With the end of the Daniel Craig era, the character of James Bond moves towards a new iteration. The blonde actor made his role debut in Casino Royale in 2006 and brought big news to the franchise. In fact, Craig was proposing to the public an 007 that was still in its infancy and only at the beginning of the path that would have led him to become the secret agent we all know.
Waiting for new updates on the future of the franchise and to discover the name of who will be called to take the baton in the final hours strong critical voice against the films of the saga starring Craig himself.
In a recent interview, Charlie Higson, author of the series of licensed Young Bond novels centered on the adventures of a very young 007, vehemently denied some creative choices of the Craig-era film series, supporting as a franchise of Impossible Mission is instead much closer to what James Bond should be:
I watched No Time to Die with my oldest son, Frank, who’s 30, and he said, “It felt like a Bond film made by people who they feel embarrassed to make a Bond film. You had to have seen the previous two films to understand who certain characters were and then you go, ‘Oh fuck yourselves’.
The author then elaborated on the merits of some choices he didn’t particularly like, such as what he felt was an inappropriate attempt to go into detail further the psychology of the character or the choice to do the five films starring Daniel Craig one-story arch and no more individual adventures that have nothing to do with each other:
Focus each film on a new mission and give him the freedom to be Bond. You did it too complex. The current best Bond films are Mission: Impossible. There’s no indentation, it’s just a series of “Woah! Look at that building, I’d love to climb it and blow things up.’
Prior to 2006, all Bond films were presented as self-contained, self-contained stories, despite being set in the same “universe” as each specific incarnation of the character. With Casino royale On the other hand, a broader serial-style narrative arc was opened up, in which each film, while establishing a new mission, actually continues and then advances a broader story Quantum of consolation (2008), skyfall (2012), spook (2015) e no time to die (2021).
While Higson disliked the direction the franchise was taking, it’s still undeniable that the films of the Daniel Craig era helped usher the character into the new millennium, not just by introducing him to the typical narrative structure for the first time similar to the ” journey of the ‘hero’, but also him a number of psychological nuances unpublished works that have renewed their perception among the general public.
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