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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.
This is one of the most wonderful celebrity stories I’ve seen
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!
/s
Schuck it, Reverendender! Schuck it long, and schuck it hard!
Le Tits Now! For $200
PENIS MIGHTIER!
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.
Wasn’t Casino Royale the first novel to be published? It might have just been that he was new to writing, and not thinking about movie rights.
I meant that the first book and at least some more were great. Then the quality of the writing did a nosedive for whatever reason.
I highly recommend reading Casino, though not the full book series.
Ahh I misread, my bad. Does the book also have the parkour chase sequence?
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
Huh, I had missed that he passed away (or forgotten about it). Hope he’s being abused by women in the afterlife.
Goldeneye was my favorite film as a kid but Moore was always the classiest, a real gentleman.
Timothy Dalton was the best Bond, closest to the books.
License to Kill was a bit before its time. Bourne before Bourne was a thing. I think people still wanted the campy Moore era and just weren’t ready for that.
Casino Royale aped the Bourne thing later and was a smash hit.
He was much better as a supermarché owner in any case.
How many times has Bond quit/fired MI-6 at this point? The Craig Bond being a lonely beach boozer was a nice callback but damn dude put on a suit and shoot
A real slasher of … bad guys.
the greater good
Those crusty jugglers…
I don’t think Lazenby gets enough credit but yeah I’d agree. Dalton is also the best actor outside of Bond, Connery probably has more credits but he’s not a time lord.
Connery was a good actor but I think he got stuck to the role of the secret agent/military man/though guy, although I enjoyed his performance in Finding Forrester.
Lazenby was the forgotten Bond, right? I agree. He had a presence but I think he was badly received after the Connery era as his Bond was more mild mannered. When Roger Moore took the character and broke off the previous mold, it simply erased the previous Bond and started the fan theory that Bond was a codename and not an individual.
started the fan theory that Bond was a codename and not an individual.
Interesting like the knights in Kingsman.
Exactly
That’s a fact!
I have to admit, I was a bit leary coming in here, but that’s a great story.
That pressed a tear out of this man here. Great story! Great man!
That’s a great story, it’s nice hearing about people being treated well by famous people. Thanks for sharing.
That is a lovely story.
