SKYFALL Shanghai Envelope
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Some of you who have frequented the RPF over the past 15 or so may recognize me. I'm a prop/collecting DIY'er who has always had a thing for Bond. Here's a project I've been working on over the past month or so. Still some tweaking to do, but it's coming along...
Hope to put it together with a nice gold foil heatset cover.
Hope to put it together with a nice gold foil heatset cover.
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They never mentioned what hotel Bond stayed at in Shanghai, but given that the filming location was a 4 Seasons in London and that many of them have the roof-top glass walled swimming pools, I'd say it would be reasonable to surmise that he would being staying at a high-class establishment like the 4 Seasons in Shanghai. The one in Pudong has the glass walled swimming area and is downtown.
I've created a computer generated hotel confirmation sheet for "Mr. John Bryce" based on an actual 4 Seasons confirmation sheet, and included information specific to Bryce and the 4 Seasons Shangai at Pudong.
This, his passport, a Virgin Atlantic boarding pass (given that they are a corporate sponsor and Sir Richard Branson made a cameo) and the envelope should be a pretty cool piece of kit!
Here is the website for the hotel in question.
http://www.fourseasons.com/landing_pages/corporate/chinabyfourseasons/getaway_ideas_pudong/
Four Seasons Pudong is an interesting choice. Its pool is certainly Bondian.
Has anyone tried to figure out where the digitally created hotel in Skyfall would be in the real Shanghai?
I've got some interesting research coming up.... STAY TUNED!
Here's a screen capture that shows the initial skyline of Shanghai from Skyfall. You can see the Oriental Pearl TV Tower to the left. It's the tower with the two bulb-shaped masses - one near the top and one near the bottom. You can also see a building with the word “Aurora” on it to the far right. It's a little blurry, but it's the sign in bright red.
This vantage point looks directly into the Pudong district from the other side of the Huangpu River. Here's a map showing the location of the tower and where the Four Seasons is located
Here’s a shot of the actual pool at the Four Seasons, which as you can see resembles the one in the London Four Seasons. You can see the Oriental Pearl TV Tower through the window, so the Four Seasons would be to the right rear in the first establishing shot, but blocked by the buildings in front of it.
Here’s the shot of the hotel used in the movie. You can see the Aurora buidling to it’s front right. From online maps and photos and the fact you can see the Oriental Pearl Tower in front of the Four Seasons, it would appear that the hotel should be approximately to the left rear of the Aurora building, which is where it is in this photo.
I'm not certain that the hotel shown in the film is the actual Four Seasons building and not a digital creation overlayed into the film, but based on the location, the style of the hotel in question, the fact that they filmed the live plates at a Four Seasons in London and the Four Seasons corporation claims that the Four Seasons Hotel Pudong, Shanghai “was featured in Skyfall, the latest 007 movie”....
http://www.fourseasons.com/landing_pages/corporate/chinabyfourseasons/getaway_ideas_pudong/
I'd say that this makes this the best real-life candidate for a fictional Bond film location available. If someone else can come up with a better candidate, I'd be happy to entertain the idea!
Passport needs one page finished and I'm about finished with a Virgin Atlantic boarding pass. Have a perforator and corner cutter on it's way.
Visa pages
My mate took this photo in the London 4 seasons hotel ,but this fat bloke was in the way
I think he said his name was Dave
Just ordered some leather textured cover stock for a passport cover. One type of cover stock I tried didn't take to the gold laser transfer foil well. We'll see how it goes!
I don't know, that could have been D. Craig himself!
www.007jamesbond.dk
http://thedangermen.com/
Here's my new and improved boarding pass so far...
You can't tell from the photo, but the left edge and the "stub" portion on the right are perforated.
The plan for my passport is to do the cover in a leather/plasticy stock (I've got three different samples on order) with gold laser transfer foil image (less expensive than having it foil stamped) with the pages thinly laminated. The pages will be stitched together and glued to the cover.
That's the plan anyways. All the parts are done. Just have to get the cover stock and put together a prototype.
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I was pretty sure I'd ID'd the correct envelope based on a photo of the original. I'm in the US, so this style/size isn't readily available here. I found a vendor on eBay who shipped internationally and I ordered 25 of them. Here's what the photo looked like:
Looks like an exact match to me. However, when I get the envelopes, this is what I'm faced with:
The originals didn't have the little logo on the left rear. You can see the other "graphics" on the back of the envelope in screen caps. Also, I believe the originals were "Oxford" envelopes (what the image from eBay seems to show too) and the logo on the inside lip is different.
::sigh::
2 weeks wait and $16 later and I don't have what I thought I'd get.
Anyone not in the US want to help me source these? We could work out a trade for the finished product if you were interested, or I can pay the cost of the envelopes plus shipping. I can get you all the details needed if anyone is interested in helping.
Hi
You are doing some great work here. I saw your request for help
I am based in the UK if you let me know what you need I can purchase here and send them over.
Only too willing to help
Cheers :-)
This looks amazing - well done!
I hate to point out another ?? but your expiry date is for 18 years...?? I think it's only 10 - and in the same month it was issued - so it would be June 2022.
Fair enough, screen accurate is def what people want... weird time period though.
Unless the prop dept did that on purpose... but it's a strange 'deliberate mistake' if they did.