So in preparation for Skyfall's North America release next week, I watched Casino Royale again. I'm no Bond expert (not really much of a fan, either), but for what it's worth I would definitely say that this is probably the strongest 007 film I've seen. Also, Pierce Brosnan is horrible. Needed to be said. Anyways, Daniel Craig's debut performance as the famous James Bond is really quite impressive, and a taut, well written story along with Eva Green's smoking-hot-ness really brings this film together into something special.
But the quality of the movie isn't really what I want to talk about, what I really want to touch on is how masculine, borderline sexist and misogynistic (sort of, depending on who you ask) Casino Royale is. Bond has always been a masculine, strong manly man with a thing for the ladies, but damn Daniel, you could have toned it down a bit in this one. In the first hour alone he crashes the car of a rich dude who pissed him off by mistaking him for a valet (partially to create a distraction, but still, dick move), takes huge amount of money away from a dude in poker including his absolutely gorgeous Aston Martin, before proceeding to (almost) bang his wife and then later looking straight into his eyes as he pushes a knife into his gut in the middle of a crowded museum. Now that's how you kick a guy while he's down. Bond seems to be a very primal person in this movie, eager to assert his dominance over every foe he encounters, and even more eager to get with every woman that crosses his path.
Our hero 007 has been a ladies man in pretty much all of his movies, but this movie is the first I've seen where they actually have some exposition as to why. Bond says himself that he is pretty much only into married women, so he obviously enjoys the thrill of the hunt, going after women who are unavailable or hard to get, and especially ones who won't get attached to him because that's the last thing he wants. Women are disposable to Bond, and when one he was getting romantic with is killed because of her involvement with him he doesn't care. Why? Because he's JAMES BOND, that's why! He can just find another one and start over. And he does, the one he's working with to bring down the bad guy. Or does he? the very woman who abhorred him at first sight for his objectification of women and his massive, uncontrollable ego falls for him, only to stab him in the back and end up dying because of it. When asked how he felt about it Bond replied with his signature sentimentality, he said "It's over. The bitch is dead." They were apparently in love, but he got over that one pretty quick, probably because he's mad because he thought women were just stupid objects and he got outsmarted by one.
In summary, James Bond probably had mommy issues
Probably going to post a Skyfall review after I see it, stay tuned.
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ReplyDeleteClearly you have very little appreciation for what this movie tried and succeeded to do. Bond isn't supposed to be likeable in this movie. As is said repeatedly in the Craig lineup of Bond movies, he's a government assassin. When he's seducing Dimitrios's wife, he is doing so not as a move for his own benefit, but because he needs information from her. When he gets that information, he leaves. The "The bitch is dead" line is there to show the audience that he's trying to be cold and detached, like he was before he met vesper and she "took his armor". If you need proof of this, just look to the underwhelming followup Quantum of Solace.
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