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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    I have been backing Beckinsale for as long as I can remember. She would be a fantastic tough Bond girl that could pick up a gun and shoot baddies, or lay Bond on his arse. If not her, I really really really really really really really really really really want Kate Winslet to have a chance. She is 36, and is perfect for the role with her amazing talent and beauty.
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    If this doesn't happen it will be one of the greatest missed opportunities in the franchise.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    Samuel001 wrote:
    Great looking but that's never enough

    It isn't? Plenty of Bond girls have been picked just because they look hot.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited September 2012 Posts: 28,694
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Great looking but that's never enough

    It isn't? Plenty of Bond girls have been picked just because they look hot.
    It isn't good enough. Hmm, now I wonder why AVTAK, TWINE, AND DAD all had crap bond girls, just to name a few. WHAT A COINCIDENCE. I agree with @Samuel. The girl needs acting skills first and foremost, and the looks should be secondary. Anything else shows a lack of care by EON to try and get a stellar and memorable Bond girl performance.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Great looking but that's never enough

    It isn't? Plenty of Bond girls have been picked just because they look hot.
    It isn't good enough. Hmm, now I wonder why AVTAK, TWINE, AND DAD all had crap bond girls, just to name a few. WHAT A COINCIDENCE. I agree with @Samuel. The girl needs acting skills first and foremost, and the looks should be secondary. Anything else shows a lack of care by EON to try and get a stellar and memorable Bond girl performance.

    Acting ability first and foremost? Nah. Bond girls are sex symbols, looks matter more imo. I mean, if the worlds best actress was ugly and obese, would you want her in a Bond film?

    Bond girls acting ability doesn't matter to me unless it's an important part like Tracy, Elektra, Vesper, etc. More often than not Bond is just going to shag her then move on anyway, so they don't always need an Oscar worthy actress. Obviously they shouldn't hire her if she's completely terrible, but if she can say the lines decently and looks hot then that's fine by me.

    If a Bond girl is a good actress, that's brilliant, but I think looks matter more.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    Lets be real, looks do matter more when casting Bond girls and like @thelivingroyale said it depends on the role too. That being said, another missed opportunity was Salma Hayek imo. That being being said, I want to champion Bárbara Mori as a potential Bond girl, although she's about 34 at the moment.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    thelivingroyale wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Great looking but that's never enough

    It isn't? Plenty of Bond girls have been picked just because they look hot.
    It isn't good enough. Hmm, now I wonder why AVTAK, TWINE, AND DAD all had crap bond girls, just to name a few. WHAT A COINCIDENCE. I agree with @Samuel. The girl needs acting skills first and foremost, and the looks should be secondary. Anything else shows a lack of care by EON to try and get a stellar and memorable Bond girl performance.

    Acting ability first and foremost? Nah. Bond girls are sex symbols, looks matter more imo. I mean, if the worlds best actress was ugly and obese, would you want her in a Bond film?

    Bond girls acting ability doesn't matter to me unless it's an important part like Tracy, Elektra, Vesper, etc. More often than not Bond is just going to shag her then move on anyway, so they don't always need an Oscar worthy actress. Obviously they shouldn't hire her if she's completely terrible, but if she can say the lines decently and looks hot then that's fine by me.

    If a Bond girl is a good actress, that's brilliant, but I think looks matter more.
    I guess we just have different views. I enjoy films from a time where women had to have talent to survive in the industry, and didn't get a free pass because of their bust size.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    These are Bond girls though. Would you rather have an obese ugly Bond girl who's the worlds best actress or a hot one who isn't a vey good actress?

    If it's a part like Vesper, Tracy, Elektra, etc, then yes the girls need to act too. But overall, for Bond girls, looks come first.
  • VolanteVolante
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    Beckinsale is a reasonable actress, and she's obviously beautiful. Could play a femme fatale part.

    Feel like starting a campaign. Beckinsale for Bond.
  • 001001
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    If Beckinsale is just a reasonable actress that should not be good enough to be in a bond film.
  • VolanteVolante
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    001 wrote:
    If Beckinsale is just a reasonable actress that should not be good enough to be in a bond film.

