![]() ![]() And in No Time To Die, Fukunaga definitely makes the most of this opportunity. But because she and Bond are still together when he retires from MI6 at the end of the film, the door is opened for her to return as one of the rare long-term love interests in the series. The most that can be said of her is that Léa Seydoux does her best with the material she’s given, and that Madeleine at least doesn’t get killed off like Vesper Lynd and Sévérine before her. But in the final product, she’s a two-dimensional character who barely has any impact on the plot. She has the capacity to be Bond’s equal, and perhaps the greatest love interest in the series’ long history, not to mention all the potential offered by her backstory. And of course, despite her initial dismissal of Bond’s attempts to seduce her, Madeleine ends up falling for him not long after for unclear reasons.Īll in all, the Madeleine Swann presented in Spectre just isn’t a particularly compelling character. ![]() Instead, she’s shown to be practically helpless without Bond to protect her, just like nearly every love interest before her. And though Swann claims to be a trained killer in her own right, she never gets the chance to show her skills in a fight. Despite the unique and compelling backstory of being the daughter of one of Bond’s enemies, this backstory is barely even elaborated on in the film. However, this ended up proving to not be the case - at least not in Spectre. In many ways, she seems to be a female version of Bond, opening the possibility of a Bond Girl who’s a true equal to James instead of just another damsel in distress to be protected, seduced, and ultimately abandoned. At first, Madeleine is presented as James’ equal - a brilliant, strong-willed woman who’s been trained in combat as a result of her upbringing as the daughter of a criminal mastermind. White’s death, Madeleine quickly becomes embroiled in the conspiracy around SPECTRE, forcing her to reluctantly team up with Bond to save both their lives. ![]() White, who previously appeared in both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace as a member of the mysterious Quantum organization, now revealed to have ties to SPECTRE. Madeleine Swann is introduced partway through Spectre as the daughter of Bond’s old nemesis Mr. RELATED: No Time To Die Rewrites The Rules Of The Game For Bond Girls It is the final Bond film released by Sony Pictures Releasing under Columbia Pictures. Sam Smith performed the Title Theme Tune, 'Writings on the Wall', which became the first-ever Bond theme to hit 1 on the UK charts. And this approach is particularly noticeable in regards to one specific character: Bond’s primary love interest Madeleine Swann, played by Death Stranding star Léa Seydoux. The film was released on October 26, 2015, in the UK, November 6 in the US. However, No Time To Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga instead decided to embrace the previous film’s story, and endeavored to improve on its mistakes instead of pretending they never happened. After all the negative reception Spectre earned, the easy thing to do would have been to just ignore it altogether and create a completely unrelated story for Daniel Craig’s last outing as James Bond. ![]()
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