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What is behind the wall, what is behind the words.
What about a party on luxery ship. Half naked man/woman, black white, small and big. With Malek in the middle point. Mabey Anna can be there too. Was inspyred by Miami Vice and earlier pictures of luxery ship.
*offtopic*
When we did Peter Shaffer's BLACK COMEDY back some years, during rehersal, one actor accidentally touched another actresse's boobs. Our director (American) then decided, that all actors throughout the play should once toch the actress's boobs as a running gag.
As some people pointed out, Marc Forster brought in MK12.
Still holding out hope for YKMN to play over the credits too (although I'd take literally anything over that tired 2006 arrangement of the Bond theme).
He’s always been heavily symbolic from the start. I’ve always appreciated that. It was a strong quality Binder once had in his titles but by the 80s kind of lost that, settling just for the same generic “girls holding guns” imagery with no thematic elements or bearing on the actual story. Still not sure what the hell the camera and film is supposed to evoke in LTK.
If there’s one thing I didn’t like in Kleinman’s titles it was mostly just having the women do odd interpretive dancing in TND/TWINE/DAD, which just looked dumb to me. He dropped it thankfully.
Yeah, didn't MK12 do all of the onscreen graphics for Stranger Than Fiction? I might be misremebering that.
Yup, STRANGER THAN FICTION as well as THE KITE RUNNER, so he and MK12 had a collaborative thing going on for a time leading up to Bond. Curiously, they haven’t worked together since QOS.
The SP titles don't do anything for me at all. The octopus motif is alright, but overdone, IMO. I'll take Binder's latter era titles over SP any day.
At least AVTAK, with it's neon lights, odd looking toy water pistols and the flaming woman dancing comes off as distinctive.
To a degree I'm starting to feel like Kleinman's titles are running together. Similar CGI look and colors. GE and CR are the only ones that stand out to me.
While still being pretty symbolic in its own right, both for the film and espionage as a whole. A great big game where people die.
That's totally possible, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, as he likely did to some degree.
Though CR's titles are simplistic, they also feature some amazing symbolism, but subtle. The playing cards are everywhere, Vesper as the Queen, the backstabbing with a knife, Bond's "007 confirmed" on a field of clubs...
The difference is that SF's and SP's titles even more so feature explicit scenes of what's to come. CR gives a certain mood (brutal, fresh, new, darker and grittier, this Bond kills but does not escape unscathed) while SP tells us the bloody plot from the titles!
When it comes to NTTD, I'd like something that leans heavily into the themes of the film, but subtle enough that it's not a recreation of what we're about to see. That's the trick. QOS was too poetic, imo, SF a bit too overt but quite good at a moody setting, CR amazingly fresh and SP was just really bad.
While we have no real clues about what the central theme of NTTD is going to be, if we look at the title, I'd like some imagery with clocks and hands and numerals (a cheeky 25 in Roman numerals, anyone?), and hourglasses. Basically OHMSS, but without the footage of previous films.
True, that's more well put than I could've done. SP (and SF) are way too in your face about what's going to come and are most certainly spoiler-filled in their own right.
Seriously? Have you seen LTK’s titles where he runs out of ideas completely and has to go with putting some chips on a casino table so they look like ‘007’? :D
Funny because Kleinman directed the music video for Licence To Kill and managed to make it look Bondier and better than the actual title sequence! :)
Yeah Danny Kleinman’s ‘day job’ is being the one of the most well-respected ad directors in the business. He’s one of the biggest names.
Yeah the Daylights ones are weak (a lady in a big Martini glass?!) and then the LTK ones are even worse. If Cubby was going to ditch him I wouldn't be surprised.
Compare to the amount of classy ideas in the Skyfall titles alone (and I think if anything they actually have slightly too many ideas: loads of things are happening and then we get flying Chinese dragons!) it's clear Binder wasn't firing on all cylinders for a few years there.
You can tell Binder lost his touch once TLD came around. AVTAK titles were amazing. I won't blame Binder that much for TLD & LTK titles since he was probability ill when making them.
Same, it sets the mood for a teenager movie rather than a Bond film :)) I like the title song, though, so that makes me enjoy the titles despite the clumsy imagery.
Thank you!
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