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Spoilers for the Daniel Craig James Bond films preceding this one, including Quantum of Solace will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned!The one where James Bond jokes that he swings both ways.Skyfall, the twenty-third film in the Eon Productions James Bond franchise, also marks the 50th anniversary of the film series, and is the third film in the series to star Daniel Craig. After a four-year gap following the financial problems of distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Sam Mendes-directed film saw release in fall 2012. Adele performed the Title Theme Tune.After an operation in Istanbul to recover an encrypted hard drive containing the identities of every active undercover NATO agent ends in disaster, Bond goes missing. With a top agent presumed dead and the information he sought to save sitting in the wrong hands, MI6 section chief M (Judi Dench) comes under government review for her handling of the situation. But when a terrorist attack targets MI6's headquarters, Bond returns to track down the man responsible: Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), a dangerous cyberterrorist with a personal grudge against M.It was Albert Finney's final film before his death in 2019.Followed by Spectre, a sequel that picks up where this film left off.
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Retired Badass
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Retired Badass: Mallory is a veteran of the British Army (specifically the SAS), and was kept as a hostage at one point by the IRA.
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Age Lift
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Age Lift: Turned on its head - one of the main themes of the movie is how Bond (played by the 44-year-old Daniel Craig) is getting too old to keep working in the field.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: Producer Michael G. Wilson, who has received cameos dating back to Goldfinger, gets two, although his cameo as a pall-bearer was reduced to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in the edit.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: It has been noted that parts of Silva's plan and appearance are taken from real world WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic B So D: Bond has one after he's declared dead after being shot and falling off a bridge during a mission. He debauches himself most thoroughly, but he's clearly depressed.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace were already this compared to most of the previous Bond films, but Skyfall especially stands out. The film has a distinctly sombre and haunting air to it. Even the credit sequence. Normally consisting of the jiggling, gyrating silhouettes of nubile women, now full of numerous scenes of death and destruction, and the song itself is probably the darkest in Bond history.
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Heel–Face Door-Slam
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: We get a version of this when Silva has M cornered and his gun in her face, when he realizes she's already mortally wounded and will die no matter what he does. He breaks down, puts the gun in her hand, raises it up to one side of her head while pressing his own head to the other side, and begs her to kill both of them with the same bullet. Then Bond barges in and throws a knife into his back. Silva gets demonstrably annoyed at this before keeling over.
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Parents in Distress
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Parents in Distress: In support of the above entry, a good deal of Bond's motivation is fuelled by the fact that M herself is under threat this time around.
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Ripped from the Headlines: The catalyst for the plot is sensitive government information being stolen and then leaked online, mirroring various real world scandals where classified documents were leaked onto the internet in the years surrounding the release.
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Make Sure He's Dead
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Make Sure He's Dead: After the titular manor explodes, Silva says this to his henchmen regarding Bond, as he himself is still hell-bent on killing M.
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Exactly What I Aimed At
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Exactly What I Aimed At: With a bomb and a train.
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Cool Old Guy
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Kincaid is a Cool Old Guy who refuses to let Bond face danger on his own. He's still not psychologically up to being shot at with automatic weapons, and fumbles his shotgun reload badly under fire.
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"Well Done, Son" Guy
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Silva is ultimately a rather sad version of this. Even though he still wants M to pay with her life for betraying him, by his twisted logic he also to wanted to "make peace" with her by dying "peacefully" together.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Skyfall is the name of Bond's family estate.
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Dressing as the Enemy
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Dressing as the Enemy: A variation. Silva and his men dress as police constables to attack M.
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Eiffel Tower Effect
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Eiffel Tower Effect: When the plot takes Bond to Shanghai, we see the standard establishing shot of the Lujiazui skyline reflecting on the Huangpu at night.
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Older Is Better
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Older Is Better: The underlining conflict in the film is if the old MI6 and the double Os are still relevant in the modern, digital world of new threats. The climax of the film is Bond using this trope, such as using the classic Bond car from the 60's since it doesn't have a tracking device, a break open rifle, and simple booby traps.
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Non-Specifically Foreign: Raoul Silva is played by a Spanish actor who applies English "received pronunciation" vowels over his own accent, using a Portuguese name. His real name, Thiago Rodriguez, doesn't narrow the field anymore.
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Home Field Advantage
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Home Field Advantage: Bond retreats to his old family estate and sets up a series of traps in preparation of Silva's inevitable assault. This is effectively the only time in the film where Bond is able to choose where he fights Silva.
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Incurable Cough of Death
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Incurable Cough of Death: M is clipped by a bullet in the torso, and her hand is shown very bloodied. Unsurprisingly, she doesn't last past the finale.
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Say My Name
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Say My Name: While imprisoned by MI6, Silva invokes this by demanding M say his real name. M, however, has none of it. Of course, a cut later, M turns to Bond and tells him Silva's real name, Tiago Rodriguez.
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Chronically Crashed Car: Just like most of Bond's cars, the Aston Martin doesn't end the movie in one piece.
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He Had a Name
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He Had a Name: Silva demands that M say his real name, wanting proof that he was more than just some random agent sent out to do her bidding. She refuses and promptly seals her fate.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: Betrayal is the driving theme of this movie. In the end the main villain is literally stabbed in the back.
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End of an Age: The film constantly touches on Dented Iron and ends on the iconic Aston Martin DB5 being destroyed and Judi Dench's M dead.
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Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Five months of torture at the hands of the Chinese literally knocked the hope and sanity out of Silva. The unsuccessful suicide by Cyanide Pill that left him painfully disfigured merely rubbed more salt into the wound.
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Soft Water: The opening sequence features Bond being shot twice and knocked off a speeding train as it crosses a bridge, falling at least 100ft into water. They don't even bother to handwave how he survives. Though he does mention later that he broke four ribs and damaged "some of the less vital organs."
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During the climax, Bond, M and Kincade are poorly equipped, with only old hunting guns, knives, dynamite, some gas bottles, and the good old Aston Martin DB5 against Silva's mooks, who carry recent assault rifles and grenades and benefit from heavily armed helicopter support.
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Obligatory Earpiece Touch: While teaming up with Eve, Bond tells her to stop touching her ear, and she listens before she can draw attention to herself.
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The Siege
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The Siege: The film climaxes with Bond and two others (Kinkade, M) defending a manor home against more numerous and better-armed villains. Defenders' advantage allows the MI6 contingent to hold out against 10-to-1 odds, but they technically still lose because the Big Bad is able to achieve his mission objective (killing M)—or, at best, stalemate, since Bond kills him right after. (Also, the home gets blown up.)
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In the Back
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Being killed by a knife In the Back, given the "old ways" theme. The disreputable art of assassination and espionage was traditionally described this way. Also, betrayal is an important theme in the film.
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No Hero to His Valet
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No Hero to His Valet: Kincade feels this way about James Bond. He might be one of Britain's best professional killers who has saved the country (if not the world) single-handedly many times, but he's still a "jumped-up little shit" if he thinks he can tell Kincade what to do. However, it's Played with since Kincade is initially unaware that James grew up to be a world-class spy, so he is visibly quite shocked at seeing James' masterful shooting:
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High-Altitude Interrogation: Bond attempts this on Patrice, but gets nothing out of him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Mallory is accused of being a politician, which he denies. He proves to be both a Reasonable Authority Figure and a Retired Badass.
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Just Train Wrong
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Just Train Wrong: The whole Tube part of the chase that follows Silva's escape. For starters, it takes place on a Jubilee line train of deep-tube 1996 Stock◊ that's dressed to look like a District line train. The District line uses S Stock◊ trains (and at the time of filming, D78 Stock◊ trains), which are much wider and larger. The scenes were shot on the closed Charing Cross platforms and stub branch of the Jubilee line, which along with Aldwych is one of two common filming locations for productions that allow them to shoot without interrupting service.note The Jubilee line platforms at Charing Cross were closed in November 1999 when it was bypassed in favour of a new modern extension that took the line through Waterloo, Canary Wharf, North Greenwich and ultimately, a new eastern terminus of Stratford. In addition, both Temple and Embankment stationsnote for the latter, at least the part Bond uses have both platforms in the same tunnel, rather than in separate tunnels. Anyone who has ever travelled in a deep-level tube train will know how much it rattles when in motion. This one doesn't. When Silva drops a train on Bond, we see that the train cars that drop through the opening are still fully illuminated, when they should be dark as they are not making contact with the third rail.
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Notice This
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"...And here is a currently irrelevant priest tunnel that lights up when you open it."
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Knight in Sour Armor
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Knight in Sour Armor: Bond continues to live this trope from the last two films, his grim view of his job tempered by his patriotism and loyalty to M, though Silva is not impressed.
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All There in the Script: Raoul Silva's first name is never used in the movie itself. Even the credits list him simply as "Silva."
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Throw-Away Guns
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Throw-Away Guns: Bond uses an Anderson Wheeler double rifle for most of the attack on the eponymous estate, but upon running out of ammunition promptly discards the weapon. His contentious relationship with his parents may be part of his reasoning. He also discards his service weapon, a Walther PPK, in the opening scene of the movie, despite having time to reholster it, as seen here. This is especially irresponsible as the weapon's serial number is most likely registered to him through MI6.
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Chekhov's Gag
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Chekhov's Gag: Bond's issued gadgets consist of a mildly tricked out Walther PPK/S and a panic button radio. Q snarks about Bond possibly expecting an exploding pen. The joke first pays off when Bond uses the radio to summon The Cavalry, and again when he digs up a weaponized Aston Martin DB5. "Sometimes the old ways are the best", indeed. Bond complains when he sees M's tacky china bulldog in the makeshift HQ. Guess what M leaves for 007 in her will?
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Q gives Bond a pistol with a special palm print sensor in the grip so that only he can fire it. What do you think are the odds that later some mook is gonna pick it up and try to shoot it? One of the notable camera shots in the Macau casino shows decorative giant komodo dragons in an ideal fighting area. It doesn't take a screenwriter to figure out that someone is getting eaten in a few minutes. "...And here is a currently irrelevant priest tunnel that lights up when you open it." Silva is coming. Here's the elephant gun and hunting knife your father left you.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: Silva turns Bond's radio crack against him.
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Changing of the Guard
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Changing of the Guard: By the end of the film, M has died and is replaced by Mallory. We are introduced to a quartermaster, or Q, for the first time in a Bond movie with Daniel Craig. At the end we learn that the Bond Girl throughout the movie was named "Moneypenny" all along, when she decides to give up being a field agent for a desk job. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Red Right Hand
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Red Right Hand: Like many Bond villains, Silva has a hidden deformity: In this case, half of his face is sunken and his teeth are reduced to rotten nubs.
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Mythology Gag
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Q all but cites this trope when he tells Bond that Q branch doesn't tend to go in for "exploding pens" anymore, after giving 007 two practical gadgets: a homing beacon radio and a personalized pistol coded so that only he can fire it.
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Rogue Agent
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Rogue Agent: Raoul Silva, a former MI6 agent out to destroy M after she screwed him over years earlier. While he was still an MI6 agent, he was carrying out unauthorized cyber-attacks on the Chinese. Downplayed with 007. For the final act, he kidnaps M and enlists Q and Tanner to (unofficially and without any authorization at all) help him bait Silva into fighting Bond on his own turf. Illustrated by Tanner having a beer in MI6 headquarters while they go about their work. But Mallory approves of their actions, so it's probably not necessarily a case of "going rogue" so much as "working 'off the books'."
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Impersonating an Officer
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Impersonating an Officer: Silva and a couple of henchmen dress as Metropolitan Police officers when they try to shoot M at the inquiry hearing.
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"Home Alone" Antics
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"Home Alone" Antics: Some have made an argument that the climatic battle turns out like this with M setting up explosive traps all around Skyfall Manor for when Silva's men invade the estate. Of course, given the theme of "old methods vs. new methods," it's not a stretch to imagine that old-school spies—who likely got their start as soldiers and commandos—learned this stuff as basic training.
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Lampshade Hanging
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Lampshade Hanging: Ahem: "Where the hell have you been?"
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Outside-Genre Foe
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Outside-Genre Foe: Silva is what happens when an outlandish "Dr. No"-style villain invades what was until then a relatively subdued and mostly-realistic spy thriller. The animation he sends M just comes off as deranged rather than funny or wacky due to how serious everything else is. (Incidentally, Dr. No was jarringly hospitable back in his heyday, so this could be considered the series returning to form.)
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Emerging from the Shadows
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Emerging from the Shadows: Bond at the beginning of the film, and later when he encounters M in her flat.
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Break the Haughty
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Break the Haughty: Q, courtesy of Silva, while Silva's in MI6 custody.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: A notable example is Patrice's Glock 18 during the Action Prologue. It's loaded with a pistol version of the Beta C-Mag.
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Practically Joker
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Practically Joker: Silva was confirmed to be inspired by The Joker, with bleached hair, an unnerving grin that's entirely false, and a love of spreading chaos.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: Patrice uses armor-piercing depleted uranium rounds, which unsurprisingly are rare enough to allow Bond to track him down easily. Q all but cites this trope when he tells Bond that Q branch doesn't tend to go in for "exploding pens" anymore, after giving 007 two practical gadgets: a homing beacon radio and a personalized pistol coded so that only he can fire it. While the elephant gun is obscenely powerful, as soon as Bond empties it twice, he drops it and picks up a much more practical assault rifle from one of his fallen foes. Ancestral Weapon or not, he knows which weapon is better in a combat situation.
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Hollywood Hacking
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Hollywood Hacking: Both Q and Silva. Silva can turn on the gas main in MI6 via computer, somehow, though this is technically possible. note In real life, the CIA did something similar to a Siberian pipeline in the 1980's albeit with a pre planted "logic bomb." Plus it is theoretically possible to remotely disrupt utility infrastructure by interfering with SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems built into the utility pipeline by having someone physically interfere with the offline device and set it to cause the effects required, triggered by remote. But this requires a lot of work.
