This is true. Not so long ago actors and actresses were actually honored to be in a Bond movie. Jonathan Pryce once famously remarked how "every boy dreams of being a Bond villain,once he realises he is not going to be James Bond himself."The Saint 007 wrote:I thought Mendes was a fan of Live And Let Die. If the old Bond films are really that terrible, there should be no need to constantly make references to them.
Unlike the pretentious smart arses we have now, the people who worked on the old Bond films were honoured to be part of the series.
Izabella Scorupco said how she wanted "long dresses and sexy,funky name." You could say this would a "typical" Bond girl which now actresses appearantly don't wanna be. But she DID want that.
Anthony Hopkins,actually signed to play Eliot Carver but dropped three days after because everything was hectic. You could probably ask why this brilliant actor is not hunting Oscar but agrees to play a megalomaniacal villain in a Bond movie. The answer is-not so long being in a (REAL) Bond movie wasn't a shame.
Sophie Marceau,an actress that had some really "serious" roles like in "L'amour braque" which is a modern version of Dostyevsky's "Idiot" said she is happy with being remembered as a Bond girl(although she was both girl and villain) and said she is "happy to be accepted in any British club at all".
Now you have Eva Green saying she accepted the role because they had no one else to play it,Berenice Marlohe,an unknown beauty argues she is not just a Bond girl(honey you were in the movie for two and a half minutes),that black actress says she wants to reinvent Moneypenny(whats bad about being a sectretary in MI6 and flirting with Bond every now and then-plus to work in MI6 you really need to be good at your job) and you have Teri Hatcher from the past,a clearely mediocre-at-best actress saying the role wasn't fullfiling.
I hope her role as a bimbo in "Two and a half men" fullfilled her more. It's hilarious how actresses like Richards and Hatcher talk about "depth" of character.
But to top it all you have Mendes and the rest of the clique saying we should forget everything about James Bond because I guess a movie that can actually be fun and exciting isn't good enough anymore.
They are talking about these movies like they are an equavivalent of "Black Swan" while they are nothing more than mash ups of Bourne,Batman etc. And they are not serious spy thrillers either. You wanna watch a serious spy thriller? Watch "Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Spy".
Thats a more believeable image of an espionage. not crashing through the walls,falling from trains and glass and having antagonists that seem to know what will happen to them,where they will be taken,where will M be when will Bond be at the exact time so a train can kill him...I
mean really...this is what they are trying to sell as a serious espionage. It's bizzare. Not to mention a head of MI6 with absolutely no protection in a Wayne manor...er,sorry I meant Bond manor.
Sigh...
