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Sony had to fight really hard to get an Xperia phone into James Bond's hands for 'Spectre'
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article published on 26 April, 2015
Thanks to WikiLeaks, we have an interesting look into the negotiations that it took Sony Electronics to get their latest Xperia smartphone into the hand's of James Bond for the upcoming Spectre.
Despite the fact that Sony Pictures is producing the film, there was no playing favorites, and Sony will have to pay an exorbitant amount to get the phone featured in Spectre.
Here are some of the emails:
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doowop72
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26. April 2015 @ 22:44 |
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Wow, what a big marketing setup. So, pretty much telling us that if it's good enough for James Bond, it's good enough for you and I.
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scorpNZ
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27. April 2015 @ 13:01 |
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If it's good enough for JB it'll be to expensive for me to afford.I am wondering who takes any notice of the phones used, i can't name any of them
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27. April 2015 @ 15:13 |
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Originally posted by scorpNZ:
If it's good enough for JB it'll be to expensive for me to afford.I am wondering who takes any notice of the phones used, i can't name any of them
If price was the only logic then he would have a new iPhone and one of those $10K+ watches. It is pretty clear that no one involved even considered anything from Apple (or Microsoft..but then they probably didn't consider BB either). The choice is between a good Android from a good company and a good Android from a bad company...makes since given that Android is the most hacker friendly platform and a secret agent never knows when he will have to plug into a standalone system to run a magic autohacker app.
Hopefully they at least use a sony with a larger screen; the movie will look very dated in a couple years if he uses something with a little ~5" display. A 30 year old Aston Martin still looks cool. A 3 year old smartphone looks comical...but we are at the point where bigger phones would require bigger pockets and current phones can display video and color as well as film can capture. That means while style will change and at some point we may go to implants or something instead, something like the Note 4 won't experience the techno-aging that makes us laugh at flip phones in movies from less than a decade ago.
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ronhondo
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27. April 2015 @ 17:46 |
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Sony CEO's are a bunch of total jerks ! In a year or two this phone will be old hat ! Total Jerks !
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27. April 2015 @ 21:45 |
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The only time I can remember seeing a movie and thinking, "damn, I want that phone!" was the Matrix... I wanna say it was a Razor, but can't remember.
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27. April 2015 @ 22:49 |
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I don't recall buy any Sony phone in the past and this little movie will not gonna do the trick to do so either.
I pass.
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28. April 2015 @ 10:35 |
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Originally posted by Mrguss:
I don't recall buy any Sony phone in the past and this little movie will not gonna do the trick to do so either.
I pass.
They are not trying to sell phones to you or I...we research. They are trying to sell phones to the kind of people who think BMW is now the greatest car in the world simply because that's what James Bond currently drives. Sadly, it will probably work. Optimistically, uninformed consumers are 99.999% of apple's consumers, and anything that might hurt Apple sales can't be all bad.
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29. April 2015 @ 23:08 |
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Originally posted by DarthMopar:
The only time I can remember seeing a movie and thinking, "damn, I want that phone!" was the Matrix... I wanna say it was a Razor, but can't remember.
It was a Nokia 8110 but had a spring loaded slide cover for effect during filming.
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pmshah
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30. April 2015 @ 01:23 |
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You always have FX guys who can cook up a 6" screen phone that can be folded over twice !!!! Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by scorpNZ:
If it's good enough for JB it'll be to expensive for me to afford.I am wondering who takes any notice of the phones used, i can't name any of them
If price was the only logic then he would have a new iPhone and one of those $10K+ watches. It is pretty clear that no one involved even considered anything from Apple (or Microsoft..but then they probably didn't consider BB either). The choice is between a good Android from a good company and a good Android from a bad company...makes since given that Android is the most hacker friendly platform and a secret agent never knows when he will have to plug into a standalone system to run a magic autohacker app.
Hopefully they at least use a sony with a larger screen; the movie will look very dated in a couple years if he uses something with a little ~5" display. A 30 year old Aston Martin still looks cool. A 3 year old smartphone looks comical...but we are at the point where bigger phones would require bigger pockets and current phones can display video and color as well as film can capture. That means while style will change and at some point we may go to implants or something instead, something like the Note 4 won't experience the techno-aging that makes us laugh at flip phones in movies from less than a decade ago.
You always have FX guys who can cook up a 6" screen phone that can be folded over twice !!!! Big pocket not required !
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death-s
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30. April 2015 @ 05:59 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Hopefully they at least use a sony with a larger screen; the movie will look very dated in a couple years if he uses something with a little ~5" display.
What does a bigger screen have to do with being dated or not? Why not have him holding a tablet while we're at it? Has to be bigger than 10 inches, though.
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2. May 2015 @ 22:24 |
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Yeah that Nokia 8110 was and would be still cool to have, its funny that having something like that would be so retro cool!
spring loaded or not.
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3. May 2015 @ 15:09 |
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Originally posted by Charlieco:
Yeah that Nokia 8110 was and would be still cool to have, its funny that having something like that would be so retro cool!
spring loaded or not.
Look on ebay. I have seen them on there before. Not sure if you can activate it on any carriers currently.
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4. May 2015 @ 23:16 |
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i agree too much money for a low need item although there are those long lines every iPhone release..... funny how everyone's old version iPhone breaks day before release of new
that said, u know there will be a placement, the numbers are too big to ignore. I just hope the director and film editor can do better than a 2 second pan staring at a hand holding a plastic flip box
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5. May 2015 @ 15:54 |
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Originally posted by qazwiz:
... although there are those long lines every iPhone release.....
I thought that recently the long lines in front of the apple stores were Chinese exporters instead of normal consumers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef_BznBwktw
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