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"If I Fell"; Fixing a Tie; Blowing the Lyrics
I don't think I ever realized that Paul was straightening John's tie as they were beginning to sing "If I Fell," which just makes me love it even more. But a couple of things to appreciate: 1) George looks like he's just WAITING for a screw up because John and Paul are clearly distracted. 2) George smiles as the moment he was waiting for happens, and John and Paul go tentative on the second verse, where it sounds like John is going to sing "give my heart" once more and Paul is sort-maybe-going-to-land-on "giii-trust in you." 3) Harrison's smile is PRICELESS
#George Harrison Secret Spy#If I Fell#Paul taking care of John#John distracted by Paul#John never could keep track of his lyrics#Beatles 1964#I see you McLennon#DaddyPaul or MommyPaul SomethingPaul
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No Time to Die
2020
UK
2h 43min
Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen
UK release: 2 April 2021
The 25th James Bond film is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and sees Daniel Craig in the lead for one last time.
Knives Out
2019
US
2h 10min
12A
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Cast: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Christopher Plummer
UK release: 27 November 2019
When mystery writer Harlan Thrombey (Plummer) is found with his throat slit, puffed-up private detective Benoit Blanc (Craig) gets on the case. A wickedly knowing, flamboyantly bitchy take on the whodunnit, with a great cast, bags of style and a splendidly outrageous comic turn from Craig. Bloody good fun.
Logan Lucky
2017
US
1h 59min
12A
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Daniel Craig
UK release: 25 August 2017
Jimmy (Tatum), his brother Clyde (Driver) and sister Mellie (Keough) enlist the help of redneck jailbird and explosives expert Joe Bang (Craig) to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Soderberghâs latest comedy heist movie is perhaps his best, with a great cast, a satisfying plot and witty dialogue.
Kings
2017
UK
1h 26min
Directed by: Deniz Gamze ErgĂŒven
Cast: Halle Berry, Daniel Craig, Lamar Johnson
Following the life of a foster family in LA amidst the riots that followed the Rodney King trial verdict.
Spectre
2015
UK
2h 28min
12A
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Cast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, LĂ©a Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Andrew Scott, Dave Bautista, Stephanie Sigman
UK release: 26 October 2015
James Bond (Craig) comes up against a global crime syndicate, while back at home, the 00 programme is under threat from reckless moderniser C (Scott). With its swagger, dry humour and frequent, well-executed action it's a solid crowdpleaser, but the story is predictable, the characterisation is thin and overall it lacksâŠ
Skyfall
2012
UK
2h 25min
12A
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Written by: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Cast: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe
UK release: 26 October 2012
When cyber-terrorists steal an MI6 hard drive, 007 is ordered to recover it. After the let-down of Quantum of Solace, the 23rd official Bond movie is a belter; the script is smart, Craig is better than ever, and Bardem is a thrilling villain. 50 years on from Dr No, it's a well-wrapped birthday present.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
US / Sweden / UK / Germany
2h 37min
18
Directed by: David Fincher
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan SkarsgÄrd, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson
UK release: 26 December 2011
An investigative journalist (Craig) forms an uneasy alliance with a computer hacker (Mara) in an attempt to solve a disappearance. Th400 transbrake kit. Fincher amps up the dark poetry and Mara exudes a barely suppressed rage in every scene, elevating a populist novel into a compelling (if overlong) drama of bleakness and corruption.
Dream House
2011
US
1h 31min
15
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Written by: David Loucka
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Marton Csokas
UK release: 25 November 2011
Publisher Will (Craig) relocates to the suburbs with his wife (Weisz) and daughters, but when their house turns out to be the scene of a massacre, the domestic dream turns sour. Best remembered as the movie that saw Craig and Weisz get together, because their chemistry can't save the clunky script and inert direction.
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
2011
US / New Zealand
1h 47min
PG
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig
After buying a replica model ship at a flea market, Tintin (Bell) is embroiled in a world of subterfuge. Not since Indy's third outing has Spielberg felt so fresh and unshackled; it feels like a hark back to the heyday of 1980s adventure cinema.
Cowboys and Aliens
2011
US
12A
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
Drunk and trouble maker Jake (Craig) is broken out of jail and forced to help grumpy old Arizona lawman Percy (Ford) when aliens start to attack. Dull, humourless and over written sci fi western from Iron Man director Favreau.
One Life
2011
UK
U
Directed by: Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes
Written by: Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes
Cast: Daniel Craig (voice)
Documentary for kids featuring stunning footage of animals in the wild and narrated by Daniel Craig.
Defiance
2009
US
2h 16min
15
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Written by: Edward Zwick, Clayton Frohman
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay
Remarkable true story of the Bielski brothers, three real-life heroes who, against all odds, preserve a community of Jews who escape Poland for the forests of Belarus during WWII. Allied with the Russian resistance, the community thrives unexpectedly, leaving leader Tuvia Bielski (Craig) with heavy responsibilities.
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
UK
1h 53min
15
Directed by: Baillie Walsh
Written by: Baillie Walsh
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Claire Forlani, Felicity Jones, Eve, Emilia Fox, Jodhi May, Miriam Karlin
Set in present-day California and an English seaside resort circa 1972, Joe Scott (Craig between Bond outings), is a washed up Hollywood star who recalls a traumatic teenage experience that leads to professional success and personal self-destruction. Good supporting performances and rather pedestrian flashbacks make forâŠ
Quantum of Solace
2008
UK / US
1h 45min
12A
Directed by: Marc Forster
Written by: Ian Fleming, Michael G Wilson
Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini
'Quantum of Solace' starts with a trademark action sequence involving cars burning rubber around narrow roads and then proceeds to jump from one thrill to another, while moving through locations like pages in a travel brochure. A major plus is Amalric's turn as the villain Dominic Greene, head of an organisation whichâŠ
The Golden Compass
2007
US / UK
1h 45min
12A
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Cast: Dakota Blue Richards, Freddie Highmore, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Ben Walker
Based on the novel by Phillip Pullman, this fantasy adventure follows Lyra (Richards), who has been entrusted with the last remaining 'alethiometer', or golden compass, which she must keep from the power-crazed Magisterium. The world Weitz has created is beautifully designed and fascinating, but choppily structured andâŠ
The Invasion
2007
US
1h 39min
15
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue
Written by: Dave Kajganich, Wachowski brothers
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright
Another reworking of classic 1950s thriller 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'. A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, and when a DC psychiatrist (Kidman) discovers its extraterrestrial origin, she and her colleague (Craig) must work together to find a cure before they become its next victims. A waste of celluloid.
