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Daniel Craig enjoys the creative process and the acting itself. He is an intuitive, a thinker and an actor in the truest sense of the word.
Promotional tours and the vacuous nature of celebrity and talk-show chit-chat are lost on people such as him. I completely understand why he doesn't enjoy the whole empty promotional side-show.
When a truly intelligent interviewer asks him a genuine, thought provoking question he does engage them and open up. But most 'film journalists' are hacks who couldn't make it in real journalism.
"Hi! Jake here with Collider! Tell me, Daniel Craig: who would win in a fight, James Bond or Godzilla? Don't forget to like and subscribe and smash that retweet button!"
Something along those lines, yes...
This is really interesting and in my opinion only elevates the character. He was an amateur, an arrogant little twit.
And died like the little pissant he was. :D
That should have been Bond's speech to Safin in their head to head.
At least then we would have someone on screen calling out the bad plotting and planning of the character, and it could have been a feature of the story, rather than a criticism of the film itself.
Thought the look and performance of Safin was good. But had absolutely no idea what he was trying to do and still don't after a couple of viewings.
Good for you.
My other favorite villain of this era was Silva who was on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Silva was genuinely menacing and dangerous. Directly leading the attack against Bond and M. Safin was playing dress up and Bond just squashed him like a bug. He's so good at it though. Almost a subversion on the villain archetype but it really worked. I would not have bought Rami Malek as a truly intimidating threat like Silva was. But as an angry little man who has dangerous tricks up his sleeve. Absolutely.
I loathe Collider anymore, nothing but clickbait, glaring and unnecessary spoilers, poorly researched articles and opinion pieces, and cringe content such as this.
EON won’t have been blind to the reception. However, you also have to consider that ‘the villain’ is an integral part of marketing a new Bond film.
Yes ... and Malek was a hot commodity after his Oscar win for Bohemian Rhapsody, so I can see that.
I think they got him before he actually won the Oscar (could be wrong), but yes, either way, he certainly was a hot commodity coming off Bohemian.
One of my favourite vibes in the film is the creepy bald guys walking to camera with the eye. The whole spectre party has a sinister vibe above it. Very well done. Kind of like eyes wide shut meets the dream sequence in Labyrinth
He reminded me a bit of Archer actually.
I also like the shot (either from Bond or Paloma's perspective, perhaps the former) where they bend over with the eye on the pillow so a woman sitting down may speak to Blofeld. That whole party sequence is brilliant.
Yeah all the weirdness in that scene was classic Fukugana. I loved it.
It's fitting that, by giving himself his own gift for his birthday - Bond's death - he also gives a nice gift to all of the other members of SPECTRE in return. Or would've, anyway.
The woman is Brigitte Millar's Vogel character from Spectre, I think .... she toasts Blofeld and says, 'Happy birthday," or something like that.
If I understood the film correctly, Safin was going to sell the bioweapon to certain people so that they could kill other people. The names of these targets were on Valdo's USB stick, and Safin stole their DNA data to manufacture the nanobots. But were those targets people Safin personally wanted to see dead? Or were they just the targets of Safin's buyers (terrorists, presumably) and he was just putting the weapon out on the market? In other words, was his goal merely to apply a new, "tidier" way of killing people, or was he also looking to kill certain people?
And as a more general question, what was Safin's immediate threat to the world, beyond his plans of becoming a metaphorical god and having this dangerous technology in his possession? Was the threat the fact he was going to enable some terrorists to commit murder on a large scale, out of a misguided plan of providing a "safer" way to kill people?
I must say I was a little thrown off by Safin, because early on we find out he stole the DNA data, and then he says to Bond that people want oblivion. That phrase about oblivion is a justification for his desire for godhood, but it also made me assume he personally wanted to see the names on Valdo's list dead. It just sounds like he wants to kill somebody. On the other hand, his words about wanting to be tidier in eradicating people seem to suggest he merely wants to sell the weapon.
Killing all of Spectre was a trial, the target chosen by his need for revenge against the organization.
Edit: That said, I do wish the exposition on all this had been a little more clear. A little... tidier. The buyers are explicitly mentioned too late into the film.
Or maybe the buyers are only present to give the film a countdown scenario to justify the urgency of calling in the missile strike. No buyers, no urgency .... and maybe Bond is rescued and survives. But then faces that tricky situation regarding his own poisoning with nanobots targeting Madeleine & Mathilde. Which is why we only hear about the buyers late in the film ... maybe they're just a necessary last-minute plot device?
BTW, it makes little sense that Nomi did not stay with him to finish the job ...
... not that any of this matters, lol. I think the ending is wonderful as it is and I would not wish it otherwise. And NTTD wouldn't be the first Bond film to defy logic or have a confusing storyline. Nor will it be the last. The plots of our beloved Bond movies are just not made to withstand the kind of scrutiny we give them sometimes.