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It just occurred to me this morning, I was looking at the soundtrack CD for The first Knight, then I took a look at pictures from NSNA and DAF. It really seems that from a certain time after DAF on, Connery took special care for his eyebrows. Or it was fashionable at a certain time to have them a bit bushier.
As a secret agent he´s supposed to not look like a fighter. Otherwise it wouldn´t be secret ;-) .
Though we're now very off-topic.
Although I am a huge Dalton fan and loved his portrayal of Bond, I have always thought he was a bit too skinny (same with Brosnan).
>:-)
I'm 6'2" and 190lbs myself, and I'm pretty lean. Literary Bond sounds like he'd blow away :/
That said, I think I would like to see John Goodman play not James Bond but an agent with a license to kill :ar! .
That just shows how bad your training is :bz .
I think people are fixed too much on athletic ideas. Literary Bond, and there´s nothing about him that couldn´t be well translated onto the big screen, was not an athlete, or if he was he was a natural. He spent a lot of time doing paperwork, he indulged in fancy food and drinks, yet he was able to get into amazing shape after only one week of intensive training. This is not the lifestyle of an athlete, but of someone with certain abilities, phyisiological talents above average, that make it possible for him to work like he does.
Also I think its kind of hard for Brosnan to have a 'great' performance in TND-DAD when he had the terrible scripts, dialog and casts in those movies. I really wish we would've seen him in a movie like TLD. GE for me was the perfect over the top Bond movie and shouldn't get any bigger than that - a seriously toned movie, but with a OTT plot line.
Take Bond's encounter with Grant in FRWL. Bond knew that he wouldn't win against this man (who was described as a machine, a boxer - basically the opposite to Bond) so he had to resort to "meaner" methods to defeat his enemy.
In my opinion at least Dalton, Lazenby and even Brosnan best resemble the description Fleming gives in the books (tall, dark, lean and handsome gentlemen). They r the kinds I picture in my head.
A couple of points I remember from interviews - first, Martin Campbell had Brosnan have 5 o'clock shadow in GoldenEye because he though he looked too "boyish" without it. Also, I recall reading at the time of TND's release that Brosnan put on 15 pounds of muscle because he had looked too lightweight in GE.
I love Fleming but I don't require the Bond of the films to have a slavish devotion to the way he's described in the books. To my mind, both Brosnan and Dalton (whose performance I loved) both looked just that little bit too thin to be physically threatening. Say what you will about Craig's physique but I found it completely credible that his Bond had just come back from the field after spending some time seconded to Special Forces. And one look at him made me believe that if he was in a locked room with four highly trained henchmen (or an elevator with four fellow agents) he would be capable of taking them all out.
But in the end it´s the performance that counts. I daresay it´s less Craig´s physique than his performance that makes us believe he could take out four highly trained henchmen in a locked room. I´m ot sure I would expect the same from Dwayne Johnson or Stallone. And Brosnan´s failure to deliver such an impression was not due to his body but to his performance if at all. De Niro in Ronin or in Cape Fear can look physically threatening without a bulky body.