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A man utters four words to an undertaker (‘Get three coffins ready’). He continues walking, gives a short lecture to four men before dispatching them, and indulges the audience with another four words as he tells the funeral director that he’ll require an extra coffin, before walking off into the distance. In one short scene from Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, a microcosm of a Hollywood silent hero is illustrated. Laconic, slow-moving and boundlessly confident in his gestures, Clint Eastwood’s nameless figure epitomises cool as he welds his Toscano cigar like a sword.

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A lot can be said through music, and there’s perhaps no greater film series that drives that fact through more powerfully than Bond. Every film comes with its unique opening sequence, and the accompanying song, if impressive enough, becomes synonymous with the film itself; image and sound are rendered inseparable.

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‘Strikes and gutters, ups and downs…’

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The history of video adaptations isn’t exactly respectable, and the transition from game to movies has rarely been smooth. No matter how compelling and addictive the gameplay might be, it’s a mammoth task to adapt multiple hours of gameplay into a condensed form, while also crafting a compelling narrative with believable, fleshed-out characters.

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There’s ending montages. And then there’s the Tinker Tailor Spy ending montage.

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