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Personally I don't mind it and certainly don't find it as jarring as some. It's certainly not Fincher's best but I prefer it to the Swedish version and it's far from boring.
Craig's best film to date since being cast as Bond, he really captured Blomvist something his Swedish counterpart didn't, far too knowing and cocky, Daniel really got that feel of a man who had had his confidence knocked perfectly.
Plus acting alongside Mara's Lisbeth, despite Rapace playing a better Salander she didn't have the chemistry they both had in the Fincher film, pity we won't get the sequels as the first films follow ups were considerably underwhelming but Fincher's take on TGWTDT stands up fine on it's own.
the accents aren't the primary problem - just something I found weird. I hate it when they don't work out how to manage accents. you need to establish right from the start how it's going to work. Having an Englishman playing a Swede ,but speaking with an English accent, amongst Swedes speaking English with Swedish accents just doesn't work for me, when they're all supposed to be the same nationality. Any way, I just found it not very good.
@doubleoego, I think nobody, not even Connery, beats Arnold in that department. Guys with names like Jack Slater, Harry Tasker, Marshal John Kruger, Sheriff Ray Owens and Julius Benedict usually don't have thick Austrian accents. ;-)
John Matrix, Ben Richards, Doug Quaid, John Kimble... ;-)
Also, didn't Brosnan say, once he was free, that his contract with EON prevented him to ever appear in another movie wearing a tuxedo and a bow tie, and that's why in Thomas Crown you see him with a tie, or with a open tuxedo jacket, but never with a bow tie, etc..
So there may be terms in the contracts we know nothing of about Craig.
I dont think DC is the type to agree to a term like that in his contract.He is a pretty strong-willed fella .
I love how in interviews he says things like "that scene was a complete accident". Yeah right :p
It was also an accident when he actually passed out from being asphyxiated in TGWTDT! :D
I think The Offence must rank as one Connery's best performances, he's playing character very removed from Bond or anyone he'd played at that point.
I think we'll see a different and more varied selection from Craig once he's done with Bond as I said before Brosnan has certainly come into himself more since leaving the role. Craig has proved long before being Bond he's an incredibly gifted actor and I hope when the constraints of playing 007 are gone we'll see some really great work from him.
I don't think he would agree to a contract that limits him but studios are likely to be wary who he is and probably not want to cast him in certain roles that he would more likely be open to were he not Bond.
We're talking about life-changing money here. No more problems for the rest of his life and for his family.
A little note in the contract like the one Brosnan said he had (if I remember well), is not such a big deal, Craig wasn't playing roles close to the "tuxedo Bond" before that. He could play Bond again for Sony, for Heineken, etc.. and for the Olympics, but I don't think we'll see him "in Bond" (dressed like Skyfall's poster) for another reason. I'm not even sure they would allow him to use "Bond" for charity.
I would not be surprised to learn that he didn't have the right to wear a tuxedo and a bow tie for the Cherokee event for instance, so he had to be in a less Bondian suit.
On the other hand, maybe Brosnan had a special contract because well, he was Remington Steele before that, and I think "Remington Steele : the movie" was something written with a big NO in the contract for Bond (even though Brosnan would not have gone for it anyway).
Wait, WHAT?! :-O Details, please!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ireneacton386/status/494714570817417216/photo/1
When discussing her work designing clothes for Bond films, Lindy Hemming said:
"... with Daniel Craig’s trunks from Casino Royale (2006) being a nod to Sean Connery’s pale blue poplin pair worn in Thunderball (1965)."
But elsewhere on the site it also states in the text describing the Designing007 exhibit, it mentions that we did not see these blue poplin ones in the film:
At Beach Wear a glass cabinet displays Sunspel’s recreation of Connery’s cotton poplin shorts from Thunderball (which in actual fact were not used in the film at all, but featured in promotional material around that time, or most likely earlier. Connery’s Thunderball shorts were by Jantzen, the ‘diving girl’ logo), Honey Ryder’s (Ursula Andress) original white Dr. No bikini, plus the orange emulation, complete with ‘J’ detail buckle worn by Halle Berry as Jinx in Die Another Day. Daniel Craig’s GrigioPerla Casino Royale shorts are here too, themselves an emulation of Connery’s.
I didn't know the Casino Royale blue swim trunks was a nod to the ones Sean wore (apparently only promotional stills) re Thunderball.
And for current thought on Craig's looks, I think he looks great and I hope he looks similar in Bond 24.