RobertR
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I can certainly see your point. The Bond of the novels suffered a lot. For example, in the movie version of From Russia with Love, he escapes getting hit with the poison shoe tip, but in the novel, he DOES get hit, and winds up being hospitalized for a long time because of it. However, despite being battered and bruised in the novels, he always succeeds. In Skyfall, he ultimately fails. Is a character who fails really James Bond, or some other character with some of Bond's characteristics? I think I prefer Connery's 60s Bond. By the time You Only Live Twice was made, the movies had gotten a bit silly, but the character hadn't been changed too much. Now he has.Richard--W said:I agree, wholeheartedly. He's an anti-hero now, like Dirty Harry and Paul Kersey only worse because the scenarios contrive to make him responsible for the deaths or women and the loss of his own moral compass. Bond's behavior has gotten ugly in the last three films. SKYFALL makes a point of showing us that Bond fails to protect anybody and screws up everything he tries to do. The newer, younger audience does not make these distinctions and is not the least perturbed by Bond throwing the body of a fellow agent in the dumpster or joking about a woman who has been murdered. They really have taken the James Bond out of 007, haven't they.