During his 15 years as 007, Craig made James Bond a human being instead of a superhero — and now leaves the role by looking to the future rather than the past.
, and the end of which I’d caught on TV, I hadn’t seen the movies. This was in part because in those pre-household internet days there was no easy access to Wikipedia to clue me in on the order of the films – though I’d later come to learn that in the pre-Craig era continuity didn’t make a huge difference. The other part was that the Bond films of the ’90s, starring Pierce Brosnan, always seemed a bit hammy to me. So, whencame out in 2006, I didn’t rush to the theaters.
The first, I discovered, not long after my grandfather’s passing, that he had been a Bond fan since Sean Connery first appeared on screen as Ian Fleming’s character in. The second, a co-worker at the Marcus theater I worked at told me that the last showing of the film’s theatrical run was playing that night and I had to see it. So that night in January of 2007, fighting off exhaustion from a seven-hour shift, I watchedin an empty theater.
What surprised me the most about Craig’s first outing was the fullness of the film. I was aware of enough of the conventions Bond, largely through parody, to know how these films usually went. Bond defeats the villain and gets the girl, who would subsequently never be seen again. But
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