Casino Royale Essay
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Daniel Craig’s new James Bond in Casino Royale breathes fresh life into what had become, in my opinion, a rather tired and worn out concept - a striking achievement, considering Casino Royale was Ian Fleming’s first novel in the series, written in 1953.We encounter Bond as a fledgling British agent, yet to gain MI6 double-0 Status, with its ‘licence to kill’. The film strikes me as being more violent than previous Bond films, showing him cleaning up after the action - indeed, some of his injuries as portrayed were genuine, according to The Ticket, November 2006. He is less ‘superhuman’, too, than in the other films; for example, he’s not as adept at ‘free-running’ as his adversary. The new less-than-perfect Bond (he upsets M by killing an agent rather than capturing him) illustrates the new realism and his vulnerability, as we see later when he loses his heart to Vesper Lind, and is devastated by her apparent suicide. Plot-wise, this seems a somewhat ludicrous outcome, but certainly adds to the drama. A classic Bond-film cliché, however, is when she betrays him (in order to sav...
Casino Royale Essay
'Casino Royale' has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of. It's not that I didn't love some of the earlier films, like some, dislike others and so on, as that I was becoming less convinced that I ever had to see another one.
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- Casino Royale Essay 594 Words3 Pages Daniel Craig’s new James Bond in Casino Royale breathes fresh life into what had become, in my opinion, a rather tired and worn out concept - a striking achievement, considering Casino Royale was Ian Fleming’s first novel in the series, written in 1953.
- Casino Royale is the first novel in the James Bond series by Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it was followed by eleven more James Bond novels and more than thirty films. Fleming was a former naval intelligence officer and drew on real events he saw during his career.