As for the "gourmet" James Bond, he used to be an icon of style for men, a cultural reference. In the last decades, its authors wanted to avoid the risk of him being too sophisticated for our times, so he became more and more virile and, in the Craig years, he was transformed into someone who doesn't really belong to the upper class. Although he does his job with sophisticated people (M, the villains), he's not one of them. Good job, because now the majority of us can identify with him much more than before, but of course something went lost along the way. They dropped the gourmet but kept the alcohol lover. Smart people, the authors. ;)
Do we have any idea when "The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare" will be released? I assume it's just in the early planning stages?
As for the "gourmet" James Bond, he used to be an icon of style for men, a cultural reference. In the last decades, its authors wanted to avoid the risk of him being too sophisticated for our times, so he became more and more virile and, in the Craig years, he was transformed into someone who doesn't really belong to the upper class. Although he does his job with sophisticated people (M, the villains), he's not one of them. Good job, because now the majority of us can identify with him much more than before, but of course something went lost along the way. They dropped the gourmet but kept the alcohol lover. Smart people, the authors. ;)