“One of the nice things about movies is that you can and you do look back with some sort of greater knowledge, you know, several years later, and I think what you see is actually a really well-made film with very truthful performances in it,” he said. “And on top of that it was freighted with these sort of, you know, award expectations because of who was in it and who had made it and all of those things.”ĭespite Revolutionary Road not being quite the awards magnet many might have liked (although Winslet did get the best actress Golden Globe), Mendes said watching the film again seven years on, he’s still proud of the work. People were really worried about where their next dollar was coming from in America, and there was a story about two very good-looking people living in a nice house, obsessing about whether they were going to move to Paris or not,” he said. “It was the middle of an economic crunch. One of Mendes’ titles that didn’t have the same inspired scheduling was 2008’s Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio-starring Revolutionary Road, which the director says had “absolutely the worst” timing.
The hotel room is a set built at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. “You know, Bond had parachuted into the Olympic stadium with the Queen and it was a sort of fever of nationalism and feeling good about the country, and it was just well timed,” he said. A Steadicam picks up the actors, following them through the lobby and into and up an elevator. Mendes, however, admitted that his first Bond outing had the benefit of coming out at “absolutely the right time.” Spectre may have opened to record-breaking figures in the U.K., but globally it currently looks likely to fall ever-so-slightly short of the $1 billion-plus box office set by its predecessor, Skyfall. I’m never going to see this kind of thing again. I looked around on a couple of days of Mexico City and I thought: ‘I’m never going to do this again. “You have people who have been on crews for 40 years who have made 14 Bond movies saying, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this,’ and that was really exhilarating for me. And it’s not just for the director, for the crew as well,” he said. 11, 2022 9:56 am EST James Gunn sparked fans' excitement recently when he shared an illustration from the landmark DC comic 'Kingdom Come' on Twitter. When everyone gets it right it’s very exhilarating. DC Showcase: The Spectre (2010) Movie News. “Twenty-five hundred people working in tandem at the same time is a really big high for a director. See all news and coverage on DC Showcase: The Spectre from Moviefone.
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When you go into the hotel room you’re going to Pinewood, when you come out of the hotel room you’re going onto a rooftop in Mexico.”ĭespite the clever trickery deployed in order to deceive the eye, Mendes did admit that overseeing a shoot with some “2,000 costumed extras” plus a major crew was a rather momentous experience.
“So when you walk into the lobby of the hotel you’re walking into a hotel that actually isn’t there, it wasn’t there, it was further down the street. “There are morphs in that shot that blend one shot to the other,” he told an audience as part of his own BAFTA A Life in Pictures conversation, held in London on Monday evening.
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