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I supose everyone else has noticed Craig's twin brother driving the truck in the pre-title credits. Through the tunnels at the very beginning when Bond gets the DBS stuck alongside the lorry. The guy is wearing sunglasses, but has the same looks as Craig and the same hair, and when he fights against the wheel even pulls the same sort of expression. I can't be alone in noticing this, and the first time I saw it I was even confused for a moment. Why the hell did they pick someone so similar?

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Yeah, I noticed that the second time, not sure if Forster was making some kind of arty point. He has his Montenegro look doesn't he? It's like when the police radio in about a black car firing machine guns at a grey Aston Martin... er Bond's car here is black. You just sort of go with it.

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

There is a famous quote from Fleming along the lines of Connery being a "Truck Driver ". I think this is more of the symbolism of the Director, With a Truck Driver who looks like the Current Bond.As well as the Opening Car chase emerging from a tunnel, A symbolic "Gunnbarrel" or Perhaps a "New Birth " of the character. Quantum is filled with symbolism. If only a little more time had been spent on the script. ajb007/lol

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Yep, that Aston is definately black. Not sure where the grey description came from.

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

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Yep, that Aston is definately black. Not sure where the grey description came from.

I think the actual colour of the DBS is "Quantum Silver", which is a dark "smoky grey" sort of colour. No question, the car definitely looks black during some parts of the chase, but I think it's a trick of the light, & the true colour is dark silver.

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CR= light grey Aston Martin

QoS= dark grey Aston Martin

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There is a famous quote from Fleming along the lines of Connery being a "Truck Driver ". I think this is more of the symbolism of the Director, With a Truck Driver who looks like the Current Bond.As well as the Opening Car chase emerging from a tunnel, A symbolic "Gunnbarrel" or Perhaps a "New Birth " of the character. Quantum is filled with symbolism. If only a little more time had been spent on the script. ajb007/lol


I believe the reason Fleming called Connery the truck driver was because that was the only film he'd seen SC in ... "Hell drivers" which is about contract drivers of gravel amongst racketeering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV9Vs9tO … ata_player

SC is sat on the window ledge in the scene  about 50 secs in....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og-f7G4F … ata_player

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

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CR= light grey Aston Martin

QoS= dark grey Aston Martin

actually its

CR =  Casino Royale Silver, a bog standard silver, a little darker from the db5's silver birch

QoS = Quantum Silver, a flip paint, depending on how the light catches it, it can look anything between CR silver and AM's meteorite silver, which is a dark charcoal shade.

on the look-a-like front, i always thought the agent guarding mitchell's door as forensics do there thing looked more like craig. take a look where bond turns up in the range rover, and walks into mitchell's flat, he walks straight past his doooopleganger.

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thesecretagent wrote:

I supose everyone else has noticed Craig's twin brother driving the truck in the pre-title credits. Through the tunnels at the very beginning when Bond gets the DBS stuck alongside the lorry. The guy is wearing sunglasses, but has the same looks as Craig and the same hair, and when he fights against the wheel even pulls the same sort of expression. I can't be alone in noticing this, and the first time I saw it I was even confused for a moment. Why the hell did they pick someone so similar?


'Art fo Arts sake' I guess. It's certainly too close to be an accident, just an Arty in joke I think.

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

Sorry, it's the code name theory.

The guy driving the truck is James Bond of Casino Royale. He got sacked for making a balls up of the job, where Quantum walk away with all the loot. So he ends up with a job as a truck driver. The final scene of CR was the new guy boasting that he's in fact James Bond, dressed in new clobber. That's why the truck driver in QoS looks so peeved during that scene, he recognises his successor.

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

thesecretagent wrote:

I supose everyone else has noticed Craig's twin brother driving the truck in the pre-title credits. Through the tunnels at the very beginning when Bond gets the DBS stuck alongside the lorry. The guy is wearing sunglasses, but has the same looks as Craig and the same hair, and when he fights against the wheel even pulls the same sort of expression. I can't be alone in noticing this, and the first time I saw it I was even confused for a moment. Why the hell did they pick someone so similar?

Nope...but I think it requires some research. ajb007/lol

Oh damn, that means I'm going to have to watch it again..... *sigh* ajb007/wink ajb007/heart

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

Check him out Lexi - he looks like Craig in the Madagascar scence in Casino Royale. Very oddly cast imo.

