The best James Bond that never was?

[stevie boy]

Richard Johnson who played Jonas Wilde in Danger Route
Tom Adams who played Charles Vine in Where the Bullets Fly

both would have been good, but Stanley Baker would have been ideal, Robert Shaw (pre Red Grant) would have been interesting, but probably Dirk Bogarde would have been my first choice.

[donna]

aw batman you didnt do Errol proud can I have one in his thirties please, that ll do for me, was Richardson the one with the blue eyes with the T Rex and Racquel both good looking non actors.

[donna]

oh Stevie Robert shaw does it for me every time he was gorgeous even old in Jaws, he still rattled my cage

[donna]

well can I have Oliver Tobias he was hunky dory too those eyes have you a pick for me batman.

[batman]

Originally Posted by donna aw batman you didnt do Errol proud can I have one in his thirties please, that ll do for me, was Richardson the one with the blue eyes with the T Rex and Racquel both good looking non actors.

You just can't please some people ... I chose that pic to show you that Errol was still a handsome man right up to his death .... he's a pic of Mr Shaw being all Bondian.

[donna]

got a flutter there all too much too early and at my age too ha ha thanks batman I owe you one.

[Marky B]

Originally Posted by batman I am afraid I have to disagree with you re Craig. I thought his performance was stunning. He perfectly captured the vulnerability of the charcter (mixed in with ruthlessness) that has been missing since Lazenby. Craig's Bond is capablle of killing you, but also of making a real pig's ear of it in the process. Much as I love Bond films .... some of them portray him as a kind of superman. I think Craig will get better and better.

I agree. I was looking forward to seeing him in Casino Royale and he didn't disappoint. Neither did the film.
Ta ta
Marky B

[donna]

oh my god , I have to open the backdoor , oliver tobias too, I think I have a thing for men who have a bit of the monkey in them, oh well at my age I cant be too fussy, bring em on.

[Marky B]

How about changing the sex of the character and have,say,Catherine Zeta Jones as Jane Bond. I would happily be the first Bond boy.
Ta Ta
Marky B

[donna]

but Marky will you come out the ocean weaing a bikini, now be honest would you???

[Moor Larkin]

Originally Posted by batman GL turned down a 7 picture deal

The voice-over guy must have been gutted...........

I'm a bit baffled by some of this. I've watched most of the Bond films on the telly over the years and if I was a good-looking clothes horse I reckon I'd be quite good at it. There is very little acting that goes on, it's all quick conversation, a snog and then lots of running about and shooting guns.

It's all in the direction surely? If Terence Young is to be believed he invented James Bond more than anyone else!

[jacobean]

someone mentioned Tom Adams - now he would have been a good Bond or maybe William Franklyn?

[davidb]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin The voice-over guy must have been gutted........... I'm a bit baffled by some of this. I've watched most of the Bond films on the telly over the years and if I was a good-looking clothes horse I reckon I'd be quite good at it. There is very little acting that goes on, it's all quick conversation, a snog and then lots of running about and shooting guns. It's all in the direction surely? If Terence Young is to be believed he invented James Bond more than anyone else!

wasnt the voice over man inspector wexford ?

[batman]

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin I'm a bit baffled by some of this. I've watched most of the Bond films on the telly over the years and if I was a good-looking clothes horse I reckon I'd be quite good at it. There is very little acting that goes on, it's all quick conversation, a snog and then lots of running about and shooting guns. It's all in the direction surely? If Terence Young is to be believed he invented James Bond more than anyone else!

With some of the Bond films the direction does indeed take centre stage, especially in the Brosnan films. Terence Young took Connery to his own tailor for the clothes, his own barber for the hair and 'taught' him how to behave like a 'gentleman'. As you say Moor any clothes horse can follow direction .... but it takes a good actor to make you believe it. Young created the screen Bond in his own image, but Connery gave him that internal life which we all still love to watch nearly 50 years later. Each actor has brought something of his own personality and physicality to the role and this is what I think has kept the series fresh.

Re dialogue ... it's like the old cliche of 'the way I tell 'em'. Connery made the dark wisecracks his own but Sir Rog couldn't do that (as evidenced in LALD and MWTGG) so Bond morphed into Rog's version, that witty debonair chappie. It took 4 films for Rog to be able to present a darker Bond in FYEO. Dalton wasn't too hot on the wisecracks so Bond changed again.

Lazenby (whether by accident or design) hit on something a bit different, a ruthless yet vulnerable killer. Craig's Bond IMHO is very close to what Lazenby was doing in OHMSS.

[batman]

Originally Posted by davidb wasnt the voice over man inspector wexford ?

Yep.