It feels weird to post this now considering the momentous event of last night, but hey, he said it.
Despite having his right arm tied around his back by the notoriously controlling Bond producers (“It’s like I worked under this political regime with extreme censorship,” director Marc Forster admitted) the “Quantum Of Solace” director did his best to, “subversively inject my ideas to make the movie my own.”
And it sounds like the socially conscious Swedish filmmaker (normally known for making more thoughtful films like “Monster’s Ball”) did his best to throw in political messages (many of them Anti-American) as often as possible (Obama hadn’t won yet).
In an interview with New York magazine, Forster admitted that the black and white nature of the James Bond character reminded him of Dick Cheney and the director sounded like politically at least, he was no fan of Bond, his backers and their ideologies.
Forster said secret agencies like the one 007 work for endorse “sites like Guantánamo, where torture is practiced, where there are no rules if the government considers you a threat.”
Some of the film was set in Haiti, “because the CIA created the changeover there, when companies wanted to jack up the minimum wage, and big American corporations didn’t like that” (something which is apparently referenced in the film). The film has a ton of locations apparently and the action moves to South America at one point because the filmmaker saw “a documentary about water shortage in Bolivia.”
The most unlikely director to ever helm a Bond film also said he was never a fan of the series or the character and admitted he was surprised the franchise lasted this long. “Bond isn’t a clear good guy—the villain and Bond overlap,especially as a colonialist or imperialistic character. That’s why you have to put a dent in him, because those powers can’t survive. It’s the end of the American world power in the next few decades.”
