Does Craig have two different characters?

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For me, Craig's Bond feels completely different in Skyfall than he did in QoS. Example there are many things he wouldn't have done in his first two films that he did in Skyfall. the "Bloody waste of good scotch" line, getting drunk and stoned, having field backup, taking M to Scotland, running to m's hearing thing after the subway chase instead of stealing someone's car, always having an earpiece (this I especially hated!), growing a beard, not shaving the beard after he's back on duty, getting completely unfit, hiding away under the pretense of death, missing pretty much everything with his gun until 15 minutes before the film ends, complaining about a stuck subway door instead of shooting in open right of the bat.

Is this just me, or does anyone else have a similar opinion?

Asp9mm

Nope. It's just you. Bond's character from CR has been the same, despite the different tone of the films.

Thunderpussy

+1
Craig's Bond is developing from a rough diamond in CR into the Character
we are used to. I can't see Bond pulling out a gun and firing in the
tube, it's just not cricket old man. )

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Well he obviously wouldn't be shooting in the tube, but after his "death" he just gave up on his life. I could see Dalton doing this, maybe Connery if it was Jamaica, but I always perceived Craig's Bond as a little vain. He wouldn't put up with M having lost faith in him, he'd have to go back immediately to prove her wrong.

Blackleiter

I'll add my voice to the chorus - it never even occurred to me that Craig wasn't the same Bond in all three movies.

Thunderbird 2

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. , but I always perceived Craig's Bond as a little vain. He wouldn't put up with M having lost faith in him, he'd have to go back immediately to prove her wrong.

A classic case of Walthertoes! Killed your own argument. The second Bond learns MI6 was attacked he makes tracks for home. M's home. That in itself demonstrates that the second he thought he was needed, he was there. Though to be blunt the narrative of Bond's enjoying death sojourn was a bit odd to me. I wondered if he had amnesia or something for a while!

As to the "Waste of scotch" I had trouble with the nature of that whole sequence. But the nature if the line struck nas the same tone as "then you are a bloody fool". or "this man and I have unfinished business" from the preceding films. Different writing? Yes. Different film style? Yes. Different character / characterisation? Nope!

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Thunderbird 2 wrote:

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. , but I always perceived Craig's Bond as a little vain. He wouldn't put up with M having lost faith in him, he'd have to go back immediately to prove her wrong.

A classic case of Walthertoes! Killed your own argument. The second Bond learns MI6 was attacked he makes tracks for home. M's home. That in itself demonstrates that the second he thought he was needed, he was there. Though to be blunt the narrative of Bond's enjoying death sojourn was a bit odd to me. I wondered if he had amnesia or something for a while!

As to the "Waste of scotch" I had trouble with the nature of that whole sequence. But the nature if the line struck nas the same tone as "then you are a bloody fool". or "this man and I have unfinished business" from the preceding films. Different writing? Yes. Different film style? Yes. Different character / characterisation? Nope!

Don't think I killed my argument at all. Why would he wait for a catastrophic attack to finally return to MI6? That's his patriotism, he just used the opportunity to rub it in M's face "Oh look I'm gone for (indeterminate amount of time) and you get yourself in a mess" he was just spiting her, something I don't think was in his character in his previous two films.

SilentSpy

I'm going to post my very late Skyfall review probably on Monday. It addresses some of this. I've been enjoying the anniversary and didn't want to get into Skyfall after seeing it way back when.

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looking forward to it!

Walter P Peekay

I hated the earpiece too! It implied that 007 is a team player, and that jarred with me - Craig's Bond is particularly good at throwing things (sets of keys, mobile phones, etc) aside with great disdain, and I really wanted him to throw that earpiece in a bin as he passed it.

Thunderpussy

Well he did drop it in Eve's champagne glass.

Napoleon Plural

I agree with the OP, but then there is a sense that SF is taking place many years after the other films (literally, in any case) so Bond would have evolved. The earpiece thing imo is a nod to a mother's voiceover/guidance one has as a kid, reinforcing the whole 'M represents Bond's Mum in the film, when she dies it allows him to grieve and get over it' thing.