trinityvixen | (no subject)

So, just watched the newest trailer for Casino Royale.

Daniel Craig? Smoking hot. Not attractive, not just physically perfect, not even emotionally appealing. Just. Smoking. Hot. There are people whose intensity burns through all they do, and he is one of those people. It think it's the eyes. His eyes have this strange blue-white star level of incandescence. I remember that about Layer Cake, too, how you couldn't follow anything he was doing or who was doing what around him half the time, but you knew he was taking it all Very. Seriously. In Road to Perdition, his character's obvious paranoia screamed out of those eyes, even as he kept his face impassive, and man did you know there was trouble about. I remember not being impressed with him as a love interest for mega-babe Angelina in Tomb Raider, but there was something still really sexy about what he did with that one-note character. The way I remember it, Craig sold him as a sheepish type who was still amazed a pretty girl ever gave him the time of day. And yet? He knew his shit and didn't really care to be questioned about it. Gave him an edge of danger and one over the little girl running around with guns.

The Undeniable Hotness of Daniel Craig even me forgive the schmaltzy romance angle played up in the trailer--'cause, come on, this is James Bond, which the trailer mostly conveniently forgets (and not in a bad way), and he's not supposed to have a one true love (especially not as they already tried to make the case for that with Teri Hatcher in Tomorrow Never Dies, and this is supposed to be the reboot of the franchise, so I think we know that this isn't twu wub anyway). The lines spouted off are as corny as anything, but the opening thirty seconds? Scared me to death. It helps that Craig doesn't try for being suave as Pierce Brosnen in manner; I found Brosnen sleazy and gross and everything wrong played up about James Bond being a womanizer and basically a government-employed adrenaline and sex addict. With Craig, again as he did in Layer Cake he made the case for his character being so amazingly put together and smart that you were drawn to him. I like the idea of a guy having sexy chicks orbiting him for his personality being that gravitational in its gravitas much better than a mildly good-looking guy chasing after the dismissive princess and wearing down her resolve. Skeeeeeeeeeeve much?

I like this Bond already, not just because Daniel Craig sells it harder than any recent Bond in memory. He sells it like a cross between my favorite Bonds--Connery and Dalton. Connery had the arrogant, cock-sure confidence and a body built for the rough stuff; Dalton had the blazing intensity and unspoken resolve to do--and do with exquisite violence--whatever necessary to achieve his objective. Craig comes across as being cooly assured he is both magnetic, hot, intelligent, savvy, dangerous, and ready.

Ready for what? Watch the trailer and see.