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Now that the long outdated completely new James Bond Should finally be in cinemas at the end of the year, it's a good opportunity William Faulkner to let speak:
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (2012 [1951]: 73)
Already in the December 2019 My wife and I went to the 25th official James Bond Movie pleased with me Daniel Craig from the beginning for the James Bond series for an absolute miscast, since he, at least for me, unpleasant further development of the original Ian Fleming more than encourages fictional characters; it was the special charm of the Ian Fleming Books that they were neither politically correct nor mainstream — they just poked fun at a time that might never have been, making men and women alike chuckle at things that were obviously "too good" to be true to be able to And that was exactly the special charm of Bond and no one could embody it better than Sean Connery.
Daniel Craig was obviously only chosen because you didn't want to switch to a woman as Bond right away — very mainstream; because even serial writers don't have that much courage. But it would only have been good if a woman finally managed the entire James Bond Taking away the drama of the series and making it completely ridiculous in the process, creating a whole new kind of fun and family-friendly entertainment — a second-hand Barbarella, so to speak.
If you believe the first test showers, we'll probably have to be content with the Depri-Bond, which is still trying to become a symbol of political correctness. At least — much to the delight of my better half — has Daniel Craig apart from slitting his wrists back in 2015, and will probably be the last male one for us James Bond lead together with his colleagues into the even deeper depths of human abysses; probably to the extent that even a woman can no longer do it any better. Let's all be happy about that Sean Connery and particularly Ian Fleming no longer have to experience this.
James Bond is said to be in the latest film "No Time to Die" William Faulkner quote: "The past is never dead." This quote comes from his book "Requiem for a Nun" from 1951 and is probably one of the most frequently quoted Faulkner sentences.
"Requiem for a Nun' Faulkner wrote twenty years after his novel 'Sanctuary' (1931) as its sequel. The story takes place eight years after that of "Sanctuary", where Temple Drake meanwhile with the "cause" of her suffering, Gowan Stevens, is married. The story begins with the conviction of Drake's nanny, Nancy, for the murder of Drake's daughter.
There are only broken heroes in both books, and the sequence and outcome of the plots could well have inspired the last Bond stories. If you can't get enough of the Depri-Bond episodes, I recommend reading both books; I personally think it doesn't matter which book you start with; again a similarity to the Bond story.
But the nice thing about it is that you don't have to wait for the drama to come to an end in the cinema, but can buy or borrow both books immediately. Then you also know what's happening with Nancy and what's out Temple Drake is.
Incidentally, Albert Camus made a play out of the book called "Requiem pour une nonne" in 1956 and also wrote the foreword to the French translation of the book.
"In time you become old, you see death then. Then you realize that nothing — nothing — nothing — not power nor glory nor wealth nor pleasure nor even freedom from pain, is as valuable as simple breathing, simply being alive even with all the regret of having to remember and the anguish of an irreparable worn -out body; merely knowing that you are alive."
William Faulkner, A Fable (2011 [1954]:347)
