Why is Daniel Craig the best James Bond?
Daniel Craig is the best James Bond of all time. And it is for a simple reason: it is infinitely more real than any of the previous interpretations of the character. At the time of raising this debate, delicate, by the way, really the fight to win the heavyweight title of 007 is disputed solely and exclusively between two opponents, two heavyweights: Daniel Craig and Sean Connery. The rest are out of all com (de) bat. You can feel some kind of emotional connection to them, and I'm thinking of Roger Moore, but they didn't bring him anything new (Timothy Dalton? Pierce Brosnan?). Sean Connery defined the character, it's true, and set a pattern, but Daniel Craig took him to another level. The question is not who you stick with, Sean Connery or Daniel Craig, but who is objectively better.
Daniel Craig's 007 is simply more real. When Ian Fleming created James Bond there were no great heroes to serve as a reference (well, for some there was Burt Lancaster's Captain Vallo in The Dread Mocker, but since nobody serialized him ...) and any hero did. In fact Fleming did not consider Bond to be a hero. It is assumed that what he had created was a gray guy who did his job, without any social significance. And for a time he functioned as a hero. When he made the leap to the movies, he was the perfect hero for the perfect moment. The problem is that it expired soon and was not upgraded to a better version. Which is why all representations of the character after Connery failed ... right down to Craig. Sean Connery's Bond is a stereotype, it's the template without nuances. Bond is a fictional character, but he couldn't be a papier-mache character forever. At what point did Daniel Craig become the best James Bond? The answer is at Casino Royal. No more no less. At the same moment he became Bond. By 2006 Connery's Bond stereotype no longer worked.
Why is Bond better? Because it has humanized the character. Great heroes are not perfect in the 21st century. Bond may not have had competition when Fleming created him, but he did later. If the entire Marvel franchise works, it is because they are characters who not only seek something and have a hard time getting it, but they have internal conflicts and are terribly imperfect. They are characters who suffer. Before, Bond simply did not suffer. Ever since Craig began to give life to the character we began to believe, really, that Bond is a tough guy, but also that he is tremendously vulnerable, something that Sean Connery never managed to sell us (to whom the death of his friend Felix left him the same as if you were in the Carrefour queue wondering if you had missed something on the list). Ironic? Yes. Chulesco? Too. Lasted? Well, hard choreographed sixties and seventies, but come on. But there is no comparison. The James Bond Craig suffers emotionally in Quantum of Solace what Connery suffered no more than that time a laser was aimed at the nacasons.
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