![]() ![]() ![]() Madeleine Swann is written like two completely different people who have been composited one moment she's being icy cold, compelling and giving Bond a run for his money with a gun, the next she's being captured for the umpteenth time and needing to be rescued. The refusal to even hint at it is too constant a factor for it to be an accident it is as though the whole production threw up their hands, admitted that it was terrible, and then asked us to forget that it ever existed.Ī related problem is that the script for Spectre is deeply conflicted, especially when it comes to the film's female characters. Instead, Quantum of Solace has been practically airbrushed out of history besides the odd mention of Quantum, we get no reference to its plot and Dominic Greene is never seen on camera. ![]() You would imagine that any story which seeks to claim that the events of Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall were all an elaborate means to bring us to this point would place an equal weight on each instalment and the events therein. The first such problem is the amount of emphasis given to each of the previous films. Spectre attempts to tie together the events of its predecessors with a story about chickens coming home to roost - and while there is much to applaud about Sam Mendes' film, it is also riddled with problems. Doctor Who, Sherlock and Star Wars have all shown that this is not an easy thing to pull off, and it's harder still to convince an audience that such an undertaking was always intentional. Since the franchise was effectively rebooted with Casino Royale, an approach more becoming of comic books has been employed: different writers and directors come in and somehow try to stitch all the character's actions together into an overarching narrative. While this has kept the Bond series as a whole firmly in the realms of fantasy, it has allowed individual entries in the series to push for something more gritty or realistic if it works, it's embraced and carried forward, and if not the series reverts to type with very few tears. Modern audiences are asked to believe that the character has been the same age for more than 50 years, and the series has bent or tinkered with its conventions ever so slightly as the decades have rolled past in order to stay relevant. One of the most obvious characteristics of the Bond series is that each instalment of the franchise can sit on its own. Rating: PG-13 (Language|Intense Sequences of Action|Sensuality|Some Disturbing Images|Violence) As Bond ventures toward the heart of SPECTRE, he discovers a chilling connection between himself and the enemy (Christoph Waltz) he seeks. Needing the help of the daughter of an old nemesis, he embarks on a mission to find her. After infiltrating a secret meeting, 007 uncovers the existence of the sinister organization SPECTRE. These cuts persist in all worldwide versions of the film.A cryptic message from the past leads James Bond (Daniel Craig) to Mexico City and Rome, where he meets the beautiful widow (Monica Bellucci) of an infamous criminal. The uncut version showed the man putting the gun under his chin and firing with a spray of bloody mist, and two subsequent shots showed brain tissue hanging down from the back of his head. The suicide now takes place off-screen and with reduced detail.The uncut version showed this all from the front, including the aftermath. The eye gouging now only shows an establishing shot of the thumbs being inserted, then cuts to a counter-shot from behind the victim's head when the slightly bloody thumbs emerge.Reductions to "strong bloody (injury) detail" were made in the following two scenes: These were made prior to formal submission and it was duly passed at 12A with no further changes. The BBFC informed the filmmakers that cuts would be required in two scenes before a 12A rating, instead of an uncut 15, could be obtained. In August 2015, Columbia submitted the film to the BBFC in the UK for advice on whether the film would receive a 12A rating upon a formal submission. ![]()
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