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#901 Captain Tightpants

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 10:11 PM

Well, that lines up nicely with the reports that filming it going to take place in Charing Cross station. Interesting that it is Charing Cross, because we've seen other parts of the station dressed up as Temple station.

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 10:38 PM

Looks like they're using one of the abandoned Jubilee Line platforms again.

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 11:18 PM

Oooooh. A clapperboard on a Thursday is new - must mean we're getting something more interesting on the Friday...?


When do we normally get them?

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 11:41 PM

Looks like they're using one of the abandoned Jubilee Line platforms again.

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I've heard that there is an action sequence planned for the Underground, or at least the Charing Cross platform. I'm hoping it doesn't end with the villain boarding a train and slipping away while Bond helplessly watches on. That's a bit too much of a cliche for my liking (plus, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM did it).

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Posted 12 January 2012 - 11:43 PM

Given that we've seen the Charing Cross underground sign, I think there are two possible suggestions:

1. They simply didn't mask one of the Charing Cross signs, as it won't actually be seen on screen.

2. Scenes are set in both Charing Cross and Temple, which for the purposes of the film may well be consecutive stations on the same line. If this is the case, perhaps we might have a sequence where both Bond and a villain (Bardem) get on the tube at one station, fight during the relatively short two minute journey, and then get off together and continue the chase. All speculation...

Also, let's consider the chronology. Scene 120 perhaps feeding later into the movie than I may originally have guessed for a London sequence. My instinct is that the action is set on the same day as the evening Aston Martin sequence shot in Deptford.





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Posted 13 January 2012 - 12:00 AM


Looks like they're using one of the abandoned Jubilee Line platforms again.

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I've heard that there is an action sequence planned for the Underground, or at least the Charing Cross platform. I'm hoping it doesn't end with the villain boarding a train and slipping away while Bond helplessly watches on. That's a bit too much of a cliche for my liking (plus, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM did it).


Which is in itself a homage (or rip-off - whichever way you see it) to the FRENCH CONNECTION, except without the later's Tom and Jerry humour.

If you were going to write a chase on a London tube platform, how would you do it?

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 12:40 AM


Oooooh. A clapperboard on a Thursday is new - must mean we're getting something more interesting on the Friday...?


When do we normally get them?


I believe - though I'm not positive - every one has appeared on a Friday to this point.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 01:07 AM

If you were going to write a chase on a London tube platform, how would you do it?

Train chase. Javier Bardem boards a train and it starts to pull away. Daniel Craig commandeers a second train and follows him.

Alternatively, Craig anticipates Bardem heading for the train, and takes a different route to it. We follow Bardem as he boards the train and then turns to watch for Craig boarding after him. There's nothing, but Craig is already on the train because he took a shortcut, and boarded further up the train before making his way back down to Bardem. Bardem turns back, only to be greeted by Daniel Craig and Daniel Craig's fist. Having subdued Bardem, Craig frog-marches him off the train at the next stop - Temple - and takes him into custody.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 01:39 AM

Perhaps a fistfight on the tracks, with one of the trains barrelling down on Craig and the mook he's fighting?

Or perhaps Bond corners a henchman, and rather than risk capture the henchman hurls himself in font of an oncoming train. Henchmen are always killing themselves with cyanide cigarettes, hot-air balloons, etc. A train would work just as well, and it would give Bond a chance to make a quip we haven't heard before. ("He lost his train of thought," "Another one down the tubes," "He was on the wrong track," etc.) Just once I'd like to see Bond murmur a witticism after a brutal fatality in a public place, and around him all the normal people are crying, vomiting, and taking pictures of the corpse with their cell phones. "Did you hear that freak over there? He turned to some woman and said, He sure went off the rails at the last minute. Like, about the guy who died. I'm not even kidding."

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 01:51 AM

Even it does sound a bit Mitchell & Webb, I'd pay to see that.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 01:55 AM

I'm reminded of the climax to MONEY TRAIN, where Wesley Snipes confronts a spree killer in the New York subway system. The killer has inadvertently doused himself in petrol (he was spraying ticketing clerks with it and setting them on fire) and it holding Snipes at gunpoint. Snipes is only armed with some kind of crowbar, which he swings low enough to strike the train lines. The spark catches the petrol, and the villain is immolated. Before being struck by a train. That said, I think having Bond kill a henchman in a highly-public place like the Tube and then making some quip about it might be a lttle bit too brutal for Bond.

But I digress. We know Javier Bardem and Bond are involved in this scene. There is no word on anyone else, like Ola Rapace, being present (although having a henchman hidden in the crowd to ensure Bardem's escape might be a bit nifty).

