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    Guardian hits all time low with Daniel Craig/Bond vodka ad/commercial love-in Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on November 15, 2022, 10:17 am

    Of course the Guardian's commercial rent-boy of a "journalist"(surname="Heritage" !) who's served up this bucket of sick fails to thank Russia for giving us this world-conquering beverage in the first place...

    PS. I still have two empty bottles of Lidl's "Putinoff" vodka - a label which they discontinued around 2018 - no doubt thanks to Russiagate and evil, wicked, US-democracy-destroying Putin.

    So - here's the 'news-just-in' 14. November headline from our illustrious "respected news source"/aka proper guardians of truth - love your sexy, manly fun MI6, folks:

    "Daniel Craig shows Bonds Just Wanna have Fun in Vodka advert"

    "The former 007’s new commercial seems designed to show the world he’s a fun guy now. But Mr Intensity has always had a gift for comedy.If you have seen the new Taika Waititi-directed commercial for Belvedere Vodka, you will have almost certainly been struck by one profound, core-shaking question: is Daniel Craig actually having fun?
    It certainly looks that way, doesn’t it? Although it begins as you would expect anything starring Daniel Craig to begin – there’s brooding, there’s black and white, there’s a tuxedo – it quickly bursts into life. Suddenly he’s in a leather jacket and sunglasses, sucking in his cheeks like Bet Lynch at the Rovers. He struts. He spins. He thrusts his crotch around with total impunity. He’s like Christopher Walken in the Weapon of Choice video, if Christopher Walken had been dressed like a member of Bros. That is, unless you looked a little closer. "

    But there's more - far more fearlessly truth-seeking, respected, probing and fully contextualized real journalism / MI6-glamourizing propaganda to come:

    "Some have said that the Belvedere ad is a deliberate focus-grouped attempt to reframe Daniel Craig’s public persona. After all, he has a Knives Out sequel out imminently, and his Benoit Blanc is a much lighter character than James Bond, so this could be seen as a way to clear the decks. His Knives Out co-star Dave Bautista has been underlining this point in interviews, telling Entertainment Weekly that Craig “was really put through it on Bond. You could feel that he was under a lot of pressure. He didn’t seem like the happiest person." "Whereas he was chattiness personified on the set of Knives Out. And in the commercial itself, Waititi himself pops up at the end to tell Craig to “Just be yourself”; a clunker of a line designed to reinforce the point that Daniel Craig is fun now, guys. But I’m not sure this is quite the 180 that this view would have you believe. If you could see past the tuxedo and the glare, Daniel Craig has always had big comedy potential. This isn’t just thanks to his choice of project – although in Logan Lucky he did seem to be busting a gut to show the world that he was a wild and crazy guy – but in the decisions he made in the more serious roles he took."

    And even that is a shortened extract from the full 14.November respected-news-source in-depth article:

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/14/bond-daniel-craig-himself-in-new-vodka-advert-007-taika-waititi

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