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Reinventing James Bond: A Review Of Casino Royale In recent years there has been a flood of movie remakes. Both in Hollywood and Bollywood. Hollywood dished out
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In recent years there has been a flood of movie remakes. Both in Hollywood and Bollywood. Hollywood dished out remakes of Psycho, The Omen, and Pink Panther. In the meantime Bollywood was not to be left out in this remake spree. Shahrukh Khan in Don, Aishwarya Rai in Umrao Jaan tried to make their mark. But to be honest, one movie really worth mentioning is the James Bond spy thriller Casino Royale (released in 2006). Ian Fleming (the creator of the fictional character James Bond) moulded Bond’s character after his own life to some extent. Most researchers agree that James Bond is a romanticised version of Ian Fleming himself; he was a Commander in Naval Intelligence of the British Admirality in World War II. The first James Bond movie was Dr.No (1962) where Sean Connery played the role of Secret Service agent James Bond, otherwise known by his serial number 007. It was an instant hit. Connery was able to portray the character perfectly. His was the image of toughness and wittiness that Fleming wrote of. Many actors portrayed James Bond after Connery: Roger Moore, George Lazenby, and Timothy Dalton. But all the movies, except perhaps one or two, including On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), more or less follow a clichéd formula: a problem of international proportion arises and Bond gets his orders from M (Chief of MI6). He tracks down his villain and finds attractive women along the way, makes love to her or them. He presently falls in a trap. After figuring out what the villain's motives are he finds a way to escape, foils their plans, kills off the villain and saves the world. The Irish actor Pierce Brosnan took over the role of Bond in the film Goldeneye (1995), it has been said that the image of James Bond has been modernized since then. But one does not have to look far to see that the “modernization” has been only superficial: new gadgets and gizmos, villains with futuristic weapons and vamps with skimpier costumes. Goldeneye was a...
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