    Reasonable actress, incredibly beautiful. I think that's good enough, I mean, think of all the Bond girls who haven't been good actresses and haven't been as good looking as her.
  • 001001
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    There are heaps of incredibly beautiful actresses out there which eon casting have found which were unknowns compared to Beckinsale.
  • FromCanadaWithLoveFromCanadaWithLove Canada
    edited September 2012 Posts: 612
    Yvonne Strahovski is definitely Bond girl material. yvonne-strahovski.jpg

    And If I could pitch the movie...

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  • X3MSonicXX3MSonicX https://www.behance.net/gallery/86760163/Fa-Posteres-de-007-No-Time-To-Die
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    The Kates aren't a bad choice.
    FromCanadaWithLove wrote:
    Yvonne Strahovski is definitely Bond girl material. yvonne-strahovski.jpg

    And If I could pitch the movie...

    james_bond__property_of_a_lady_by_ckfraser-d41gr3h.jpg

    She's absolutely perfect.
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    thelivingroyale wrote:
    These are Bond girls though. Would you rather have an obese ugly Bond girl who's the worlds best actress or a hot one who isn't a vey good actress?

    Why is it an either/or situation? Why not have a woman who is both good-looking AND a great actress?

  • VolanteVolante
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    thelordflasheart wrote:
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    These are Bond girls though. Would you rather have an obese ugly Bond girl who's the worlds best actress or a hot one who isn't a vey good actress?

    Why is it an either/or situation? Why not have a woman who is both good-looking AND a great actress?

    Hence my keenness for Kate Beckinsale. Or maybe Emilia Clarke, big fan of Game of Thrones.
  • 001001
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    FromCanadaWithLove wrote:
    Yvonne Strahovski is definitely Bond girl material. yvonne-strahovski.jpg

    And If I could pitch the movie...

    james_bond__property_of_a_lady_by_ckfraser-d41gr3h.jpg

    Nice bond girl and poster canada.well done.
    The kates are too old.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    thelordflasheart wrote:
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    These are Bond girls though. Would you rather have an obese ugly Bond girl who's the worlds best actress or a hot one who isn't a vey good actress?

    Why is it an either/or situation? Why not have a woman who is both good-looking AND a great actress?

    That'd be the ideal choice and if she's hot and a good actress, that's brilliant. But we're talkng about which matters more, and I think for Bond girls looks come first.
  • OwenDavianOwenDavian
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  • X3MSonicXX3MSonicX https://www.behance.net/gallery/86760163/Fa-Posteres-de-007-No-Time-To-Die
    edited September 2012 Posts: 2,635
    OwenDavian wrote:
    Christina Hendricks christina-hendricks-03.jpg

    She would be the Breast Bond girl ever.
  • DRush76DRush76
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    It isn't good enough. Hmm, now I wonder why AVTAK, TWINE, AND DAD all had crap bond girls, just to name a few.


    Tanya Roberts was a bit stiff, but I liked her. I enjoyed the performances of both Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards, although Marceau got a little hammy towards the end. Both Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike gave good performances, despite the bad dialogue forced upon them. However, the writers did not do Pike any favors by allowing her to make dumb decisions.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited September 2012 Posts: 28,694
    DRush76 wrote:

    It isn't good enough. Hmm, now I wonder why AVTAK, TWINE, AND DAD all had crap bond girls, just to name a few.


    Tanya Roberts was a bit stiff, but I liked her. I enjoyed the performances of both Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards, although Marceau got a little hammy towards the end. Both Halle Berry and Rosamund Pike gave good performances, despite the bad dialogue forced upon them. However, the writers did not do Pike any favors by allowing her to make dumb decisions.

