James Bond
DANIEL CRAIG opens as the new James Bond to very good reviews that have been unexpected by some onlookers. It seems (and I’ve yet to see the film but will this weekend) that he has an ‘edge’ to him that has been missing for some time.
I’ve been a Bond fan for longer than I can remember, in fact I did my dissertation for my degree on ‘The James Bond novels of Ian Fleming and their role in British pulp fiction’.
What’s the views of those of you that have seen the film, why are you not going if indeed you are not?
Here’s a summary of the ‘Bond story’ so far.
SEAN CONNERY
Films:
Dr. No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Connery also played James Bond in Never Say Never Again (1983), which is not generally regarded as an “official” Bond film.
Villains:
Dr Julius No
(Joseph Wiseman in Dr. No)
Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya in From Russia with Love)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
(Anthony Dawson in From Russia with Love and Thunderball, Donald Pleasance in You Only Live Twice, Charles Gray in Diamonds Are Forever)
Auric Goldfinger
(Gert Frobe in Goldfinger)
Emilio Largo
(Adolfo Celi in Thunderball)
Films:
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
Villains:
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas)
Films:
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Moonraker (1979)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Octopussy (1983)
A View to a Kill (1985)
Villains:
Kananga/Mr Big (Yaphet Kotto in Live and Let Die)
Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun)
Karl Stromberg (Curt Jurgens in The Spy Who Loved Me)
Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale in Moonraker)
Aristotle Kristatos (Julian Glover in For Your Eyes Only)
Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan in Octopussy)
General Orlov (Steven Berkoff in Octopussy)
Max Zorin (Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill)
Films:
The Living Daylights (1987)
Licence to Kill (1989)
Villains:
Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbe in The Living Daylights)
Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi in Licence to Kill)
Films:
Goldeneye (1995)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Die Another Day (2002)
Villains:
Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean in Goldeneye)
Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce in Tomorrow Never Dies)
Victor Sokas, aka Renard (Robert Carlyle in The World Is Not Enough)
Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens in Die Another Day)
Films:
Casino Royale (2006)
Enemies:
Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)
Whose been your favourite Bond?
7 Comments »
Leave a comment
About
Name: Dave Location: West Sussex, United Kingdom Level of Education: B.Ed. Occupation: General Manager. Birthplace: London. Marital status: M Children: Three. Do you drink (alcohol): Yes. Do you smoke: No. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up: F1 Racing driver. What would be your dream job now: F1 racing driver! Place you’d most like to visit: New Zealand. Your first car: 1968 Hilman Imp. Dream car: E- Type Jag roadster. Favorite hobbies: Golf, tennis, classic cars. Favorite sport to play: Golf. Favorite sport to watch: Any motor racing. 4 and 2 wheels. Do you have any siblings: No. Do you get along with your parents: Most of the time. Favourite subject in school: History. Least favourite subject in school: Chemistry. Favourite authors: Bernard Cornwall, Alexander Kent. Favourite TV programs: They are nearly all crap. Favorite food: Medium rare fillet steak. Favorite alcoholic drink: A pint of ‘London Pride’ or a ‘gin n tonic’. Things you don’t like: Fools, bigots, gun lovers,racists – you get the picture. How would you characterize your political leanings? A centrist pro european liberal.
Blogroll
- A Revision
- A Whimsie by WendyWings
- After the Glass Slipper
- Aginoth’s ramblings
- BBC
- BBC Sport
- Blah, blah, blah!
- Cakesniffers beware!
- Carmi
- Cheeks n paste n digby
- Craziequeen
- cyberkitten
- Domestic Psychology
- Fighting Inertia
- Gutrumbles
- Happiness is a Good Nap
- Here there and everywhere
- Humanyms
- I don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’t believe it
- ITV F1
- J & K Miserable in Phoenix.
- Juggling Mother – Mrs A’s blog.
- Kimis Confessions
- Last Girl on Earth
- lastnightidreamtofelephants
- Left and Right
- Left-Handed Right
- MG Owners Club
- michele agnew
- Momentary lapses of insanity…
- Mosher’s Unimaginatively Entitled Blog
- Mystickal Incense Blog
- Nakedjen
- No, this really is my life!
- OOLOTH
- Pond Perspective
- Ramblings of the bearded one
- Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
- Simon
- Tales from the chalkface.
- tehblogfather
- Wait ’til next year
- What the…
- What was I THINKING
- Where the Dolphins Play
- Wilkpedia
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
- WWF
- Yahoo
-
Recent Comments
Dave on Rather than e mail it to 20 pe… Lou on Rather than e mail it to 20 pe… Lazy joe on 114099419270920435 Dave on Rather than e mail it to 20 pe… Charee on Rather than e mail it to 20 pe… -
Flickr Photos
More Photos
-
Archives
- February 2009 (1)
- January 2009 (2)
- December 2008 (3)
- October 2008 (1)
- July 2008 (1)
- June 2008 (1)
- May 2008 (1)
- April 2008 (2)
- March 2008 (1)
- February 2008 (4)
- December 2007 (2)
- November 2007 (1)
-
Categories
-
RSS
Entries RSS
Comments RSS
Sean Connery, I think. I haven’t seen many of the Bond films, but I do like his portrayal (or maybe it’s the accent!)
Sean Connery is 007. The other ones try their best with different degrees of success. Michele sent me, nice to see your new home
I haven’t seen a lot of the films either, but my husband loves them. We agree that Sean Connery is the man…but I like him because he is charisma wrapped in a human being. I doubt that is the reason my husband likes him!
Michele sent me!
I’m such a Sean Connery fan that he wins anything for which he is in the running . Here from Michele.
I want to like him… I do…. and maybe I’ll feel differently after I see the film. But right now I find him SO unattractive! I can’t imagine him being believable in love scenes. We”ll see!!
Here via michele… sorry for the delay!
I probably won’t be going. I’m with Panthergirl – he’s just not an attractive man, and certainly no Bond.
On a related note, I took CPR from a guy named James Bond on Saturday. He wasn’t hot either.
I have seen all but about 3. My dad was a big Bond fan and I guess I carry on the tradition. Sean Connery is my favorite. But, this new one is really good! I saw it this week. I think Daniel Craig did a great job, the dialog was better more edgy than some of the Roger Moore ones. I think that Timothy Dalton was my least favorite.