JAMES BOND 007 FULL MOVIES LICENSE

And as a general admirer of blockbuster seriousness (and its close twin, self-seriousness), IвЂ™m a bit surprised to find myself proposing franchise entertainment should вЂњlighten up.вЂќД«ut, seriously (or not so seriously): Lighten up, 007, and for the sake of variety, may your inevitable next incarnation be a breezier one. IвЂ™m well aware of my sacrilege, just as IвЂ™m aware that a lot of people consider that beautifully hollow shell вЂњSkyfallвЂќ some kind of masterpiece. The impulse to shift Bond away from suave lady-killer mode and recast him as some kind of tortured romantic hero, while certainly interesting in theory, has not produced any particularly interesting movies. The problem is that all this doom-laden gravitas feels generic - and has felt generic, I would argue, since the end of вЂњCasino Royale,вЂќ the first and still the best of the Craig Bonds. He is not, to put it mildly, the problem here.

JAMES BOND 007 FULL MOVIES LICENSE

Is it churlish of me, then, to confess that I wish IвЂ™d liked вЂњ No Time to DieвЂќ better? That I wanted to be as moved by BondвЂ™s last moments on that lonely island, dragging his doomed, nanobot-ravaged body to the edge of a soon-to-be-blown-to-smithereens cliff, as I was by the wholly understandable creative impulse behind it? IвЂ™ll give the filmmakers credit for boldness: In a time when the broadest entertainments seem to be borrowing narrative cues from daytime television, what with Jon Snow and Sherlock Holmes and Michael Myers and half the Avengers all coming back to life, exercising your license to kill (and I mean really kill) your brand-defining leading man counts as a legitimately radical gesture.ДЄnd of course, Craig played that dying gasp as superbly as heвЂ™s played Bond all along, with magnetic stoicism and world-weary resignation. He likely wanted the assurance of finality, as well as an ending that would complete the characterвЂ™s arc in stirring fashion, fulfilling the notes of heightened seriousness and emotional depth that he brought to вЂњ Casino Royale,вЂќ вЂњ Quantum of Solace,вЂќ вЂњ SkyfallвЂќ and вЂњ Spectre.вЂќ Mission accomplished. Even before he signed up for this fifth and final installment, Craig had been signaling his readiness to move on from Bond for years, and indeed might well have done so sooner if his version of the character hadnвЂ™t been so justly acclaimed and popular. Going into the long-delayed, amusingly titled вЂњNo Time to Die,вЂќ the death of Daniel CraigвЂ™s James Bond always seemed like a real possibility. Justin Chang: So, who saw that coming? A lot of us, IвЂ™m guessing. in the world of 007.ДЇinal warning: Many spoilers for вЂњNo Time to DieвЂќ follow. Two of The TimesвЂ™ film writers, Justin Chang and Michael OrdoГ±a, got together to mull over the end (was it a master stroke or a bludgeoning with a вЂњblunt instrumentвЂќ?) and possible beginnings, and ponder what it all means. They brought a definitive close to the Daniel Craig era in вЂњNo Time to Die.вЂќ How, exactly, will be discussed in the oh-so spoiler-filled conversation below.

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