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He Who Fights Monsters
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He Who Fights Monsters: Silva's grudge on M stems from her selling him out (for admittedly criminal actions he committed). He gets his revenge by doing the same thing to at least five completely innocent secret agents, and planning to do it to many more.
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Mortal Wound Reveal
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Mortal Wound Reveal: It's revealed in the middle of the climax that M is bleeding to death from what seemed to be a near miss, a wound that proves fatal.
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Contemplative Boss
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Contemplative Boss: M after hearing that Bond has been shot.
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Ghost Town
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Ghost Town: Silva's island. He faked a chemical leak to make everyone evacuate. Interestingly, Hashima Island, the island Silva's lair is located on, is a real life ghost town in Japan (not China). It was a coal mining facility from 1887 to 1974, before it was abandoned overnight. The island is notable for its character due to its sea wall and its abandoned, derelict concrete buildings.
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The Cavalry Arrives Late
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The Cavalry Arrives Late: In the first half, MI 6 arrive at Silva's hideout to apprehend him using the radio signal Q gave to Bond. By then, Bond had already slaughtered Silva's men and Sévérine was already dead.
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Just You and Me and My GUARDS!
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Just You and Me and My GUARDS!: Silva pulls this to a degree; at first, it seems like Silva is going to come after M and Bond by himself, or at least with a couple of henchmen. He ends up bringing dozens of his own men to the showdown at Skyfall manor, and even Bond is surprised not to find Silva among the first wave of men before he sees the helicopter approaching. Bond engaged in this trope earlier in the film right after the WilliamTelling contest; he stands alone to face Silva, and we are led to believe that a one-on-one contest will ensue... until MI6 helicopters appear.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: Silva's plan to humiliate and then kill M succeeds, though he is unable to make M kill the both of them directly as he wanted, or live to see his victory. Bond is only able to save his own life, and possibly restore M's reputation posthumously.
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Dragons Up the Yin Yang
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Dragons Up the Yin Yang: A number of scenes take place during the Chinese New Year of 2012, the Year of the Dragon.
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Depraved Bisexual
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Depraved Bisexual: Silva had a relationship with Sévérine and he also starts hitting on Bond...but in the latter case it isn't clear if he's being genuine or just trying to intimidate Bond (it doesn't work).
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It Works Better with Bullets
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It Works Better with Bullets: During the fight with Silva's thugs in the Macau casino one of them gets Bond's gun (which only he can use) away from him and levels it at him. Bond goes, "Good luck with that," and climbs out of the komodo dragon pit as one of them chomps the thug from behind.
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You Didn't Ask
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Though it's more likely Kincade assumed he heard "Em" and that it would be nice to be formal. They didn't have the heart, and didn't see the necessity, to correct him.
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Older Than They Look
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Older Than They Look: Bond meets the new Quartermaster for MI6 and is surprised at how young he looks. While it's true that Ben Whishaw's Q is much younger than Desmond Llewelyn's iconic take on the character in the original film series, Whishaw was still 31 during filming, while Bond talks to him like he's some 23-year-old kid who just finished his engineering degree. Admittedly, Whishaw does have quite the babyface, and Q's actual age is left vague.
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Theme Music Power-Up
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Theme Music Power-Up: The James Bond theme plays when Bond drives out in the Aston Martin DB5.
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Beard of Sorrow
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Beard of Sorrow: Bond gets one when he goes MIA after M gives the order to leave Bond to die.
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Hollywood Acid
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Hollywood Acid: Silva reveals that he's missing part of his jaw and palate, the result of biting a defective hydrogen Cyanide Pill. Hydrogen cyanide doesn't produce that effect, but the writers may have assumed otherwise from its alternate name: prussic acid.
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Tuxedo and Martini
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Later in Macau, we see the martini James ordered being shaken, not stirred.
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Create Your Own Villain
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Create Your Own Villain: M sold Silva out to the Chinese, leading to horrific consequences that caused his journey to a Fallen Hero.
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Hollywood Healing
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Hollywood Healing: Averted. Bond's shoulder wound from the opening sequence dramatically affects his performance, even after he's given several months to recuperate. Granted, "recuperation" consisted of getting wasted and laying women in the middle of nowhere, and the fragments from that bullet remained in his shoulder the entire time, preventing any real healing. Also, Mallory takes a bullet to the shoulder from Silva during the shootout in the boardroom, and wears a sling for the remainder of the movie.
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Out of Focus
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Out of Focus: This is the one 007 film where the Bond girls, especially Sévérine, get very little focus or screentime. Rather, the central female character of the story is M and her relationship with James Bond is explored more deeply.
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Dies Wide Open
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Dies Wide Open: M dies with her eyes open, leaving Bond to close them for her.
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
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Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: The Big Bad has been captured and locked in a glass cell in the middle of good guy headquarters before the two-hour mark. He promptly escapes.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Silva kills Sévérine in front of Bond after deciding he no longer needs her. Out of frustration, Silva pointlessly kills an unarmed civilian in his way out of a failed assault. Finally, he has Bond's Cool Car blown up, even though at this point it posed no threat. Although it's very likely he did this to prevent Bond and M using it as a means of escape.
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Sex Slave
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Sex Slave: Sévérine was sold on the prostitution market in Macau.
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Chekhov's Gift
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Silva is coming. Here's the elephant gun and hunting knife your father left you.
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William Telling
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William Telling: Silva forces Bond to play a game with him where they have to shoot a glass of whiskey off Sévérine's head using old Percussion Cap pistols. Bond misses and Silva "wins" by shooting her in the head.
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Now You Tell Me
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Now You Tell Me: Bond's eye roll communicates this when Q tells him to board a train at the last possible second.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Silva's Evil Plan exploits various MI6 protocols to further itself. Silva knows that MI6 will eventually identify and arrest him, so he spends years planning around his inevitable capture; come the day of his escape, he counter-hacks MI6 and abuses M's overconfidence to close in and assassinate her. Bond convinces Q to leave a hidden trail for Silva, knowing Silva will discover it. Bond then fortifies himself in his ancestral estate of Skyfall, where he can eliminate Silva without collateral damage.
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Boring, but Practical
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Boring, but Practical: Bond receives two rather unimpressive-looking gadgets from Q: a Walther PPK/S chambered in .380 ACP that only Bond can fire, and an emergency homing beacon. Both turn out to be lifesavers during his mission in Asia. A recurring theme of the movie, really. Silva specializes in hacking elaborate computer networks, and rigs London itself into a deathtrap to escape Bond and reach M's hearing; Bond only manages to undermine him with ordinary tools that Silva has no way of manipulating, such as a two-way radio, a beaten-down homestead in the middle of nowhere, and a completely ordinary hunting knife. While pursuing Silva through the Tube, Bond calls Q to figure out where they're going. Q does some Rapid-Fire Typing and pulls up a fancy 3-D wireframe of the London Underground in an attempt to plot the route, which takes almost a minute plus, and he's still not finished when Bond looks up at the route map above the window in his car and in two seconds knows Westminster is the next stop.
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Shark Pool
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Shark Pool: While fighting one of the mooks at a Chinese Casino, Bond and the said mook fall into a pit filled with Komodo Dragons. Bond obviously makes it out ok, the henchmen ends up becoming dinner for the lizards.
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Pietà Plagiarism
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Pietà Plagiarism: M's death scene.
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Psychopathic Manchild
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Psychopathic Manchild: Silva. His general demeanor comes off disturbingly juvenile, he giggles girlishly extremely often, his online threats are ridiculous, script-kiddie style animations, and he is variously described as possessive, with a tendency to dispose of anything that no longer amuses him.
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Foregone Conclusion
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Foregone Conclusion: It's clear that James doesn't die after being shot by Miss Moneypenny in Turkey, as it happens about 15 minutes into a nearly 2.5-hour long film.
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Mundane Solution
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Mundane Solution: On the Underground, Bond needs to find out where Silva's going. Q engages in Rapid-Fire Typing and brings up a 3D wireframe map of the Tube network. Bond just looks up at the route map on the wall to see what the next stop is.
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Trojan Prisoner
 Skyfall / int_3cf29583
comment
Trojan Prisoner: Part of Silva's gambit to get close to M - he gets himself caught by Bond, gets interrogated, then tricks Q into accidentally disabling the security systems so he can escape.
 Skyfall / int_3cf29583
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Perfect Poison
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comment
Perfect Poison: Averted. It was the failure of a cyanide capsule intended as a quick suicide that drives Silva's quest for revenge against MI6 (Also averted is the "quick and painless" part of the poisoning - even though it failed to kill him the cyanide caused severe damage to his face and jawbones and left him in agony).
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Scary Teeth
 Skyfall / int_3e2125f5
comment
Scary Teeth: Silva's dentures hide the fact that his real teeth have been reduced to rotten nubs as a result of a defective Cyanide Pill.
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Skyfall / int_3e2125f5
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Musical Nod
 Skyfall / int_3e24cb38
comment
Musical Nod: An instrumental version of "You Know My Name" (the theme song from Casino Royale) plays as Bond arrives at the casino in Macau.
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Skyfall / int_3e24cb38
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Every Car Is a Pinto
 Skyfall / int_3ec7c277
comment
Gunfire from Silva's helicopter causes the vintage Aston Martin to burst into very large flames. Granted, it is loaded with ammunition, so it is a case of ammo cooking off.
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Skyfall / int_3ec7c277
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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comment
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: M reveals to Bond after he shows up at her house that due to being declared dead MI6 sold his flat and moved his things into storage. As much as it's played for laughs this is very much Truth in Television when dealing with deceased people who leave no wills or have any living relatives. "You should have called" indeed. When Bond decides to take the fight and M to his ancestral home of Skyfall, they arrive to find that the manor's been sold, due to Bond being declared dead. Unfortunately, that means most of the gun collection has also been sold off. Kincaid is a Cool Old Guy who refuses to let Bond face danger on his own. He's still not psychologically up to being shot at with automatic weapons, and fumbles his shotgun reload badly under fire. Both Kincaid and Bond have trouble navigating the dark, uneven Scottish moor. Bond does rather better at it once he, presumably, takes a moment to remember the ground around his childhood home. After being grazed by a bullet and not receiving proper medical attention, the elderly M bleeds out and dies soon after.
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Parental Substitute
 Skyfall / int_3f11ef74
comment
Parental Substitute: M acts as one to Bond, and in the past acted as one for Silva as well. Kincade was this for Bond in the past.
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Broken Aesop
 Skyfall / int_401d4116
comment
Broken Aesop: Everyone in MI6 talks about how they're not too young/old for the job, yet they all fail at everything. Bond fails to get to his partner on time and Moneypenny fails to take the shot at Patrice. Bond fails his test, fails to reach the informant, then misses the shot-glass. Q falls for the honeypot virus and M falls for the false capture. Finally, Bond fails to protect M.
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Skyfall / int_401d4116
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Bittersweet Ending
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comment
Bittersweet Ending: The film ends with James Bond successfully defeating Raoul Silva and his men at the titular location of the same name, but M dies in Bond's arms and Bond breaks down in tears upon seeing her death. However, Mallory takes over as the new M by the end of the movie and the old gang is all in place for Bond to take on any threat to the world.
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Skyfall / int_40cc0c7e
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
 Skyfall / int_4127eb1
comment
Shut Up, Hannibal!: During the hearing, a government minister grills M. Mallory is visibly disgusted when it becomes clear that the actual committee hearing is basically nothing more than a Kangaroo Court.
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Skyfall / int_4127eb1
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Taking Up the Mantle
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comment
Taking Up the Mantle: After M's funeral, Gareth Mallory becomes the new M, and assigns Bond to a new mission.
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Skyfall / int_42a95f60
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Compressed Hair
 Skyfall / int_43175028
comment
Compressed Hair: Sévérine's hair looks like it's no longer than a bob cut during the casino sequence. By the time she's on the yacht, it's down around her shoulders, revealing that it was merely pinned up during the previous scene.
 Skyfall / int_43175028
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Skyfall / int_43175028
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The Name Is Bond, James Bond
 Skyfall / int_438ed383
comment
The Name Is Bond, James Bond: Bond's iconic introduction returns after being absent in Quantum of Solace, when he meets Sévérine.
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Skyfall / int_438ed383
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Hellish Copter
 Skyfall / int_43c77dd9
comment
Hellish Copter: Silva's gunship is hit by the shock-wave and resulting flying pieces of Skyfall's explosion, prompting it to crash and kill almost all of Silva's remaining men.
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Skyfall / int_43c77dd9
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Tranquil Fury
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comment
Tranquil Fury: Bond comments "Waste of good Scotch" after Silva kills Sévérine, only to take out all of Silva's men and deliver a vicious kick to Silva himself seconds later. Likewise, he seems to be rather miffed when Silva destroys the DB5. Cue massive explosion caused by him that takes out half the mooks present.
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Skyfall / int_443b78cd
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Ancestral Weapon
 Skyfall / int_454bda24
comment
While the elephant gun is obscenely powerful, as soon as Bond empties it twice, he drops it and picks up a much more practical assault rifle from one of his fallen foes. Ancestral Weapon or not, he knows which weapon is better in a combat situation.
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Skyfall / int_454bda24
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Shirtless Scene
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comment
Shirtless Scene: Bond has several to show off his physique and his wounds.
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Skyfall / int_4583a262
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Two-Faced
 Skyfall / int_461defa0
comment
Two-Faced: Raoul Silva looks like this with his prosthesis removed. A dodgy Cyanide Pill left him disfigured instead of actually killing him; without his dentures, his left cheek is sunken and his eyelid droops.
