007 is slick, smart and sexy. He always knows what is coming next and exactly how to deal with it, still making time to find a woman to be intimate with. Though this James Bond has most of these traits, the 24th Bond film did not stick to all its traditional conventions. The usual phrases were portrayed: "the names Bond, James Bond", "martini shaken, not stirred" etc. However James Bond no longer knows that the big Austrian man is on the train with himself and his Bond girl whilst their sipping martinis and making sultry eyes at each other. No, instead 007 is being saved by his girl when he is getting battered and we have no hope he is going to get out of it. James Bond is losing the slick and the smart, these scenes reflect that he is getting weaker, older and less vigilant. Could this be a sign of the end of James Bond?
We all love Daniel Craig because he subverts the role of the traditional James Bond, it is refreshing to see that Bond has flaws. On the contrary this Bond is always walking into traps, this is reflected in spectre a few times. We first seen these flaws in "Casino royale" when he drinks the martini that is drugged, we were all thinking: "Bond always knows when something is wrong WTF". Spectre just portrays this to a larger extend, yes its nice to know that Bond is a real person who doesn't know whats happening sometimes, but I never thought that he would be saved by a girl he is supposed be protecting. In my opinion everything has to come to an end, and 24th film of James Bond could not reveal that more. The 00 spies are being abolished, this is the digital age which is strongly portrayed in the film.
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