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Same here. For many years now.
If I'm straightening a tie or suit out, it's the Craig way of shuffling your shoulders. If I have to throw something, I hawk it to the side as he does in such a trademark fashion. Somewhere along the way I even picked up Sean's nostril flaring from GF that comes out at certain moments. Crazy, really.
Haven t you noticed those couple of guys who always have to mention how Moore sucks in every thread?
I'll make it clear now I was there at the beginning when it was announced that Craig was the new Bond I couldn't have been more happy, I knew his work from before even Layer Cake especially Our Friends In The North (still his greatest performance and the best performance of any Bond ever outside the series).
I knew we'd get some real dramatic heft to Bond and he didn't disappoint, up until SPECTRE he was knocking it out the park for me.
I know some didn't like what they did with him in Skyfall but I think he was great in both half's of the film. It work for me, that moment when he glides towards to the casino in Macau is such a classic moment, as Bond comes back from the dead clean shaven confident and ready to get to business.
Maybe the injury Craig sustained during SPECTRE might have been why me and others just weren't as convinced by him as before. That and the material wasn't inspiring him, it was clear he was delighted with Skyfall he said it enough, I don't remember him getting so worked up over SPECTRE in fact that famous taken out of context controversial comment might have had more to it than just him being sick of being asked that question.
I just think with Bond 25 they need to give him back the threat and drama, I'm not saying he needs to be wounded and moping about but there was something that SPECTRE seriously lacked that was evident in all of his previous 3 performances.
Craig thrives on danger and drama as Bond and flippant and nonchalance is not his area. Moore did this to a tee and Connery in FRWL just about got the balance perfect between suave deadly panther and dead pan charismatic 007.
I still think this is the best Bond performance but Craig can do the pithy sharp one-liners but he can't carry off the cheesy ones, thing like when Greene says my friends call me Dominic and his response back or the way he just dead pan opens the boot of the Aston and looks at White and says "Time to get out"
Bond 25 needs more of that, yes make him confident but please not smug.
I haven't at all, no. Nor have I seen Roger burned at the stake by members as Pierce seems to invite.
Everything that has an influence on his role as Bond ,good or bad.
Discuss....
They're straightforward action and adventure in a classy style, with smart humor. His films also focus on Bond in a good way, and use the reboot to celebrate and build over time elements of the established film formula. They don't create the kind of reservations I have for the silly moments that occurred 1971 to 2002, however much I like those films.
I could take another four of the same. So what I hate is they didn't get out more missions with him already.
Regarding his tenure as Bond: I'm overall a fan. I think he has brought depth to the character and he has a certain quiet underlying machismo which allows the producers and directors to broach emotional subjects more readily than they can with a more effete actor (Brosnan imho), where such approaches can seem overbearing and somewhat un-Bond-ly.
Having said that, while I do like a lot of what he brings to Bondom, I do find Craig a bit robotic. Also, a bit distant. I'm not sure why, but apart from CR, there has been a level of inaccessibility to his Bond interpretation for me, which is perhaps ironic given his tenure has involved the most 'peeling back'. Perhaps that is exactly what he wanted to convey, in which case it's masterclass acting.
-- whether it's SP (if DC comes back, I imagine this to be the case), or another entity, whatever, or whomever it is, I'd like it to be such a force, that Bond's knocked sideways. His arrogance that he's almost infallible comes crashing back to earth.
All of a sudden our hero's on shaky ground and has to find away to "resurrect" to overcome the obstacles laid out before him.
Let Craig Bond be Craig Bond...
He's now older, and, he thinks, wiser. Nothing can, or will, surprise him.
Then, and I'm speaking more in images than concrete terms, the "force" (SP or another entity), comes and wallops him so hard, knocking him off balance; this now aged warrior has come to the point of doubting everything he thought he knew--
-- in SF Bond was angry and betrayed, but I'm not sure he ever doubted himself. Self-doubt can make a powerful enemy... and make for interesting choices. Every move Bond makes is predictable to the enemy, and every move he makes further weakens him, until--
-- he has to re-invent himself to "slay the dragon".
It's the type of story that I'm driven to: the hero faces insurmountable obstacles and has to look deep within his soul to not just survive, but to defeat an evil that will harm many if its not stopped.
He's not exactly Moore, closer to Dalton and Connery as far as interviews, but Craig also doesn't do anything to offend either, the "slash my wrists" comments aside.
The equivalent in Bond's case would be Blofeld killing Tracy. So for this to work, perhaps they will have to do a Shatterhand type film. However, perhaps they don't 'remake OHMSS' but rather jump to a post-Madeline death scenario to open the next one (or do a flashback in the PTS, or Bond having nightmares), like YOLT which starts some time after Tracy's death. So start it some years after SP's ending.
Makes sense tbh.
-- if she is back, she was a victim, along with many others, in some giant atrocity (several planes around the globe were shot down? An attack on the international school she now teaches at (where adults and children perished?))... none of these are very good ideas, I'm just hoping that if Maddy does come back, and they need to dispose of her, it's done so it doesn't dredge up Vesper too much...
It may seem a bit 'heavy' given where we've gone of late, but that's the way I'd play it if they decide to go here.
Perhaps we should write a ten page pitch and get into Babs, lol
I definitely wouldn't want to see this, as we've been there and done that. I want Bond's world to be rocked, but when Blofeld expects him to crumble, his rage and bloodlust is so high he wills himself to bust like a bulldozer through a styrofoam wall. Instead of Bond giving into his sorrow, he uses it as his motivation to push himself beyond what many think he has. The unstoppable and intense killer is what Craig opened with, and I think it'd be great to see him finish that way, strangling Blofeld to death with his bare hands following a raid on his HQ with his fellow 00s.
-- in SF Bond was angry and betrayed, but I'm not sure he ever doubted himself. Self-doubt can make a powerful enemy... and make for interesting choices. Every move Bond makes is predictable to the enemy, and every move he makes further weakens him, until--
-- he has to re-invent himself to "slay the dragon".
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It's the type of story that I'm driven to: the hero faces insurmountable obstacles and has to look deep within his soul to not just survive, but to defeat an evil that will harm many if its not stopped.
And, i agree with you @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 , he should be driven by lustful vengeance, and a story like this should end with him destroying Blofeld in the most satisfying way; but it's the journey to get there that I'm talking about...
This Bond thinks he's destroyed Spectre, right? What else could there be...? What hasn't he seen, and defeated?
This would be exploring the arrogance of his character again, but from the other side of the spectrum; this is not the arrogant novice, but now the arrogant veteran who's seen it all, and it all ended on a bridge one night a few years ago.
But Spectre (or another entity), knocks him so off kilter, everything he thought he knew of himself comes crashing down with an act that's so horrible (and, if Madeline has to come back, it will also involve her, as well as others), that Bond has to dig into his soul and go to the darkest point of it in order to win and get his vengeance...
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I just don't think we need another down and out Bond story, as QoS was. Instead of being held back, he'd feel released and driven to do what his id is telling him to do.