Word: vespers
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...which James bounces and the resultant bevy of female conquests. Craig scores only once in the film, and even then it’s not made with the traditional smile or joke resulting (in more recent films) in a gruesomely long sex scene. Bond does make it with Vesper, but only after nearly an hour of psychological sparring...
...allow them to see what’s at each other’s core: a mirror image. The two are the same insofar as Darcy and Elizabeth from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” are both stubborn and conceited. Bond and Vesper cling to their self-defense mechanisms, leery of betraying deficiencies they both have in spades...
Evasion gives way to passion only after a pair of piercing traumas. In the first, Vesper witnesses a brutal fight between Bond and two African freedom fighters, during which her lover-to-be kills his assailants with unrestrained brutality and enlists her to help dispose of the bodies. Later, Bond returns to their suite to find her sobbing and quaking in the shower, paralyzed by the savagery she has just witnessed...
...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 I’ve ever...
...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...