No Time To Die Makes It Difficult To Kill James Bond Again
The stunning, norm-breaking, and shocking ending of the latest James Bond adventure, No Time to Die, concluded Daniel Craig's tenure as the famed British spy by killing Bond off explosively and dramatically, and that could lead to difficulty in ever killing off the character again. With the franchise handing the martini, tux, and Aston Martin to its next actor-to-be, though, such a maneuver might be near-impossible to pull off in the future. In many ways, the latest Bond film has made killing James Bond a difficult proposition.
In No Time to Die, Bond’s death came about from many factors that had formed over the course of Craig’s Bond tenure. Bond’s willingness to protect his lover Madeleine Swann (introduced in Spectre) and their daughter Mathilde at all costs, avenging his prior loss of Vesper in Casino Royale, resulted in a horrible cost to Bond’s life. As such, when Bond confronted the villain of the film, Lyutsfier Safin, for the final time, he was infected with a vial of the nanobot weapon Heracles intended to kill Madeleine and Mathilde whilst being mortally wounded in the process. Combined with a missile strike on the island producing Heracles where Bond was ordered by both M and Bond, Bond’s demise was all but assured.
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No Time to Die killing Bond was a move that had been openly discussed and considered since the beginning of Craig’s time playing the character, and for a franchise that had been going on for nearly sixty years beforehand, it was a bold choice. The very nature of Bond in many of the films the character had starred in beforehand was to stare death in the eye from villains and perilous situations and escape it. As always,
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