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Location Guide - Quantum Of Solace
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Siena, Italy
Bond must
evade attackers on the winding shore of Lake Garda.
After a brutal car chase through the dusty Carrara
quarry and with his adversaries dispatched over a cliff,
007 makes for the MI6 safe house with Mr.
White in the trunk. In a secluded corner of Siena, M and
Bond interrogate White before the proceedings brought
to an abrupt halt by Mitchell.
Bond gives chase
through
the underground cisterns and through the chaos at the
Palio di Siena horse race. The high-octane chase climaxes
in the local art gallery - currently under construction
- where Bond dispatches of the double agent.
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London, UK
M and Bond raid Mitchell's suburban apartment with
the help of a forensics team, hoping to discover
evidence of the mysterious organisation White spoke
of. With the discovery of a bank
note traced during the investigation of Le Chiffre,
007 is onboard a flight to
the
South American nation of Haiti and in pursuit of
the Quantum financing.
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Port au Prince, Haiti
Bond is on the tail of the Quantum hitman Mr. Slate.
007 tracks the agent to Hotel Dessalines. After
dispatching
with Slate - declaring him a 'dead-end' - Bond
rendezvous with Camille and
follows the young lady to the King's Quay dockside
where she meets with Dominic
Greene. The waves get ripped up up
when 007 drops in: preventing Camille from assassinating
General
Medrano
and commencing an action-packed boat chase through
the busy harbour. Bond escapes his pursuers and
has M run a check on Greene, who is set fly that
evening to Austria. Bond makes arrangements to
tail Greene
to Europe.
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Bregenz, Austria
007 touches down at Bregenz airport on the tail of
Greene. They each travel by car to the elaborate
opera house for the local season of "Tosca" on
the shores of lake Constance. In and around the opera,
007 intercepts a meeting of senior Quantum agents.
When the plan unravels, Bond faces off against a
heavy who later is revealed to be on the protection
detail for a high-ranking advisor
to the
Prime Minister.
Bond escapes
the opera unscathed and returns to the airport, only
to find his credit-line cut off. Bond must evade
M and the Austrian authorities, each eager to question
him of the night's events.
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Tuscany, Italy
With nobody else to trust, 007 rendezvous with Rene Mathis, who is retired in a safe house on the Massa-Carrara coast. At his Tuscan estate Bond convinces Mathis to accompany him to South America once more and see him safe passage - without raising the attention of MI6.
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La Paz, Bolivia
At the airport, Bond and Mathis are met by Fields
who has strict instructions from London to see
007 onto the next flight home. With an minimum
overnight stay, Bond is shown to the Boliviar,
a rundown hotel in a
bustling
corner of town. 007 dispenses with the cover
and checks into Andean Grand Hotel - a lavishly
furnished affair. Mathis arranges for Bond to attend
a fundraiser at Greene's conference centre, once
a disused warehouse,
before 007 must outrun the Bolivian authorities
once more. Returning to the Andean, 007 is
confronted by M and meets Felix
Leiter to discover the location of Greene and
Medrano's meeting - the gigantic eco-hotel.
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Bolivian Desert
At a remote airfield Bond barters a DC-3 to escape
the Bolivian police. Over the plot of land which
Greene wants to own, Bond and Camille
are attacked in the air.
With the DC-3 bullet-ridden, they are forced to
jettison one parachute between
them, landing in a dusty sinkhole. After a lonely
hike through the wasteland, Bond and Camille arrive
at a poverty stricken village struggling with the
drought and are find a
bus
back
to the
city.
At the eco-hotel, Perla De Las Dunas, 007 and Camille
infiltrate the gigantic retreat - dispatching
with both Greene and Medrano.
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Kazan, Russia
With the Dominic Greene affair put to bed and the full
extent of the mysterious Quantum organisation revealed,
James Bond journeys to Kazan, the capital of Russian Republic of Tatarstan, to track down Yusef
- the
agent who romanced, conned and turned Vesper Lynd.
In a drab tower-block, Bond faces off
against his enemy. But rather killing him in cold
blood for revenge, turns him in to M alive and finds
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Shooting Quantum of Solace
In April 2007, prior to principal photography, a skeleton
crew were deployed to Siena, Italy in order to capture
the momentous bi-annual Palio di Siena that was to
feature during the Bond vs Mitchell foot chase.
Marc
Forster rolled cameras on 3 January 2008 at Pinewood
studios, where Dame Judi Dench filmed her phone conversation
with Bond at M's bathroom set on the F Stage. A week
later the crew were on location in Farnborough and
Aldershot. The crew then returned to Pinewood to shoot
sequences
on three of their sound stages that included the Andean
Hotel
interiors and Greene's private jet. The impressive
wind tunnel at Bedford's Bodyflight centre was used
to capture close-ups of Camille and Bond's freefall
sequence in early February - prior to the first unit
departing for South America.
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Above: Siena to London is just the beginning of the adventure... |
The "Quantum" art department decorated the streets of Colon so that the city would double for Haiti, where Forster and his crew filmed during February and March. Notably, on 11 March, Craig's driving double made the daring motorbike leap from dockside to boat in pursuit of Camille and Medrano. With the boat chase in the can, the first unit arrived in Chile on 24 March. Here they spent several days shooting the climactic battle at the ESO Observatory 'Residencia' in the Atacama Desert. Other sequences filmed in Chile in March included exteriors for the DC-3 takeoff, the water-starved village and the final confrontation between James Bond and Dominic Greene.
Above: Around the world in 106 minutes: Bond jets from London to Port au Price on the tail of Slate; follows Greene via private jet back to Europe before dropping off the radar in Tuscany...
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Bond and his entourage returned to the UK where
a gigantic sinkhole was recreated on the 007 Stage before departing,
once more, for Austria and Italy. The crew filmed briefly for
two days on the Mediterranean and at Mathis' luxury villa. In
May 2008 the unique open-air opera house in Bregenz, Austria
was fully utilised by Forster and his team, where they shot for
nine days, inside and out. This detailed sequence required the
presence of over 2000 extras - each donning black tie.
Above: Bond and Mathis cross the world in true 007-style - Virgin Atlantic first class...
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In mid-May the team returned to Pinewood to
wrap up the shoot on Dennis Gassner's elaborate interior to the
eco-hotel, 'Perla De Las Dunas'. The sets for this final sequence
were highly detailed and reminiscent of production design of
the 1960s Bond pictures. Marc Forster called a wrap on the biggest
Bond outing so far on 13 June 2008. "Quantum of Solace" proved
the most widely traveled picture to date; the crew charted six
countries in just under five months.
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