SKYFALL Clip - "Glass Marksman Shot" (2012) 

Only if you’re a woman

"Look how well your charm works, James. They'll do anything for you won't they?"

To be fair, there is a _bit_ of overlap.

Some Bond villains also sleep with him, does that makes their mortality rate exceedingly high?

Then Silva would have had a round in his pistol

Shows he is only interested in getting the girls in bed that's all. The pric.

Yeah but who said Bond actually wanted one of his girls alive

He is warming up to a fight mate, common, he is not a sexist. 🤣

YOU KNOW NOTHING YOU ARE NOT JAMES BOND! LOL

Silva's gun was loaded and they were more on edge when his own gun was loaded. Bond was waiting for a moment to do it, but underestimated Silva's brutality.

He kinda wanted to see if he could hit the glass himself

Silva would have had a loaded gun, and bond turned his back to him mid fight, if you noticed, so either he would have shot bond, or the girl anyway. The sequence was actually well thought out

It's simpler than that... Before he wouldn't try to make a move because it would put her at great risk, he probably didn't expect Silva to just shoot her. After she was dead he went to the "nothing to lose" mentality which allowed him to make his move.

@@zolikoff it's simpler than that. He is Bond. He cares more about the Mission than the girl.

No country for old men is just...morbid in its entirety.

wanna guess how much they got paid to include that brand name?:) Bond films and luxury product placement go way back...

At the time it was a 1962 year same as Dr No came out.

I would have choked.

It's just expired booze.

It's a waste of good scotch

Finally someone who mentions it

She was such a compelling Bond girl, far better than Madeline(nothing against Lea Seydoux). Such a waste.

Part of the role

Still annoyed about that spilled Skotch

From Bond's perspective, Silva would have shot the girl as soon as the choppers were audible. Bond probably knew she was as good as dead. In any case, Silva planned to be taken in so it's all moot.

He's covering his tracks dude, he's been keeping his eye on the Weinstein/epstein situation. What is it with these 'Steins'.....*wink*.

That would have erupted a hostage situation.

@@TheAlexmercer360batmanfan I think he was already compromised to be honest.

If he'd stalled any longer Silva would have realised he was stalling for reasons other than insecurity about his ability to hit the glass and he would have shot the girl. If Bond had attempted to disarm and kill the guards Silva would have shot the girl out of spite. If he'd turned the gun on Silva Silva's men would have killed him and probably shot the girl. This ladies and gentlemen is the Kobayashi Maru. A no win scenario.

Well in that case Silva wanted to get caught.

Plus a few mini guns in case that fails.

Could drop a nuke on Bond here - even that wouldn't be enough. Plot armour is no joke haha!

@@thesarcasticimpala2886 Plot armour didn't seem to help him in his newest movie

@@timbusfahrer3172how boring that you have to resort to the reductive term of “plot armor”. But still that’s a fair point

ACtors are workers. They are contractually bound to not get drunk at work.

@@0xdawg754 Must be a new thing, actors drinking on set is common. Martin Sheen was intoxicated in Apocalypse now.

Of course not. I'd rather miss and hit nothing than miss and hit an unarmed hostage. even if I hadn't slept with them.

pretty sure thats the pistol he just shot which can only be shot once before being reloaded.

Well seen, because he's still holding it while walking away at 4:02; we can only assume he let it drop afterwards.

@@theoforestier8766 We could, but i feel like that wouldn't fit with his character. He's supposed to be just as good as Bond skill wise, so why would he be so startled that he dropped his gun? Also, you can't see any gun on the ground near him. But, I see your point @Theo

@@jmg9509 The gun was empty. Only holds one shot and he used that on the girl. So he dropped it to raise his hands in surrender.

That's why people like it

Just like the cheeto overlord

@@craigcarroll1790 I tend to think of rigging an election being more like stuffing the ballot boxes with literal suitcases of ballots, not by having a few trolls on fb share a meme.

Me too

How?

tbh

Wow, Dr No is THAT long ago lol? (I'm getting old)

@Elliot benson Nothing is a coincidence in film, everything is intentionally chosen. that was absolutely a deliberate choice.