Infamous
2006
US
1h 58min
15
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
Written by: Douglas McGrath, Book:, George Plimpton
Cast: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Lee Pace, Daniel Craig, Jeff Daniels, Peter Bogdanovich
A more flamboyant and light-hearted biopic of Truman Capote than Bennett Miller's 2005 film 'Capote'. Jones is great in the lead as the eccentric writer but a weak supporting cast renders this the lesser of the two.
Casino Royale
2006
US / UK / Czech Republic
2h 24min
12A
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Written by: Ian Fleming
Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench
The prequel to the other Bond films time warps back to the enduring action hero becoming a 00 licensed to kill. The latest Bond (Craig) proves to be a strong leading man, but the film is let down by trying to do too much. With a weak villain and Bond girl to boot, it doesn't really feel like a Bond film at all.
Renaissance
2006
France / UK / Luxemburg
1h 45min
15
Directed by: Christian Volckman
Cast: Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce
Impressive looking 3D futuristic thriller with a black and white render which never quite gets going. Paris 2054. Ilona Tassueiv (Garai), a young and brilliant researcher is violently kidnapped. Avalon, a giant multinational corporation and her employer, wants her found. Dellenbach (Pryce), Avalon's CEO, has requestedâŠ
Enduring Love
2004
UK
1h 40min
15
Directed by: Roger Michellv
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton
Based on Ian McEwan's bestseller, a man's worldview is bruised when his attempt to save a boy from a hot air balloon accident goes wrong.
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Layer Cake
2004
UK
1h 45min
15
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon
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A cocaine dealer works his way through two tough assignments from his boss on the day before his retirement.
The Mother
2003
1h 30min
Directed by: Roger Michell
Written by: Hanif Kureishi
Cast: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Cathryn Bradshaw
A recently widowed grandmother embarks on an affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Sylvia
2003
UK
1h 40min
15
Directed by: Christine Jeffs
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport
A biopic of the relationship and fatal attraction between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
Road to Perdition
2002
US
1h 57min
15
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Tyler Hoechlin
A Depression era gangster picture with solid American family values. It may also, like Mendes' absurdly overrated Oscar-winner 'American Beauty', fool cinema-goers into confusing its moody self-importance for profound insight. For here are Big Stars, Big Themes (Fathers and Sons, Loyalty and Betrayal, Sin and SalvationâŠ
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No Time to Die
2020
UK
2h 43min
Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen
UK release: 2 April 2021
The 25th James Bond film is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and sees Daniel Craig in the lead for one last time.
Knives Out
2019
US
2h 10min
12A
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Cast: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Christopher Plummer
UK release: 27 November 2019
When mystery writer Harlan Thrombey (Plummer) is found with his throat slit, puffed-up private detective Benoit Blanc (Craig) gets on the case. A wickedly knowing, flamboyantly bitchy take on the whodunnit, with a great cast, bags of style and a splendidly outrageous comic turn from Craig. Bloody good fun.
Logan Lucky
2017
US
1h 59min
12A
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Daniel Craig
UK release: 25 August 2017
Jimmy (Tatum), his brother Clyde (Driver) and sister Mellie (Keough) enlist the help of redneck jailbird and explosives expert Joe Bang (Craig) to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Soderberghâs latest comedy heist movie is perhaps his best, with a great cast, a satisfying plot and witty dialogue.
Kings
2017
UK
1h 26min
Directed by: Deniz Gamze ErgĂŒven
Cast: Halle Berry, Daniel Craig, Lamar Johnson
Citrix workspace silent install. Following the life of a foster family in LA amidst the riots that followed the Rodney King trial verdict.
Spectre
2015
UK
2h 28min
12A
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Cast: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, LĂ©a Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Andrew Scott, Dave Bautista, Stephanie Sigman
UK release: 26 October 2015
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James Bond (Craig) comes up against a global crime syndicate, while back at home, the 00 programme is under threat from reckless moderniser C (Scott). With its swagger, dry humour and frequent, well-executed action it's a solid crowdpleaser, but the story is predictable, the characterisation is thin and overall it lacksâŠ
Skyfall
2012
UK
2h 25min
12A
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Written by: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Cast: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe
UK release: 26 October 2012
When cyber-terrorists steal an MI6 hard drive, 007 is ordered to recover it. After the let-down of Quantum of Solace, the 23rd official Bond movie is a belter; the script is smart, Craig is better than ever, and Bardem is a thrilling villain. 50 years on from Dr No, it's a well-wrapped birthday present.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
US / Sweden / UK / Germany
2h 37min
18
Directed by: David Fincher
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan SkarsgÄrd, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson
UK release: 26 December 2011
An investigative journalist (Craig) forms an uneasy alliance with a computer hacker (Mara) in an attempt to solve a disappearance. Fincher amps up the dark poetry and Mara exudes a barely suppressed rage in every scene, elevating a populist novel into a compelling (if overlong) drama of bleakness and corruption.
Dream House
2011
US
1h 31min
15
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Written by: David Loucka
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Marton Csokas
UK release: 25 November 2011
Publisher Will (Craig) relocates to the suburbs with his wife (Weisz) and daughters, but when their house turns out to be the scene of a massacre, the domestic dream turns sour. Best remembered as the movie that saw Craig and Weisz get together, because their chemistry can't save the clunky script and inert direction.
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
2011
US / New Zealand
1h 47min
PG
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig
After buying a replica model ship at a flea market, Tintin (Bell) is embroiled in a world of subterfuge. Not since Indy's third outing has Spielberg felt so fresh and unshackled; it feels like a hark back to the heyday of 1980s adventure cinema.
Cowboys and Aliens
2011
US
12A
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
Drunk and trouble maker Jake (Craig) is broken out of jail and forced to help grumpy old Arizona lawman Percy (Ford) when aliens start to attack. Dull, humourless and over written sci fi western from Iron Man director Favreau.
One Life
2011
UK
U
Directed by: Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes
Written by: Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes
Cast: Daniel Craig (voice)
Documentary for kids featuring stunning footage of animals in the wild and narrated by Daniel Craig.
Defiance
2009
US
2h 16min
15
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Written by: Edward Zwick, Clayton Frohman
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay
Remarkable true story of the Bielski brothers, three real-life heroes who, against all odds, preserve a community of Jews who escape Poland for the forests of Belarus during WWII. Allied with the Russian resistance, the community thrives unexpectedly, leaving leader Tuvia Bielski (Craig) with heavy responsibilities.
