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...I will now go and sit in the corner, and re-evaluate my life.
~X( %-( :-SS :-w
Oh my! @Benny tell us who it is.....
Is this a blind item?! 😱
I'm very confident that's not going to happen. I wouldn't mind either, even as a non-smoker myself, but I honestly think that a smoking Bond is firmly a thing of the past.
But so was also the booze and womanizing.
And Craig's Bond did also took some drugs, most obviously in Skyfall.
It's fine, I guess, even just a cigar, I would've accept, and in some rare occasions, not too much.
Yeah me too mate. So those set photos of Daniel smoking a cigar must have been off camera
There is a cigar on screen. It's how he knows Felix is there. They likely just had someone on set get some ash going for the shot, maybe it was Daniel in those photos.
Agreed! Been saying this for years.
If anything, highlight his imperfections and vices to demonstrate that Bond is not some role model or superhero.
And I’m okay with it. I never feel like I’m missing anything vital when Bond isn’t smoking cigs during the last 30 years.
Picture Bond sneaking around in some kind of high security, non smoking facility. Patrolling guards smell smoke coming from a hallway. They go to investigate and find Bond. Busted.
Villain: "You almost figured out my plan Mr. Bond but your filthy habit got the better of you. We smelled you coming a mile away!"
:D
But that is the point I am making. At the time Goldfinger was released no one had ever seen a film like that. It was a worldwide game changer. Yes, the same cannot be said of the eras that followed including CR.
I’m talking about the present time, not 60 years ago.
Whether some people were not interested didn't matter. Even those people could not escape the daily deluge of everything coming out of the Goldfinger inspired "Spy Craze" of the the mid '60s. Bond and his films, merchandise, lifestyle, spinoffs and send ups were EVERYWHERE. It was a part of the world culture.
It's still one of the aspects of the character, he's not just a generic action hero like Bourne, Wick or Ethan Hunt.
This is James Bond, he had his own characteristics, he womanize, drinks a lot like there's no tomorrow, smokes, and gamble.
That's his distinction, whether it's negative or positive, that's him, he's not clean.
If any, they should change James Bond entirely, remove his womanizing ways, don't have him sex with different women available in the room, reduce his drinking, booze, remove his vices.
Changing the Bond character is no different to rewriting the Fleming books for censorship.
I don’t think that the possibility of a prolonged gap between NTTD and Bond 26 will have much impact for the folks here. As Bond diehards, we do have 25 (or 27) films to re-screen and analyze, novels to read or re-read and numerous soundtracks to listen to. For the typical movie goer (especially here in the US, IMO), however, things may not be that simple. The expression: “Out of sight … out of mind”, comes to mind.
While I suspect there will be a ton of media and social media buzz (a circus, if you will) over the selection of Bond #7, my fear is that it will actually overwhelm the resulting film. Again, there is no danger of that happening for Bond fans, but for the average person …. Well, we’ll see.
The Bond series has been a legacy franchise for some time now, and as with most on-going legacies it is often taken for granted even under the best of circumstances.
Ironically, I’ve often wondered what would have happened it the franchise had taken another year off between AVTAK and TLD in order to position Dalton as more of a clean break with the Moore era. Now, my concern is just the opposite. In short, three years or so, between films is fine, but five or six may be a bridge to far.
Again, a lot of things can happen between now and 2026 (or 2027), so my fears may or may not pan out, and – for the record – this is really a US centric viewpoint.
My two cents, anyway.
Yeah. I'm a non-smoker. But smoking does give Bond that irreverent attitude towards things and also makes him more stylish. I don't know if Connery's Bond introduction and his utterance of the famous words at the casino in Dr. No would have had the same effect, if he didn't have a cigarette in his mouth, as he said the words.
Like Everything. Everywhere. All at Once. Not the earth shaker it was heralded to be. Even Craig's Bond films. A lot of people no doubt not interested. In fact a whole lot of stuff that passes for new and trendy just isn't.
I’d say the jury is out on that film. It’ll either be forgotten in a few years or be to millennials what MIDNIGHT COWBOY was to boomers, completely changing preconceptions of what an Oscar winning film is. At least in my theater the audience was engaged in a way I don’t typically see in award winning films. At least not for awhile.
I'm sure he was going to as in those photos he was skinning a fish to feed a cat: that would have been a scene to show Bond's life. Much like the stuff with the harpoon gun, it didn't make it to the film. Maybe showing him smoking a cigar confused the discovery of Felix's cigar- we would have just thought it was one of Bond's and the reason for his shock would be unclear.
A cigar would be fine, I don't want him smoking cigarettes. I think it would make him look weak today. Cigarettes are more cinematic shorthand for desperation and lack of willpower nowadays than they were: characters could look cool but it doesn't really work now. I must admit when I watch the scenes in Blayden in TLD with Tim puffing away during a meeting, it's hard not to look at it with today's mindset of 'couldn't he just wait for ten minutes? Is he that desperate?'.
It's not unlike North By Northwest. It was an evolution.
Moore only had them in the Hamilton films, didn't he?
Yes, I can't recall any after that.
If Craig was going to get in the shape he needed to be in, to play his version of Bond, the first thing his trainer made him do was to quit smoking.
Same with the character. I would never believe a smoker would be able to do half the things that Bond does.
It’s a terrible habit and makes one look desperate and weak mentally (as well as physically), as @mtm mentioned earlier.
I could go with smoking a leisurely cigar in downtime. But that’s about it.
And thankfully I don’t think we will see James Bond smoke ever again.l (RIP).