Spot any previous film homages in 'Skyfall'...?
#31
Posted 28 October 2012 - 10:50 PM
#32
Posted 29 October 2012 - 12:19 AM
#33
Posted 29 October 2012 - 11:52 AM
#34
Posted 29 October 2012 - 02:43 PM
One I noticed when Raoul Silva has captured Bond and shortly before Severine is killed Silva offers Bond a 50 year old scotch ("one of your favourites I believe? ") coupled with the mention of 50 years and the clearly legible 1962 on the bottle this could be a reference to Dr No and the start of Bond on film or even as a a further link as the drink has benefitted from being matured for 50 years as has Bond?
Yep. And furthermore, I'm not sure that particular bottling actually exists. Unless Silva had a special arrangement with the distillery.
Product placement and homage in one fell swoop - you have to say its pretty smart.
#35
Posted 29 October 2012 - 03:04 PM
Obviously not! Great little touches.
#36
Posted 30 October 2012 - 08:53 PM
#37
Posted 31 October 2012 - 07:04 AM
#38
Posted 31 October 2012 - 08:55 AM
"Sometimes, orphans make the best agents" - a reference to the Bond/Vesper introduction dialogue on the train?
I think so. Also, the "Vesper sizes Bond up and tells him about his past on the train scene" appeared to be flipped around for the "Bond sizes Severine up and tells her about her past in the casino scene".
#39
Posted 31 October 2012 - 06:18 PM
#40
Posted 31 October 2012 - 07:22 PM
#41
Posted 31 October 2012 - 10:08 PM
#42
Posted 31 October 2012 - 11:02 PM
Now I'm doubting my own memories... I could swear there's a "that's putting it mildly" line in Skyfall, said by Bond (?).
Am I making this up, or does anybody remember that line too?
Bond does indeed say that, just as he and Tanner are about to enter the new Mi6 below the streets of London. He's responding to Tanner saying that the old building was deemed to be too large a security risk.
#43
Posted 31 October 2012 - 11:16 PM
#44
Posted 01 November 2012 - 08:18 AM
#45
Posted 01 November 2012 - 09:09 PM
Hitching an elevator for a ride (or merely a lift) - Connery standing on top in DAF, Craig hanging underneath in SF.
Also loved the 'Apocalypse Now' reference during the helicopter attack.
What I missed: I expected to see the family motto pop up somewhere in the Skyfall mansion.
Also: maybe it would have been a tad too much, but I would have loved seeing Bond use he ejector seat to get out of the Aston in the final battle (double reference to GF and GE).
#46
Posted 02 November 2012 - 12:43 AM
At least he didn't drop something like "Now you have all the time in the world." as she went...!
Hehe.. that would have been overkill.
#47
Posted 02 November 2012 - 12:50 AM
What I missed: I expected to see the family motto pop up somewhere in the Skyfall mansion.
I've read that Daniel Craig was actually wearing custom made Tom Ford cufflinks with the Bond family motto and coat of arms, on set. If true, that's a nice touch from the costume designer, but presumably undiscernable on screen.
http://www.jamesbond...ficit-cufflinks
#48
Posted 03 November 2012 - 02:33 PM
#49
Posted 03 November 2012 - 05:35 PM
Second - the McGuffin. A computer disk MI6 desperately wants. FRWL (again!) features a decoding machine MI6 wants from the Russians. The difference, of course, is that in SF the McGuffin is stolen by the villains, in FRWL MI6 is the outfit involved in theft.
Third - revenge. How many times have we read the tag line "Bond - and this time its personal"? It was even on the front page of a Mail On Sunday special about SF. Except that, unlike LTK, it is the villain rather than Bond who seeks personal revenge, on MI6 in general and M in particular.
Themes from previous Bond films certainly, but in this film turned upside down.