Flashbacks of a Fool
2008
UK
1h 53min
15
Directed by: Baillie Walsh
Written by: Baillie Walsh
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Claire Forlani, Felicity Jones, Eve, Emilia Fox, Jodhi May, Miriam Karlin
Set in present-day California and an English seaside resort circa 1972, Joe Scott (Craig between Bond outings), is a washed up Hollywood star who recalls a traumatic teenage experience that leads to professional success and personal self-destruction. Good supporting performances and rather pedestrian flashbacks make forâŠ
Quantum of Solace
2008
UK / US
1h 45min
12A
Directed by: Marc Forster
Written by: Ian Fleming, Michael G Wilson
Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Gemma Arterton, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini
'Quantum of Solace' starts with a trademark action sequence involving cars burning rubber around narrow roads and then proceeds to jump from one thrill to another, while moving through locations like pages in a travel brochure. A major plus is Amalric's turn as the villain Dominic Greene, head of an organisation whichâŠ
The Golden Compass
2007
US / UK
1h 45min
12A
Directed by: Chris Weitz
Cast: Dakota Blue Richards, Freddie Highmore, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane, Ben Walker
Based on the novel by Phillip Pullman, this fantasy adventure follows Lyra (Richards), who has been entrusted with the last remaining 'alethiometer', or golden compass, which she must keep from the power-crazed Magisterium. The world Weitz has created is beautifully designed and fascinating, but choppily structured andâŠ
The Invasion
2007
US
1h 39min
15
Directed by: Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue
Written by: Dave Kajganich, Wachowski brothers
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright
Another reworking of classic 1950s thriller 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'. A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the world, and when a DC psychiatrist (Kidman) discovers its extraterrestrial origin, she and her colleague (Craig) must work together to find a cure before they become its next victims. A waste of celluloid.
Infamous
2006
US
1h 58min
15
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
Written by: Douglas McGrath, Book:, George Plimpton
Cast: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Lee Pace, Daniel Craig, Jeff Daniels, Peter Bogdanovich
A more flamboyant and light-hearted biopic of Truman Capote than Bennett Miller's 2005 film 'Capote'. Jones is great in the lead as the eccentric writer but a weak supporting cast renders this the lesser of the two.
Casino Royale
2006
US / UK / Czech Republic
2h 24min
12A
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Written by: Ian Fleming
Cast: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench
The prequel to the other Bond films time warps back to the enduring action hero becoming a 00 licensed to kill. The latest Bond (Craig) proves to be a strong leading man, but the film is let down by trying to do too much. With a weak villain and Bond girl to boot, it doesn't really feel like a Bond film at all.
Renaissance
2006
France / UK / Luxemburg
1h 45min
15
Directed by: Christian Volckman
Cast: Daniel Craig, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce
Impressive looking 3D futuristic thriller with a black and white render which never quite gets going. Paris 2054. Ilona Tassueiv (Garai), a young and brilliant researcher is violently kidnapped. Avalon, a giant multinational corporation and her employer, wants her found. Dellenbach (Pryce), Avalon's CEO, has requestedâŠ
Enduring Love
2004
UK
1h 40min
15
Directed by: Roger Michellv
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton
Based on Ian McEwan's bestseller, a man's worldview is bruised when his attempt to save a boy from a hot air balloon accident goes wrong.
Layer Cake
2004
UK
1h 45min
15
Directed by: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon
A cocaine dealer works his way through two tough assignments from his boss on the day before his retirement.
The Mother
2003
1h 30min
Directed by: Roger Michell
Written by: Hanif Kureishi
Cast: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Cathryn Bradshaw
A recently widowed grandmother embarks on an affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Sylvia
2003
UK
1h 40min
15
Directed by: Christine Jeffs
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Lucy Davenport
A biopic of the relationship and fatal attraction between poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
Road to Perdition
2002
US
1h 57min
15
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Tyler Hoechlin
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A Depression era gangster picture with solid American family values. It may also, like Mendes' absurdly overrated Oscar-winner 'American Beauty', fool cinema-goers into confusing its moody self-importance for profound insight. For here are Big Stars, Big Themes (Fathers and Sons, Loyalty and Betrayal, Sin and SalvationâŠ
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Should the Next James Bond Care About Continuity After Daniel Craig?
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With No Time to Die, Daniel Craig says goodbye to the role of James Bond after 15 years and five filmsâthe longest tenure in the franchise since Roger Mooreâs 12-year, seven-film run. Like the five previous Bond actors before him, Craigâs era was marked by both highs and lows in quality, and certain controversial decisions, creatively and narratively.
If the Craig run is remembered by one thing though (besides its return to a grittier, more psychologically complex 007), it will be that for the first time the series told one overarching story over the course of the actorâs entire run. Craigâs debut, 2006âs Casino Royale, was followed in 2008 by Quantum of Solace, which essentially acted as an extended coda to its predecessorâsomething the series had never done before.
But wait: four years later Skyfall, which delved into the pasts of both Bond and M (Judi Dench), was billed as a standalone adventure. Until it wasnât. Three years after that, in one of the more controversial decisions in 007âs entire film history, Spectre retconned all three previous Bond outings, making their villains all part of the titular criminal organization. And, oh yeah, that organizationâs mastermind, Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), also happened to be Bondâs estranged foster brother, using his vast powers and shadowy reach to not just screw with the world but also torment Bond from behind the curtain.
We donât know at the moment if the villain in No Time to Die, Safin (Rami Malek), has any connection to the SPECTRE organization or Blofeldâs machinations, but we know Blofeld is in the picture, making him the first Bond villain to appear in at least two consecutive films since, uh, Blofeld did it in You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majestyâs Secret Service (1969) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971), where he was played by a different actor in each film (and no, Jaws doesnât count⊠heâs a henchman).
LĂ©a Seydoux also returns from Spectre as Madeleine Swann, making the character the first major Bond Girl in the seriesâ history to appear in more than one film. The only other example is socialite Sylvia Trench, played by Eunice Gayson, who Sean Conneryâs 007 briefly romances in the first two movies in the series, Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), making her the first official Bond Girl.
Of course, M, Q, and Moneypennyâplayed respectively now by Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, and Naomie Harrisâall encore as well, although these characters have often established a sort of background continuity for the Bond movies throughout the years. But with both Blofeld and Madeleine showing up in No Time to Die, itâs reasonable to assume that it will be continuous with the previous four films and serve as a grand finale for the Craig quintet. So this is indeed a first. While the original Ian Fleming novels did offer continuity from book to book, with events in the previous book often being at least referenced or in some cases, such as the âBlofeld Trilogy,â directly impacting the novel right after it, the Bond movies almost completely ignored this.
