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RigelLaPererali! Visit the original post, here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42630433/
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Some close-up shots:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45834248/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45834184/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45834159/
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Today is Sunday, September 19th.
Let us continue with..
~Sssond-tember Sssinema Sssundaysss!~ A Countdown to 'No Time To Die'
It's been confirmed, No Time To Die is going to have its gala premiere in London AND be exhibited at the Zurich Film Fest on the same day: Tuesday September 28th. And so, I'm going to engage in a month of posting a piece of Sond writing with accompanying artwork, every Sunday, from now until then. Keep your eyes peeled for mid-week 'Sssondian Sssupplementsss' as well! :}===<
9 days left!
~~ ~ ~~
The above poster is a recreation of this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9m01uzjd.....rDay2.jpg?dl=0
~
In 2002, 'Sssspy Another Day,' the last film starring Pierce Bronzenaga (using the stage name of 'Amethystine Python') as Ames Sond, was released. Although it did well at the box office and was decently liked by audiences, it received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, for the most part. While some viewed it as merely a larger-than-life expression of the tried-and-true 'Sond formula,' most saw it as an overblown, bloated affair that had lost all touch with reality, favouring special-effects-laden spectacle in place of a substantive plot or characterization.
For the following film, the producers of the franchise decided to go back to basics and return to the origins of the character of Ames Sond. The team at EON had re-acquired the rights to Ian Fleming's original Sond novel in 1999, and after Sssspy Another Day, they realized it was time to return to 'Cassssino Royale.' Of course, in 2006, that's just what they did.
~~~~
Below is a short segment from the more down-to-earth novelization of the film.
Enjoy! :}===<
~~~ ~ ~~~
One Day - an excerpt from 'Sssspy Another Day', transcribed by Amethystine
-
One day or another..
One way or another..
Ames Sond would get out of here.
Either he would survive and eventually be released, or escape, or even be moved to a different facility.
Or he would die.
And yet, that would also be an escape; for he would no longer be held here, in this, his own private little slice of hell.
But, he wouldn't die easy. The serpent did his best to hold himself together, mentally and physically, if only for the hypothetical 'one day' when he would be out.
Moreso than the meagre gruel they fed to him, the snake was sustained by his spite for his captors, his torturers. They said they would stop the abuse, if he talked, if he laid bare the sordid, assorted secrets that invariable came with being a 00-agent for MI6.
Sond knew there would be no end, and that his silence was ultimately the only thing keeping him alive. Perhaps it was true that the pain would stop for a time, if he gave up a morsel of information, and it was possible he could try to stretch out his reprieve through a drip-feed of classified data, but the only end of that road was his death at the hand of his jailors, when they realized he had no more to tell.
That, or a shameful execution administrated by his own organization upon his return to them, however that might happen. Talking to the enemy - any of the many enemies - was treason, even when it was coerced under duress.
The punishment for treason is death.
And so, complete and utter silence was the solution, the answer that Ames Sond had settled upon, for any and all questions posed to him.
Or rather, a state of total non-verbal existence, for he was not silent.
He allowed himself shouts and grunts of anguished pain, after all.
Sond wondered if the woman who caused most of those outbursts from him was enjoying herself. The scorpion, the small woman was seemingly made up of nothing but sharp angles and hard lines. To Sond, it was as if she was somehow always in a crisp, clean uniform. It seemed impossible for someone to remain so steadfastly undirtied by the filthy prison that seemed to have been cleared out, save for him.
It was she who injected him with her venom in various sensitive spots, made all the more tender by the repeated jabbings of her stinger-tipped tail.
The toxins were mild as far as venom goes, but they made him weak and feverish, his mind cloudy.. and most important for the purposes of 'enhanced interrogation': sensitive. It set his nerves on edge, ratcheting up the tension in his form.
Perhaps because he was cold-blooded, the primary technique the North Koreans had chosen to break him with was an on-going and cycling exposure to extreme heat and frigid ice-water, one after the other. He was chained up in a tiny windowless room that held a furnace, and left to slowly bake, before being dragged by a number of guards into another room to plunge his torso into a tub overflowing with ice.
