Anyone who has seen the latest James Bond film, "Skyfall," would be
hard-pressed to find any traditional espionage tradecraft. More actual
spying would have meant less of Daniel Craig running around in a too-tight
suit chasing bad guys. When the villain -- in this case a cyberterrorist
played masterfully by Javier Bardem -- is able to turn around and say to
Bond, "Why are you doing all this running around and wasting your
energy?", anyone who knows anything about real spying is tempted to yell
at the screen, "Because the script is garbage and there is no espionage
written into this movie!" Bond's ineptitude when faced with technology is
a brilliant, if unintentional, commentary on society's lack of readiness
for spying's shift into that realm.
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