Even though Blofeld and SPECTRE figured heavily in the first seven movies, the adventures were barely connected. A different actor played Blofeld every time, and most egregiously, after Bondâs new wife (Diana Rigg) was gunned down by Blofeldâs henchwoman at the end of OHMSS, her death was never even mentioned in the next movie, Diamonds Are Forever (we were just informed vaguely that Bond was looking for Blofeld).
By the time Roger Moore took over, the death of Teresa âTracyâ Bond was referenced briefly in both The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), establishing that the Bond played by Moore was the same character previously inhabited by Sean Connery and George Lazenby. Otherwise the Moore years lacked any continuity at all, aside from the MI6 characters.
But now that Craig is stepping down, the question is this: Does the next actor in the series continue to be the same Bond that Craig played, and does the series pick up from wherever No Time to Die leaves off? Or will the next Bond not reference Swann, Blofeld, Safin, SPECTRE, Vesper Lynd, or any other aspects of the five Daniel Craig movies? Will M, Q and Moneypenny disappear or be recast as well?
It seems self-defeating and pointless to totally reboot the character again. Casino Royale was as good as an origin story gets, and so much of Bondâs backstory has been filled in over time that even looking back at his pre-MI6 years would leave us with an aimless, suspense-free prequel that is the worst kind of lazy, fill-in-the-blanks storytelling. We know who Bond is, and we did watch the 007 of the Craig era evolve over the course of his five movies.
Without knowing where No Time to Die leaves the character, weâre tempted to say that the series should pick right up and send the new Bond on a new set of standalone adventures, just with a new face. The new films donât need to rehash anything that happened before, but they also donât need to pretend that this a brand new, fresh-faced 007 straight out of secret agent school (plus they should keep Fiennes, Harris and Whishaw around â both for that background continuity and also because theyâre a great team).
This is what the series has done multiple times before, with minimal fussâand no explanation for the recasting is needed. If an explanation is called for, and God knows that fans seem to need everything explained to them these days, then the filmmakers can simply say that Bond had his face altered surgically to protect his identity (thatâs always been part of Bond speculation anyway).
Whether the next set of Bond stories should all connect is a different matter, and again weâre going to argue that they shouldnât, at least not in the way that Craigâs did. Learning that Blofeld was behind the villains of the first three Craig films was not so bad; discovering that Blofeld and SPECTRE basically existed solely to torment James Bond was a terrible mistake, however. Not everything needs to be connected to Bond on an emotional level. He can certainly be affected by the challenges and enemies he faces, but that can happen without them being part of Bondâs family history. It just makes everything smaller.
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Let Bond be Bondâa little darker here, a little funnier there, a bit rude or crude along the wayâand let him fight bad guys and romance women (without the rampant rapey-ness of the earliest films in the series), and occasionally have his own sense of self, his mission and his view of the world challenged. The Bond films have worked in the past and can work again in the future because one can step right into his universe and not need to know what happened in the previous three movies. In a world where nearly every film in every franchise essentially serves to set up the next movie (hello, MCU), it would be refreshing if the 007 series rejects that philosophy, as it originally had.
Weâll probably know more once the next actor to play Bond is announced, which we expect will coincide with the franchiseâs 60th anniversary in 2022. Then weâll see which version of James Bond will actually be the one to celebrate that landmarkâand which universe he operates in.
No Time to Die is out in the UK on September 30 and the US on October 8.
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Time to learn about my alter ego Natasha Pavlova and how she came about.
I go the name from an episode of this old TV from the 60s called The Monkees. The episode was one of the few were Peter got the girl. The girl, who was Natasha, was a Russian ballerina inadvertently aiding the delivery of a secret Micro-film which was hidden in her red ballet shoes.Â
Peter was my favorite out of the four Monkees, so I took a liking to her. NatashaPavlova was my pen name on a Fanfiction website because of it. At some point in my writing, I found I needed a restaurant for characters to eat at, so Tashaâs Tasty Tarts was born. It started as a cafe where people got coffee and doughnuts for quick dates and whatnot, but then I needed someone to run it, to be a small character that wasnât important to the plot.
Thus Tasha, manager, and owner or Tashaâs Tasty Tarts, was born. When I started writing more for her character, she turned into something I never expected, but even now sheâs not even that anymore.Â
I was very into the Beatles at the time, and mainly she was a love interest to George Harrison in most of my stories. The story went that Natasha lived with her mother in Liverpool next door to George Harrison where the cliche story of growing up as best friends took place. Tasha was a ballerina where she met a lot of her friends who I had literally forgotten until now.
In order to keep the Beatle History intact, I only had Tasha and George date and fall in love until around 1964 right before George met Patti Boyd and all that. I know quite a lot of Beatle History.Â
After that I didnât do much with her character other than random little stories or drawings. Iâve had a layout of Tashaâs restaurant and her upstairs apartment forever.Â
What she is now is a very different character with a much bigger background now. Her parents split when she was young and she and her mother moved to London. Her mother opened up Tashaâs Tasty Tarts, named after her daughter as a bakery. They lived above in the apartment upstairs together.Â
When he mother died, she inherited the bakery and turned it into a cafe. She basically spent her whole life working in the cafe and married a guy called Marvin who played in th band she hired.Â
Iâm planning to eventully write a book about her and her life. Iâve started it a couple times, but havenât gotten very far with it. The last shot was a plot about a secret oganization that turned her inot a super spy. Clearly I couldnât figure out a way to make that work.Â
Anyway, thereâs some stuff about Natasha for you. Hope it wasnât too boring for you.
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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND October 26, 2018 Â - HUNTER KILLER, INDIVISIBLE, JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN
A very impressive October is going to fizzle out this weekend with three weaker offerings that will allow Universalâs Halloween to dominate the box office for a second weekend in a row, even though Halloween proper isnât until next Wednesday.  (Honestly, the release of the video game sequel Red Dead Redemption II Friday might keep many guys at home in front of their consoles this weekend.)
HUNTER KILLER (Summit/Lionsgate)
The widest and most prominent new movie of the weekend is a submarine action-thriller starring Gerard Butler and recent Oscar-winner Gary Oldman, being released into roughly 2,600 theaters by Lionsgate subdivision Summit Entertainment. It deals with a submarine captain who works with a Navy SEAL team to try to rescue the Russian President from a Russian general who has staged a coup.
