The Dark Agent Rises.
That’s what some people are already calling the upcoming James Bond film, Skyfall. Based on the just-released official trailer, you can see why.
Despite the fact that the trailer seems to highlight everything that annoys me about Daniel Craig’s interpretation of James Bond as being a humorless thug (and yes, I know that’s the way he was presented in the original novels but dammit, I don’t care!), I still have to admit that Skyfall looks like it’ll be a more memorable film than Quantum of Solace. Javier Bardem seems like a perfect choice to play a Bond villain, though I want to slap whoever did that to his hair.
Skyfall will open in the U.S. on my birthday, November 9th.
Through the Shattered Lens 
Daniel Craig > Everyone else…yeah, I said it! I like the ‘older’ Bond films that I’ve seen, but I personally prefer the newer, darker iteration. Loved ‘Casino Royale’, enjoyed ‘Quantum of Solace’ the second time around, and this just looks fantastic to me. The cinematography in particular is stunning. Can not wait.
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Heresy! Connery will always be THE BOND. He pretty much played the character like a thug, but he also had a thuggish charm while doing so. 🙂
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I don’t remember Bond being a thug in the novels. Granted, he wasn’t spouting one-liners, but he was also a spy, and didn’t actually fight much at all. (Drawing attention to oneself being the quickest way to getting shot as a spy.) He shoots like three guards in “You Only Live Twice.” It’s short and concise – travel to Japan, become Japanese, call Japanese agent “Tiger,” infiltrate castle, and shoot three times. He didn’t even need to reload!
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Thug was probably the wrong choice of words, at least as far as the literary Bond was concerned. The Bond of the novels was a professional who was willing to kill when he had to but he wasn’t a sadist. Daniel Craig, however, I still feel comes across more like he should be playing the henchman who gets killed about 30 minutes into the film.
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In the novels he wasn’t a thug. Poor choice of words, but the way Connery portrayed the character it was more a charming brute. Yes, he was charming but you can tell that beneath the veneer of the tuxes, martinis and exotic locales he was a brutish force in the employ of the British government.
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