Over and over, from one extreme to the other, in the midst of the fever brought on by the venom, the intense changes became excruciating.
When he could think straight, the python liked to amuse himself with the thought that his captors were pathetic, for only ever having caught one person, to have in their woefully lacking jail.
That also meant that he was himself pathetic for having been captured by them, but he had the excuse of the rather unique circumstances surrounding his arrival there.
Sond thought of little else, when not directly occupied by the highly distracting act of being beaten, or shocked with an electric prod.
It had all gone so well, at least initially...
Where had it all gone wrong?
-
Sond and two junior MI6 agents had inserted into the country via the coast of Pukch'ong, making use of lightweight personal diving propulsion units for movement and trusty miniature rebreathers for air. It was hard to believe the design was hardly changed nor the function much improved since their introduction in the 60s.
Evading the patrols in the twilight of the cloudy and grey dawn, Sond and his pair of partners had lugged their small motorized Sea-tugs with them. The Q-branch inventions were smooth plastic, akin to the shape of arrowheads, and roughly the size of backpacks.
All three of the spies were clad in blue-black camouflage diving suits, helping them blend in with the sea. Once on the beach, they were completely exposed, and had timed their movements with those of the guards.
Crossing the sand and vanishing into the treeline beyond, the trio opened the Sea-tugs, which doubled as small equipment storage. Between the three of them, they had everything they needed.
From then, it had been a simple matter of shutting down a nearby unmanned transmitter tower and replacing its signal with their own. Why? To divert an incoming helicopter, which was right on schedule for them to give its pilot a new landing zone.
Sond had stripped his diving suit away to reveal a leather jacket and blue shirt, which may have seemed like an odd wardrobe choice for infiltrating a hostile nation, until the helicopter's single passenger leaned out of its door to shout over the sound of the engine and the spinning blades above, asking about the alteration to his destination.
The man was a naga, who looked not unlike Sond himself, and he was wearing just about the same clothes.
In no time, 00S had taken the passenger's wallet and other papers, as well as the small silver briefcase he had clutched so tightly. Meanwhile, one of his partners had replaced the pilot, while the third member of their little party took custody of the two replaced travellers. The spies knew the passenger had never been there before, and would not be known, aside from the general species-type. Sond was a perfect fit, to replace him.
On the flight to a heavily fortified base, Sond had taken the time to open the silver briefcase - and after he had admired the gleam of hundreds of diamonds in trays within - he had hidden small bricks of C4 underneath the removable layer of jewel-laden trays. The cherry on top of this deadly sundae of plastic explosives and diamonds had been a silver rod extracted from his watch. The metal spike was pushed into the wire-linked bricks of C4, and would provide the detonation pulse, sent from his wristwatch itself.
In an abundance of caution, Sond also applied some quick-drying adhesive to the trays of gemstones, ensuring anyone examining them would find that they were fixed in place, seemingly not meant to be removable at all, as they had been until that moment.
The python had just snapped the sleek case shut as his pilot was setting the copter down on the base's helipad.
-
To Be Continued...
~~~ ~~~ ~~~
Amethystine/Ames Sond 00S © to Amethystine
James Bond 007 and related IP © to Ian Fleming, Albert R Broccoli's EON Productions/DANJAQ Ltd. and MGM
.
RigelLaPererali! Visit the original post, here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42630433/~
Some close-up shots:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45834248/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45834184/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45834159/
~
Today is Sunday, September 19th.
Let us continue with..
~Sssond-tember Sssinema Sssundaysss!~ A Countdown to 'No Time To Die'
It's been confirmed, No Time To Die is going to have its gala premiere in London AND be exhibited at the Zurich Film Fest on the same day: Tuesday September 28th. And so, I'm going to engage in a month of posting a piece of Sond writing with accompanying artwork, every Sunday, from now until then. Keep your eyes peeled for mid-week 'Sssondian Sssupplementsss' as well! :}===<
9 days left!
