The 007 furniture and interior thread

ImpertinentGoon

Shamefully, I've only ever seen the Steve Carell Get Smart film and not the original series, but I recall the doors also being in that.
Now that I think about it, the secret headquarters hidden behind a door or even more common, an elevator, is probably too much of a spy film cliché, isn't it?
I have been thinking about whether the opening of the TMWTGG novel - Bond calls to get a meeting with M after having been missing and MI6 has to figure out whether he is the real guy - would be a good PTS for the next Bond actor. Very meta, with all the "we thought you were dead", but I think it could be fun. And I've always loved how that sequence shows the outer shells of the MI6 cover operation. You'd have to change quite a few things, but I still think they could pull that off.
But I'm veering away from furniture and interior again...

Does anyone know whether the hotel room in Matera in the PTS of NTTD is an actual room with (close to) the original furnishings or completely self-built by the production?

CharmianBond

Built by production, along with, it seems, like all the others. There's some nice pictures in this AD article. And Tim Browning did this concept art for it

Agent_99

CharmianBond wrote: »

That table is an oddity even in the film it's in, the rest of Quantum goes for the gritty realism tone and then MI6 looks like Starfleet HQ. But it was a small extrapolation of the Microsoft Surface table that was released the same year that history has quite rightly chosen to ignore.

I love the very particular way Bond films date, and how sometimes they pick the wrong piece of technology to back! I remember the YouTube footage of the Surface Table and how futuristic it looked.

Craig-era Bond's old-fashioned gear, and quality, old-school furniture, feels quite true to Fleming. The book Bond likes hanging on to old stuff, has an old car (as does Craig), objects to his faithful old gun being taken off him.

thedove wrote: »

One of my fav parts of TB is early in the film when Largo walks through a humanitarian aid office and the SPECTRE meeting space is directly behind a secret door. Course the industrial look and secret doors was used as the opening credits of Get Smart a wonderful spy spoof show of the 60's. As a kid I loved all the secret doors and the theme music!

A great favourite of mine too, hence the username - Get Smart was the gateway drug that led me to Bond, UNCLE and a general appreciation of 1960s style, TV, film and music!

Revelator

This needs to be in the next Bond film:

NickTwentyTwo

I could easily see Moore poking around that thing after noticing it while dialoguing with the main villain in his lair... "Now's not the time to be... sheepish..."

QBranch

Dolly got optional extras installed, unlike in MR.

ImpertinentGoon

NickTwentyTwo

Lol is that how M tells Bond to get killing these days?