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He seemed like a classy guy. He made the decision to stop playing Bond because he said the leading ladies were young enough to be his granddaughter, and “it was disgusting.”
Wow, mad respect.
I always preferred Sean Connery but Sean was a horrible person.
I’d like to think that actors get remembered for who they were rather than who they pretended to be.
Yeah, you could tell he was a horrible person by how he gave Alex Trebek such a hard time.
Shut it, Rustydomino, your mother’s a whore!
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Connery’s Bond was also awfully sexists and misogynistic. It’s incredibly cringe trying to watch certain scenes of that era. Some are rape fantasies through and thru.
The first book is interesting… it has the typical Bond setup… here’s your mission, your exotic location, and your beautiful assistant… and Bond goes:
“A woman? What are you sending a woman for, she’ll only get in the way.”
(!)
I was surprised!
Book Bond is a much more textured and vulnerable character than movie Bond is generally allowed to be.
He’s also much more of an utter prick.
Casino Royale is awesome. And I was also very surprised that the movie kept a lot of the plot.
The books start getting real bad at some point. I had a feeling it was because Flemming was writing them just as movie fodder, though I never checked the chronology.
It’s interesting, Casino Royale and Live and Let Die were the first two published in 1953 and 1954, then the first adaptation was Casino Royale as a 1 hour drama for television in 1954.
Moonraker - 1955
Diamonds are Forever - 1956
From Russia, With Love - 1957
Doctor No - 1958
Goldfinger - 1959
For Your Eyes Only - 1960
Thunderball - 1961
The Spy Who Loved Me - 1962All of that would be done before the first film, Doctor No, in 1962. Filming was January to March and it released in October.
The Spy Who Loved Me released one month after filming completed but before the premiere.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - 1963
You Only Live Twice - 1964Posthumous publications, Fleming died in August, 1964:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 1964
The Man With The Golden Gun - 1965
Octopussy and the Living Daylights - 1966
Goldeneye was my favorite film as a kid but Moore was always the classiest, a real gentleman.
The Roger Moore films are extremely corny and campy even by Bond standards - which is saying something! I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for them though. All the Jaws plotlines probably resonated with me as a freakishly tall person.
Not FYEO. It was intentionally written to ground Bond in reality after the absurdity that was Moonraker. He has one gadget, the Lotus, which gets blown up immediately, leading us into the iconic 2CV car chase. Even has Moore, well aware of the age gap between actors, blowing off the advances of the much younger Lynn-Holly Johnson by offering to instead buy her an ice cream. Great action sequences throughout, and one of the most kick ass Bond girls in Carole Bouquet.
Roger Moore is my favorite James Bond!
I’ve got a friend who thinks Pierce Brosnan is the best one because he was “our generation’s Bond”. Both born 92/93 so Goldeneye, et al. were a sensation for us at the time.
Personally I like Sean Connery but that’s an unoriginal opinion. I enjoyed the story about the casting producer who wanted him for the role immediately because he “walked like a panther”. What a departure from being a milkman in Edinburgh!
Live and Let Die has the best soundtrack of all of them
That pressed a tear out of this man here. Great story! Great man!
I have to admit, I was a bit leary coming in here, but that’s a great story.
That’s a great story, it’s nice hearing about people being treated well by famous people. Thanks for sharing.
