Torture Scene

jamesbondagent007

This was just posted at IMDb...

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CR is looking to be a very dark movie. That scene looks disturbingly cruel.

Hardyboy

jamesbondagent007 wrote:

CR is looking to be a very dark movie. That scene looks disturbingly cruel.

As it should be. The more I hear and see of CR, the more Flemingesque it's turning out to be!

taity

If i were in Bond position id be feeling very threatened right about now. After all, hes naked right there. He'll be rendered useless for all the future ladies!

highhopes

Hardyboy wrote:

jamesbondagent007 wrote:

CR is looking to be a very dark movie. That scene looks disturbingly cruel.

As it should be. The more I hear and see of CR, the more Flemingesque it's turning out to be!

You bet. For the first time in a long time, the audience should feel as if Bond is really in some jeopardy instead of just killing time between martinis. No standard-issue 007 here.

Pierce_Brosnan

highhopes wrote:

Hardyboy wrote:

jamesbondagent007 wrote:

CR is looking to be a very dark movie. That scene looks disturbingly cruel.

As it should be. The more I hear and see of CR, the more Flemingesque it's turning out to be!

You bet. For the first time in a long time, the audience should feel as if Bond is really in some jeopardy instead of just killing time between martinis. No standard-issue 007 here.

You are very right, James Bond 007 was becoming the same-same, beat bad guys up, sleep with women, drink, repeat as many times as neccesary.

Alex

highhopes wrote:

Hardyboy wrote:

jamesbondagent007 wrote:

CR is looking to be a very dark movie. That scene looks disturbingly cruel.

As it should be. The more I hear and see of CR, the more Flemingesque it's turning out to be!

You bet. For the first time in a long time, the audience should feel as if Bond is really in some jeopardy instead of just killing time between martinis. No standard-issue 007 here.

Shades of 1953, For some reason I never believed they actually were going to go there. I'm glad they did.

Loeffelholz

Very exciting...it's a great time to be a fan of the books :007)

jamesbondagent007

Remember when we thought it was cool that Bond was going to be tortured in DAD? He put his head in some ice water and grew a beard. Neato.

This looks so much better. An instant classic scene.

Klaus Hergescheimer

Jesus. That looks like a harsh scene. I'm surprised they went all the way: Bond full-monty and everything. I'm also surprised that they would give it a PG-13 for this reason alone: that's harsh stuff, and it leaves little to the imagination.

The only thing that would make that scene better is if that was Jean Reno with the carpet beater instead of Mads. He would have been perfect in that scene as Le Chiffre.

Virgil

It looks as menacing and cruel as I envisioned it reading the book. No wonder he utters the line "whatever is left of me...I´m yours". Scary. It´s pure Fleming and yet, I cannot imagine any other actor playing Bond in that particular scene.

Andy A 007

Loeffelholz wrote:

Very exciting...it's a great time to be a fan of the books :007)

My thoughts exactly, being a BIG fan of the books. Anything that I see from the film taken directly from the novel is very exciting. I hope CR is as close to the book as possible!

Gassy Man

Andy A 007 wrote:

Loeffelholz wrote:

Very exciting...it's a great time to be a fan of the books :007)

My thoughts exactly, being a BIG fan of the books. Anything that I see from the film taken directly from the novel is very exciting. I hope CR is as close to the book as possible!

I'm just hoping the scene ends, more or less, like the book, which I found both disturbing and surprising and a very nice touch by Fleming.

Virgil

I just re-read CR, and I think many people that don´t know about the book are going to be surprised by key scenes in the movie (torture, the ending,...), not thinking in a million years that actually Ian Fleming came up with everything.

words

That is an incredible shot. It looks like something out of Hostel. Its sooo dark and gritty. You can see why they needed a dark and gritty actor now!

Loeffelholz

Virgil wrote:

I just re-read CR, and I think many people that don´t know about the book are going to be surprised by key scenes in the movie (torture, the ending,...), not thinking in a million years that actually Ian Fleming came up with everything.

You're right, Virgil...but, sadly, many don't care about Fleming---or his novels, despite the fact that we wouldn't have the movies without the books. There's still a persistent school of thought which believes that many literary elements of Bond, which haven't made it to the screen yet (until CR!) won't work, and thus won't be accepted by audiences.

I hope this isn't the case. I'd hate to think that what we've seen with James Bond in the previous 20 years is the limit of what the producers can do with the character...especially when so many assets from the books remain untapped---even in titles Eon have already produced.