Eternally alive Bond

First Bond - Sean Connery

James Bond: Alive than all living things. In the past weekend simultaneously in the UK, in a number of other countries, shows of the 23rd tape began about the adventures of the British secret agent-“007: the coordinates of Skyfall, in the original, is simply SkyFall. Almost universal first reaction to the film: absolute delight. The film ends with the titer: "With us on the screen for half a century." This, right, so. The screen James Bond-fifty when on October 5, 1962 in London was the premiere of the film “Doctor but”-the first semi-parodic militant about British intelligence of the Mi-6, no one could have imagined that the 50th anniversary of the film Bondian would be perceived in the world with such enthusiasm. And Bond himself will become a national treasure in the UK (these are the words of Stephen Spielberg). How the queen, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Churchill, Bitles, and recently Harry Potter, became. You can’t, you say, combine in a row of real geniuses and historical persons with characters? In England, connect.

But there would be much less enthusiasm for the anniversary of agent 007 if literally in recent years, after Bond found Daniel Craig's face, Bondian style and the image of the protagonist had not changed radically. “Skyfall coordinates convert them even more, as if trying to force the audience to forget about the fifteenth anniversary from 1987 to 2002, when Bond portrayed Timothy Dalton, and then Pierce Brosnan, the fourth and fifth performers of the role of Bond

* * Craig - sixth. The first three were Sean Connery, George Lazenby and Roger Moore. . That fifteenth -year now seems to be a failure of Bondiana. Creating an unprecedented before, the innovative Bond, the creators of the longest movie series in history voluntarily or involuntarily return it to the traditions of the 60s-to Son Connery.

On top of the legend , simultaneously with the “Skyfall coordinates”, the documentary “All or nothing: the unnecessary story of agent 007” was released. The film covers the whole story of Bondiana, starting from the first writers' experiments by Jan Fleming, who himself was related to British intelligence, and ending with all the squabbles, courts that accompanied the shooting and led, in particular, in 1983 to the emergence of one “unless” film about Bond “never say“ never ”made by another producer. It has treacherously, because he hated the official producers of Albert Brockoli and Harry Zaltsman, for the last time he starred in the role of Bond Sean Connery. So actually films about Bond are not 23, but 24.

It is even more interesting that almost everyone who had and is related to Bondian and tells about her in the film, they are inflated or inadvertently. It is most amazing that during the documentary, everyone repeatedly repeats: Bondian is generated by the Cold War. No! Well, no! Yes, in the history of Bondiana there is a wonderful fact that seems funny only from today, and in the fall of 1962 it did not seem funny to anyone. It was accidentally that exactly nine days after the London premiere of Dr. But, the Americans found Soviet missiles in Cuba. And the Caribbean crisis began, which almost ended in the Third World War. And this laid out an imprint on Bondian.

But despite the fact that Bond is a British spy, he does not fight in the 60s and until the mid-80s neither with the KGB, nor with the USSR, nor with the Warsaw Treaty. Naturally, he is in the know that the world is divided and two main forces are being confronted in it - the West and the East. But at the same time, it is opposed to where the emerging world villains, specifically in the 60s-primarily the supermanic terrorist organization “Spectrum”, which, using the situation of the Cold War and the inflamed brains of the Yastrebov generals from the United States and the USSR, eagerly unleashed the third world nuclear war.

In fact, if Bondian is generated by anything, then the secret British desire (which was probably characterized by Fleming) to compensate, at least in books and on the screen, the loss of the Britain of world domination, after which it was in the same cold war except that the servant of America. And how insultingly the Americans were perceived by the British intelligence services ... Read John Le Carre, who was also related to British intelligence Mi-5 and Mi-6. Watch the films on them - at least a recent incredible "spy, go out." The CIA and the NSA did not put British services in a penny. But on the screens of everyone he began to win, it was the British agent James Bond who has a tsereushniki on the errands that has towering over everyone. Bondiana is primarily a very patriotic British joke.