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Skyfall / int_461defa0
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Eye Take
 Skyfall / int_46ee4d3
comment
Eye Take: Bond, when Silva hacks the security at MI6 indirectly. Mallory, during M's speech at the inquiry. You can see him being turned from an Obstructive Bureaucrat to a Reasonable Authority Figure. Moments later, when Silva attacks, he takes a bullet in the shoulder that Silva's pistol was intending for M, and uses a bailiff's pistol to kill one of Silva's men.
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Skyfall / int_46ee4d3
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Big Fancy House
 Skyfall / int_4814d132
comment
Big Fancy House: What the titular Skyfall turns out to be, though it really isn't all that fancy.
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Skyfall / int_4814d132
 Skyfall / int_4843f922
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Dragon Lady
 Skyfall / int_4843f922
comment
Dragon Lady: Depressingly subverted Sévérine. She looks like an Asian version of The Baroness, but is actually a terrified non-combatant former Sex Slave who tries to get away from Silva and ends up with a bullet hole in the face for her trouble.
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Skyfall / int_4843f922
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Traintop Battle
 Skyfall / int_49bde8a
comment
Traintop Battle: A particularly elaborate one between Bond and Patrice that ends up trashing much of the train occurs during the pre-titles sequence.
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Scenery Gorn
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comment
The abandoned coal mining facility and city on Hashima Island is this and Scenery Gorn.
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Skyfall / int_49d18492
 Skyfall / int_49d59be9
type
Scenery Porn
 Skyfall / int_49d59be9
comment
Scenery Porn: As is often the case in films with cinematography by Roger Deakins. Includes iconic views of the London skyline and her classical architecture by both day and night. The Shanghai city skyline. The lantern-lit Huangpu River, complete with giant Chinese Dragons. The abandoned coal mining facility and city on Hashima Island is this and Scenery Gorn. The climax in Scotland, including the fog-covered valley of Glencoe. The woods outside Istanbul in the beginning.
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Skyfall / int_49d59be9
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Gory Discretion Shot
 Skyfall / int_49f20c6a
comment
Gory Discretion Shot: After Bond struggles with his unsteady hand during the William Telling contest, trying desperately to avoid unneeded casualties, Silva doesn't try. At all. But the only results we're shown is the tumbler of scotch hitting the ground, and later Sévérine's upper body slumped over from where she was tied up.
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Skyfall / int_49f20c6a
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Advertised Extra
 Skyfall / int_4b0ef86e
comment
Advertised Extra: Sévérine appears in the movie just long enough to give her tragic backstory before swiftly sleeping with Bond, getting tied up, and promptly murdered by Silva. Bond barely reacts to her murder and never mentions her again.
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Skyfall / int_4b0ef86e
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We Have Become Complacent
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comment
We Have Become Complacent: When asked if MI6 is relevant to the modern world, M responds that there should be an even greater focus on espionage to battle increasingly decentralized modern threats.
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Skyfall / int_4bca5b2e
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Construction Vehicle Rampage
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comment
Construction Vehicle Rampage: James Bond takes control of a Caterpillar excavator being shipped on a train and uses it to attack the assassin he is chasing. In the process, he crushes several cars being shipped, and rips the back off the rearmost passenger car.
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
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comment
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: M's husband apparently died between Quantum of Solace and this movie, presumably to explain why he isn't used as bait for M.
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Skyfall / int_4cb7f0d8
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Loyal Phlebotinum
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comment
Loyal Phlebotinum: Q issues Bond with a Walther PPK/S coded to his palmprint.
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Skyfall / int_4d359d57
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Not Quite Saved Enough
 Skyfall / int_4d3827ef
comment
Not Quite Saved Enough: Silva and his mooks arrive at Bond's ancestral home to kill M. After a prolonged firefight from the main house to the chapel across the field, Bond takes them all down ...but M was mortally wounded in the course of the battle.
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Skyfall / int_4d3827ef
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type
Tailor-Made Prison
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comment
Tailor-Made Prison: Silva gets imprisoned in one inside MI6's temporary headquarters. This does not end well, but only after the power is turned off.
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Skyfall / int_4e1d9178
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Wham Line
 Skyfall / int_4e7c4536
comment
Wham Line: More for M than for the audience: "Agent down."
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Skyfall / int_4e7c4536
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type
Trash the Set
 Skyfall / int_4ff6f484
comment
Trash the Set: Bond's iconic Aston Martin DB5 gets blown up in the finale, along with the eponymous Skyfall manor.
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Skyfall / int_4ff6f484
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type
Et Tu, Brute?
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comment
Et Tu, Brute?: M asks for Bond to leave Silva where he was, not only because he had been engaging in unauthorized hacking against the Chinese, but to hand him over to them in exchange for the prisoners held by the Chinese government. No wonder the guy becomes a cyber-terrorist bent on revenge against M.
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Skyfall / int_5037b961
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Bond One-Liner
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comment
Bond One-Liner: Bond, of course, most notably, "Last rat standing." There's also "Circle of Life" for the henchman left at the mercy of the Komodo dragon pit. Kincade blasting a henchman with a shotgun and saying, "Welcome to Scotland!"
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Non-Action Big Bad
 Skyfall / int_51c28ba3
comment
Non-Action Big Bad: Played with, though Silva goes toe to toe with Bond, he is annoyed by all the jumping and fighting and finds action unbecoming. Although he is the only Big Bad in the Bond reboot continuity to have onscreen kills.
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Skyfall / int_51c28ba3
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Animal Metaphor
 Skyfall / int_51df5ca1
comment
Animal Metaphor: Raul Silva uses rats as a metaphor for himself and Bond as spies.
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Significant Anagram
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comment
Significant Anagram: Not actually mentioned in the movie — 'Raoul Silva' becomes 'A Rival Soul' showing how similar he is to Bond. 'Think On Your Sins' becomes 'Your Son Isn't in HK'.
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type
Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!
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comment
Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: The way the names and faces of the NATO agents are leaked onto the Internet by Silva. He is posting them online at a rate of five each week. Also, three of the agents were caught and had their executions filmed and put on YouTube.
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Shower of Love
 Skyfall / int_54163958
comment
Shower of Love: Sévérine and Bond end up having sex in the shower while sailing to Silva's hideout.
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Unconventional Vehicle Chase
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comment
Unconventional Vehicle Chase: Bond uses an excavator to reach the train on which Patrice is fleeing.
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
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comment
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Bond read his own obituary. He's got one word to describe it: appalling.
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Adaptational Attractiveness
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comment
Adaptational Attractiveness: Q, no longer the cantankerous old man that Desmond Llewelyn portrayed, nor John Cleese for that matter, but the young and nerdy Ben Whishaw, in the Endearingly Dorky sense.
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10-Minute Retirement
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comment
10-Minute Retirement: Bond is "played out", but he comes back to the game because MI6 is under attack and they need him.
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But Not Too Bi
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comment
But Not Too Bi: Silva makes a flirty comment towards Bond while holding him prisoner, saying "There's a first time for everything, yes?" Bond replies, "What makes you think this is my first time?" This is the first time in the entire franchise, books included, that James Bond has ever hinted at having slept with men.
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It's All My Fault
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comment
It's All My Fault: M has some serious regrets about her own actions.
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Meaningful Background Event
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comment
Bond and Q's discussion of a painting of "a grand old warship being ignominiously hauled away for scrap," as Bond's fitness for active service is questioned from all sides. At the end of a movie, M's new office prominently displays a triumphant painting of a warship in its prime, along with a portrait of the destroyed Vauxhall Cross HQ.
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Murderous Thighs
 Skyfall / int_5bb17c1e
comment
Murderous Thighs: Bond kills one of Silva's henchmen by choking him with his thighs.
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Disney Villain Death
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comment
Disney Villain Death: The fight on the top floor of a Shanghai skyscraper ends with Patrice falling to his death after slipping out of Bond's hands.
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No Badass to His Valet
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No Badass to His Valet: Bond is one of Britain's most skilled agents and assassins. When he tells Kincade, his family's gamekeeper, to get himself out of danger before the climax, Kincade refuses and calls him a "jumped up little shit." Played With. While testing out the guns, he is visibly surprised at James' skill with the gun before asking "What did you say you did for a living again?"; while he does view James like he always has, he seems unaware that James has become one of the most valuable and dangerous agents of Britain.
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Central Theme
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Central Theme: "Does an intelligence agent like James Bond, with his old-fashioned techniques and approaches, still have a place in a modern, digital world?" Yes, but he has to adapt to the times just like everyone else, and he is no longer as infallible as he once was.
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Dying to Be Replaced
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Dying to Be Replaced: M dies and is replaced by Mallory. This works fairly well, mostly because the replacement character gets a reasonable amount of screentime during the movie and an Establishing Character Moment or two to prove that he's not a Suspiciously Similar Substitute.
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Kangaroo Court
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Kangaroo Court: The hearing on M's handling of the crisis rapidly turns into this, and Mallory is none too happy about it. It couldn't help that it's because Silva and his men barge in and shoot the place up.
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Conveniently an Orphan
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Conveniently an Orphan: Bond. Also invoked by M.
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Badass Bureaucrat
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Badass Bureaucrat: Mallory is currently a bureaucrat, but only because he's a Retired Badass. He gets into a gunfight against Silva, takes a bullet, and is later tapped as M's replacement after she dies.
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Adaptation Amalgamation
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Adaptation Amalgamation: The plot of Bond being presumed dead and M writing his obituary is taken from You Only Live Twice, while the shooting contest is taken from The Man with the Golden Gun.
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Blood Is Squicker in Water
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Blood Is Squicker in Water: The title sequence, due to the Action Prologue ending in Bond's falling into a river, shot.
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In Harm's Way
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In Harm's Way: It's repeatedly suggested that despite Bond's substance abuse problems, his true addiction is danger. It's only when he temporarily leaves the Anyone Can Die world of espionage that he seeks solace in pills and alcohol.
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We Have Reserves
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We Have Reserves: M is a rare "heroic" example of this, casually treating the lives of her subordinates as expendable assets. This, predictably, comes back to bite her in the ass big time. The agent who Bond finds shot when the hard-drive is stolen is revealed to have died simply because Bond was ordered to pursue Patrice. Also, this trope is what drives Silva's retaliation plot.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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The Freeze-Frame Bonus that reveals M's name as Olivia Mansfield is a reference to Captain Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, AKA C, who was the first Chief of the Real Life MI6.
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Ejection Seat
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Ejection Seat: Played for Laughs when Bond takes the Aston Martin, complete with gadgets, out of a garage so that he and M can escape London. When M starts exasperating Bond, he flips up the secret panel on the gear-stick, revealing the red button, as if threatening to eject her. M, somewhat at the end of her tether, dares him to do it.
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Cyanide Pill
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Cyanide Pill: Silva attempted to commit suicide using a hydrogen cyanide implant in one of his molars during his capture, torture, and imprisonment by the Chinese after M's betrayal. The suicide attempt failed, horrifically scarring Silva both mentally and physically. It should be noted that's not how hydrogen cyanide works, but the writers may have assumed otherwise from its alternate name: prussic acid.
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Game-Breaking Injury
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Game-Breaking Injury: Bond sustains two shots to his chest and shoulder. He loses his iconic aim with the Walther PPK due to these injuries, and he never recovers them by the end of the movie. Also, M is hit with the thug's gunfire in a non-lethal area but due to her age, she dies from the injury due to bleeding out.
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Thriller on the Express
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Thriller on the Express: This is likely referred to in the opening sequence, where Bond engages in a battle with Patrice atop a train.
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Rage Against the Mentor
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Rage Against the Mentor: Bond chews M out for nearly getting him killed at the start of the film. Silva's entire plan is also about making M suffer for her past transgressions.
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Manly Tears
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Manly Tears: Bond begins tearing up as M dies. To date, he is the only Bond to ever have actual tears coming out of him on-screen.
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Train Escape
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Train Escape: Subverted. Bond advances on Patrice in an excavator to shield him from gunfire, so Patrice shoots out the coupling between him and Bond. Bond jams the excavator's bucket into the car ahead to provide a temporary link, then jumps into the car as its rear end gets pulled off to continue the chase.
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He Knows Too Much
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Silva occasionally finishes his threats to M by saying "Think on your sins" before signing off. When he is captured just as he'd planned, he finishes his face to face conversation with her by saying "Look upon your work, Mother.", which is different. One may think it's because of her past dealings with him, but it also means to stop digging too deep into SPECTRE's affairs since the next movie reveals she had information on Marco Sciarra and she feared that Silva was ordered by SPECTRE to silence her.
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Facial Horror
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Facial Horror: Silva looks pretty normal, until he's captured and confronted by M, who sold him out to the Chinese. He explains how he was tortured for months before attempting to commit suicide via the Cyanide Pill in his back molar. It didn't work. What it did instead is revealed when he removes a prosthetic from his mouth and the left side of his face just sags inwards.
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Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee
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Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: M is required to testify before a Defense Ministry hearing about MI6's effectiveness. It's rendered moot when Silva and his henchmen attack the hearing and M is eventually killed before they come to any decision.
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Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell
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Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Discussed. M's Government Inquiry questions the need for MI6 in a post-Cold War world. M responds that MI6 is needed more than ever to battle far more disperse and elusive modern enemies - as shown by Silva's usage of new tech to hack and harass MI6.
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A Storm Is Coming
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A Storm Is Coming: Bond tells M this once they enter Scotland.
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: A reference is made to MI6's enemies existing "in the shadows." Cut to Bond sailing towards Silva's island on a sunlit ocean.
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Labcoat of Science and Medicine
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Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Lampshaded when Bond meets the new (and very young) Q.
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Gay Bravado
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Gay Bravado: Silva touches James Bond in a very suggestive manner, asking, "First time for everything, yes?" Bond matter-of-factly responds by asking him, "What makes you think this is my first time?" That's right—James freaking Bond, womanizer extraordinaire, just insinuated that he's gotten it on with another man.
