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