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...Brand of Bond...
...That You, Bond" [NOV. 20]: Daniel Craig, the latest actor to portray James Bond, reminds me of Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. His muscular torso goes with a T shirt and jeans more than a Brioni suit. From your article, I understood how the movie industry's obsession with the hyperkinetic brutality of action films is choking the sophisticated elegance of 007. Isn't there any way to make more room for cultural diversity in Hollywood...
...most brutal moment in the movie is a gruelingly long torture scene in which Bond literally has his balls flogged. He evinces a similar level of emotional rawness, reduced to screams and rantings that grow crazier with each blow. The couple’s admission of love comes two scenes later, when Vesper tends to the recovering 007. She tries to express her newfound feelings in spite of her harsh demeanor: “If all that was left of you was your smile and your little finger, you’d still be more of a man than anyone...
...film becomes awkwardly fuzzy when it tries to describe what exactly Vesper finds attractive in Bond. The writers make it clear that underneath their abrasive defenses, there is some kind of animal magnetism that draws Bond and Vesper together. Before their first earnest kiss, he says, “I have no armor left. You’ve stripped it from me. Whatever is left of me, whatever I am, I’m yours...
Their relationship grows so strong that 007 tenders his resignation. For the franchise itself to survive, however, an unfortunate deus ex machina ends the affair. But before it’s over, we get to see it grow into what is by far the most emotionally complex relationship a Bond woman has participated in, and perhaps the only one of which she is a primary architect. That the filmmakers have to take almost half an hour to fully explore its depths recalls one of Vesper’s defining quips: “I’m afraid...