Butler has been out and about doing promotion for this movie directed by Donovan Marsh (director of something called Spud), but heâs already had a good year, coming off the surprise crime-thriller hit Den of Thieves earlier this year, which grossed $45 million. Butlerâs previous movie Geostorm was a catastrophic bomb, at least in North America where it grossed $33 million on a $120 million budget. (It did better overseas.) The previous year, Butler had a similar mix of hits (the sequel London Has Fallen) and over-priced CG bombs (Gods of Egypt), but heâs still maintaining some of the box office pull he first found with Zack Snyderâs action 300in 2007.
Butler does get a boost among older moviegoers with the presence of Gary Oldman, who finally won an Oscar playing Winston Churchill in last yearâs Darkest Hour, which grossed $56 million. In 2017, Oldman benefitted from appearing in the Samuel Jackson-Ryan Reynolds action-comedy The Hitmanâs Bodyguard, which grossed $75 million on the tail-end of summer. Even so, Oldman has had a spotty track record at the box office with hits like Dawn of the Planet of the Apesand Christopher Nolanâs Dark Knight movies countered with bombs like Child 44Â and Criminal. The movie also stars Billy Bob Thornton, Willem Dafoe, Linda Cardellini, as well as Common, who is making his fifth movie appearance in the last month!
Although there have been many submarine movies over the years including the Oscar-nominated German film Das Boot in the early â80s, the two biggest submarine films were the Jack Ryan film The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, in 1990, and Denzel Washingtonâs Crimson Tide in 1995, the latter written by Quentin Tarantino. Those grossed $122 and $91.4 million respectively, and 2000âs U-571 also performed respectively with $77 million. Two years later, K-19: The Widowmaker with Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson ended up with about half that amount, and few submarine films have done well since with 2013âs Phantom and 2015âs Black Sea, each barely cracking a million.
One presumes that even with the success Butler has had with some of his recent ventures, particularly the âFallen franchiseâ (or whatever you wanna call it), it might be harder to bring out all of his mostly male fans with a submarine movie. It just seems like this is coming out too soon after Halloween and other stronger releases that might keep this from making more than $10 million over the weekend.
INDIVISIBLE (Pure Flix)
The next widest release of the weekend is yet another faith-based film, the new one from David G. Evans, who previously directed The Grace Card, which made $2.4 million after being released into 352 theaters by Samuel L. Goldwyn in 2011.
This is a biopic about Army Chaplain Darren Turner, as played by Justin Bruening from Greyâs Anatomy, and his wife Heather (Sarah Drew), who try to save their marriage after he get back from war with PTSD. It seems like a fairly typical faith-based film, and itâs the fifth film from PureFlix this year, the previous four grossing between $4.7 and $6.2 million. Thatâs a far cry from the some of the bigger Christian hits like 2008âs Fireproof or 2011âs Courageous, both which grossed in the $33 to 34 million range. Itâs also nowhere even close to the $83.5 million grossed by I Can Only Imagine, which is by far, the biggest Christian hit of the year.
The lack of success of many recent faith-based films, including Unbroken: Path to Redemption (that $6.2 million PureFlix release) and God Bless the Broken Road, which made half that amount, makes it seem like there just isnât interest in a Christian movie not based on a well-known book or song.
Indivisible is being released into around 1,000 theaters, which means it probably will end up opening in the same $2 to 3 million range as some of the other releases mentioned, which might be a push to get it into the bottom of the top 10.
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN (Focus Features)
A movie that normally would have gotten a straight-to-video release in the early â00s is just barely getting a theatrical release into 500 theaters, and thatâs Rowan Atkinsonâs third outing as the bumbling British spy Johnny English, who this time takes on the threat of a cyber-attack.
Atkinson created the character in 2003 for the movie Johnny English, which grossed $28 million domestic after a $9.1 million opening, but the movie grossed $132 million overseas including $31.1 million in the United Kingdom, where Atkinson is quite famous for his show Blackadder and comic character Mr. Bean. Â
The 2011 sequel Johnny English Reborn might have done better if it was released soon enough to capitalize on the success of the first movie, but in fact, it did even better overseas with $151 million ($33 million of that from the UK) compared to the mere $8.3 million in North America.
Obviously, Universal Pictures wasnât going to spend a lot of money to promote a third movie in the States, considering how poorly the previous movie did. Instead, they dumped it to its little brother Focus Features, who are wisely only releasing it into 500 theaters this weekend with the smallest amount of promotion.
The movie also stars Olga Kuryenko, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Charles Dance and James Lacy, which is a decent enough cast to bring in some Anglophile parents with their kids, but itâs hard to imagine this can make more than $2 million, which will probably place it outside the Top 10.
With most of the returning movies remaining dominant, there arenât many questions to ask: Whether Gerard Butlerâs Hunter Killer does better than I projected, and whether Foxâs The Hate U Give will capitalize on the word-of-mouth from its impressive A+ CinemaScore to maybe overtake First Man or even Goosebumps in their respective third weekends. Regardless, this weekâs Top 10 should look something like thisâŠ
1. Halloween (Universal) - $35 million -54% 2. A Star is Born  (Warner Bros.) - $13.5 million -30% 3. Venom  (Sony) - $9.1 million -50% 4. Hunter Killer  (Lionsgate/Summit) - $8.4 million N/A 5. Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween  (Sony) - $6.1 million -37% 6. First Man  (Universal) â $5.1 million -40% 7. The Hate U Give (20thCentury Fox) - $5 million -35% 8. Smallfoot  (Warner Bros.) - $4.2 million -35% 9.Night School  (Universal) - $3 million - 10. Indivisible (Pure Flix) - $2.8 million -40% -- Johnny English Strikes Again(Focus Features) - $1.8 million N/A
LIMITED RELEASES
The big limited release this weekend is Luca Guadagninoâs long-awaited remake of Dario Argentoâs SUSPIRIA (Amazon), which will open in New York and L.A. Friday. Â It stars Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) as Susie Bannion, a young woman from a Memonite background who comes to Berlin in 1977 to study at a prestigious dance school with the legendary Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), but she soon finds out that thereâs more to the all-women school than she thinks â in fact, itâs a witchâs coven. At the same time, psychiatrist Dr. Josef Klemperer (also played by Swinton!!) is trying to learn the truth about the school after one of his patients â a dancer at the school -- vanishes. Featuring an all-female cast that includes Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia Goth and Sylvie Testud, this is an amazing film thatâs mostly a tense drama for the first 45 minutes, but then quickly turns into a suitably gory thrill-ride that gets completely insane in the last act. At the same time, itâs an interesting look at a historical period of time that overlays with the story going on at the dance school.
