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We could argue anything in here. In the real world Craig will be regarded as the longest serving. 13 years unbroken tenure from film to film.
Like I said earlier, Roger is my man, but I find the argument against is ultimately futile.
I was thinking the same thing. If the box office numbers are strong, they could persuade him to come back. As long they don't sit on their a**** for four years again.
Arnolds Brosnan era scores are better than Serra's sole effort, which itself is better than what Arnold was allowed to do in the Craig era.
DAD has its moments, but of the Brosnan films, it is my least favourite.
I like DN more than GF, but not FRWL.
Not Brofeld. But I would be open to an off the wall interpretation, a more surreal looking Blofeld, closer to the books.
I don't want Nolan writing or directing a Bond film. Come to think of it, I don't even want Nolan as the tea boy. So how do I score, should I burn my 21 years worth of merchandise, or is there hope for me yet?
I think it's unlikely, but certainly not out of the question.
Is Craig 'playing Bond' between films? I must have missed that
@RC7 tell me about it, some people here consider Dalton to have 'played Bond' for 8 years
Daniel Craig will have played Bond uninterrupted for 13 years. Moore played him uninterrupted for 12. Although, I could use your line of reasoning and drag NSNA into that, in which case it really screws the Rog argument, but I won't. It's just fact, mate. By all means play the conspiracy theorist, but you'll just end up being 'that argumentative prick at the BBQ'.
I'm with you, others aren't. They're wrong, mate.
Damn right they are.....that's why whenever I make an elimination game or other threads if its not official EON then its not in there.
I deal in real Bond movies,good or bad (and in the film world none of them are bad),not stupid ,rip-off spoof.
Well the actor is not Bond between takes so the real answer is he is only Bond for 2 hours of each of those years although in addition you have to factor all the retakes and scenes that got edited out.
So expressed as a formula:
x+y = Bond tenure
z
Where:
x = Actor's screen time as Bond (I'm not counting Sean as SPECTRE hood in the FRWL PTS)
y = All the footage of the actor in character as Bond left on the cutting room floor
z = @The_Donald's deranged logic
(Also for Rog and Pierce you need to factor in the TSWLM and GE trailers where they address the camera in character.)
Then what is it? I got a sticker in 1983, white letters on black background that said Sean Connery IS James Bond. NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. Unlike the EON series, maybe it was just make pretend? Like the continuation novels. The way you feel about NSNA is the way I feel about them.
Mate, you're missing an s from your equation to account for stunt doubles. You'd imagine there'd be some serious subtraction on Roger's side.
I might be wrong but Moore didn't make any from what I've read.
True. Rog would be down to about 7 mins in AVTAK if we throw that in.
Fair point. Of those we have seen, Sam Neil the shortest serving Bond and James Brolin the next shortest.
No NSNA kills your argument, since it debunks the notion of a 'Serving Bond'. The only meaningful measure of longevity is number of films.
I will concede Craig will be the public face of Bond for the longest uninterrupted run. If that's something important to anyone, fine they can have it. But he cannot claim to have played Bond the longest. Roger did 7 missions, Craig will do 5.
Nonsense... you failed to include the fictional time variable "V" into that formula. So we need the sum S( V(1), V(1+i)..., V(i+n) ) where V symbolizes the elapsed time per film and where n<7, i=1,2,..,6. :)
It isn't EON but that's an arbitrary objection. It is a James Bond film, and debunks the notion of Bond outside films, for how could Roger Moore be 'serving as Bond' if Sean Connery was playing Bond at the same time?
I say once again: I am happy to say 'Craig will be the public face of Bond for the longest uninterrupted run', which is what everyone is really saying but using inaccurate language to describe it, and using it to wrongly put Craig above Moore
But the question isn't 'Who is the public face of Bond for the longest uninterrupted run?' it's 'Who is the longest serving Bond?'
If it was 'Who has played Bond for the longest time on screen?' or 'Who has played Bond the most times?' then Rog would be the answer.
But that isn't the question and for one who is so keen on pedantically noting that NSNA is still a Bond film and then decry people for using 'inaccurate language' one might think you might able to grasp the fact.
By your logic that you are only Bond during the films you make we might as well say in 1978 when Rog was at his peak and in the middle of his tenure that Sean, Laz, Tim, Pierce and a teenage Dan were all the current Bond too.
The actor currently playing the role is the current Bond until someone says otherwise in terms of 'longest serving'. Who made the most films is an entirely different debate.
Is it from the time they're announced till the time that EON announce the actor is finished.
Or from the release of the actors first film, till the release of their last.
Ask Donny boy. He's saying that having the most films counts but Sean is missing for the first 20 mins of FRWL so do we count that as him playing Bond?
Also does it only count when said actor is on screen? In the 'Kill Bond. NOW!!!' scene in YOLT are they talking about Sean because as we can't actually see him playing the character at the time how can we say it's him? Could be Rog or Laz.
Schroedinger's Bond if you will.
Someone needs to document every minute on screen for each actor for an accurate result. After all Rog doesn't appear until after the credits in two of his films which chips away at his total.