The Bond Effect
First things first, I don’t hate the Bond films. I can see why other people enjoy (e.g. the action) and why they’re so highly acclaimed and world famous. The thing I can’t stand about them is the connection, the connection that joins all of the bond films together. And that is… that there’s no real moral meaning behind James Bond. He gets sent by the government to take down some bad guy (usually foreign) either by spying from the inside or by stealth. Then he meets some bird who works for the bad guy, sleeps with her, then she betrays him, he fights some underboss, he gets in a right kerfuffle (e.g. held at gun point or a bomb about to go off), uses one of his stylish gadgets or something totally unrelated gets in the way (turbulence on a plane for example), he escapes, saves the world, sleeps with the girl again and thats the end. Never does it show the risks and consequences of irresponsible actions nor is there any real heart behind the plot (Bond is emotionless) which is what makes it inferior to hundreds of other films with actual plots.
Bond isn’t emotionless in Casino Royale
Alex
March 4, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Hmm. When I said emotionless I meant as the main ideal, the key to the attitude. The whole idea of Casino Royale is sort of to show that behind the mask, Bond has a heart. Unfortunately, it’s done in a lacklustre fashion and Bond still doesn’t convey the greatest amount of honest emotion even in the pinnacle of the film.
therealbeale
March 4, 2009 at 11:11 pm
bond has no emotions in the way that he kills people for a living and doesn’t seem to care. As though, it never comes back to haunt him or anything.
PS. Unlucky about being demoted alex!
Henry
March 6, 2009 at 5:27 pm