Also quite good is BURNING (Well Go USA), South Koreaâs Oscar entry and the new movie from Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine). It stars Ah-In Yoo as Jong-su Lee, an assuming young man who hooks up with a girl from his old village, but when she returns from a trip to Africa, sheâs a dashing and rich man, played by Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), who Jong-su immediately suspects of hiding something. Â You can read what I wrote about the movie in my New York Film Festival coveragea few weeks back.
Swedenâs Oscar entry is Ali Abbasiâs BORDER (Neon), a strange fairy tale romance about a Swedish border guard named Tina (Eva Melender), whose chromosome defect makes her look different from others. Even so, she has the ability to sniff out anyone trying to smuggle anything across the border, which proves useful for a job. When Tina meets a âmanâ a lot like her, the two fall into a romance, which distracts Tina from a job finding a pedophile ring. Adapted by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In) from his short story GrĂ€ns, itâs a truly original film at a time when weâre not getting very original movies, and itâs a strange concept that grows on you as it veers further into the fantasy realm. To say more about the Cannes award winner and some of its plot twists would be doing it a disservice, so just check out the trailer.
Stephen Dorff and Melissa George star in David Gleesonâs psychological thriller DONâT GO (IFC Films) as a couple dealing with their young daughterâs death by moving to a seaside village where their life is disrupted as the girl begins appearing to him in a dream.
Billy Bob Thornton stars in the long-delayed adaptation of Martin Amisâ 1989 noir novel LONDON FIELDS Â (GVN Releasing) directed by Matthew Cullen. Set in 1999, Thornton plays novelist Samson Young, whose life starts coming apart when he meets Amber Heardâs manipulative Nicola Six, who becomes Samsonâs muse to break him out of writerâs block. Also starring Johnny Depp â in one of the most ridiculous performances of his careerâJim Sturgess, Cara Delevigne and Jamie Alexander, this movie was pulled from the Toronto Film Festival a few years back and has been entangled in legal battles. Having seen it, I can tell you that itâs a very, very bad movie.
Meanwhile, Susan Sarandon plays an ER nurse whose journalist son (Matt Bomer) has been kidnapped in Syria in Maryam Keshavarzâs VIPER CLUB Â (YouTube Originals/Roadside Attraction), which opens in New York and L.A. this weekend and then expands to more cities next week.
Latin-American filmmaker Lorena Villarealâs SILENCIO (Tulip Pictures) is a sci-fi drama starring John Noble, Rupert Graves and Melina Matthews, the latter playing Ana, who must find a stone discovered by her grandfather in the Zone of Silence, the Bermuda Triangle of Mexico, which has enough interest from others who want the stoneâs power for themselves.
Now playing at the Film Forum is Life and Nothing More from Spanish filmmaker Antonio Mendez Esparza, starring Regina Williams as the mother of a 14-year-old son Andrew, whose life has been spiraling downwards and it gets worse when her son is confronted by a white couple. The film won the John Cassavetes Award for a film under $500,000 at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards earlier this year.
Would you believe that I have yet to see a movie directed by Frederick Wiseman despite being a huge documentary fan? The master documentarianâs new movie Monrovia, Indiana  (Zipporah Films) will open at the Film Forumon Friday, as well as in L.A. on Nov. 2 and other cities to follow. I havenât seen it, but I assume itâs about a town in Indiana.
Sanjay Rawalâs doc 3100: Run and Become  (Spartan), opening in New York Friday and in L.A. on Nov. 9, follows a Finnish paperboy and an Austrian cellist who attempt to complete the New York-based Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race over the course of 52 days .
STREAMING
Sandi Tanâs doc SHIRKERS (Netflix) is about how in 1992 she tried to make an independent serial killer film called âShirkersâ in Singapore until the footage was stolen, and it certainly looks intriguing.  (Itâs also getting a one-week release at Metrographif you want to see it on the big screen.) Also, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, based on the teenage witch featured in Archie Comics, will stream its first season starting Friday.
REPERTORY
METROGRAPH (NYC):
Just in time for Halloween, the theater will be one of a couple that will be showing a restoration of John Carpenterâs 1980 horror film The Fog, starring Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis. (I wonder what happened to her?) Thursday, the theater presents Paul Auster X2, showing two movies by author Paul Auster: Lulu on the Bridge (1998) and The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007), both on 35mm with Auster in attendance.  This weekendâs Playtime: Family Matinee is one of my all-time favorites Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)âwho knows? I might even go see it again.
FILM FORUM (NYC):
Starting Friday is a restoration of Luchino Viscontiâs 1954 film Senso (Rialto Pictures) with new subtitles that incorporates dialogue by Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles written for the English adaptation The Wanton Contessa. Itâs set during the 1866 battle of Custoza between Austria and Italy, after which Contessa Alida Valli decides to betray her own countryâs cause in favor of a relationship with an Austrian deserter.Probably not my kind of thing, but perfect for the Film Forum crowd.
EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):
Just in time for Halloween, the Egyptian will show the restoration of Bill Gunnâs Ganja and Hess (1973; Kino Lorber), starring Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead), which Spike Lee remade a few years back. A discussion will follow the screening on Monday night.
AERO Â (LA):
The theaterâs Halloween horror series includes double features of The Abominable Dr. Phibes with The Devilâs Rain on Friday night, Frankenstein with Bride of Frankenstein on Sunday night, and an All-night Horrorthon on Saturday night, which includes such âclassicsâ like Jason X,Maximum Overdrive, Zombie 3, a 25th anniversary screening of Body Melt and more.
QUAD CINEMA (NYC):
I missed last weekâs horror series but this week is A Womanâs Bite: Sapphic Vampires, an amazing series of vampire lesbians including Tony Scottâs The Hunger (1983), Draculaâs Daughter (1936), the Spanish-German film Vampyros Lesbos (1971) and many other rare offerings.
IFC CENTER (NYC)
This weekâs Weekend Classics: Coen Brothers offering is one of my favorites, 1990âs Millerâs Crossing, showing Friday though Sunday at 11AM. Also The Water Margin (1972) is shown as part of the Shaw Brothers Spectacularsseries. Maybe even more importantly, the theater will kick-off a week-long Directed by Orson Welles series that will lead directly into the release of the long-incomplete The Other Side of the Wind, which will show at the IFC Center along with Morgan Nevilleâs doc Theyâll Love Me When Iâm Dead. It will include 35mm prints of Chimes at Midnight, Mr. Arkadin and F for Fake.
