What Was Your Favorite James Bond Movie?

For me, it was casino Royale. I'm sure some boomer tards will disagree.

I also liked that one with the hot Cuban chick in it, like in the desert or something.

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Golden Eye

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I haven't seen any of the new ones. Roger Moore was okay, but Sean Connery was my favorite.

I used to have all the Ian Fleming books, and they were fun to read.

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Ian Flemming reputedly envisioned Hoagy Carmichael to play J.B.

"According to his first Bond book, 1952's Casino Royale, 007 actually resembled American actor, composer and singer Hoagy Carmichael, who claimed his Oscar win for Best Original Song in 1951, for his track 'In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening'.

In the book itself the character Vesper Lynd, a love interest of Bond's, remarks how 007 "reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless".

Additionally, in 1955's Bond thriller Moonraker, again his resemblance to the Indiana-born entertainer was referenced. The character Gala Brand, a Special Branch Officer, described the Briton as "certainly good-looking... rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way".

She added: "That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold."

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He (Flemming) originally called for a number of high-profile Hollywood stars to play the Eton-educated Bond in the film adaptations.

Included in this list were names such as Cary Grant. Unfortunately for Fleming, the North by Northwest star was "too expensive".

So Bond boss Cubby Broccoli settled on Connery instead. And Fleming was furious.

Fleming was not happy with Connery playing 007 in the film adaptation of his novels.

In fact, he was very angry about a "working-class Scot" playing his purely British secret agent.

The pair did not like one another. But they didn't meet until the production of Dr No, where Fleming insulted Connery.

Connery recalled: "I never got introduced to Fleming until I was well into the movie, but I know he was not that happy with me as a choice."

He even insulted the star's acting abilities.

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Goldfinger - "A martini. Shaken, not stirred."

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nah... a martini should always be stirred and not shaken.

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Definitely 'Dolly and the Braces'

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The James Bond books and movies are cheesy sexist male power fantasies and not good books or movies unless you are an adolescent boy.

Everyone knows Fleming had some experience as a desk jockey in British Naval Intelligence and wrote that limited experience into the books but one little known fact is that the books draw heavily on the actual field experience (and debonair suaveness) of his step cousin, the aristocrat turned spy turned actor known as Christopher Lee. Yes, that one!

Wikipedia and other sources go into details about his prolific and illustrious wartime military career but glasses over the Intelligence stuff but you can piece it together from his biographies and other sources.

While a generation knows Christopher Lee as Star Wars’ power-hungry Count Dooku and evil wizard Saruman in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, off-screen Lee lived the secretive life of James Bond.

Accomplished at fencing and proficient in Russian, Greek, and six other languages, Lee - the son of an Italian countess - served as a WWII intelligence officer with the Royal Air Force and later hunted down Nazi war criminals.


Christopher Lee: wartime spy‍

Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was born in Belgravia, London, the son of a retired Colonel. He came of age during WWII and was attached to Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) and the secretive Special Operations Executive as a Royal Air Force liaison officer, in addition to being seconded to the Army during the brutal Battle of Monte Cassino.

While some credit Lee with moving behind enemy lines in North Africa and sabotaging German Luftwaffe planes and airfields from Egypt to Libya, others have downplayed his role. Lee wasn’t revealing his secretive wartime work either way: "Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like."

Lee also used his considerable language skills to track Nazi war criminals alongside the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, a job that required him to visit concentration camps and interrogate suspects. "We were given dossiers of what they'd done and told to find them, interrogate them as much as we could and hand them over to the appropriate authority," Lee said.

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nah... a martini should always be stirred and not shaken.

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There seems to be some contentous confusion as to whether Flemming favoured Christopher Lee or Hoagy Carmichael for the role of J.B.

Sean Connery seemed to conjoin both aspects of the character.

Some might argue Pierce Bond even more so.

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There seems to be some contentous confusion as to whether Flemming favoured Christopher Lee or Hoagy Carmichael for the role of J.B.

