Thoughts and a weird parallel between Skyfall and SPN
Disclaimer: I love Daniel Craig as 007 and, save for Timothy Dalton (more or less), I find all the others a bunch of bimbos, that only make my eyes roll. If you're a Sean Connery, Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan fan, don't kill me. :P
Yes, I'm going to talk about SPN here, but if you're one of the rare f-listers I have that DON'T follow SPN, I'd love to see your perspective.
And after this disclaimer, the actually thoughts that are probably shorter than the disclaimer (spoilers):
I loved it, of course, but one moment that stayed with me particularly (and all thanks to Craig's acting) was when the Aston Martin was destroyed.
I gasped, because, dude, it's an Aston Martin, but Bond's reaction blew me away. It would be so easy to make that scene ridiculous, to make him whine like a spoiled brat that broke his favorite toy, to make him some macho-man seeing the symbol of his dick being destroyed and make a scene.
But instead he stops wiring the gas tanks and his head snaps up and there's this second of sheer hatred in his eyes, and that was intense.
Now follow my thought process, please:
When Bond appears to M after being declared dead, we learn that his flat was sold and his stuff put away in storage. He's pissed, because he was planning on taking a bath after the long trip, but he doesn't seem particularly fazed by it.
In Scotland we learn his parents' stuff were also sold after he was declared dead. Then, when the house explodes, he shrugs and says he never liked that house anyway. And lets not forget that he was actually rigging the house to be exploded.
In this movie he loses all his worldly possessions, but the only one he seems to mourn is the Aston Martin.
A moment that was also important is when he's taking M to the garage where he has the Aston Martin hidden, she thinks he wants to hide her in some garage, which means she didn't know the Aston Martin was there. Probably she didn't even know of it.
M (and the MI6) had complete control of everything in his life, but not this. This he protected from them, this is what he cherished, this is... home.
And that's where it hit me: I'm reading this through SPN-tinted goggles!
But what I want to know is: can I discuss this with someone who has never seen SPN and make sense, or you have to know the Impala, know that a car can be the world's most important object, to understand my perspective?
Yes, I'm going to talk about SPN here, but if you're one of the rare f-listers I have that DON'T follow SPN, I'd love to see your perspective.
And after this disclaimer, the actually thoughts that are probably shorter than the disclaimer (spoilers):
I loved it, of course, but one moment that stayed with me particularly (and all thanks to Craig's acting) was when the Aston Martin was destroyed.
I gasped, because, dude, it's an Aston Martin, but Bond's reaction blew me away. It would be so easy to make that scene ridiculous, to make him whine like a spoiled brat that broke his favorite toy, to make him some macho-man seeing the symbol of his dick being destroyed and make a scene.
But instead he stops wiring the gas tanks and his head snaps up and there's this second of sheer hatred in his eyes, and that was intense.
Now follow my thought process, please:
When Bond appears to M after being declared dead, we learn that his flat was sold and his stuff put away in storage. He's pissed, because he was planning on taking a bath after the long trip, but he doesn't seem particularly fazed by it.
In Scotland we learn his parents' stuff were also sold after he was declared dead. Then, when the house explodes, he shrugs and says he never liked that house anyway. And lets not forget that he was actually rigging the house to be exploded.
In this movie he loses all his worldly possessions, but the only one he seems to mourn is the Aston Martin.
A moment that was also important is when he's taking M to the garage where he has the Aston Martin hidden, she thinks he wants to hide her in some garage, which means she didn't know the Aston Martin was there. Probably she didn't even know of it.
M (and the MI6) had complete control of everything in his life, but not this. This he protected from them, this is what he cherished, this is... home.
And that's where it hit me: I'm reading this through SPN-tinted goggles!
But what I want to know is: can I discuss this with someone who has never seen SPN and make sense, or you have to know the Impala, know that a car can be the world's most important object, to understand my perspective?