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In fact, Anybody or Craig, for me it's Craig.
Yes, after watching the torture scene in CR, it seems Craig's Bond has b*lls of steel.
It makes you feel sorry for the bad guys! That wimp LeChiffre never stood a chance.
Really? I find him the most vulnerable out of all the Bonds. In CR he looks nervous and hesitates before jumping off the crane, needs to down a bourbon after the stairwell fight, he almost dies during the poisoning scene, passes out after the car crash, and passes out agan after the torture scene, looks very frightened before the torture scene, screams out in pain during the torture scene, recovers in hospital after the torture scene, gets heartbroken after seeing Vesper die.
And all that in just one film. Moore and Brozza combined didn't have that much in all of their movies.
QoS was were it all went wrong, because suddenly he became the superhuman Bond again, who didn't feel pain mostly during the action scenes, but even then we still see a few vulnerable moments - Mathis death, reflecting on Vesper during the drunken scene on the plane, his confrontation with Vesper's boyfriend at the end.
In SF, he suffers depression after another near death, then finds his body is no longer what it was when attempting to pass his physical, looks on helplessly when Silva starts to make him feel uncomfortable, the we see a flicker of supressed emotion when M and Bond share a quiet moment talking about his parents in Scotland before going to SF Lodge, then breaking down in near-tears after M's death.
Nothing indestructable about Craig's Bond whatsoever. I would say the order of vulnerability would go something like this -
1. Craig (CR and SF)
2. Dalton
3. Lazenby
4. Connery
5. Brozza (even though his performances were fairly pathetic attempts)
6. Moore - the least vulnerable.
Bond never got the better of him, more the other way round. It wasn't even Bond who kills him.
I see it more like this:
1. Brosnan (only Bond to go through a movie with an unhealed wound in TWINE)
2. Dalton
3. Lazenby
4. Connery
5. Craig
6. Moore - the least vulnerable.
I agree with you about CR. He has more vulnerability in that. With QoS I guess his emotional guards are up but there's nothing to compare to the literal physical indestructability he shows in SF - being shot, falling 100m from the viaduct, drowning, the underwater lake fight etc. It's like a totally different character from the one we saw in SF and not in a character development sort of way - he just seems to be an entirely different type of species.
The fight scenes weren't as brutal as CR (the one in the casino with the dragons was the worst because even though it had some cool one liners it didn't feel dangerous at all).
He doesn't seem to get hurt that often, apart from when he was shot. Like you said, in CR during the parkour he hesitates and when he does jump, he only just makes it. In SF, he leaps of a crane through a hole in a train car roof, lands perfectly without breaking a sweat and then adjusts his cuffs.
Now I thought the moment above was badass and really felt like Bond, but I thought it was fair to bring that up since we're talking about how vunerable Craigs Bond is. Anyway, overall I felt a bit let down with the action scenes (especially the fight scenes) in SF, especially compared to CR.
There is something about the way in which Craig has been directed or chosen to play the role that to me says 'Terminator'. I put the PTS in CR and SF in this category, where he crashes through walls, falls immense heights and survives etc. It is just not to my taste and gives Bond an air of physical inedestructability that I don't like. I feel it distances him from the audience and makes him less relatable. It's just my view. I know there are plenty of others on here who think the same because I see their comments daily.
I don't dislike Craig. I think there is a lot about his performance that is good and that I enjoy. Mainly though as time goes by I am just glad that he isn't Pierce Brosnan.
I found Dalton's depiction contained vastly more humanity and believeability than Craig.
All these moments make a mockery of 007, and takes away any edge in Moore's films. Ignore them, and you are in denial.
Brosnan wrenched his arm & had to go to Hospital.
Dalton fell off a truck & could barely stand up.
That's believability IMO.
For every moment Craig's Bond has which makes him indestructable, he has equal moments to counteract this, and also none of his films suffer any of the silly comedy scenes which plagued Moore's movies.
For some reason I also find it much easier to suspend belief when watching the Bond movies up to LTK. I put this down to superior directing and a sort of magic formula they found that blended serious and humorous in a unique way - the essence of what made Bond Bond really.
That was lost with Brosnan and although they're groping to refind it with Craig, I don't find it works half as well. The comedy and fantasy elements in the Craig films actually grate with me more than they do in the Moore films. I think it's because CR and QoS seemed to wipe the slate clean and now as the old elements creap back in they just seem out of place. It's like they want to have it both ways - serious but OTT - but the writing and direction that made that possible in the past is no longer there, so it all just fails to hang together.
I love LTK - I think it is one of the best films, and I find Craig's films continue in exactly the same vein where Dalton left off. Moore's films are pretty naff now when you watch them. He had decent scenes ocassionally, but most of his films are nothing more than comedy action flicks overall.
When he's going into the cocaine grinder in LTK, he looks scared. When he was clinging onto the cargo net in TLD you could tell he was fighting for his life.
Outside the action he had the whole "stuff my orders" thing in TLD. It made him seem like he was human and that his job was taking it's toll on him. And he was emotional enough to go rogue and go on a personal revenge mission in LTK.