When reading any of the Fleming novels (and other Bond novels situated in the Fleming continuity - novelisations excepted) I've always imagined Bond vaguely as the Connery of DN and FRWL, but even leaner of face and with the comma of hair added, the scar and the clear grey-blue eyes. No images of other Bond actors intrude on my consciousness when immersed in reading the novels, nor do Connery's later looks as Bond.
I'd explain this partly by the fact that ITV was broadcasting the early Bond films for the first time on British television at around the time (1975-76) that I was avidly reading Fleming novels (although I think I'd made a start on my reading a couple of years before then).
True, Moore's image as Bond was, at the time, on the covers of film tie-in paperback reissues of 'Live And Let Die' and 'The Man With The Golden Gun' - and, for example, on the cover of Geoff Love's popular tribute album of the Bond themes - but Connery's image remained at least as potent and, in my mind as a reader, suffused Fleming's ouevre, not just the titles that had been made as Bond films starring Connery.
Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
When reading Fleming, I have always pictured something similar to John Hamm, circa 2008. The first time I ever saw John Hamm I immediately thought: “wow, he looks like Fleming’s Bond!
"...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
Don Draper is IMHO more 'Flemings Bond' than any Bond actor in this short scene. He is always my imagined literary Bond. I wish they could replicate this seriousness in the films than the purvis and wade nonsense.
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When reading any of the Fleming novels (and other Bond novels situated in the Fleming continuity - novelisations excepted) I've always imagined Bond vaguely as the Connery of DN and FRWL, but even leaner of face and with the comma of hair added, the scar and the clear grey-blue eyes. No images of other Bond actors intrude on my consciousness when immersed in reading the novels, nor do Connery's later looks as Bond.
I'd explain this partly by the fact that ITV was broadcasting the early Bond films for the first time on British television at around the time (1975-76) that I was avidly reading Fleming novels (although I think I'd made a start on my reading a couple of years before then).
True, Moore's image as Bond was, at the time, on the covers of film tie-in paperback reissues of 'Live And Let Die' and 'The Man With The Golden Gun' - and, for example, on the cover of Geoff Love's popular tribute album of the Bond themes - but Connery's image remained at least as potent and, in my mind as a reader, suffused Fleming's ouevre, not just the titles that had been made as Bond films starring Connery.
When reading Fleming, I have always pictured something similar to John Hamm, circa 2008. The first time I ever saw John Hamm I immediately thought: “wow, he looks like Fleming’s Bond!
Can vary, but often Jason Isaacs for me.
I think the Mad Men producers knew what they had in Jon Hamm and the 60s Bond vibe he exuded
Yes tend to agree there, it's someone very like him in my mind too.
Don Draper is IMHO more 'Flemings Bond' than any Bond actor in this short scene. He is always my imagined literary Bond. I wish they could replicate this seriousness in the films than the purvis and wade nonsense.
No apologies for quoting myself, since it was over 12 years ago now!