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Yes, I agree. Sort for time at that instant and what not. Though it deserves even more of a tearing into for being false on top of being quite a dim statement. Anyway, moving on...
THIS I am all in for.
The amount of angry, young men on this website is amazing. You don't have any arguments to support that Craigs Bond is cultured. Your responses are lazy, pseudo-rude (you make snide remarks instead of being brave and upfront).
You afford Craig's Bond every consideration and defense especially claiming that he is Flemings Bond when there is not one iota of evidence of it on the screen.
Bain says I am taking the ship remark out of context. Am I? I cannot picture any other screen Bond making a reply like this.
You make up your mind from what you see but not with Craig's Bond.
People here say:
You are taking the martini scene from Casino Royale out of context.
You are taking the Vesper dressing Bond scene out of context.
You are taking the Bond tipping Mathis into a bin out of context.
Do you know of course I am. I forget it is Craigs Bond. He just leaps from the pages of Flemings books.
For me, they are even closer to Fleming's vision than Connery. Besides, Dalton was a sir who waited 5 years to resign. How many actors would do that?
Regarding the Craig Thing ... Well, Mr Fleming strongly rejected Connery as an too Big Bodybuilder and not being suave enough. What then would he have thought about Craig? I think you get the picture.
By the Way - Vesper seemed to think,that Bond looked like a Moviestar, so i guess it is fair to say,that Fleming wanted HIS Bond distinctivly handsome!
I'm pretty sure he would've liked DC & TD as well.
I suspect he realised people liked Connery so was prepared to be more flexible with his opinion and accept the man.
I have noticed though that most of the descriptions Fleming gives of Bond are quite vague.
I'm pretty sure he changed his opinion after Dr. No.
Edit - here we are: "Ian Fleming didn't originally like the casting of Sean Connery as James Bond. Bond was English and Connery was Scottish, Bond was upper-class and Connery was working-class, Bond was refined and educated and Connery was too rugged. After seeing the film, Fleming softened and decided that Connery was perfectly cast. In the novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," Bond was revealed to have Scottish ancestry and Bond's girlfriend Tracy Vicenzo was described with Ursula Andress' details."
I doubt Ian Fleming would have seen much of James Bond in Craig's performances but times have moved on. I doubt Fleming would have seen much of James Bond in Eon's Moonraker!
"that Flemings picture of Bond wasn't a very coherent one."
Yes, I think that's a fair view.
Fleming wanted Richard Burton to play James Bond, he also wanted Roger Moore. Two actors with very different screen personas. Burton gritty and earnest in approach, Moore a lot smoother and heroic in style.
I've heard from Rog himself that this story apparently isn't true - or at least Rog never knew of it.
http://www.thespoof.com/news/entertainment-gossip/45809/daniel-craig-voted-worst-james-bond-of-all-times
That site seems to be a joke site, not meant to be serious.
Regarding casting of the role, it's been documented that Fleming wanted Richard Burton to play the role.
"“At the time he was doing Camelot and enjoying great stardom because of it,” says Burton’s great-nephew Guy Masterson.
“My uncle told me that Ian Fleming had approached him, asking him to play Bond. But back then, in 1959, Bond was a new concept – nobody had any idea it would be as big as it became.
“My uncle told me that he thought it was going to be ‘just another movie’.”
http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=5402
And I still prefer Brosnan to Craig and Dalton. So nyah.
I mean, Dalton's better, ;) but we each have our tastes. It's all good.
I don't really like the literary Bond. And I am more than relieved that none of the actors who have portrayed the character bore a close resemblance to the literary Bond.
Out of all the people who did or could have played Bond over the years, I believe Fleming would have preferred Jason Issacs to all others, him having that Hoagy Carmichael look so often referenced.
That said, he would have loved Dalton.
If Fleming had his way, Sean Connery would have never portrayed the character. I say that we should be grateful that he never had his way.
Craig has the menace down to a tee but he may lack the sophistication that the other 5 Bonds before him possessed. Yes, even Brosnan had sophistication and I am not a fan of his.
That being said, Craig is a beloved James Bond and I am pleased with his portrayal. I like Craig the way he is and who needs sophistication these days? Craig has brought his own take to the character and I for one am pleased with him. He does look good in his tux and perhaps in later films they will soften him up more. But who cares?