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Michael G. Wilson's Hitchcockian cameo


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#1 JCRendle

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Posted 11 January 2015 - 03:56 PM

MGW loves popping up in the Bond films, I thought it could be fun to imagine roles in SPECTRE that he would be "perfect" for.

 

My suggestion? Emilio Largo, SPECTRE's #2!

 

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#2 thecasinoroyale

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 08:46 AM

I reckon he'll be someone in the Austria scenes...easy to say a tourist in Rome perhaps, but I reckon Austria.

 

As what? Someone stood talking or sat reading. Not pushing the boat out.



#3 Guy Haines

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 10:38 AM

As with Hitchcock so with Michael G Wilson, he tends to do blink and you'll miss him spots, with the exception of TND and DAD perhaps. He'll either be seen briefly in an on-going public scene - which could be anywhere, Mexico City, London, Austria, Rome, Morocco. Or as part of a specific scene. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a scene in this film similar to the boardroom scene in TB, with MGW there as one of the SPECTRE top brass wishing he was somewhere else as, er, "You Know Who" practises his own unique form of personnel management on some hapless underling. Or in one of the MI6 scenes, perhaps?

 

He'll be in it somewhere, I'll bet.



#4 Vauxhall

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 11:24 AM

It wouldn't surprise me if there's a scene in this film similar to the boardroom scene in TB, with MGW there as one of the SPECTRE top brass wishing he was somewhere else as, er, "You Know Who" practises his own unique form of personnel management on some hapless underling.

This would be good. Mendes probably owes him a decent cameo, after cutting most of SKYFALL's out.

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 06:53 PM

As with Hitchcock so with Michael G Wilson, he tends to do blink and you'll miss him spots, with the exception of TND and DAD perhaps. He'll either be seen briefly in an on-going public scene - which could be anywhere, Mexico City, London, Austria, Rome, Morocco. Or as part of a specific scene. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a scene in this film similar to the boardroom scene in TB, with MGW there as one of the SPECTRE top brass wishing he was somewhere else as, er, "You Know Who" practises his own unique form of personnel management on some hapless underling. Or in one of the MI6 scenes, perhaps?

 

He'll be in it somewhere, I'll bet.

Casino Royale's was probably the most obvious. He's pointed out. "That's him, over my left shoulder"



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Posted 12 January 2015 - 07:00 PM

 

As with Hitchcock so with Michael G Wilson, he tends to do blink and you'll miss him spots, with the exception of TND and DAD perhaps. He'll either be seen briefly in an on-going public scene - which could be anywhere, Mexico City, London, Austria, Rome, Morocco. Or as part of a specific scene. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a scene in this film similar to the boardroom scene in TB, with MGW there as one of the SPECTRE top brass wishing he was somewhere else as, er, "You Know Who" practises his own unique form of personnel management on some hapless underling. Or in one of the MI6 scenes, perhaps?

 

He'll be in it somewhere, I'll bet.

Casino Royale's was probably the most obvious. He's pointed out. "That's him, over my left shoulder"

 

 

I don't know, TND was pretty obvious...

 

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#7 S K Y F A L L

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Posted 12 January 2015 - 07:32 PM

I can't imagine him having a cameo like in CR or TND. I think it would be more like TSWLM, GE, TWINE, SF. 

 

I really liked QOS's, simple and wasn't hard to spot him.



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Posted 30 January 2015 - 01:09 AM

 

 

As with Hitchcock so with Michael G Wilson, he tends to do blink and you'll miss him spots, with the exception of TND and DAD perhaps. He'll either be seen briefly in an on-going public scene - which could be anywhere, Mexico City, London, Austria, Rome, Morocco. Or as part of a specific scene. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a scene in this film similar to the boardroom scene in TB, with MGW there as one of the SPECTRE top brass wishing he was somewhere else as, er, "You Know Who" practises his own unique form of personnel management on some hapless underling. Or in one of the MI6 scenes, perhaps?

 

He'll be in it somewhere, I'll bet.

Casino Royale's was probably the most obvious. He's pointed out. "That's him, over my left shoulder"

 

 

I don't know, TND was pretty obvious...

 

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That was very easy. With The Living Daylights I had to keep rewinding to spot the jogger cameo having missed the first 4 times when watching it on-demand


MGW loves popping up in the Bond films, I thought it could be fun to imagine roles in SPECTRE that he would be "perfect" for.

 

My suggestion? Emilio Largo, SPECTRE's #2!

 

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Only on the condition he wears this:

 

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#9 S K Y F A L L

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Posted 01 February 2015 - 02:23 AM

It's to bad EON isn't that creative with MGW's cameos.



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Posted 01 February 2015 - 03:04 AM

Michael as a SPECTRE member sitting around during a meeting would perhaps be his best ever, even if he just received a few brief moments on screen.

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Posted 18 November 2015 - 12:22 AM

Any idea which scene Michael was in SPECTRE? I have noticed him in the earlier ones in first viewing but missed him here.



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Posted 18 November 2015 - 05:47 PM

Any idea which scene Michael was in SPECTRE? I have noticed him in the earlier ones in first viewing but missed him here.

When C meets M and Moneypenny after a meeting in a corridor...



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Posted 18 November 2015 - 08:51 PM

 

Any idea which scene Michael was in SPECTRE? I have noticed him in the earlier ones in first viewing but missed him here.

When C meets M and Moneypenny after a meeting in a corridor...

 

Yes, right. You have sharp eyes indeed. They should make it a gratuitous cameo like Uncle Excelsior Stan's.



#14 Professor Pi

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Posted 19 November 2015 - 09:10 AM

I finally spotted the cameo on my third viewing.  Still can't spot him in Skyfall though...a little help please?



#15 Single-O-Seven

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Posted 19 November 2015 - 11:19 AM

I finally spotted the cameo on my third viewing.  Still can't spot him in Skyfall though...a little help please?

 

 

I have read he had a cameo during a funeral scene that was cut out. Maybe he did another one in lieu but I don't believe so.



#16 Major Tallon

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Posted 19 November 2015 - 12:46 PM

When M looks down the length of the undercroft containing the coffins, Wilson is briefly visible (but not easily recognizable) through the door at the end of the room.