Quantum of Solace
Short description
Quantum of Solace continues the story of James Bond directly after Casino Royale, with Daniel Craig returning as 007. Still affected by the betrayal and death of Vesper Lynd, the woman he loved, Bond struggles to keep his latest assignment from becoming a personal vendetta. He and M interrogate the imprisoned Mr. White, whose answers point to a larger and more dangerous organization than they had suspected. The trail leads Bond to Camille, a woman with her own reasons for revenge, and through her to Dominic Greene, a ruthless businessman tied to that same organization. Greene is working to gain control of one of the world's most important natural resources, and Bond's investigation takes him across Europe and South America as he tries to stop him.
The film is directed by Marc Forster, the sixth of the thirteen features he has directed in chronological order, following The Kite Runner and preceding Machine Gun Preacher. Paul Haggis, Robert Wade and Neal Purvis wrote the screenplay, and Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson produced. Alongside Craig, the cast includes Olga Kurylenko as Camille, Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene, Judi Dench as M, Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis and Gemma Arterton as Strawberry Fields.
Released in 2008, the film runs 106 minutes and was made for about 200 million USD, earning roughly 590 million USD worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from 8,766 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The Russian title of the film ("Quantum of Mercy") does not quite accurately reflect its original title, Quantum of Solace. A more accurate translation into Russian would be "Quantum of Consolation".
- Olga Kurylenko's character is the first Bond girl in the history of the franchise who did not sleep with the super agent.
- The scene where M shows Bond the body of a dead girl lying on the bed is a clear reference to a scene from the film "Goldfinger" (1964). Only there, the girl was covered in gold, and here – in oil.
- Filming began on January 7, 2008. The film was shot in a record number of locations for the Bond series – in 6 countries: Panama, Italy, England, Austria, Chile, and Mexico.
- Gemma Arterton, who played Strawberry Fields, auditioned for the lead female role (Camille).
- This is the first film in the franchise in which the famous phrase, "Bond, James Bond," is never uttered.
- To film the chase on the rooftops of Siena (Italy), tiles had to be removed from the houses and the roofs reinforced to prevent them from collapsing under the actors during filming.
- 200,000 blank rounds were purchased for tests, training, and filming of the movie.
- Daniel Craig and Mathieu Amalric had previously met on the set of "Munich" (2005).
- Aerial filming took place in Mexico in the arid mountains of Baja California, at a small airport near the town of San Felipe. In this scene, Bond flies in a pre-war "Douglas" aircraft (model 1939), which is attacked by a "Markettti" sports plane equipped with machine guns, and an attack helicopter. For safety and environmental reasons, the shooting and smoke were added to the footage later using special effects.
- The climactic scenes of the film were shot on Cerro Paranal, at an altitude of 2635 m in Chile, at a hotel near the "Very Large Telescope" observatory.
- The events of 'Quantum of Solace' take place just an hour after the ending of 'Casino Royale'.
- The opening scene of the film was shot over eight weeks in three different regions of Italy. Against the backdrop of Lake Garda in northern Italy, a car chase begins: an "Aston Martin" versus an "Alfa Romeo". The continuation of the chase was filmed in Carrara, in a quarry that is 2000 years old. Filming of the chase continued in the historic center of Siena. A year prior to this, footage of the famous Palio horse race was specifically filmed.
- Bodyflight, the first aerodynamic tunnel in the UK, was useful to the special effects department for filming Bond and Camille falling out of the "Douglas" in Bolivia. The tunnel, built by the Ministry of Defense for aviation research, was closed in 1997 and reopened in 2005 as a parachute sports center. The tunnel has a diameter of 4.95m, a length of almost 8m, and allows you to experience what it feels like to be in freefall at a speed of 273 km/h, without even having to jump out of a plane. Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko trained for several weeks under the guidance of stunt coordinator Gary Powell for just one day of filming in the aerodynamic tunnel.
- On the evening of April 24th, stuntman Aris Comninos was driving an Aston Martin along a narrow, winding road around Lake Garda and collided with another vehicle. His passenger was also injured, but not seriously. The stuntman was taken to the hospital in the same helicopter the operator had been using. Neither director Marc Forster nor lead actor Daniel Craig were on set that evening.
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