Look out for the cameo towards the end from assassins the Three Blind Mice, the first ever Bond movie antagonists. The template was set here - while there's no sung Bond theme, there's the legendary Monty Norman music, and the first of many appearances by the silhouetted dancing girls, who turned out to be as big a part of the Bond family as Q, M or Moneypenny. To celebrate the imminent arrival of the 23rd Bond film Skyfall, here's a list of ten of the best title sequences in the series to date:
Usually taking the form of psychedelic visuals, soundtracked by the movie's Bond theme, these scene-setters have become one of the most vital parts of the Bond experience. So Mikkelsen has now been on both sides of scenes like that. One of the greatest moments of any Bond film is the elaborate title sequence that accompanies the opening credits. In a scene in Polar, Mikkelsen’s character Duncan Vizla, or The Black Kaiser, is tortured himself. While Daniel Craig's hard-nosed, Bourne-influenced Bond may be a world away from Roger Moore's campy pun-slinger, there's no mistaking a Bond film, thanks to the vast number of recurring elements that appear in every single one.
if there's one thing the Bond series can't be accused of, it's messing with the formula. The Aston Martin, the tuxedo, 'Shaken, not stirred', the Walther PPK, 'Pay attention, 007', the interchangeable girls, the interchangeable directors, actors who are stay around until they're just a little bit too old.
