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    MEXICAN STANDOUT

    Apr 05, 2020 6 minutes
    WORDS NEIL ALCOCK

    SPECTRE , SAM MENDES’ second 007 film following Skyfall , sets out its stall with a ballsy, bravura pre-credits sequence taking place during Mexico’s Day Of The Dead festival, a celebration honouring the journey from life to death. As well as providing the kind of window on an exotic world Bond films are famous for, it plays into the heart of the film’s story: Bond being haunted by a figure from his past — Franz Oberhauser/ Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) — he long thought dead. The sequence takes in a collapsing building and a helicopter dust-up, but begins, like a dry run for 1917 , with one continuous shot following Bond (Daniel Craig) tracking an assassin through the Mexico City streets.

    THE LONG WALK

    After a title card announces “The dead are alive”, opens with Bond (Daniel Craig) moving through the crowds, into a hotel, up in a lift, into a bedroom, out onto a balcony and across rooftops

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