NPR: Shaking, Stirring Up The James Bond Franchise

Le SamouraiLe Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
"This Friday marks 50 years since the release of the first James Bond film, Dr. No. Ian Fleming's Cold War-era MI6 agent has endured through 22 movies, evolving all the while to stay relevant to new audiences. The next installment is Skyfall, due out Nov. 9.

Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson are the franchise's current producers and children of the original producer, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli. NPR's David Greene spoke to them about the family business."

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/02/161888680/shaking-stirring-up-the-james-bond-franchise
—Le Samourai

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  • Le SamouraiLe Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
    I love and totally agree with this quote from Barbara Broccoli about Daniel Craig:

    "He has allowed the audience into Bond's inner life. Into the complexities, the conflicts that Bond expresses in the novels, which are very difficult to convey on the cinema screen because it's an internal dialogue — Bond doesn't talk about how he feels. And I think, you know, Daniel is such a superb actor, and I think this is one of the things that he very much wanted to do when he agreed to play the role, was to really go back to the original Fleming Bond. And that Bond is, yes, a lot darker and — but he also has vulnerability. I mean, in that film, his heart is broken. And he shuts down emotionally when Vesper commits suicide; he realizes that he can never have a relationship with a woman in the same way ever again. And I think that vulnerability is very powerful."
    —Le Samourai

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    " And he shuts down emotionally when Vesper commits suicide; he realizes that he can never have a relationship with a woman in the same way ever again. And I think that vulnerability is very powerful."
    Precisely.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • James SuzukiJames Suzuki New ZealandPosts: 2,406MI6 Agent
    thank you for showing us that... Le samouri i enjoyed reading that.
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  • BIG TAMBIG TAM Wrexham, North Wales, UK.Posts: 773MI6 Agent
    It's good for Craig that he's playing Bond in an era when actors are expected to have more input in their character arc. I feel sorry for Connery, Dalton & Brosnan who all expressed a desire to have more input in how their Bond shaped up.
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