6/10/2023 0 Comments Spectre film pistol![]() Craig shares the honours in these nerve-shredding opening moments with his stunt doubles. It is one of the most stunning aerial stunts ever seen on the big screen. I watch the climax of this jaw-dropping sequence – a vertigo-inducing fight to the death – from the ground below, mouth agape.īond’s glamorous female counterparts are led by the 50-year-old Italian actress Monica Bellucci, the oldest Bond girl ever, alongside the beautiful French actress Léa Seydoux (pictured above) The scene is shattered by the deafening whir of a helicopter, which swoops in 30m above our heads before hurtling to a stop in the Plaza de la Constitución, among a crowd of petrified carnival-goers.īond catches up with Sciarra as the baddie tries to make his escape, grappling with his rival as the Messerschmitt M-BB helicopter soars back into the sky, the two men hanging perilously from its landing gear. It’s a suitably sinister backdrop for Bond, who we watch weaving his way through the nightmarish crowd, overshawdowed by La Catrina – a giant 30ft tall grinning skull, and accompanied, naturally, by a stunningly beautiful woman (Estrella, played by Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman).Īs the crowd sways and dances to a blaring soundtrack of mariachi bands, drums and firecrackers we see that Bond is in hot pursuit of an another man, an assassin, Marco Sciarra (Alessandro Cremona). Over 1,500 extras (the most assembled for a scene in any Bond film) have been bussed in to recreate the spectacular Day Of The Dead festival, an annual Mexican procession remembering lost loved ones, which is like a super-sized Halloween parade as imagined by Tim Burton. But our first stop is Mexico City, for that unforgettable opening sequence… ![]() We travelled to Rome (being used as a location for the first time ever in a Bond film), where we witnessed Daniel Craig push himself to the limits in an adrenaline-fuelled night car chase around Vatican City and we watched a heart-stopping plane crash on a glacier in the Austrian Alps. It’s a classic Bond tale, which follows our hero trying to infiltrate and destroy a criminal organisation called Spectre (Special Executive For Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), last seen in Diamonds Are Forever.Įvent was given exclusive and unprecedented access to the set of the movie by the producers and the director Sam Mendes to watch three pivotal action scenes being shot in three wildly glamorous and exotic locations.Įvent flew to Austria to watch Bond crash-land a plane along a glacier as burly security guards busied themselves catching paparazzi lurking under vehicles or hidden in the nearby forest Welcome to the madness of Spectre, the biggest, most spectacular and, with a £200 million budget, most expensive Bond film ever produced in the 53-year cinematic history of 007. In one of central America’s mega-cities, with a population of more than 21 million, the inhabitants are used to appalling traffic congestion, but today’s snarl-up around the historic centre is of biblical proportions – the equivalent of closing Times Square in New York in rush hour.Įxcitable locals crane their necks from cordoned-off streets hoping to catch a glimpse of Daniel Craig as Bond while a sea of smartphones are held aloft to capture every moment of filming for posterity to my left I see lines of police struggling to contain the swarm of fans and heavily armed motorcyclists stand by to escort the cast back to their hotels once the scene is in the can. It’s late March, and I’m standing in the centre of the Mexican capital’s imposing main square, the Plaza de la Constitución, surrounded by an army of macabre skeletons and zombies, played by thousands of extras whose costumes and extravagantly painted faces will provide a dramatic backdrop for an epic 11-minute opening sequence to the new Bond film Spectre. James Bond has brought Mexico City to its knees. The helicopter is seen swooping in to collect him Bond chases Sciarra through the Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City.
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