Eps 41: James Bond Just Got the World Record in James Bond: The Duel's Any% Category
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Most films make claims about having an explosive ending; Daniel Craigs latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die, has, quite literally, that kind of moment. If anything, this scene, which is based on the records, shows 007 going out with a bang, and it takes nothing short of the most explosive cinematic shot to bring down 007 forever.
The scene was shot in Erfoud, Morocco, and takes place right at the end of Bonds final movie, just after James Bond and his love interest Madeleine Swann flee a SPECTRE lair located inside of a meteorite crater. The opening scene was shot in B/W, featuring flashbacks to Bonds first brutal murder. As explained in the above video, Chris Corbould mentioned the explosion in question was used as part of a completed sequence that he owned; it also happens to be the precise moment where we watch James Bond die, with no pretensions, in the movie.
James Bond had discovered Carloss little explosive device & attached it to a mans waistband in the middle of the brutal battle, Carlos ended up accidentally killing himself. The man, who was going to blow up his explosive keychain, does not realize that James Bond has attached it to the loop of his belt.
Obanno attempts to reach for Bonds pistol, but the Treasurys envoy, Vesper Lind, smashes it from Obannos hands. James Bond kills Obanno, and orders HM Treasury liaison Vesper Lynd to communicate with Rene Mathis, a dead mans body.
Leiter tells James Bond he is doing badly in his own continuing poker games, and he will support Bond to get back into the game; Leiter believes Bond could defeat the criminal banker Le Chiffre. In Casino Royale, James Bond must beat criminal banker Le Chiffre in a high-stakes game of poker in order to prevent his criminal organization funding terrorists. Since Bonds first movie, Casino Royale, Bond has been haunted by the suicide of a former love interest, Vesper Lynd. The sacrificial suicide of his first love in Bonds first movie is still haunting Bond in his fifth, and it does not resolve itself until he is able to make a similar sacrifice for the new temporary 007s replacement.
Sure, actor Daniel Craig has spent a lot of time fighting all of the villains -- Spectre, Blofeld, Safin -- but when it comes to the dramatic climax, the apex of his five-film Bond odyssey, it is all about Swann for Bond. No Time To Die is the final movie starring leading man Daniel Craig, who is leaving the James Bond franchise. In 1983, the film was in competition with Sean Connerys return to the Bond character as Sean Connery in the unofficial Never Say Never Again . Dr. No established many major elements and templates for the subsequent Bond spy films, including the Bond Walther PPK.
Bond was played by Timothy Dalton following a lengthy era of Roger Moore Bond films. Bond is investigating the ghosts to revenge for the death of Bonds girlfriend Vesper Lend in the previous film. Casino Royale was the first Bond movie after Goldeneye to not be released in the same year as a movie starring Austin Powers. It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2006, and was the highest-grossing installment of the James Bond film series until Skyfall overtook it in November 2012.
It is also the lowest-grossing Bond film, featuring a large amount of merchandise placement . Notable for being the first Bond film from Eon Productions not to open with a standard pistol-barrel sequence.
The previous Guinness Record holder in the category of largest movie explosion was the 1994 movie Blown Away, which stars Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. The latest release, No Time To Die, broke the record for most explosives exploded during the course of a film.
The team was all too aware that they had established the record for largest movie stunt explosion, and as soon as a single shot was completed, director Sam Mendes and the rest of the meticulous team celebrated. Almost as if to compensate for lost time, James Bond Effects crew went for more than twice as many takes as needed to smash the record, and the results were breathtaking.
Two consecutive James Bond films now have a record-breaking explosion attached to their achievement lists. The latest outing also marks the 25th movie in the James Bond series, with a later postponement of its release because of an ongoing pandemic.