SPOILER THE DB5 CAR
#1
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:28 PM
I like to think that now we have done the prequel story and back to the old series
What do you think
#2
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:31 PM
#3
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:46 PM
― Robert Jordan
I think they pulled a very interesting and lovely sleigh of hand, which is utterly nonsensical (especially given the CR reboot and the Dench Dilemma).
#4
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:47 PM
Oh, and good quote Skudor.
#5
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:52 PM
Edited by AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän, 28 October 2012 - 04:53 PM.
#6
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:58 PM
Bond won the car in CR got it imported, got it re-registered on a vintage plate, got it converted to right hand drive and gave it to Q branch to get a few optional extras.........seems like a lot of work though I would just have sold the thing!
Still I'm not losing sleep over it honest.
#7
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:00 PM
For me, continuity in these films is only directly linked to the actor appearing as James Bond within them. Everything else is loose and inter-changeable, as it should be.
EDIT: Goldfinger, as a plot is bonkers for this day and age.
Edited by Gothamite, 28 October 2012 - 05:04 PM.
#8
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:12 PM
....if we didn't get a shot of his parents gravestones.
I suspect they had several long and involved conversations about that DB5 - or at least about making it the Goldfinger DB5. In the end they probably just said, " it, it's Bond and it doesnt have to make sense".
#9
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:24 PM
#10
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:43 PM
Believing the tabloid headlines that he can't drive a manual, he takes the DB5 in for a conversion and in the process gets it converted to right-hand drive. Voila, DB5 conundrum solved.
Seriously, as Scrambled Eggs says, it's a Bond, it doesn't have to make sense, if you watch any of the films more than once, they rarely do!
#11
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:47 PM
#12
Posted 28 October 2012 - 05:53 PM
I suspect they had several long and involved conversations about that DB5 - or at least about making it the Goldfinger DB5. In the end they probably just said, " it, it's Bond and it doesnt have to make sense".
Maybe... or maybe they said "Let's have some fun with the fans and watch their brains implode..."
#13
Posted 28 October 2012 - 06:51 PM
#14
Posted 28 October 2012 - 07:40 PM
#15
Posted 28 October 2012 - 11:18 PM
Here's an idea, it's a Bond movie. Why is everyone jumping through hoops trying to rationalize it?
Because for some of us, that's part of the fun. I mean we're already on an Internet forum, we clearly care more about this than the average popcorn-muncher.
#16
Posted 28 October 2012 - 11:40 PM
#17
Posted 31 October 2012 - 02:39 PM
And I really hope it gets rebuilt for Bond 24!
I’m kind of the opposite. I keep thinking of Turner's painting of the Temeraire, and that the simile works as well for the Aston as for Bond himself. Since GoldenEye they’ve liked bringing out a DB5 as a kind of shorthand telling us that, whatever else has changed, this is still the same Bond and part of the same cannon. But it’s always been a nostalgia thing; we all realized that the old warhorse couldn’t hold its end up beside those rolling missile batteries 007 has driven since. It’s called progress.
So here we are, 50th anniversary of movie Bond and the DB5 still helps save the day, while all the pretenders to its throne sort of became one hit wonders (Not their fault I suppose. James has always been rough on his toys). And best of all, it gets an amazing Sam Peckinpah style finale. No going out with a whimper here! Craig’s reaction shot caps it perfectly (and was that an echo of Thunderball overlaying it on the score?)
God, I’ll miss the Aston, but that’s the way for a grand old battle ship to leave the stage. Never cared for the thought of it ending up in that old tube station with the rest of Q’s junk.
#18
Posted 05 November 2012 - 11:33 PM
I was ridiculously excited to see it had its guns on it. Fantastic stuff. And the first time they've actually been useful to him!
Spoiler
It was really cool...
Edited by Gothamite, 05 November 2012 - 11:35 PM.
#19
Posted 13 November 2012 - 03:47 AM
http://gizmodo.com/5...ge-the-original
Basically - they used 3D printing to create models. Pretty incredible.
#20
Posted 13 November 2012 - 08:30 AM
#21
Posted 13 November 2012 - 11:21 AM
EDIT: Goldfinger, as a plot is bonkers for this day and age.
It was bonkers at the time and CR was hardly plausible by 2006 standards!
On a related matter; I actually thought M's line about the ejector seat kind of killed the joke - it would have been much funnier if they'd just left it as Bond reaching for the control when she was getting on his nerves.
Edited by Peckinpah1976, 13 November 2012 - 11:23 AM.
#22
Posted 13 November 2012 - 02:33 PM
Just read this article about how they
Spoiler
http://gizmodo.com/5...ge-the-original
Basically - they used 3D printing to create models. Pretty incredible.
Thank you! I've been dying to know how they did it.
I did think it looked a bit off but I'm amazed it was a model.
Here's the manufacturer's page about it: http://www.voxeljet....s-bond-skyfall/
#23
Posted 14 November 2012 - 03:32 AM
In the script, Purvis and Wade intended it to be the car Bond won in Casino Royale. Later, Sam Mendes decided it would be cool to add the Goldfinger gadgets. No one bothered - or felt it necessary - to worry about any of the pre/post-reboot continuity questions that stem from this.
Personally, I'm happy to sacrifice a little continuity if that's the cost of the ejector seat line and seeing those machine guns blasting away.
P&W talk about this in the Empire Podcast: http://soundcloud.co...writers-spoiler
#24
Posted 14 November 2012 - 04:46 AM
For me, continuity in these films is only directly linked to the actor appearing as James Bond within them. Everything else is loose and inter-changeable, as it should be.
It's the same for me as well.
#25
Posted 14 November 2012 - 11:20 AM
Sadly, the truth about the DB5 turns out to be rather mundane compared to some of the interesting theories above.
In the script, Purvis and Wade intended it to be the car Bond won in Casino Royale. Later, Sam Mendes decided it would be cool to add the Goldfinger gadgets. No one bothered - or felt it necessary - to worry about any of the pre/post-reboot continuity questions that stem from this.
Personally, I'm happy to sacrifice a little continuity if that's the cost of the ejector seat line and seeing those machine guns blasting away.
P&W talk about this in the Empire Podcast: http://soundcloud.co...writers-spoiler
Yeah we know; we're just having fun thinking up how it could work in the fiction of the thing. We know why it's there in the film.
#26
Posted 14 November 2012 - 12:12 PM
Yeah we know; we're just having fun thinking up how it could work in the fiction of the thing. We know why it's there in the film.
I understand, and like I said I'm enjoying the speculation. I just didn't realize it was common knowledge that Purvis and Wade specifically intended it to be the DB5 from CR.
#27
Posted 15 November 2012 - 05:02 AM