#50
Posted 03 November 2012 - 08:26 PM
Not including things already mentioned in this thread, here's my list:
* Q strongly resembles the radio-room guys at the beginning in Dr No. Perhaps this isn't an "homage", but I suspect they directly inspired his look.
* Here's a cute one: The yacht Chimera resembles the Manticore from GE. In mythology, a manticore is a certain type of chimera.
* Bond and Severine's shower is a clear visual homage to Pat's "pressed ham" in the sauna in Thunderball.
* Bond's swim in Shanghai is reminiscent of the nocturnal swim in St. Petersburg in GE, and occurs at a similar point early in the second act.
* In the museum scene, Q wears a coat that is sort of like Boris Grishenko's.
* Bond's hitching a ride on Patrice's elevator is basically the same as the Whyte House elevator stunt in DAF.
* Bond gleans biographical insights from a Chinese character tattooed on Severine's wrist, just as he did with Count Lippe in TB.
* The fallen statues on Silva's island are like those in Statue Park in GE.
* M mentions that Tiago Rodriguez is on the MI6 "memorial wall", just like Alec Trevelyan.
* The scene of Bond in the tube, with the train bearing down on him, is visually similar to the underground shaft in DAF where Bond encounters the rat. (The pipeline scene in TWINE was probably inspired by the same image.)
* The phrase "smell a rat" is possibly a reference to DAF.
* This is tenuous, but Bond clinging to the back of the train may be a reference to Baron Samedi.
* This is very tenuous, but when Silva zips up his jumpsuit, it made me think of Rosika Miklos in TLD zipping up hers after cockteasing the beardo.
#51
Posted 03 November 2012 - 11:24 PM
#52
Posted 04 November 2012 - 03:10 AM
Silva has made a fortune by electronically making stock markets raise or fall, something similar with Alec's hacking of the Bank of England.
In their initial meeting, Silva mocks Bond about his patriotism and loyalty to M, and he tells him he has now "his own missions" - remember Alec asking James to join his "little scheme"?
Oh, and of course, Silva has a deformation he got after a mission went awry, and he feels betrayed by M and seeks revenge at all costs.
#53
Posted 04 November 2012 - 08:20 AM
#54
Posted 04 November 2012 - 10:29 AM
The scorpion - the careful movements before throwing it off - similar to the spider scene in YOLT?
I found Severine's eye makeup reminding me of Eva Green but I'm not sure how intentional that would be.
The scorpion scene, inspite of the setting being completely different, made me think of the "spider crawling on Bond scene" in Dr No. Bond having to be very careful indeed.
#55
Posted 04 November 2012 - 01:11 PM
As I have mentioned elsewhere, during the title sequence DC copies SC's one-handed walther pose (this is towards the end of the titles when he is shooting the mirrors).
There are strong rumours that Kincade was supposed to be played by Connery. I guess he's just too old and didn't want to do it. It would have been an awesome fanboy moment but wouldn't have been as realistic as Finney playing the role.
#56
Posted 04 November 2012 - 01:20 PM
There are strong rumours that Kincade was supposed to be played by Connery.
I don't buy that. I just don't think they'd do it.
#57
Posted 04 November 2012 - 01:42 PM
#58
Posted 04 November 2012 - 03:32 PM
#59
Posted 04 November 2012 - 04:06 PM
Plus, the similarities with Connery are really that he's an elderly Scot. Given that Bond grew up in Scotland, it really goes wihout saying that a family retainer from his childhood is probably going to be an elderly Scot.
Edited by thasceles, 04 November 2012 - 04:07 PM.
#60
Posted 04 November 2012 - 04:19 PM
Given some of the things Connery has said about Barbara Broccoli's father, I'm not convinced that she'd want to work with him.
Plus, the similarities with Connery are really that he's an elderly Scot. Given that Bond grew up in Scotland, it really goes wihout saying that a family retainer from his childhood is probably going to be an elderly Scot.
The whole Bond-Scotland connection was inspired by Connery.