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Poison Is Corrosive
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Poison Is Corrosive: Silva's malfunctioning cyanide suicide capsule somehow dissolved his teeth and upper jaw but failed to kill him. The result is a sunken left cheek (which he hides by wearing a dental prosthesis), bloodshot eyes, damaged gums and slurred speech.
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A Death in the Limelight
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A Death in the Limelight: After the film explores M's character, she is killed off.
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The Power of Hate
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The Power of Hate: Silva suggests this as the explanation for his surviving cyanide poisoning.
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Scary Scorpions
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Scary Scorpions: After Bond is presumed dead, he participates in a Drinking Contest where he must keep a scorpion on his hand. He promptly empties his glass and then traps the scorpion under it.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: "Silva" is the Portuguese equivalent of "Smith", hinting to The Reveal that it's just a code name. His real name "Tiago" is the Portuguese form of "James." Even better: his last name "Rodriguez" is Spanish for "son of Roderick", which means "he who is rich in glory." Gareth Mallory, twice over. "Mallory" is Old French for "bad luck" or "unlucky," and his introduction has him asking Bond why he would come back when he had the good luck Mallory and others never did. Once we reach the third act, the mere fact that his last name begins with "M" makes it quite clear what's going to happen.
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Beware the Silly Ones
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Beware the Silly Ones: Silva, who acts like a laid-back goofball, while still being a dangerous psychotic.
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StealthPrequel
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Stealth Prequel: Though Casino Royale was initially billed as a prequel, there was very little in it to suggest that it and Quantum of Solace were about Bond's first missions. This film, in particular, does all that it can to present Bond as a veteran MI6 agent who's finally feeling the effects of his many brushes with death. By the end, though, we unexpectedly learn that it's also the story of Bond's first encounters with Q and Moneypenny, and that it features a new M who very much resembles Bernard Lee's original take on the character (complete with the classic office set).
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Part of Silva's backstory. It didn't work, obviously.
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Villainous BSoD
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Villainous B So D: Silva is at last about to fulfill his revenge, as he holds the mortally wounded M in his grasp and puts his gun to her face...before he starts crying and puts the gun in M's own hand, presses his temple against hers, then guides the gun to her other temple, and he begs her to kill them both with the same bullet.
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Go Back to the Source
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Go Back to the Source: Bond takes refuge in his childhood manor for his final confrontation against Silva.
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Once Done, Never Forgotten
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Eve after she accidentally shoots Bond. Bond knows it was an accident and is angrier at M for making the call, however. He still never misses an opportunity to remind her about it. It's often more of a light-hearted jab than anything.
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My Greatest Failure
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My Greatest Failure: M regards her cock-up of the leak and ordering the shot that gets Bond seemingly killed as this.
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Limp and Livid
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Limp and Livid: After Bond's manor and his own helicopter blow up practically in his face, Silva loses both his posture and what remains of his sanity. He spends the rest of his screentime stumbling around with only willpower keeping him vertical.
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Skeleton Motif
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Skeleton Motif: Silva uses skulls as a sort of calling card, especially "Day of the Dead" style sugar skulls, which appear a lot in the taunting online messages he sends MI6. We later learn his face actually resembles a skull, with slightly melted cheekbones due to a failed suicide attempt with a poison capsule.
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Unflinching Walk
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Unflinching Walk: The trailer ramps it up by substituting "explosion" with "train car getting ripped open by heavy equipment while he's inside it."
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And the Adventure Continues
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And the Adventure Continues: The film ends with Bond being given a new mission by M. In a more meta way, the movie ends with the classic title card: "James Bond Will Return."
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Let the Past Burn
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Let the Past Burn: The film has the eponymous manor burning down during the ending battle with, of course, lots of explosions and such. This is very symbolic, as Bond has linked it throughout the movie with his childhood, and certain... psychological baggage he's carried with him from there.
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Shoe Phone
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Shoe Phone: Defied. According to the new Q, they "don't go for that sort of thing any more."
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Villain Has a Point
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Villain Has a Point: Whatever else he is, Silva is completely right to call out M for sending Bond back to the field despite Bond flunking out all his tests, and Bond for keeping his faith on M despite her decision to do so. This point is further reinforced when M proceeds with her hearing at the Parliament despite HQ's warning that Silva and his commando crew are on their way there.
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Idiot Ball
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Idiot Ball: Q hooking up Silva's laptop to MI6's network. Silva is a known talented hacker, and if Q was really as smart as he claimed, he would've at least isolated the laptop in a virtual sandbox and prevented it from accessing other nodes at the network. If he really wanted to do it right, he could've kept it isolated on a hardware level too, bringing in tools as he needed them. When M is informed that Silva has escaped and is told to seek shelter during her hearing, she refuses to "show her back" and instead continues to defend herself to the ministers for an extended period, resulting in numerous deaths when Silva inevitably bursts in and begins shooting. Patrice's assassination in Shanghai goes off without a hitch because Bond spends several minutes simply watching him assemble his rifle, cut through glass, and line up a shot. The fight would have been far easier had he attacked a minute or two earlier when Patrice was still assembling his gun.
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Invoked Trope
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While imprisoned by MI6, Silva invokes this by demanding M say his real name. M, however, has none of it.
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Bungled Suicide
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Bungled Suicide: Silva's Start of Darkness happened when M sold him out to the Chinese, who tortured him for months. Silva then used his Cyanide Pill but it didn't work, horribly disfiguring his jaw and teeth. He then dedicated the rest of his life to getting revenge on M.
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Hats Off to the Dead
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Hats Off to the Dead: Kincade does this after M takes her last breath in Bond's arms.
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Arc Words
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Arc Words: "Skyfall" is mentioned early on, and is the only part of the word association test that he doesn't have a witty response to. It turns out to be his family home, where he lived after his parents died in a freak climbing accident. "Think on your sins." "Old dog, new tricks." and "Sometimes, the old ways are the best." This describes the major difference between Bond and Silva: whereas Silva is over-reliant on technology, Bond uses old-fashioned and Boring, but Practical weapons to take Silva down. "Boom" becomes an Arc Song Lyric of sorts for Silva. At one point while Silva taunts Bond, he has a popular French song "Boum" by Charles Trenet playing on his loudspeaker. During his final confrontation with Bond and M, Silva's helicopter speakers blare out The Animals' version of Jon Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom."
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Bond Villain Stupidity
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Bond Villain Stupidity: Silva initially toys with Bond instead of killing him because it's all part of his plan to get caught so he can exact revenge on M. Later, however, his failure to take advantage of various opportunities to kill the heroes after said plan has already run its course is best chalked up to Plot Armor and Sanity Has Advantages.
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Action Prologue
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The Action Prologue closes on Bond lying motionless in the water, mirroring the iconic images that open each film in The Bourne Series.
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Stout Strength
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Stout Strength: One of Silva's henchmen posing as one of Sévérine's "bodyguards" is a rather burly Oddjob-lookalike who puts up a fairly decent fight, although Bond succeeds in landing more blows than he does.
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No One Gets Left Behind
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No One Gets Left Behind: Averted in the opening when Bond has to leave a fellow agent to bleed to death, in favour of pursuing the man who shot him and stole a microchip containing the identities of NATO undercover agents. Silva turns out to be another SIS agent who was abandoned after he went rogue.
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Rock Beats Laser
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Rock Beats Laser: During the climax, Bond, M and Kincade are poorly equipped, with only old hunting guns, knives, dynamite, some gas bottles, and the good old Aston Martin DB5 against Silva's mooks, who carry recent assault rifles and grenades and benefit from heavily armed helicopter support. Subverted when Bond drops the hunting rifle after killing a couple of Mooks with it and picks up one of their modern assault rifles.
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Impoverished Patrician
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Impoverished Patrician: It's implied that Bond's parents may have fallen on hard times before their untimely death, although they retained the manor. That Bond himself became an orphan just adds to it.
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Not With the Safety On, You Won't
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Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Bond is issued a Walter PPK from Q branch that only fires when he's holding it. So when a mook grabs the gun and is about to fire it, Bond only smiles. And then the mook gets grabbed by a Komodo Dragon from behind.
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Hero's Evil Predecessor
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Hero's Evil Predecessor: Silva turns out to be a former Double-0 agent who wasn't so different to James Bond — maverick yet loyal to M (until he was betrayed), with an addiction to risk and beautiful women. As per this trope he's more skilled than Bond and is a step ahead of him for most of the movie.
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Origins Episode
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Origins Episode: This film could be considered one for the "classic James Bond," as it shows the origins of many well-known elements from the Bond mythos: Moneypenny, her sexually charged banter with Bond, the male M, his office, etc. It also delves deeper into the origins of Bond himself than any of the preceding movies.
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Hall of Mirrors
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Hall of Mirrors: The opening sequence briefly shows Bond in one, shooting at his own reflections. This foreshadows another character using a mirror to fool a mook so he can be shot.
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Moment of Silence
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Moment of Silence: As the chase scene in London nears its end.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Government Minister on the committee M is hauled before gives a (mostly off-screen) Character Filibuster about how useless and outdated MI6 is. M's response to her (in the form of a Tennyson quotation), fortunately, is beautiful, and it helps that all of M's points are proven correct, like, five seconds later when Silva barges into the courtroom and begins shooting. Mallory even realizes how one-sided the hearing is, and lampshades it.
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Time-Delayed Death
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Near the end of the film, M suffers a bullet wound inflicted by one of Silva's henchmen, but manages to continue to fight and run for quite some time afterwards. The wound eventually ends up killing her.
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Silva just wants to die, but after 5 months of torture and a botched suicide attempt, he's so insane that he believes the only way he can is if he destroys M and everything she stands for first.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: Bond, who begins drinking heavily after his Heroic BSoD at the start of the film.
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murder.com
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murder.com: The villain gives away the identities of several undercover agents, causing them to be captured, with their executions released on YouTube.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Eve accidentally shoots Bond, allowing Patrice to flee with the hard drive. M gave Silva to the Chinese to save 6 agents, but in the process caused Silva's Start of Darkness, leading him to kill dozens of MI6 staff later on. Q's attempt to decrypt Silva's computer by plugging it into MI6's network ends up releasing a virus that opens every door in MI6's new base, allowing Silva to escape. Bond takes M to Skyfall without the knowledge of MI6 to keep her safe and fight Silva on his own terms. Despite a heroic effort, it doesn't end well.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: Just prior to Silva's on-camera appearance, Bond's taken to an open-air server network in a dusty, deserted city. Such an environment would make the computers degrade quickly — essentially, hardware that'd self-dispose about when Silva presumably no longer needs it. Indeed, Silva's planning to be caught shortly after this encounter, and he is.
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Mobstacle Course
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Mobstacle Course: Bond chasing Silva through the London Underground during rush hour.
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He's Back!
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He's Back!: Bond, after pretending to be dead for some time, reappears in M's house when she needs him. Also later when, after spending the whole film being held back by his arm injury, Bond finally regains his Improbable Aiming Skills.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Silva makes many flamboyant gestures and verbal tics when giving speeches and makes sure he comes in in a big way.
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BFG
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BFG: Bond's Ancestral Weapon, a Anderson Wheeler 500 NE Double Rifle chambered for the .500 Nitro Express which is a cartridge designed to kill Cape buffalo, rhinos, and ELEPHANTS.
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Logical Weakness
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Logical Weakness: Bond uses his old Cool Car with the machine guns in the headlights to ambush Silva's men. Unfortunately, they only fire straight ahead, meaning he only takes down a few of the soldiers. Luckily, they planned for this, and the next stage of the plan requires the bad guys to retreat into the manse.
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Stepford Smiler
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Stepford Smiler: Sévérine, who was a child sex slave abused for years and still suffers at the hands of Silva. Bond sees through her veneer, and her smile slowly gets faker and faker as Bond gets under it.
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Second-Face Smoke
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Second-Face Smoke: Sévérine does this for a long time during her Smoking Is Glamorous tribute. Bond's response falls into the "stoically putting up with it" category.
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Disposable Woman
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Disposable Woman: Sévérine appears for all of a half-dozen scenes before Silva shoots her in the head. This shows how disposable Silva considers everyone and everything, a dark mirror to M's pragmatism.
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The Social Darwinist
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The Social Darwinist: Silva is a type 5. Using Animal Metaphors, he relates a childhood story to a captive 007, describing how he spent time with his grandmother on an island, where she taught him how to rid the island of its rat infestation by capturing them in oil drums. He utilizes the image of the trapped rats turning to cannibalism as a metaphor for what the life of a spy does to its participants - namely himself. He even describes himself and Bond as the "last two rats standing." In the climax, after killing Silva, Bond throws back in his face with "Last rat standing."
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Kincade's dogs aren't seen after the scene where he first appears. We hear them barking as Silva's henchmen approach for the final confrontation. Similarly, there's no mention of Quantum in the film, even though they were the Greater-Scope Villain of the two previous films. Silva has no connection to them. The next film, Spectre, reveals that Quantum, and even Silva, were connected to SPECTRE as separate offshoots. Quantum itself was largely disassembled by then, largely ending with Mr. White's radiation poisoning and suicide. The list of NATO agents is never really brought up again after Silva finally appears on screen. Was it released? Did MI6 recover it when they captured Silva?
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Newscaster Cameo
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Newscaster Cameo: In the European release, BBC journalist Huw Edwards presents a news report about the attack on MI6's HQ that prompts Bond to come Back from the Dead. In the North American and British release, CNN has Wolf Blitzer present it from the Situation Room.
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant
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Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Mallory is introduced as an Obstructive Bureaucrat but he has Hidden Depths; he not only proves himself as a useful badass but is also a Reasonable Authority Figure who understands the need of out-of-the-box plans. Due to these qualities, he's chosen to become the new M.
