Extended Reading
  • Katelin 2022-03-18 09:01:02

    Unable to Bond, Unable to 007

    Skyfall is in the 007 series of movies, which belongs to the top of the level. At least better than the last one, Quantum Crisis (to be honest, I didn't remember what I said in the last one...). The publicity said that this is the darkest 007 ever. At the same time, the director admitted in the...

  • Joana 2022-04-22 07:01:03

    Homage to the ancient

    Unlike the previous 007, he is old. From the moment when Boss, who is about to take over as M, thinks the returning Bond is too old to be an agent.

    In Pierce Brosnan's 007 days, I felt like I was watching a sci-fi movie. He has a variety of magical sidearms, and can always save Bond from danger at...

Skyfall quotes

  • [as Bond is tied to a chair, an elevator lowers in front of him, and Silva appears and walks toward him]

    Raoul Silva: Hello, James. Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats! They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut, and...

    [imitates metallic scuttering]

    Raoul Silva: They would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one...

    [mimics rat munching sound]

    Raoul Silva: They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.

  • [Bond runs and jumps on the end of the train, hanging on the door as the female conductor looks at him in confusion]

    James Bond: Open the door, please!

    [Conductor still stares at him]

    James Bond: Open the door!

    [Conductor finally opens the door before Bond walks in]

    James Bond: Health and Safety. Carry on.