The colored dots that collect to obscure the train station reference the Bond franchise's first-ever opening credits, again looking to the film series' past before focusing on the present film. The sequences start as a train moves left to right, out of the station and into the future.

The answer is 'all of the above,' and the credits sequence touches on them all as well.Ĭary Joji Fukunaga is a stylish, highly visual director, and this shows in the title sequence, designed by eight-time veteran Daniel Kleinman. The credits take all this and more and encapsulate it in a three and a half minute stunner of a sequence, exploring through word, music, and imagery what the film itself is about and many of the changes James Bond went through over the 15 years and five films he was embodied by Craig.īillie Eilish's Grammy-winning song lyrics were analyzed thoroughly even before the film premiered, with speculation on whether its blunt words foreshadowed betrayal, a reemergence of past lovers or villains, or perhaps a metaphorical or even literal death. The film also cheekily nods to the fervor around what the Bond casting and assignment mean and how any deviation from a specific 'type' is treated: Craig’s casting caused an uproar because he was blonde, and casting Lashana Lynch as a Black female 007, even as a sidekick, is certainly an intentional commentary. No Time To Die’s story considers this Bond’s legacy, how his past haunts him, and what he thinks about his line going forward through his lover and child as well as the next 007. Looking back is fitting because No Time To Die is arguably the most retrospective of all Bond films, examining not only Craig’s influence on the franchise but the legacy of the character both within the franchise’s world and the real world.

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