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Data Drive MacGuffin
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Data Drive MacGuffin: The Action Prologue has Bond and Eve on a mission to recover an encrypted hard drive containing the identifies of every undercover NATO agent. They fail; the bad guys get away with the data, and Bond ends up missing, presumed dead.
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Truth in Television
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M reveals to Bond after he shows up at her house that due to being declared dead MI6 sold his flat and moved his things into storage. As much as it's played for laughs this is very much Truth in Television when dealing with deceased people who leave no wills or have any living relatives. "You should have called" indeed.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bond's Aston Martin serves as a Bait-and-Switch Continuity Nod. The scene soon after we're introduced to the car, Bond alludes to its passenger-side Ejection Seat but he doesn't use it. In fact, the ejector seat never gets used; the purpose of this scene is to establish that this is the vintage Goldfinger car. Thanks to this, the audience has no reason to question the machine guns behind the headlights.
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Sharp-Dressed Man
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Reflecting Bond's Character Development and adjustment into being 007 over the recent films, he seems to be getting into doing his job in nice suits.
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Stiff Upper Lip
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Bond comments "Waste of good Scotch" after Silva kills Sévérine, only to take out all of Silva's men and deliver a vicious kick to Silva himself seconds later.
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One-Hit Polykill
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One-Hit Polykill: Invoked when Silva holds M's head against his own and puts a gun to his temple, begging her to pull the trigger and finish them both off.
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Batman Cold Open
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Batman Cold Open: A totally spectacular one, featuring no less than three chase scenes and a Traintop Battle.
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Back from the Dead
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Back from the Dead: Played with.
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Do Wrong, Right
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Do Wrong, Right: Mallory catches Q and Tanner creating a trail for Silva to follow in his pursuit of M, whom Bond is protecting at the eponymous lodge. Q and Tanner think they are in trouble, but Mallory instead gives them tips on the best path to give Silva to make sure he is taking the bait.
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Cool Car
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Finally, he has Bond's Cool Car blown up, even though at this point it posed no threat. Although it's very likely he did this to prevent Bond and M using it as a means of escape.
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Captured on Purpose
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Captured on Purpose: Silva is taken captive by Bond and incarcerated in a glass cell. But as MI6 soon discover, this is just so that he can hack into their computers, automatically open his cell, waltz through the London underground and into the middle of a court room to shoot M.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker with a Crush: Word of Saint Paul (Javier Bardem) has it that Silva used to be, and perhaps still is, in love with M.
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No One Could Survive That!
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No One Could Survive That!: Bond is shot in the chest and falls off a speeding train into water... Bond is labeled as dead by MI6 despite actually being alive and recovering in Turkey. Bond himself lampshades this trope when asked what his hobby is: "Resurrection."
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Canon Character All Along
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Canon Character All Along: MI6 agent Eve reveals her last name at the end: Moneypenny.
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Long Last Look
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Long Last Look: Bond takes one last look at his childhood home before it explodes in flames—and declares, "I always hated this place." Then he does it again two minutes later, Watching Troy Burn from a little further away and not inside it this time, but on the moor just as Silva catches him.
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Revisiting the Roots
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Revisiting the Roots: This film accomplishes this for the whole franchise. Besides the reintroduction of Q by the end of film, MI6 has moved into the Universal Exports offices from the older films, Moneypenny is reintroduced and there's a new (male) M.
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The Voiceless
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The Voiceless: Patrice doesn't say a word, even when he is asked by Bond who he's working for, he desires not to speak and plummets to his death.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Bond sees Patrice shoot at least two people before their fight, so we don't feel too bad when he falls to his death shortly afterwards.
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IKEA Weaponry
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IKEA Weaponry: Patrice takes out a target across the street using a custom rifle he assembles on the fly.
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Hacked by a Pirate
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Hacked by a Pirate: Silva does this with a stylized skull and "God save the Queen" playing in the message.
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Evil Genius
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Evil Genius: Silva seeing everything, especially people, as disposable if it serves his goal and his brilliance allows him to hatch a very complicated plan that succeeds.
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GPS Evidence
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GPS Evidence: Depleted uranium bullets, used by a few mercenaries/assassins as a calling card. Here are their photographs.
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Blood-Stained Glass Windows
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Bloodstained Glass Windows: The post-final-final-confrontation takes place in a Chapel.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: M betrayed Silva to save several other agents back in Hong Kong. The first phase of Silva's revenge involves betraying the identities of five agents, effectively undoing it. She also sacrificed several agents, denying one immediate medical care from Bond that could have saved him, and dies from a similar injury herself because she can't get help in time. At the start of the film, M orders Eve to "take the bloody shot" that downs Bond. In the finale, when Silva implores her to end both their lives with the same bullet, she is either unwilling or unable to do so.
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Rule of Symbolism
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Rule of Symbolism: Bond and Q's discussion of a painting of "a grand old warship being ignominiously hauled away for scrap," as Bond's fitness for active service is questioned from all sides. At the end of a movie, M's new office prominently displays a triumphant painting of a warship in its prime, along with a portrait of the destroyed Vauxhall Cross HQ. Being killed by a knife In the Back, given the "old ways" theme. The disreputable art of assassination and espionage was traditionally described this way. Also, betrayal is an important theme in the film. Bond and Patrice fight in a half-finished office space that functions as a hall of mirrors. It's also a metaphor for a situation where the truth is hard to discern, sometimes specifically for the spy business. M's British Bulldog ornament can be seen as representing Bond's patriotism and tenacity. Like Bond, it survives the downfall of the old regime and remains after M is gone. M leaving it to him is a sign she wants him to carry on.
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Rewrite
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Rewrite: Here, as in the novels and films before the reboot, Bond is the lone scion of a wealthy noble family. In Casino Royale (2006) Vesper inferred, and Bond never explicitly denied, that he "didn't come from money, and your school friends never let you forget it." However, Spectre went on to expand on Bond's backstory further and bridge his family details together more clearly.
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Age Cut
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Age Cut: The opening credits features two shots of Skyfall being ripped away to show Bond's eyes. In the first, it's a boy; in the second, it's Daniel Craig.
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: Silva, by the end of things. He had kept his cool throughout the whole movie, but once his plans had started to go awry, Silva started to break down considerably.
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: Raoul Silva maintains a jovial, childish attitude even when he's torturing captives and offing minions, hacking into MI6's servers, or when he invades on Bond's ancestral home in an effort to kill M.
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Guns Do Not Work That Way
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Guns Do Not Work That Way: Patrice assembles a bolt action rifle...which fires several times without manipulating the bolt during his hand-to-hand combat with Bond.
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Quite a few — more than average for a Bond film. One of these was the scene where Bond meets the new Q, exchange some witty banter with each other before shaking hands and parting in mutual respect. Another is Bond and M on the run and waiting for Silva to arrive at Skyfall.
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Perilous Old Fool
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Perilous Old Fool: Played With. Bond is left pretty significantly disabled after his "death", in ways that seriously impact his ability to do all the things that make him James Bond. (No, not that thing, that's fine.) He's left physically debilitated, unable to shoot straight, and reliant on pills and liquor. But he's still sent back into battle despite failing all the assessment exams, even the weapons course and, being Bond, still ends up kicking the requisite ass, though he does need the assistance of two literal old people to do so.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad Silva has been locked up inside the MI6 HQ and Bond and Q are analysing his laptop. It looks like the good guys are finally one step ahead. Then every door in the base starts opening. Q's reaction is priceless. Especially when he notices that he himself had a part in all this, by plugging the laptop into the MI6 network.
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Continuity Reboot
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Continuity Reboot: Tells how Bond came to meet Q, Moneypenny, and the male M, as well as how he came to operate out of the Universal Exports' offices.note None of this has ever actually been depicted in the films before, nor in any of the Fleming novels. To reinforce this, the Bond Gun Barrel sequence closes the movie instead of opening it.
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Tragic Keepsake
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Tragic Keepsake: The little Union Jack bulldog figurine seen on M's desk, which survives the destruction of MI6 headquarters, is later left to Bond in M's will. Given Bond absolutely hated the thing, it was meant as a final joke by M.
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Momma's Boy
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Momma's Boy: Silva is a villainous example towards M, he alternates between wanting to destroy M for abandoning him and having a bizarre affection for her, he even outright calls M "Mommy" or "Mother" multiple times. When Silva sees M wounded, his Sanity Slippage become worse and he tries to force M to kill herself and him.
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As You Know
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As You Know: Sardonically done by Mallory with M.
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"Not So Different" Remark
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"Not So Different" Remark: Silva points out to Bond that they are both past-their-prime top agents who have been betrayed by M. "Raoul Silva" also happens to be an anagram of "a rival soul"...
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Gambit Roulette
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Gambit Roulette: Despite being years in the making, exploiting MI6 protocols, and having a fairly simple end goal, Silva's plan relies heavily on the assumption that no one will just shoot him in the head or fail to follow protocol.
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Sinister Silhouettes
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Sinister Silhouettes: Silva's first appearance in the trailers was nothing but a black silhouette walking away from a burning building.
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Wall Bang Her
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Wall Bang Her: Bond and the nameless girl we see him with during his exile.
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Rapid-Fire Typing
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While pursuing Silva through the Tube, Bond calls Q to figure out where they're going. Q does some Rapid-Fire Typing and pulls up a fancy 3-D wireframe of the London Underground in an attempt to plot the route, which takes almost a minute plus, and he's still not finished when Bond looks up at the route map above the window in his car and in two seconds knows Westminster is the next stop.
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The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: The main villain, Silva gets offed when Bond hurls a hunting knife straight into his back.
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Greater-Scope Villain
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Similarly, there's no mention of Quantum in the film, even though they were the Greater-Scope Villain of the two previous films. Silva has no connection to them. The next film, Spectre, reveals that Quantum, and even Silva, were connected to SPECTRE as separate offshoots. Quantum itself was largely disassembled by then, largely ending with Mr. White's radiation poisoning and suicide.
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: Raoul Silva and Bond. Both were at a time agents serving MI6 who had a close emotional relationship with the current M, with Silva saying that he was her "old favorite." Their key difference being that Bond remains largely old-school despite using gadgets, whilst Silva tries harder to adapt to the modern world to the point where he becomes too dependent on the use of modern technology, computers in particular. Something that plays a key part in his downfall. Also, Silva is essentially a dark James Bond, as while 007 forgave his adopted "mother" and remains loyal to her, Silva went rogue and is attempting to kill her. Silva's name is also an anagram, "A Rival Soul."
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
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The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Silva's actual grudge is against M, and he tells his men that only he can kill her. He doesn't care who kills Bond. When he sees that M has already been mortally wounded, he practically breaks down. When Bond shows up and throws a knife into his back (interrupting his Murder-Suicide plan), he just looks annoyed.
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: Miss Eve Moneypenny is shown to be a competent field agent.
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A Day in the Limelight
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A Day in the Limelight: The film explores M's background and motivations.
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Depraved Homosexual
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Depraved Homosexual: Silva menacingly rubs Bond's thighs. The most spectacular part of this scene, however, is Bond's reaction. With typical unruffled Bond demeanour, he says, "What makes you think this is my first time?"
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Taking the Bullet
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Taking the Bullet: During Silva's attack on the inquiry hearing, Mallory does this when Silva fires his pistol at M, intercepting the bullet in his shoulder.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: The opening credits sequence foreshadows multiple elements of Bond's mission to Asia, Bond and Silva's backstories, and the climactic showdown at the titular Skyfall manor at the end of the movie. The theme song also has a few - the chorus in particular indirectly mentions that there will be a battle ("We will stand tall, face it all together, at Skyfall.") When Judi Dench's credits appears, if one pauses it before it disappears, the background behind the text is a gravestone, like her name is on it. Sure enough, M dies by the film's end. In the first scene, M orders Bond to leave Ronson behind so he can get the hard drive back, sacrificing one life for the greater good and not having to risk the lives of more agents. She orders Eve to shoot at Patrice for the same reason, even if it means the possibility of hitting Bond. As we learn later, she did the same thing to Silva. It didn't go well. M's line "Oh, to hell with dignity! I'll leave when the job's done!" foreshadows her final scene at the end of the movie. Bond's line to Sévérine, "Someone usually dies." A very subtle example that overlaps somewhat with a Call-Back to Casino Royale: in the earlier film, Bond tells M "I thought M was a randomly assigned letter, I had no idea it stood for..." clearly implying that M's real name has a letter m in it somewhere. In Skyfall, we're introduced to an authoritative senior figure (played by a big-time actor), named Mallory... As they're arming up at Skyfall manor, Kincaid produces a hunting knife and comments that "sometimes the old ways are the best." Guess how Silva meets his end. In addition, Judi Dench's M is referred to as Emma at one point, implying it may be a nickname as well as a codename. Though it's more likely Kincade assumed he heard "Em" and that it would be nice to be formal. They didn't have the heart, and didn't see the necessity, to correct him. During Silva's first meeting with Bond, he mentions the British Empire and MI6 while he tells Bond that he's living in a ruin as well and that he doesn't know it yet. The next movie, Spectre reveals that the old MI6 building is going to be demolished to make way for C/Max Denbigh's Nine Eyes Building, which would make the Double 00 Program obsolete. Silva occasionally finishes his threats to M by saying "Think on your sins" before signing off. When he is captured just as he'd planned, he finishes his face to face conversation with her by saying "Look upon your work, Mother.", which is different. One may think it's because of her past dealings with him, but it also means to stop digging too deep into SPECTRE's affairs since the next movie reveals she had information on Marco Sciarra and she feared that Silva was ordered by SPECTRE to silence her. M stands at the end of the row of coffins of the agents murdered in the attack, just before the funeral, and says "I'm going to find whoever did this." She does. And then she ends up in a coffin of her own. She even dies in a church. Near the altar, where a coffin would be in a funeral.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: While it affects his performance for most of the movie, Bond still survives being shot twice and falling off a bridge. Followed by a waterfall.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod to Quantum of Solace, when Bond mentions that part of the reason he's going after Quantum is because they tried to kill a woman close to him. Camille asks, "Your mother?" Bond replies, "She likes to think so."
