Word: bonding
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...script that put 007 in tense, compromised positions. They also added what Wade calls "nerdy stuff that only five fans will note"--a few lines echoing Fleming's texts and dozens of references to movies past. These are meant to be cues, Purvis says, to "remind us of where Bond is coming from...
Berry's character is likewise shaped by history. The name Jinx may not have the come-hither connotations of Bond Girls past, but the character is in many ways a composite of her predecessors. She has the sass of Goldfinger's Pussy Galore and the kick-ass skills of Wai Lin from Tomorrow Never Dies. Put a gun in her handbag, add a murky agenda and you have a Bond Girl who's "one step further from the previous one," says Berry. "She's not just eye candy. She's feisty, a fighter...
...reason she took the part, Berry says, is because "it was one of the few times in my career that I just got called up and asked to be in a movie." The $4 million--plus paycheck, a Bond Girl record, was an incentive. It was also a chance to switch gears from her last role, as the emotionally battered death-row-inmate's widow in Monster's Ball, for which she won this year's Best Actress Oscar. "After making something as emotionally wrought as Monster's Ball, I thought, 'What fun would it be to go play...
...Brosnan stands on the rooftop of the Santa Cruz Cathedral's annex. Taking a breather from a scene in which 007 meets a Cuban MI6 operative named Raoul (Emilio Echevarria), he gazes out over the city and reflects on a franchise that has made him into a global symbol. Bond, he says, "is a leviathan--and it's even more amazing after doing all these films...
When Fleming banged out the first book in 1952 and dubbed its hero Bond--the "dull and anonymous name," as he put it, of the author of Birds of the West Indies (look out for the book's cameo)--he had no idea what his character would become. The market today is more crowded than ever, but Bond's makers even look at the competition with pride. "XXX, Austin Powers, even The Bourne Identity are all homages to Bond," says MGM vice chairman Chris McGurk. "All these movies do is reinforce the significance of Bond as the most original...