Posted on 07/19/2021 1:42:03 PM PDT by Mariner
For Daniel Craig, 2015's "Spectre" was the last time he thought he'd be playing the iconic James Bond.
"I thought I probably was physically not capable of doing another," Craig, who suffered a torn meniscus during filming, told Total Film. "For me, it was very cut and dried that I wasn't coming back."
However, the opportunity to explore a different side of Bond drew the English actor back in for one last hoorah.
"It's interesting to explore his emotions, because he's a cut-off character. He doesn't feel like other people, because he's a killer," he explained. "On 'Casino' he loses the love of his life, and then the shutters come down. On 'Quantum,' the flawed movie that it is, it's about revenge. And 'Skyfall' is about M. It's about loss. They're big themes. And I think, 'Yeah! Why not have big themes?'"
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He lifted the franchise.
He’s the bad guy in From Russia With Love
Ahh.. the money?
Yes, but we don’t care that much about Bond’s inner motives and personal traumas. We just want to see him chase people and blow stuff up and save Western Civilization.
And the Bond girls. Don’t forget the Bond girls.
“Ahh.. the money?”
That’s what I thought. But, I do like his Bond portrayal. Over the top, as with others, but with enough grit to at least have a line to reality.
Bond cannot survive in these woke times. Stick a fork in him.
Sean Connery was the only James Bond...The others were all imitations...
Started reading Ian Fleming’s Bond books in the early ‘60’s and could see Connery in them from the start...
There he is: James Bond
For me its still Connery.....but Craig is a close #2.
One reason being IMO Craig had the benefit of special effects Connery never had.
OBTW Roger Moore (RIP) is still a dead last....those were lean years for Bond,James Bond.
Just my 2 cent
I’ve reread them a couple of times over the years. They still work as good as they ever did.
Can’t wait for Maxwell Smart’s credibility to rise simply due to physicality.
You are living up to your Tagline.
Good for you.
Robert Shaw, the only guy killed by James Bond AND a Shark.
Maybe I’m getting old, but I’m edging closer to Craig as the best James Bond. I know...that’s blasphemy. I’ve been a diehard Sean Connery believer since Goldfinger around my junior high school years, but I watched Skyfall again the other day. Damn, Craig’s Bond is a mean SOB. I like him mean.
Connery was a real-life stud. Big guy, very athletic, almost didn’t get the Bond role because Fleming thought him too much of a bruiser.
This movie and the second Top Gun movie are the only reason in the past 18 months I would desire to go to a theater.
No doubt that Craig brought an element to Bond that was ignored for years. A raw killer dealing w/the emotions of life and death. Ian Fleming addressed this in several books and brought humanity to a conflicted character. However, Sean Connery created the image of Bond. He was also raw and ruthless even during the times when movies were more tame than they are now.
Ok ok...I’m with you now...LOL.
Btw...I think Robert Shaw was a GREAT bad man in that movie.
“Bond cannot survive in these woke times”
Haven’t you heard? After Craigs last film its gonna be Jane Bond....a cross dressing transgender of course.
Word is, Bruce (or whatever his/her name is now) Jenner is the front runner for the lead. Him/her or rue Paul......because well, you know black lives matter.
Notice I didn’t say “leading man”?;
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