Casino Royale（在线收听）

　　Callum:  Hello, I'm Robertson, Callum Robertson and this is entertainment. Today,Casino Royale the new James Bond film; is it any good and what is DanielCraig like in his first performance as 007?
　　We'll hear the views of BBC film reviewer Mark Kermode and as I've seen itmyself you'll also hear what I think.aI was eagerly anticipating Casino Royale. I'm not a huge James Bond fan butthe prospect of a new actor playing Bond and rumours of a more realistic plotmade it an easy choice for cinema-going last weekend.
　　The problems with some of the previous Bond movies are that they becamerather fantastic and unbelievable. Fantasy stories of world domination andridiculous gadgets like invisible cars were a far cry from Ian Flemings originalspy novels of the 1950s and 60s. It was time for Bond to come back down toearth and this is what Casino Royale does.
　　stCasino Royale is the 21  Bond film but you have to forget all of the others.
　　The plot of this film takes place when James Bond is only starting out on hiscareer as 007.
　　His mission in the film is to win a game of cards which for financial reasonswill force his opponent in the game, a terrorist banker, to work for the secretservice and give them information about his terrorist clients.
　　James bond is famously 'licensed to kill' which means he has officialpermission from the government to kill and in this film we see his first kills.
　　There are chases and fights, he gets hurt and tortured and even falls in love.
　　And in this film more than the others you do see Bond getting really hurt. Hisface is cut and bruised after his fights and he even ends up having to use awheel chair in one scene after he has been tortured in a way that brings tear tothe eye of every man watching.
　　This is what BBC film reviewer Mark Kermode thinks is one of the best thingsabout this Bond film.
　　Mark KermodeActually for me the main achievement of this new Bond film is exactly that, you do feel it,you do feel the pain, you do feel the batterings, you do feel the violence and in one lengthysequence you do feel the torture. There is, as most people probably know by now a sequencein it in which a naked James Bond is tortured for information which he being James Bond isnot going to give up. It's not played for camp laughs, it's played fairly straight, it's tough.
　　It is a movie in which people get battered about, they fall off cranes, they do all the JamesBond stuff but they actually get injured and centrally, Daniel Craig gets injured. I can'tremember a more battered looking Bond. I mean I think that Daniel Craig is great ….
　　Callum:  Mark thinks Daniel Craig is great and feels that unusually for a Bond movie wedo feel the physical violence and its effects on James Bond's body.
　　The film isn't perfect though. It does have really blatant product placement.
　　Product placement, this is the term that describes when companies pay to havetheir products in a film. So in this film everyone uses the same make of mobilephone, Bond frequently uses a particular model of laptop computer and in allcases the branding is clearly visible. In one scene Bond even says the kind ofwatch he wears. Produce placement is part of many films these days, but I can'tremember seeing one is which it is so obvious.
　　This wasn't the only problem with the film though. Here's Mark Kermode again,what criticism does he have of the film?
　　Mark KermodeWell, I would say, my criticisms of the film are this, it is undoubtedly 20 minutes too long.
　　Towards the end, in the latter section it did really start to sag for me, and also I have to say Iwas slightly less than interested by the love interest.
　　Callum:  So Mark felt the film could have been shorter and for him the love story didn'treally work. He said towards the end the film started to sag, to sag, to slowdown too much.
　　Casino Royale has many of the features of traditional bond films, beautifulwomen, fast cars, chases and fights but it uses those features in a tougher way.
　　Bond is a real person, he can be hurt physically and emotionally.
　　It's not a great spy film, spies could never really work in the way James Bonddoes, but it is a great Bond film with a fine performance from Daniel Craig.
　　He's tough and mean but also vulnerable, he can be hurt.
　　So if you like Bond at all, then I can certainly recommend this film. You won'tbe disappointed.
　　That's all from this edition of Entertainment.
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