Chiasmus cult cinema trailers - "Die another Day" (2002). *These will be ongoing posts, courtesy of the A.Glass DVD collection. As I offer via Chiasmus Cult trailers, my summarized overviews*

 

"Die another Day" (2002) was Pierce Brosnan's last Bond film, after he took the role from Timothy Dalton's short lived run of everyone's favorite ruthless, sex crazed, Martini drinking, devanoir British spy.  Not able to hit number five mark, when Daniel Craig began his run in 2006, with the remake of "Casino Royale" (2006), and took away James Bond's polished, 1970s and 1980s hedonism, and replaced it with a roughly cut neurotic.  Brosnan was very much the James Bond filler, who played the role, and I mean this with the utmost respect, as a kind of imitator, combining both the late Sean Connery and Roger Moore into his Four film tenure. 

And Die Another Day, directed by New Zealand film director Lee Tamahori, noted for his gritty New Zealand production "Once Were Warriors" (1994), and written by screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who had already had a Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie under their belt, "The World Is Not Enough" (1999), and later went on to pen Daniel Craig's run well into the 2000s.  Is also a mishmash and/or homage of prior Bond films, with an up-the-ante of sex (watch for the constant flow of innuendoes from Brosnan and his female co-stars) and over the top action/violence, to conclude Brosnan's run, with, as mentioned, Craig's Bond, tuning down the sex, and upping up the violence, and offering his brand of neurotic 2000s confusion, to our lovable "007" psychopath of yesteryear.

Die Another Day does not require much intellect to enjoy this, it has the early 2000 car chase action movie scenes, strange science fiction 1970s esque aspects, such as the Cuban based gene therapy clinic that can turn a North Korean megalomaniac into a wealthy misaligned and off-his-head English Billionaire, who wants to start (invertibley?) World War Three, with North Korean troops flooding into South Korea, with a oddly shaped diamond encrusted satellite to focus the Sun's rays, and blow up the masses of landmines. 

Side note:  There was over $70 million in product placements for a "James Bond" production, which was a record for its time.

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