Well I’ve seen the latest Bond movie. The recipe has changed; mixed much more quickly, faster fight scenes with lots of bone crunching sounds, no gadgets, no humour, no black and white, no fantasy island evil empires, just brutal, clinical despatching of whoever gets in the way of the grudge, ‘duty’ and a hunger for revenge.
Bond has never been warm or human. He has never been so efficient. He has never faced a corporate eco-terrorist before. This Bond wears his glamour like work overalls which is reasonable enough because its dirty stuff his duty requires. He shows a quantum of humanity.
That quantum is this; a drive to find the right order of things, a drive to find love, to find acceptance and approval. There is a residual trace element in the 2008 Bond of these traits of humanity.
The portrayal of omnipresent corporate greed, acting almost as a sovereign empire, carving up the world, for a shadowy elite isn’t that far fetched. Its worryingly accurate.
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My darkest secret is that I'm a Roger Moore man.
I know, I know. And you're right, this modern Bond is the right one for these days. But what I liked about Roger Moore was that he seemed to cast back to... well, almost a British Empire sort of Bond, wasn't he? And that was horrible too but I'm talking about a pleasant sort of imaginary British Empire, the kind of Empire PG Wodehouse must have bestrode like the podgy colossus he was. Hm. Worked myself into an interesting political pickle with this comment, haven't I?
Forget you saw it. I wasn't here.
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