Why I adore Quantom of Solace
R. Sterling
Posts: 103MI6 Agent
Long, evil day.
A quantum of solace was what I needed when I came home.
Found it and realized why I adore it so much:
- The title song and its lyrics (they nail what Bond is about and has been ever since).
- The beauty of the location/city labels.
-"When someone says "We've got people everywhere", you expect it to be hyperbole. Lots of people say that. Florists use that expression."
- The whole Bregenz Opera sequence.
- Judie Dench removing her make-up/unmasking in front of her bathroom mirror.
- Mathis quoting the Casino Royale novel.
- Bond asking Mathis to come with him and his immediate reaction (yes, the little finger and the prospect of just watching her tan more).
- "I have pills for everything. Some make you taller. Some make you forget."
- "I think she has handcuffs."
- The Andean Grand Hotel and two teachers on sabbatical who won the lottery.
- The stationary scene.
- "Just Fields."
- Field's dress.
- The south american exile nazi at Greene's party.
- Leiter's disdain on the plane and on the party.
- "Damaged Goods"
- The "dumpster scene"
- "That offends you? No, not the slightest."
- A smoking/tuxedo and an evening dress (without shoes) in the desert.
- "RUN". And Bond going upstairs unarmed.
- A hotel room full of black dressed men and M in the middle all in white. Chess. With a white queen moving.
- A hotel in the desert as compared to an ice palace in .... you know what. Almost like an apology.
- Camille FIGHTING and being the cat she is.
- NOT seeing the major villain die but staging a death more prolongued and cruel than anything before.
- "Do you think they'll be able to sleep now?"
- "Your prison is in there."
- The cut from a sun parched desert to snowy Kazan.
- Corinne.
- The gun barrel sequence at the end to wrap Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace up. Beginning. Closure.
If you don't like Quantum of Solace, open up a similar (negative) thread or go and do something... else.
Let's (for once) keep the negative stuff out on a 007 board.
And give up some praise.
For this beauty that helped me through the day.
So what do *you* adore about Quantum of Solace?
Cheers.
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A quantum of solace was what I needed when I came home.
Found it and realized why I adore it so much:
- The title song and its lyrics (they nail what Bond is about and has been ever since).
- The beauty of the location/city labels.
-"When someone says "We've got people everywhere", you expect it to be hyperbole. Lots of people say that. Florists use that expression."
- The whole Bregenz Opera sequence.
- Judie Dench removing her make-up/unmasking in front of her bathroom mirror.
- Mathis quoting the Casino Royale novel.
- Bond asking Mathis to come with him and his immediate reaction (yes, the little finger and the prospect of just watching her tan more).
- "I have pills for everything. Some make you taller. Some make you forget."
- "I think she has handcuffs."
- The Andean Grand Hotel and two teachers on sabbatical who won the lottery.
- The stationary scene.
- "Just Fields."
- Field's dress.
- The south american exile nazi at Greene's party.
- Leiter's disdain on the plane and on the party.
- "Damaged Goods"
- The "dumpster scene"
- "That offends you? No, not the slightest."
- A smoking/tuxedo and an evening dress (without shoes) in the desert.
- "RUN". And Bond going upstairs unarmed.
- A hotel room full of black dressed men and M in the middle all in white. Chess. With a white queen moving.
- A hotel in the desert as compared to an ice palace in .... you know what. Almost like an apology.
- Camille FIGHTING and being the cat she is.
- NOT seeing the major villain die but staging a death more prolongued and cruel than anything before.
- "Do you think they'll be able to sleep now?"
- "Your prison is in there."
- The cut from a sun parched desert to snowy Kazan.
- Corinne.
- The gun barrel sequence at the end to wrap Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace up. Beginning. Closure.
If you don't like Quantum of Solace, open up a similar (negative) thread or go and do something... else.
Let's (for once) keep the negative stuff out on a 007 board.
And give up some praise.
For this beauty that helped me through the day.
So what do *you* adore about Quantum of Solace?
Cheers.
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I've seen angels fall from blinding heights.
But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
Comments
- D. Greene eating the apple in the scenes leading up to the showdown
...and....
- "That's why I eat the peppers."
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
Try watching them back to back, going from Laz to Craig, and Hunt to Forster both work quite well IMO (even Arnold's little twangy music cues help with that transition, lol).
But what do *you* adore about Quantum of Solace?
But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
~ Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Roger Moore 1927-2017
I hope you'll excuse if I just keep ignoring you and those comments, Sherlock.
If two people sharing an (unpopular) opinion makes those people the same person for you that sure says something about your world view in general.
Do yourself the favour and check my posts from months back to find out a little more about me and "who" I am.
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
How could I forget that one?
Always makes me grin.
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
Places webbed hands together...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Lol!
Priceless
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
-The sand 'embossed' PPK
-Fields
-Fight scenes that feel like a fight
-"James, move your ass."
-"You contact your people, and you tell them to check their seals. They have a leak. Do it now, please." ...("Thank you")
I think, that NP is on the right track. Since Rick Roberts has been banned (again), Mr. Sterling is boosting his post count from almost zero in a way, only Rick Roberts ahem sorry, Ricardo C did.
I can smell a rat......
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
What you are smelling is a fellow German from Trier who considers himself a forum lurker travelling a lot businesswise and who posts in "short bursts" when he's at home for a week or two.
Amazing nose.
By the way, keep that nonsense up and I'll report for harassment.
It was childish crap first I could easily ignore but starts to get on my nerves now.
Never a good thing.
Cheers.
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
By the way, I am not from Trier, but the rest you have observed well.
I am not a lurker, you should see this from my post count and please report me - whereever you please.
But if you are reporting me here, please do me a favour: Just ask them to check your ip with the one from Rick Roberts and Ricardo C. Or did you get a new provider in the new year?
I for my part am waiting for the pathetic insults to come, you can't hide them!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Anyway, just a bit of banter, I'll back off now!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Won't happen, Rick, will it?
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Check your inbox.
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
- The subtle way he sneeks the photo of of Vesper from the table
.....although I can't believe you forgot the plane scene,
Bond: "What am I drinking again?" when he knows full well he was drinking Vespers....
The scene of him and Camile in the hotel, fire all around them...and the sprinkler system is showering them with water.... and Bond is holding her, just like the scene in CR
Never noticed that - and a great observation -{
To be honest, had a Vesper too many myself yesterday evening during Quantum of Solace.
Messes with your memory.
Thanks for pointing out the plane scene.
Unforgettable actually.
But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
*cough*
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
And if you are in the mood to give me another call, let's talk about QoB then :v
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
That might very well happen!
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
Love that scene. Craig does a great job of looking like someone who is smashed, but handling it.
also
- "Can I offer an opinion? I really think you people should find a better place to meet."
*and*
-"If they wanted his soul they should have made a deal with a priest."
Lots of good lines, actually.
Gotta appreciate Craig's acting skills, especially the way he mutters the priest line.
Could have been ruined so easily by over-emphasizing it or delivering it in a "look, I'm funny" way.
He found the perfect balance there.
So yes, Mr_Ice, great line and scene indeed!
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But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
B-)
*Clearly, the same can be said for QoS itself!
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
"I don't think the dead care about vengeance."
Clearly, the people who fell in love with the early Bond films don't believe in little something called evolution. Characters grow and evolve over the years and that's exactly what James Bond has done. I mean, Batman has evolved over the years so, what's wrong with the evolution of a Double-O Agent?
"Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That woman didn't know one end of a rifle from the other. Go ahead, tell M. what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for it."