10969 007 in Siena

[QUOTE=elefante;89984]in the last week they put sand on the piazza for the new james bond movie. not everybody is happy about it, but anyway...we can change it. money has more power the tradition and pride.:masked:[/QUOTE]

This was a post from myself in the Palio-Thread.
And now since the new Bond-movie is in the cinema, i thought it would be nice to hear some opinions.
Non everybody in Siena liked the fact that the city and it's well protected Palio will be in the Bond-movie. How would they show the Palio the right way if not even RAI is able to do it during the live-broadcasting ?
But talking for myself I was surprised about the result. There is some timing mistakes between race and parade, but beside that, the scenes are really nice and it made me kind of proud, to be honest. But I'm also happy the the Siena-scenes came at the beginning so until the end everybody will forget it :laughs:
Ciao !

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 07:30

We saw the film this weekend & loved the images of Siena; it didn't get too lost in naff-ness in the way that the other 007 films have done (I'm thinking of the New Orleans scenes with Roger Moore mincing around).

One element that you should also consider is that there's an amazing car chase at the very beginning that's in the marble mountains.

If I recall, there was also a tragedy in these scenes...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 07:51

Having a little fun now, I'd got some nerdy comments on the Sienese scene:

After racing through the Palio of Sienna, Mitchell and Bond are on the roofs of the buildings surrounding the Piazza Del Campo. They chase for some time. A couple of shots later, there is a view from the spot where they are to the city and the tower "Torre Del Mangia" is half the city away. That's 2 miles in 20 seconds.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 07:57

A few clips of Siena & (more importantly) Massa Carrara :)

[ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3OLHTkHEU[/ame]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 14:16

I too enjoyed the Carrarra sequence.. apart from the fact I was trying to work out what on earth was going on... we visited the quarries by chance when we were in the area two or three years ago, fascinating! They also featured largely in a book I read this summer 'A Death in Tuscany' by Michele Guittari.
It was good to see another angle on Siena too, I look forward to returning there... not in the immediate future, our next visit is to further south in 2009.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 14:34

having lived in Siena for 8 years and missing it enormously I was so thrilled to see the scenes in the latest Bond film! It's perfect for a film set, so beautiful, sigh...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 02:47

[quote=katier;103203]having lived in Siena for 8 years and missing it enormously I was so thrilled to see the scenes in the latest Bond film! It's perfect for a film set, so beautiful, sigh...[/quote]
if you lived in Siena for so long, then you know for sure how 'sacrosanto' the Palio is. And to see 'them' put sand on the piazza for another reason then for the race it was hard to understand, or let say it hurt. And even more it hurt to see people fake the paliocrowd. But finally the movie-scenes in Siena were not that bad.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 09:57

I agree, very surprising but they know how to boost tourism don't they?!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:42

[quote=katier;103239]I agree, very surprising but they know how to boost tourism don't they?![/quote]
that's the problem. Siena doesn't need to boost tourism. But the responsable people don't care what the regular people think. It's all about money and they forget to protect the city and especially the Palio. :madd: