers on sabbatical and we've just won the lottery", Oilfinger
    Casino in Skyfall, the Macau Floating Dragon
    Hotel in Spectre, L'Americain, also to a lesser extent the Morocco lair.

    EDIT: @DarthDimi maybe we can retitle/reappropriate this thread into a "Patterns in Bond Films" thread? Then people can discuss locations subtitles and whatever else here.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited November 2015 Posts: 23,529
    @NickTwentyTwo: great idea, sir. :) But then it becomes a duplicate thread. ;-)
    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/10555/unique-patterns-in-the-bond-series/p1
    This topic could have easily gone there. ;-)
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Not only that, but a fellow Canadian has already posted my pattern in that thread!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    See what I mean? There's a very good reason we don't take too kindly to duplicate threads.
  • tigers99tigers99
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    Well it's not the end of the world. Sorry to one and all for not taking the time to see what threads have and haven't been started.
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