No Time to Die trailer | Time for Tea?
The full-length preview of the latest Bond movie has arrived. Guess what it features heavily...
There are famous movies which deal specifically with cars, and then there are famous movies with specific cars in them. Bond, of course, is the latter; probably the archetype. It might have kicked off fairly inauspiciously with a Sunbeam Alpine in Dr No, but by Goldfinger, Bond was in an Aston Martin DB5 and with the help of an ejector seat and some machine guns, the legend was promptly set in concrete wellies (helped along by Ian Fleming's own infatuation with the brand).
Being the world's longest running movie franchise (and the seventh highest grossing) has meant that Aston Martin hasn't had 007 all to itself - Ford, GM, BMW, Bentley, Audi, Rolls-Royce and Mercedes-Benz have all enjoyed screen time in one form or another; Toyota even went to the trouble of removing the roof from the 2000GT so that Connery could fit behind the wheel. But most recently the franchise has made Gaydon its default first port of call, with either Aston or JLR on the other end of the phone.
The series has become so important to the former that it provided Spectre with eight hand-built - and entirely bespoke - DB10s, a car based on the Vantage that it wouldn't launch for another two years. Now, for 2020, there is a new Bond, which you'll almost certainly know by now is called 'No Time To Die'. Also among the already-knowns is that it will feature the new Land Rover Defender - because the manufacturer has already revealed that fact with its own behind-the-scenes look.
Now though, we get the sugar-rush of a proper movie trailer. And it could hardly start stronger, with a DB5 on the lock stops within the first five seconds. It finishes there, too - in some style. In between we get a lot more Aston Martin (cleverly made generation specific, by the looks of it), a dash of Land Rover and not nearly enough of Ana de Armas. Roll on April.
Typical of many of us on this site - can identify a classic Aston by year at 60 paces but can't correctly spell a woman's name!
I hope the film is decent. They are always well-made and the trailers look great but I've rather grown tired of the past few.
Anyway, this film looks awesome and happy to see British machinery (Triumph bikes as well!) at the forefront, as well as a return of the DB5 as a proper hero car (rather than just mere transportation)
(I'm 43, modern terms have passed me by)
While I celebrate inclusion, doing it for the sake of doing it and to appease people is annoying.
I love that we see that Q
https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/news/a28515/...
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2017/07/164809/ho...
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/07/... (last paragraph)
As somebody else has said, this Bond movie is going to be very "woke" - for a start, the term 'Bond Girls' was reportedly banned from the set and it was also rumoured that at one point Craig was going to be replaced by a black female actress called Lashana Lynch; apparently the negative social media backlash was so string, they wisely went against that idea.
Lashana has said in an interview in the Hollywood Reporter:-
“Everyone was really responsive to having her be what I wanted. You’re given a fresh perspective on a brand-new black woman in the Bond world.”
“I didn’t want someone who was slick. I wanted someone who was rough around the edges and who has a past and a history and has issues with her weight and maybe questions what’s going on with her boyfriend.”
“We had one conversation about her maybe being on her period in one scene, and maybe at the beginning of the scene — and I spoke to Cary about this — throwing her tampon in the thing.”
If this isn't woke, I don't know what is.
I also agree with those who believe the DB5 should be left alone now. It's getting old and tired to keep bringing it back in every movie when the company who made it has clearly has moved on!
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