LANDMARK THEATRES NUART Â (LA):
This will also be showing the 4k restoration of John Carpenterâs The Fog.
MOMA (NYC):
Modern Matinees: Vincent Pricecontinues with Roger Cormanâs The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) on Thursday afternoon, Return of the Fly (1959) on Friday afternoon and House of Wax (1953) on Halloween afternoon. The Museum of Modern Art also kicks off a new series called Catalan Cinemas Radical Years: 1968 â 1978Â for the more experimental as filmmakers used their craft to rebel against Spanish dictator General Francisco Francoâs last years in power.
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):
This weekend sees the self-explanatory series Beyond Halloween: Five Horror Films by John Carpenter, which will screen The Thing, Christine, Prince of Darkness, Body Bags and In the Mouth of Madness. Just in time for the movieâs 25thAnniversary, the theaterâs Family Program will screen Hocus Pocus on Saturday afternoon.
Thatâs it for this week, but next week, the holiday movie season kicks off with Bohemian Rhapsody, Disneyâs Nutcracker and the Four Realms and Tyler Perryâs Nobodyâs Fool starring Tiffany Haddish.
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In this video, I analyze the hidden cuts used in the infamous Church fight scene in Mathew Vaughns 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' This scene in particular, utilized the same techniques used in films such as Birdman, as well as The Revenant. In total, I count 23 Cuts. However, I must admit due to the high shutter speed/camera movement it can be upwards of 30-35 cuts used in this particular scene.
For example, it seems that, when Harry (Colin Firth's Character) shoots someone, the editor had zoomed in/rotated the footage for two to three frames; and then returned to the original framing. Which I though was very interesting! Again, this video does not serve as a 'debunking' of the seamless look, but of the appreciation I have of the work that goes into a scene such as this.
Typically, in film whenever a character passes the frame, or the frame becomes completely engulfed in a wall, the back of a person e.t.c it typically serves as a cutting point. This obviously depends on the film, but I looked very closely for every shot frame by frame, and I encourage you to do the same!
A spy organization recruits an unrefined, but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program, just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Directed by: Mathew Vaughn DP: George Richmond
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Has the Greatest Exposition Scene in Movie History
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âThe people I brought are important and theyâre waiting,â Indiana Jones is told early in Raiders of the Lost Ark. â[Theyâre] army intelligence and they knew you were coming before I did.â Itâs a cryptic line of dialogue full of mystery, even for a guy like Dr. Jones. Before this moment, Indyâs been revealed to be a man of many talents: grave robber, bullwhip master, even college professor. But a spy? The character, and more importantly his audience, cannot quite fathom what this is all about, but our interest is piqued to discover more. Especially, as we soon learn is forever his custom, Indy is going into this situation on the wrongfoot.
So begins one of Raiders of the Lost Arkâs most pivotal scenes. At its core, the scene where Harrison Fordâs Indy meets with two government stuffed shirts is an exposition dump, one intended to catch the viewer up on magical arks, occultist Nazis, and Godâs wrath inside of five minutes. But it is written so elegantly, and staged so thoughtfully, that it elevates the most functional mechanics of Hollywood storytelling into something greater. Rarely has a scene tasked with the laborious duty of exposition appeared this lithe or engrossing. Hence why, in its own way, the moment where Indiana Jones excitedly runs to a chalkboard can be nearly as thrilling as watching him outpace a boulder.
The Hidden Perils in Exposition
Under normal circumstances, exposition is one of the most thankless aspects of a screenwriterâs jobâand the worse they are at delivering it, the greater the burden becomes for actors, directors, and even audiences to make it work. Every conventional piece of narrative storytelling needs to establish its ground rules, of course. And exposition is nothing if not key pieces of information a viewer, reader, or gamer requires to follow along. But often the more high-concept the story, the harder it becomes for the narrative to organically share that information.
Hence as Hollywood has drifted toward big blockbuster spectacles that demand heavy-handed worldbuilding, exposition scenes have similarly become increasingly cumbersome. Itâs what led to lazy choices like each Transformers movie starting with obligatory voiceover narration and table-setting flashbacks, or title cards for Every. Single. Character. in 2016âs Suicide Squad.
Of course Raiders of the Lost Ark, along with other early successes from director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas, helped usher in this modern age of blockbusters. But in the case of the first Indiana Jones movie, they did it with such effective wit and intelligence that even the narrative dump became one of the movieâs classic moments.Â
Raiders of the Old Movie Tropes
The concept of Indiana Jones is rooted, at least in part, in the James Bond movies and their serialized, travelogue thrills. It certainly was the initial appeal to Spielberg, who famously came to the project after being passed over by Eon Productions for the next 007 flick. So he and Lucas modeled aspects of the Jones character on the Bond formula, including the usually pat expository scene near the beginning.
You know the type: 007 comes into MI6 headquarters and is informed, often with typical British understatement, about the severity of a situation by M; the unflappable Bond makes a dryly humorous observation about the mission; he annoys his superiors, flirts with Moneypenny, and is off. By the time For Your Eyes Only opened in the same month as Raiders of the Lost Ark 40 years ago, the convention was designed with the precision of clockwork, and often featured the same amount of excitement.
The scene where Indy meets Maj. Eaton (William Hootkins) and Col. Musgrove (Don Fellows) plays much the same way. Authority figures have come to demand the expertise of a talented man of action theyâre about to send around the world. He impresses, if also aggravates, the white collar set, and then off he goes. Yet from the moment Indyâs museum pal Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) tells him Army intelligence is here, the actual presentation is ingeniously subversive. Before the scene is over, Spielbergâs version of 007 will be lecturing the proverbial M, instead of the other way around, about the mission and the implications of the MacGuffin. It is Indy and his intellectual equal in Marcus who understand whatâs at stake, not the government.
This is of course by design. Itâs even how the idea of the scene began when Spielberg and Lucas met with Empire Strikes Back screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan to break down what would become Raiders of the Lost Arkâs screenplay. In their famed story conference transcripts from 1978, Lucas suggested, âOur guy be the one whoâs explaining it.â
Noting that it would obviously be the exposition scene of the movie, where the concept of the Ark of the Covenant is introduced to audiences who didnât go to Sunday school, Lucas immediately won Kasdan over.
âI like that,â Kasdan said. âTheyâre telling him, but he knows more about it than they do.â Yet Lucas took it further, going so far as to call the moment a âa puzzle sceneâ where the protagonist is solving a small mysteryâitâs almost happenstance he also reveals the Old Testamentâs Ark of the Covenant as a source of power so great it could level mountains.
