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Sitting in a chair? Then it s clearly time to go.
I could give a rats ass about "PC" but we shall, as they say, agree to disagree on this one.
:D Nice...
Except Bond isn't an action film you twerp. Bond is a literary character who is not an old man.
OK, Twerp
Cruise is going to film the next M:I film in 4 months time. Downey Jr is filming his next 3 films as Iron Man. That's why they are not questioned, we know they are making further sequels. Daniel Craig is not confirmed for Bond 25 as of today, thus it's normal for people to wonder if he'll be in it, and if not, who will replace him.
Of course Bond films contain action but they are not action films (or they ought not to be). Why are people pushing for an old man Bond, when that is not Fleming's character. I don't care how physically fit you are, age still limits what your body can cope with so even if you class Bond as action films a younger one is preferable. This is about a character defined in books, not an arbitrary decision.
@talos7 good you're learning. If you want any more English lessons you can send me a PM.
This. It's not like after we saw CR back in 2006, everyone was discussing the next actor to play Bond, but rather the next movie. We didn't do it after QoS or SF, either, because we always had a general idea of how far Craig may go in his era. Given his recent comments and this odd uncertainty of when the series will continue, why wouldn't we discuss other odds?
It seems some can't accept that Craig will step down from the role at some point, and won't always be Bond. There's no harm in discussing that at all.
As you are so concerned with Fleming's Bond, that version of the character was a smoker, so the Parkour chase is un-Bondian because Craig wasn't smoking while trying to catch Mollaka? So you'd be ok with Craig chain smoking 60 cigarettes during QOS, calling it more realistic and Bond-like than a fit, non smoker 58 years old Bond?
You are building a straw man. I talked about Bond's age, not another character's. A man who is an operative, not a station agent or a high ranking officer. Who is a Don Juan but not a sugar daddy. Who was conceived as relatively young.
That is fair enough. But age has nothing to do with it. I already came across with some 'facial comparison pictures' of Craig in 2006 and in 2015. I mean, WTF? Daniel Craig simply is a different actor, a classic method-actor who also loves stage acting and starring in plays. And although I'm ok if people keep wondering if Daniel Craig will be in or out, I find it an uninteresting discussion. It doesn't speed up things, EON doesn't look at our worries in here. And frankly, I understand that. Patience these days isn't a virtue anymore, and I think it should be again.
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From my perspective, of course there is an upper age band limit for Bond actor, in order for them to be credible. What is that? Who knows? I'd have watched Cary Grant playing Bond at 59 (his age when he did Charade, one of my favourite thrillers). So perhaps for the right actor around 55 could be the upper age band.
Does that apply to all of them? Of course not. It depends on general fitness, health and genetics. It must be taken on a case by case basis.
Yes I would want Bond to smoke (in the film, not in real life). I think a 58 year Bond was absurd in 1985 and it would be absurd now. I don't see the connection with the parkour chase. You think a smoker is always incapable of that?
Yes to keep Bond young.