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I'm an avid Bond fan who advocated for Turner as Bond.
I mean people I have met in real life, Unless we've already met Talos....
In the next three films I watched closely, and, by SKYFALL, he had become my favourite 007 incarnation (he'd shown so many shades to the character he was playing, he hued closer to Fleming than any before him).
That's just my opinion.
I know that SPECTRE took a few steps back, BUT, the man in the tuxedo was just as fresh as when we first saw him (just more weathered).
And now, I'm doing a retrospective: the past two weekends, I have watched CR and QoS and I'm blown away by Craig's performances. He's the man. Literally. He's the man. When I think of Hiddles, I think little boy, with a Joker smile, in a nice suit, pretending to be a man; when I see the clips of Turner (clips, admittedly), I see an actor "playing" dress up. I don't believe he's got menace or danger.
Craig is so masculine, naturally, masculine, he really knocks the role out of the park. And, although I'm not favourable to the casting, the only one who comes close is Elba cos I can believe him as a man. I think Dan's the man until dethroned by someone with natural, masculine traits. Hiddles and Turner do not have that natural, male, viscerally masculine oomph to them. IMHO.
And why are people actually try to argue with Mendes about Turner. Its like trying to convince me, that Dalton is better tben DC. No chance.
But it comes down to what Connery had, and Craig has in spades: raw, masculine charisma. It's the intangible. No school can teach it. You have it. Or you don't.
And that's the problem with casting the next Bond: who exudes this intangible? Certainly not Hiddles, no offence to his pedigree or acting ability, nor offence to Turner.
As DG mentioned, Craig's swagger. He's The Man. And a Man. He does it effortlessly. It's not an act, he just "is".
That's very hard to find.
Agreed.
I like Daniel very much but its so funny how the people who has him as his favorite want someone very much in his style the same goes for Pierce, Moore and Sean Connery fans looking for the next Bond reminding them to their favorite.
as a Pierce fan niether Hidleston nor Turner convince me, many of you say Hey Hidleston would be like Pierce or some say it would br Turner but nooo.
Pierce in his prime was 1,000 times better looking than these two. His good looks were undeniable with Hidleston and Turner you might find them attractive after watching them for a while but Pierce was instantaneous.
Would they be good succesors, maybe but non of them Pierce like candidates and niether Craig likes.
They would be completely different from any of our previous guys ( no matter who it is your favorite of the past Bonds) so it shocks me that some here team Hidleston or Turner.
Now to Craig fans the closest to your man is Nikolaj Coster Waldau( Jammie Lannister from Game of Thrones).
He is masculine though, roughly handsome and very tall, well he loosk very much like a young Sean Bean and i bet you wouldn't mind a Bond who looks like him. He was quite handosme and he was the most Attractive Boond villian in my opinion.
It doesn't matter how old Elba looks. He's black so it's an automatic no for the character of Bond.
I'm not advocating for a Black Bond but you using Shaft and Black Panther as examples of being fair game of race swapping shows a clear absence of understanding racial discourse.
On whose part? Poster gave those maybe as extreme examples but regardless Bond is a white character.
Would you cast Colin Firth as Axel Foley? No. So why Elba as Bond. Both equally stupid suggestions.
What an out-of-left-field comparison.
Well said. =D>
Bond has white skin.
=D>
Excellent post, but you're wasting your time I'm afraid. I spent pages debating exactly the same thing on the Bond 25 Production thread.
I will tell you who cannot be black: Pink Panther.
But he can be gay!
Just give it a few years.