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Yes, the dinner standoff with No is one of the most chilling on-screen moments in all of Bond.
Well said, @Birdleson. Very much agreed on all of that.
My pleasure - we seem to agree on most things concerning James Bond. :)
I think I will also have to agree @Birdleson, I've always regarded DN highly, but it's one of those that feels more and more definitive with every passing year.
and Connery had blood on his knuckles after beating up the phoney House driver- never saw that before.
Now, this may be sacrilegious in some quarters, but are there any weaknesses in Connery's portrayal?
Is there a bit of "uncouthness" in the way he handles other characters? Is Connery slightly ever so, a rough diamond? (In particular his rough treatment of the Police Commissioner). Or as people have mentioned, Connery suffers no fools, be it ally or foe? (Which makes sense from a literary standpoint, as Fleming's 007 was rather hard on his teammates - think Thunderball and the crew of the submarine. He was a professional, and expected everyone else to hold the same standards.)
He's pretty much perfect in DR. NO, but I would have to say that my personal favourite Connery performance was in FRWL.
Craig has been great in all of his thus far. It's really hard to pick only one performance but overall I gotta go with Connery in DN b/c that set the standard for the whole thing. He's really great.
All the other actors have had their moments however, but none quite came up to this standard yet.
I think Daniel Craig is off to a great start. Personally, I liked his performance in CR & QoS better than his SF Bond. More rugged.....more dangerous....more believable. I found SF a little neutered. Perhaps its the crying at the end that hurts.... Nevertheless he hasn't made a bad one yet (in terms of his Bond portrayal). I'm sure he'll deliver with Bond 24 and this will solidify his position as one of the greats.
Roger Moore hit the nail on the head with TSWLM. While still infused with Rog's patented humour, he delivered in his portrayal of Bond here. Many say FYEO was a better reflection of Bond, but I still prefer Spy, with FYEO a close second. Like others, I have a soft spot for OP just because he's so damn relaxed in it, but also like his first two outings, although he was obviously getting his feet wet there. Quite frankly, I found his slapping around of Maud Adam's character in TMWTGG to get information a throw-back to old school Bond (Connery/Lazenby) and loved it.
Timothy Dalton also did very well with TLD. Many have said that this was the closest to Fleming's Bond. I'm not going to go that far, but it certainly was a great debut. I was really looking forward to seeing where he took this after that film. I found LTK to be a bit of a detour. While it's a super Bond film, arguably one of the best, perhaps they should have waited for Tim to get a few more under his belt before going in that direction. He was not properly established yet.
George Lazenby did very well in OHMSS as well. Interestingly, he did not have much acting experience, and yet demonstrated 'hurt' better than some other actors have during the tender & vulnerable moments in that film. Again, I would have liked to see where he would have gone with his Bond. Shame..
Pierce Brosnan did quite well with GE, although a bit restrained. I thought he was full of potential in this one. As was said before, the pretitles & Hamburg parts of TND are superb demonstrations of Bondage by Pierce. In the early parts of DAD he also captured Bond very well.
So they've all had their moments, but only Sir Sean has found the holy grail (arguably twice). Craig is the closest to getting there again, and Dalton may have found it with time (some say he did find it with his debut).
I think Judi Dench in particular, great actress though she is, has hurt the series with her motherly M portrayal and its impact on our perception of Bond.
I'd have loved to see Brosnan work with Bernard Lee, and am looking forward to seeing what Craig does with Fiennes. The early indications in SF were very positive.
As we've already got a thread dedicated to Connery's performance in From Russia With Love, I thought we'd skip to Goldfinger
Goldfinger is the gold standard of Bond films. It is an ideal blend of both the literary and cinematic 007's, fusing them together to create a 64 carat piece of film history.
Sean Connery is in magnificent form as 007. Every line, every movement is prefect. In Goldfinger, Connery is really a pleasure to watch. He moves slightly away from the Fleming Bond, and into a more cinematic 007. But he's just as magnetic as ever.
Im sorry if my opinions hurt anyone feelings on this site but last time I checked we're on a James Bond message board where we're supposed to speak our minds. Daniel Craig and Roger Moore get alot a criticism too. But I don't go around throwing a hissy fit. I just so happen to think Brosnan was an absolute joke as both James Bond and as an actor. Sue me. And then if that wasn't bad enough he went on to show that he has the maturity of your average 10 year-old by whining and complaining endlessly after EON decided to hire a real to play the part.[/quote]
Amen.
Don't entirely agree with you, but think that critical thinking is important.
Don't think this should be a cheerleader site.
Nicely phrased.
Goldfinger brought Bond movies a wider audience, and Sean was magic in it.
I think Connery was great in Goldfinger. Everything gelled, he oozed confidence with a real menace underneath. I loved the way he one upped Goldfinger, I enjoyed his chemistry with the women, and I feel it was just a super smooth, excellent portrayal. It is the film that send Bond into the stratosphere, made Bond totally iconic. That theme song and Shirley being painted gold: to this day, those are things people think of when they think of James Bond. I cannot fault his performance in Goldfinger; it was solid. I would be surprised if anyone had some real criticism of Sean in this one.
That's all I got.
Might be the quintessential portrayal of the character.
Personally, I felt Connery started to shift his interpretation to the "cinematic" 007 instead of the "Fleming" 007. I guess this was in large part to Guy Hamilton and Paul Dehn stylistic choices concerning 007.
As to the quintessential Flemingequse 007 performance, the closest we have got is Connery's FRWL and Dalton's TLD. But as @4Ever said, every reader has our own personal take on Bond's character, which is evident in the six different actors portrayal of our dear Commander Bond.