Skyfall lodge ?

ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
I was wondering if anyone knew if Skyfall is based on a real building or
a type of house found in the highlands, or completely made up for the
Film ?
As it looks very stark, so could be, a visual statement from the director
marching the rather bleak countryside.
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Might be a real Building, I've always had a Feeling that it is -{
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • mrgatsbymrgatsby Southern CaliforniaPosts: 165MI6 Agent
    edited April 2014
    I did a quick google search.
    http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Skyfall_Lodge

    Surrey? lol, they fooled me. :))
  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,530MI6 Agent
    It was completely made and designed for the film, with shot angles and script factored in.
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  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    Not sure who wrote that description on that website, but a few things made me laugh: a "weapons room," how about a "gun room" instead. "A swamp"...reminded me of the scene in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail': '...the castle burned down, fell over and sank into the swamp...' Doesn't look much like a swamp to me. And finally, Bond's parents weren't buried '...in the chapel' but on the grounds. Sorry to be a pedant, but that's a lot of errors in a small article. That said, the location and construction of the set is correct.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,785MI6 Agent
    edited April 2014
    Asp is right, Skyfall is completely fictional as a design.

    However, I did a little digging, and in the same way Stourhead House is the real life inspiration for Creighton Manor, its clear that one of the Skyfall recces did have have an inspirational impact on the film to a certain degree.

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SK2mMe-dQ8I/UVNzwRYbPAI/AAAAAAAACGg/ydECfQHSPaU/s1600/Tour+Scotland+Photograph+Duntrune+Castle+Location+Of+James+Bond+Film+02+%281%29.jpg

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duntrune_Castle

    There also appear to be architectrual influences from Victorian grand shooting Lodges, like The Mar Lodge.

    http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Mar-Lodge-Estate/About/#



    Swamp?! What Swamp? Surely they didn't mean the Loch? Skyfall as a design is a bit odd to my eyes. Most of the shooting lodge style houses where I grew up (granted in the east, the other side of Scotland) usually had larger more open windows. Or, they were grand old houses bordering on Castle territory, with towers and turret detailing all over the place. Only much smaller lodge cottages (such as for the Ghille or the Groundskeeper) in the grounds or at the driveway entrance gates had narrower windows along the lines seen at Skyfall. - I'm no architect, and my history is rusty, but I always thought Skyfall Lodge looked a bit "one off" in style from that standpoint?
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  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    if you watch the Skyfall extra features disc ,you will see its a big cardboard empty shell ,but based on a real house
    or hoose as they say in Scotland :)) I dinny nee (don't know) but its typical highland architecture
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,785MI6 Agent
    Ach wiel, jist shae's whit I dinne ken!!

    Spec'l feature disc? Ah, a git me the singl' DVD so no extra patter!

    I'll stop now.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Not so much too much Scottish but rather, too much scotch! :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,785MI6 Agent
    Oh, you don't want to hear me when I have been on the Scotch! :v
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,734Chief of Staff
    :)) :)) :))
  • Colonel ShatnerColonel Shatner Chavtastic Bristol, BritainPosts: 574MI6 Agent
    The sets in the Craig era, though relatively mundane and gritty, are almost as elaborate and large as the more flashy Ken Adams sets. The Macau casino was the most impressive set, while the temporary underground MI6 control centre was a more grungy, rundown retake of the shiny MI6 control centre in Quantum of Solace.
    'Alright guard, begin the unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanism...'
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