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Character Spotlight: Sean Connery as James Bond
As a new feature for the site called Character Spotlight, I will take some time to showcase my opinions on random James Bond movie characters, and will start off with the first James Bond actor, Sean Connery. Connery is my favorite Bond, and it’s no wonder all later actors are… Read More →
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How can you be so cold?
Natalya Simonova’s sharp, anguished question ands with uncommon force in GoldenEye. It’s not only an expression of her personal frustration, it’s a pointed indictment of Bond’s emotional detachment baked into his profession. It echoes the shift that began in the Dalton era, when Bond was first made to grapple with… Read More →
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Hey Bond. Do you do any gardening?
Bond’s first encounter with CIA agent Jack Wade in GoldenEye culminates in Wade tossing out this seemingly arbitrary question, a fitting end to the haphazard rhythm of their entire exchange. From the outset, Wade mangles the recognition code phres, sizes Bond up as a “stiff-assed Brit,” arrives in what appears… Read More →
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I gave him the limp
In GoldenEye, Bond’s offhand remark about Zukovsky is one of those wonderfully efficient lines that does far more than deliver a punchline. It casually reveals not only that Bond knows Zukovsky by his full name, Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky, but that he literally is responsible for his gait after an earlier,… Read More →
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They’ll print anything these days
This quip is delivered with impeccable dry wit by Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies. It’s one of the franchise’s most pointed one-liners not only because of its perfect timing, but also its poignancy. Bond utters the line just after forcing one of Carver’s henchmen into the newspaper presses in… Read More →
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Mr. Bond, my name is Fields
With this clipped introduction, Quantum of Solace (2008) presents Agent Strawberry Fields: a character whose full name is never spoken aloud, yet appears plainly in the credits. The omission is puzzling: if the filmmakers were willing to lean into such a conspicuously playful name, one wonders why they resisted even… Read More →