She’s so bereft of any life or wit that you nearly wish that Bond doesn’t find a bomb that she’s tied to, as the clock ticks down to boom time.
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The movie, which has already released globally and is arriving in Indian theatres on Friday, received four cuts from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), whose chief Pahlaj Nihalani has received flak in the past for chopping off scenes in movies that he does not deem fit for the audience.
A lot of tips and other insights were shared by Pierce Brosnan, most specifically on how to have a stronger plot for ‘Spectre.’ As the movie did not quite charmed him, the former James Bond actor was thinking that the movie should have been condensed so it did not go on too long, Polygon featured.
If “Spectre” wants to topple “Skyfall” as the highest-grossing James Bond film in history, it will need to do massive business overseas.
Censors in India regularly intervene when they decide films are too steamy or offensive, prompting criticism that they are too strict and conservative.
Spectre has been directed by Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Jez Butterworth along with Monica Bellucci played the lead roles in the film.
New Bond girl Lea Seydoux, who stars opposite Daniel as Bond’s accomplice and love interest Dr. Madeleine Swann, nearly lost out on the part after flailing in her first audition. Nihalani has been in the hot seat since January, when previous CBFC incumbent Leela Samson and more than half of the organisation’s board members resigned amid complaints of “interference, coercion and corruption”. “I’m yet to see the film even once”.
Board member Ashoke Pandit tweeted his disapproval of the way in which the movie was cleared and described it as a “mockery of the freedom of the filmmaker” and slammed Nihalani for behaving as an official spokesperson for the BJP. “The Censor Board had nothing against James Bond kissing, but the length of the kisses were found to be excessive”, another source said, according to The Hindu. “The censor board needs to keep in tune with modern Indian sensibilities”, said the Times of India in an editorial, calling the move “ridiculous…in this day and age”.
Earlier this year, the board blocked a watered down version of Fifty Shades Of Grey from being released in the country.
“They made 10 vehicles only for use in the film”, said Sands. “We have become the laughing stock everywhere”.
One of them commented: “We are preparing for a good fight”. Following a brief but cold-hearted appearance in 2011’s Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Seydoux is paving her way to becoming a mainstream femme fatale that most male actors will surely be intimidated to go toe-to-toe with on the big screen.
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Music is in place and what’s the fun in watching a 007 film without it’s theme.
