Who's the Next James Bond?

Also, these movies slap in their own way

As long as you overlook the misogyny and xenophobia

The first scenes are always a doozy, and I think that's as far as I have to look to make my prediction.

SKYFALL (2012): Bond steps into a dingy apartment and finds two bloody bodies. A third man is gravely wounded, propped in a chair. Bond calls it in through his earpiece. From the other end, M doesn't even ask about the agent down. M tells him to move on and complete the mission. Bond reluctantly agrees, and then proceeds to jump a motorcycle off a bridge onto a moving train. He'll do anything to complete the mission - but compassion might get in the way. That's a great character introduction.

CASINO ROYALE (2006): Again, Bond demonstrates his refusal to give up for any reason. He chases his target 200 feet upwards through a construction zone, jumps onto a moving crane, then jumps from that crane to another independent crane. But in this movie, curiously six years earlier than the last, Bond seems to be showing his age. He opts not to do unnecessary stunts, relies on cleverness rather than athleticism, and crashes clumsily through the jumps and tight turns. But goddamned if he doesn't keep up with this guy on a chase where any mortal would have given up a hundred times already.

NO TIME TO DIE (2021): This one is completely different. It's like a micro-slasher film taking place in an arctic cabin, wherein young Madeleine (Léa Seydoux) must face off against a masked intruder alone because her mother is too drunk to help. The intruder kills Madeleine's mother, and Madeleine proceeds to empty six rounds into the guy without missing a shot. Madeleine seems to exude the same "I'm not dead yet and I'm going to make that your problem" energy Bond is known for. The six crack shots, however, are not enough to kill the inruder. Madeleine flees onto a frozen lake, which she falls into without intervention. The stranger watches her struggle beneath the ice, then fires his automatic weapon in her direction, and finally plunges his hands through the slush to grab her. Suddenly an adult Madeleine breaks the surface of much warmer waters.

I'm not sure who'll end up being the next James Bond. But it really seems like they were setting up Madeleine to inherit the role.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, I'm going back to watching Bond movies cause I've been sleeping on them for too long