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This Is Gonna Suck
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This Is Gonna Suck: "Oh good, there's a train coming."
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Old Retainer
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Old Retainer: Kincade, Bond's family's gamekeeper, is at least twice Bond's age and has known Bond since he was a child.
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Mr. Smith
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Mr. Smith: Silva is the most common surname in the Portuguese speaking world. As soon as he is first called that, he immediately demands to be called by his real name.
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Reimagining the Artifact: Q gets a notable modern update as MI6's tech-savvy Mission Control with a talent for computer hacking, as well as being aged down significantly to contrast him with the more traditionalist Bond. Though he does have the obligatory scene where he supplies Bond with a list of new gadgets, his computer skills are his primary talent. As the film is quick to point out, having a tech-savvy spy is still a huge asset in an age of digital espionage, even if he doesn't build exploding pens.
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Failure Hero
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Failure Hero: Bond fails at every objective he has during the movie: he loses the MI6 hard drive; allows an assassin to kill a politician; fails to get information from said assassin; fails to protect the mole; falls into Silva's trap; fails to stop Silva escaping; fails to stop several deaths in Parliament; loses Skyfall Manor; kills Silva instead of bringing him in to face justice; and finally fails to protect M. The only positive thing that can be said is that he survives. In a sense, this is exactly the way Ian Fleming first conceived of Bond. Ultimately, the end of the movie is a Pyrrhic Victory: Bond defeats Silva, but that was his only victory. Everything else went to shit. Every major character in this film has some sort of major failure in their past, including Silva.
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It's Personal
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It's Personal: Silva goes out of his way to humiliate MI6 and M especially before trying to eliminate them. In a more amusing example, when Silva is strafing Skyfall in his helicopter, the dramatic music doesn't start until he shoots up Bond's car. Averted with Eve; although Bond enjoys snarking her about accidentally shooting him, he's more angry at M for giving the order.
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Mean Boss
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Mean Boss: M may not be a cackling mad scientist or terrorist, but make no mistake: she is equally as heartless towards the lives of her subordinates as any snarling Bond Villain. In her case, however, it is for the common good that she has to be that way, and that her assets are considered disposable. If she had fought to keep her subordinates, Silva wouldn't have snapped in the first place.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Eve is shocked when her shot hits the wrong target.
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Award-Bait Song: The film's main theme, "Skyfall," by the award winning singer Adele. It topped charts on its first day of release, won the Golden Globe for Best Song, the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media, and the Academy Award for Best Original Song, becoming the fifth Bond song to be so nominated and the first ever to win.
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Blown Across the Room
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Blown Across the Room: Stopping power seems to be a hallmark of the film, with most gunshots physically knocking their targets back, regardless of the gun that fired them. Eve's shot during the prologue is a prime example, knocking Bond clear off the train with a single shot from a K23B Tactical.note  The K23B is a shortened AR-15 clone, meaning it technically develops less muzzle velocity, and therefore less energy on target, than a standard M16 or AR-15, making this especially egregious. In the courtroom shootout, Mallory is shot with a Glock 17, and is sent reeling as if it were a Desert Eagle. Kincade's 12 Gauge is the most prominent example, taking out three men with two shots, and knocking all three off their feet and into a wall. And then amusingly averted with the big-game rifle; the two mooks thus shot simply drop where they are.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The Word Association Test is somewhat funny (particularly Bond's reaction to hearing "M") up until the psychologist says "Skyfall" and puts Bond on edge. Bond follows Patrice to what looks like a meeting... until Patrice kills the security guard in the lobby.
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Dented Iron
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Dented Iron: A recurring theme. The effectiveness of the aging Bond, M, Mallory, MI6, Bond's family manor, and Britain itself are all questioned, only for all of them to prove to be considerably tougher than they look. Then there's this subtext-laden remark about The Fighting Temeraire, a painting in the National Gallery:
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Due to the Dead
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Due to the Dead: The lack of ceremony accorded to dead spies is mentioned several times — all they get is their real name engraved into a remembrance wall. Similarly, after M's death, none of the flags in the area around MI6's headquarters are at half mast, and both Eve and Bond comment on the lack of ceremony.
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Hollywood Tactics
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Hollywood Tactics: Well-averted on the part of Silva's mooks during the final battle.note  They react with proper suppression fire to Bond's opening ambush, take what cover they can as quickly as possible, and move through the manor in a professional fashion. The problem, of course, is that they're still up against James Bond.
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Died in Your Arms Tonight
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: M dies in Bond's arms after being mortally wounded by one of Silva's men earlier.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: The stolen hard drive containing the names and faces of every undercover NATO agent.
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Shoot Out the Lock
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Shoot Out the Lock: Bond opens a jammed door in a Tube tunnel by shooting the lock, just in the nick of time to avoid being flatted by a passing train.
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Instant Death Bullet
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Instant Death Bullet: Averted with M's death. M is mortally wounded by gunfire but doesn't die until after Bond manages to kill Silva a considerable length of time later.
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: A rare occasion where it's actually the heroes that go through this. Bond suffers from this early on until he gets his edge back. In the climax, M reveals that she was never a particularly good shot either (logical for someone who in their introduction to the series mentioned the view of them as a beancounter). And of course, after Bond shoots the fire extinguishers in the inquiry boardroom in an attempt to throw Silva's aim off, he fires a magazine at the smokescreen and fails to land a single shot.
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Agent Peacock
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Agent Peacock: Raoul Silva's mannerisms are really flamboyant, and he's also generally one step ahead of Bond and MI6.
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Gray Rain of Depression
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Gray Rain of Depression: It starts raining in London after Bond is presumed dead, and it only stops when he returns.
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Unusable Enemy Equipment
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Unusable Enemy Equipment: For most of the film, Bond has a PPK with a custom grip that includes a similar palm-recognition mechanism, so when a mook picks up said gun just as a Komodo dragon approaches, the result is inevitable.
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Posthumous Villain Victory
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Posthumous Villain Victory: Despite Bond killing Raoul Silva at the end of the film, the latter still succeeds in his main goal of killing Olivia Mansfield, AKA M, thanks to one of his men hitting her with a stray bullet in the abdomen. And unlike Bond who is Made of Iron and trained to handle these sorts of injuries, M is a Desk Jockey with no such training, and ultimately bleeds out minutes following the conclusion of the Final Battle.
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Classic Villain
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Classic Villain: Wrath motivates Rogue Agent Raoul Silva, as he wants revenge against M for selling him out to the Chinese. However, M points out that he brought all the misery he suffered upon himself because he hacked into the Chinese spy agencies without clearing it with his bosses.
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Orange/Blue Contrast
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Orange/Blue Contrast: In Shanghai, the lighting keeps switching between orange and blue. One of the final action scenes also uses the palette.
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Rousing Speech
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Rousing Speech: M's speech at the inquiry board. Juxtaposing M talking with Silva making his way there, and Bond pursuing Silva, to make the tension and M's points more relevant:
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Given Name Reveal
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Given Name Reveal: Eve's surname turns out to be Moneypenny.
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Agents Dating
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Agents Dating: Unlike in other Bond movies, here it was narrowly averted for a change of pace in Skyfall with Bond and Eve Moneypenny:
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Fatal Flaw
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Fatal Flaw: Raoul Silva's intense fear of abandonment, emotional extremes, and an unstable sense of identity.
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: The French song that plays on Silva's island, "Boum!" sung by Charles Trenet prior to World War II. It is mostly about nature, love, and thunder. The titular "BOOM" onomatopoeia in the song also refers to cannon fire from the Maginot Line (where he sung for French troops), albeit on a joyful tone. This is recalled again later in the film when Silva broadcasts The Animals' cover version of the John Lee Hooker blues song "Boom Boom" over his helicopter loudspeakers as he approaches Skyfall. At least the lyrics fit a bit:
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Blue Blood
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Blue Blood: Bond himself, whose family owned a large, if now dilapidated, Scottish manor surrounded by a massive estate.
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Alas, Poor Villain: Silva begs M to shoot himself and her through the head and end both their pain when he finds out she's been mortally wounded.
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Red Shirt
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Bond finds a Red Shirt alive with a stomach wound and thinks he can patch him up, but is ordered to get on with his mission; without immediate first aid, the man dies.
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Destroy the Product Placement
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Destroy the Product Placement: Bond crashes a Volkswagen Beetle in the opening sequence.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Bond's Improbable Aiming Skills, which he has to re-learn after a bullet in the shoulder.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Bond's reaction when he spots the giant komodo dragon in the pit. Craig suggested to the director that Bond should actually show fear for once, so this is a first. Big Bad Silva has been locked up inside the MI6 HQ and Bond and Q are analysing his laptop. It looks like the good guys are finally one step ahead. Then every door in the base starts opening. Q's reaction is priceless. Especially when he notices that he himself had a part in all this, by plugging the laptop into the MI6 network. Silva gets a moment of his own when one of the traps Bond sets at the manor causes Silva's helicopter to crash.
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Weaponized Car
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Weaponized Car: Serves as the punchline to a Brick Joke unwittingly set up by Q early in the film.
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Ultimately, the end of the movie is a Pyrrhic Victory: Bond defeats Silva, but that was his only victory. Everything else went to shit.
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Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
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Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: Bond kills Silva with a throwing knife to the back while the latter is about to kill M and himself.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Daniel Craig's version of Bond has made dry quips before, but it's worth noting that he really takes it up a notch this time around. Half his dialogue with M, Q and Eve consist of sarcasm, and they snark right back.
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Informed Flaw
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Informed Flaw: The doctor clearly believes Bond is addicted to both alcohol and pills, but after Bond starts working, he's never shown to be drunk, high, or suffering from withdrawal. Then again, he is shown to drink at the beach in Turkey and appears completely hung over, or indeed genuinely drunk in M's flat. Also, everyone's reaction to him during testing—and the results of said tests—indicate that he's grossly out of shape when he looks to be in fine physical condition.
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Accidental Misnaming
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Accidental Misnaming: Bond introduces M to Kincade, and Kincade thinks her name is "Emma." She shows a slight hint of annoyance before she decides to just let him think that.
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What You Are in the Dark
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What You Are in the Dark: After Bond returns to duty after being thought dead, Mallory points out that Bond had what every agent would have wished for: a clean exit from the spy business. He could have just stayed "dead" and lived out the rest of his life in comfortable retirement and relative anonymity, and nobody would ever think otherwise. However, Bond's dedication to Queen and Country motivates him to come back.
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Malicious Monitor Lizard
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Malicious Monitor Lizard: The casino in Macau has a pit with two Komodo Dragons in it. Later on, when Bond fights a bunch of Mooks while attempting to leave the casino, they tackled him into the pit. One of the Komodos comes out to watch them fight, and hauls one remaining Mook away by his ankle once he becomes distracted by trying to shoot Bond with a fingerprint-coded gun.
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RoofHopping
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Roof Hopping: With bikes over the rooftops of Istanbul.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Quoted word for word by Sévérine in Macau when Bond asks to meet her employer. Turns out her employer is Silva.
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I Did What I Had to Do
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I Did What I Had to Do: M also justifies ordering Eve to shoot while Bond was in the line of fire by saying she had to do whatever she could to prevent the encrypted drive from being stolen. She justifies selling out Silva to the Chinese similarly.
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: The Exact Words of the William Telling contest, as set by Silva, are to see "who can be the first to knock the glass from her head." Ain't no rule saying that you can't achieve this by shooting the girl in the face.
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Bottomless Magazines
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Bottomless Magazines: Averted, which is unusual for a Bond movie. Characters are regularly seen reloading in shootouts, and running out of ammo is also what leads to Bond getting shot in the shoulder during the Action Prologue. Played straight in the prologue: Patrice with his fully-automatic Glock 18 is able to lay down near-continuous fire from the roof of the train and is only seen reloading once. Initially handwaved by his using a drum magazine, though he carries on doing so even after he gets rid of it and switches to regular stick magazines. He's also using "hard to get and extremely expensive" depleted uranium shells — apparently he had a bottomless wallet, as well, since that uranium must cost quite a fortune. (It's possible that he had only one magazine of these, which he loaded in order to shoot Bond through the metal construction vehicle cab.)
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Tragic Villain
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Tragic Villain: Silva, in many ways a profoundly wronged man, turned into a complete psychopath by unfortunate events.
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Shadow Archetype
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Not actually mentioned in the movie — 'Raoul Silva' becomes 'A Rival Soul' showing how similar he is to Bond.
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Smart Gun
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Smart Gun: Q equips Bond with a version of his trademark Walther PPK semiautomatic that features a biometric trigger lock. It won't fire unless the handprint sensor verifies that Bond is the one holding it. Which as you might expect comes in handy when a mook gets his hand on the weapon.
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Girl of the Week
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Girl of the Week: Eve, Sévérine and an unnamed third girl in Turkey. By the end of the film, Sévérine is dead, and Eve Moneypenny becomes the new M's secretary. Bond and Eve may or may not have slept together; it's ambiguous.
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Market-Based Title
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Market-Based Title: In an odd example, the Latin American marketing of the title turned it into an Operation: [Blank] label (needless to say, such a thing is a big time Non-Indicative Name).
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Cool Bike
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Cool Bike: The opening chase scene includes Bond and his quarry riding motorcycles through Istanbul, and even on the rooftops. It's hard to get much Rule Of Cooler than that.
