Daniel Craig: Going retro 60's style Bond

[Soph]

Originally Posted by jpeirpont

I think Bale would make a great Bond. Peirce did not make a very good one, I far prefer Craig. In think he is more believable as the character.

I agree, Pierce couldn't kick my little sister's ass. Craig looks like he could rip your throat out if he had too. I know some Bond fans want him to be a preening, suave guy 100% of the time but that isn't Bond. He's a killer first hence the license to kill. He has to be believed in a fight, and that is something Craig delivers not since Connery. Craig looks like he needs 2 quarts of Botox with that mugg of his though

The suit appears much nicer in the additional photos.

 

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by Soph

I agree, Pierce couldn't kick my little sister's ass. Craig looks like he could rip your throat out if he had too. I know some Bond fans want him to be a preening, suave guy 100% of the time but that isn't Bond. He's a killer first hence the license to kill. He has to be believed in a fight, and that is something Craig delivers not since Connery. Craig looks like he needs 2 quarts of Botox with that mugg of his though

The suit appears much nicer in the additional photos.

I completely agree.

 

[Zahir]

Quantum of Solace sounds like a bad Deep Purple cover band

 

[LabelKing]

Paul Lynde should have been Dr.No.

 

[Artisan Fan]

Craig looks good in the pics in my opinion.

 

[gorgekko]

Originally Posted by leon12

In case you're interested.. "Quantum of Solace" from timezone.

...from the third story in "For Your Eyes Only"

This story has no spies, no guns, no supervillains, no global conspiracies, and yet it might be one of the most significant pieces Ian Fleming ever wrote about James Bond.

Bond is sitting on a sofa, after a dinner party, talking with the Colonial Governor. After Bond (who despises small talk) makes a comment about marrying a stewardess, the Governor launches into a story of one of his old coworkers, and it is this tale, told in the older man's voice, that comprises the bulk of the short story.

In brief, it is the story of a young Diplomatic Service man who marries a flight attendant. When she becomes disillusioned with her less-than-flashy life and her uxorious husband, she has a blatant affair. It ruins her husband, who is eventually transferred to Washington for six months.

When he returns, he ruthlessly crushes her spirit much as she did his -- but privately, over the course of a year. In the end he leaves her financially and emotionally ruined, but pays the price of the coarsening of his soul. In the end, she hits bottom and slowly recovers, even finding happiness.

The crux of the story is the emotional phenomenon the Governor calls the Quantum of Solace, the smallest unit of human compassion that two people can have. As long as that compassion exists, people can survive, but when it is gone, when your partner no longer cares about your essential humanity, the relationship is over.

At the end of the story Bond is depressed, and suddenly finds his life of adventure to be fundamentally boring and unfulfilling compared to the real human drama the Governor has told him about.

The unwritten part of the story, the essential truth never spelled out in so many words but clear to anyone who has spent the last week reading the original Bond books is this --

No one in the world has a Quantum of Solace for James Bond.

He is alone. The people closest to him are M., who, in the end treats him like a fine hunting dog, and his elderly housekeeper May, who, as much as she may fuss and fret about his health, will eventually retire and be done with him. From this point on in the series, Bond is crumbling, a man sliding down the slope of his career, a human being rather than the automaton Fleming originally set out to create.

Sweet, another James Bond for Chicks....like the last one except instead of spending what felt like hours in a casino, we get to worry about his feelings. Bah.

 

[Recoil]

At least they fixed his hair. I had his hair cut from Casino Royale when I was 16.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Paul Lynde should have been Dr.No.
That's too Connemara of you. Noel Coward all the way. It's great reading that Fleming tried to pattern Dr. No's manner of speaking and gestures after Noel Coward.

Sorry, but I really hope they don't have any scenes of Bond confiding in his housekeeper in the next film. I mean, srsly.

 

[tiecollector]

I'm hoping the opposite, that he will be asking Q for pointers on how to go about his first kiss.

 

[alebrady]

i like the dunhill suit photos quite a bit - in addition to believing that craig is the best bond since connery (purely subjective, of course - on both points)

 

[Roikins]

Ticket pocket-y:

For the tie obsessed:

 

[raphael]

Originally Posted by Roikins

Ticket pocket-y:

For the tie obsessed:

The hen on the far right is HAWT!

Tie in the final picture is awesome.

 

[JibranK]

Looks like a grey T&A lace tie, no?

 

[LabelKing]

Originally Posted by RJman

That's too Connemara of you. Noel Coward all the way. It's great reading that Fleming tried to pattern Dr. No's manner of speaking and gestures after Noel Coward.

Sorry, but I really hope they don't have any scenes of Bond confiding in his housekeeper in the next film. I mean, srsly.

What about Cecil Beaton?

 

[Roikins]

And judging by the behind the scenes video that was posted, Bond will be wearing a shawl collar DJ with a pleated shirt this time around.