It turns out that they were right to kill James Bond,
three years ago, Reviewing the final Daniel Craig Bond movie“No Time to Die,” I praised the filmmakers’ decision to end the film with Craig’s death. I called it “the sand-off he deserved” and wrote, “What happens in the climatic scene seems poetic: Bond: Bond: Bond: Bond, Bond, in a strange way, takes all those people’s actions Those who have been killed. Non -equation removed that they were killing 007 of Craig to make way for a new – which, in short, every time it happens when a separate actor captures the role.
Still I wrote that review, as I absorbed the mountain of negative response from the decision to kill Bond, I rethinked my original decision. As time passed, I liked what he had done. It looked less “poetic” and a strange and esoter stunt for me.
Now, however, I may have to modify my revised opinion. Because it turns out that in 2021, we knew and loved for 60 years by killing James Bond – the final detective, danger and final movie icon of calm and masculine mystery – may be a more presentary step than someone . Known.
Today announcementHe Amazon MGM Studio Bond is ready to consume the creative control of the franchise, and that long -term manufacturer and overseer, Michael G, Wilson and Barbara broccoliWill be stepped back, there is nothing less than a paradigm change in film culture. This is an innings that we have really been in thick for a while – the content from films was sold from the yard from Curate popcorn to popcorn. But the seismic nature of Bond News infection today as a cultural deal.
In a universe of corporately controlled movie franchisees, the Bond series felt like the final pure franchise. It was controlled not by a corporation, but by a family – similarly the New York Times is controlled by a family, and therefore its freedom as a journalism unit outside the corporate control audience (intended to punish) Is capable of using. These holdouts that remain with major forces mean something big. They are not just exceptions that prove the rule. They are independent institutions that make rules possible.
Barbara Broccoli, his father, Albert R. “Cubbi” carries forward the tradition of Broccoli (with the original manufacturer, Harry Saltzman, Bond Films). A famous micromanagerAs the driving force of the Broccoli-Bond Empire, she maintained control over the countless aspects of the bond chain, by casting the bond (a task she believed that she was choosing the leader of the independent world, which she was in a sense that she was in a sense ))) For details like car bonds, the weapon he used, he faced the villain, and whether he still shaken his martinians, not stirring. Micromanagement can be a disastrous thing, but in the case of the bond chain it meant that films were cured, nuisance, cared, and was treated – Always – They are as mythological property. For more than six decades, every James Bond film has been an event. This is part of their magic – that the Broccoli family discovered a complex strategy to maintain the moment of the series.
The Bond series was launched in 1962, in which “Dr..” Not released, “and at that time there are only 25 James Bond films (in fact, it’s 26. If you count the misunderstanding, the out-of-off-off-aon-production” Never Never A Again “). I love that this is such a small number. Reported tension She was between Amazon and Barbara Brokoli that she was taking her sweet time to prepare the next installment. (This is part of the broccoli strategy: wait for them.) Amazon was itchy for the product. I receive it, but in that very itching you feel that Amazon feels a precursor to what it wants to do.
In more than 60 years, a small handful of bond films have been great (my list: “Dr. No,” Goldfinger, “His Majesty’s Secret Service on” “,” “Casino Royale”). A handful has been very good (“with love with Russia,” “The Spie Hu Loved Me”). Some are overred (“You live only twice,” although the volcano-game climax, and “Skyfall”-but also “therapeutic” and derived). At least one, in my opinion, ritual is low (“die another day”). There are some total duds (“Live and Late Die,” “Goldeny”). A number is only passive, and a number is badly aged. Nevertheless there is a chain here – good, bad, or indifferent – it is so unique that it is more than the sum of its films.
What will happen to this now? I do not have a crystal ball, but we know what will happen. Now a company owned by Amazon MGM, whose required mission films are to be converted into streaming materials, the bond chain will be “extended”, the sideline franchise (“The Rigan of M,” “The Bloophald Chronicles,”. Will go to drive to drive. MilkyThe same thing will happen that “Star Wars” happened for franchise George Lucas after abandoning the control of Disney: It will be so expanded that it will be watered in an essential way, and the greater as it is, the more manufacturers will scramble for the mistakes that they for mistakes. Will prepare ‘VE is created, which can be only one thing: even More Material! Mysticism-point-mining. Killing Golden Goose by exploiting an oblivion.
One reason I am all but certainly that the bond chain is already living through a major identity crisis. Who will be the next bond? It is no longer a question about finding only an exciting actor that can rock that tux and can do it with a charisma that feels not only sexy, but fatal. (My vote, Fwiww, Josh O’Coner.) This is a question of who is James Bond IsIn recent years, there has been a lot of debate about that Bond is 1.. We have seen countless headlines like “Is James Bond a place in the post-#Metu World?” The truth is that Bond, as a character, was showing his age well before #MeToo. The old Bond Girl Antics was actually played since the 90s. (It is one of the several reasons why “Casino Royale” is so fantastic. It’s a bond film ever – it is actually an adult romance.) Should Bond be a disgusting outpost of the old or new enlightened version? Should he be white or black? Whoever is in charge needs to be detected.
But do we trust the authorities in Amazon with that mission? One Articles about stress Published in Wall Street Journal on December 19, 2024, between Amazon and the Broccoli family, quoting a “Amazon employee”, “I have to be honest. I don’t think James Bond is a hero.” Then the article Says, “The room is silent.” If the person said that it was a significant person in the company. Where is the series going to go? There is no question that needs to develop the secret of the character (as always), this bond cannot be a piece of an action-and-martini museum, in many ways. What is known for the series – stunts and gadgets, global conspiracy, invincible Bond Bravo – was included in other franchises long ago, especially “Mission: Impossible” Series.
Still the magic of Bond Lingers. This is a legend in our culture that refuses to die, because the filmmaker does not want it to die. James Bond has proved that he can escape a great deal, even – in the previous film – is actually dying himself. My fear is that with a streaming legendary in -charge who understands the matrix of films, but not inherent and in many ways the destructive and deadly romance of them, we will not see Bond dying. What we see is hitting him slowly.