And the music playing??

​@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kvBoum Song by Charles Trenet xx

based

@@adamblake6656 *cue: Drive Forever

There are plenty of women. That was highly expensive 50 year old whiskey. A truly tragic loss

How about not being swayed by emotions? You think Bond didn't care about that girl at all?

@@arcangle7444 woman temporary. Scotch forever. Stay focused king

In that regard, I agree with those who say the Craig Bonds are more like Dr No and From Russia With Love than the Goldfinger-to-Die Another Day era.

I feel more like this bond was not bond but another version of Jason Bourne.

@@SalemGhassanHanna This movie was so slimmed down from the other bond films... it's almost like it's a detective/cop movie with drama and some noir-esque scenes here and there.

That, and the level of grit and physicality Craig brought to the role.

@@gdept88 Yeah, Craig did an excellent job of making Bond more human. He has feelings, he experiences heartbreak, and he even gets hurt plenty of times. He's not a super human. His injuries sometimes carry through multiple scenes as well

No one asked.

I never really understood this thing... thanks!

@@JamesBond-vi2eh smell my ass, i liked his post

@@JamesBond-vi2eh Exactly, that's why you should shut up.

@@JamesBond-vi2eh Who hurt you?

OK first..... Its fiction, so..... can't be a fact Secondly..... nothing fun about getting lied to.

i read that as "he got shot in his thunderballs"

@@luthahvelken4653 what

@@luthahvelken4653 that's not how facts are described typically

@@luthahvelken4653 its a fact about fiction you numbskull

Did you not watch Casino Royale? It's not even close.

Skyfall was garbage

Casino royale was good but spent waaaay too much time in the casino

@@MrAgentTurnerthat was better, more spycraft and less overpacked action

The only thing i didn't like was the cheesy as hell home alone esc final stand at the end.

Tl;dr

Those weapons are almost impossible to shoot the target with that much presicion, before modern gunbarrels with helix surfaces, most shots were not on point so hitting the glass was just a huge game of luck in any case.

Watching it I noticed how many of the goons had their guns in their hands, not just in pockets or behind their backs. I think this is a credible take. He could have taken them but he knew it was extremely risky, he wanted them to lower their guards because they were at least aware of how dangerous he could be, if still underestimating him, and he wanted to save the girl and not kill Silva. Once Silva just killed her outright, the goons not worried too much about him with an empty gun in hand, he was released.

AND to further this, by the time he goes to kill everyone 2 goons have their guns in their pants, and the really cocky one has now gotten so close to Bond to so Bond can pull the maneuver (at the first he was a good meter back and the table was between them). Even the order of kills reflects his concern: he shoots the one guy who had been carrying his gun before, but is next to Silva and therefore would have the easiest shot against Bond, throws the gun at the black dude to distract him because he still had his weapon in hand, is able to still shoot Mr. Gun-My-Crotch before he was able to fire, has to use Cocky Goon as a shield from Mr. Automatic who has already recovered and had an open shot by that point, and still manages NOT to get Silva shot in the process. I always felt like the scene was getting across that Bond was in a tight situation and couldn't come out completely on top, but really paying attention to how the scene is shot really confirms it for me at least.

@@joeyweiss7437 I don't get all the comments saying the goons lowered their guard. They did not do so. For the most part they didn't even move from before he took the shot compared to after he took the shot. Its just not a plausible argument. Yes silva having a bullet in his gun may have been why bond did what he did. Maybe he was just stalling for backup to arrive and didn't think Silva would kill the girl like that

Well, now the USA is paying to do it against either the Chinese or the Russians. Or, some private contractors paying to have it done against whoever is working with the Taliban right now.

"Rig an election." yep

Or Rigging a Election... :')

@@Hyperi0nn I think you mean "fortifying an election", citizen

@@redd_cat He clearly said "Rigging" :P

Wow, mind = blown

it's a nice idea, but probably more likely is that the goon is grinning at both what he thinks is bond's poor marksmanship, and the fact that the girl was simply murdered in front of him. the reason he didn't get shot in the head is because silva wanted to be captured and had therefore not issued an order to kill bond

I particularly enjoyed him in 'No Country for Walking Dead Iron Men'

@@youtubedude3422 i liked "Ps: love in times of Chaplin" more, cause it was more serious.