~~ ~ ~~
The above poster is a recreation of this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9m01uzjd.....rDay2.jpg?dl=0
~
In 2002, 'Sssspy Another Day,' the last film starring Pierce Bronzenaga (using the stage name of 'Amethystine Python') as Ames Sond, was released. Although it did well at the box office and was decently liked by audiences, it received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics, for the most part. While some viewed it as merely a larger-than-life expression of the tried-and-true 'Sond formula,' most saw it as an overblown, bloated affair that had lost all touch with reality, favouring special-effects-laden spectacle in place of a substantive plot or characterization.
For the following film, the producers of the franchise decided to go back to basics and return to the origins of the character of Ames Sond. The team at EON had re-acquired the rights to Ian Fleming's original Sond novel in 1999, and after Sssspy Another Day, they realized it was time to return to 'Cassssino Royale.' Of course, in 2006, that's just what they did.
~~~~
Below is a short segment from the more down-to-earth novelization of the film.
Enjoy! :}===<
~~~ ~ ~~~
One Day - an excerpt from 'Sssspy Another Day', transcribed by Amethystine
-
One day or another..
One way or another..
Ames Sond would get out of here.
Either he would survive and eventually be released, or escape, or even be moved to a different facility.
Or he would die.
And yet, that would also be an escape; for he would no longer be held here, in this, his own private little slice of hell.
But, he wouldn't die easy. The serpent did his best to hold himself together, mentally and physically, if only for the hypothetical 'one day' when he would be out.
Moreso than the meagre gruel they fed to him, the snake was sustained by his spite for his captors, his torturers. They said they would stop the abuse, if he talked, if he laid bare the sordid, assorted secrets that invariable came with being a 00-agent for MI6.
Sond knew there would be no end, and that his silence was ultimately the only thing keeping him alive. Perhaps it was true that the pain would stop for a time, if he gave up a morsel of information, and it was possible he could try to stretch out his reprieve through a drip-feed of classified data, but the only end of that road was his death at the hand of his jailors, when they realized he had no more to tell.
That, or a shameful execution administrated by his own organization upon his return to them, however that might happen. Talking to the enemy - any of the many enemies - was treason, even when it was coerced under duress.
The punishment for treason is death.
And so, complete and utter silence was the solution, the answer that Ames Sond had settled upon, for any and all questions posed to him.
Or rather, a state of total non-verbal existence, for he was not silent.
He allowed himself shouts and grunts of anguished pain, after all.
Sond wondered if the woman who caused most of those outbursts from him was enjoying herself. The scorpion, the small woman was seemingly made up of nothing but sharp angles and hard lines. To Sond, it was as if she was somehow always in a crisp, clean uniform. It seemed impossible for someone to remain so steadfastly undirtied by the filthy prison that seemed to have been cleared out, save for him.
It was she who injected him with her venom in various sensitive spots, made all the more tender by the repeated jabbings of her stinger-tipped tail.
The toxins were mild as far as venom goes, but they made him weak and feverish, his mind cloudy.. and most important for the purposes of 'enhanced interrogation': sensitive. It set his nerves on edge, ratcheting up the tension in his form.
Perhaps because he was cold-blooded, the primary technique the North Koreans had chosen to break him with was an on-going and cycling exposure to extreme heat and frigid ice-water, one after the other. He was chained up in a tiny windowless room that held a furnace, and left to slowly bake, before being dragged by a number of guards into another room to plunge his torso into a tub overflowing with ice.
Over and over, from one extreme to the other, in the midst of the fever brought on by the venom, the intense changes became excruciating.
When he could think straight, the python liked to amuse himself with the thought that his captors were pathetic, for only ever having caught one person, to have in their woefully lacking jail.
That also meant that he was himself pathetic for having been captured by them, but he had the excuse of the rather unique circumstances surrounding his arrival there.
Sond thought of little else, when not directly occupied by the highly distracting act of being beaten, or shocked with an electric prod.
It had all gone so well, at least initially...
Where had it all gone wrong?
