Word: vespers
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...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...
...Galore threw a few feminist punches in “Goldfinger,” but eventually succumbed to the irresistible aura of 007—then rendered as a debonair playboy by Sean Connery. Craig’s Bond is less suave and more sardonic; Green’s Vesper also has barbs aplenty up her masculine suit jacket sleeves to sling back at her nemesis and future lover...
...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 is a completely different kind of woman. Compared to the transparent hotties that populated earlier 007 films, she is as complex as the red wine she and Bond share at their first meeting. The other femmes seem to have conflicting sexual and emotional maturities, perpetually a breath away from ripping off designer dresses while simultaneously enjoying the psychological naïveté of four-year-olds...
...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...