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Venice to See
#1
Posted 16 March 2006 - 09:30 PM
#2
Posted 16 March 2006 - 09:38 PM
#3
Posted 16 March 2006 - 09:42 PM
Ahh, you typed faster than I, Harmsway!!
Edited by Ace Roberts, 16 March 2006 - 09:43 PM.
#4
Posted 16 March 2006 - 09:44 PM
Take 'er easy
-matt
#5
Posted 16 March 2006 - 09:56 PM
#6
Posted 16 March 2006 - 10:37 PM
Wait, what exactly is this? A major action scene at the end of Casino Royale? I thought they said the ending of the film is the same as the novel.
Take 'er easy
-matt
The final action scene, in the same way as the bobsled chase is the climatic action scene in OHMSS.
You take the Bond/Vesper stuff straight from the book as-is and you have 20-30 minutes after the film is "done" for people to sit through with no goal or motivation. Run that parallel to a extension of Bond's mission from the book and you have something really intriguing and it makes the ending even more shocking.
You need a "fake" payoff for the Vesper storyline to hit people in the gut properly, since they were expecting Vesper to go "OH JAMES" and get shagged by Bond at the end like nearly every other Bond movie.
I was hoping for something like the article describes, so I'm pretty pumped.
Edited by Fro, 16 March 2006 - 10:39 PM.
#7
Posted 16 March 2006 - 11:03 PM
#8
Posted 16 March 2006 - 11:10 PM
Perhaps they'll be using the Venice idea from the original draft of Tomorrow Never Dies.
How where they planning to use Venice in TDN?
#9
Posted 16 March 2006 - 11:20 PM
#10
Posted 16 March 2006 - 11:26 PM
As we all know, Venice has already featured quite extensively in From Russia With Love and Moonraker. Perhaps, Babs & Mickey feel they owe a debt to Venice after the double take pigeon/Bondola sequence.
Edited by Moore Not Less, 16 March 2006 - 11:28 PM.
#11
Posted 16 March 2006 - 11:29 PM
From memory it was all based around the festival of the masks they have there. I'll have to dig out the script from my hard disk.
Just had a quick read and it's a fairly uninspired foot chase which ends in a fight in a medieval armour museum. Not amazing, but it's a nice set-up.
#12
Posted 17 March 2006 - 12:19 AM
#13
Posted 17 March 2006 - 12:29 AM
despite Vesper's death working in a different manner than in Fleming's novel.
This still makes me quite curious.
#14
Posted 17 March 2006 - 12:32 AM
It makes me curious too, but Stax said it was the way he would have done it if he had adapted it, so that's really comforting.This still makes me quite curious.
despite Vesper's death working in a different manner than in Fleming's novel.
#15
Posted 17 March 2006 - 06:50 AM
#16
Posted 17 March 2006 - 08:58 AM
From memory it was all based around the festival of the masks they have there. I'll have to dig out the script from my hard disk.
Just had a quick read and it's a fairly uninspired foot chase which ends in a fight in a medieval armour museum. Not amazing, but it's a nice set-up.
Medieval armour museum? Wasn't it anounced that Lockert(sp?) castle in Prague was going to be a shooting locatation? There was speculation that it would be featured for the torture sequence but what if they ressurected this sequence from TND and plan to use the castle for interior shots.
#17
Posted 17 March 2006 - 09:16 AM
#18
Posted 17 March 2006 - 10:49 AM
Edited by Marquis, 17 March 2006 - 10:56 AM.
#19
Posted 17 March 2006 - 11:05 AM
Always hoped they were doing a new third act because - as it is already pointed out here - the third act of the novel really isn
#20
Posted 17 March 2006 - 11:17 AM
We know from Stax's review of the script that the sequence in Venice pays tribute to the climax of the classic film, The Third Man. One only has to suspect this will involve a chase through the canals and into the massive underground sewer system.
Venice has no sewer system; household waste flows into the canals and is washed out into the ocean twice a day with the tides.
#21
Posted 17 March 2006 - 01:48 PM
#22
Posted 17 March 2006 - 03:33 PM
In the film world there ARE sewers if they want/need em!!
As well as automobile-accessible streets (as in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen").
I can't say I'm terribly excited about Venice, though; it seems a little cliche by now. But the fact that Chris Corbould described the scene as "his biggest challenge to date" gives me some hope; maybe they've come up with something unique (rather than the expected "boat-chase-through-the-canals").
#23
Posted 17 March 2006 - 03:41 PM
...(rather than the expected "boat-chase-through-the-canals").
From the story:
...and on the banks of the Grand Canal...
Not sure of all of the details so boats may be involved, but that is what I was told.
#24
Posted 17 March 2006 - 04:22 PM
In the film world there ARE sewers if they want/need em!!
Well they are trying to make this film more realistic. Where would this
Edited by Shrublands, 17 March 2006 - 04:33 PM.
#25
Posted 17 March 2006 - 04:28 PM
[quote name='Kingdom Come' post='533541' date='17 March 2006 - 13:48']
In the film world there ARE sewers if they want/need em!!
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Well they are trying to make this film more realistic. Where would this
#26
Posted 17 March 2006 - 04:35 PM
[quote name='Shrublands' post='533617' date='17 March 2006 - 11:22']
[quote name='Kingdom Come' post='533541' date='17 March 2006 - 13:48']
In the film world there ARE sewers if they want/need em!!
[/quote]
Well they are trying to make this film more realistic. Where would this
#27
Posted 17 March 2006 - 05:06 PM
#28
Posted 17 March 2006 - 06:09 PM
Oh wait, wasn't the casino scene to be set in Montenegro? I guess that wouldn't work then. The distance between Montenegro and Venice is quite large.
Edited by Monsieur B, 17 March 2006 - 06:10 PM.
#29
Posted 17 March 2006 - 10:47 PM
Edited by Ourobouros, 17 March 2006 - 10:47 PM.