    Miranda Frost is the only one in that film that isn't a blubbering idiot. Bond can't tell when his gun is loaded, Jinx is...well, A JINX, Graves can't do anything but speak in motivational mottos and has a robot fetish, and Zao is just angry that his face isn't full of diamonds from Tiffany's and has a need to do anything for Graves that hints at obsessive love.
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
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    While it may help some or be of some benefit, to have a Bond girl who is fine looking, voluptuous and radiates sex appeal, it's not always the first quality some may look for in Bond. What I mean is, any Bond girl doesn't have to resemble Miss World to be a success, so long as they can act, do a job, be believable and you leave the theater remembering her for the right reasons, that's all some can ask for. I was thinking just now, maybe tennis player Maria Sharapova could work in such a role, and I almost spoilt all my good work. Also, I would of liked to have seen Salma Hayek or even Julia Roberts at some point in time as a 007 leading lady
  • doubleohdaddoubleohdad
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    Back in the day, Raquel Welch would have been a great Bond girl. I know she was going to be cast as Domino in Thunderball at one point.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
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    Raquel Welch and Luciana Paluzi in TB would have been the peak of erotic epicness.
  • ThepastykidThepastykid
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    Had we had Bond films in the early 90a, Greta Scacchi would have been perfect.
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
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    Thepastykid wrote:
    Had we had Bond films in the early 90a, Greta Scacchi would have been perfect.

    There's a name that I haven't heard in a long time...I googled her and was quite surprised at how much she's aged. Perhaps she's a smoker? Nice to see she's still getting work, looks like she's starting on an AMC TV show now.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq4cK206cC0
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
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    Does smoking necessarily indicate a rapid age increase though, damn it, if that were true I'd be as old as Dinosaurs by now. As for Scacchi, I think by the time of the 1990s may have been slightly too old for a Bond girl, but remember Blackman did feature in Goldfinger in her late 30s I remember, and was even older than Bond himself that year. I don't know much of her work, but have seen one or two featured film releases. I just felt she was maybe inappropriate for say, a Brosnan Bond release, or even Dalton in the 1980s. Above all else, I just don't think she'd quite fit in as a Bond girl. There's something that just doesn't feel quite right about it

    Add to all this maybe - Katherine Heigl. I think she could of been quite impressive for maybe a late Brosnan release or even Casino Royale. Maybe I'm just tired. Damn technical difficulties aren't helping..
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Baltimore_007 wrote:
    Does smoking necessarily indicate a rapid age increase though, damn it, if that were true I'd be as old as Dinosaurs by now. As for Scacchi, I think by the time of the 1990s may have been slightly too old for a Bond girl, but remember Blackman did feature in Goldfinger in her late 30s I remember, and was even older than Bond himself that year. I don't know much of her work, but have seen one or two featured film releases. I just felt she was maybe inappropriate for say, a Brosnan Bond release, or even Dalton in the 1980s. Above all else, I just don't think she'd quite fit in as a Bond girl. There's something that just doesn't feel quite right about it

    Add to all this maybe - Katherine Heigl. I think she could of been quite impressive for maybe a late Brosnan release or even Casino Royale. Maybe I'm just tired. Damn technical difficulties aren't helping..

    Heigl would have been horrid. EON would have had their hands full. What a diva. Room temperature water PLEASE! Stuff it, honey.
  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
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    I thought she was quite cute in Under Siege II and would of been better than Izabella Scorupco that year with Brosnan I was even thinking, can't swap her with Michelle Yeoh though, so that leaves TWINE and later releases, and Yes I can see her in place of Denise Richards, maybe not so much Green in 2006, or even Kurylenko come to think of it after that. But what I'm saying is, there could of been space to accomodate

    All I keep getting are damn saved drafts nonsense, nothing will go through, getting mighty hacked off now, so I'll try again and get this through and make a dash for it before I leave a hole in the nearest wall. At risk of histrionics, I'm almost at the point now where I feel like fckn screaming

    I will get this damn post through
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Baltimore_007 wrote:
    I thought she was quite cute in Under Siege II and would of been better than Izabella Scorupco that year with Brosnan I was even thinking, can't swap her with Michelle Yeoh though, so that leaves TWINE and later releases, and Yes I can see her in place of Denise Richards, maybe not so much Green in 2006, or even Kurylenko come to think of it after that. But what I'm saying is, there could of been space to accomodate

    All I keep getting are damn saved drafts nonsense, nothing will go through, getting mighty hacked off now, so I'll try again and get this through and make a dash for it before I leave a hole in the nearest wall. At risk of histrionics, I'm almost at the point now where I feel like fckn screaming

    I will get this damn post through
    Calm down, mate.
    :|
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