![]() ![]() But unlike the Doctor, whose age, appearance, and manner fluctuate wildly, he also stays essentially the same. Building in spectre film series#The Doctor, an extraterrestrial, can actually transform his body, with each mutation also radically and unpredictably changing his personality-which has proved an ingenious way to keep the series going despite 12 different actors playing the lead.īond, as we know, also regenerates: that is, he can be recast. Each also has the capacity to regenerate. As heroes, Bond and the time-traveling Doctor have one obvious thing in common: they each represent a last line of defense, a final bastion of strength, faith and ingenuity, each one alone capable of (repeatedly) saving the world. Building in spectre film tv#No (62), and the start of the BBC TV series Doctor Who (63). There’s only a year between the first Bond film, Dr. But it’s a certain kind of indestructibility that makes him, and the series, interesting. Of course Bond is indestructible, that’s the point. The narrative proper-after an extended action prelude, and Daniel Kleinman’s title sequence, big on octopi and symmetry-begins with Bond’s boss, the peppery new M (Ralph Fiennes), warning him that the British government is thinking of wrapping up the licensed-to-kill “00” category of operatives. The closing credits end, as ever, by telling us that Bond will be back, but the film constantly raises the possibility that perhaps he won’t-or at least, not as Daniel Craig, who has been fairly cantankerous when asked about the prospect of playing the part again. What’s most interesting about this episode of the series is the way that it’s concerned, very unusually, to offer some sort of closure or finality. You won’t be disappointed-well, not too disappointed. Still, Sam Mendes has once again brought a lavish feast of effects to the table, and applied them with seriousness and grace, as well as the mandatory brio. Let me say that I half share my colleagues’ enthusiasm for Spectre-personally, I had my own unexpected burst of belated 007 enthusiasm with Skyfall, arguably the most elegant, sophisticated Bond film ever. ![]() ![]() Yes, nostalgia has a lot to do with the appeal of Spectre-it’s no accident that its heroine, played by Léa Seydoux, has the brazenly Proustian name Madeleine Swann. You can also tell by the hyperventilating enthusiasm of British critics in general, many of them males of a certain age-by which I mean that the modified Aston Martin that 007 drives in this film will remind them unfailingly of the Sixties Corgi toy Bond cars that my generation eagerly collected. You can tell by the British box-office figures for his latest outing Spectre: £41.3 million ($63.15 million), since its release on October 26. ![]()
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