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You should see the tattoo he has on his ball bag.
@Mendes4Lyfe, to borrow a trademark from @BondJasonBond006, DALTON RULEZ™ .
I can see why you love Dr. No too (as do I), because that film is essentially a masterclass of acting and character building through only mannerism and darts of the eyes, where Sean gives an all-time great performance as he tears through Jamaica. For Sean's performance alone Dr. No beats out a vast majority of Bond films, with a tenth the budget of the newer editions.
Absolutley. Did you notice the scene with Bond lay in bed, with Miss Taro at the desk. You see Sean's face reflected in the mirror. I always thought that was a stroke of genius, because it subtly showcases the duplicity of the situation perfectly. There are a million little touches like that throughout the film, which make it the utter apex of the series for me. A true masterclass of miniaturisation. The personification of "less is more".
I must say that I never knew that Dan had tattoos. It was more the villains that had the tattoos back in the Fleming originals.
http://celebritiestattooed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Daniel-Craig-Tattoos.jpg
You live and learn, don't you?!
@Mendes4Lyfe, yes, Dr. No is full of moments like that. My favorite from that scene is when Bond tugs on Taro's shirt forcefully when she tries to get him out of the house and back into harm's way, which Bond isn't having any of. She wants him out to get shot, and he wants to stay to bide time until the Jamaican police arrive. It's brilliant, and you see both him and Taro working at cross purposes constantly.
I wrote pages alone on Sean's performance in Dr. No when I was analyzing the acting of the film in the MI6C Bondathon me and a few people are doing here. It's amazing how much content Sean packs into that performance, even if he's acting out something as simple as Bond putting traps in his hotel room to catch snoops looking into him.
You're right, his movements are very efficient and purposeful, yet relaxed.
My favorite line of Sean's is when he says "I'm scared too". That little bit of dialogue demonstrates how he isn't a natural killer, just a very professional one. He's prepared to let the facade slip for a moment so he can comfort this petrified young woman he just met.
You can even spot the disdain in his face following his killing of Dent after he rips off the silencer from the PPK, a move he knew he had to take, but didn't enjoy it.
Just love this scene.
If anything Connery has made it next to impossible because actors tend to live a little in his shadow and try to play Bond by capturing a little of what Connery had. Only Moore did his own thing. Craig as well to a degree.
That's very true actually. Never thought about it like that. Pity we never got to see a Lazenby DAF and that we instead ended up with the film that we eventually did.
And a common motif of the film that continues to haunt Bond could be the bloody ring that was on Tracy's finger when she got shot, which he keeps for a reason he doesn't fully know. It's him remembering Tracy, even in tragedy, because if he doesn't, he'll forget, and what's the use of that?
But thanks for your reply .ggl007.
In episode 5x17 Enemy of the World, you can see the explosion:
And in episode 8x21, The Daemons, you have it again... in color! :)
(Now, copyright that, you BBC!)
;) :D
I don't know what's going on, but he has just popped in another film I am watching right now: The Equalizer. He's the first guy to be killed by Denzel Washington in the warehouse climax.
Also, I noticed that in the final ever episode of Fraser, the titular character recites M's Tennyson poem on his last radio show.
I had to recite it in high school. I didn't do as well as Judi.