The National Gallery

Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
in Skyfall - Bond 23 (2012)
I am going to London on Saturday to see Bond in Motion amongst other things.

As The National Gallery is not far off, I want to have a nosey around in there too. - This got me thinking, was the Warship painting made for the film, or was it an existing piece of artwork selected to fit the script?
- Its precise nature in the scene (not to mention insurance costs for valuable artwork) scream the latter, but I wanted to ask?
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    http://jibridgland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/skyfall-paintings-in-national-gallery.html
    This might be of interest. {[]
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Cheers Pussy! -{

    Fascinating - Esp since the decor is similar to the City Museum's oil painting section here in Bristol. The warship pic is a Turner?! Ok that's impressive. I'm not surprised the portrait layout is different since paintings are often rotated with others not on display at the time a film or tv episode is shot. Having said that, it would be nice if The Fighting Temeraire is on display. I share Q2's sentiment for the painting, and cringe at Bond's blunt lack of imagination!
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Sure Turner is good, but the dogs playing poker is a masterpiece. :))
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  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    great "tec work" TP, ill make a detective of you yet :))
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I'm a lone wolf, a maverick, I break the rules. I'm the guy every man wants
    To be and every woman wished their man would be !
    ( please say this in a Hollywood voiceover ) :))
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Pay me the standard rates, and provide an email ad that can handle a decent quality MP3, and you have a deal.

    American or UK English?
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    The Queen's English, my friend I recognise no other. {[] in fact
    I must learn it myself. :)) I'll want some sound effects, explosions,
    and perhaps a woman sounding pleased to see me ( that would be a
    novelty ) :)) something along the lines of Batman. -{
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    If I could find the latter, I'd get full use out of that sound myself. - Ok, that worked a lot better in my head. ;%
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) Welcome to my world. {[]
    Enjoy the trip, hope some of the paintings shown in Skyfall are on display. -{
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,535MI6 Agent
    The picture (The Fighting Temeraire) is on loan at the moment and not at the Gallery. But the paintings seen behind Bond are all still in the original positions. The Fighting Temeraire was the first picture to the right of the doorway opposite these. The doorway was removed by CGI and replaced by wall section. The seats have been changed too.
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  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    Asp9mm wrote:
    The picture (The Fighting Temeraire) is on loan at the moment and not at the Gallery. But the paintings seen behind Bond are all still in the original positions. The Fighting Temeraire was the first picture to the right of the doorway opposite these. The doorway was removed by CGI and replaced by wall section. The seats have been changed too.

    Is it at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich as part of their Turner and the Sea exhibition?
  • walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
    Asp9mm wrote:
    The picture (The Fighting Temeraire) is on loan at the moment and not at the Gallery. But the paintings seen behind Bond are all still in the original positions. The Fighting Temeraire was the first picture to the right of the doorway opposite these. The doorway was removed by CGI and replaced by wall section. The seats have been changed too.
    why did they remove the doorway with CGI?
    @deanwdunlevy
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    It probably looked more balanced an image on screen.
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Just finishing my visit to the gallery, I'm pleased to confirm The Fighting Temeraine is here in its spot deacribed in the link! Looks even better when you see it for real. It is a bit smaller than the others but still a significant size, and very impressive.

    Overall the Gallery is well worth a visit.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Did you get to enter it like Bond ? Via the side steps or are these
    Usually closed ?
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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Without even realising I was doing it at the time, entered the building the same way as Bond! The steps lead up one side of the main entrance portico, identical steps approach from the other side too. Trafalgar Square was busier today than the scene in the film.

    Room 34 in the gallery is exactly as described in that blog article. Those "other" Turner paintings include the famous Rain Steam and Speed, and The Hay Wain! Lovely stuff.

    Incidentally the benches used in the film are genuine ones from the Gallery. I spotted them in other areas, spaced apart. So many lovely paintings, not nealy enough time!
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Cool {[]
    I hope you had a T Ford suit on to add to the moment :))
    Sadly when I got a photo of me by the door to " the lost station "
    I was in a pair of tracky bottoms and a hoodie :# :))
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  • LexiLexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent
    Thunderbird 2 wrote:
    Just finishing my visit to the gallery, I'm pleased to confirm The Fighting Temeraine is here in its spot deacribed in the link! Looks even better when you see it for real. It is a bit smaller than the others but still a significant size, and very impressive.

    Overall the Gallery is well worth a visit.

    It is definitely worth taking a visit... I did the last time I was in London - although it is a shame that the seat wasn't directly infront of it, as in the movie...but good to see in the flesh so to speak! I wonder how many Bond fans have visited the Gallery for this exact reason?
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,856Chief of Staff
    I plan to go next time I'm in London.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I too hope to see it, It will be the first Time I'll have set foot in a Gallery etc since my school trip days. :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Love London, pain in the Ass to walk around though :#
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  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    AlphaOmegaSin wrote:
    Love London, pain in the Ass to walk around though :#

    I have my own personal cabby :D
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I run round the tube system, Skyfall gave away many of my routes. :))
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  • LexiLexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent
    AlphaOmegaSin wrote:
    Love London, pain in the Ass to walk around though :#

    That's half the beauty of it... so many lovely areas to see, cafes to visit, wine bars to sip wine in, buildings to admire.

    It really is one of the most beautiful Capitals... you just have to not be in a hurry, and the weather to be sunny :))
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Yeah, it's better when it' Sunny -{
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  • BleuvilleBleuville Posts: 384MI6 Agent
    Thunderbird 2 wrote:
    Without even realising I was doing it at the time, entered the building the same way as Bond! The steps lead up one side of the main entrance portico, identical steps approach from the other side too. Trafalgar Square was busier today than the scene in the film.

    Room 34 in the gallery is exactly as described in that blog article. Those "other" Turner paintings include the famous Rain Steam and Speed, and The Hay Wain! Lovely stuff.

    Incidentally the benches used in the film are genuine ones from the Gallery. I spotted them in other areas, spaced apart. So many lovely paintings, not nealy enough time!

    TB2 is this a history of art test? because the Haywain is by John Constable, while the others are by Turner.

    They did have some Turners on display at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery-but I missed them.

    Bleuville.
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