***warning - possible spoilers***
"The James Bond franchise is born again in 'Casino Royale,' or should I say Bourne again, for Daniel Craig's compactly built, coldly efficient, stylish killing machine is more reminiscent of Matt Damon's Jason Bourne than the middle-aged bounder played by Pierce Brosnan..."
That line from Richard Roeper's review of "Casino Royale" made me feel all wobbly inside. I love "The Bourne Identity" and I feel I must cop to a kind of love-hate (or perhaps better said, lust-distaste) feeling for the Bond series. Combine the two, and now all of a sudden I can't wait to see the new movie, even though mere weeks ago I was dreading its release and wondering why they couldn't just give up the ghost on the tired franchise, or at least have the decency to cough up a non-blond Bond. In a sense though, they do appear to have given up that ghost, since many reviews refer to this movie as turning a new leaf in Bond-dom, reinventing the material, and dragging the character into the 21st century.
Superficially, I'm looking forward to a gorgeous Aston Martin and detailed menswear. And Eva Green's pretty face. Also, this Daniel Craig fellow looks to have quite an intriguing roughness to him. The movie also apparently covers quite a lot of ground with shooting locations. (check out the metromix review for more.)
Not-so-superficially, I have to wonder why I'm attracted to men who don't appear to give a damn, or in some (ok, many) cases are not even realistically in my life at all. I mean, it can't get much more emotionally unavailable than that.
As a random aside/hunch/spoiler: One review I’ve read mentions that “Casino Royale” shows some of the background to why Bond behaves the way he does in later films and one would kind of have to assume that his behavior vis-à-vis women would be included in this revelatory backstory. I’ve also read that since the writers tried to give both Bond and Vesper (Eva Green) some psychological depth and since Vesper is portrayed as Bond’s equal, they’re getting at suitability and stability in a romantic relationship. Since we all know Bond doesn’t exactly settle down, I’m assuming Vesper gets written out somehow, and I’m guessing that a milquetoast-y “going their separate ways” isn’t going to cut it in this case because of the whole “well-matched equals” point they’re trying to drive home. It would need to be a break-up of a more permanent variety. My thought – it’s going to turn out very “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” for the lovely accountant.
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