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[stromberg]

4300 names? Grooms, brides, skeletons, hombre puppets?

What the heck is this? A carnival scene? A mass wedding?

[JCRendle]

4300 names? Grooms, brides, skeletons, hombre puppets?

What the heck is this? A carnival scene? A mass wedding?

 

1574 names - I believe the the 4300 is an identification number for Erik Olsson, if you look at the coloured numbers, they're not consecutive.

[sharpshooter]

It could be similar to the Thunderball Mardi Gras sequence. Lots of extras mingling around floats and that type of thing, with an action sequence taking place around it. 

[x007AceOfSpades]

4300 names? Grooms, brides, skeletons, hombre puppets?

What the heck is this? A carnival scene? A mass wedding?

Spoiler

Sounds like Day Of The Dead to me

[stromberg]

 

4300 names? Grooms, brides, skeletons, hombre puppets?

What the heck is this? A carnival scene? A mass wedding?

Spoiler

Sounds like Day Of The Dead to me

 

Thought it may be something like this. 

[Vauxhall]

It's hardly GANDHI, but that still seems to be an extraordinary number of extras for a Bond film. The sheer volume of people will be a challenge to manage.

Definitely a parade and festival vibe, plus hotel guests, so perhaps a few different aspects to cover with the extras.

[rubixcub]

Just read that this was a

Spoiler

Day of the Dead

sequence.  I'm digging it.  Between the Junkanoo in TB and the Rio carnival in MR, it's been a while since we've had one of these, and it seems to go well (or at least traditionally) with a Bond actor's fourth film.

 

Dave

[univex]

Just read that this was a

Spoiler

Day of the Dead

sequence.  I'm digging it.  Between the Junkanoo in TB and the Rio carnival in MR, it's been a while since we've had one of these, and it seems to go well (or at least traditionally) with a Bond actor's fourth film.

 

Dave

 

Very true, very good point.

[Agent 76]

Just read that this was a

Spoiler

Day of the Dead

sequence.  I'm digging it.  Between the Junkanoo in TB and the Rio carnival in MR, it's been a while since we've had one of these, and it seems to go well (or at least traditionally) with a Bond actor's fourth film.

 

Dave

interesting

[JCRendle]

Apparently the production will be moving here now that DC has finished filming in Rome, so we should be getting some reports coming in.

[x007AceOfSpades]

I'm looking forward to some set pics from Mexico. I think this will be a great opening.

[Marketto007]

Set preparations at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City this week.

 

[Matt_13]

Interested to see what kind of set piece this will be. I think this is the first film where I haven't known what the action sequences will be until they start shooting them.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Preparations are underway for filming in Mexico City:

http://www.excelsior...012828#imagen-2

[Vauxhall]

Preparations are underway for filming in Mexico City:
http://www.excelsior...012828#imagen-2

Thanks! Loads of good information there. They're apparently turning a building which used to house Mexico's senate into a hotel structure.

[Major Tallon]

Filming is scheduled from 20-24 March.  They'll be filming in the Historical District, parts of which have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and have worked to get the appropriate approvals.

[Luigi Ferrari]

Behind the scenes controversies before the shooting start.

Warning: the article contains heavy spoilers. Read at your own risk.

https://translate.go...lmara-en-mexico

Edited by Luigi Ferrari, 11 March 2015 - 11:40 PM.

[Harmsway]

Those constitute heavy spoilers?

And isn't this the spoiler section, anyhow?

[Luigi Ferrari]

Those constitute heavy spoilers?

And isn't this the spoiler section, anyhow?

 

In general I am inclined to assume that those who attend this section aren't afraid to be spoiled, but - you how it is, Harmsway - prudence is never enough.

[Fairbanks]

I was going to post this in the "Stephanie Sigman" thread, but that's reserved for spoiler-free disussion. People over there are speculating on what sort of role Sigman will play, whether she'll be a station agent like Fields or a sacrificial lamb or a Natalya-type bystander. Will 007 go to bed with her? That link posted yesterday by Luigi contained a hint, and a story appeared today in EL PAIS that sheds some more light on the matter. Cuidado! Spoilers ahead.

