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Perhaps. Though Fleming created Bond as a spoof originally. He's closer to the first Bond movie, and he's also better than that. Mostly it's that the movies are better--that is, they've done away with the outlandish gadgets, the supervillians, etc., and are making them grittier and more "real." There's much more emphasis on intrigue; Casino Royale would have made a good spy/mystery movie no matter if it was Bond or somebody else. Casino Royale is the ONLY Bond movie aside from From Russia with Love that I thoroughly enjoy from beginning to end. Quantum tried to follow this up but went way overboard on action.
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