[Potential Spoilers] Official SKYFALL Photo Thread (Part II)

Makeshift Python wrote:

Brosnan's looked too expensive and stuffy. Connery remains king on the wardrobe department, and pretty much everything else.

He had the best hair vest.

CJB wrote:

lachesis wrote:

I'm not mad about his tailor, are you?

Nope, he looks like he's trying to be a GQ model. Brosnan's Brioni stuff was immeasurably better.

This Bond doesn't believe in sex with women. Sex bad. Kill good. It's a dark and gritty element that most people just can't understand.

So, naturally, he needs something else to grip his crotch. Tom Ford was the perfect choice.

Mr. Brown wrote:

This Bond doesn't believe in sex with women.

So he didn't sleep with Vesper or Fields, then?

Only 'cause of peer pressure.

Mr. Brown wrote:

CJB wrote:

lachesis wrote:

I'm not mad about his tailor, are you?

Nope, he looks like he's trying to be a GQ model. Brosnan's Brioni stuff was immeasurably better.

This Bond doesn't believe in sex with women. Sex bad. Kill good. It's a dark and gritty element that most people just can't understand.

So, naturally, he needs something else to grip his crotch. Tom Ford was the perfect choice.

Warm sperm, cold heart eh?

Any frogs here, or those that speak their language?

Sharky wrote:

Any frogs here, or those that speak their language?

that'll get them scurrying forth.

I imagine we have some about. Didn't we have such folk on MI6? I think the article as it reads says that Lazenby was much better.

Oppers and Santa are good at French.

The yoof on Painfacebook are no doubt rushing to stick "Skyfall" logos on these photos and call it art.

Hey guys. Check out the poster that I made.

Still better than QOS's theatrical poster.

I'll never forgive them for that piece of shyte.

My girlfriend got me that QoS poster for my birthday. Effort was cute. However, I had to hide the fact that my eyes were bleeding.

Translation of the article, courtesy of CBn (hey, credit where credit is due):

- The costume designer Jany Temine wants to modernize James Bond while retaining him an old school side -- The film will go in Scotland, in Shanghai, Turkey and Macau
- A scene of "crash" would be expected for the sequence of the subway.
- The journalist witnessed the shooting of a scene: the arrival of James Bond in a floating casino in Macao (I think the dragons we saw on the picture of Pinewood come from this set)
- For the scene in the set with the glasses and the neon lights that we saw in the videos and the first official image, the idea is to multiply Bond's reflect. The designer wanted that decor reflected both the spirit of James Bond and what he saw. And here, Bond must appear as a character back from the dead.
- Sam Mendes promises they never pushed the character in such limits
- The scene of Macau: Bond leaves his hotel room and goes to the casino by boat (he is standing on the boat, dressed in a tuxedo). The boat passes between the two dragon heads and a firework is fired. The scene has a certain gravity and Mendes put a mysterious depth in it. The journalist said that the casino "looks like a kingdom of the dead"
- Jany Temine said that Berenice's character would be a "bad girl" so she wanted to dress her like a "femme fatale". But Berenice does not answer clearly to the question of which side belongs her character (she must be ambiguous, not completely bad)
- Sam Mendes loves CASINO ROYALE and Daniel Craig, because for the first time since Connery, the character of Bond was no longer outside the action and the film wasn't ironic about the hero. He also learned the codes of the series and wants to bring things that has never been seen before.
- Mendes confirms the return of some iconic characters of the saga (so Q is not the only one). He also confirms he wants to bring more humor than in the last two movies. He wants to explore the roots of the MI6, as to make a loop with DR NO (probably for the 50th anniversary)
- And finally, Mendes reveals some thematics of SKYFALL: what changed in fifty years? Should the MI6 evolve or stay as it was fifty years ago? Who are the new enemies of the XXI century? Who is Q : an inventor of gadgets that have become increasingly importants or a man who invents new ways to kill people?
- "Daniel Craig was the first one to think about Sam Mendes for being the director of this James Bond movie. They are good friends since the shooting of ROAD TO PERDITION, and when he was offered the job, Sam agreed, to our surprise."

And a quote from Dennis Gassner in the above article:

"When we started location scouting, we looked for a city that had the ability to transform people who crossed it. Shanghai had this ability."

Is James Bond wearing a scarf tie?

Erica Ambler wrote:

Oppers and Santa are good at French.

Are you suggesting a duo performance? I don't share the mic...

The White Tuxedo wrote:

Is James Bond wearing a scarf tie?

Regular ties are too mainstream.

No time to translate the whole thing, so I limited myself to the headlines and the big-font quotes:

Quote :

Skyfall

All about the shooting of the new Bond

2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond saga. Studio Ciné Live was detached to Pinewood for the first visit on the stages of this 23rd heavily anticipated episode.

After four years of interruption, the James Bond Saga returns with a new episode directed by Sam Mendes. An exclusive visit on the Pinewood sets, where the director has promised us he will push Bond to his ultimate limits.

James Bond dies today (big orange headline)

We could not change Bond, who is a legend, but we could adapt him to the tastes of the day. (below Craig’s picture)

Daniel Craig was the first to have the idea of Sam Mendes directing a James Bond movie.

Bérénice Marlohe – Code name: Severine. Together with Naemoie Harris, she makes up the new duo of James Bond girls, pardon, James Bond ladies. First meeting.

Sam Mendes’ characters tend to change their life during their trajectory. At times they lose track. Here he is, today, the director of Skyfall. James Bond risks to go through a difficult period.

This time, Bond is not in the position to tell himself he’ll survive and get through it once again.

CJB wrote:

The White Tuxedo wrote:

Is James Bond wearing a scarf tie?

Regular ties are too mainstream.

He needs the trendy geek glasses.

Salomé wrote:

Erica Ambler wrote:

Oppers and Santa are good at French.

Are you suggesting a duo performance? I don't share the mic...

Mic? Hell, you can call me what you want.

Quote :

So, naturally, he needs something else to grip his crotch. Tom Ford was the perfect choice.

The White Tuxedo wrote:

Is James Bond wearing a scarf tie?

I do think he's actually wearing a tie underneath the scarf. I wear my scarf like that sometimes. :::ducks tomatoes:::