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  1. theme (prestige genre): Skyfall → Sam Mendes. Skyfall helped Bond convince itself it was a prestige genre, which led to bloat.
    “become a prestige genre like genre.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:43:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Jez Butterworth → Skyfall. Butterworth is suspected of writing the Bond-and-Silva scenes uncredited and also worked on Spectre.
    “who I reckless, recklessly suspect, wrote these scenes between Bond and Silva”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:01:51 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Skyfall → Christopher Nolan. Bond producers wanted their own critically acclaimed thriller since Nolan was having all the fun with Bond-esque movies.
    “Let's do it ourselves.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:02:35 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Adele → Skyfall. The Adele song feels both a century old and incredibly modern.
    “The Adele song, it feels like it's 100 years old and also incredibly modern”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Roger Deakins → Skyfall. The shot-from-behind-Bond's-shoulder Silva intro is Deakins photography, and the movie is candy for movie nerds.
    “The movie is shot by Roger Deakins.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:05:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if): Peter Morgan → Skyfall. A discarded Morgan script held the blueprint of M as empire stand-in with a rebelling son.
    “there was another script for the 23rd movie that was written by Peter Morgan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Skyfall → Casino Royale. Skyfall is the payoff of the first Craig movie, where Vesper's betrayal shows Bond can feel.
    “it's also the ultimate payoff of what starts in the 1st Craig movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:12:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Skyfall → Unforgiven. Skyfall is a reckoning with everything that came before in its franchise.
    “Skyfall is like the unfor is unforgiven to me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:15:34 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  9. industry (industry): Skyfall → Danny Boyle. Bond's Olympics opening with Craig made the character a point of pride months before release.
    “he his James Bond, like as a character kicked off the Olympics and the Danny Boyle opening sequence.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): Skyfall → Quantum of Solace. Quantum has nothing like Skyfall's deep thinking about what Bond means, partly because it was written during the writers' strike.
    “there's nothing that has that kind of Christmas, that kind of like deep thinking about what these movies mean.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:24:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. craft (craft): Adele → Skyfall. The Adele song is cued at the pivot where M orders Moneypenny to take the shot in Istanbul.
    “I think that's in the trailer and it obviously cues the great Adele song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:14 · unclear host (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. craft (craft): Skyfall → Goodfellas. Scenes can be great for camera work and music, like the Copacabana scene, as Silva's intro is.
    “great because of a piece of camera work, like the Copacabana scene in Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:27:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Skyfall: The Silva intro is a single sustained take shot over Bond's shoulder; the speaker says the filmmakers knew what they had.
    “They knew what they had.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:27:55 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  14. industry (industry): Skyfall → Austin Powers. Silva's early villain speech inverts the cliche that Austin Powers parodied.
    “movies like Austin Powers parodied it till no end”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:30:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Skyfall: The rat speech: Silva's monologue ends the first act rather than the movie.
    “But this one is like, it's just playwriting.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. contrast (contrast): Skyfall → Mission: Impossible. Bond now has 'Mission Impossibleitis' of topping set pieces; MI is the action gold standard.
    “to me, the gold standard is the Mission Impossible movies on this stuff right now”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. contrast (contrast): Skyfall → Pacific Rim. Skyfall's action is legible and grounded, unlike Pacific Rim.
    “rather than like either Pacific Rim, what the fuck is the going on right now?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:39:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  18. contrast (contrast): Casino Royale → Skyfall. The Casino Royale Uganda opening is incomprehensible about who is chasing what; Skyfall is clear.
    “There's that whole big opening sequence in Uganda.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:39:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): Roger Deakins → Skyfall. Deakins's photography keeps Skyfall looking cutting edge and undated years later.
    “And the deacons of it all. Yeah, it has a, it looks if a movie, if this movie came out today, I'd be like, this is cutting edge shit.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:43:59 · unclear host (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. industry (industry): Skyfall → Creed. Bringing a prestige director to a franchise leads to Coogler doing Creed and Black Panther.
    “It leads to things like Ryan Kugler does Creed in Black Panther”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. lineage (lineage): Skyfall → The Dark Knight. Mendes openly lifted the Dark Knight aesthetic and the orphan-avenging-sins idea.
    “Mendy's just very openly lifted a lot of the Dark Knight aesthetic for these movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:46:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. verdict (verdict): Adele → Skyfall. The theme song is picked as the best-aged element of the movie and an Oscar winner.
    “That song is fire. I, that's, that's got the highest approval rating. So let's go with Adele's song wins”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:49:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Skyfall: Severin scene: Bond sneaking up on her in the shower after she says she was in a sex ring, flagged as the film's worst-aged moment.
    “It really jumped out at me last time I watched it when he's like, I'm going to sneak attack you in the shower”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:53:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. what-if (what-if): Sean Connery → Skyfall. Connery was in talks to play Kincade but stunt casting was rejected.
    “They were in discussions with Sean Connery to play Kincaid.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. what-if (what-if): Kevin Spacey → Skyfall. Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory because Mendes directed him in American Beauty.
    “I think Kevin Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Skyfall: Casting what-if: Connery as Kincade rejected; Spacey approached for Mallory.
    “I think Kevin Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Skyfall: Award for overacting goes to the boat captain, because the group will not name Bardem.
    “How about we give it to the boat captain who sticks his head and is like, we should push off?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:05:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Skyfall: Half-ass research: anagram of Raoul Silva is 'a rival soul'; 'think on your sins' is 'your son isn't in HK'.
    “Raul Silva is an anagram for a rival soul.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:06:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. theme (theme): Skyfall → Rocky (series). Best entries show the hero coming to terms with aging, which Skyfall pairs with the permanent hero.
    “some of the best movies about those things are about the person coming to terms with the fact that they're not as powerful as they once were.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:08:15 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Skyfall: Alternate titles included Silver Bullet and A Killing Moon.
    “A killing moon, which I enjoyed, although not really sure if there's that many moons in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:13:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Skyfall: The Golden Dragon Casino interior was built at Pinewood.
    “The interior of the Golden Dragon Casino in Macau, where Bond meets Severin, was actually Pinewood Studios.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:13:50 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Skyfall: Bond gets a Heineken and khakis after sex, a long running nitpick.
    “And then you're like, I'm gonna get a Heineken and put on some khakis.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:19:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Skyfall: Hacking nitpicks: a list of NATO agents on one hard drive, villain posts reveals on YouTube.
    “The hacker is using YouTube.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:22:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Skyfall: Best quote pick: 'Mommy was very bad.'
    “Mommy was very bad.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:27:01 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)