10 Best Scenes From The Daniel Craig Bond Movies
10. Meet Q (Skyfall)
In a legacy full of explosive gunfights and seductresses, its fitting that one of Bonds greatest character moments should come sitting in an art museum. Hes to meet the new quartermaster and instead finds himself talking to a young man about The Fighting Temeraire, a painting chronicling the inevitability of time as a famous warship is hauled away for good. The symbolism is pretty clear, and it echoes with the theme of the whole movie that Bond is losing his place in the modern world of spying.
Of course, this is all lost on Bond, who only sees a bloody big ship, and is prepared to leave before the young man reveals himself as the new Q. The modern incarnation of this famous character is handled brilliantly and his youth offers a new spin on their playfully antagonistic relationship. Thats to say nothing of the modernization of Bonds gadgets which consist solely of a gun and a radio.
The scene is so simple but effective in showing how everything is changing around Bond. It both re-invents classic elements of the series as well as establishes what his character is fighting for, all without a touch of action.