Negan???

'Its a waste of good scotch.'

He sighs

that's michael fassbenders line!

So if I buy good whiskey right now and I just wait around 50 years I can pass on retirement savings to my child?

@@77Avadon77 nope it's barrel aged

@@thelolsamshow Still works in some sense, though. I remember in the news some guy bought his son a bottle of fairly-expensive (£200) whisky every year as a birthday gift. By the time he was 18, some of the bottles were worth a couple grand.

@@lysandersensale2792 yes some bottles go up in value.

@@77Avadon77 yes. If you buy certain whiskey it can go up in value. But not if it's not aged. Alcohol stops aging the moment you take it by out of the barrel.

Which “Old Bond”? Yeah, Roger Moore, but he was always over-the-top.

@@Egilhelmson or Pierce Brosnan he was campy and over the top too

Basically any Bond after Sean Connery; although his version of Bond wasn't much different than the others as well

He did keep the witty one-liner though

That's because in this movie Bond wasn't at 100%, M lied about his test results

Did Severine actually die in this scene? Or was she passed out after Silva shot the glass? I couldn't tell.

I imagine he waited because after missing the shot (maybe intentionally, who knows what the writers had in their heads), and the girl being shot, the guards would be less on guard. The weapons were now fired, and Bond had failed. He wasn't the scary man they thought he was. They let their guards down for a second and he struck. Maybe could've pulled it off before, but safer this way.

as far as i'm concerned it IS the last Bond film now that the franchise has gone woke, it's officially DEAD

@@OsamaBinLooney wait, woke how?

@@NWNative147 007 in the next movie is a woman and there's a scene in one of the trailers where she tells Bond to "check his privilege"

Unfortunately, I agree with the woke comment. It’s awesome that such large issues are tackled in the spotlight, and also fun to see the doors open to a different audience for suspension of disbelief. The downside is once the entertainment is so large and vague it no longer has a certain magic. Like if Laura Croft was replaced with a black male. Still would be a badass film, just has a different pull that seems less genuine and more of a political move. I don’t know if there is a “right” answer for all of those terribly complex issues that can be portrayed on screen, but the idea that some large and powerful groups of people are trying is encouraging for the future of our planet, if not necessarily for the film itself.

BMA Its a Movie!!!

Its all a part of the plan

"Plot armor" or like the scene from austin powers when DR evil catches him, so scott ways, ok, we got him, just kill him right here and now, so he's not going to be a issue anymore anymore etc. But DR evil just says now and does the obvious to torture austin, but likely give him a chance to escape 😂😂🤷‍♂️.

In the Simpsons cartoon the evil guy’s henchmen don’t make that mistake on the Connery lookalike

"It is time to die Mr. Bond, but before that, you have to watch my plan.........etc etc "

Stealth Chopper it's a thing, Vietnam soldier and Osama dead because of it.

​@@fendysusanto876 A helicopter designed to minimise its radar cross-section is very different to a helicopter that makes no sound. The "stealth" helicopters used during the Bin Laden raid happened to be modified UH-60 blackhawks with the intention of mitigating their chances of getting detected by Pakistani authorities. Whilst this was successful, it did little to decrease the actual sound of the helicopters which would have still been very loud as the turbine engines used on the black hawk generate a whooping 1,622 shaft horsepower. Needless to say, all of the members of the compound would have heard the helicopters well before they landed. And I am not really sure where you got the "Vietnam soldier" thing from because UH-1 Iroquois, AH-1 Cobra's and CH-46's where loud as hell and there was no intention of disguising that. In fact, their loud sound eventually led to problems as it was able to alert the Viet Cong of an impending attack. So in conclusion, yes those choppers should have been heard well before they actually arrived and unless by some Hollywood miracle they happened to have the worlds most efficient muffler for the engine whilst all the while having the sound of roughly 400rpm on some massive rotor be entirely negated, then there is no real way of disguising their approach.

