Originally Posted by svandamme (Post 11566377)

Except Bond was based on the SOE and Commandos of WW2 that looked NOTHING like Craig. Fleming himself said he wrote him to be a dandy.
Commandos in WW2, SOE folks in WW2, weren't brutish looking muscle men.. They were lean, athletic and strong, but they didn't look muscular to modern day standards.

Fleming wrote Bond to tell the story of what he and others had done in WW2, but could not talk about because of the Official Secrets act.
Many things in the early books are based on actual operations and people. And they were not Thuggish super men.


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So no.. Craig looks the least of all like what Fleming had in mind
Fleming actually didn't like Connory, and wanted David Niven.. who turned down the part.

See : Craig doesn't look anything like David Niven .. He was more of a dandy.. like Fleming was.
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If anything, Bond now is no different from Jason Bourne.. He's turned super strong and boring.
And screwed up several times in the last movies.. shameful really..Bond became fallable.. and boring to boot.

Originally Posted by masraum (Post 11566419)

If 007 was supposed to be a dandy, then Roger Moore may have been the most Bondish of the bunch. Dandy, not thuggish, but always got the job done.


Or maybe Lazenby since Moore was almost spoofish.
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Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11566443)

Susan Lucci
without googling her age...guess it.

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Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11566443)

Susan Lucci
without googling her age...guess it.

Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11566443)

susan lucci
without googling her age...guess it.

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Originally Posted by DonDavis (Post 11566465)

75, minimum.

Rando...
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11566494)

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Originally Posted by svandamme (Post 11566460)

I would say Lazenby, but he had a bad script really.. had to be all vulnerable when Contessa died at the end.. His Bond is much underrated.. The movie really was one of the better ones.

Aaah Tracy Bond...

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But Roger Moore sure was a good one, bit too much gimmicks but he definately stands well above anybody who followed him.

Originally Posted by mrbeverlyhills (Post 11566547)

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I agree, his Bond was great and the movie one of the best, the end scene was filmed fairly early on so he didn't fully grasp the hard edge Bond has in the OHMSS book. Fewer gadgets, Diana Rigg, The Alps and Telly Savalas (the best Blofeld). I also liked the Homage to earlier Bonds after 007 "quits", done via music and facial expressions.
George and I played cricket together here in LA quite often and he is a sensational actor, albeit only on the field when he screams HOWZAT on a catch that bounced 3 or 4 times on its way to his hands.
He self admittedly was so awful on the set and in post that Cubby Broccoli pulled the remaining few hairs out and when he showed up at the premiere with a beard, that was it.

Sad, because he had plenty of what the written Bond had, almost as sad as seeing Connery in Never Say Never Again.

Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11566486)

75....sure doesn't look it


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Originally Posted by astrochex (Post 11566871)

Blue Boy’s girlfriend Pinky. The Huntington Library is a fantastic destination.