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[Shrublands]

I got from a friend with a few Call sheets a list of Days, when which scene should be filmed. And one of the last scenes (no. 172) is called "Bond & Eve on the roof. He got the Bulldog."

This friend, do they post here or at MI6 or do you know them from somewhere else?

[Kristatos]

He has got them from Ebay and had posted them on his own website.

[Shrublands]

He has got them from Ebay and had posted them on his own website.

That doesn't really answer my question. Which was....

This friend, do they post here or at MI6 or do you know them from somewhere else?

All the same, this website, can you provide a link?

[The Shark]

I've just noticed in the US trailer, at about 2.00, when Bond and that guy are fighting on the ice, they are struggling over what looks like a metal box...

Looks more like an automatic rifle to me. Probably the HK416.

[Shrublands]

I've just noticed in the US trailer, at about 2.00, when Bond and that guy are fighting on the ice, they are struggling over what looks like a metal box...

Looks more like an automatic rifle to me. Probably the HK416.

In the shot from above it does. There are 2 shots before that, all 3 are at 2.00, which shows haw fast the cuts are.
Anyway, I've tried going through it again and I can't see the metal box so clearly now, it was sort of silver. I could well be wrong. The gun thing is more logical, particularly with the rest of the montage and the ice shattering.

[Royal Dalton]

Yeah, it's a machine gun.

[Vauxhall]

I have read in the Call Sheets that there will be the

Bulldog of M`s Table

in the Box.

Interesting. Thanks.

I'd second Shrublands' request and ask if you're able to let us know your friend's website. Many thanks!

[Shrublands]

I was at a great event at the Duke of York cinema in Brighton yesterday, looking at 50 years of Bond on screen.
Paul Inglis and Chris Corbould were there. They stressed that they couldn’t talk about anything from Skyfall – But the bloody bulldog got singled out all the same.

I’m starting to revise my opinion, sanity aside - it has to be important.
They even flashed a photo of it on the big screen behind them as soon as it was mentioned – the only image associated with Skyfall in the whole afternoon.

[Vauxhall]

How odd. Thanks for the information though. It was also telling that the bulldog was one of two SKYFALL items at the Barbican exhibition.

[Shrublands]

How odd. Thanks for the information though. It was also telling that the bulldog was one of two SKYFALL items at the Barbican exhibition.

Here is a bit more about the context yesterday.

Paul Inglis was talking about the level of character-illustrating-detail he likes to get into the set dressing. But that Sam Mendes wanted it to go to a whole other level - that even the books in M’s home had been selected to reflect the life of her and her dead husband. Some poetry perhaps?

Then there was a “and then there is this!” moment, when the slide of the bulldog came on the screen.

The interviewer asked him about this “toy” dog, but Inglis just smiled.

[Vauxhall]

Interesting. I'm leaning towards thinking M must have received it as a gift from someone important.

If there's still a suggestion that "Skyfall" may also be the name of a former MI6 operation M was involved in, perhaps the bulldog is also linked to someone from Bond's past in some form.

[Shrublands]

Interesting. I'm leaning towards thinking M must have received it as a gift from someone important.

If there's still a suggestion that "Skyfall" may also be the name of a former MI6 operation M was involved in, perhaps the bulldog is also linked to someone from Bond's past in some form.

It is so curious that the word "Skyfall" comes up in that evaluation and prompts such a reaction in Bond. Such an unusual word (an invented word) could not coincidentally be the name of both a mission and Bond’s old home.

But I think it must be or that MI-6 know that’s what Silva’s plan is called somehow or they call Sliva's methods "Skyfall". We know that part of what Silva does is spread panic when there is no reason for panic. That’s how he has acquired his island. Like a multivalent Chicken Licken.

Therefore, a connection between Bond’s past and this mission seems the only explanation. I also think it must be important that...

Spoiler

Silva dies near Bond parent’s grave

– the filmmakers have gone to so much trouble to have this final confrontation between them take place there – why?

[TheSilhouette]

I asked someone who has seen the film and

Spoiler

It is the bulldog in the box.

[Vauxhall]

I asked someone who has seen the film and

Spoiler

It is the bulldog in the box.

Ah, Mr Shrublands will be pleased. Nice to have confirmation though. Now I'm going to spend the whole week wondering why! Thanks, TheSilhouette.

[JCRendle]

Maybe

Spoiler

M had the bulldog specially made, so that it would look like the Royal Doulton Union Jack Bulldog, so it wouldn't look out of place on her desk, and hid a message inside - maybe a will, or something else highly personal - so, in the event of her death, only those she trusted the most would know the significance of the dog. She tells Bond of the message, after their flight from London (on or off screen) and when he receives the bulldog he smashes it to the ground, gaining a shocked look from Eve and pulls out the message

[Pussfeller]

That would be a fun twist.

[Shrublands]

I know it's on her desk at the bunker. How does a porcelain Royal Doulton Union Jack Bulldog service such a big explosion?
Perhaps M carries it about with her in her handbag.

I resined myself to being wrong about the thing a few days ago.

EDIT : Here is a photo of the real dog who posed for the people at Royal Doulton

[Pussfeller]

Perhaps it miraculously survives the explosion, and that's why it becomes significant. It's something that should have been destroyed, but wasn't. An apt keepsake for someone like Bond.

[Vauxhall]

Perhaps it miraculously survives the explosion, and that's why it becomes significant. It's something that should have been destroyed, but wasn't. An apt keepsake for someone like Bond.

Yes, that's exactly what I've been thinking is likely to be the significance of it. The only thing still intact among the carnage of the building.

[Shrublands]

Could it have been a gift from her children? They were apparently quite sarcastic kids.

[univex]

Could it have been a gift from her children? They were apparently quite sarcastic kids.

That´s simply awesome.

[Pussfeller]

I would love a call-back to the sarcastic children.

[JCRendle]

M: I know one of you did it, and I'm going to find out who.
Child 1: Oh really? And what are you, the head of the bloody secret service or something?
M: ...

[Single-O-Seven]

To add more irony, perhaps it was a symbolic gift to M from Silva who gave it to her at the time of the Hong Kong handover, shortly before things went awry. It would be further salt in the wounds to see that it survived the blast engineered by Silva.

[Gernot]

I've already seen the movie. so i can confirm that

Spoiler

post 108 is the solution! the bulldog gets some very special meaning in the movie, for both M and Bond.

[JCRendle]

I've already seen the movie.

Fancy posting a review in Review thread?

[Royal Dalton]

We really need a Member Reviews subforum now, don't we.

[Vauxhall]

I've already seen the movie. so i can confirm that

Spoiler

post 108 is the solution! the bulldog gets some very special meaning in the movie, for both M and Bond.

Excellent! Thanks for the info.

[Shrublands]

I've already seen the movie. so i can confirm that

Spoiler

post 108 is the solution! the bulldog gets some very special meaning in the movie, for both M and Bond.

Oh, I see - thanks

And well done Pussfeller for working that one out.

[Vauxhall]