James Bond poll!

[FayetheAspie]

I don't actually know which faces go with which names. I just thought it was annoying how we were supposed to keep pretending that so many different guys were the same guy

 

[Crossbreed]

I don't actually know which faces go with which names. I just thought it was annoying how we were supposed to keep pretending that so many different guys were the same guy

They did that with CIA agent Felix Leiter & supervillain Ernest Stavro Blofeld, too.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

In the book James was a very serious no nonsense hit man not a ladies man, Inn Fleming was a bit campy especially with names. George read the books tried to be the character. I actually liked the books better than the movies. I like the way Craig played bond. I guess he also read the books. Moore played Bond like he played the Saint, could tell he never read the books .

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I don't actually know which faces go with which names. I just thought it was annoying how we were supposed to keep pretending that so many different guys were the same guy

Great movies as soon as one comes out I go to the theatre to watch it not the same on T.V. Check out the books if you can Bond was a real a hole, based on a real person. Who Fleming knew during the war.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Interesting connection of James Bond with tractors

 

[Ken]

I voted for Roger Moore but my favorite is Rowan Atkinson. I couldn't find him in the list.

 

[Crossbreed]

...but my favorite is Rowan Atkinson. I couldn't find him in the list.

Rowan played the character Nigel Small-Fawcett in Never Say Never Again (1983).

 

[Ken]

Rowan played the character Nigel Small-Fawcett in Never Say Never Again (1983).

Yep, Rowan never played James Bond. He played a James Bond like spy character in Johnny English. My favorite is Johnny English Reborn.
Johnny English - Jetzt erst recht! (2011) 6.3 | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Not only is it hilarious, but I can relate to many of his blunders.

Also, it actually has some good life-lessons. For example the, "With Age Comes Wisdom" Scene.

And, "The Chase" scene.

 

[Dagan]

Denis Villeneuve just got the gig to direct the new James Bond film for Amazon/MGM.

It's in the best capable hands.

 

[Crossbreed]

But James Bond is...

Spoiler

dead (unless JB is a code name for different people

)...

 

[Masked Man]

I was never a fan of the James Bond movies

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I was more of a fan of the books, movies have to much stuff that does not follow physics. Still enjoy the movies starting to drift too far from the books. Reading the books you own mind fills in the action.

 

[Dagan]

I do subscribe to the idea that like 007 is the code handle, that the name James Bond is the code name just assigned to whomever is the top agent. I tell myself that Sean Connery's Bond was the guy who started the prestige of it all.

I equate it to how sports players, if they can, they will let one certain position on the team keep having the same jersey number because that person is always the best they have.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

The naming started via the book being legally allowed state sanctioned murder required a double 00 number James was just one. their were others. most likely nine.

 

[Judge]

I just thought it was annoying how we were supposed to keep pretending that so many different guys were the same guy

It was a "win-win" casting situation for actors and directors throughout the Bond film franchise.

1) Directors got known names of prominent character actors to play the part.
2) Actors involved remained acutely aware of the risk of being permanently typecast to such films.

Hollywood producers, directors and casting agents can be tragically indifferent about such practices, which can sideline or even potentially ruin an actor's career.

First-rate actors like Donald Pleasance, Christoph Waltz, Max Von Sydow and Telly Savalas understood such dynamics...with Charles Gray in both "Diamonds Are Forever" and "You Only Live Twice" risking two different roles but no more than that.

 

[Dagan]

Agreed all around. Thinking more about it all, it really does make sense that it's someone new every 5 to 10 years because that's the life expectancy of such a dangerous position, honestly. Even if it's just the mental capacity to keep doing said job. It's rather a moderate-to-high turnover rate, if you will.

 

[Crossbreed]

...with Charles Gray in both "Diamonds Are Forever" and "You Only Live Twice" risking two different roles but no more than that.

Joe Don Baker played two different roles, too:

• Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights (1987) &
• Jack Wade in GoldenEye (1995).

 

[Judge]

Joe Don Baker played two different roles, too:

• Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights (1987) &
• Jack Wade in GoldenEye (1995).

Yes, but as one of the team. Not the bad guy. Though most of the time the role of Felix Leiter was played by different people as well.

 

[Crossbreed]

Not the bad guy.

"Brad" was the bad guy.

Gray played an informant in his second movie.