The casting of Daniel Craig as James Bond has not exactly been met with great reactions. On the otherhand, there hasn't been a good Bond film since the sixties, so any change is a welcome one. Looks like the producers are now going for hip - after so many years of trying to be cool.
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You generated a discussion at our dinner table tonight about the difference between cool and hip. Although they are both quite old terms, we decided that cool had a sort of timeless quality to it - an attitude, while hip denoted something much more current and fashionable. Were we close?
Connery is Bond.
I'm going to give this new Bond a fair shot...I've liked him in his other films, and I think he's got the physique and the attitude that Bond should have. In Layer Cake, I thought of him as the British Steve McQueen and that in my books is pretty cool.
Sounds like a great discussion Barbara - and it is making me rethink my definitions of both words. Good point about cool and the timeless quality - Connery certainly has that. I was thinking about cool in terms of trendy or, "what the kids are into," as opposed to hip which is, "naturally cool." Although I realize now that hip and cool are kind of the same thing - maybe I should have said trendy. Either way, with regards to Bond - I felt like in the Pierce Brosnan era, they were really trying to appeal to the computer/ADD generation. It seems like - from this trailer - they are bringing some of the classy charm back.
I think you're right about the return to classy charm that this trailer implies. Maybe a few less explosions and a little more attitude?
Daniel Craig is an elegant machine, and may be the perfect choice for Bond, barring Clive Owen who turned the role down. I'm astonished by his film choices - he seems fearless and not desperate to look pretty, which was exactly what made Sean better than Roger as Bond, in my opinion.
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