-
Sond and two junior MI6 agents had inserted into the country via the coast of Pukch'ong, making use of lightweight personal diving propulsion units for movement and trusty miniature rebreathers for air. It was hard to believe the design was hardly changed nor the function much improved since their introduction in the 60s.
Evading the patrols in the twilight of the cloudy and grey dawn, Sond and his pair of partners had lugged their small motorized Sea-tugs with them. The Q-branch inventions were smooth plastic, akin to the shape of arrowheads, and roughly the size of backpacks.
All three of the spies were clad in blue-black camouflage diving suits, helping them blend in with the sea. Once on the beach, they were completely exposed, and had timed their movements with those of the guards.
Crossing the sand and vanishing into the treeline beyond, the trio opened the Sea-tugs, which doubled as small equipment storage. Between the three of them, they had everything they needed.
From then, it had been a simple matter of shutting down a nearby unmanned transmitter tower and replacing its signal with their own. Why? To divert an incoming helicopter, which was right on schedule for them to give its pilot a new landing zone.
Sond had stripped his diving suit away to reveal a leather jacket and blue shirt, which may have seemed like an odd wardrobe choice for infiltrating a hostile nation, until the helicopter's single passenger leaned out of its door to shout over the sound of the engine and the spinning blades above, asking about the alteration to his destination.
The man was a naga, who looked not unlike Sond himself, and he was wearing just about the same clothes.
In no time, 00S had taken the passenger's wallet and other papers, as well as the small silver briefcase he had clutched so tightly. Meanwhile, one of his partners had replaced the pilot, while the third member of their little party took custody of the two replaced travellers. The spies knew the passenger had never been there before, and would not be known, aside from the general species-type. Sond was a perfect fit, to replace him.
On the flight to a heavily fortified base, Sond had taken the time to open the silver briefcase - and after he had admired the gleam of hundreds of diamonds in trays within - he had hidden small bricks of C4 underneath the removable layer of jewel-laden trays. The cherry on top of this deadly sundae of plastic explosives and diamonds had been a silver rod extracted from his watch. The metal spike was pushed into the wire-linked bricks of C4, and would provide the detonation pulse, sent from his wristwatch itself.
In an abundance of caution, Sond also applied some quick-drying adhesive to the trays of gemstones, ensuring anyone examining them would find that they were fixed in place, seemingly not meant to be removable at all, as they had been until that moment.
The python had just snapped the sleek case shut as his pilot was setting the copter down on the base's helipad.
-
To Be Continued...
~~~ ~~~ ~~~
Amethystine/Ames Sond 00S © to Amethystine
James Bond 007 and related IP © to Ian Fleming, Albert R Broccoli's EON Productions/DANJAQ Ltd. and MGM
.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Snake / Serpent
Gender Multiple characters
Size 867 x 1280px
File Size 2.19 MB
SOND! 8D
Even if I know this movie is silly and one of the 'bad ones', this poster is still really impressive. The recreation is great! :3
Even if I know this movie is silly and one of the 'bad ones', this poster is still really impressive. The recreation is great! :3
Thanks, but I don't think I have a choice: I'm stuck with my identity, for good or for ill.
"Sssssso you lie to sssssspy another day...." X3
You meant to say 'live', right? :>
Also, thanks for the fave! :}===<
Also, thanks for the fave! :}===<
r-right, I meant live... of course I did. T'was CERTAINLY not a typo, hahahaha... aahhh...>.>;;;;;
I know, right? :D Rigel's style is great.
Thanks for the fave!
Thanks for the fave!
Wow its look like: "James Bond: Operation lizard"
Well, to be precise, it looks like James Bond: Die Another Day!
Because.. that's what it's based on. Also, the main character is a snake, but I realize it's hard to tell, since you can't see his body below the torso.
In any case: thanks for the fave on this.
Because.. that's what it's based on. Also, the main character is a snake, but I realize it's hard to tell, since you can't see his body below the torso.
In any case: thanks for the fave on this.
I really like the poster! (I'd already fav'd the original post for it before)
And Die Another Day is a Bond film I'd not seen yet, so maybe I'll just wait for your Sond version to update me on his capture, when you're ready.
