Right from the start of Casino Royale it’s clear that Bond isn’t the character we’ve been following for the past 20 films. Is it possible to both create and deconstruct simultaneously? Can you take a well-worn franchise and grind it apart while at the same time creating a new vision that established the character we’ve come to know and explores what it is that made them who they are? Is it possible that the best thing to ever happen to James Bond (Daniel Craig) was to destroy everything that made him James Bond? Let’s look at the movie that attempted to both make and break Bond at the same time.
