Casino Royale proved a forward-looking Bond film could work, but both Skyfall and Spectre seem too preoccupied with Bond's past – both story-wise and in terms of 007 trademarks of old. Q's gadgets – including an exploding watch – and the DB5 both make an appearance, serving more as reminders of the producers' post- Quantum of Solace panicked attempts to appeal to fans of Bond tradition than as necessary plot elements. It was all a fairly cynical attempt to leverage fan nostalgia, and it was all back in Spectre. Then there was the Aston Martin DB5 complete with ejector seat which inexplicably appears in Skyfall just as Bond and M are enduring one of their darkest hours – bringing some entirely unneeded levity to the proceedings. Skyfall reintroduced Q-Branch, and after killing off the inimitable Judi Dench's M, reinstated a male M (Ralph Fiennes) alongside the return of the Miss Moneypenny character. The film also maintains some of Skyfall's worst features – namely the attempt to resurrect Bond tropes of the past. This was surely what motivated Craig to don the tux once more for No Time To Die. But it felt more as though the preceeding two-and-a-half hours had been one long attempt to retcon Bond's past leading up to a storybook ending 007 hadn't earned. At the time, this could very well have been Craig's last turn as Bond, so such an ending was presumably supposed to tie up his four-film run neatly. This was summed up in a line from Waltz's Blofeld where he claims to be "the author of all pain." The writers even shoehorned in a sub-plot about Blofeld actually being Bond's adoptive brother.īy the end of the film, Bond and his new love interest, Lea Seydoux's Madeline Swann simply drive off into the sunset, with no indication of what awaits Bond in the future. The film makes it so SPECTRE and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) were behind the nefarious plots in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall. Casino Royale marks Daniel Craig’s first appearance as the legendary James Bond at the start of his career, having just earned 00 status and his licence to kill. Spectre director Sam Mendes and his team consequently decided to retcon SPECTRE's existence into the three prior movies by "revealing" that Quantum was simply a division of the overall organization. Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, Caterina Murino. As a result, Royale's direct sequel Quantum of Solace introduced an organization named Quantum which was planned as an ongoing alternative SPECTRE.īut by 2013, Eon had managed to strike a deal which allowed the producers to finally use the SPECTRE name. This was mainly due to the fact SPECTRE was at the heart of a copyright dispute, with production company Eon unable to secure the rights to use the name in Casino Royale or its follow-up. Royale hinted at a worldwide cabal of rogues without naming the group specifically.
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