DBWI: Who's your favourite James Bond?

I have to admit this - my favourite is Sean Connery. I know that Connery gets a bad rap for his two films as Bond, but a lot of the anti-Connery sentiment is just because people tend to see David Niven as the definitive Bond. Connery is a great actor, and played James Bond brilliantly - and his voice & accent don't bother me at all.

So, who's your favourite Bond?

(OOC: POD is that the James Bond film series starts earlier, in the mid-50s, with David Niven in the role. Sean Connery is the second James Bond actor, who played the role in two films made in the early '60s.)
 
Well, Patrick Mcgoohan was actually one of the best interpretations in my mind. Just consider the film Doppleganger (1968) wherein Bond is exiled to "the Island" and forced by Blofeld to battle against the brainwashed Double O's. Also who can forget the bit of:

Bond: "Where am I?"
Agent 006: "In the Village."
Bond: "What do you want?"
Agent:006: "Information."
Bond: "Whose side are you on?"
Agent 006: "That would be telling…. We want information. Information! INFORMATION!"
 
(OOC: Wow, Bondoc, that's got to be a record on your part. The thread only had one fucking post in it before you derailed it.)
 
Christopher Lee is Definitive The best Bond
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Lee in Dr. No (1962)

nothing against Sean Connery, but it was Lee who form Bond in frist 9 movies
better say Ian Fleming form Bond after his cousin Christopher Lee
Albert R. Broccoli was skeptical: "Dracula has to Play Bond?, why not Dr. No ?"
but Fleming and Harry Saltzman persuaded Broccoli to take Lee and give Connery the role as Dr. No

in 1974 after "The Man with the Golden Gun" with Roger Moore as Scaramanga
Christopher Lee had enough of James Bond and wandet other rolls
a young director named Gorge Lukas offer him a roll in Remake of "Flash Gordon"
with Peter Cushing in cast, Christopher Lee say Yes to it.
 

Sachyriel

Banned
I gotta say, there was this one movie, but it had Rube Goldberg as Q...

Forget the actor who played Bond, but I was a kid at the time and I idolized the man. I think it was an old 50s era one, but I could be totally off.

He gave bond a bunch of Dominoes. They were actually explosives, and you could 'shape' a charge any way you wanted, make a trap, and even just set them all off in that steel tin (Making the worlds greatest grenade)

[OOC: Allowable?]
 
Tony Blair was one of the better modern day Bonds and he was the one who really started the trend of fighting neo-nazis. I don't like the early Bonds, to much emphasis on keeping the empire.
 
I think that casting Will Smith in the nineties was a great move, not to mention hearing him talk in a very convincing British accent
 

Sachyriel

Banned
I think that casting Will Smith in the nineties was a great move, not to mention hearing him talk in a very convincing British accent

[OOC: That does seem like a role he might be able to pull off with some severe accent-training...]
 

RyanF

Banned
Definately Cary Grant, despite the fact he only did the one film and there's a lot of controversy about turning the character into a CIA agent and the fact he only did the one film.

The worst has to be Roger Moore, he set the precedent for the continuity reset when the actor changed (i.e. turning him back into a British agent).
 
Pfft. They are all second-class to Connery. Clive Owen in Children of Men was the closest Bond to him.
 

Keenir

Banned
my favorite Bond was Julia Sawalha.

yes, I know she was supposed to be Bond's daughter, but since they gave her the number 007 for her two movies - and in those films, she was the one addressed as "Bond" - she counts.
 
Yeah too bad she was killed in her second movie, word is there going to cast a older actor to play her father coming out of retirement for revenge.


OOC:A female bond would be kinda of interesting.
 
In Germany, there is Joachim Fuchsberger still very known for his outreageous performance in those 60s Ian Flemming movies - black-and-white, but quite stylish. In the 1990s, Bastian Pastewka made a parody out of them. He called it "James Pond".

The best one, however, was Horst Buchholz in "Unser Mann in Istanbul" (based on From Russia with Love). Yeah, I know it's provincial, but it was one of the best West German movies.

Also, in the late 50s German actor Heinz Rühmann played Bond in "Das Versprechen" ("The Promise", losely based on On her majesty's service). Actually, he was seen as to be too old for a more "sexualized" Bond as Fuchsberger or Buchholz were.
 

Keenir

Banned
Yeah too bad she was killed in her second movie, word is there going to cast a older actor to play her father coming out of retirement for revenge.

then I might have to watch for its release date after all.

(hopefully they'll have flashback scenes of him teaching her, or at least of decent father-daughter memories (fishing? cricket?))


OOC:A female bond would be kinda of interesting.

ooc: I agree. that and she's pretty.
 
My favorite James Bond Movie was Goldeneye with Pierce Brosnan I mean most people thought that James Bond would be an outdated series after the peace summit between President Reagan of the US and President Carter of the Confederacy, but that movie brought the Bond series into the modern era.
 
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