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Cool Guns
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Cool Guns: Bond is given a Walther PPK with an ID lock so only he can fire it. Kincaide wields a double-barrelled shotgun at the defense of Skyfall Manor. The mooks raiding the eponymous manor at the climax carry Heckler and Koch H K416s. Bond also procures one a short time later, and briefly uses it to shoot at an attacking helicopter. The climactic battle scene features a Browning M 2 HB mounted on a helicopter.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: The first use of the F-word in a Bond film comes from M.
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Subverted
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Also Subverted. Bond seems almost confused that he didn't have to outrun the initial fireball of Skyfall's explosion. The gunship crash happens moments later.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Bond gets really pissed when Silva and his mooks destroy the Aston Martin. For Silva, anything involving M, but especially when she refuses to use his real name.
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Improbable Aiming Skills
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Improbable Aiming Skills: A point is made that Bond has lost those he used to have, which becomes important a couple of times (expecting him to make a one-handed William Telling shot with an antique caplock duelling pistol at twenty paces was just cruel). His injury helps him aim his father's rifle properly, though, since said rifle tends to "aim to the left" and Bond's injury has him incline to the right.
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Ambiguously Bi
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Ambiguously Bi: Silva aggressively flirts with both Sévérine and Bond following their capture. Bond flirts with every woman he meets, but also quips to Silva while the villain suggestively touches him. (Although he's almost certainly referring to what Le Chiffre did to him in Casino Royale, so while he hits that tone to taunt Silva he likely doesn't have flirting in mind.) And later when Silva forces Bond into a contest to see who can shoot a glass of whiskey off Sévérine's head, we have this snippet.
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Slasher Smile
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Slasher Smile: Silva, who is seen smiling regularly to extenuate his madness.
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Banister Slide
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Banister Slide: Bond and Silva slide down the separator between escalators in the London Underground during the chase sequence. In reality, there are actually spacers every few feet to prevent people doing exactly this (one of which can be seen detached on the floor at the end, implying it's been temporarily removed for some reason, and more of which Silva and Bond jump over at the top of the separator).
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Attempt to recover an encrypted hard drive containing the identities of every active undercover NATO agent goes wrong → MI6 comes under intense government scrutiny for the mishap → An attempt a by rogue agent turned cyber-criminal to destroy MI6 and get his revenge against M for selling him out to the Chinese.
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Did They or Didn't They?
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Did They or Didn't They?: Eve gives the towel-clad Bond a sexy shave...and the scene cuts right there. Not even a kiss. Yet a few minutes later, they're roaming about a lavish casino, complimenting each other on how good they look and flirtatiously commenting that "it's amazing what you can do with an extra pair of hands." It's hard to believe that Bond wouldn't have bedded this beautiful woman, but given that Eve turned out to be Moneypenny, it's obvious why it was left ambiguous.
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Anti-Hero
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Anti-Hero: As usual for this Bond.
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Mission Control
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Mission Control: Q, a MI6 tech genius who serves as the Voice with an Internet Connection for Bond.
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Sawed-Off Shotgun
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Sawed-Off Shotgun: Kincaid takes on Silva's men with one - after a memorable scene where he is seen sawing the barrels short and then blasting a hole in a shed wall.
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Sexy Secretary
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Sexy Secretary: The film ends up being something of an Origin Story for the character, where it is revealed that she became a secretary because she felt she wasn't suited to field work, having previously worked alongside Bond.
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Outrun the Fireball
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Outrun the Fireball: Bond has to outrun the explosion of Silva's crashed gunship in the finale. Also Subverted. Bond seems almost confused that he didn't have to outrun the initial fireball of Skyfall's explosion. The gunship crash happens moments later.
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Glassy Prison
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Glassy Prison: Raoul Silva is captured by Bond and incarcerated in a glass cell in MI6 headquarters before being interrogated by M.
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Going by the Matchbook
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Going by the Matchbook: The sniper has a poker chip that leads Bond to a specific casino.
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Colonel Kilgore
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A gunship attack made more awesome by the music it is playing to it, leaving Silva acting like Colonel Kilgore for a few minutes.
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Cutting the Knot
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Cutting the Knot: After all his fancy misdirection and techno-tricks fail to kill M, Silva just sends a bunch of men with guns. Which turn out to be just softening them up for his attack copter and more men with guns. Ironically, the first group actually succeeded; she took a mortal wound and just hadn't died yet.
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Word Association Test
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Word Association Test: Between Bond and a psychologist after 007's return to duty.
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: Silva manages to do this with a train of all things, by blowing out a side tunnel and letting momentum and the London Underground do the rest for him.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: Bond takes out Silva's mooks with ease, but of course, that was the easy part.
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And Starring
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And Starring: The opening cast roll ends "with Albert Finney and Judi Dench as M."
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We Can Rule Together
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We Can Rule Together: Silva first tries to get Bond to join him.
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Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist
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Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: Bond is injured in a mission gone wrong and goes several months missing before returning to active duty, facing international terrorist Raoul Silva, who is also a former MI6 operative and tries to sow seeds of doubt in Bond about his abilities and loyalties.
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Fallen Hero
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Fallen Hero: Silva was an ex-MI6 agent.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The main theme, "Skyfall", steals a line from the 1966 classic spy song "Secret Agent Man." The Action Prologue closes on Bond lying motionless in the water, mirroring the iconic images that open each film in The Bourne Series. "Think on your sins" is also a memorable line from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The Tennyson poem was also quoted at the eulogy for real life diplomat and MI6 controller Daphne Park. The Freeze-Frame Bonus that reveals M's name as Olivia Mansfield is a reference to Captain Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, AKA C, who was the first Chief of the Real Life MI6. James' parents names are Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix Bond, which is from the novel of You Only Live Twice. However, "Skyfall" is not from Fleming. To Apocalypse Now: Broken, alcoholic agent comes out of 10-Minute Retirement to hunt down a rogue agent in his remote hideout and finds a sadistic, crazy but familiar soul in him. A gunship attack made more awesome by the music it is playing to it, leaving Silva acting like Colonel Kilgore for a few minutes. Silva calling M "Mother." The scene near the end where Eve gives Bond the china Bulldog left to him in M's will begins with Bond overlooking London from a rooftop, the collar of his overcoat turned up and his scarf tied in the same manner as Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock. The scenes in the Komodo Dragon fight pit are like the "Dragons of Ashida" episode of Jonny Quest, a series that took heavy inspiration from Dr. No, so Skyfall comes full circle referencing from Quest.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: Silva regularly calls M "mommy," and once "mother," even though they're not related, and insinuates that M sees both himself and Bond as her children. Bond's reaction to her death suggests he also sees M as a mother figure. M's comment that orphans make the best agents implies that she sees some utility in this. Continuity Nod to Quantum of Solace, when Bond mentions that part of the reason he's going after Quantum is because they tried to kill a woman close to him. Camille asks, "Your mother?" Bond replies, "She likes to think so." May also be a Shout-Out to The Avengers (1960s), wherein the Head of the Secret Service is codenamed Mother.
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Retirony
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Retirony: Invoked. Silva's plan is to force M into retirement by humiliating her, and then kill her before she can actually retire.
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Iron Lady
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Iron Lady: M is the lady in charge of MI6 and makes an early hard call that has consequences for the rest of the film.
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Legacy Character
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Legacy Character: Q, played by Ben Whishaw, the new MI6 quartermaster. At the end of the film, Ralph Fiennes' character Gareth Mallory becomes the new M. Eve reveals her last name to be Moneypenny.
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Two Lines, No Waiting
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Two Lines, No Waiting: During the first half, Bond's mission is the A plot line while M's plot is the B plot.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: Not until the end of the movie does Eve reveal her full name to Bond.
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Taking You with Me
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Taking You with Me: Near the end of the film, Silva tries to get M to shoot the both of them through the head. Bond intervenes before Silva succeeds by killing him with a throwing knife.
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Colonel Badass
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Colonel Badass: Mallory was formerly commanding officer of the 22nd Regiment out of Hereford - he was SAS during The Troubles in Ireland.
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Spoiler Opening
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Spoiler Opening: The opening theme foreshadows most of the movie's plot, as well as the final battle at Skyfall. It also mentioned that the titular house is burned down during the battle (i.e., "Let the Skyfall, when it crumbles"). The opening credits also foreshadow M's death as Judi Dench's crediting overlaps briefly with a tombstone.
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Smoking Is Glamorous
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Smoking Is Glamorous: The gorgeous Sévérine smokes throughout her first scene, where she meets Bond in her club/casino in Macau. This is both a callback to the smoky Bond films of old, and also serves to highlight Sévérine's exotic and dangerous nature.
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Incoming Ham
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Incoming Ham: When you want to make an entrance, it's undeniably difficult to beat a helicopter blasting classic rock from loudspeakers.
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge
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Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Raoul Silva was tortured for five months to the point of breaking his Cyanide Pill, only to have it fail and disfigure him. He sets out to humiliate and kill M for abandoning him, and it actually works.
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: Sévérine, an ex-Sex Slave controlled by Big Bad Silva. Her smile as Bond gets under her veneer is not pleasant.
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: M gets in on the action, firing guns and wiring up the chandelier in Skyfall into a booby trap for Silva. By her own admission, she's "a lousy shot", but hey, booby-trapping the chandelier was pretty awesome by itself.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Hollywood Hacking genius Q has his own security protocols used against him.
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Sympathy for the Devil: During Silva's confrontation with M where he reveals his backstory, when he says, "You betrayed me," Bond looks away from Silva and gazes intently at M. After Silva has a mini-meltdown where he reveals his cyanide-induced deformity (for which he also blames M), M leaves and Bond turns to follow, but slowly and hesitantly, suggesting he doesn't entirely want to leave Silva alone. After he rejoins M, he stares silently at her until she explains why she "betrayed" Silva. According to Daniel Craig on the DVD special features, under better circumstances Bond would have rather let Silva live and get therapy. M, for her part, is visibly shaken after Silva's big reveal and her explanation is tinged with melancholy. Later in the film, as they are lying in wait for Silva's final attack, she says, "I fucked this up, didn't I?" While Bond assures her she was just doing her job, he doesn't go so far as to tell her she did the right thing.
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Where Do You Think You Are?
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Where Do You Think You Are?: Used for a Bond One-Liner when Kincade uses his shotgun to blast away a henchman.
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Intimate Haircut
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Intimate Haircut: Eve shaves Bond with a straight-razor, while kneeling at his feet. It's left ambiguous as to whether things progressed further.
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Break Out the Museum Piece
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Break Out the Museum Piece: For the film's climax, James uses a classic Aston Martin DB5 because unlike most of MI6's other vehicles, it lacks any computerized tracking equipment that Silva could use against him. Not to mention the very same machine guns it had in Goldfinger.
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ArtisticLicenceBiology
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Artistic Licence – Biology: Komodo Dragons are hunters and scavengers, not fighters. They tend to wait until their prey is too weak to fight before they attack note If you're curious, their mouths are a veritable Petri dish of potentially lethal bacteria (specifically, E. coli, Staphylococcus sp., Providencia sp., Proteus morgani, and P. mirabilis), and they are known to possess venom glands. They do this to conserve energy, as they are large and cold-blooded. They wouldn't retreat into the shade, as they want to stay in the light (preferably the sun's light) to stay warm.
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Fruit Cart
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Fruit Cart: Quite a few get broken in Istanbul during a chase.
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Protect This House
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Protect This House: The film is named after the family estate Bond, M and Kincaid must defend in the climax.
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Un-person
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Unperson: M tells Silva she intends to have his real name struck off the MI6 memorial wall, likely the only place his service was ever officially acknowledged. He looks appropriately appalled at the thought.
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House Fire
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House Fire: The climax of the film burns down Bond's ancestral family manor.
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Just a Kid
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Just a Kid: Bond accuses Q of this.
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Race Lift
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Race Lift: Miss Moneypenny, who was previously played by white actresses, is played by the half-Jamaican half-Trinidadian English actress Naomie Harris.
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Younger and Hipper
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Younger and Hipper: Ben Whishaw as Q is much, much younger than Desmond Llewellyn or John Cleese were in their performances as Q.
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Island Base
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Island Base: Silva's island used to be inhabited, until he faked a chemical leak, causing the inhabitants to evacuate.
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The Cavalry
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Bond's issued gadgets consist of a mildly tricked out Walther PPK/S and a panic button radio. Q snarks about Bond possibly expecting an exploding pen. The joke first pays off when Bond uses the radio to summon The Cavalry, and again when he digs up a weaponized Aston Martin DB5. "Sometimes the old ways are the best", indeed.
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Wealthy Yacht Owner
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Wealthy Yacht Owner: Bond is taken to Silva's hideout aboard a sailing yacht, the Chimera.
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Bond Gun Barrel
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Bond Gun Barrel: The classic version of the Bond gun barrel sequence serves as the punchline to The Tag at the end of the movie, marking its first real appearance since Die Another Day.
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Hidden Disdain Reveal
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Hidden Disdain Reveal: The last thing Bond says as his titular home is blown up?
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: MI6 field agent Eve. Bonus points for her being Miss Moneypenny.
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Elaborate Underground Base
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Elaborate Underground Base: The replacement MI6 offices in underground London, like a British equivalent to 24's CTU.
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Red Herring
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Red Herring: Mallory is a shady, stuck-up ex-soldier, played by the guy who also played Voldemort, Amon Goeth and Francis Dolarhyde, who tries to get M to resign in his first appearance, scorns Bond in his second, and is present at a would-be crime scene in his third. Not a great start for the future M! Bond's Aston Martin serves as a Bait-and-Switch Continuity Nod. The scene soon after we're introduced to the car, Bond alludes to its passenger-side Ejection Seat but he doesn't use it. In fact, the ejector seat never gets used; the purpose of this scene is to establish that this is the vintage Goldfinger car. Thanks to this, the audience has no reason to question the machine guns behind the headlights.
