The 26th Bond movie will have to reckon with a problem that has been plaguing the franchise for decades and that the Daniel Craig era made even worse.
Anticipation is high for the next iteration of James Bond, but the 26th movie in the franchise needs to reckon with the series’ ongoing struggle with tone. The James Bond character has been popular since his theatrical film debut in 1962, with the franchise being the second-longest running in film history, behind Godzilla. However, it’s this same longevity that bogs the James Bond franchise down in questions of its tone.
Brutal Bond Vs. Jaunty James: 007's Tone Has Always Been Hard To Get Right The James Bond franchise’s struggle with tone is a historic one. As far back as the Sean Connery James Bond movies, the series has faced accusations of tonal imbalance. The first substantial criticisms of this kind were leveled at You Only Live Twice, the Connery film that saw James Bond dispatched to Japan to investigate mysteriously vanishing spacecraft.
Bond's Tone Problem Is Worse Than With Other Movie Franchises It’s true that James Bond isn’t the only franchise to struggle with tonal shifts between iterations and even within the films themselves. Other well-known franchises likewise shift between levity and darkness. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’s dark plot of child slavery contrasted noticeably with the screwball antics of romantic interest Willie Scott, an example of internal tonal clashes on the level of an individual film.
Bond 26's Tone Challenge Is Even Tougher After Daniel Craig's Era As a result of the James Bond franchise monolith, every fresh attempt to depict its main character anew is harder than before, as the backlog of beloved 007 films that must be respected expands with each iteration. As such, Bond 26 has an even harder job than Daniel Craig's James Bond movies, as it must incorporate Craig’s 007 into the pantheon of Bonds to whom it owes a debt.
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