Saturday 14 May 2016

Danny Boy

Last night I was watching Die Another Day on ITV.  Or rather, I watched it until my wine ran out, which was just after the parasailing, so I quite happily toddled off to bed before me got to Gustav Graves' Mecha Suit.

Anyway, despite having watched this film a thousand times since 2002, I noticed something odd in the titles.  Genius designer and, judging by his Skyfall and Spectre titles, borderline mad person Daniel Kleinman is also a highly regarded director of adverts and pop videos (it was his gorgeous vid for Gladys Knight's Licence to Kill that got him the Bond gig in the first place).  He's known to pretty much everyone in the industry as "Danny" Kleinman, but uses his proper name for his professional credits.

So what's this?


I went back to YouTube to check, and...







Did he feel suddenly free and easy?  Was he trying to appear friendly?  Was this the first sign of his breakdown?  Whatever it was, it's another thing to annoy me every time I watch Die Another Day.  Like I needed a new one.