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Dying bond
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Bardem eats Bond
No Time to Die
finally hits theaters this Friday and does so on the brink of all precipices. What is the 25th film in the James Bond saga is actually the first and the last. Depending on how you look at it. It is the first film of the most blatantly misogynistic hero that cinema has given after the emergence of the end of
women's
apartheid
(according to the definition of the filmmaker Jane Campion) that was the
MeToo
, and it is also the first time in its almost 60 years of history that the director of the most blatantly
British
hero
is not British but American. Or almost. On the other hand, the film is the farewell to the role of
Daniel Craig
after having met with note, despite the initial doubts, the expectations by placing himself next to
Sean Connery
in the preferences of the fans, the laymen and the midfielders. I mean, it's your last time. And it is at a time when, because of the pandemic, movie theaters are forced to rethink before the almost all-embracing power acquired by the platforms ... The success or failure in your case has a number: the collection world
750 million euros
in the previous installment of Sam Mendes in 2015. Who said pressure?
"The truth is that I am aware of what is coming to me now that I sit down and start answering questions. Suddenly, I realize where I have gotten myself. Until recently my only concern was first the script, then the dialogues, the action scenes ... Every day a million tiny problems arise that prevent you from becoming aware of anything ", says by way of a prologue the one who, by all rights, can be described as a man of the moment. Or one of them.
Fukunaga ... Cary Fukunaga (Oakland, 1977)
one day he came across the assignment to do what Danny Boyle refused to do. The latter wanted agent 007, as he himself declared at the time, to change his gesture slightly and from his grimace, now more tortured than satisfied, something similar to irony would emerge, but in its most savage version. Let's just say that the idea of bringing the character originally devised by
Ian Fleming
in times of Cold War
closer
to comedy in times of post-humor scared off the producers. And then he appeared.
And who is he? What would José Luis say? "It's funny because every time I have to fill out a paper where I define myself as Asian, Caucasian, African American or whatever, I end up putting the cross on" other "," he responds in a way that would seem rehearsed. Indeed, the director who gained notoriety for the first time in 2009 thanks to the film shot in Mexico '
Sin nombre'
and then jumped the bank with the series'
True detective
'[in addition to directing jewels like'
Jane Eyre
'or'
Beasts of no Nation
] sports a family tree very close to inextricable. On his father's side, he
is the third generation of a Japanese-American born in a concentration camp during World War II.
.
His mother is Swedish.
His curiosity and training has led him to travel the world tirelessly to the point of speaking up to five languages in addition to English.
Cary Fukunaga and Daniel Craig.GILBERT BELLAMYREUTERS
"When I was barely 14 years old, I discovered the wrongness of a global vision of the world with America in the center. In fact,
the term America as we use it in the United States is a mistake that excludes all of South America.
And I want to believe that this way of looking Not from a bubble but from a multicultural way and from the diversity it is in the film. After all, Bond is also a cosmopolitan, he is an international and mysterious man ", says Fukunaga convinced that he can exonerate his hero.
Two years after the premiere of '
Specter
', the accusations to Harvey Wenstein arose and, from his hand, the obligation to redefine the supposed normality. And here, the problems. How to take care of a subject, rogue and lord at the same time, who repeated so much in
'Dr. Not '
as in'
Goldfinger
'
the same rape scene:
where she said "No, no", he, oblivious to everything, insisted on "Yes, yes"? "When, before I got down to work, I went through Bond's entire filmography, I found wonderful things that I had completely forgotten. But I also found inadmissible issues. And this one you mention is one of them. Bond has changed and, as he tells you in one moment the character of
Judi Dench
It is true that it was a misogynistic dinosaur and a relic of the Cold War. But that's no longer true. Bond is no longer the misogynist of the 60s. Don't forget that Bond's producer, Barbara Broccoli, is a woman.
The women who appear in the era of Daniel Craig are individual characters, fully formed and are not just excuses for the protagonist to show off.
But yes, that was not always the case and we must neither forget nor deny it ".
And with that said, Fukunaga refuses to become a refounder of anything. "In any case, I do not think my task is to change the perspective. This film would not exist and would not be understood if it were not linked to all the films that have been made since 1962. Logically, its closest debt is with those starring Daniel Craig from
'Casino Royale
' (2006). You cannot change the character without betraying him. What you can and should do is change the world around him and show how that transformation affects him.
Bond films reflect their time.
It would be absurd to imagine Craig in the Connery movies and Connery in the ones that are made now, "he concludes.
Can James Bond be a woman in the future? It is already difficult to answer the question if he could be of another ethnicity. It's complicated because Bond carries a legacy with him. Thank god I don't have to make that decision, I don't think I could.
Imagine that you could, you would like ... I think Daniel Craig's answer is correct [the actor recently opined that he should remain a Caucasian male and that there should be better roles for blacks and women]. Why is it going to be a woman? Why is Bond going to be something that he is not? What you have to do is favor and create more stories for women. It is still incredible how few films that pass the Bechdel test [that more than one woman appears, that they talk to each other and that they talk about something other than a man]. There are many stories to tell. There are a certain number of times that we can hear the same story from a comic.
For the end there is the responsibility of being, as has been pointed out '
No time to die',
the last chance for theaters together with the recently released '
Dune
'. Nobody is aware that the film reaches theaters with the capacity for surprise almost low. Its launch trailer is already a relic. We are talking, to place ourselves, of a director who had no qualms about launching directly on Netflix, to the anger of the theaters,
'Beast of no Nation'
in 2015. That is, the same year that the penultimate Bond was released.
"The philosophy of that film was to reach as many people as possible. This case is completely different. It was shot in IMAX format and the right way to enjoy it is in a movie theater. That experience is irreplaceable ... For the rest, as long as we are able to offer original stories, I don't think there will be a problem and movie theaters will continue to attract people.
It is very rare what we have experienced these last 20 years with superheroes, "
he defends.
Is this Fukunaga's first or last Bond film, probably the last.
Time is finite and I would like to work on original stories ...
The first and the last, then.
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