 

Spoiler

 

http://cultura.elpai...003_495341.html

 

Fourth paragraph, translated: 

 

'The original plot of Spectre has James Bond in Mexico to catch a killer named Sciarra who is attempting to assassinate the chief of government of the Federal District. [A prominent office, basically the mayor of Mexico City.] The national authorities insisted that this be changed to an international leader and that the criminal should on no account be a Mexican national. Moreover, the role of the woman who appears in the hotel room where 007 begins his search should be played by an actress from the host country, and the Mexican police should not appear in the film, being replaced by a "special security force".'

 

I think we can safely assume that the "woman in the hotel" is Sigman's character, simply because she is the only credited Mexican actor in the cast, and she's coming onboard right before they film the Mexico City scenes. So if this EL PAIS story is accurate, it sounds like Sigman will be playing either a bystander whom Bond encounters while pursuing Sciarra, or "our girl in Mexico City" who is helping Bond on his mission to stop the assassin.

 

Given recent Bond history, I suspect she will be a field agent. This is a Craig-era PTS, after all. It will open with Bond and Estrella camped out in a touristy quarter of Mexico City during the Day of the Dead, trading quips and sexual innuendos over a pair of radio headsets. Bond is down in the street walking through the crowd, perhaps dressed in an outlandish matador costume, while Estrella is up in a hotel window with binoculars or a sniper-scope trained on the town square below. Then all hell breaks loose, Bond chases off after the assassin, and Estrella must guide him remotely through her hometown.

 

Stephanie Sigman is already being described in the news stories as "the first Mexican Bond girl". I just hope they aren't overselling the significance of her role. As Vesper would say, there are Bond girls and Bond girls. Ursula Andress was a Bond girl. So was Tonia Sotiropoulou. It's too early to know where Sigman will fall on that spectrum. I just really hope they don't stuff her in el dumpstero. They've been relying on the "martyred cutie" trope way too often during the Craig era. 

 

[Vauxhall]

There is a Sigman spoiler thread, and yes, I believe you're right.

http://debrief.comma...st-as-estrella/

[Shrublands]

http://translate.goo...046&prev=search

 

[stromberg]

First prop pieces for the "Day of the Dead" scenes arrived in Mexico City:

 

 

 

Source: https://twitter.com/josedejesus1

With thanks to: http://www.007travel...exico-city.html

[JCRendle]

 

Source: https://twitter.com/josedejesus1

With thanks to: http://www.007travel...exico-city.html

 

These pole-dancers are getting thinner and thinner, it's disgusting. 

[DavidJones]

Why does Bond always need to rely on excessive product placement when, say, Transformers or Marvel don't?

[JCRendle]

Why does Bond always need to rely on excessive product placement when, say, Transformers or Marvel don't?

 

Are you joking?

 

Milking it: Transformers 4 wins prize for movie with most product placement

 

The Avengers Product Placement Brandcameo Scorecard

 

IRONMAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE HULK AND THE REST OF THE AVENGERS PROVIDE ACURA, BOSE AND ORACLE A PRODUCT PLACEMENT WINDFALL

 

[glidrose]

Stephanie Sigman is already being described in the news stories as "the first Mexican Bond girl".

First Mexican Bond girl? Linda Christian, anyone? http://en.wikipedia....Linda_Christian

Why does Bond always need to rely on excessive product placement when, say, Transformers or Marvel don't?

 

Are you joking?
 
Milking it: Transformers 4 wins prize for movie with most product placement
 
The Avengers Product Placement Brandcameo Scorecard
 
IRONMAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE HULK AND THE REST OF THE AVENGERS PROVIDE ACURA, BOSE AND ORACLE A PRODUCT PLACEMENT WINDFALL

Thanks J.C. You saved me the trouble of finding those links.

As for Bond, well, Fleming's novels had product placement. Unlike some people *cough* Morgan Spurlock *cough*, I think that Bond - a consumerist archetype - cries out for (appropriate) product placement.

[stromberg]

Why does Bond always need to rely on excessive product placement when, say, Transformers or Marvel don't?

I don't see a connection between these pieces and product placement (unless ones assumes that Black Death vodka could even remotely be Bond's vodka of choice - instead of ... what's it this time? ... Belvedere).

 

As for the rest, thanks JC...

[Fairbanks]

I thought that hotel looked familiar. 

 

[ggl]

 

First Mexican Bond girl? Linda Christian, anyone? http://en.wikipedia....Linda_Christian

 

 

Great! Thanks for that!