Will we ever have a BLACK James Bond??? Shaft, Dolemite, The Mack, Truck Turner and Fred Williamson 'Hammer' character were all variations of a 'BOND'.
Where do you go after the most successful Bond in history? Strive to be bigger, meaner, slicker? Not quite for Sam Mendes. Following his own Skyfall, he opts for...grander. Spectre is, mostly, operatic, in scale, emotion and frequently in choral soundtrack. The thing with opera, though, is that while in its most powerful moments it can shake an audience in their seats, it does have a propensity to go on a bit.
Almost a decade after Casino Royale stripped 007 back to his barest essentials, Spectre is the gradual layering back on of the old garb. The opening, a ravishing sequence set amid the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico, is pure Craig era: brutal, practical, casually witty. Then as we progress it harks back more to the old days with, probably deliberate, echoes of Connery, Moore, Brosnan, even Lazenby. In come gadgets, disposable girls, villains with plans as diabolical as they are logistically unlikely. By the end we’re in a very 2015 world with a very 1995 Bond. Spectre opens Nov 6.
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