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thier approach to the character is different and their acting styles are different its just their films which are quite similar.
But like you said Pierce is a more refined guy much more comfortable in rhe Taux while Craig is better in action and bringing the more brutal Bond.
I love both especially after Spectre where Daniel went from a fourth place to possible third to definitive third place in my ranking and getting a spot in my top 3
Pierce Brosnan
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I never got the idea of Bond as a thug, cleaned up or not. That is not something I've ever taken from Fleming. He's a troubled, indulgent man.
That is, one good film (GE for Brosnan, CR for Craig) being followed by three bad or decent films (DAD and QOS being the bad, TND, TWINE, SF and SP being the decent).
Hmm, Bond's emotion in the last few films seems to be a bit divisive, some liking it others not. Fleming's Bond is quite emotional but it's all internal, on the outside he's not, which is easy to convey in writing but harder to do on film. One of Fleming's friends said in an interview about the death of Muriel Wright - 'That's the trouble with Ian, you have to get yourself killed before his emotions are involved.' That to me is Bond. It's not that he's unemotional he just doesn't show it, stiff upper lip and all that.
Well, when I meant that Bond was becoming more emotional over the years I didn't mean just across the last few films (although that was where it was most evident) but across the entirety of the franchise, Bond has slowly but surely grown more outwardly emotional.
Connery wasn't ever very emotional, he was just cool, suave and classy. Lazenby was the first emotional bond, but we only really see that towards the end. Moore wasn't overly emotional either, but he was definitely more of a lover than Connery's Bond and there are more emotional scenes (Bond admitting he killed Anya's lover, Bond warning Melina about the consequences of revenge) and he also got angry about a lot of his allies getting killed (kills Locque to avenge Luigi and gets angry when Tibbett is killed).
But the second half of actors is where we saw a real shift, the point where Bond's emotions really drove Bond. In TLD, Bond got really angry when Saunders was killed, and the whole plot of LTK is based around Bond's inner emotional desire for revenge. Going from Dalton to Brosnan, we saw much more emotion than anything from the Connery or Moore days starting with GE, where Brosnan has emotional ties to the main villain. In TND he would mourn Paris's death, and in TWINE he would mourn his cold killing of Elektra.
Nothing was ever on the level of Craig, but you see how Bond has slowly become more and more emotional over the years.
What you say about internalising emotion is interesting. I actually think Craig at the end of CR and most of QOS is probably that. He is visibly affected momentarily when she's dead, but then he internalises that anger and uses it as a driving force throughout QOS. Or maybe that's not what you mean.