I thought this title sounded familiar. I remember watching this one last year...
John Wick Spinoff "Ballerina"
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Fair enough.
That was an interesting read... some posts deleted 
She was too sexy for modern Bond. Modern audiences can’t handle all that sexy.
Ya know I think Spectre gets a bad rap. It was the closest to an old fashion Bond film. The one Craig movie where his version of Bond seems to enjoy being Bond.
Some good over the top villains and great over sized henchman.
Not perfect but fun.
It’s my 2nd fav of the Craig Bond movies with CR being number 1.
I don’t mind the serious tone of the DC Bond films, it was just they kept making him someone who didn’t seem to wanna be a spy and more like a man who just wanted to settle down and get married.
Jeepers will they ever let Bond go back to that formula?
I mean sexy and fun??? Look out you will get the no fun police after you.
This!
I’m tired of the skinny girl who is all of 105lbs being able to anything to a 200lb + man in a one on one fight .
Atomic Blonde is the exception. She at least looked ran over by a car after her fights. Plus, stunt wise, CT pulled it off.
Boy I’m late to this thread
JackNasty
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It is unreal, Craig's Bond retires from MI6 in Casino Royale, Skyfall and Spectre, and is still in retirement at the beginning of No Time to Die. That guy really hated going to work.
jye4ever
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You and I are the only 2 who appreciate Spectre lol
Now with Hollywood hopefully going back to the center we can have women who love being chased and lusted by men again.
When was this scheduled?
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Hopefully by January lol
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I just read that Continental series was cancelled. I totally forgot it even existed.
Glad I never started watching it then
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Anytime you can generate character development without exposition, you take it. Effective storytelling in this medium is always focused on pure economy. The above is a deleted scene from Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica, during it's "pilot" mini-series. There's open exposition about no difference in their culture between men and women in combat roles/military roles. Part of this was to create a softer landing for switching two characters, Starbuck and Boomer, from males in the original series to female in the reimagining. But even a scene that's only 90 seconds or so , that's shifting time from somewhere else. Take a standard broadcast hour with advertising, that's already 18 minutes lost immediately. Now you have to allot time for credits and a recap. If you have commercial breaks, you need to intentionally write into and out of those break points ( you want to keep the viewer "hooked" to wait through the commercials) That leaves you with your A storylines, some light coverage of B storylines, and you are almost always forced to cut C storylines / character development / fan service / future set up.
90 seconds seems like not a lot of time. Until it is a lot of time. Can you do the same thing somewhere else? You can probably infer it in a different scene where you establish Starbuck as insolent and Tigh as a drunk, you get minimal coverage of the CAG who dies very soon so he's not a total surprise on screen, and you get some light background of the relationship between Boomer and Helo.
Tattoos, the way the person's apartment is decorated or not, if they have a pet, how fast they eat or talk, one line about a previous relationship, you use anything you can to optimize that economy. Your production design has to try to help give your writers a fighting chance. Your writers have to give something for the production design / SFX / composer something to work with, no matter how small.
Whether the tattoos or any other aesthetic choice is effective or not, doesn't wash away the attempt at attention to detail. You do everything you can to help economy, and hope you some of it sticks. Now the "tattoos" form a bridge between Wick and the Ballerina, no matter how slight that connection becomes. It's better than nothing.
Neil McCauley, a career criminal, has an empty apartment, no furnishing, just a coffee machine and a phone. His symbol of "no attachments" But he puts down his pistol, allowing him to have a somewhat personal conversation with Val Kilmer. But the apartment has a nice view, his dreams of "escape". First thing Chris does is find his pistol and holster, resets it in his waistband. Contrast with Chris' wife, who is stuck taking care of the kids. A "family life" There's a contrast between the two, their view of commitment, obligation and code, much of it apparent without being expressly stated. There's a lot going on here without exposition, without more dialogue.
At least we are not alone and have each other to hold when we watch this mini–Bond Classic
Fingers crossed!!!
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