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I started reading Fleming in around '62 . . .

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In Reply to: RE: So much fuss over a fictional character?... posted by musetap on July 14, 2019 at 16:01:09

In the ninth grade. I read most twice and a couple four times. They have no right to upset the Bond Religion apple cart for the sake of politics.

I feel Craig would be the most pleasing to Fleming. Solitary and quiet is the real Bond but by FRWL he had become a wise cracking vaudevillian. The audience wanted it that way.

The opening sequence is what Bond films became. Craig's sequence in Casino Royale is beyond any female performer (and I don't want to watch Rousey do it).

Any thing can happen before the shooting starts. I'd like to see Ron Jeremy be a Bond. He'd be a scream.

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Well, Bond's been dead... - musetap 20:54:07 07/15/19 (0)
it just took a helluva long time for anyone to realize it.

As a teen, I LOVED the Flemings and too read them all at least twice.

BUT, this was the early '70's and the cinematic Bond was well established.

The difference between page and screen was NOT minor, but I very
much enjoyed the Connery era and seeing those films in repertory
houses with full screens for the first time was absolutely thrilling.

Read some of the non Fleming Bond novels too - by decent writers that just
didn't hit the mark. Bond died with Fleming. Period.

Skyfall may as well have been a Mission Impossible movie.

Ron Jeremy? So, straight from 007 to 0012 eh?

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I would say if you read Wikipedia, that NO one has come close... - TWB 20:02:52 07/15/19 (0)
to the description of Bond by Fleming.... with the exception of maybe Pierce Brosnan... But really NONE of them look like Hoagy Carmichael! An interesting summation though....
- James Bond character.... (Open in New Window)
RE: I started reading Fleming in around '62 . . . - troutbum 18:21:59 07/15/19 (2)
I agree with you re: Craig. I think Connery began to enjoy the flippant image.I am quite sorry to se most of the poster to this thread not seeming to be real "fleming/Bond aficionados. The movies, for the most part, have disgraced what Bond was in Flemings writings, Very sad IMO.

Something once great in literature, ruined by Hollywood.

I'm getting old, but it still pisses me off.

Oh to be able to have a cocktail or two with Flemings and get his take.
- I'm waiting for news that Fleming was actually a woman - Wojciech 18:47:50 07/15/19 (1)
  or at least he secretly identified as one and preferably a darker shade of pale... I mean Sean Connery always looked suspicious to me as well with his overblown machismo hiding the truth..
  - LOL... TOO funny! (nt) - TWB 07:56:51 07/16/19 (0)
    NT

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