Daniel Craig is James Bond!!!

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CREVANREAVER

Friday, October 14, 2005 12:24 PM

It's official! Daniel Craig is Bond, James Bond.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12901779.htm

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/14/new.bond.actor/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1825142,00.html

CITIZEN

Friday, October 14, 2005 4:34 PM

Oh dear...

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HKCAVALIER

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:19 PM

I'm just happy that they didn't cast another aging pretty boy swoon-machine with a toup'. Every last one of these latterday Bonds has been in the lamo-jamo Roger Moore mold. I mean Orlando Bloom was on their short list, fer chrisakes! No one since Connery has brought anything close to the level of menace and violence the role requires. Anybody read them books? OO7 was a psychopath. Daniel Craig might finally get things back on track.

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CITIZEN

Friday, October 14, 2005 5:22 PM

I think he'll be the same as the previous vein. I've read the books though, HK, and entirly agree.

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SEVENPERCENT

Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:56 AM

Daniel Craig is also apparently shtupping (sp?) Sienna Miller, making it the second thing he's stolen from Jude Law this month. Wonder if he can get a trifecta.......

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GREGGALLINSON

Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:58 AM

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Originally posted by SevenPercent:
Daniel Craig is also apparently shtupping (sp?) Sienna Miller, making it the second thing he's stolen from Jude Law this month. Wonder if he can get a trifecta.......

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He looked bigger when I couldn't see him.

Show me evidence that Jude Law was ever seriously considered for the Bond role, let alone in the shortlist of final contenders.

Anyway, I'm in a "wait and see" mode. I do like that they went with a "gritty" actor as opposed to another colourless Moore/Brosnan prettyboy, but IMO, toss a scar on Clive Owen's face and you've got Fleming's Bond. Julian McMahon or Chiwetel Ejiofor would've worked for me too...

GREGGALLINSON

Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:03 AM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Anybody read them books? OO7 was a psychopath. Daniel Craig might finally get things back on track.

I wouldn't go that far, but he was certainly an existentialist who was not above doing not-so-nice things. The one quote that probably sums up Bond for me is "It's not difficult to get a Double O number if you're prepared to kill
people. That's all the meaning it has. It's nothing to be particularly proud of" from Casino Royale. Just drives home the fact that Bond was a burnt-out man whose job was killing, and it wasn't a job that particularly thrilled him.

RIVERSGUY

Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:05 AM

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but IMO, toss a scar on Clive Owen's face and you've got Fleming's Bond.

Originally posted by GreggAllinson

Could not have said it better. I am a fan of Daniel Craig since Our Friends in the North and can kinda see him as Bond, but IMO Clive would be fantastic.

Oh for what its worth, I thought Timothy Dalton did a better job than he is given credit for too

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GREGGALLINSON

Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:07 AM

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Originally posted by RiversGuy:
Oh for what its worth, I thought Timothy Dalton did a better job than he is given credit for too

Dalton was outstanding. While Licence to Kill has aged somewhat poorly in the sense that it's very obviously a movie from the '80s, it's Fleming's Bond all the way; one of the few movies outside the first two Connery films and OHMSS to get anywhere close to the spirit of Bond as he was in the novels. I think that's a big reason why it's so unpopular with casual fans: they think Bond is a cross between Adam West's Batman and John Steed from the Avengers because that's really the way he was played in the later Connery and most of the Moore films. Give me Fleming's existentialist antihero any day.

TIGER

Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:46 AM

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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
I'm just happy that they didn't cast another aging pretty boy swoon-machine with a toup'. Every last one of these latterday Bonds has been in the lamo-jamo Roger Moore mold. I mean Orlando Bloom was on their short list, fer chrisakes! No one since Connery has brought anything close to the level of menace and violence the role requires. Anybody read them books? OO7 was a psychopath. Daniel Craig might finally get things back on track.

Darn tootin' HK. He was an over-boozed, cold womanizing, tough bastard, wrapped in a thin veil of British propriety. I'm still waiting for them to make a REAL James Bond movie. Craig seems to have the look of a man on the raggedy edge - at least that's encouraging. Also, I just read today somewhere that this next movie will focus less on gadgets and more on characters. Casino Royale is a good book for that approach.

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