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Personally, from what I remember it was still better than his performance in TWINE, so…
Good news! Looking forward to the movies.
Don't know how genuine this is, but if true, what an arrogant tw*t.
It’s his hairline that jumps out at me. Nothing natural about it.
I remember first playing Nightfire, being really excited and impressed to see Brosnan realized in, what was at the time, state of the art PS2 graphics. It felt like we were getting a bonus film. I remember online clips sharing footage of Brosnan having his face digitally scanned at the game studios. They did a really good job with that.
But then I finally play the game and when Bond opens his mouth and it sounds nothing like Brosnan. That got remedied with EON, but still.
I have 2nd hand embarrassment at seeing someone try so hard, and yet doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell.
And that article was DEFINITELY paid for by his team. Look at how the article talks him up, then go and look at his IMDB page.
Well, it's April, I guess news are a bit slow.
It’s pretty funny knowing that it’s actually the guy from “Grease 2” voicing Bond in Nightfire.
I share @MakeshiftPython's disappointment over the voice not fitting Brosnan. I also have fond memories of the game, even though as a PC gamer I got screwed. Entire parts of the game were left out, and the whole bloody thing made zero sense. Still, fun game.
I’m disappointed too, but I also kind of like the voice they do have though. It would have gone nicely with a generic Bond model like the one from AUF.
Reminds me a little of this guy: http://www.007magazine.co.uk/search/search_for_bond3g.htm
I suppose if the acting work dries up he can have a go at romance novels.
;))
I guess it hammers home the idea that Bond is an outlier to some extent. Even Fleming’s Bond looks odd and out of place in a London gentleman’s club. There’s also something quite unique about the idea that a boarding school educated character who spent his youth in continental Europe is almost exclusively played by regional actors, mostly from working class or lower middle class backgrounds.
Like Cavill in the man from uncle?
It's a tricky thing Bond's accent, too far one way and he sounds like a bad Jason Statham impression trying to be intimidating, too far the other way, like a Hiddleston, then it's unbelievable this guy could be tough and capable.
As for accent slips, Daniel had two I can remember off the top of my head. The American way he says "package" in NTTD and the almost scouse way he says "police force" in QOS.
Like George Sanders from The Golden Era of Hollywood? An accent like his?
I’d say Bond’s poshness was never his fundamental trait though, even in the Fleming books. He was never meant to be some sort of gentlemanly aristocrat with a double barrel surname, notable ancestry or even overly high ideals (if anything that’s the kind of character Fleming was to some extent subverting). He’s a man with some rather ordinary habits despite his extraordinary job, he never quite fits in with the back slapping ‘old boys’ of the Service or at Blades, and even when we do get details of his background we learn that he was expelled from Eton and he’s not even English. He even calls himself a Scottish peasant. To some extent he’s an outlier and would never fit in with that world. Nor would he ever want to.
The films kinda run with that irony I think, whether knowingly or not. I think there’s a reason why we get the likes of Connery or Craig playing this part.
That's a good point to be fair, but is it not important to adapt with the times to a certain extent too?
All the actors had affected elements of their voice to some extent, but there’s a rebelliousness and transgressive humour to the character that means some element of irony is needed. So if a future Bond has slips of the accent, some informal elements of their speech, or even more than a twang of a regional accent, this is fine and in keeping with the cinematic Bond.
Yeah, you have to adapt - Connery's Bond used to throw his hat across the room onto the hook as part of his trademark, but then hats went out of fashion and the films either had to stick with the hat and risk him looking jarringly old-fashioned, or abandoning it. They abandoned it because well-dressed men had stopped wearing hats with suits.
That's not the same as saying Bond must have a working-class accent to be seen as credible, though. I don't want him to sound like a ridiculous caricature (and though I loved Fassbender and his character in Inglorious Basterds, that's perhaps a little too old fashioned for me) but Hiddleston's accent seems fine, imo.
George Sanders played the Saint which was Bond lite, I guess. Roger Moore said the big difference between the Saint and James Bond was Simon Templar never killed people. Bond is a gentlemanly killer for the state. Arguably the basic appeal of Bond is his paradoxical nature. Part gentleman, part killer. I don't know if Cary Grant ever played any assassin/killer roles in his career. George Sanders did play a villain in an episode of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
I reckon Cubby Broccoli wasn't too concerned about Bond having a public school vibe. Sean Connery appeared to lessen his Scottish accent when cast. I don't know if Connery had a broader Scottish accent prior to acting. Connery's Bond didn't appear to belong to any social class (neutral class?) and that gave Bond universal appeal. The cinematic Bond seems an outlier. Bond is well educated so upper class perhaps but also a paid killer. We tend to associate paid killers with lower social class (hoodlums, contract killers, mobsters etc) so Bond is an outlier. The brutal realty of Bond's job doesn't make him a public schoolboy type even if he could be argued to be that in his formative years.