I have two warnings for this particular post.
#1. As the title of the post infers, there may be some serious spoilers within this post. If you don't want to know a darn thing about the next, highly anticipated James Bond movie, Skyfall, due in theaters in early November, then you may not want to venture any further after the link to the trailer.
#2. If you choose to accept, I have two assignments for you to complete before I go on with my post.
So the first assignment starts below. View the UK trailer for Skyfall as many times as your geeklovin' heart contends...
Now that you've watched it four or five times visit the link posted below (WARNING: Possible SPOILERS abound as the author of this post breaks down the trailer you just watched and guesses at major plot points of the film. One plot point might be a biggin'! If this event does happen in the film, it will blow our collective minds! You have been warned! Click at your own discretion)......
Now I will interject my own thoughts on the trailer you just viewed and article which you just read. Not that my thoughts are worth a hill of beans. I do this for my own amusement. What the frell?!?!
This portion is also spoiler loaded. (Scroll down to read since Blogger will not allow me to black it out so you can highlight it to read. (????) Sorry, blame Blogger.)
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Being a huge Bond fan, I was elated when I heard that Sony and MGM ended their legal issues and went head first into preproduction of the delayed 23rd James Bond movie, Skyfall. As usual, I promised myself that I didn't want to know a damned thing about the story or plot of the film before I saw it on the big screen this November.
Well, that fell through as I subscribed to the official James Bond YouTube channel and Facebooked them as well. I can't help myself. They've just concluded principal photography for the film and news is starting to leak out.
At first viewing of the trailer when it was released on the masses a few weeks ago, I thought it was a real classy, slick, artistic view of things to come. But, it didn't really reveal too much of what the hell was going in the film. Or so I ignorantly thought.
When I came across the above article, it revealed some pretty heavy revelations that could go down in this film.
Let's start with the title itself, "Skyfall". There is a scene where Bond is taking a psychological, word association test. When the term "Skyfall" comes up, Bond turns sullen and ends the test abruptly. I originally thought the title was some sort of weapon that was gleaned from the old days of the Bond movies where there was some sort of satellite weapon aimed at the earth's surface by some terrorist organization that was holding the world at ransom. After reading the article I believe Skyfall to possibly some sort of important reference to Bond's deceased parents.
In the books and some of the movies, it is revealed that Bond's mom and dad, who died in a mysterious "mountain climbing accident"when Bond was a child, may have had some sort of dealings with the British secret service in the past. Their deaths are mentioned in one or tow of the movies and their involvement with MI6 is mentioned somewhere in the literature. It's all very brief, which gives the writers of the movie to get in there and dig deep and create a real background for his late parents.
In the article, there is a building that will play a major part in the film that is called "Skyfall Lodge". Is this Bond's childhood home? Is this why it hits such a nerve when it is mentioned to Bond? I know the lodge will become a major set piece for a huge action sequence in the film. Possibly the grand crescendo to the film itself. What will take place there? Will everybody get out alive?
That's the big question the linked article brings up.
This leads me to my next assumption of the movie. I'm thinking that a huge character we Bond fans have all grown to know and love will be 86'd in this film.
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From what I've read in the posted article, I sadly believe that Dame Judy Dench's "M" may be killed off in Skyfall. If you have the article still up on-line in another tab or window, scroll down to the seventh teaser image where Ralph Fiennes is looking at Dench's M. If you read the text below you may see where this is all going. If Dench is out for the 4th Daniel Craig Bond film, old Voldermort could fit the bill of a decent conservative, stogy, "M" that could harken back to the older movies. But it would lose a lot of heart that Dench brought to the character.
Now why in the hell would the producers of the Bond flicks be giving Judy Dench, the woman who single handedly rebooted the character of "M", the heave-ho? I don't think it's entirely their decision.
I've heard a rumor that Dame Judy Dench has been dealing with some very serious eye conditions where her sight is slowly, but surely failing her. She may be settling down from the acting world and thus leaving the James Bond films for good. A horrible scenario, but it would fit the puzzle pieces together.
Now this is all conjecture and guesswork form myself based on the article, based on the trailer itself. No one, outside of the people who worked on the film, will know the truth until November of this year. We could all be terribly wrong and Dench would be in this thing for another number of years. Either way, it's going to be one hell of a thrill ride this November!
Zangz.
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