AJB live commentary on SKYFALL

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    It derives from the last chord of the original "James Bond Theme" as... arranged... by John Barry and played by Vic Flick. There, it's an E Minor Major 9. Variations of it appear frequently in the Bond scores.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    3 minutes until,we get the Discs out
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Barbel wrote:
    It derives from the last chord of the original "James Bond Theme" as... arranged... by John Barry and played by Vic Flick. There, it's an E Minor Major 9. Variations of it appear frequently in the Bond scores.

    If you look up the interview David did with me, it's the last chord I play on my guitar at about 21 minutes in.
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    I still say that this is a killer version of the SKYFALL theme song:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkYjmQOBUwI

    Ugh.....
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    I'm looking forward to it, too. This time I won't be doing my usual discussion of the musical cues, since there are a lot of them and they're mostly very similar.

    I confess to having admitted, to my personal playlist of (104) selected Bond songs and cues, four cues of Newman's from SF (and a couple more of his from SP). From SF:

    'Shanghai Drive' (because it's Newman's style at its best, linking well with SF's image of Shanghai as a neon-lit but impersonal cityscape)

    'Komodo Dragon' (because it starts with Newman celebrating Epworth's and Adele's title track, in John Barry style)

    'Breadcrumbs' (for the reveal of the DB5, evoking at its beginning the style of GF but via the David Arnold arrangement of the Bond theme for Craig in CR)

    'Mother' (I don't really warm to this but it kind of works well as a signature for Judi Dench's M in SF)
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    So, get your disks out, get thru the settings and menus and we all start

    19:10 GMT with the movie

    Time reference

    https://greenwichmeantime.com/
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    4 minutes to go.

    There is an MGM lion and the Columbia Logo on my Blu Ray and then the movie starts.

    We hit play precisely at 19:10 GMT
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:

    'Breadcrumbs' (for the reveal of the DB5, evoking at its beginning the style of GF but via the David Arnold arrangement of the Bond theme for Craig in CR)

    That one I like, of course!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Higgins wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    I still say that this is a killer version of the SKYFALL theme song:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkYjmQOBUwI

    Ugh.....

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    That's excellent!
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    2 minutes
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  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Good to go! :)
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    1 minute
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    edited May 2020
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    Higgins wrote:

    Ugh.....

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    That's excellent!

    Are those my countrymen? They look Norwegian ….
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Go!
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    I find your lack of gunbarrel... disturbing.
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    I really like the shadow reveal!
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Feeling cheated with no gunbarrel but the opening shot is certainly cinematic
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Excellent reveal as he emerges onto the street
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Crap, I have a spanish audiotrack :#
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  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Eve pulled up to the building right when Bond comes out? Didn’t look like she was waiting either.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Modern comms give M real-time supervision of the action. Bernard Lee was only ever able to sit in his office twiddling his thumbs and waiting for news.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    The fruitcart! :))
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Naomie Harris is brilliant.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    Taken II used Istanbul much better a short time after
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    I like the Turkish influences in the score. Especially the strings
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    I find Eve extremely annoying in that entire PTS
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Ah, the Taken location. BTW, I've been in the Grand Bazar
  • JTMJTM Posts: 3,027MI6 Agent
    Was watching Taken 2 the other day and it also had a chase (foot) ontop of the Grand Bazaar—the exact same position as well. Came out within a couple months of Skyfall.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,861Chief of Staff
    Bond defies the laws of physics again.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Rory Kinnear takes backstage with the superb effectiveness that only a very good actor can deliver in a supporting role. (Though Michael Kitchen's Tanner was more likeable imho)
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