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In Skyfall Bondian, which always remained and semi -parodic, suddenly turned into realistic cinema almost without special effects

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Of course, the murderous realities , the last role in the success of Bondian was played by the fact that the hero is a very, very “male man”, while overthrowing. From a documentary about Bondiana, you learn that the Hollywoods were against a choice of the role of Sean Connery, who was unknown in the early 60s. Then the producers arranged several tests from Connery on the screen exclusively for the women's audience. The audience came into ecstasy.

Roger Moore, who replaced Connery at a military post in the 70s-first half of the 80s, added British aristocracy to the image of Bond. The women of the world realized that British male agents, unlike the rest of the men of the planet, are men with a capital letter. For the male part, the plus was that Bondiana has long remained neutral in relation to actual political realities. Bond is so perfect and not from this world that it was difficult to imagine it inhabited, for example, to Poland of the early 80s, when the troops from the surrounding socialist could enter there to intimidate the “solidarity”. But it happened. Not with Warsaw - with a bond. The producers and screenwriters of the series were frightened that with the end of the Cold War, Bond would not survive. Actual political details appeared in Bondian, imprisoned in films. Bond went to Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion. He began to fight the Colombian drug mafia. With villains in the countries of the former USSR and North Korea. Especially unpleasant was that in the Golden Eye, released in 1995, in the midst of democratic hopes in Russia, Bond-Brozannan is shooting Russian soldiers with dozens, destroys the tank of Polo-Petersburg, and the new Russian government looks like a bunch of freaks-generations.

The reckoning was that Bondiana lost the former aura. In addition, she, lifting her pants, rushed for those who use new computer technologies. The adventures of the Bond became completely cold and animated. By 2003, after the appearance of the last film with Brosnan, Bond was threatened with death.

Girls Bond: The name of them is a legion capable of suffering and here the creators of Bondiana in the person of the current producers of Michael J. Wilson and Barbara Brockoli thought better of it. Again, it is interesting to listen to how they explain why. They create a legend again. They say that after the attack on September 11, 2001, Bond could not remain the same. Ironic, as before. Indifferent to world politics. However, in the new series with Daniel Craig, starting with the “Royal casino”, again, as in films with Connery-Lasenbi-Murom, there were no specific geopolitical details (although the New York terrorist attack is mentioned).

Bond No. 3 - Roger Moore, but a completely new 007 arose. In the “Royal” casino, Bond is as if born again. He is relatively young, at the beginning of the film he does not yet know him in the spy world, and he does not even have an agent number. Revolutionary, however, lies not in this, but in the complete change of image of the hero. Bondiana, who always remained and semi -parodic, suddenly turned into realistic cinema almost without computer special effects. Bond had a personal story. He was given the right to serious doubts. To present a giant with iron teeth next to this, which sniffs steel, or submarines that swallow other submarines, is simply impossible.

But the new bond - and in the “Coordinates of Skyfall”, first of all - again fights not with specific countries, but with individuals. Since it is precisely the individuals (according to the creators of the Bond) that now become terrorists No. 1. He again faces incredible villains, who are full of faithful, ready for the death of his assistants. At the same time, in the “Coordinates of Skyfall”, Bond first turns out to be seriously wounded, forced to go into battle without recovering (without even restoring the ability to shoot aptly). At the same time, he first understands the case of the villain and thinks about his fate: after all, the Mi-6 and the state easily betray their faithful agents for the sake of higher interests (but Bond still chooses fidelity to the motherland). At the same time, he for the first time-this is the 44th year of Craig (compare with the 57th Roger Moore, when he played Bond the last time)-he listens to the reproaches that he became a ruin, an echo of past times and that any guy with a computer is able to inflict greater damage than a spy bond running after the enemy with a gun for a year.

The sixth agent 007 - Daniel Craig “Skyfall Coordinates” voiced everything that has been charging Bond for the past twenty years. But after watching them, I would like to believe that all the arguments against Bond are absurd. And he will run with a gun on the screen in the name of the World Wide for a long time.