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By aquirius

Oh yes, I have read a few Ian Fleming novels. Bond is an assassin, yes.
I get that. I get Bond take out an informant when he is done squeezing him for information. I get Bond's ruthlessness. From an examination of Bond. He is meant to have sociopathic inclinations, a result of his being an ophan and shuffled from foster home to foster home, this leaving him disconnected and a little indifferent to his humanity. I get that. Thats part of why British Intelligance recruited men like that. (In real life too.) They can disappear partially because they have felt invisible their whole lives. And if they go missing or end up dead, no one will miss them anyway. They are a disposible part of society. IE.: Sociopathic behavior. And this also feed some of Bonds resentment toward MI6, for preying an his disadvantages.

So with that being said, this new Bond however, seems more pychotic than latent sociopathic. I saw Casino Royale, andit is by far the best and most well write Bond movie I have ever seen. But the actor Daniel Craig's performance of Bond is way off. Daniel seems to be playing Bond as if he is having difficulty containing an insatiable urge to kill. The card game in the movie was great, but the whole time Daniel eyes read like he was having troulbe sitting still. I thought Daniel would suddenly loose character, loose his cool and leap across the table and attack the guy right then and there. Daniel just doesnt play the part well. His eyes say too much, they look like they are filled with rage and violence. Bond is a professional government assassin, disconnected, unpassionate, cold and taking his kill very objectively. IE soicopathic. Daniel looks more like an obsessed stalker. Like the guy who murdered poor Rebecca Schaeffer. I love the style and content of Casino Royale. I just hated Daniel Craig. I was more afraid of his Bond that the villian. I kept expecting them to find a copy of Catch in the Rye in his pocket.

That is the kind of pycho Bond takes down, not the kind of person he is. I felt the same way with Timothy Dalton's Bond. He too was more villian than hero.

On a historical note. During the Cold War, CIA, British Intelligence and the KBG, all recruited some men with a sociopathic, and even homicidal nature. When the Cold War ended, British Intelligence sent other agents to take these rogue agents out. CIA cut theirs loose, most of whom ended up working with and helped form AL Queda. KGB, cut theirs loose and most of them became Russian Mafia members or leaders, which is why they are so so dangerous, and deadly.