Cinema Release Date: November 22, 2006
Film already available on DVD since: October 22, 2008
Directed by Martin Campbell
With Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen
Genre: Espionage, Thriller, Action
Time: 02h18min Production Year: 2006
Distributor: Gaumont Columbia Tristar Films
I was asked to explain what I meant by my a bit clumsy sentence："Daniel Craig is the archetype of the hero of tomorrow."
Casino Royale is off a model in the world marked the blockbuster, set to gather people and tickets, because it managed to solve the paradox of a romantic action movie, juggling two genres antithetical nesting in the romance of violence, and violence in romance. This revolution is of a kind, which occurs precisely in the saga of the most iconic film industry. But it could not take off without a complete without a Bond character himself. The last Pierce Brosnan touched the bottom, shallow, over-gadgetry, love itself reduced to sexual attraction, entangled in the battles surrealism technology, which are replaced by a blonde with blue eyes - blue, like projecting, already, towards new horizons.
The disappointed place is that we actually "do not recognize James Bond." That's true. Bond has changed, it has adapted to the codes of cinema blockbuster today. It prepares for the future. He rethinks the same time as society evolves. They would have unleashed the passions there are have: rambos macho retiring, Willis also sounds with the Red, that old Die Hard clings to that curious sub-genre that of the final curtain of heroes cheesy and outdated. Rourke embodied nostalgia for the old days. When he returned, enhanced by the melancholy, describing the injury in the superb The Wrestler, recent scars of a male model over, these former symbols now beaten on their own by large ring, gangling more effeminate than ever. This expression is the most exaggerated.
James Bond is suffering the severe consequences: where a generic Brosnan launched the final leap into the girl cop who was not yet over. Daniel Craig was left, devastated, on the edge of the Venetian remains the only love of his life filed on his knees, livid forever. Then he gets up and pretends it's nothing to him. It’s clear his name is Bond, James Bond, as if to reassure, as if to show he is still standing, as to believe that it is always the same, the secret agent that has always known. It is a lie: test Casino Royale has changed profoundly, and he will never recover.
Quantum of Solace has attempted to mourn, continuing dry deserts and glowing looking for a action movie tough guys, finally back in the final minutes, immerse them in so gentle and poetic fresh snow. This revival is a sham: the James Bond Quantum of Solace, after proudly discussed, confirms the revolution of Casino Royale, his psychological and emotional changes. A real man would have encountered the perpetrator of the killing of Vesper. A macho man who respects himself would have jumped Olga Kurylenko instead of adopting this protective attitude, compassionate. The genius is not to have left the old standard of manhood ridiculed by a love story, but having used it as a template for a model reformed completely new, highly sensitivity (female), turning its back to basics concept to cover the sentimentality of a feigned machismo, as if hiding behind a strike force more violent, angrier than before. But also much more fragile, , I mean, behind armor muscles. The scene of the poisoning of Casino Royale is unconsciously a symbol: when Bond, who is struggling, believing with all his masculine pride, to save himself alone as usual. It is Vesper, the female character and part-mistress Restructuring of Bond, who will press the button to redial the last minute to life - he is now addicted.
In this movie, Casino Royale is the odyssey of a landmark film that looks in the mirror, deconstructed by a crazy love story that has lost, but who founded it, a male fantasy facing escalating social feminism, with its sensitivity and rearranging laid bare, offsetting his tears by the fighting and the other free running raw flesh, and strength tested in poker, tortured in a cellar. He took the wheel of his Aston Martin, darkening to two paths which are no longer opposed as before (a love story and an action film), but continue each, are magnifying one another and - because a Bond hero, a symbol of movie action is now more sentimental / feminine than before, but more brutal and more beautiful than ever.
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