So yes, that ABSOLUTELY is an aspect of them, and it might be TOO off putting for a lot of people.
Yeah, it's probably not something that I'll look into right now, then.
One thing they both mentioned is that Bond is much more flawed and monsterscary in the books than he is in the original movie series, and that the current Bond is more akin to the books!bond, where there's something DEAD inside of him. He's a monster in human clothing, kind of soulless, broken and pretending to be whole.
Exactly. The first Bond movies I ever saw were the Roger Moore ones (. . . yeah) and with the whole ridiculous name thing-- I'm pretty sure I remember a woman in one of the later Bond movies named Christmas-- it just struck me as a bit too camp for something that is, at the heart of it, a tragedy. You've got a guy who starts out as a recognizable human being, falling in love, and then as he goes on he eventually has to extinguish anything that makes him human. It's scary and sad, and Xenia Onatopp never really fit in with that, to me.
Of course, if I think about that part of it too much, then I get depressed, so then my brain switches focus to how cute Bond and Moneypenny are. Yeah. lol
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Yeah, it's probably not something that I'll look into right now, then.
One thing they both mentioned is that Bond is much more flawed and monsterscary in the books than he is in the original movie series, and that the current Bond is more akin to the books!bond, where there's something DEAD inside of him. He's a monster in human clothing, kind of soulless, broken and pretending to be whole.
Exactly. The first Bond movies I ever saw were the Roger Moore ones (. . . yeah) and with the whole ridiculous name thing-- I'm pretty sure I remember a woman in one of the later Bond movies named Christmas-- it just struck me as a bit too camp for something that is, at the heart of it, a tragedy. You've got a guy who starts out as a recognizable human being, falling in love, and then as he goes on he eventually has to extinguish anything that makes him human. It's scary and sad, and Xenia Onatopp never really fit in with that, to me.
Of course, if I think about that part of it too much, then I get depressed, so then my brain switches focus to how cute Bond and Moneypenny are. Yeah. lol