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    Is It Time To Make James Bond A Cigarette-Smoking Jerk Once more? Hear Me Out, Amazon

    David GroveBy David GroveMarch 18, 20253 Mins Read
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    James Bond is present process some main adjustments behind the scenes and can quickly be doing the identical on display. Daniel Craig has performed Bond for the ultimate time, and now the Broccoli household is stepping again from producing the enduring franchise, having bought to Amazon MGM. It is a distinctive second and the right alternative to take 007 again to his origins as a hard-drinking, cigarette-smoking, Chilly Conflict-fighting tremendous spy. Amazon, for those who’re listening, let’s see a interval piece.

    Sean Connery in a suit with his back to the camera, standing at the gate of a Soviet embassy in From Russia With Love.

    (Picture credit score: MGM)

    The Chilly Conflict Is A Goldmine For Spy Tales

    Time and again you see it, individuals rank Sean Connery as the most effective James Bond, even now, practically 55 years after enjoying the legendary British spy for the ultimate time in Diamonds Are Without end in 1971. It’s not simply that Connery outlined the character first, however as a result of Connery Bond motion pictures have been modern with the heating up of the Chilly Conflict within the Nineteen Sixties, they’ve a traditional adversary: the USSR.

    Bond doesn’t go head-to-head with the Soviets a lot, however the Chilly Conflict continues to be ever-present. That presence was additionally felt by all the Roger Moore Bond period, as properly. It’s time Bond goes again to that period with a narrative (or a collection of tales) set within the Nineteen Sixties, the place Bond can be free once more to smoke cigarettes, shag ladies, drink, and gamble with impunity. M, performed by Judi Dench, calls Bond “a relic of the Chilly Conflict,” in Goldeneye, so let’s mud that relic off.

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    Sean Connery as James Bond in a bathing suit greeting a man in a suit while standing next to a woman in a blue bathing suit.

    (Picture credit score: MGM)

    There Would Nonetheless Want To Be Some Updates

    Whereas the Nineteen Sixties would make for a really cool backdrop, full with superior devices and all the things else we love in regards to the early motion pictures, it’s clear we will’t have a hero act like Bond did then on a regular basis. Clearly the one space that might nonetheless want a extra fashionable contact can be how Bond behaves with ladies. It’s frankly fairly gross how poorly he treats a lot of the Bond Women within the Connery period and it merely wouldn’t work (and shouldn’t work) for a contemporary viewers. Every part else, although, is truthful recreation.

    Bond gracefully lighting a smoke as he stands on the bar ready for his martini oozes class and class. Whereas most of us deplore smoking lately, it nonetheless looks as if the epitome of “cool” to many. Bond smoking within the 2020s would appear out of character, however setting the films in a decade when everybody and their grandmother (virtually actually) smoked, properly, it’s simply too good. Shedding some fashionable sensibilities can be enjoyable as hell.

    Sean Connery in Goldfinger.

    (Picture credit score: Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

    Now Is The Time To Go Again To The Previous

    There has by no means been a extra good time within the historical past of the franchise to get again to Bond’s film and literary roots. The Daniel Craig period introduced again the stone-cold ruthlessness of the character Ian Fleming created within the books, but it surely misplaced a whole lot of the appeal and sophistication of the character. All jerk, no playboy. There’s no purpose we will’t get each, particularly by setting the film within the spy’s heyday when West and East confronted off throughout the globe. Plus, the style and the vehicles have been simply so significantly better. Amazon, we’re excited to see the place the Bond franchise might go, so please take into account this concept.

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