@@admiralsogga7842 not to mention the one that crashed and made a loud noise right? I’m sure that was less than stealthy due to mechanical failures?

Yeah, the crash alerted everyone on the street that didn't already hear the chopper. Luckily nobody was hurt in the crash and a spare helicopter was flown in for the second team in order to replace the crashed one.

The story of life is quicker than a wink of an eye ... the story of love is hello,goodbye until we meet again ...

There is nothing like True Love

Lame comments.

Life has no story. Stories exist in the mind. It takes time for a story. A beginning and an ending. Life is timeless and thoughtless. Stories are just words which are an illusion of sound.

I suppose there would be some throbbing involved.

Am certain Craig's Bond has failed at almost every mission he has taken up, failed at everything in Casino Royale, failed at everything here, failed in No time to die

If you like it, then that's a good thing. But James bond would not be more human. Someone in his profession, a Government Assassin, would be a coldly ruthless person. That is one of the qualities which would have been sought for when selecting a Double 0 Agent. And it's something that all the previous James Bond incarnations had in common.

Then it does not deserve to call itself Bond, that is not what Bond is about. These were good movies, but leave the Bond silliness to Bond movies.

@@thefurrybastard1964 He's more human than previous versions as we see more of his weaknesses, and we see a little more empathy from Craig's Bond. Not to mention he fell in love, struggled with the loss and felt the love a father gives his child

@@GoGetYourShineboxBond is a Government killer. Any empathy would have been trained out of him, except for where he can use it to his advantage. Bond would also never show any signs of weakness that could be used against him. That is how Ian Flemming wrote Bond, and Flemming had been through similar training himself.

The first thing Silva would have done was to take a big step back while Bond did so. The second thing he would have done is shot her out of spite.

@@theo-jamesmoulton2000 but he shot her anyway. So you might as well take the risk. This scene makes no sense, no legitimate operator would act this way

I had the same reaction. If he could just deal with them whilst the guard pointed a gun at his head why wait so long and let the girl die ffs. He could have shot, missed her and use noise of the moment to attack or something. Wtf Bond.

@ro co Nobody can hit a shot glass at that range with those pistols. A bench vise couldn't do it in 20 tries. The whole thing was a power play from the start.

Consider also that you never put ice in scotch because it waters down the flavour.

Macallan 12 is good enough for my taste and wallet.

I used to go camping on the MacAllan distilleries land across from Aberlour, picturesque area. Was my Dads favourite tipple but obviously not the older bottles. There are very rich customers fly in for the golf and fishing then spend huge amounts on manager’s special editions.

It’s now nearly 12 years

@@caribbaviator7058yep

I loved it. Bond barely knew her at all

@@GoGetYourShinebox bruh...but he never made quip on someone's death

@@abhinavkishoreprasad Yeah but that was some good whiskey 🥃

Insane acting yes. You can feel the weight of his reaction and the importance of the meaning of how he reacted. It's hard to put it in words honestly

what a beautiful performance he gave, i can never forget it

@@Aditya-gx1xv very beautiful ...thats Javier for you. Excellent

three - It's a movie

it's really not. we all know

3:21 u can see it has rifeling so its not smoothbore

​@@AK.599Smoothbore flintlock, sir. No cartridge, no shaped bullet.

I was thinking why would we suspect the villain gave us a gun that fired true in the first place

​@@skeletonofwisdom2922Turn up the quality. You can make out the grooves for the rifling, if only just barely.

@@maxharter5716 I saw that but do flintlocks have any use of rifling? Also, didn't see them putting powders or balls in the barrel. Weird gun.

I feel like he sizes them up at different points to figure out who will be the biggest threat when he makes his move. He puts on his sunglasses when he's outside -- a legitimate thing to do, but then you can't see his eyes as he searches out options and scenarios for escape etc. When he sees Severine, he knows he's going to have to make his move soon. He turns and surveys probably the entire crew with his peripheral vision. Even as he downs his shot he takes a quick glance at each of them to know their position.