Tomorrow Never Dies Deserves 1 James Bond First GoldenEye Wrongly Claimed

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1995's GoldenEye claims many firsts in the 007 franchise, but 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies actually hadone James Bond first that often incorrectly gets attributed to GoldenEye. Pierce Brosnan’s first Bond film broke a number of records, and he as a whole is still the most deadly James Bond actor, Brosnan having killed more enemies in his films than any other 007 actors in their respective runs. But Tomorrow Never Dies stands out as a significant entry in the series and deserves credit for one particular element.

Following the more than six-year hiatus after Timothy Dalton’s final Bond film, License to Kill, Pierce Brosnan exploded onto the screen in GoldenEye. It acted as a reboot for the series and sought to bring the franchise to a modern audience that had departed the '80s and saw the end of the Cold War. After the long break and disheartening legal issues that troubled the 007 producers during the early '90s, longtime audiences yearned for a reawakening of James Bond.

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With its tech focus and heavily gadget-orientated feel, while centered on the theme of media manipulation, Tomorrow Never Dies is the first truly modern James Bond film. Although GoldenEye featured plenty of explosive action, it wasn’t until Pierce Brosnan’s most underrated Bond movie, his second, that audiences finally got a strictly contemporary entry in the series. For the first time, a James Bond film showed how information is now the new threat in the world, and that the media, and the manipulation of its information, is potentially a powerful and dangerous global force. In the case of Elliot Carver, the main villain in Tomorrow Never Dies, it is even “able to topple governments