Die Another Day

Despite Bond s famed finickiness about what and how he drinks, he hasn t been true to himself, at least in the movies. He drinks mint juleps in Golcfinger and rum Collinses in Thunderball. And in spite of his expensive defection from Smirnoff to Finlandia vodka this year in Die Another Day, he seems to favor mojitos. 

Benson, Raymond. 2004, 2002. Die Another Day. Grand Haven, Ml Brilliance Corp. Read by Michael Page Available as 5 compact discs, 4 cassettes or audio download. 

Die Another Day. Ashland, OR Blackstone Audiobooks. Read by Robert Whitfield Available as 3 compact discs, or 3 cassettes. 

Recent arcMtectural designs have picked up some cues from the Bond narrative. Camouflage already exists in tmrror-faced office towers that reflect the facades of their neighbors. It has reached a new level since the introduction of the cloaking device used in Die Another Day [2002]. The... 

Tamahori, Lee, director. 2002. Die Another Day. MGM-United Artists/ EON Productions. 

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Another issue of competence comes from whom M trusts. In both The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day, the female M places her trast in a young woman who is eventually revealed to be a villain. So while Bond s instincts about a situation are usually correct, the female M is portrayed as having poor instincts. While this phenomenon could again be a sign of the character s lack of field experience, it can also be seen as a repudiation of the value of women s intuition. ... 

In determining if a female agent is truly the equal of Bond, one might simply see if there is ever a female agent who isn t placed in the damsel-in-(hstress role, requiring the salvation of the man. If so, then perhaps that woman is truly an equal. The three previous examples— finm The Spy Who Loved Me, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Die Another Day obviously fail that test. So let s examine the other three. 

Brosnan s stint as Bond came to a close and as always age had something to do with it. When he took on the role of Bond for the last time in 2002 with Die Another Day Brosnan was fifty. The critics had not always liked the way that Bond had been developed but this was down more to the choices made by designers, directors and producers than by the actor himself... 

Occasionally a tongue in cheek reference is allowed to this, see for example the doctor examining the unconscious Bond after his recovery from North Korea in Die Another Day and commenting on the state of OOTs liver. 

The curvy, comely bodies of Denise Riehards and Tanya Roberts are amply featured in these films for their exaggerated proportions—a tradition reinvigorated in Die Another Day by Halle Berry s bikini-elad entrance from the oeean. This entrance, of eourse, is homage to Ursula Andress s Honey Ryder in Dr. No. As Brace Rosenberg and Arm Harleman Stewart demonstrated, the books from whieh these films were based feature extensive deseriptions of women s breasts— and the qualities... 

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. 

Nathan, Ian. Empire Magazine Review Die Another Day. Accessed 12/8/2009... 

Gadget Surfboard with concealed explosives, combat knife, and minicomputer, used by Bond in Die Another Day. 

Halle Berry as Giacinta Jinx Johnson in Die Another Day... 

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