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Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Die Another Day |
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James Bond has to stop an evil leader and his group from using an invention called Icarus to defeat the South Koreans.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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In this movie the great James Bond finds himself in yet another impossible situation with only his wits and those of what must be his 40th chick out of all the movies. This time a terrorist makes a giant satellite dish-looking thing in the sky called Icarus. Icarus was made to be some sort of light thing that makes it bright all the time on earth (dumb idea). But it turns out that Icarus doubles as a giant laserbeam (figure) and is going to be used to take down all the major cities on earth. All in all, great action and great suspense.
--Tristan M, Resident Scholar
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Die Another Day is the best Bond film of the lot, also being the 20th installment on the 40th Aniversary of James Bond 007. Bond himself is betrayed in North Korea, after being sent to assassinate renegade Colonel Moon, and is captured and tortured for 14 months. After being released, and shunned by his superiors, 007 goes in search of Zao, a Korean who was working for Moon in the first place. The trail of diamond smuggling and special face-lifts that conceal Zao's identity, Bond encounters Sir Gustav Graves, mastermind of a scheme to exact revenge on the West and win back South Korea using a giant space laser which draws on energy from the Sun. Technical gadgets dominate the film, with Bond's Aston Martin V12 Vanquish stealing the show as it can turn invisible through Q's own Adaptive Camaoflage system. Pierce Brosnan is wonderful as James Bond, and this film really stands proud of any other action film released.
--Jamie Bond, Resident Scholar
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James Bond returns in this thriller. The main enemy is one Gustav Graves, who is actually a North Korean agent with plastic surgery. The North Koreans have a lot of diamonds, but their real plot (like in Diamonds are Forever) is to take over South Korea with the help of a huge laser.
--Eugene Kim, Resident Scholar
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James Bond is betrayed. Later he is traded for another prisoner and suspected of telling British goverment secrets. And after escaping his own government facility he sets out to find who betrayed him and to clear his name.
--Xenos Existo, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of James Bond |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Part of a series?
- James Bond
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
- terrorist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Other Asian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Southeast Asia
- the Koreas
Ice Caps?
Yes
Where?
- North Pole
- Ocean
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- fort/military installation
- castle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 7 (a good amount)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- nuclear/unconventional war
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
- lasers
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- frying (electrocuted)
- drowned
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
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