Skyfall celebrates 50 years of the James Bond film franchise with clever lines and out-and-out brilliant homages to previous films. Director Sam Mendes packed the new Daniel Craig Bond film with influences from the series while making an entirely modern 007 movie.
Mystery woman Severine, the Macao casino and the voyage to the Dead Island of the villain Silva (Javier Bardem) took me back to The Man With the Golden Gun starring Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. You can see a huge influence on Skyfall from Ian Fleming’s later novels You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun. The death of rebirth of Bond is seen in Skyfall and the aforementioned Fleming novels.
I wanted to share this insightful article by Neill McNally for MI6.Com. The author examines the parallels between the new film and shows how Ian Fleming’s vision of James Bond is alive and thriving in the Daniel Craig era.
The James Bond series is now available on Blu-ray with a spot in the collection for Skyfall. You can already pre-order Skyfall but I want to see him a few more times in the theater!
By Editor