Changing times

Concepcion 2022-03-15 09:01:02

007 is 50 years old.

As a 50-year commemorative work of Bond, the screenwriter always reminds us of this: Times have changed.

007 is no longer omnipotent. Daniel Craig’s version of 007 is no longer a gentleman but physical strength. The skill in this movie is no longer magical because of injuries. In addition, the record of the least Bond girl will continue to be maintained... …

MI6 has changed. There are all kinds of beatings in this movie. It is said that the easy-to-catch big boss must have a plot. This kind of lesson has a clown before and Loki after it, and also put him in his headquarters? (Well, since Sam Mendes himself admitted that he was influenced by Nolan’s Black Knights, it was probably deliberate...)

Has the Q department become the IT department? The young Q is no longer making sci-fi props, only The level of props technology is low... It is

well known that a major feature of 007 movies is the exotic atmosphere around the world, but this one puts the main stage back on the British mainland. (Speaking of Bond, since you are a Scot, why do you call it England with a patriotic look) As the first 007 approved to be filmed in China, the Shanghai scene has no special features, and it makes no difference in any metropolis; The roof of Istanbul is good, but you will feel familiar after seeing Taken2.

So you see that everything is changing, and everything is back to its origin in the change: with Moneypenny and Q again, the successor M is a man again, and we see Aston Martin in the long-lost golden finger, only But there are no magic items. But Bond is still the Bond. Is this the past of an era, or a new beginning?

Bond will return.

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Extended Reading
  • Lessie 2022-03-22 09:01:11

    As a 50th anniversary gift, Bond 23 has struggled between "tradition" and "innovation" from beginning to end: young Q, pragmatic military supplies department, change of M, Heineken replaced Shake Martini, Aspen The destruction of Dun Martin and Skydome Manor; the above information, including the information revealed between the lines and the overall effect, is always reminding the arrival of the new 007 era. It is enough to use anti-tradition to pay tribute to tradition while opening up new fields.

  • Rosemarie 2022-03-22 09:01:11

    Bini was right. The five 007s of Daniel Craig gave Bond a psychological depth, but it also made the film ordinary. According to my understanding, Daniel Craig is a working class 007, no matter in appearance, style, or ideology, it is closer to ordinary people in the 21st century. Under his silent appearance, his heart is madly calling for feelings, calling for family life, calling from female colleagues to opponents to audiences all over the world to conduct a psychological analysis of himself, calling for a pair of people who can work under pressure and get off work. You have to wait for the not-easy understanding from the bottom of your heart that the leader and girlfriend's Chaogang requires. It’s okay to say that realism returns, but I think I’m still doing what the 007 series has always done: to cater to the times. Daniel Craig's 007, one is to cater to female consumers: the male protagonist is strong on the outside but crisp in the middle, which is pitiful, and the female characters are also quite skilled and do not need male help. The second is to cater to the world view of the workers: I used to think that I would become 007, but now I discovered that 007 is the other me. In a word, it is not easy.

Skyfall quotes

  • Raoul Silva: If you wanted, you could pick your own secret missions. As I do. Name it, name it. Destabilize a multinational by manipulating stocks. Bip. Easy. Interrupt transmissions from a spy satellite over Kabul... done. Hmm. Rig an election in Uganda. All to the highest bidder.

    James Bond: Or a gas explosion in London.

    Raoul Silva: Mm-hm. Just point and click.

    James Bond: Well, everybody needs a hobby.

    Raoul Silva: So what's yours?

    James Bond: Resurrection.

  • James Bond: [a mirror on Land Rover's right door falls] That's all right. You weren't using it.

    Eve: [makes left mirror fall] I wasn't using that one, either.