Topic: Why I adore Quantom of Solace
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.
But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.