![]() ![]() When CASINO ROYALE came out in 2006, I felt like I had finally found a Bond that resonated with me (Blasphemy, I know). Moore, Lazenby, Connory, Dalton, Brosnan, everyone has their own feelings on who James Bond is. If you were to ask a group of people who their ‘favorite James Bond is,’ their answers would represent the entire movie franchise. A feat that SPECTRE seemed to struggle with. The Daniel Craig ‘reboot’ tried to reestablish Bond in a reality chained closer to our own, while still featuring the elements that make up a proper James Bond universe. The implausibility of Bond’s shenanigans became more of the focus and less on the ramifications of being a ’00.’ A double OOooo. Since then, there has never been more than a 5 year gap between BOND movies, with each new film slightly adjusting the character’s persona. NO introduced an international super spy to a world that demanded their spies be ‘gentlemen.’ Men who can seduce their way out of danger and into the beds of the world’s most beautiful women. I suppose Sean Connory is partly to blame. ![]() ‘James Bond: Fireplace Tax Attorney.’ When Ian Fleming was designing his Bond character, he was quoted saying that he wanted Bond to be ‘an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened I wanted him to be a blunt instrument.’ Why then did JAMES BOND become synonymous with ‘seduction, sexuality and tuxedos?’ (Wow, that’s a really dumb question, Mark). I wonder if anytime during the production of SPECTRE, the 24th official entry into the BOND franchise, if anybody acknowledged how boring the name ‘James Bond’ is. ![]()
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