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I never say no to some smoked salmon. Lovely stuff!
I first encountered caviar on a transatlantic flight as a kid and developed a taste for it, but don't have it too often.
I haven't had foie gras but have tried bone marrow and enjoyed it. I believe it depends on the way it's prepared, as with most things. If properly flavoured, seasoned and subject to lengthy marination, it is very good.
Bond did influence me in one way or another but it is a bit more complicated.
I became a Bond fan around 14-15 years of age, when Goldeneye came out. I never got into smoking, was just never my thing. Alcohol is a completely different topic, i developed a rather bad addiction in my later teens, but that was definitly not Jimbos fault but rather low self esteem at that dreadful time. I don't think i was conciously aware of Bond being an alcoholic himself.
Fast Foward to 2018 and nowadays i am actually pretty much a health nut, working out 4 times a week, eating (mostly) health, and now it gets interesting. I do believe that everything in life needs balance and so in the last couple of years Bond DID influence me heavily, in all sorts of things, food, cocktails, holiday locations, staying in fine hotels, everything regarding "the good life" and i DID start smoking... cigars though.
I do like to smoke a nice Cohiba or Montechristo (Rogers Favorites) here and there,
and in terms of drinking, i only drink "responsibly", which means i haven't been smashed out drunk in probably 10 years but i am a pro at mixing any kind of cocktail, from the books and beyond (if you need a bartender for your party, give me a call lol), and i love a glass of wine in the evening or for cooking.
So yeah, Bond definitly did influence me a lot. Bad Bond.
And, was the second easier than the first?
had a few gold lines on them ( 2, I think ) so as close as I could get to Bond's
ciggies.
But he won't of course because a bloke who goes round killing people and having random shags is a role model to kids apparently.
Couldn't agree more with this. Popping pills, downing alcohol, screwing any gorgeous babe in sight and killing lots of people is fine, but Bond lighting up a cigarette? Too much! Sadly I don't think he'll ever smoke again.
To this day, I still think the best point to re-introduce cigarettes into 007's life would've been his "death" in SF: to have seen him chainsmoking in the bar after the PTS and keep the habit going from there would've been excellent.
(Obviously I don’t think he’s gonna vape but hey just connecting dots here)
Well, there’s a difference there. Bond doesn’t follow trends set or popularized by teenagers. We also have never seen Bond wear baggy pants with his underwear showing or riding skateboards.
Would he smoke weed then?
Maybe if we have a Young Bond film.
I quote:
‘While there are legit criticisms that have been voiced, the so called backlash - the calls for boycotting 'Soylo', Rian Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy etc - is only coming from specific corners of the fanbase that are rather backwards to put it kindly. So if something similar happens here with Bond - which I just think it might, if some reactions I'm seeing on this thread and other Bond forums to the female villain/protege rumours, suggestions of Bond fitting into the current MeToo climate etc is to go by - I say yes, bugger THOSE fans’
It looks like those us who want to see Bond smoke certainly inhabit a specific corner of the fan base that is rather ‘backwards’.
Well as a father I can tell you if I'd learned that my son was an MI6 operative I'd be worried but proud. If I'd learned he took on smoking I'd be far more worried, and a bit angry that he developed an addiction.
Otherwise I find champagne overrated, but do drink it on occasions. I also enjoy smoked salmon and eat foie gras sometimes. My father makes his own (to my veggie wife's shock).
In the 50's and 60's Smoking was an upper class thing, that is certainly no longer the case it is completely lower class now. Cigarettes have become 'disgusting' with all those pictures on the packs. And there is basically no one in cinema who is still smoking(that i can think of). Thats why Bond would feel completely outdated (or unique?) doing it.
That being said though, i do want him to smoke an occasional cigar. If the setting and scene allows for it. It worked well in DAD, and with Roger. That is still considered upper class. In my opinion that would be the best compromise.
Trivia time:
Roger pretty much brought that to the role as he himself was a big cigar smoker, and famously requested an ulimited supply of Montechristo Cigars in his Bond Contract. It would be a nice nod to him (as it was in DAD).
And my Spider senses tell me Craig really wouldn't mind doing that either.
While not having him smoke anymore coincides nicely with some PC restrictions, the real reason IMO is Bond's basic character from the original novels, only updated to the 2000s. Bond loves to surround himself with upper-class people, enjoys luxury and for all of that need to be accepted in the relevant circles. It's not just his seemingly unlimited expense account that enables him to do just that. It's safe to say that a man-of-the-world today is highly unlikely to be a regular smoker (especially of cigarettes) and if Bond decided to light one up in one of those casinos or similar places, he might lose the acceptance of his contacts, appear unduly plebeian and in the worst case even blow his cover...to the extent that the world's best-known "secret" agent can still blow his cover.
Bond being a smoker in the 21st century would be as much out of character as being a non-smoker in the 1960s would have been.
@00Agent I'm completely with you on that. Cigarettes are now low class and are devoid of glamour whatsoever. Cigar is the only form of tobacco that still has a veneer of snobbery and luxury. It smells nice too.
They smell stronger. But cigarettes really smell and taste awful. Of course it's a question of taste but in any case cigarettes are now unglamorous.