He kisses her once bloody fingers and joins her on the wet tile. After a violent exchange, Bond finds a fully dressed Vesper sitting silently on the shower floor. You have to continually ask yourself ‘why do I like this person?’ Because he gets the job done with a hint of style? I’ll always remember that scene in CASINO ROYALE. He would burn down MI6, if it meant completing his mission. Women are commodities to be exploited and murder is a thing that just happens. Even Daniel Craig has grown tired of 007’s shit. You could tell that the body under his custom suit was covered in scars. I must admit, against all better judgement, I liked this Bond. He wasn’t the best looking guy in the room, but, your eyes were drawn to him. He looked equally comfortable in a suit, as he did covered in muck. CR featured a Bond who’s face looked like it could take a kiss from a wooden chair and a chest that could probably explode a tuxedo into pieces. When CASINO ROYALE came out in 2006, I felt like I had finally found a Bond that resonated with me (Blasphemy, I know).
Moore, Lazenby, Connory, Dalton, Brosnan, everyone has their own feelings on who James Bond is.
If you were to ask a group of people who their ‘favorite James Bond is,’ their answers would represent the entire movie franchise. A feat that SPECTRE seemed to struggle with. The Daniel Craig ‘reboot’ tried to reestablish Bond in a reality chained closer to our own, while still featuring the elements that make up a proper James Bond universe.
The implausibility of Bond’s shenanigans became more of the focus and less on the ramifications of being a ’00.’ A double OOooo. Since then, there has never been more than a 5 year gap between BOND movies, with each new film slightly adjusting the character’s persona. NO introduced an international super spy to a world that demanded their spies be ‘gentlemen.’ Men who can seduce their way out of danger and into the beds of the world’s most beautiful women. I suppose Sean Connory is partly to blame. ‘James Bond: Fireplace Tax Attorney.’ When Ian Fleming was designing his Bond character, he was quoted saying that he wanted Bond to be ‘an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened I wanted him to be a blunt instrument.’ Why then did JAMES BOND become synonymous with ‘seduction, sexuality and tuxedos?’ (Wow, that’s a really dumb question, Mark). I wonder if anytime during the production of SPECTRE, the 24th official entry into the BOND franchise, if anybody acknowledged how boring the name ‘James Bond’ is.