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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 01 Feb 22 7.13pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

For me, its gotta be Roger Moore.

Looking like a fat middle-aged barfly. He temporarily :

puts down the pint & the packet of Benson & Hedges,
removes the dentures,
switches off the hearing-aid

and then beats up an MMA heavyweight champion, seduces a 21 year old beauty queen and hacks the encryption code of a military superpower. Then he nicks a jet fighter and out-manoeuvres the squadron of Top Guns who pursue him, does a slalom down an advanced ski slope , and teaches deep-sea Oil rig engineers how to scuba-dive.

Most people i know born in 1927 can barely work the software on an ATM machine.

Roger Moore in a light blue suit with flared trousers ! Not bad for a Stockwell Stalwart.

what a top top geezer ? or dare i say, a ruddy good chap.

who is your favourite Bond ?

Edited by PalazioVecchio (01 Feb 2022 7.29pm)

Edited by PalazioVecchio (25 Dec 2023 2.37pm)

 


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View monkey's Profile monkey Flag Sittingbourne,Kent 01 Feb 22 8.50pm Send a Private Message to monkey Add monkey as a friend

Sir Roger Moore for me as well, the 70’s were bond at its best. He was my hero as The Saint, then Brett St Clair in The Persuaders and as if he wasn’t cool enough for me as a school boy he got the bond gig
I was genuinely gutted when he passed away

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 01 Feb 22 9.08pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Sean for me he had that streak of nastiness.

The two producers wanted Connery from the start however the finance came from the American film studio and they didn't want an unknown Scottish actor.

That is why there are so many claims that so and so actor was supposed to be Bond. There was a tug of war going on between the producers and the studio with both sides suggesting compromise candidates.

The Americans actually wanted Cary Grant (see North by Northwest for his Bond audition). Grant however didn't want to do 3 picture deal so turned it down.

Other names were suggested by both sides but eventually the producers got their way and Connery got the gig.

Ironically Roger Moore was exactly the type of Bond that the Americans wanted, he played it light and humorous very much like Cary Grant would have done.

 


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View Jimenez's Profile Jimenez Flag SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 01 Feb 22 9.34pm Send a Private Message to Jimenez Add Jimenez as a friend

Originally posted by Badger11

Sean for me he had that streak of nastiness.

The two producers wanted Connery from the start however the finance came from the American film studio and they didn't want an unknown Scottish actor.

That is why there are so many claims that so and so actor was supposed to be Bond. There was a tug of war going on between the producers and the studio with both sides suggesting compromise candidates.

The Americans actually wanted Cary Grant (see North by Northwest for his Bond audition). Grant however didn't want to do 3 picture deal so turned it down.

Other names were suggested by both sides but eventually the producers got their way and Connery got the gig.

Ironically Roger Moore was exactly the type of Bond that the Americans wanted, he played it light and humorous very much like Cary Grant would have done.

And why not? Thank you Barry 'Badger' Norman....

 


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Connery because it’s still his role but I like Craig - he plays the part as what it is. An assassin.

 

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Connery - he was the first and he was a nasty b*****d as well as playing the Lothario role well.
Craig is just as good nowadays but those two are way above the others in my opinion.

 

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It's possible to make them of course but similar to the carry on movies I don't think Bond fits as well outside of the sixties and seventies.

Now they try to make something that is politically incorrect at its core into something that is.

It's as realistic as the Cowboy and Indian movies of the fifties were to what actually happened during that past.....though obviously Bond's a fiction.

 


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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 02 Feb 22 9.48am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

It's possible to make them of course but similar to the carry on movies I don't think Bond fits as well outside of the sixties and seventies.

Now they try to make something that is politically incorrect at its core into something that is.

It's as realistic as the Cowboy and Indian movies of the fifties were to what actually happened during that past.....though obviously Bond's a fiction.

How many 'actual' Cowboy and Indian films were there?

 


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Originally posted by Stirlingsays

It's possible to make them of course but similar to the carry on movies I don't think Bond fits as well outside of the sixties and seventies.

Now they try to make something that is politically incorrect at its core into something that is.

It's as realistic as the Cowboy and Indian movies of the fifties were to what actually happened during that past.....though obviously Bond's a fiction.

That would be my suggestion to the producers reboot the franchise but set it firmly in the fifties and sixties when the books were written.

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 02 Feb 22 10.10am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by YT

How many 'actual' Cowboy and Indian films were there?

Not sure what you mean? The answer is hundreds of movies and TV shows.

 


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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 02 Feb 22 11.22am Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

Originally posted by Badger11

Not sure what you mean? The answer is hundreds of movies and TV shows.

Yep, right. There's a Top 100 on IMDB and #1 is The Searchers.

 


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View Palace Old Geezer's Profile Palace Old Geezer Flag Midhurst 02 Feb 22 11.29am Send a Private Message to Palace Old Geezer Add Palace Old Geezer as a friend

My wife is a fan of Pierce Brosnan as Bond. I think I still plump for Connery, mainly because he more accurately fits Ian Fleming's characterisation.

However, I do enjoy Craig's films, but they have moved the role into a new era, but still a long way from what goes on out there in the real world of espionage I suspect.

 


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