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  • marketto007marketto007 Brazil
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    Nothing to do with Daniel, but since we don't have a Topic for the Olympic games.

    Gymnast Beth Tweddle performs with "Live And Let Die" soundtrack.

  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    Caught it on TV and thought to myself "two Bond references in the Olympics thus far. Cool."
  • marketto007marketto007 Brazil
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  • BounineBounine
    edited July 2012 Posts: 2,598
    I enjoyed the Bond/Queen scenes but I am finding it hard to get past Craig's hair. It's just too damn short. I think it looks horrible. Bond doesn't wear his hair that short. He just looks less like Bond and almost like a marine in a suit.

    Oh, and thank god Bond wasn't knighted!
  • GermanladyGermanlady
    edited July 2012 Posts: 6,601
    Posted on Facebook this morning by the official British Monarchy page:

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  • VirageVirage
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    Wow they mentioned the Corgies... But not bond.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    edited July 2012 Posts: 9,117
    Also did anybody spot the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang during the Mary Poppins sequence.

    5 mins of Bond and this nod to his other work in a ceremony to celebrate the best of British - shouldnt Fleming be getting a posthumous knighthood?
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    edited July 2012 Posts: 11,139
    Bounine wrote:
    I enjoyed the Bond/Queen scenes but I am finding it hard to get past Craig's hair. It's just too damn short. I think it looks horrible. Bond doesn't wear his hair that short. He just looks less like Bond and almost like a marine in a suit.

    Oh, and thank god Bond wasn't knighted!

    Craig's hair was perfect IMO. It's just the right length, keeping him sharp, well groomed not to mention it suits the shape of his head rather well. I think it works.
  • VirageVirage
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    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    Also did anybody spot the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang during the Mary Poppins sequence.

    yes the local commentators, told us who it was and brief synposis.
  • VolanteVolante
    edited July 2012 Posts: 774
    doubleoego wrote:
    Bounine wrote:
    I enjoyed the Bond/Queen scenes but I am finding it hard to get past Craig's hair. It's just too damn short. I think it looks horrible. Bond doesn't wear his hair that short. He just looks less like Bond and almost like a marine in a suit.

    Oh, and thank god Bond wasn't knighted!

    Craig's hair was perfect IMO. It's just the right length, keeping him sharp, well groomed not to mention it suits the shape of his head rather well. I think it works.

    "like a marine in a suit" Bond was in the navy. If you don't like it, think of it as a reference to his military background.

    I agree with @doubleoego, I think it suits him really well.

    Although if we want to have a Daniel Craig hair discussion, there was a thread for this hahaha
  • NW_LondonerNW_Londoner
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    TheWizardOfIce wrote:

    5. Would it really have killed her to have smiled when she entered the stadium? The whole country was on its feet at that point.


    You have to remember that the Queen will use her E.R face when attending official events, of which this was one.

    Yes, it can be annoying at times but this is how she as done it for the past 60 years so not much chance of her changing now.

    Just be grateful she agreed to the movie role. can you imagine her reaction when they said "by the way you will be parachuting into the stadium"
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited July 2012 Posts: 12,837
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    5. Would it really have killed her to have smiled when she entered the stadium? The whole country was on its feet at that point.

    To be fair, we shouldn't expect her to smile. She didn't smile when she got a big celebration for doing basically nothing for 50 years, so why would she smile now :))
  • KerimKerim Istanbul Not Constantinople
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    thelivingroyale wrote:
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    5. Would it really have killed her to have smiled when she entered the stadium? The whole country was on its feet at that point.

    To be fair, we shouldn't expect her to smile. She didn't smile when she got a big celebration for doing basically nothing for 50 years, so why would she smile now :))

    She would have smiled if she got Rogered.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    And indeed one assumes she smiles in her private life, just not on the public stage much (or at all). Playing with corgis, bonding with Bond, etc.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    Kerim wrote:
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    5. Would it really have killed her to have smiled when she entered the stadium? The whole country was on its feet at that point.

    To be fair, we shouldn't expect her to smile. She didn't smile when she got a big celebration for doing basically nothing for 50 years, so why would she smile now :))

    She would have smiled if she got Rogered.

    Every girl would smile if they got Rogered.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queen-laughs-about-opening-ceremony-appearance-1182374#.UB0gQYzFRdw.twitter
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    That's great to hear and seems to make up for the 'no smiling' comments, which have been fair.
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    Contrary to what they say, the Queen IS smiling

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  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    Bond the most repeatedly watched sequence of the Opening Ceremony

    http://advanced-television.com/index.php/2012/08/16/the-queen-with-james-bond-and-the-spice-girls-most-aired-portions-of-london-ceremonies-globally/
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Good show, 007!
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    "Now pay attention world! ;)
  • SandySandy Somewhere in Europe
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    Good to know @GL, it's not a surprise though.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    Dame Judi Dench kept in the dark over the Queen’s Bond girl role at Olympic opening ceremony

    As the spymaster M, there is little, if anything, that Dame Judi Dench does not know about what James Bond gets up to.

    Still, Daniel Craig, who will appear as 007 alongside the actress in Skyfall, the next instalment in the franchise, this winter, managed to keep one mission secret from her.

    Mandrake hears that, while Dame Judi is an intimate of the actor and loves to gossip with him between takes on the Bond films, he didn’t even breathe so much as a whisper to her about how he would be appearing beside the Queen in Danny Boyle’s filmed sequence for the Olympics opening ceremony.

    “She had absolutely no idea that they were doing it,” says Finty Williams, Dame Judi’s daughter by the late Michael Williams, at the first-night party for her West End play, Volcano. “She thought it was brilliant and hilarious when she saw it.”

    The opening ceremony saw Craig star with the Queen in a short caper that culminated in her stunt double jumping from a helicopter close to the stadium.

    At the time of filming, Craig had been working with Dame Judi on Skyfall. The 23rd film in the franchise will see Dame Judi reprise her role as M for the seventh time. The 77 year-old is known to get on well with the actor, once even disclosing that his manhood seemed to her to be “an absolute monster” after spying Craig naked on the set of Casino Royale.

    Dame Judi, by the way, is capable of the odd act of subterfuge herself. Finty told me that her mother had a previous commitment that meant she would be unable to see her daughter’s first-night appearance.

    Bill Kenwright, the show’s producer, said, that on the contrary, she had tickets booked and indeed showed up. “She wanted to turn up unannounced,” my man backstage whispered. “She knows how first nights can be nerve-racking at the best of times.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9488287/Dame-Judi-Dench-kept-in-the-dark-over-the-Queens-Bond-girl-role-at-Olympic-opening-ceremony.html
  • VirageVirage
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    Hang on, back up. She spied on Dan naked!?!? :O
  • GermanladyGermanlady
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    This is an old story ;)
  • GetafixGetafix
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    Germanlady wrote:
    Contrary to what they say, the Queen IS smiling

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    DC looks ancient here.
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
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    Did Judi Dench spy on Craig, when he was naked?
  • X3MSonicXX3MSonicX https://www.behance.net/gallery/86760163/Fa-Posteres-de-007-No-Time-To-Die
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    MrBond wrote:
    Did Judi Dench spy on Craig, when he was naked?

    Naughty, isn't her?
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
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    http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=4283
  • X3MSonicXX3MSonicX https://www.behance.net/gallery/86760163/Fa-Posteres-de-007-No-Time-To-Die
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    I didn't read that... :)) =))
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