![]() ![]() ![]() The sibling collaborators are being honored at this weekend’s Variety Hitmakers event for having the Film Song of the Year, and they spoke with us in advance of being honored about some of the subtleties that went into their composition, which we recently named as one of the 10 best Bond songs of all time. Now that the film has been widely seen, they’re unleashed, at last, to discuss every aspect of what went into their song. Since it was written so specifically to echo thematic and narrative elements of the film that were being kept under wraps, that meant 20 months of Eilish and Finneas talking about the tune but not being at liberty to talk freely about the actual meaning and intent of the lyrics. No dot inspired pieces from Globe Trotter and more at 007 Store.Probably never before in history did as much time transpire between the release of a film’s theme song and the actual release of the movie as in the case of “ No Time to Die.” Billie Eilish’s title song, written with her producer and brother, Finneas, came out 20 months before the James Bond film it was written for, due to a series of pandemic-related delays that kept pushing back the movie. Universally recognised as a modernist vision, his abstract approach is an instantly recognisable part of cinematic culture.ĭiscover a range of Dr. Technology allows me to make them fly around, then blow away and do stuff which Maurice could not do at that time, but they still purposely look like those dots. No style dots at the beginning as a nod to the past, even though my dots are a little more sophisticated now than the original dots made by Maurice Binder. Main Titles Director on No Time To Die, Daniel Kleinman explains, “There are the Dr. The dots have stayed with the Bond franchise throughout its 60 year history. The title sequence that follows is no more than two and half minutes, but it has the kind of visual clout, and humour that Bond movies are all about.” By then, the audience’s pulse rate is up a couple of beats. The coloured dots change shape, move position and form patterns, while the high tempo score by Monty Norman and John Barry guides viewers through the sequence.Ĭubby Broccoli described the opening saying, “It works perfectly. The bright colours of the film – from the bold red of Quarrel’s shirt to the pale baby blue of Connery’s rolled up trousers – are reflected. I did all of that against a white background and added in the colour.Īudiences loved Binder’s work on Dr. It took a couple of hours to film it at Pinewood. “The dots are the gunfire animated across the front of the screen” he explained. Binder’s response was to suggest themes through silhouettes and animations. The producers were keen to secure an accessible rating for the film, so he needed to be creative. No was abstract and captured the ’60s pop revolution on screen. “That was about a 20 minute storyboard I did, and they said, ‘This looks great!’”īinder’s treatment for Dr. ![]() His idea was that the gun barrel sequence showed 007 as a wanted man: hunted every day, always in somebody’s sight. “I just happened to have little white price tag stickers and I thought I’d use them as gun shots across the screen,” he said. But Maurice would never let anyone interfere, and I think that’s why he always delivered at the last minute – so nobody had the time to.”Ģ0 minutes before his first Broccoli and Saltzman meeting, Binder found inspiration. ![]() I said ‘sure’, even though I didn’t know what it was,” it was reported Binder said.īinder famously worked to tight deadlines – sometimes pushing them so far that it later prompted Roger Moore to quip, “I often said the titles were still wet when they left Maurice’s studio – usually the night before the premiere. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were in the audience at the premiere and afterwards “They asked me if I’d like to do the titles and the trailer for a little film called Dr. Created by Maurice Binder, they set the tone and tempo for the entire James Bond franchise.īinder worked on the main titles for the 1960 film, The Grass is Greener, starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons. No dots – these design elements remain staples of the 007 films to this day. The white circles across the screen, the famous gun barrel sequence and the iconic Dr. No Dots The Story Behind Maurice Binder’s Opening Titles ![]()
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