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The mean girls (i prefer 3) of Bond 23 should be girls from mean location(s) of Bond 23.
http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=9513
Eva Green was 26 in CR
Olga Kurylenko was 29 in QOS
Gemma Arterton was 22 in QOS
Can we have mature women return in Bond films, and not being 10+years younger than Bond ?? With Craig being 44 for B23, the Bond girls should be atleast 38/40 years old.
Continue this way, and Craig will turn exactly the same way as Sir Rog at the end of his tenure- being old enough to be the Bond Girls' dad !!
That's why I cringe at the rumours of 21/22 years old models being touted for roles - Will Craig seduce teenagers when he'll be 50 in Bond 26 ??
All I'm getting at is, this is a massive step forward, yet you still don't seem to like it.
For Octopussy the age difference was about right but when A View To A Kill rolled around and Moore read the script with Stacey, he should have walked, if he hadn't already.
Moore: 54 to Carole Bouquet: 24!! in FYEO
A large part of it has to do with how the actress playing the "Bond girl" carries herself. I would never have guessed that Arterton was only 22 when I watched QoS - she had such a presence and confidence that I could have bought her as much older. Same with Eva Green - she never seemed like a 26 year old to me, while Denise Richards seemed like she was younger than Green!
Still, that's quite... a... gap.
Arterton's performance was good enough to relate that character trait to the audience.
I honestly thought (against most people's beliefs here) that she gave a very good, rounded performance and conveyed all the inadequacies of the character necessary, in the short screen time available.
When Fields tripped up Elvis she reacted with a tongue-in-cheek apology. Almost as if she didn't realise exactly how much danger she was putting herself in. And of course she didn't realise, because (as M explained) she was a filing clerk. She wasn't a field agent.
The tragedy of the character was almost Shakesperean, and one of the few lasting memories of this film.
There you are DC, now ask me what I'm smoking. B-)
I love me a spunky Bond girl and Arterton certainly was one. She made such an impression in such a short time that I wished she had been held back for a bigger role. In fact, I had expected that she would be a returning character based on a misinterpretation of a line in a review of QoS, so I was honestly shocked when she was killed.
What I love about a good actor is how they can show different sides to a character yet not have those traits seem contradictory. Think of how Fields (or to a much larger extent, Tracy) can be both confident *and* vulnerable. Great stuff.
One last minor thing - how lovely did Fields look at Greene's party with the 1960s-ish up-do and eye makeup? All that seemed missing has a long black cigarette holder!
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Barry's not much good in anything if you ask me. I give the girl a chance, really I do. I don't mind her in Swordfish or Critical Decision. I guess she did what she had to do in X-Men (although that poor accent in X1 really had to go). But I don't know why everyone's so hot for her performance in Monster's Ball. It felt pretty average to me. Also, what did she do with that Oscar? Yes, she went straight for DAD and Catwoman. Wow... :P