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 01:57 AM

"Mind the gap"

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 02:05 AM

"Mind the gap"

I could see that working. Bond chases Bardem into the train station. A henchman is waiting for them, to distract Bond and let Bardem get away. The two fight, with the henchman drawing a gun and they end up on the edge of the platform. He asks Bond for any final words, and Bond replies with "mind the gap". We then hear the blast of a horn and the henchman looks up in horror - but the train is coming from another track and is no danger to them. This is enough of a distraction for Bond to throw him off the platform and onto the tracks below, possibly breaking his back (but certainly doing some damage). Bond then jumps down after him and takes him into custody.

Such a scene would also address one of the criticisms from QUANTUM OF SOLACE - that Bond is far too quick to kill (though he only kills people who are attempting to kill him).

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 02:14 AM

Nice, but I was thinking about something along these lines: Bond knows london like the back of his hand, a bit like Holmes, and he times it so that he can arrive to the metro station he deduces Javier is going and boards the train at the previous station. When he gets there, the doors open and Bond shows up, says "Mind the gap" and punches Javier in the face. Simpler, cooler, a bit too much Sherlock perhaps. But I miss those Bond outsmarts the villain moments.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 02:23 AM

Ah, kind of like that one I posted where Bond anticipates Bardem going for the train and boards it before he can; Bardem watches for signs of being followed, but turns around and finds Bond already there.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 02:43 AM

Ah, kind of like that one I posted where Bond anticipates Bardem going for the train and boards it before he can; Bardem watches for signs of being followed, but turns around and finds Bond already there.

Bloody hell, quite right. Skipped over that one Cap. I guess brilliant minds think alike.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 02:57 AM

That's quite clever, and just like Bond.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 03:14 AM

Ahh the Jubilee line..I know it well..from 1990-1996 I used to take it in from Finchley Road to St.John's Wood everyday for school..I actually remember when the Jubilee line went through it's expansion and thus ceased it's service to Charing Cross.. Who'd have imagined that Bond would be filming on it..Sweet!

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 03:16 AM

There's a subway scene in Jeffrey Caine's script for GoldenEye, where Bond ends up lying between the tracks with the train going over him.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 05:08 AM

Why is he on the tracks?

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 06:21 AM

Xenia pushes Natalya onto the tracks and Bond leaps down and saves her as the train goes over them.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 06:41 AM

Very unfortunate that. But me, Germanlady, some others and someone named Shadowsomething have eyes in all forums, right Sha...Captain?

Not anymore.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 06:55 AM


Very unfortunate that. But me, Germanlady, some others and someone named Shadowsomething have eyes in all forums, right Sha...Captain?

Not anymore.


how did you get yourself banned......

anyways it is very interesting about amount of train scenes

#924 Mr Teddy Bear

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 07:46 AM

Now I'll be disappointed if there isn't a 'mind the gap' quip.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 08:33 AM

how did you get yourself banned......

That's not important.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 10:01 AM

Ah, kind of like that one I posted where Bond anticipates Bardem going for the train and boards it before he can; Bardem watches for signs of being followed, but turns around and finds Bond already there.


Nice image there...nothing more of an impact than turning around to see the steely blue-eyes of Bond staring at you before getting his hands on you to deal a punch or take you in. Like it! Love the amount of London based shots we're getting. The danger could be getting very close to home indeed in Skyfall!

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 10:19 AM


how did you get yourself banned......

That's not important.


Oh go on, do tell. Otherwise we won't know what to look out for.

#928 Captain Tightpants

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 10:55 AM

Nice image there...nothing more of an impact than turning around to see the steely blue-eyes of Bond staring at you before getting his hands on you to deal a punch or take you in. Like it!

I'm just not sure whether Bond should say "mind the gap" before or after he punches Bardem.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 11:37 AM

I wonder if "Mind the gap" would play with American audiences. Maybe I misunderestimate my compatriots, but I wonder if a majority of Americans are sufficiently familiar with that expression to recognize it in a facetious, non-literal context. A lot of people recognize it passively, as a "British expression", but it would probably be disconcerting. Better nix it just to be on the safe side. Replace it with a joke that everyone can enjoy, like Bond kneeing the guy's groin and saying, "Never leave your baggage unattended, dawg!" And then he jumps into the air and something explodes and he rides the shockwave.

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 11:41 AM

Loving all the theories regarding the tube sequences. The "Mind The Gap" line would be amazing, tipically Bond.

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