{"id":541,"date":"2006-05-02T15:47:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T15:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2006-05-02T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T15:47:01","slug":"first_glimpse_of_the_new_bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/02\/first_glimpse_of_the_new_bond\/","title":{"rendered":"First Glimpse of the New Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is interesting: I’ve run across a French trailer for the upcoming film Casino Royale<\/i>, which producers hope will reinvigorate the 007 franchise with a new actor<\/a> in the lead and a new realism in the storytelling (I understand they’ve ditched Q and the gadgets in favor of good old-fashioned fist-fights.) An English-language version has yet to be released, so if you don’t speak French — and I don’t myself — you’ll just have to guess at what’s going on. Not that this is so difficult; it’s a trailer for a James Bond film, after all.<\/p>\n


\nI personally think the Bond movies ran out of creative gas decades ago, even though I dutifully plunk down my $7.50 every time a new one comes out. I can’t remember who suggested it — Quentin Tarantino, maybe, or perhaps some random blogger — but I agree with the idea that the only way you could really make this Cold War-era character work again in this post-Cold War world would be to do Bond as a period piece, set in the late-50s\/early-60s mileau in which the original novels<\/a> were written. That’s why I got very excited when I saw that the first few scenes of this trailer were in black-and-white — I thought for a moment that someone had actually dared to do something truly<\/i> different with Bond. (I think a black-and-white Bond movie, even if not an actual period piece, would be awesome<\/i>.) But then it shifted into color and the familiar theme started and it was all business as usual. Disappointing. Still, it doesn’t look too bad, and the new guy appears to have the proper combination of suave and menace. I’m not sure about his blond hair, though. There’s reinvention and then there’s just plain wrong<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Take a look and see if you agree:<\/p>\n

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This is interesting: I’ve run across a French trailer for the upcoming film Casino Royale, which producers hope will reinvigorate the 007 franchise with a new actor in the lead and a new realism in the storytelling (I understand they’ve ditched Q and the gadgets in favor of good old-fashioned fist-fights.) An English-language version has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}