Friday, January 20, 2017

Great Moments In Movie Shelves #90

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As action tough and testosterone-riddled as Daniel Craig's proven himself to be in his James Bond movies I will always be able to think of him as more than just a well-oiled everything thanks to having fallen for him back in 2004 in the movie Enduring Love, in which he played a bookish man bedeviled by a deranged Rhys Ifans.

I mean quite literally bookish, as the movie seems to frame him amongst books and bookshelves every single chance it gets. This scene in a bookstore is pretty important - it's the first time you really get the sense that this dude ain't right.

But even in the scene before this -- which is one of Craig's many many career-long odes to "How Good Daniel Craig Looks In Tighty-Whities," the books are there!

And once you start noticing it it actually becomes...

... a little bit goofy, how often...

... the movie frames him against bookshelves. Goofy, but wonderfully so, since Daniel Craig is great but "Daniel Craig plus bookshelves" is even better. What does it all mean? Oh I suppose since his character is a college professor there's a whole, "All your book learnin' didn't see this coming" vibe - and also the Straw Dogs sensation of a learned City Boy needing to Man Up.

But really, who cares. My eyeballs are just thankful it exists. And for more of what they appreciate in this movie, hit the jump...






2 comments:

squeezit said...

Good lord; it took me a minute to realize that's his left hand in the gif where he's brushing his teeth...

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