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*working class Scot*

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The best James bond movie? All of them depending on the Zeitgeist at the time.

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^ that's a good point, generally they were keyed to citting edge technology and social trends (clothes) of their times.
The 70's Bonds suckd, as did the 70's for example.

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^ yeah but what I meant is what was cool and to be a man at the time

Extremely impressionable.

It was kind of a genesis of manlihood? (If you could call it that).

My impression of manlihood would be something like: close your eyes, sigh, and do the thing that sucks. Easy to say, VERY hard to execute.

That's it. Anything outside of that is just an excuse to be a wussy.

Then again, not everyone is badass as me :D

Before crying about who posted this, take my words to heart.

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^ two points;

1. That ANY young man would base his personal male identity upon some iconic movie theater personna MIGHT indicate a lack of said REAL male role models in his REAL adolescent environment.(immediate family)

2.James Bond the character was created in the time of the 1950's. Certainly parts of that character would be out of line with modern day masculine archetypes.

Which, begs the question as to positive or negative male role models, which is superiour, vis a vis the 1950's and the 2020's?

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With respect to the 'male' archetypial cultural modelling one can easily discern..
'A trend'

Baselining on 20's -50's male's often patterned themselves from books and screens on the Western 'cowboy'.

Highly moralistic, rough yet heart of gold umderstated heros survived any and all unfair struggles and adversaries to ultimately rise into mythic legendary icons (Shane and the like)

Then in the 50's and 60's western mythology gave way to secret agents and spys.

Arguably in these decades moral character suffered, mysoginy and flaws made male heros far more human and far more flawed.

Lines blended and blurred but still the male emerged heroic and victorious though in gray tones, not black or white.

FF to the 2020s and who is the male role model.

Women.

The M SHE U.
MS. INDIANA JONES
JAMES BLOND

long gone are the days of traditional male modeling, replaced with rainbo ambiguity and univeral androgeny.

Perfect modelling for a universal one world

Society.

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Which, begs the question as to positive or negative male role models, which is superiour, vis a vis the 1950's and the 2020's?

RE: What Was Your Favorite James Bond Movie?

With respect to the 'male' archetypial cultural modelling one can easily discern..
'A trend'

Baselining on 20's -50's male's often patterned themselves from books and screens on the Western 'cowboy'.

Highly moralistic, rough yet heart of gold umderstated heros survived any and all unfair struggles and adversaries to ultimately rise into mythic legendary icons (Shane and the like)

Then in the 50's and 60's western mythology gave way to secret agents and spys.

Arguably in these decades moral character suffered, mysoginy and flaws made male heros far more human and far more flawed.

Lines blended and blurred but still the male emerged heroic and victorious though in gray tones, not black or white.

FF to the 2020s and who is the male role model.

Women.

The M SHE U.
MS. INDIANA JONES
JAMES BLOND

long gone are the days of traditional male modeling, replaced with rainbo ambiguity and univeral androgeny.

Perfect modelling for a universal one world

Society.

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Queery:
"How do you define a woman?"
Response:
"why.. Cool hand luke of course."

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I wonder what that hot pocket fatass is up to anyway?

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Magus is an absolute moron and just like the anus there is no need for him to write his name in the box because his posts always have that manlet overcompensating flavor of cringe.

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Magus is an absolute moron and just like the anus there is no need for him to write his name in the box because his posts always have that manlet overcompensating flavor of cringe that makes his posts immediately identifiable.

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Magus ..


is an absolute moron.

like the anus.


there is no need for him.

his posts..

always...

cringe.

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Uh-oh. It looks like there are a few people in this thread that are crying again because I bullied them. What now?

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What now?

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What now?

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Definitely 'Dolly and the Braces'

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You are still a coping seething moron who got their account deleted and the most trolled laughing stock on the forum.

How's that working out for ya, dummy?