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Or just make him bisexual.
That guy just can't stop it, can he?
anyway, back to your more serious point, I understand the way you look at it, and it is a valid point. Why kill off a character that's been around for so long. For me it works as to me the Bond-films are more like sagas. 'let me tell you about..' stories that are about a character that may or may not have existed, and may or may not comprise different (real) people, like Bond himself was a composition made by Fleming based on himself, people he knew and missions thay'd done for real. Biggles is another example of such a character. Fleming himself construed a rather impossible comeback for Bond after YOLT (the book). And yes, it fits the story. It also fits the character of Bond, protecting the ones he loves (and his country, and the world) by paying the ultimate price, something Bond muses about several times in the books. Knowing that 00s 'have a very short life expectancy'.
Cold open, no gun barrel. Bond (Craig) driving the DB5, with Madeline in the passenger seat, along a scenic road. They exit a tunnel, the road ahead blocked, as Bond hits the breaks and swerves, machine gun fire rakes the side of the DB5. the car swerves off the road, down a steep embankment, hits a boulder, and rolls, side over, down the hill, coming to a crunching stop against a tree. Several pairs of feet scurry down the hill to the steaming, battered wreck of the DB5. A man wrenches the drivers door open. A woman's voice (Isabelle Huppert, later to be revealed as Irma Bunt) says: "Leave the woman, it's the man I want.'. As Bond is pulled from the wreck, his head lolls into view, his face covered by a bright golden glow. When the glow subsides, it's now Aidan Turner. Cue gun barrel, and then the title sequence.
Hey, it's never been done in Bond before....
I'm down ;)
Yes, I like it, I like it. Bond dies/regenerates (take your pick) at the beginning and end.
What on earth is that based on?
None of the others bothered to become producers of the thing (apart from Connery when he started his own rival one), so obviously they all hated it too and just wanted to say the lines and get out of there... I guess...? Dalton didn't even like it enough to sign on to do more than one film in the 90s despite having nothing else going on, if it's hearsay we're going by.
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It's my take on him based on comments he's made over the years and some of the creative decisions he's made during his tenure.
Such as what? When has he ever said anything but he loves doing the films and puts everything into them because he wants them to be as good as they possibly can be? And don't say anything with the words 'wrists' or 'slash' involved, we've just been over that one single comment in this thread and his reasons are well-documented.
I remind you again: the reported reason that Dalton didn't return is that said he didn't want to do more than one more. Is that someone enjoying it?
Craig was Bond for 15 years.
I don't think he would've delivered five films over 15 years if he truly hated the role.
Pierce was desperate to be Bond (to the extent that he tried to get a rival unofficial Bond film off the ground in the early 90s) because he knew what it would bring him, and it did: it took him to another level of stardom which he enjoyed for a few years, plus his own production company etc. Tim has the reputation of being a proper important stage actor, but his CV rather tells another story: that of a guy who'll do pretty much any old tot for cash (Charlie's Angels!) and yet he was happy to have the story put out there that he didn't want to do more Bond films; and Connery pretty much hated playing Bond a couple of years in.
Craig is probably the one who's shown the most amount of passion about getting the films as good as possible: he's been a producer, got one of the most impressive directors onboard, transformed his body for it, broken many bones, and even written some of one of the films himself. I can't see someone who has only used it for his own benefit and not enjoyed or been attached to it.
Tim was the actor who best understood Fleming, and arguably was most in tune with the essence of the character as envisioned by Fleming.
I think Pierce had the same attitude as Roger, and had his run been longer, we might have had more rosier reminiscences from him, as we did from Rog.
Daniel Craig, I think, just wanted to make the best movies he could. I can't see how anyone could deny that. He wanted to make the movies relevant, and edgy, and he certainly did that.
I think we've been lucky with all the Bond actors post Connery.
^This, above EVERYTHING else.^ Fans need to stop expecting professionals to think like fans. Yeah, I know -- it's not going to happen. But that's why some of us get exasperated by others among us.
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Craig was only Bond for 15 years because of production delays and Covid delays.Both Connery and Moore did more films than him in less time.
But for someone to basically say that he was only ever thinking of himself is ridiculous.
The production delays didn't have anything to do with him though. And arguably, that's another reason why he could have jumped ship, like Dalton allegedly did. And yet, he didn't.
Have Eon ever recorded any of their stage productions? Or done any of those live broadcasts? I don't remember seeing them do it.
If anything, it's the best chance for you to at least send in an item or picture for him to autograph. I might try it again this time around. I did it when he was performing Betrayal and he signed my blu-ray copy of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
I don't think you're misunderstanding the history, no. But I didn't mention him jumping ship from a film, just the part. He still held the part even though there was no real movie in production at the time.
Haha! Perhaps that is a better turn of phrase for it, alright!
LOL, if you didn't see a Connery Bond first run you are classified as a kid by the originals.