About Bond's softer side
'I wanted to instil it with some emotion. If you look at the later Bond films there’s this untouchable thing about him that I wanted to steer away from. [Because] if you’ve set someone up as Teflon-coated it’s very difficult to then show the sensitive side. Give him a kitten? Well, the f**king baddie’s supposed to hold the cat, you know? It’s a tricky thing to deal with,' he said.
Infuse the new Bond movie with 'wryness'.
'The humour has to come from truth, at how ridiculous the situations are. Otherwise it’s just gags for the sake of gags. I’m not interested in that,' he told British magazine Esquire. 'I want to get the wryness back into it. It’s a balance, because you’ve got to believe that he’s going to be alive at the end of the movie. That’s a James Bond movie.'
Craig worried about the state of the
Bond franchise
“If we couldn’t get the film made it would be ridiculous because we’d made all this money and it was a good bet. They were just in a very complicated financial situation but there was nothing [the film-makers] could do. Either it was going to sort itself out or I was going to get too old and that would be the end of it. I was desperate to have another crack at it. I think I would have felt disappointed eventually.”
Like I always say
Casino Royale is one of my favorite movies of all time, not Bond movies, I mean all together in the scheme of things. But,
Quantum of Solace was one of the worst Bond movies I've ever seen, maybe the worst. But, that film was made during the writers strike and I can safely assume that the script would've received a rewrite if it could've. They just shouldn't have rushed the product out when the script was clearly not ready.
Also I'm very happy to see Sam Mendes taking over the reigns for Marc Forster (Bond director that didn't destroy GL). Sam Mendes is class all the way. His movies
American Beauty and
Road to Perdition are just a few examples of the splendidly complex films that he has worked on. This is a must see!
By the way the pictures are of Olga Kurylenko the Bond girl from Quantum of Solace.
Craig's third outing as James Bond will be released on October 26, 2012.
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