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Doctorwholovesthe80s [2020-03-16 21:39:05 +0000 UTC]
I'm so proud I was able to recognize most of the without looking it up! Yay me!
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Keyan-Korshunov [2013-12-13 04:40:17 +0000 UTC]
Now it's in color! And this is cool!
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celaya4ever [2013-08-19 22:24:29 +0000 UTC]
This is really amazing! As a 007 fan, I approve your artwork.Β Β I look out for you next projects!
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Touya-Amano [2013-07-24 02:57:02 +0000 UTC]
Cool.
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DeepestTrilby [2012-11-19 02:36:55 +0000 UTC]
Let's see. [DON'T READ FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO GUESS]
Octopus = the old SPECTRE logo. The "dragon" truck is from Dr. No. I don't know the coat of arms with the boar's head, but my guess would be the arms Blofeld was trying to obtain in OHMSS. The logo with the gold O is Osata's company (may have spelled his name wrong) from You Only Live Twice. The fish is the gent who wanted an underwater city in The Spy Who Loved Me. The golden bullet, duh. ZI is Zorin Industries from View to a Kill. I would like to say the black/white face in the octagon is meant to invoke Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die, but I kinda had the skull on the other side pegged for that. I don't know the red plate or the orange C. The tiger COULD be Kamal Khan's arms from Octopussy, but don't quote me. The silver Q is the logo of the Quantum group in Quantum of Solace. Down the other side, AG is an Auric Goldfinger monogram (made up, I think but I could totally see him using it); The Disco Volante life preserver is all that's left of Largo's ship in Thunderball; the red WW is on Willard Whyte's properties in Diamonds Are Forever (but he wasn't really the villain); the NASA-like logo is for the Moonraker project, the dove (columba) is Colombo's logo in For Your Eyes Only (and he wasn't really the villain either); the red K is Electra King's oil company in The World Is Not Enough; the GG diamond is Gustav Graves in Die Another Day, and I don't know the Soviet-looking red and gold emblem or the triangle in a square. I could probably take the films I didn't identify one for and play match-up, but that would be cheating.
How'd I do?
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wreak-some-havok In reply to DeepestTrilby [2012-11-19 18:42:49 +0000 UTC]
You did pretty solid!
[ANSWERS TO DeepestTrilby]
The octagon is the only one I really cheated on. It's the Janus Crime Syndicate logo from GoldenEye, BUT it never appears in the film so I used the one from the Daniel Craig videogame: 'GoldenEye: Reloaded'.
Goldfinger's monogram actually comes off of his ring that he wears. His Auric Enterprises A.G. logo would have been preferable, but it's really boring and comprised only of normal text. Correct, Columbo wasn't the real villain in 'For Your Eyes Only', but Kristatos was his partner at one time and sets him up. The boar is Blofeld's coat of arms from OHMSS. The tiger for Kamal Khan was right! Willard Whyte wasn't the actual villain, but again, Blofeld sets him up to be and uses his insignia. Soviet looking logo is on Brad Whitaker's uniform in 'The Living Daylights'... Koskov may have been the head villain but he had no logo and teams with Whitaker. The "red plate" is a poker chip from the casino in 'Casino Royale'. Le Chiffre has no logo so I thought it appropriate, especially since Quantum had not yet been introduced. The C is Carver Media Group Network from 'Tomorrow Never Dies'. It appears pretty prominently if you do a re-watch. The wave on gold is for Wave Krest. Krest was a secondary villain who's marine research company was used by Sanchez and his drug trade in 'Licence to Kill'. Could have also used the logo for Professor Joe's temple but it was pretty stale in comparison and played a smaller role. Also thought about an iguana with diamonds on his neck but... Final one, triangle in the circle is Silva's as it appears on his helicopter in the finale of 'Skyfall'. Check out the convo I had with runepusher64 about Silva's logo.
Awesome job though! And thanks
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DeepestTrilby In reply to DeepestTrilby [2012-11-19 02:50:54 +0000 UTC]
Is the Carver Media Group logo ever actually seen in Tomorrow Never Dies, or did you improvise? (I need to go back to watch it again now!)
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DeepestTrilby In reply to DeepestTrilby [2012-11-19 02:38:21 +0000 UTC]
Oh, heh. I didn't even see the comment about chronological order. That makes it too easy!
(Nice job on this BTW.)
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runepusher64 [2012-11-13 08:21:15 +0000 UTC]
which ones silvas?
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wreak-some-havok In reply to runepusher64 [2012-11-13 08:22:50 +0000 UTC]
Bottom right. They work their way forward left to right from the first Bond film to the most recent.
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wreak-some-havok In reply to runepusher64 [2012-11-13 08:37:22 +0000 UTC]
It's literally just a cutout, rounded, upside-down, triangle in an orange circle.
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wreak-some-havok In reply to runepusher64 [2012-11-13 08:58:31 +0000 UTC]
Haha man, you're full of questions on this. The symbol appears on his helicopter in the finale .
My other option with Silva was to try to replicate the dragon logo poker chip from the floating dragon casino, but seeing as I had no references to work with I decided against that. Although this is more likely his official logo anyways. As to why the filmmakers or character would select that as his logo... I have no idea. I can only guess.
But my theory is that it's a simplification of this infinity symbol. Skyfall's focus on resurrection (life, death, rebirth... which forms an infinite three sided loop) may have to do with their selection of this shape. Without getting too heavily into spoilers: Silva's history, just like Bond in Skyfall, deals with the idea of resurrection. It would make sense if that was his and the filmmakers' reasoning for selecting that particular shape for his logo.
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