321 - No Time to Die

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Oct 5, 2021 · 43m

Daniel Craig's Bond bids us goodbye in No Time to Die, the culmination of his fifteen-year tenure as the gentleman's spy - but is it really Bond? The character, and the films in which he appears, have changed in tone and attitude in recent years, in response to several factors, including criticisms of misogyny and the cinematic influence of the Bourne series, all of which results, for José, in a film that while good, just isn't Bond any more. We consider what makes No Time to Die's Bond different, discussing his clothing, the intensity of serialisation from one film to the next, and the Bond…