And Die Another Day is a Bond film I'd not seen yet, so maybe I'll just wait for your Sond version to update me on his capture, when you're ready.
Glad you like it! :}
Just so you know, the time of his imprisonment is only shown as the background to the opening titles / the theme song, by Madonna. I figured it would be interesting to look more deeply at that stretch of time, which is glossed over, during the music. But yes, the events leading up to his capture, that's the 'cold open', so you're free to read it from me or watch it in the film.
I'm honestly going to gloss over the time before he's caught, because if I did it in detail, I'd just be writing the opening action scene again with very little altered from the film. :P
Just so you know, the time of his imprisonment is only shown as the background to the opening titles / the theme song, by Madonna. I figured it would be interesting to look more deeply at that stretch of time, which is glossed over, during the music. But yes, the events leading up to his capture, that's the 'cold open', so you're free to read it from me or watch it in the film.
I'm honestly going to gloss over the time before he's caught, because if I did it in detail, I'd just be writing the opening action scene again with very little altered from the film. :P
I have at least seen the opening song, so I did recall the Bond torture. I'll leave it to you to fill me in as long as you plan on doing so. One of the things I'm best at catching up on is Amethystine's writing!
This Vanquish is automatic, just use the brake and accelerator pedals! >wO
Firstly, thanks for the fave on this. :>
In a world that has anthros and whatnot, I'm sure there are cars modified with hand controls. Even if they didn't exist normally, I'm sure Q-branch, the tech department at MI6, could rig it up for Sond.
But as the bunny said, it wouldn't be that hard to use a snake tail to operate one pedal at a time, as one does with one's foot, in a car. I'm sure a naga could operate both pedals at once, and with enough strength and/or precision to match what a biped could do.
In a world that has anthros and whatnot, I'm sure there are cars modified with hand controls. Even if they didn't exist normally, I'm sure Q-branch, the tech department at MI6, could rig it up for Sond.
But as the bunny said, it wouldn't be that hard to use a snake tail to operate one pedal at a time, as one does with one's foot, in a car. I'm sure a naga could operate both pedals at once, and with enough strength and/or precision to match what a biped could do.
This was the first James Bond movie I watched.
That's when I started to fall in love with the Aston Martin franchise and cars! <3 <3 <3
And as always, another fine art, Mr Sond! ;3
That's when I started to fall in love with the Aston Martin franchise and cars! <3 <3 <3
And as always, another fine art, Mr Sond! ;3
Ahhh, the first one is always special / always holds a special place in your heart. :}
I'm glad this poster seems to meet with your approval, then!
I hope you'll send your compliments on the art itself, to the artist: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42630433/
I'm glad this poster seems to meet with your approval, then!
I hope you'll send your compliments on the art itself, to the artist: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42630433/
I will certainly do it! :3
By the way, do you have a favorite 007 movie?
As you know, Die Another Day holds a special place in my heart, but my favorite among everyone in the franchise is Casino Royale with Daniel Craig!
By the way, do you have a favorite 007 movie?
As you know, Die Another Day holds a special place in my heart, but my favorite among everyone in the franchise is Casino Royale with Daniel Craig!
I can't pick one pure favourite, but my top ones in no particular order are:
Skyfall
GoldenEye [the first I saw]
Casino Royale
Tomorrow Never Dies [the first I saw in cinema]
From Russia With Love
Skyfall
GoldenEye [the first I saw]
Casino Royale
Tomorrow Never Dies [the first I saw in cinema]
From Russia With Love
They are really nice, I like them too! :3
I have a really cool history with Tomorrow Never Dies, I really liked the PS1 game version. It was my favorite game at the time!
I know a lot of people who like the Goldeneye game better, but unfortunately I haven't had much contact with Nintendo consoles, so I never played this one.
I have a really cool history with Tomorrow Never Dies, I really liked the PS1 game version. It was my favorite game at the time!
I know a lot of people who like the Goldeneye game better, but unfortunately I haven't had much contact with Nintendo consoles, so I never played this one.