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Gareth Mallory becomes this after being swayed by M's defence of "the old ways," and helps Q and Tanner with their off-the-books plan to help Bond and M. By the end of the film, he succeeds Judi Dench's character and becomes the new M.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Chekhov's Gunman: Played with regarding Mallory. Savvy viewers will be able to work out that he's being set up for something, so it's heavily suggested he's a Mole in Charge to throw us off the scent as to how Silva gets into MI6's systems. In fact, he's destined to be the replacement for M.
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Start of Darkness
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M gave Silva to the Chinese to save 6 agents, but in the process caused Silva's Start of Darkness, leading him to kill dozens of MI6 staff later on.
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Decon-Recon Switch
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The movie serves as a Decon-Recon Switch of British resolve, with Silva representing the costs of British determination and Bond its power even in the face of adversity.
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Television Geography
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Television Geography: Bond pursues Silva through two stations in The London Underground - Temple and Embankment, both on the sub-surface District and Circle lines. However, they're depicted as deep-level lines served by Jubilee Line train stock - most likely the shooting locating was the disused Jubilee Line platforms at Charing Cross, which are frequently hired out for filming. And when an exterior shot of "Embankment Station" is shown, that's actually the Northumberland Avenue exit of Charing Cross station - though that's very close to the real Embankment. The A9 road is namedropped as the route Bond and M take to reach the title location, which - going by the scenery - is in Glen Coe, a part of Scotland nowhere near the A9.
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Play-Along Prisoner
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Play-Along Prisoner: Bond allows himself to be captured and brought to Silva. He's activated a tracking device that's leading MI6 right to them, and until they arrive, he's content to let Silva explain the hows and whys of his evil plans. Once he's had enough, he quickly kills the guards and takes Silva captive until MI6 arrive. For Silva, meanwhile, getting captured is part of his plan all along.
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Hero Killer
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Hero Killer: Silva seems well on his way to depopulating MI:6's HR rolls by the movie's end.
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: Silva compares himself and Bond to a couple of rats. Adding to this, MI6's new location is in the sewers below London.
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Made of Explodium
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Made of Explodium: Gunfire from Silva's helicopter causes the vintage Aston Martin to burst into very large flames. Granted, it is loaded with ammunition, so it is a case of ammo cooking off. When Silva's helicopter crashes, the entire area explodes. Granted, it is also loaded with ammunition. (And aviation fuel).
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Manchild
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Manchild: Some of Silva's mannerisms and behavior cause him to come across as childish, though it may just be an act to mess with Bond and M.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: When M thinks Bond has been killed, she is framed against a window with rain pouring down outside.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: Silva combines elements of Alec Trevelyan (a former MI6 agent), Boris Grishenko (a genius-level hacker) and Elektra King (emotionally damaged after M, whom she views as a quasi-maternal figure, leaves her at the mercy of her captors, and wants to humiliate and murder M in revenge, using Bond as the tool to reach the older woman).
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Reconstruction
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Reconstruction: Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace took the Bond formula down a deconstructive path, with Bond girls as innocent and tragic pawns to both sides and Bond himself treated by M as more of a blunt object and Professional Killer who is slowly becoming obsolete in a more sensitive world of espionage. In addition, a lot of the Bond traditions fell away, such as flirting with Moneypenny, dinner with the bad guys and getting new toys from Q Branch. While many praised the radical changes as modernizing Bond, some felt it had lost a lot of what made Bond so entertaining. Skyfall begins with the Royale and Solace style and spends the rest of the movie reconciling classic and modern Bond together. M's speech at a committee hearing says it all.
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Light Is Not Good
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Silva's Light Is Not Good outfit is similar to Francisco Scaramanga's.
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While You Were in Diapers
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While You Were in Diapers: Kincaid gives a nicely understated Badass Boast when they hear the dogs barking, showing a bunch of mooks have just turned up.
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Only a Flesh Wound
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Only a Flesh Wound: Zig-zagged. As in Real Life, the effects of a single bullet wound often take some time to become apparent. Being shot in the shoulder twice during the opening action sequence. The first doesn't slow Bond down one bit, but the second knocks him off a train and afterwards Bond doesn't receive proper medical attention and has trouble with the arm several times later on. Bond finds a Red Shirt alive with a stomach wound and thinks he can patch him up, but is ordered to get on with his mission; without immediate first aid, the man dies. The bullet wound Mallory takes from Silva in the inquiry attack persists until the end of the movie. Near the end of the film, M suffers a bullet wound inflicted by one of Silva's henchmen, but manages to continue to fight and run for quite some time afterwards. The wound eventually ends up killing her.
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Chain Pain
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Chain Pain: Patrice grabs a chain to fight Bond with during the Traintop Battle in the beginning.
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Good Old Ways
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Good Old Ways: The Arc Words are "Sometimes the old ways are best," reflecting both on Bond's settling with his own troubled past and, in a meta sort of way, on the franchise's return to the style of the first films. Not for nothing has Skyfall been heralded as one of the best instalments of the series.
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The Oner
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The Oner: Silva's account of how he dealt with the rats that overran his family home is given in a single shot as he enters from a descending elevator and slowly meanders towards Bond. The room was specially constructed so it would be just the right length. (It can be seen on this wiki as the trope video... for "The Social Darwinist"). The end of the silhouetted fight sequence in Shanghai between Bond and Patrice is one uninterrupted shot. The scene where Bond and Eve survey the casino in Macau is also one continuous shot.
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PlayedWith
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Played With. While testing out the guns, he is visibly surprised at James' skill with the gun before asking "What did you say you did for a living again?"; while he does view James like he always has, he seems unaware that James has become one of the most valuable and dangerous agents of Britain.
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Aside Glance
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Aside Glance: When the MP starts prattling on at the hearing, Mallory gives a subtle "Oh, come on" look to her/the camera.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: The shooting contest was to knock the glass off of Severene's head. Silva accomplishes that by shooting her in the head, not the glass.
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Watch the Paint Job
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Watch the Paint Job: Car fans will cringe as Bond casually crushes brand new Volkswagen Beetles on the train with his Caterpillar excavator. And Silva's men exploding Bond's Aston Martin...
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Sissy Villain
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Sissy Villain: Silva flirts with Bond and has some whimsical mannerisms but is still a dangerous foe.
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Traitor Shot
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Traitor Shot: Subverted. Gareth Mallory is repeatedly shown lurking in shadows, or having the camera linger significantly on his face in scenes where he isn't otherwise important. In the end, he isn't a Mole in Charge, but M's replacement after she's shot.
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Concealment Equals Cover
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Concealment Equals Cover: Justified due to the thick stone walls of Skyfall; nothing short of a helicopter-mounted heavy machine gun can penetrate them. Inverted for those, though, since in reality it would take cannon fire, shaped charges, or heavy missiles to penetrate walls so thick.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: "Constable" Silva and a couple of his men shoot up an inquiry board hearing.
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Cartwright Curse
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Cartwright Curse: Sévérine, like many of the women who sleep with Bond in a given film, ends up getting a bullet later. Also averted: This is the first Bond movie starring Daniel Craig in which he sleeps with a girl who does not die: the unnamed woman he sleeps with during the vacation montage. And possibly Eve as well.
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Leave Him to Me!
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Leave Him to Me!: Silva orders his men not to kill M, as he wants to deal with her himself. Bond, on the other hand, is fair game.
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Foreign Fanservice
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Foreign Fanservice: Sévérine is a sexy woman of unclear foreign ancestry. Apparently in-universe as well, where her foreign nature is used as a compliment. There's also Bond's unnamed Turkish lover, played by beautiful Greek actress Tonia Sotiropoulou.
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Oddball in the Series
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Oddball in the Series: This is the only film in the Daniel Craig pentalogy that doesn't mention Vesper Lynd.
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Trial by Friendly Fire
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Trial by Friendly Fire: In the opening sequence, Eve is trying to line up a sniper shot on a mook Bond is fighting atop a train about to enter a tunnel. However, Bond is fighting the mook in hand-to-hand combat, so she can't gurantee who she'll hit, and there's no time to realign. Despite Eve's hesitation, M orders the shot be taken, so Eve shoots. Bond is hit, and the mook gets off unscathed, setting off the events of the film. (He somehow survives, of course.)
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Evil Plan
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Evil Plan: Silva's plan seems a little underwhelming. As complex as it is in execution, it's just a personal vendetta against M with no grander ambition. That said, the low stakes make it possible to do a great character study on Bond and M.
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Not My Driver
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Not My Driver: Bond pulls this on M after the assault on Westminster.
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us: After his agent steals the encrypted hard drive in the prologue, Silva blows up MI6 headquarters remotely to further humiliate M.
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Viewer-Friendly Interface
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Viewer-Friendly Interface: The mainframe computer is incredibly user friendly. As it is being hacked by a software program, a data visualization program maps the code of the software in real time, displaying the code as a moving 3D model. As the hacking software is using "a polymorphic engine to mutate the code", the data visualization software shows the 3D code mutating as if it were a biological organism. While points on the 3D display correspond to hexadecimal code, the code mutating in real time causes the corresponding hexadecimal display to move rapidly. Bond notices the hexadecimal code goes beyond the letter F, as if displaying a new programming standard that includes the letters G, H, N, R and U. When the software recognizes one of the points of code is a "data feed," the 3D code representation turns red and transforms into a 3D representation of a city map. Then, as the building security is being breached, the "System Security Breach" warning pops up.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: Tanner and Q both use Sony Vaio computers, Eve comments that she just missed "two VW Beetles" (and Bond pancakes some of those with a prominently-labelled CAT excavator), Bond wears a specially-designed Omega watch and uses a Sony Xperia T smartphone... Not to mention Bond and Tanner both drinking Heineken. (Though Bond's use of Heineken occurs not in the most complimentary of circumstances. And contrary to pre-release publicity suggesting he would forsake his classic drink in favour of beer, he still enjoys a vodka martini at one point.) In addition, one of the shots where Silva runs through a subway station has the camera pan slightly to its right to show an ad for Swarovski watches. When Bond pursues him, the camera is directly pointed at an ad for Heineken. In both instances, the crowd subtly parts to show most of the posters.
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Fed to the Beast: In Macau, Bond falls into a pit of Komodo dragons with one of Silva's mooks. Said mook tries to kill him with the palmprint gun and fails to do so. He is then dragged into the shadows and eaten by one of the lizards.
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The Cracker: Silva moves forward with a lot of his plans by hacking into a massive amount of networks including MI6.
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Everything Is Online: How Silva accomplishes a number of his objectives, including how he obtained his lair and escapes custody late in the film. It is lampshaded in the film that some of the things he does should have been impossible.
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Downer Beginning: The movie begins with the opening chase through Istanbul ending in failure as Patrice gets away with the MacGuffin containing the identities of the undercover NATO agents, and to make matters worse, Bond is presumed dead after being shot by Eve.
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Came Back with a Vengeance: Silva was once one of M's agents himself, and his entire terrorist plot is really to destroy her life in revenge for leaving him to be tortured in a Chinese prison. He's reinvented himself quite flamboyantly along the way.
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Faking the Dead: Done briefly when Bond is presumed KIA and is happy to let everyone think that for a while.
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Standalone Episode: The film is very much self-contained and never refers to the events of either Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace (save for, maybe, the Aston Martin DB5 since Bond wins one at a poker match in Casino Royale, but it still doesn't explain how it became weaponized). In fact, it can be watched independently from them without trouble (which isn't the case for Quantum of Solace, Spectre and No Time to Die, which all pick upon plot threads left from previous films).
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Lost in a Crowd: Silva is pursued by Bond in the overcrowded London underground and is disguised as a policeman. Eventually "Constable Silva" stumbles into a lobby full of bobbies on patrol and is amused to realize that his cover is unassailable. Bond is able to follow his trail anyway.
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Gadgeteer Genius: Bond's brilliant quartermaster, Q (Ben Whishaw), returns to the franchise and is in many ways a painful subversion. While he is a hacking savant, he belittles field work and the very gadgets his branch has traditionally been in charge of, and acts as though the radio he produced is really a revolutionary design rather than something Q Branch had been doing for quite some time before him. This is all tragically deconstructed when Silva plays him for a fool and dozens of people wind up dead because of it. Cyberterrorist Raoul Silva as well. M gets to do some improvisational boobytrapping before the climax, a nice Continuity Nod to The World Is Not Enough.
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Boring Insult: When Bond is captured by Silva, Silva takes a moment to express the power and freedom he wields with his hacking, showing how he can manipulate stocks and votes with a click of a button. Bond's response? "Everyone needs a hobby." You can see Silva's playful demeanor just evaporate at that jab.
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MacGyvering: In a Lock-and-Load Montage, Bond and M rig Booby Traps to stop Silva's men in the form of lighting fixture wired nail bombs and floorboard rigged shotgun cartridges.
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Theme Naming
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Theme Naming: If "Silva" is taken to be a pun on "Silver," he would be the third Bond villain in this continuity to have a color-themed name (Mr. White, Mr. Greene, etc.)
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Talent Double: The film used a talent double for the opening car chase by using specially modified Land Rovers with a driving seat out of shot on the roof, allowing stunt driver Ben Collins (aka second Stig on Top Gear) to do the driving while the actors stayed in the car pretending to drive it.
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted. Bond looks like hell throughout his Heroic BSoD. His return to form symbolizes that he's snapped out of it.
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Removing the Earpiece: Bond removes his and drops it in Eve's glass before meeting Sévérine.
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Unscrupulous Hero / int_8c264362
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Unusable Enemy Equipment / int_8c264362
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Viewer-Friendly Interface / int_8c264362
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Villainous BSoD / int_8c264362
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We Have Become Complacent / int_8c264362
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Wealthy Yacht Owner / int_8c264362
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While You Were in Diapers / int_8c264362
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Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell / int_8c264362
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Win Back the Crowd / int_8c264362
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Word Association Test / int_8c264362
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Friendly Target / int_8c264362