{"id":11187,"date":"2022-05-26T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2024-08-28T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:25:35","slug":"some-bond-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2022\/05\/26\/some-bond-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Bond Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed this look at Pierce Brosnan\u2019s career. Especially the section where the author discusses how despite, seeming to be the ideal James Bond, Brosnan\u2019s run in the series always seemed lacking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mostly, the Brosnan Bonds feel like a franchise trying to figure out how to pivot back to relevance, casting a seemingly perfect Bond who, unfortunately, symbolized a bygone idea of the secret agent. Craig was given the latitude to shock us with his 007, whereas Brosnan was largely there to maintain a status quo \u2014 to uphold a musty vision of who the character used to be. For four films, Brosnan did his best to make Bond seem cool \u2014 it took his successor to break the mold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melmagazine.com\/en-us\/story\/pierce-brosnan-james-bond-movies\">Pierce Brosnan Was Meant to Be James Bond. But Then He Was Meant For More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Coincidentally, baseball writer and noted \u201cman with opinions\u201d Keith Law just shared his thoughts about Bond series after wrapping up a full run through it. His conclusions are very much in-line with mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/25\/on-the-james-bond-films\/\">On the James Bond films<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed this look at Pierce Brosnan\u2019s career. Especially the section where the author discusses how despite, seeming to be the ideal James Bond, Brosnan\u2019s run in the series always seemed lacking. Mostly, the Brosnan Bonds feel like a franchise trying to figure out how to pivot back to relevance, casting a seemingly perfect Bond who, unfortunately, symbolized a bygone idea of the secret agent. Craig was given the latitude to shock us with his 007, whereas Brosnan was largely there to maintain a status quo \u2014 to uphold a musty vision of who the character used to be. For four films, Brosnan did his best to make Bond seem cool \u2014 it took his successor to break the mold. Pierce Brosnan Was Meant to Be James Bond. But Then He Was Meant For More Coincidentally, baseball writer and noted \u201cman with opinions\u201d Keith Law just shared his thoughts about Bond series after wrapping up a full run through it. His conclusions are very much in-line with mine. On the James Bond films<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,19,29],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-james-bond","tag-links","tag-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11189,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}