Said Lucas, âThe other way to do it is to let [Indy] know about the Ark, and not them. Having the Army guy say that they found the lost city. Hitler is going after all these artifacts. He believes in all the supernatural stuff and everything. We donât know what they found out there, but itâs awfully important because theyâre sending for this professor. Our guy is the one who puts two and two together. Then he sort of explains it. They have all the pieces of the puzzle, and they want him to get whatever the Germans are after. He says, âIâll tell you what theyâre after. Theyâre after the lost Ark.ââ
Indiana Jones Takes You to (Film) School
Thus from its outset, the basic idea of the scene was always rooted in the most fertile soil for storytelling: conflict. When the scene begins, suspicious and cagey authority figures have summoned a man they expect to be an ineffectual academic; they wind up with a guy whoâs instantly several pages ahead of them in the script. The reversal makes the ominous dialogue about the Ark of the Covenant inherently exciting, but how itâs played by the actors, and staged by Spielberg, elevates this into something else entirely.
When Fordâs Jones and the indispensable Denholm Elliot enter the scene, the audience is already a little giddy from the disorienting effect of the previous sequences. After all, the film introduced Indiana Jones as a mysterious, even faintly dangerous presence. He disarms a traitor in his tomb raiding party with a whip before we even see his face and he seems more at home with tarantulas on his back than chatting with Alfred Molinaâs Satipo. And before the sceneâs done, Indyâs escaped a falling boulder, two betrayals, and has been chased by the early 20th century notion of ânatives.â
And yet, once he gets to his escape plane, the coolest hero audiences have ever met is revealed to be flawed, and frankly a bit neurotic. He nearly sounds like a terrified child when he sees a snake and screams, âI hate snakes, Jock! I hate âem!â
Afterward, the rug is pulled again as audiences are whisked to Indyâs day job. Unlike 007, Dr. Jonesâ life isnât all international travel, fistfights, and seductions. In fact, heâs downright awkward, if ever still charming, as a university instructor swatting away advances from forward students. The movie thus quickly establishes that, unlike most matinee idols, this is a multifaceted action hero whoâs just as comfortable in tweed and a bowtie as he is leather jackets and fedoras.
In its way, this all sets the stage for the exposition scene where Indy winds up as everybodyâs favorite guest lecturer. When Indy and Marcus enter the lecture hall with the G-Men, Spielberg has notably toned down some of the camp elements Lucas pitched in the story meeting (among them that the characters should be surrounded by a hall of mummies). It looks like a regular 1930s New England institution, with the director relying on the awkward silence of the good old boys getting settled to underscore the severity of the situation. Character actors Hootkins and Fellows play it completely straight when they invoke the words âAdolf Hitlerâ and âNazis,â which still would grab the complete attention of 1981 audiences whose parents or grandparents fought in World War II.
âYou must understand this all strictly confidential,â Hootkins says while looking over his shoulder, as if the movie is about to share a forgotten secret from the greatest conflict of the century. Only then does Spielberg start to move his camera, slowly dollying in on the Army man. âYesterday afternoon, our European sections intercepted a German communique that was sent from Cairo to Berlin.â With deft efficiency, Kasdanâs script now lays out what Lucas called âpuzzle pieces,â with Hootkins demanding total attention by breathlessly shouting the Fuhrerâs name. âHitlerâs a nut on the subject! Heâs crazy, heâs obsessed with the occult!â
This is the setup for Indiana Jones to prove heâs the smartest guy in the room. But the way Ford plays this scene is what causes you to lean forward in your seat. When heâs asked about âthe lost ark,â heâs as incredulous as a schoolboy whoâs offended youâve never heard of his favorite band. Heâs both the biggest alpha and biggest nerd in the scene.
âYeah,â Ford enthuses so quickly his voice cracks, âthe Ark of the Covenant, the chest the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments.â At this point, the government men are hopelessly lost and just repeat everything Indy says like it is an actual Sunday schoolâs call and response. âYes, the Ten Commandments,â Indy continues, âthe original stone tablets Moses loses brought down out of Mt. Horeb and smashedâif you believe in that sort of thing.â
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At once we understand the key elements that will propel Indy through the rest of the movie: he has the impetuousness of an action hero, the passionate curiosity of an academic, and the total lack of God-fearing faith that might get him in trouble when trifling with the Hebrewsâ prize.
Itâs economical character development at its best, which leads to the image of Jones before a literal blackboard educating you. Most of the characters on screen look up in awe, but as a director to never miss a great reaction shot, the one that Spielberg lingers on is Marcusâ fatherly admiration for Indyâs excitement. And itâs Marcus who provides a countering sense of awe to Indyâs impatience. Beneath the surface, there is even a subtler, more significant conflict being laid here that extends beyond this scene and carries throughout the rest of the picture. Marcus is of course acting as Indyâs de facto wingman, reeling the U.S. government in to pay for the expedition. âThe army that carries the Ark before it is invincible,â Marcus says like a salesman closing the deal.
But a moment earlier when he warns of how the city of Tanis was âwiped clean by the wrath of God,â there is in an uneasy sense of true believing fear in Elliotâs delivery. This warring juxtaposition between faith and curiosity will propel the movie from this point to the very end, right up until Indy learns to finally avert his eyes in the face of antiquityâs awesome legacy.
In fact, the only music in the whole sequence occurs when Indy opens a book of scripture to the spookiest image ever drawn of the Ark of the Covenant. Not coincidentally, this is also the exact moment weâre introduced to John Williamsâ âArk of the Covenant Theme,â which fills any scene itâs in with looming menace. And the way Indy dismisses it as âthe power of God or something,â as he walks away from the camera? It only increases the movieâs sudden sense of doom. At last it dawns on the viewer that perhaps youâre seeing something you shouldnât knowâthis is an adventure right into the heart of the forbidden.
The Stuff MacGuffin Dreams Are Made Of
All of which plays to how George Lucas famously differed from the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, or for that matter most modern blockbuster filmmakers, when it came to creating MacGuffins (the plot device characters will live and die for but audiences allegedly shouldnât care about).
âThe audience should care about it almost as much as the dueling heroes and villains on-screen,â Lucas once told Vanity Fair.
Never did that prove more potent than in Raiders of the Lost Arkâs exposition scene, a moment where the film turned the most menial of tasks into something intriguing, entertaining, and ultimately a little unnerving. Whether you went to Sunday school or not, like Indy you couldnât stop after this moment until you, too, peeked inside that Ark. Which is why, as a piece of filmmaking and storycraft, this sequence remains one of Raidersâ greatest treasures.
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