viernes, 30 de agosto de 2019

Esse est percipi (Chill out, dude!)


In case you didn't know by now, a "spoiler" is the revelation of an important event taking place on a fictional story. Elektra King betrays James Bond and she's the villain is a spoiler for anyone not having watched The World Is Not Enough, for example. M dies at the end of Skyfall is another one. Sorry, I'm assuming you have watched those films or otherwise you wouldn't be wasting your time over here.
Although I did read spoilers for Die Another Day and Casino Royale, I went spoiler-free for the following Bond films and I'll do the same for No Time To Die next year because I want to be surprised, but I just can't avoid laughing about the hypersensitivity concerning the issues of spoilers to the point that many Bond sites warn us that "the following article/video may contain spoilers" and it's just a video of the Aston Martin DB5 evading other vehicles in Matera or Bond talking to Felix Leiter in Jamaica. It makes me think that people have indeed complained about the "spoilers" within stuff like that.

Now, let me get this straight. Would you be happy if there were no photos, videos, synopsis, posters or trailers regarding a movie? I would personally be worried because that would mean that nothing is going on. I recall back in March this year when there was no news on No Time To Die (formerly using the working title Bond 25) and everyone was hysterical that the film would get a third release date delay (it was originally planned for November 2019, then delayed to February 2020 and then to April 2020).

Esse est percipi. To be is to be perceived. All of the candid pics you see from the DB5 in Matera or the yet unknown masked man in Norway or Bond sailing in Jamaica is yet another heartbeat of the movie. And it does no harm at all to see it. Just tell me, exactly what did you get spoiled about? Bond drives a DB5, does that surprise you? Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright are together, so what? You know he's returning as Felix Leiter. Did you see a character dying? Do you know at which point of the movie will the scene take place? Absolutely not! Yes, you might have a rough idea but in the end, you know nothing!

Remember the teaser trailers for the Pierce Brosnan films. Was there any spoiler there? An explosion in a base, a satellite, Bond saying "Bond... James Bond", Bond kissing Teri Hatcher, Bond running, jumping, fighting... what's so surprising about that. In my case, it just gets me hungry for the movie. It's the effect of starving and getting three delicious chocolate cookies - they are tasty and delicious, but you'd still be hungry.

Dear spoiler-free crowd, keep in mind that nothing can be worse than the tracklisting of some Bond soundtracks with pieces titled "Death of Kerim", "Death of Goldfinger", "Death of Fiona" and more recently "Death of Vesper", or the critics in 1969 stating that Mrs. Bond gets killed at the end when reviewing On Her Majesty's Secret Service that would be eaten alive now.

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