Here we see some tension between Bond and M over radio, as Bond wants to help the man out, but M is more concerned about the mission to recover the hard drive. Turns out he’s in Istanbul (A place also visited in From Russia With Love), and somebody has just stolen a hard drive containing information about undercover agents, severely wounding a fellow agent in the process. Skyfall opens with a sort of ‘pseudo-gunbarrel’ with Bond standing in a hallway (like Quantum of Solace, the actual gunbarrel is at the end of the movie). This film in particular introduces Moneypenny, Q, and to a lesser extent a male M-but they’re also very different from their predecessors. Like Casino and to a lesser extent Quantum, Skyfall is a film that continues to build Bond’s world closer to the one we’re familiar with from the earlier films. 2012 was the 50th anniversary of Dr.No, and despite doubts for a time after “Quantum of Solace” (mainly due to company issues and not really reflecting the quality and box office of the movie itself, despite it’s mixed reception), a new Bond film was due to arrive as a celebration, like Die Another Day ten years prior.
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