Brosnan, Pierce

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The line And I will replace you seems like a meta-textual acknowledgment of Daniel Craig s status as the sixth official James Bond. Considering how Timothy Dalton was used as a seat warmer until Pierce Brosnan became available, then Brosnan was dropped for the Casino Royale reboot, this line seems more like a warning from the studio if the movie s box-office were to fail. (MI6.co.uk 2010)... 

Beginning with the Pierce Brosnan films, the role of M is played by a woman. Before M first meets Brosnan s Bond, she is described as the evil queen of numbers (Campbell, 1995). She is clearly new to the job, but she quickly establishes her authority, brushing off the insults in favor of situation reports. M is a professional, her private life separate from her job, and as she notes, if she wants sarcasm, she will look to her childrea She may think that Bond is a misogynistic dinosam, but she allows him to do his job (Campbell, 1995). As a result, the audience sees both of them as competent individuals, but Dench s M must prove that a woman can be England and Englishness—both a foundation and a representation of the nationalist idea. 

In retrospect, it is interesting to see how The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and the cinematic Bond series followed the same stylistic trajectories. Both began as slick spy thrillers with some humor, then evolved more toward comedy, even camp, before returning to a more serious, even grim, tone with little humor and a stronger emphasis on violence and danger. U.N.C.L.E. s first and second seasons are comparable to the Connery period, its third silly season to the Roger Moore era, and its hyper-serious fourth season to the more recent no-nonsense Bonds of Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan. 

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But Bond continued to seduce women, quaff Vodka Martinis, and practise his hcence to kill, however in the six years between outings, he seems to have also acquired new habits—most visibly a change in the actor portraying Bond. Exercising a clause in his contract following the protracted development of Bond 17, Timothy Dalton opted for an early retirement, and Pierce Brosnan dormed the Walther PPK in his stead. 

Die Another Day DAD, Tamahori, 2002) could have served as the series swansong. While near universally panned by critics as a strange and unfidfilhng beasf (Nathan, 2002), it was also the most financially successful entiy in the series to date. Pierce Brosnan had previously stated his awareness of Moore s age at the end of his tenure (57 during filming of A View To A Kill). Moore s age made Brosnan s departure a virtual fait acompli. 

When Pierce Brosnan replaced Timothy Dalton, he brought an exuberance and sense of fun to the part that had been missing for many years, but also attempted to continue Dalton s tradition of making Bond a more nu-anced, less mechanized character. His attempts to inject humor were more successful than his predecessor s uncomfortable attempts at making quips Brosnan s Bond was a letter-perfect hybrid of his predecessor s strengths and his own personal touches. 

My first Bond was Roger Moore, and I fell in love on the spot (hey, I was young we do that kind of thing when we re young). Later, I fell head over heels for Timothy Dalton. I eventually learned to appreciate the mature beauty of Sean Connery, and I was already in love with Pierce Brosnan from his Remington Steele days (I was young, remember ). 

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