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Article: 'Ah, 007, we meet again...'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2008
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Dr No, Goldfinger, Scaramanga, Blofeld - the Bond films have
featured a memorable cast of psychopathic villains. And now, in
Quantum of Solace, we have... an environmentalist? Even Bond baddies
have to move with the times, says Geoffrey Macnab
In 007's latest outing, Quantum of Solace, James Bond's
antagonist isn't a Cold War Soviet warrior or the cat-stroking boss
of a criminal network. He doesn't have three nipples. He doesn't cry
blood. Dominic Greene (played by French actor Mathieu Amalric) is...
an environmentalist. Short of re-imagining Blofeld masquerading as a
Greenwich Village folk singer, it's hard to think of a more
incongruous profession the film-makers could have chosen for a ...