No Time To Die’s incarnation of Bond - who slices apples in the kitchen for a little girl and even sheds a few tears about his bad relationship choices - may feel far from the character that author Ian Fleming described as an “anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a government department ,” but that’s just the franchise for rolling with the punches, as it always has. That was 15 years ago, before the MCU retrofitted our idea of a blockbuster hero into a one-size-fits-all quipmeister who saves the day while being relatively good-natured, and definitely not sleeping with anyone.Įven Deadpool, modern cinema’s most recognized bad boy, is more adorable than anarchic. His first Bond movie, 2006’s Casino Royale, transformed the suave Bond of previous eras into a gorilla-esque, hard-boiled assassin, fit for a post-9/11 and post- Bourne Identity age. the MCUĬraig’s run as Bond even straddles multiple eras, and multiple trends. Nearly every entry in the 007 story has similarly been a reflection of its era’s cinematic trends. It just reflects the chameleonic nature of the franchise.
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And like Endgame, this 25th Bond movie is overly long, with a bloated, disappointing middle that’s destined to be overshadowed by its cathartic finale.īut the connection between Bond and the MCU goes further than a one-to-one comparison of a few films in two franchises. Like Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, Daniel Craig’s Bond entered our lives embittered and cold, and bowed out as a big old softie in a sentimentalized blaze of glory.
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That claim does feel completely correct, in that No Time To Die closes out an era, as the final movie where longtime series star Daniel Craig plays James Bond. So of course the new take that circulated in the wake of the latest installment in the series is that 2021’s No Time to Die is the Bond movies’ equivalent of Avengers: Endgame. Craig’s run in the iconic role brought Bond into the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with its long-continuity stories, regularly recurring characters, and franchised extended world. The era of Daniel Craig playing James Bond was a major shift for the nearly 60-year-old Bond franchise.