Bond 22

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We are starting to get some buzz for the upcoming James Bond movie, though we are a long way away before that will be coming to theaters, as the new Hollywood trend seems to favor giving its big movies a little buzz far in advance of their release, even before they are made. Of course, we are particularly interested in seeing how Daniel Craig will continue to evolve the character, after having given doube-oh-seven a new lease on life. The new director, Marc Forster, has some interesting remarks toward that end:

The ability to generate suspense from some of the more aberrant emotional states may serve him well in his new assignment, because Bond, as played in his most recent incarnation by Daniel Craig in “Casino Royale” (2006), seems, Mr. Forster said, “very isolated, a man who’s damaged in some way.” Mr. Craig’s Bond felt to him like “a completely new interpretation of the character,” he said. “This James Bond is darker, more tormented. He’s humanized, in a sense.”

And that, he said, is the quality that will allow the franchise to go on. “In the ’60s and ’70s, when Sean Connery and Roger Moore were playing the role, a large part of the appeal of the James Bond movies was the travel to exotic locations, but that’s not such an attraction anymore,” Mr. Forster said. “People travel a lot more now, and with the Internet they’re more aware of what the rest of the world is like. In a way the most interesting place for a James Bond movie to go is inward — deeper into Bond himself.”

I'm looking forward to it. I only hope they don't go too far down the poltical correctness route. Being studly is not like being a racist, and Bond doesn't need to be feminazi-approved, nor do we really need a bisexual Bond. Dark and serious is good, though, very good.

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