The name's Bond. James Bond.

[SandraJane]

Where do you think we got Ninja's Ninjas from?

Same place the Bond plots got them from, Japanese History.  And Tiger's Ninjas?  Really?  You can see them right there in the movie, so they ain't really Ninjas.

...why thank you...didn't know that. Also just Ninja can be used for the plural form. Besides...it was a Bond movie...not real life.


nin·ja (nĭnjə)
Share: nin·ja
n. pl. ninja or nin·jas
A member of a class of medieval Japanese mercenary agents who were trained in the martial arts and hired for covert operations such as assassination and sabotage.
[Japanese : nin, to endure (from Early Middle Chinese in'; also the source of Mandarin rěn) + sha, person (from Middle Chinese tia´, pronoun for head of a relative clause; also the source of Mandarin zhě).]- American Heritage Dictionary  http://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=ninja%27s

[Cindy]

On Tekla's comment, I feel the number is passed on, rather than a replacement as in Dr Who.

Sean Connery managed in, at the least the early movies, to display the arrogance and aggression that Fleming seemed to feel for the character. DC does something very similar. I really like the DC character as portrayed in Casino Royale. SoS was terrible, what a waste.

But I view the DC version as a new bond, hence my comment that the number is passed on.

I thought the RM, TD, PB had just comic book characters that Fleming would have puked over.

Waiting to see Skyfall and I'm particularly interested in the character by Javier Bardem who I think is a tremendous actor

[aleon515]

Skyfall is great. Took my girlfriend and it was my first date in 35 years!

--Jay J

[FTMDiaries]

I never was a fan of the Connery incarnation: I always found him far too sexist for my tastes. But then again, he was a product of his era. Daniel Craig's Bond is just the right mix of ex-SAS hardman and arrogant secret agent, without the misogyny of the 1960s. After that, probably Pierce Brosnan.

And he must remain British. It would totally ruin it for me to have him played by (or become) any other nationality, although I've made a rather hypocritical exception for Brosnan.

[tekla]

If Danial Day Lewis can play an American president, then Denzel can play Bond.

[FTMDiaries]

If Danial Day Lewis can play an American president, then Denzel can play Bond.

Abraham Lincoln was a real, living person so they picked an actor who most closely resembles him. Can you think of any other actor - American or otherwise - who more closely resembles Lincoln than Daniel Day-Lewis?

[tekla]

Well Spielberg did, originally casting Liam Neeson who took the role who bowed out a year into the project saying he was too old to play the part.

& all that tends to be negotiable - as you find with Tom Seleck playing Ike or Scott as Patton.  Or British actor Anthony Hopkins as Nixon.  And, Lincoln is not the only iconic American that DDL has portrayed, having also done Hawkeye (the original American icon) in The Last of the Mohicans, and the beyond superbly amazing Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, and also did an Edith Warton character, as well as The Crucible.  He is noted for going to some pretty amazing lengths to get the character right, and if I'm not mistaken he spend a solid year working with make-up artists to get Lincoln near-perfect.


And while we're at it its' a shame that a young Ashwarya Rai never got to be a Bond Girl.

[SandraJane]

Who was your favorite Bond villain or henchman (or henchwoman)?

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

Emilio Largo



And I love the SPECTRE yacht.

[FTMDiaries]

Xenia Onatopp. Total psycho, crazy lady, and kicked Bond's backside as I recall.

[tekla]

Kurt Geddis as Auric Goldfinger was pretty spectacular, but so was Robert Shaw in From Russia with Love.  Tip of the hat to Christopher Lee as Scaramanga and Yaphet Kotto in Live and Let Die.

Though with Largo you have one of the best bits of dialoge.

James Bond: That gun, it looks more fitting for a woman.
Emilio Largo: You know much about guns, Mr. Bond?
James Bond: No, but I know a little about women.



Gert Frobe - that's right.  I don't know why I spaced that - except that I'm cooking.  And I'm still down with Robert Shaw as a real assassin, where others like Oddjob were more (or too) cartoonish.

[spacial]

I tend to think, when producers are casting roles they have the same concern as when they do just about anything else, how much it will cost them and how much profit they get back. I just doubt the nationality of the actor is a factor at all.

I confess I haven't looked any many Bond films. I saw a Sean Connery film in the 60s, on a school trip. It looked good. I did see Sean Connery in another film with Edward Woodward called The Hill. Not everyone's cup of tea, but enough to get me rather warm!!

I saw one with Roger Moore. It was the inflight movie of a rather long flight. 14 hours as I recall. Not sure which one but I recall, in on scene, they brought out all the 00s. Hated it. Felt I was being insulted. I remember Moore from a TV series (again in the 60s), called The Saint. He was a the same there frankly, only compensated for by the production values of Lew Grade as I recall.

Saw Daniel Craig in Casino Royale The scene where he did his own heart defib from a couple of wires in his car was stupid. But apart from that, that guy can visit me if he wants.

[Jamie D]

I brought a Walther PP back from Germany.  It was a .32 auto, a great belt gun.

<Backs away ... slowly>

[SandraJane]

Villan...Goldfinger, and Telly Savalas' Bloefeld in OHMS...Gert Frobe played Auric Goldfinger.






Henchperson...ODDJOB!





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_henchmen

[SandraJane]

...and favorite "Bond Girl"?

[Brooke777]

I love all the Bond movies, I own all of them.

Sean Connery is the best bond followed by Roger Moore.

I think Halle Berry is the best bond girl.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

Two Bond Girls:

Diana Rigg
A.K.A.: Tracy Bond
Bond Assignment: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Key Data: She was Bond's only wife.

And of course, Caroline "Tula" Cossey, one of our own.

[Devlyn]

All glory to Odd Job!

[tekla]

Ursula Undress (Dr. Honey Rider) as they called her at the time is always going to be the most iconic, Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) in second.

[SandraJane]

Aki from "You Only Live Twice" and Diana Rigg as "Mrs James Bond", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"...



 

...and not to be forgotten...Miss Moneypenny...