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...train where the two first meet, Bond observes that Vesper’s “beauty is a problem” and that she “overcompensates by wearing slightly masculine clothing.” She counters with a postulation about Bond??s lower-class background, and finishes with the aforementioned remark about the shallow nature of his sexual proclivities. Is this Fleming, or Freudian Analysis...
...latest Bond film, “Casino Royale,” James’ dame du jour presents an unfamiliarly prickly exterior, mounted atop armor as thick as the new Bond??s skull. In contrast to Daniel Craig’s cuboid appearance, Eva Green, who plays Vesper Lynd, looks remarkably like a pale rose—beautiful, but chilling. She rarely relinquishes control of a scene, digging her thorns deep into the film and filling holes in the spongy plot with a deep well of anger, love, and all that lies in between...
...lays bare one of the fundamental problems with the 007 franchise: the dispensing of emotional platitudes solely to trap women between white hotel sheets. Of course, Bond??s reputation precedes him, so at one point Vesper says, “It wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine that you think of women as disposable pleasures rather than meaningful pursuits...
Vesper appears to be the first of Bond??s love interests to have graduated from Pampers to Playtex. As Anthony Lane aptly put it in the New Yorker, “One thing she definitely is not is a Bond girl. Vesper is a Bond woman.” It is strange that the first Bond femme we can feel true sympathy for is one who is, herself, expressly unsympathetic...
...hesitant performance also contributes to the occasionally flawed nature of the film. Despite Jones’ small stature and soft voice, he manages to bring a confident, lofty aura to Capote that stands in stark contrast to Craig’s uninspired efforts. Let’s hope for Bond??s sake that Craig can handle that role with more aplomb in the upcoming “Casino Royale...