Description
‘Skyfall’ skillfully manages to synthesize the old with the new, bringing Bond into the modern world even more successfully than its successors. By acknowledging the past, Mendes and company find the license to reinvent it. By the time we reach the film’s closing credits, Bond as a character and a franchise is finally where we’ve wanted it to be since 2006: All the pieces in place to deliver classic Bond adventures with all of the series trademarks intact, but not simply going through the motions. It’s appropriate that the movie was released fifty years after the original release of ‘Dr. No’, the first Bond adventure that set the stage for all the rest to come (take a note of the vintage on the Macallan that Silva offers Bond on the deserted island).
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Audio Commentary – Director Sam Mendes sits down and discusses the making of ‘Skyfall’. Mendes covers a lot of ground, from finding inspiration in the final three Fleming novels to working with Deakins, Newman, and editor Stuart Baird.
- Audio Commentary – Series producers Barbara Broccoli (daughter of “Cubby” Broccoli, one of the franchise’s original producers) and Michael G. Wilson and Production Designer Dennis Gassner get together to watch the movie.
- Shooting Bond (HD, 59 min) – Actually a series of shorter featurettes that can be played as an hour-long making of documentary, Shooting Bond is a solid cursory overview of what it takes to make a Bond film.
- ‘Skyfall’ Premiere (HD, 4 min) – Bond premieres have always been a big deal. Here we get a peek at the premiere for ‘Skyfall’, with interviews from the red carpet
- Soundtrack Promotional Spot (HD, 1 min)
- Sneak Peek (HD, 16 min)
- Theatrical Trailer (HD, 3 min)
