Casino Royale

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"Casino Royale" successfully invigorates the outdated James Bond franchise for a modern audience.

The new James Bond, Daniel Craig, has a very different personality than the previous. Originally Bond would use gadgets and guns to kill and would consider women as lesser beings. Martin Campbell, director, changed Bond's characteristics to suit the more modern audience (i.e. female audience and action lovers). Campbell also changed the expectation from the plot by cutting of the car chase scene, Bond getting captured instead of girl, first Bond girl dying un-expectantly, etc. This was because Bond films where getting too predictable.

These days the old James Bond could be said to be 'invincible', sexist and old fashioned which is not what the audience is interested in anymore, what people want to see though is hand to hand combat and charm because this is what the male audience want to see and Bond always has an interesting relationship with Bond girls.

The opening scene in 'Casino Royale' shows us how James Bond gets the 007 status. You need to kill two people to obtain this and the opening scene shows us these kills. His first kill was very hard