Nicolas Suszczyk's Blog, page 3
March 18, 2022
The 007 Women, Pierce Brosnan Style - How Beauty, Brains and Erotism Can Get Along Very Well
The physical beauty of the James Bond girls always comes up whenever we discuss the 60-year-old franchise. Apart from the gun barrel sequence, the 007 gun logo, the tuxedo and the silenced Walther PPK, probably two of the most iconic images associated with the saga are related to women: Ursula Andress coming out of the water in a white bikini and a belt holding a hunting knife, or Shirley Eaton’s dead body painted in gold, originated in Dr No (1962) and Goldfinger (1964), are continually bought...
December 29, 2021
2022 is coming: and now, what?
After how difficult 2019 and 2020 have been, I guess I should be thankful for a little more stable -yet not necessarily better- 2021. Didn't have the chance to write books outside the updated edition of A View To A Thrill: A Closer Look At The James Bond Trailers as I've been busy with another projects outside Bond. Anyway, I admit I didn't put too much passion on the latter as I had to include "No" Time To Die which, as many people know, has extremely disappointed me to the point of not buying ...
October 17, 2021
"I'm sorry, Mrs Broccoli. I don't dance"
HEAVY NTTD SPOILERS AHEAD
It's been almost three weeks since I watched No Time To Die. Of course, I followed other people's "advice" to watch it more than once so I could "like it or understand it better", because, naturally, it took me 10 watches of GoldenEye and beating the whole N64 game in 00 Agent mode to love both! (I'm being extremely sarcastic, by the way). Long story short: I watched it an additional three times after the premiere, mostly because a friend of mine had tickets of spare. I...
October 3, 2021
Actions speak louder than words...
Read my No Time To Die review here (MODERATE SPOILERS): https://goldeneyedossier.wixsite.com/...Lean mi crítica de Sin Tiempo Para Morir en español (SPOILERS MODERADOS):
https://bondenargentina.tumblr.com/po...
September 29, 2021
#VuelveBond: Reflexiones finales antes de ver 'Sin Tiempo Para Morir'
Quedan un par de horas para que finalmente vaya a ver una de las más anticipadas películas de James Bond, Sin Tiempo Para Morir. No sé cómo ordenar mis pensamientos, porque en este momento son muchos y son muy complicados de explicar. Los pocos que me conocen bien saben que el regreso de Bond nunca es una circunstancia aislada de cosas que impactan en mi vida: hay estrenos que se relacionan con la familia y la infancia, como GoldenEye o El Mañana Nunca Muere y El Mundo No Basta. Otros, como Casi...
September 11, 2021
'Die Another Day': shaping James Bond for a post-9/11 world
It was 20 years ago today that two hijacked Boeing 747 commercial aeroplanes caused a macabre terrorist attack in the heart of New York City, but watching the images all over again still chills anyone in any part of this world. The terrorist attacks that took place in the morning of September 11, 2001, didn't just change the politics and social mood of the United States of America. It changed the whole world and particularly the Western hemisphere: anyone who grew up in the late 1990s and...
September 8, 2021
Bond Gets the ‘Endgame’ Treatment in Final ‘No Time to Die’ Trailer
WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS ARTICLE!
As many social media users point out, the next two weeks will determine if the upcoming James Bond film No Time To Die becomes a great movie or a great meme. On August 24, during the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, MGM’s Michael De Luca screened nine unseen minutes of the pre-credits sequence of the film and assured attendants that the film will be released for good on October 8 in the United States and a week earlier worldwide, on Septemb...
September 1, 2021
The Protégé: Maggie Q Serves Up Some Ultimate Lessons in Revenge
Is Martin Campbell doing yet another “revenge” movie after we saw Mel Gibson and Jackie Chan avenging their daughters’ death in Edge of Darkness (2010) and The Foreigner (2017)? The most apparent answer is “yes” and the trailers will make you think that way.
Mr. Campbell himself told a Reddit user some weeks ago that Maggie Q’s motivation is avenging a loved one during an AMA session. But the truth is… The Protégé is a little more than a simple revenge story, at least a less evident and blun...
August 21, 2021
'GoldenEye' and the Soviet Coup of 1991
There are at least two big historical events that nurture the story of the 17th James Bond film GOLDENEYE. The British betrayal of the Lienz Cossacks in 1945 directly motivates Alec Trevelyan's revenge plan, and there is also the setting of a new world order after the dissolution of the Soviet Union which serves as a backdrop as the story moves along through nine years.
However, there is a historical event most people overlook, and it is the one that directly provoked the fall of the Soviet Uni...
July 28, 2021
Duelo al atardecer
Esta reflexión la escribí a mano el día 30 de marzo de 2019 durante mi última visita al Del Parque Shopping. Recientemente la encontré entre mis anotaciones y decidí compartirla con ustedes. Con mucha alegría me entero hoy que el centro comercial reabrirá en los próximos meses con el nombre Punto Del Parque.
El silencio es tan intenso que este lugar bien podría ser una iglesia, una biblioteca o un cementerio. Sin embargo, el lugar donde estoy ahora fue -o al menos todavía es- justamente todo lo c...
