James Bond is a huge part of the cinematic cultural lexicon.
Remember the wild hullabaloo over the Academy Awards possibly adding a “popular movie” category? People were up in arms over it because it meant the Academy was bending its will to try to get other people interested in an awards show that has ceased to be relevant to anyone besides movie lovers. But what the Academy forgot was that there were plenty of good, popular movies they could embrace.
Movies like the James Bond franchise, which are put together so tightly and contain so many of the fun set pieces and zingers we love, that seeing them accidentally embrace the story was almost maddening as an audience member during this year’s Oscars.
As someone who believes the awards need to do away with the pithy “we’re too cool for this” jokes and actually embrace how special it is to make a movie, I was happy to see that for a few minutes, the Academy was able to show us why movies were special, using one of the most insanely popular characters ever created.
Check out this video from James Bond 007, and let’s talk after.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