Yes, it was that GoldenEye007 game on N64 that caused me to seek out a video copy of GoldenEye, in the summer of 1997. That was how and why I first saw GE.
I remember watching this movie as a very young boy in an outdoors cinema... One of the few Bond movies I actually saw in a cinema when they came out. Ah the memories XD
Good times. :}===<
I hope you enjoyed it, that time? :>
Also, thanks for the fave on this piece.
I hope you enjoyed it, that time? :>
Also, thanks for the fave on this piece.
Hopefully in this version of the film a certain NSA agent is not AS helpless. ;P
Even if it's not the best movie, it's one of the best poster remakes you've had done!
Hmm? Why did you think he started as a snake?
I haven't posted anything about the character of Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, or about Gustav Graves specifically - but yes, you can see that he has become a Eurasian lynx, in the upper left portion of this poster.
Since you asked, before becoming a lynx, he was a 'long-tailed goral' or 'Amur goral' (Naemorhedus caudatus), which exist in Korea, as well as China and Russia. I like to think that the technology in that version of the story could transform someone from one type of mammal to another, or from one type of reptile to another, but not cross the kingdom boundaries. For example: A bird could not become a fish.
Speaking of the characters that were changed by that 'gene therapy' in the movie, the diamond-faced henchlizard, Zao, in the lower left, started as an Amur Grass Lizard [Takydromus amurensis], but I never decided what he was going to become. Perhaps a larger, tougher type of lizard, to be a stronger soldier/henchman, since the Sond series is so full of big, nearly invincible thugs.
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Thanks, as always, for the fave on this!
I haven't posted anything about the character of Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, or about Gustav Graves specifically - but yes, you can see that he has become a Eurasian lynx, in the upper left portion of this poster.
Since you asked, before becoming a lynx, he was a 'long-tailed goral' or 'Amur goral' (Naemorhedus caudatus), which exist in Korea, as well as China and Russia. I like to think that the technology in that version of the story could transform someone from one type of mammal to another, or from one type of reptile to another, but not cross the kingdom boundaries. For example: A bird could not become a fish.
Speaking of the characters that were changed by that 'gene therapy' in the movie, the diamond-faced henchlizard, Zao, in the lower left, started as an Amur Grass Lizard [Takydromus amurensis], but I never decided what he was going to become. Perhaps a larger, tougher type of lizard, to be a stronger soldier/henchman, since the Sond series is so full of big, nearly invincible thugs.
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Thanks, as always, for the fave on this!
Zao is seemingly a snake and I've assumed that all North Koreans in this version must be snakes or reptiles. I like that your version of the DNA-changing technology is limited to different taxa types of vertebrates. What would be a James Bond movie without powerful thugs? As always, you're very welcome, dear Amethystine!
Letting him be captured was a pretty daring move at the time. It was a bit overblown, but the swordfight rocked, and it was cool to see one of the badguys have a tricked out car too.
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The gadget-car vs gadget-car scene is pretty great, indeed. And yeah, they had never done a proper swordfight in any Bond film up to then.
Him being captured was interesting, but it didn't last long enough to use the idea for anything.
Then, the way MI6 doesn't trust him any longer when he's out [they pulled him out because they assumed he had started to leak information, under duress], that was also an interesting concept that is basically dropped immediately. @__@
Him being captured was interesting, but it didn't last long enough to use the idea for anything.
Then, the way MI6 doesn't trust him any longer when he's out [they pulled him out because they assumed he had started to leak information, under duress], that was also an interesting concept that is basically dropped immediately. @__@
I got the impression that while M still trusted Bond there were others, not necessarily in MI6 but in the British government, who felt Bond had flipped and who demanded the trade, which is why the concern over being trusted was dropped fairly quickly. Still, yeah, an opportunity lost there.
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I think it was like.. M had her doubts, but then was convinced he was still good to go when he got out and started doing his normal Bondian things again. In any case, she brought him to that 'abandoned station for abandoned agents' to give him a chance to prove himself.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Been so long since I saw that one... good grief.
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