You do know that Casino Royale is based on a novel right, the first story with James Bond at that.
And most of the things you call out (like the romance arc) are damn near verbatim from the novel? I don't think there's an attempt to undermine the character because at that point Bond is more inexperienced and the whole him being more dominant force in relationships is the result of Vesper's death and him becoming numb to relationships.
Like it's not subverting decades of established tropes when it's supposed to be the first Bond story. Even the shaken or stirred line has it's origin here and the "do I look like I give a damn" makes sense with the events of the movie at that point.
Very true its the slow boiling of the frog that tricks the normies into thinking "the hero has always been like this". A great example is spiderman and how his brand and name is slowly being eroded so its no longer synonymous with peter parker. He's still featured whenever they need to introduce spiderman in new media but you can bet your bottom dollar that characters like miles morales and spider gwen will somehow be tacked on to him since on their own they can't sell shit. Slowly but surely peter will be sidelined to make way for miles and this has been done for so long that people actually think miles is a well written character and not what he actually is, a leech to the spiderman name.
You do know that Casino Royale is based on a novel right, the first story with James Bond at that.
And most of the things you call out (like the romance arc) are damn near verbatim from the novel? I don't think there's an attempt to undermine the character because at that point Bond is more inexperienced and the whole him being more dominant force in relationships is the result of Vesper's death and him becoming numb to relationships.
Like it's not subverting decades of established tropes when it's supposed to be the first Bond story. Even the shaken or stirred line has it's origin here and the "do I look like I give a damn" makes sense with the events of the movie at that point.
Good points. I didn't quite see this but always felt like casino Royale was kinda weak. Add the ball busting scene and I don't really watch it
Very true its the slow boiling of the frog that tricks the normies into thinking "the hero has always been like this". A great example is spiderman and how his brand and name is slowly being eroded so its no longer synonymous with peter parker. He's still featured whenever they need to introduce spiderman in new media but you can bet your bottom dollar that characters like miles morales and spider gwen will somehow be tacked on to him since on their own they can't sell shit. Slowly but surely peter will be sidelined to make way for miles and this has been done for so long that people actually think miles is a well written character and not what he actually is, a leech to the spiderman name.