Bond as modern epic
Ah, the times of Bond: is he a modern Gilgamesh, a reprieve from the things we have to do, to those that we have to look for? Are we looking at redemption for a flawed human, or simply a comment on the banality of the times?
Because, obviously it is OK now to be powerful and silent in from of women, especially those that have fallen out of grace, or of practice. One liners might be OK, as well as swimming in bright shorts.