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Film "The Living Daylights" is one of the
variations on the theme of Jan Fleming novels about Bond - secret agent � 007.
Two zeroes in the number of agent mean that he is the staffer of British
secret service and can kill anybody without judicatory. In the other words,
it means that he is a killer. Dalton`s Bond differs essentially from the
former ones. This difference is conditional on the time of filming.
The first James Bond (Sean Connery) was
simple like the knife of American sea-soldier. For decency's sake he said
"I kill only by necessity", (he does it so, for example, in the movie
"Doctor No") but we look at his face and see - he likes to
do it. Connery's Bond is simple soldier of cold war. He does his lovely work
and he likes it. Everything is simple - enemies and friends, white and black. Let
off a gun first - is the main important problem, and let your Boss think of
the rest.
Timothy Dalton's James Bond is a secret agent
of a new epoch - epoch of Perestroika, the times before humane bombing of
Yugoslavia. He is not a simple cool-headed killer, he is sensitive man, who
feels deeply for the work he must do. He is a hero of modern West world, the
realization of it's ideals.
James Bond performed by Timothy can disobey
the order to kill soviet killer, who is waiting for a shot, Czech music girl, violoncellist,
because he feels, that she will convert and change her bad soviet KGB lover
for good west spy. He is right. Czech girl is not a killer, she only plays a
role of killer according to the command of bad soviet man. She only scans
around with the help of telescope of gun and clear-eyed hero of Timothy
Dalton understand it immediately.
Date of the film issue is 1987. It is a time
of Perestroika. The authors tried to say something good about soviet people.
It is undisputed that soviet people are very fool and their soldiers are
sadists, as a sergeant, who martyrized captured Dalton's hero in Afganistan,
but they have good features too. Really the authors of film found only one
good detail - not all the murders in the world are happened with the help of
Russia and KGB, but I say "Thank you" for this courageous idea.
I see, the real heroes of the film are Afgan
modgaheds - the knights without fear and reproach. James Bond helps their
inculpable leader (boxed for contraband of narcotics ) to run from the soviet
prison and after returning he helps agent 007, attacking (of course before he has
pocketed a nice sum) his narcotic partners. At the end of film chivalrous
leader of modgaheds crosses half of the world to study European culture and
see the concert of classic music, given by new Bond's trophy, but
I don't believe in this story. To my mind he returns to his boss Ben Laden
and begins to prepare for a bomb explode of American embassy.
Certainly Timothy Dalton's hero is more humane
hero than Sean Connery's one. He can see not only soviet killer,
he can see a human. I want to believe, that agent 007 of 21 century can do it
better, East and West can see each other not with the help of gun telescope
but with the help of "living" eyes.
N.N., 1999
And now look at Bondiana with the eyes of
Cindy from Texas, who has written a very
interesting article, I think! Thank you, Cindy!
Please, visit
the Internet Site of Vlad Pavlov - you will know a lot of new data
about Bond and not only about him! Read here
the excerpts from the script of "The Living Daylights".
K.E., 1999
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