You believe that that frosty smirk of his is just as revealing about the man as is the fact that he holds open a door for a hotel maid, an act of unthinking, automatic chivalry.īy the time you’re trying to unravel the conundrum that is this new James Bond, you’ve entirely forgotten that scene with the fuel truck at the airport that made you think of Raiders of the Lost Ark in the first place.Ĭasino Royale - from screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (recent Bond vets who wrote Die Another Day and The World Is Not Enough as well as the Bond parody Johnny English) and Paul Haggis ( Crash, Million Dollar Baby), and director Martin Campbell (who directed Goldeneye and, more recently, Beyond Borders and The Mask of Zorro) - is exactly what I was hoping for, and everything I was expecting from the first Generation X James Bond. You cheer for him, a devil on the side of the angels, but it’s hard to actually like him, because he’s more than a little scary. He’s earthy and grounded and there in a way that Bond never has been before, a real man who suffers - inside and out Daniel Craig = a god of cinema - but who is also, when it’s not his own well-being at stake, genuinely cold-hearted, almost sadistic. He laughs in the face of his torturer (yeah, torturer - and don’t let the PG-13 rating fool you: the scene may not be graphic, but it is highly disturbing). Oh man: James Bond’s got Indiana Jones all over him all of a sudden.
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