But while the ghost of Casino Royale 's watery climax could've become a fascinating ongoing character arc for Daniel Craig's Bond, Quantum of Solace went a step too far by tying Lynd into Dominic Greene, Quantum and the film's wider plot - a decision that took Bond very far away from his roots. The follow-up 's Diamonds Are Forever allows Bond to get his revenge before swiftly moving onto a new story altogether.
Casino Royale undoubtedly brought Bond into the modern era, but largely maintained the aspects that made unique. There's a greater emphasis on violence, as Craig's James Bond becomes more of a generic action hero, plowing through villains to defeat the big boss and avenge Lynd, but notable by their absence are Bond's charm, wit and occasional subtlety.
The vengeance emphasis is made worse by Bond's clear lack of satisfaction once the mission is completed. Yes, those who seek revenge must dig two graves and all that, but the finale risks coming off as downbeat without any emotional payoff to the very story driving Quantum of Solace.
Marc Forster has admitted to not being a James Bond fan outside of Casino Royale and this perhaps explains why the version of seen in Quantum of Solace is even more of deviation from the original template than Daniel Craig already was. Quantum of Solace makes a crucial error with regards to its supervillain setup.
As a result, Quantum had to be retconned into the SPECTRE mythology and this leaves Quantum of Solace feeling outdated, unnecessary and looking a little foolish for spending so much time setting up an organization that ultimately didn't matter. The addition of Quantum feels parachuted-in as a means of reworking existing plots and characters to serve a larger story, and the result is more contrived than natural. Quantum of Solace doesn't bear all of the blame here - Spectre was accused of doing exactly the same with its own villainous team.
It's probably not a coincidence that the more popular Daniel Craig Bond films Casino Royale and Skyfall were less reliant on the interconnected supervillain organization idea. Mathieu Amalric's Dominic Greene was an intentional departure away from the standard Bond villain tropes, but what Quantum of Solace fails to realize is that Bond villains, however many similarities they might share, are renowned as some of the most memorable baddies in movie history.
Greene's plan to seize de facto leadership of Bolivia by monopolizing the country's water supply already feels a little small-scale compared to previous evil masterplans not offence to our Bolivian readership, of course and that could be symptomatic of how Quantum of Solace took Casino Royale 's realistic approach even further. But Greene doesn't exactly sell himself to an audience of expectant Bond fans.
It's one thing going for "grounded" losing the facial deformities and trapdoors into shark tanks, etc. Tricking a suspiciously gullible military general does not a James Bond villain make. Casino Royale 's Le Chiffre has the good decency to exude the aura of a classic adversary in Daniel Craig's era of toned-down ludicrousness, but Dominic Greene sounds like the name of a door-to-door insurance salesman and proves only marginally more threatening.
It's not Casino Royale … It was like, literally, troubling second album syndrome. In a way, we could not top Casino …". Despite his reservations over Quantum of Solace , Craig accepted that the movie does feature "some really special moments", so it's all not bad. James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli echoed a similar sentiment, saying that it's "never a good idea" to begin shooting "without a script".
But the script was turned in, and I remember the writer who turned the script in picked up his check, and then picked up his placard and stood outside the studio striking," she explained.
Type keyword s to search. Samir Hussein Getty Images. The James Bond Collection Blu-ray Later, Montes explains to Bond that she, too, is seeking personal revenge. When Montes was a child, the exiled general who now stands to run Bolivia murdered her father, raped her mother and sister, and left Montes in their home as he burned it to the ground.
Yet not even this story is contorted into a righteous moral parable. None of which is to say the film is humorless. The trick is that this lighter touch never threatens to unmoor the script from its terrifying foundation. When Bond and his friend—the one who will later be shot and killed—arrive in La Paz, they are stonewalled by a British embassy worker assigned to chaperone Bond, who is nominally suspended from MI6.
She takes them to a dilapidated hotel; Bond balks. As mentioned, the script is filled with nihilists who believe the world is a decaying corpse ready to be stripped for parts.
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