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I love the 6 actors who have played Bond.
Some more than others but i like each one of them for different reasons
Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery for their mix of a bitt of danger, sex appeal and their sense of humor
Daniel Craig and Timothy Dalton for making Bond more human by showing his more flawed and revel side of the character.
Roger Moore and George Lazenby for giving the character a more family friendly approach, giving it its most light hearted tone.
Sean's and Pierce's flicks were ok to watch with the whole family but they were more action oriented and the character was more masculine and sexy.
I suppose one thing Dalton DID pioneer was that he was the first Bond actor in the official series to really study the books in detail and draw from them. For that he must be admired.
Indeed, he was much needed after the light hearted Moore era, it's just the problem with Dalton was that he was ahead of his time, now we look at him as underrated, but back around the release of LTK in 89, the general audience who only accepted Bond in the form of Connery or Moore didn't take to well with Dalton's final Bond film, it was very, very violent and some of those death scenes were disgusting, such as Krest's explosion in the decompression chamber. I thought it had a very good story, and I personally admire the film more than I like it, I love love love TLD, seemed like a throwback to FRWL in the same way FYEO was a throwback to OHMSS
Uh, sorry, but how you said this made me laugh. :))
Anyway, I am not certain. I think it is a tie between Mr. Timothy Dalton and Mr. Daniel Craig. Both are outstanding! :)
I find Craig's Bond less interesting. I think Craig was good in CR and QOS but worry about the direction Mendes has taken him. I'm hoping the character in SP is closer to what we saw in the first two movies.
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Off topic, I also thought Moore was at his best in LALD, because he played Bond straight, he had a bit of fire about him. I think his tenure just gradually became more cliché and parody. If all of his movies had been played the way he did in LALD I would be shouting for Moore to be the greatest.
Sir Roge I will remember like a fond old uncle. Warm on screen, great defender of the franchise even to this day. Top Top man!
Hey! I have copyrights on that term "not a true Bond fan" :)) :)) or so they claim...
True, but obviously that approach wouldn't have worked in movies like MR or AVTAK.
And with TSWLM shattering box office records he/they did something right with the new style.
Of its time Jason, Moore morphed with the fast moving movie fashion of the 70's, 80's and other action, adventure films that surrounded the Bond releases at the time, the films were taking a more American approach. The same kind of humour and style which influenced the Moore era can be seen in far too many things to list.
The slapping and temper is Bond. Andrea Anders wasn't providing the information on the Assassin that supposedly wants to kill him. It was justified and worked in the story.
Connery of course also had this, but it's less hidden. The edge is barely concealed with Connery, whereas with Moore it does come from nowhere and is that bit more shocking.
Both great Bonds though of course - just always a joy to watch.
As for Sir Rog (judging by the recent comments), he's my all-time favourite. Have laugh, will travel. My kind of Bond. :))
I don't actually remember any incidents in the original novels when Bond is physically violent towards a woman. If I'm wrong I stand corrected as I admit to not reading ALL the original books (TSWLM and most of the short stories). He could be bad tempered but it was usually in moderation...and I don't buy that Moore is bad tempered because he's agitated about the assassin wanting to kill him.
I remember Maud Adams even felt it didn't work, and she acted in the same scene with him.
Moore was good at playing it straight when he wanted to (FYEO, OP etc) but the woman-beater aspect just doesn't really suit him. His Bond protects women, he doesn't beat them.
That scene in TMWTGG tried hard to replicate Sean Connery's roughness, but Moore was never that kind of an actor. Sure, I've seen him play too many serious roles in many films such as The Man Who Haunted Himself and a beater in any of these films, even the misogynist Ffolkes in the film of the same name, he simply wasn't.
Like you said, his Bond protected women and never harmed them, at the slightest.
Roger Moore also read all the Fleming’s books, though he didnt seem to agree that there was much to mine from the novels as Dalton did. Here's a Roger qoute for you: "There was little offered in them (007 books) about the character. However, I remember reading one line that said Bond had just completed a mission - meaning a kill. He didn’t particularly enjoy killing but took pride in doing his job well. That was the key to the role as far as I was concerned." The book he's referencing is Goldfinger by the way. Ian Fleming writes: “It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix – the license to kill in the Secret Service – it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional — worse, it was a death-watch beetle in the soul.”
I have to agree with those here that say Moore's first 2 Bond films (LALD and TMWTGG) were his best portrayal of 007. TSWLM began the shift towards him with of that twinkle in his eye and a wink to the audience it was all just a bit of fun.
Did Moore read all the books or just a few here and there?
Sean had that edge but hard edge is not the way i would describe his tenure as Bond.
He was a gentleman with a touch of Danger but hard edge is not the way id describe him
I know Fleming changed the character a bitt in his latter novels thanks to Sean Connery but Connery distanced himself from Fleming's Bond since Goldfinger.
In Dr No and From Russia with love he was much more fleming and there were hints to let us know this would latter change.
So thats why i say Dalton was the Pionner of making Bond more Flrminesque because he wanted to keep that version his whole tenure which sadly just lasted two films.
So because of his insistence of making Bond the way he did it i give him the creid of being the pionner on being closer to Fleming.
Once i made a thread on which type of Bond Connery was and many agreed he started as Fleming Bond to latter become UA Bond and the hints of making Fleming's Bond dissapear started from the very beginning
Which rivarly is more intense between the Bond Fans
Craig vs Dalton for being the two more fleminesque Bond ? Or Daniel Craig vs Pierce Brosnsn for being the two Modern day Bond ?
Sean had that edge but hard edge is not the way i would describe his tenure as Bond.
He was a gentleman with a touch of Danger but hard edge is not the way id describe him
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...and yet Connery had one of the most brutal hand-to-hand fights in the whole series (the FRWL train fight).
Very true, just look at the amazing fight in the lift in the house where Tiffany lives.
That scene is probably one of the most amazing of the whole series.
Well, the fight with Red Grant is better.
I wouldn't say that he was the edgiest, but Connery did have a lethal edge in Dr No & From Russia With Love. Starting with Goldfinger, he became soft (for want of a btter word) over the course of the rest of his era, eventually becoming wheezy and flabby in DAF.
I dare to say I like the lift fight a bit more, not much, just a tiny bit.
After all it's more talk than fight really in the train.
But of course the whole sequence is amazing and also one of the best in the franchise.
I have a liking for those hard fights. There are not that many in the Bond movies.
One I also love is in GoldenEye when Alec and Bond fight in the end sequence on that satellite dish's inner rooms.
Moore also had some quite hard hand-to-hand combats.
I think such things get overlooked these days with the focus mainly on Craig's hard fights.
FAR better. The lift fight is ok but nothing spectacular.
There were times though when I think even Connery's fights looked a bit staged.
(thankfully the set and fast-paced music compensate).
His prime didn't last that long, but even in it, he wouldn't last 5 seconds against Lazenby.