SKYFALL Wins Best British Film and Best Score at the BAFTAs

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Meanwhile, Skyfall won Outstanding British Film, leading its director Sam Mendes to pay tribute to the "bravery and brilliance" of Daniel Craig and "the great" Ian Fleming, who created James Bond.

Speaking backstage, Mendes said he would love to make another Bond film.
Robert Wade, Sam Mendes, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G Wilson and Neal Purvis Sam Mendes (second right) with the Skyfall team

He told reporters: "I've had a great time, it's been a huge learning curve and we would want to make a better movie next time around, and if we thought we do that they might let me have another go again."

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Thomas Newman has received his second BAFTA for his score for the latest James Bond film Skyfall directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig in the Original Music category. Newman accepted the award in person at the awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. He was nominated alongside Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina), Alexandre Desplat (Argo), Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) and John Williams (Lincoln). The composer has previously received the award for his music for American Beauty in 2000, his first collaboration with Mendes. Newman is also up for an Academy Award for his Skyfall score.

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Sounds to me like Mendes doing another Bond sounds like more of matter when, not if.

Jack Wade wrote:

Sounds to me like Mendes doing another Bond sounds like more of matter when, not if.

Yeah, they have a winning formula right now and Mendes is not playing hard to get.

Mendes showing some real cojones--and honesty--in praising Fleming. I think there's more to that man than anybody would have guessed. A worthy successor to Terence Young, perhaps?

I applaud Mendes' tribute to Fleming, but what's the story behind the line he recited? Was that the opening line in the first draft of Casino Royale or something?

It's towards the end of Chapter 1 - The Secret Agent.

Here it is in context:

Ian Fleming wrote:

He handed this to the concierge and put the cable signed 'Dasilva' in his pocket. The employers (if any) of the concierge could bribe a copy out of the local post office, if the concierge hadn't already steamed the envelope open or read the cable upside down in Bond's hands.
He took his key and said good night and turned to the stairs, shaking his head at the liftman. Bond knew what an obliging danger-signal a lift could be. He didn't expect anyone to be moving on the first floor, but he preferred to be prudent.
Walking quietly up on the balls of his feet, he regretted the hubris of his reply to M via Jamaica. As a gambler he knew it was a mistake to rely on too small a capital. Anyway, M probably wouldn't let him have any more. He shrugged his shoulders and turned off the stairs into the corridor and walked softly to the door of his room.
Bond knew exactly where the switch was and it was with one flow of motion that he stood on the threshold with the door full open, the light on and a gun in his hand. The safe, empty room sneered at him. He ignored the half-open door of the bathroom and, locking himself in, he turned up the bed-light and the mirror-light and threw his gun on the settee beside the window. Then he bent down and inspected one of his own black hairs which still lay undisturbed where he had left it before dinner, wedged into the drawer of the writing-desk.
Next he examined a faint trace of talcum powder on the inner rim of the porcelain handle of the clothes cupboard. It appeared immaculate. He went into the bathroom, lifted the cover of the lavatory cistern and verified the level of the water against a small scratch on the copper ball-cock.
Doing all this, inspecting these minute burglar-alarms, did not make him feel foolish or self-conscious. He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. Routine precautions were to him no more unreasonable than they would be to a deep-sea diver or a test pilot, or to any man earning danger-money.

Ah. Good catch.

Suck on it David Arnold! Suck it long, and suck it hard.

Watched the BAFTAS last night, was obviously extremely pleased with this (particularly as I had an uneasy feeling that it was gonna be Les Mis, for some reason).

Largo's Shark wrote:

Suck on it David Arnold! Suck it long, and suck it hard.

Arnold must be banging the keyboards.

No wonder. It deserved it. :)

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Mendes showing some real cojones--and honesty--in praising Fleming. I think there's more to that man than anybody would have guessed. A worthy successor to Terence Young, perhaps?

Quite liked that moment when he praised Fleming and had the time to quote CR. I dreaded music playing him off or Fry or some such fate.

As for Best Score, I cheered.