Dear followers and enthusiasts of GOLDENEYE,
Yesterday we bid farewell to a very painful year for those who truly love James Bond. How could this happen, if 2022 was riddled with celebrations of the franchise's 60th anniversary, you may ask. The answer is more than obvious: we were attending a funeral. A funeral masqueraded as a party, with a lot of noise that included Paloma Faith's horrendous cover of GOLDENEYE's main title theme despite the best efforts of Shirley Bassey and Garbage trying to bring justice to their songs in a Royal Albert Hall concert. Unlike 2002 and 2012, where the great legacy of Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman was celebrated in different ways: a book like John Cork's JAMES BOND: THE LEGACY in 2002 and the EVERYTHING OR NOTHING documentary in 2012, 2022 saw a documentary dedicated to the theme songs and scores of the franchise. Naturally, we had to tolerate Daniel Craig's face popping up every five minutes, but that would be passable if we didn't have to see how the end talked about "a requiem" for the character. Some of the interviewees had the audacity of saying that when you see "James Bond" committing suicide at the end of a film that shall never be named, you think of all the previous actors and the great history of the character. I keep wondering who had a strong stomach not to vomit when those words were uttered.
We were invited to a funeral. But there was a cake, baloons, and uplifting music to make us forget about the unforgivable and irreparable damage done to a franchise we grew up loving. To a hero we took as a role model, to the getaway we had in our darkest times. Yet everyone seems to look to the other side. Many are upset, but they prefer not to show they are upset. They are already talking about the "next Bond" or the "next Bond film" as a kid who believes in unicorns and Santa Claus. They know it won't be happening. They know "James Bond Will Return" was a very sick joke instead of a promise this time. But they prefer to look at the other side and just play along. I don't know the reason, but they probably do.
This is why, although this has been already addressed at the end of 2021, in the first day of 2023 The GoldenEye Dossier reaffirms its compromise not to promote anything that comes from EON (Bond related or not) unless it's strictly related to GOLDENEYE and to ignore the activities of the actor who constantly takes pride in exterminating our hero. There are already plenty of sites that will do that and if you don't like this, you are more than free to leave and unfollow us. There is zero tolerance for those who collaborated in the murder of James Bond in this space, and we don't want to be part of a community that constantly celebrates it. No premiere, event, clothing, piece of merchandising, autograph, promotion or gift will ever make us change our mind. Our dignity has no price, and the extermination of 007 is our limit.
The site will celebrate the life of James Bond in the purest form that has been introduced for our generation, which is Pierce Brosnan's incarnation of the character. We will be there to celebrate every time enemy blood drips down from the gunbarrel, every time Bond kisses Natalya, when he mercilessly lets Alec fall to his doom and when he straightens his tie after destroying half of St Petersburg with a tank to chase the enemy. And we are more than open to welcome enthusiasts of the 1990s films and fans of the N64 video game to our corner on the web and to have a great time with all of you.
From this space, I wish you all a happy new year.
May 2023 give you all you have ever wanted, and never forget...
James Bond Never Dies.
Nicolás Suszczyk,
Editor and founder,
The GoldenEye Dossier
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