[Sometimes, the old way is best]

Marques 2022-03-20 09:01:11

The beauties of the Xiangche, the surprise props, the flowers and the grass, the suave, show off everywhere. The labels that used to be affixed to 007 are nowhere to be seen here. Daniel Craig’s Bond has got rid of the glamour and surrealism, and looks more like a real person. He will be ashamed, he will be out of breath, and he will be old. Like that old razor, in the Internet era where a single computer can destroy MI6, 007 seems to be out of date.


It seems so. You see, Bond has no strength to grab the elevator bottom frame and almost fell, his shooting hand trembles, pull-ups and he collapses to the ground. "Small," the boss also ridiculed him, "I wear pajamas at home for a day is worth doing it yourself for a year." Not only that, the so-called high-tech equipment is actually just a radio transmitter, "That's it, do you want a bomb pen?" Even the car is left over by the predecessor.


However, this is the most shabby 007 in history, abandoning the glitz and dazzling of the past, returning home, returning to the original place, relying on old shotguns, homemade bombs, gas tanks and daggers to get the helicopter and submachine gun. As the film says, "Sometimes, the old way is still the best."


Such a return to the basics is a good intention. It tells us that the core of 007's spirit is not the bucket of popcorn held in the hand when watching movies, nor is it BMW, Aston Martin, Omega and Martini, it is not a Bond girl, it is not Dr. Q’s equipment, and it is not a playboy. It’s the poem that M read at the hearing, which is tenacity, bravery, loyalty, indomitable, wisdom and patriotism, these emotions that transcend the changes of the times and are never out of date!


007's spiritual core remains unchanged, 007 will never be outdated.

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Extended Reading
  • Brenda 2022-03-23 09:01:13

    For nothing else, just the theme song of Dumb + Voldemort + black frame curly technology house brother + unexpectedly good-looking slots "Blu-ray Telecom" and "Fiber Optic Broadband" are enough! It’s up to me to have a sense of existence for a Bond girl hahahaha

  • Ora 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    A. Not only closely adheres to the image of "shadow", but also shapes the two sides of good and evil behind "abandoned infants and murders their mothers", but also uses the cultural attributes of the 007 series to draw out the historical arc of "nostalgia" and "rebirth". It cherishes not only the 50-year-old special agent series itself, but also the lost British glory it represents: from retreating to London in all parts of the world where the sun never sets, to stubborn resistance in the homeland under the night, and finally back to the embryonic state. "Amniotic fluid", reborn in nirvana in glaciers and fire. Deakins' play of light and shadow perfectly captures the bizarre power of the new world and the twilight sadness of the old. To achieve such a degree of unity of form and spirit, there is every reason to believe that this is the ceiling of the 007 movie in terms of temperament and soul.

Skyfall quotes

  • James Bond: [to Sévérine when they are in the shower together] I like you better without your Beretta.

    Sévérine: I feel naked without it.

  • James Bond: [after a scene with heavy shooting] Are you hurt?

    M: Only my pride is hurt.