This is the saddest part of 007's history. The personable playboy buried himself for love and his family in exchange for the character's first 60-year ending. The profound return of human nature, the lengthy story plot, and the subversive character performance make us have to think between emotion and doubt, is this emotional drama more than the action scene or 007? Should this role continue in the future?
Just like Daniel ▪ Craig's appearance that does not match the description of the original novel, the 6th 007 he plays has been wrapped in a strong personal temperament since the beginning of the release, and he has played with the character of the novel author Ian ▪ Fleming.
He needs to get used to Bond's straight suit and be flirtatious, and Bond needs to cater to his toughness and boldness and full of emotion.
Thanks to the precise control of director Martin ▪ Campbell, from the beginning of "007 - Casino Royale", the fusion between the characters and the actors has a subtle chemical reaction, testing each other, merging with each other, and not rejecting each other.
When it comes to "007 - No Time to Die", the role has been fully integrated with the actor, and we can even think that the actor has overridden the original role, influenced the role, and driven the plot.
After all, the audience can see in the opening credits that Daniel ▪ Craig has been promoted to the second producer of the film, ranking behind the copyright owner, producer Barbara.
The story of this film is not complicated, the familiar routine is the opening action, throwing out suspense, heavy obstacles, killing the enemy, and resolving the crisis. The old recipe, the new way to play, is to see how he travels the world, navigating all kinds of beautiful women and enemies.
In this film, 007 continues the unique realistic style of The Daniel's version, and several explosions in a row have made him gray-headed and extremely embarrassed.
For 007 fans, the action scenes of this film do not seem to be brilliant enough, and only the opening scene has the most character temperament. The motorcycle took off, the tailor-made Aston Martin was in full swing, and the impression of handsomeness was once again returned. The other paragraphs are much inferior.
As the finale of the Daniel version of 007, the physical overwhelm of the character also continues to the character's emotional life.
After all, since "007 - The Queen's Secret Envoy", this playboy has no relationship to advance to the family level, and the uniqueness of the Bang girl Vespa in "007 - Casino Royale" also makes fans feel irreplaceable.
But in "No Time to Die", Bond not only has a wife who is only one marriage license away, but also has a baby daughter who is also blue-eyed. This return of mortals is bound to make 007 tied hands and feet, and he can no longer be careless and kill all four parties.
"007 - No Time to Die" carries a sense of tragic fate.
The opening chapter borrows the bumpy life of Madeleine in childhood, explaining the sadness of men engaged in special professions and the doom that may be brought to the family at any time.
The pain of the early years, the psychological ailments, so that the weathered king of the secret agents eager to retire, the tree wants to calm the form of the wind, but also let him have to put on the battle, with an apologetic and life-saving attitude to save the world, save the family.
It is also under this premise that we see the bond with the least smile in the history of the series, the bond with the most pressure, the bond who actively intercedes, the Bond who will only have a bed scene for a woman, and Bond who has a child's eyes and love.
Simply put: tired, don't want to fight, let us go.
When watching this film, the audience will no longer focus on how beautiful the Bond girl is, how handsome the custom luxury car is, how good Bond is, and all the routines shown for show in the previous series are pale and weak in this film, and they are struggling to cope.
So is this James ▪ Bond still 007?
As Mr. Bond, who has the deepest emotion, the best acting skills, and the most emotional scenes (even some of the dialogue is too complicated), this subversion has largely rewritten the role setting of the original author Ian ▪ Fleming.
The amorous man becomes the one who is devoted, the cold-blooded killing machine becomes the good gentleman who longs for a family life. The agent who used to play with the enemy with the high-tech props provided by Dr. Q gradually became entangled in family and career like a drama.
This subversive 007 becomes the 007 that is most different from the image of 007.
Just like the dialogue between the old and new 007 in the film, "This is just a code name." Daniel has also really done a job of making the character a code name, so that this code name can be taken back or pushed out.
At the end of the film, 007 comes to an end.
To be precise, this version of 007 is coming to an end. This blockbuster IP that has been galloping in the film industry for 60 years has come to an end, and the actor's resignation has buried the role, which must be unacceptable to loyal fans. Even if we knew there would be a successor, the code name user was dead after all, james ▪ Bond was dead.
There is a scene in the film that really moves me. M, the current head of the intelligence system, stared long in front of the portrait of the former M. Exactly what he was thinking, we have no way of knowing. But we know that 007 is old, whether the new person can shoulder the heavy responsibility, in the face of an increasingly complex international environment, the new M has to face no less problems than 007. The magnitude of the responsibility he has to bear is something that only Old M can understand.
This kind of lookback, why not the 007 style look back?
Who Dr. Q's private kitchen invited, the stunning lovely of Paloma, the no. 2 state girl, the battle for honor between the old and new 007, the political game of whether or not to order the bombing of the island, many highlights could have been more brilliant, but were shrouded in a gloomy retirement atmosphere.
Even the death of the leader of the Ghost Party and the sheer political correctness of the film cannot surprise us. This airtight depression also greatly reduces the entertainment of this film.
For a textbook commercial film series, letting the protagonist die has always been something that producers and audiences can't bear to see. The biggest regret left by this film to the audience, in addition to Bond's generous death, there is also the hero Twilight of the humane return of this character.
When we look at 007, we hope that we can use 007 to complete our impossible heroic dreams. Fragrant car beauty, heaven into the earth, dashing and crisp, save the world. When all this is over, what really ends is the dream in the hearts of every loyal movie fan.
At the end of the film, it is suggested that 007 will return. The spy saga of 007 will keep us on track. How to combine the advantages of the previous 6 Bond and go out of his own way, the problem left for him can only wait for him to solve. As I wrote at the end of the previous article, after all, who doesn't love the mercurial, well-trained, beautiful Mr. Bond?
Looking forward to Mr. Bond's early return.