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What Séverine is up to in Shanghai.


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#1 Shrublands

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 08:38 AM

When we see her at the Shanghai Airport, she hands a briefcase to Patrice on the escalator. We’ve established that this is probably a payoff for an assassination.
She then takes a business man back to her hotel room and waits for the sniper's bullet.

She is selling stolen art and using it as bait to trap an assassination victim.

In the Imax trailer, after the window of her room has been shot out, you can see a large painting leaning against the wall in the background. I recognised it as a Modigliani. So I thought I’d run a search for stolen famous art in general and Modigliani in particulate.
Well, I’ve found the painting.

It’s ‘Women with Fan’ by Modigliani which was stolen from the Musee d’art Moderne Paris.

http://artitis.wordp...len-modigliani/

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In the above article, the writer even says that he suspects that the stolen painting will end-up in China.
There seems to be a reoccurring theme regarding famous paintings in Skyfall.

And using a real life stolen work of art is a nice reference to Dr No.

#2 ggl

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 09:10 AM

Brilliant, Shrublands!!!

A not-so-obvious reference to Dr No. Perhaps that´s why the National Gallery appears??

#3 Shrublands

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 09:32 AM

Brilliant, Shrublands!!!

A not-so-obvious reference to Dr No. Perhaps that´s why the National Gallery appears??



That’s a good point. From what I can tell, Bond meets Q there just before setting off for Shanghai.
The lead could be the trafficking of stolen art into China and Bond is being briefed at the gallery to show him an example of a painter’s work that has gone missing.
Perhaps he’s going to pretend to have a stolen Turner as a way of getting to know Séverine and find out what she is involved in.

#4 Vauxhall

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:01 AM

Outstanding again. Great work!

#5 S K Y F A L L

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:30 AM

I'm so glad to hear this, it just made the film that much more interesting. I would say that is an awesome throw back to Dr. No, great discover Shrublands.

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:46 AM

Call me an idiot, I apologise - what's the reference to 'Dr.No' with this theory?

#7 Major Tallon

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:53 AM

In Dr. No's dining room, there was a display of the then-recently stolen portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Goya.

And, oh yes. Shrublands, you're brilliant!

#8 Shrublands

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:01 AM

Thanks guys! Very glad people like this idea. I think it’s just the sort of elite, glamorous crime that will fit well into Bond’s world.

The way Fleming would have a spy plot involve anything from genealogy and coats of arms, diamond smuggling, voodoo, botany and rare poisonous plants, treasure hunts and pirates etc

Trafficking stolen masterpieces fits right in.

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:06 AM

Ahh, nice, thanks Major Tallon.

#10 Royal Dalton

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 02:20 PM

That sounds about right. So, Severine is selling (or, perhaps, acquiring, via these assassinations) black market paintings on behalf of Silva.

Which almost certainly means that MI6, and, most likely, Bond personally, already know who Silva is (remember, he calls Bond "James"), that he's behind the bombing in London, and that Severine and Patrice are connected to him.

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:44 PM

I just love this stolen painting, it reminds me of Entrapment a little.

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:26 AM

Just a thought for a line. Could be that someone mention that "Portrait of a Lady"?