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

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Check him out Lexi - he looks like Craig in the Madagascar scence in Casino Royale. Very oddly cast imo.

does this help?..

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h160/pw86/craiganddriver.jpg

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Check him out Lexi - he looks like Craig in the Madagascar scence in Casino Royale. Very oddly cast imo.

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

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I supose everyone else has noticed Craig's twin brother driving the truck in the pre-title credits. Through the tunnels at the very beginning when Bond gets the DBS stuck alongside the lorry. The guy is wearing sunglasses, but has the same looks as Craig and the same hair, and when he fights against the wheel even pulls the same sort of expression. I can't be alone in noticing this, and the first time I saw it I was even confused for a moment. Why the hell did they pick someone so similar?

I watched this today...and I do see the resemblance, however, I think it's more coincidental than chosen. Although, having said that, perhaps someone else said the same thing on the day of filming, and put the truck driver in sunglasses to make it less so....

Now, I've watched this movie over a dozen times, and I have to say this is the first time (after your post) that I noticed.
It's amazing what other people pick up from this movie.... the subtleties are obvious to some, and yet obvious just goes over other's heads.... ajb007/lol (a bit of a theme for me at the moment ajb007/crap )

As for the colour. In the tunnel it seems grey, but in the light it seems black - and the police describe it as grey... but...I'm not convinced - it looked the same colour as the police car chasing it... and that was black ajb007/insane

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QoS is on terrestrial telly next weekend, UK dwellers!

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As for the colour. In the tunnel it seems grey, but in the light it seems black - and the police describe it as grey... but...I'm not convinced - it looked the same colour as the police car chasing it... and that was black ajb007/insane

Understandable lexi.... It's a very unusual paint that Aston are quite proud of and costs a fortune....it changes colour in different lights....

This is a close up of the car

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h160/pw86/DSC01218-1.jpg

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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

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CR= light grey Aston Martin

QoS= dark grey Aston Martin

actually its

CR =  Casino Royale Silver, a bog standard silver, a little darker from the db5's silver birch

QoS = Quantum Silver, a flip paint, depending on how the light catches it, it can look anything between CR silver and AM's meteorite silver, which is a dark charcoal shade.

on the look-a-like front, i always thought the agent guarding mitchell's door as forensics do there thing looked more like craig. take a look where bond turns up in the range rover, and walks into mitchell's flat, he walks straight past his doooopleganger.

Geff, that was Steve Wright who makes a living as a Daniel Craig look-alike.

http://www.danielcraigtoplookalike.com/quantum.html


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ke02eww wrote:
Lexi wrote:

As for the colour. In the tunnel it seems grey, but in the light it seems black - and the police describe it as grey... but...I'm not convinced - it looked the same colour as the police car chasing it... and that was black ajb007/insane

Understandable lexi.... It's a very unusual paint that Aston are quite proud of and costs a fortune....it changes colour in different lights....

This is a close up of the car

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h160/pw86/DSC01218-1.jpg

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Does he have a stunt double actually?
Have no information about that. A double who does the dangerous scenes and has the same look with the same sunglasses ajb007/cool
I like his choice of sunglasses and on that page I found some good ones.

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Hi stunt double is Ben Cooke, Steve Wright was just in that scene as an agent guarding the corridor outside of Mitchell's flat.

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minigeff wrote:
DanielCraig007 wrote:

CR= light grey Aston Martin

QoS= dark grey Aston Martin

actually its

CR =  Casino Royale Silver, a bog standard silver, a little darker from the db5's silver birch

QoS = Quantum Silver, a flip paint, depending on how the light catches it, it can look anything between CR silver and AM's meteorite silver, which is a dark charcoal shade.

on the look-a-like front, i always thought the agent guarding mitchell's door as forensics do there thing looked more like craig. take a look where bond turns up in the range rover, and walks into mitchell's flat, he walks straight past his doooopleganger.

Geff, that was Steve Wright who makes a living as a Daniel Craig look-alike.

http://www.danielcraigtoplookalike.com/quantum.html


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Re: Craig Look-a-Like

I've always though Jason Bradbury from "The gadget show " looked alot like D Craig

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I think Kevin McKidd from "Rome" looks a bit like Craig:

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Check out this guy - he is the main Daniel Craig Lookalike. He's called Max Ryder.

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