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The MI6 Incident...


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#1 DamnCoffee

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Posted 20 February 2012 - 07:55 PM

Just thought it would be cool to have a thread to discuss the MI6 HQ attack.

Although, I've just realised something...

After reading this a few days ago...

The action shot on the bridge will be seen at the beginning of the film, when M's car is blocked from getting close to the famous MI6 building by police. M and Tanner watch in horror as an explosion rocks the area. The fireball will be a digital effect, unlike The World Is Not Enough when the production built a large scale replica of the front of the building in order to blow a hole in it.

... I've just realised that we haven't had any reports of people fleeing in terror, or screaming at the MI6 bulding, during the filming there. Will this be added in later? Considering they're filming outside the real MI6 Building, then there must be some law against people screaming and running around there. You would think if a massive explosion happens, then really M and Tanner should be thrown to the ground due to the shock waves. I wonder if they'll build a bridge at Pinewood to do this, just to get the reaction shots.

But yes, I have a feeling that this will be a fantastic scene. A brilliant start to the movie. What are your thoughts on it?

#2 ggl

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Posted 20 February 2012 - 09:02 PM

Just one thought... Will "we" surpass the Kremlin explosion in MI:4?

#3 Captain Tightpants

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Posted 20 February 2012 - 09:35 PM

... I've just realised that we haven't had any reports of people fleeing in terror, or screaming at the MI6 bulding, during the filming there. Will this be added in later?

Based on the videos of filming, M and Tanner get stopped halfway across the bridge and watch on as the attack takes place. So someone obviously knew enough to stop traffic.

It could be that the scenes of the people running around in terror were shot at Pinewood. If, for example, the explosion whent off in the lobby of the building, then they should shoot it on the sound stage.

#4 Vauxhall

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Posted 20 February 2012 - 10:25 PM

My instinct is that the attack will be something more precise than a building-levelling blast. I can't make up my mind if the eight deaths are specific attacks against those individuals or not, but I think there must be something significant about there being eight killed. Of course, it may just have been the case that they could only find eight appropriate hearses for the funeral scene, but that doesn't seem hugely likely. The other suggestion would be that far more than eight people were killed, but that funeral scene is for an entire department (the 00s, for instance).

#5 Captain Tightpants

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Posted 20 February 2012 - 10:44 PM

Yeah, I'm subscribing to the theory that the eight dead are somehow connected. And I find it no coincidence that M and Tanner were stopped on the Vauxhall Bridge just in time to see the attack - to me, that sounds like a message. If wouldn't be surprised if Javier Bardem planned the attack, then called it in, and while MI6 tried to deal with it, he used the opportunity to flush the eight people out and kill them.

#6 Royal Dalton

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 02:37 AM

Obviously an inside job. See also: Finney, Albert.

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 07:26 AM

There were picsw of hurt people with deep wounds at the beginning.

#8 Skudor

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 01:43 PM

Where were the scenes with the injuries - it was very early on in the shoot. I got the impression that it was nowhere near the MI6 building.

Are there possibly two attacks in short order - one against civilians and one agianst the SIS building?

#9 Shrublands

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 01:58 PM

Where were the scenes with the injuries - it was very early on in the shoot. I got the impression that it was nowhere near the MI6 building.

Are there possibly two attacks in short order - one against civilians and one agianst the SIS building?



The gruesome injury photos surfaced along with the first Smithfield stuff. But there had been a bit of scattered filming around London that weekend. Some work had been done on the South Bank, so who knows where it fits.

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Posted 21 February 2012 - 02:44 PM

I still applaud EON and Mendes for keeping so much under wraps about the filming and what happens where...sure we've got our ideas and rumous, but I still love the fact nothing has dripped out yet to give us a definate, spoiler-ific answer as yet!

Can't wait to see the extent of this attack on SIS, and possibly more of London too. Very current in today's climate I think. Very real too.

#11 DamnCoffee

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 01:44 AM

Would be interesting if M ordered the attack on MI6 herself, in order to cover up something she's done.

#12 JimmyBond

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 09:19 AM

I'm so dense. Since those scenes were shot early I never made the connection:

Bond running about London with an earpiece is making a lot more sense now, since the attack was directly on MI6 itself, Bond wouldn't give a damn if he was stepping on MI5's toes by going after the perpetrator.

While it is true that they've been filming in London an awfully lot, it seems like it's all part of the same sequence. So therefore I am predicting that, while yes they've been filming a lot in London, the film is not going to be London heavy.

#13 SecretAgentFan

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 09:44 AM

Would be interesting if M ordered the attack on MI6 herself, in order to cover up something she's done.


That, however, would make her the villain, and I donĀ“t think that this is the way she will exit the franchise. But it might appear at first that she did.

#14 Captain Tightpants

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Posted 06 March 2012 - 10:06 AM

Would be interesting if M ordered the attack on MI6 herself, in order to cover up something she's done.

A false-flag attack, you say?

I don't know. I can't really see M ordering an attack on MI6. Especially if it killed her own staff.