After Craig: should the next Bond be a period piece?

I’m sure this discussion has been asked before but I’d be intrigued to know everyone thoughts. My inclination would be to take Bond back to the setting of the books - the 1950s, with a similar aesthetic to the early series of Mad Men.

This would present several solutions to difficulties in the series. For one - a heavy drinking, gambling misogynist with a sociopathic streak and an undying commitment to England just makes a lot more sense in the early Cold War after WW2 than now. It makes him a lot more excusable as a protagonist than in a modern setting. Spy work just feels more natural and exciting when it’s against the clear, ingenious threat of the USSR than against terrorist cells in the digital age. The 50s were simultaneously a more ‘prim and proper’ time and one in which reckless governmental excess was plausible. No more ‘you’re a relic!’ storylines.

Everyone likes to talk about how cool Mad Men was, and that’d be true of a period Bond as well, vs the often tonally confused modern Bond. Vintage cars, trilbies and suits, whisky and sordid affairs behind closed doors.

So, how do you feel about this?

Submitted March 17, 2018 at 06:34PM by theivoryserf http://ift.tt/2FQEnfp