Daniel Craig Comments About Quantum of Solace

by Joi on October 23, 2008

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Okay, I admit it, I was getting a little peeved that the newest James Bond movie wasn’t including the “Bond. James Bond” line or the “Shaken, not stirred” martini. I mean, I’m nothing if not a traditionalist and I HATE to have my traditions messed with.

It was honestly even getting in the way of my excitement for the movie.

Fortunately, USA Today ran an interview with Daniel Craig (this will be his second movie as James Bond) and he addressed these very things. I feel 100 percent better have resumed a fever anticipation for what looks to be an amazing movie.

Have I told you yet that during an early screening of Quantum Solace, the audience actually broke out in applause during a chase scene, and then again at the end of the film as the credits rolled? You don’t hear about that happening too often.

Below are the quotes by Daniel Craig taken from the USA Today article that ran last Monday:

“Everybody says to me, ‘Is Bond going to be Bond now?’ And I’ve been like, ‘Yeah, well, kind of.’ But he’s got a way to go yet.”

“He’s supposed to be this superspy, suave and sophisticated. But I didn’t want to start by copying what came before, but to get to that point by making it a real journey.”

Daniel Craig has signed to do at least two more James Bond films and says that eventually all of the familiar characteristics (my beloved traditions) will reveal themselves. He told USA Today that he hopes they will be more satisfying since they aren’t being delivered just because they have to be.

“I’m as big a fan as anybody of all his catchphrases and the martini,” he says, “But I want to find a new way of doing them.”

Fair enough.

Quantum Solace opens in theaters November 14.

So how do you feel, do you think Craig’s reasoning justifies it or should they have kept the characteristics in the movie rather than break with a tradition Bond fans love so much?