If Fleming came back to life for 3 hours, and you can show him 1 movie
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To show him how far his series has come. What would it be?
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Probably try and eat your brains !
God forbid you'd show him moonraker!
I would start by telling him that his character is in safe hands and then proceed to play him MR and DAD double bill - refreshments after MR. I will let you all know if he has a sense of humour.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I saw CR06 a 3rd time yesterday and I thought about how Fleming would react. I agree the first hour would have puzzled him because it wasn't in the book and Fleming wouldn't identify with terrorism replacing the Cold War as the world's biggest threat like we do. The 2nd half of CR06, I agree.
Why do you say he wouldn't have liked Craig? In a number of ways, he's much truer to the character than Connery was. Purely on Craig's physical features, or would Fleming find him a bit morose?
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Instresting concept AC! I would probably go with Licence to Kill myself. (
I personally didn't like OHMSS but it's defenitely another one he should see!
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From what it seems like, Fleming wanted more of a down to earth Bond. The fast-cut action and the camp probably would offput him. But once you sell your ideas, they're not yours anymore.
Funny how we'd show him OHMSS, CR06 and such, when he might just be a big TMWTGG fan.
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As far as I'm concerned he only got to see Dr. No and From Russia With Love. He died before he could see the enormous phenomenon cinematic Bond truly became with the third movie. (He was on the set of Goldfinger though)
On this topic though, what I always found to be really strange is that Sean Connery said in an interview behind the scenes of Diamonds Are Forever that Fleming was also on the set on the bahamas for Thunderball. I always assumed he already died by that point. So apparantely Connery was either having a false memory or they started filming Thunderball rediciously early before Goldfinger even hit the theatre's. (I guess it's possible, since they were still releasing the films in concecutive years back then...)
Anybody else know if Fleming was actually on the set of Thunderball??
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Well, Fleming approved of Connery in the role after he saw him. Craig, however, is even further from the gentleman that Fleming wanted Bond to be. Connery was turned into a gentleman for Bond, but Craig has not. The looks, too, would probably turn off Fleming.
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Fleming would have loved the early ones but would have hated the OTT ones which would have occured about YOLT. He'd have been very snobbish about the Moore Bonds. He would have enjoyed the Dalton Bonds..
The Brosnan Bonds? Oh dear - what kind of embarasment is this? And would have probably resulted in legal action to get his name off the titles. Craig would have brought him back to the fold - he'd have enjoyed those. And would have worked with eon on them himself. You can see him do background work in Skyfall or do research into Severine..
hahaha, great idea! -{
Btw, I love the Austin Powers flicks.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Yes, +1.
As to his ideal casting choices for Bond, ie David Niven, Stewart Granger, etc., one has to keep in mind that he also thought his friend Noel Coward could have played Dr. No (and when he asked him Coward replied "No....a thousand times No!". Coward always had great replies.
Niven was friends with Coward and Fleming (he stayed at Coward's place near Goldeneye and the poor actor came down with chicken pox on his first visit!), so it's easy to see why he would have been another choice of Fleming to play Bond. Also, when Fleming met Niven during the war Niven was a Royal Commando, so it was another check mark in his favor. This shows the problem with not being objective when it comes to casting film roles for your own novels. The only ones that Fleming liked that really would have worked would have been Stewart Granger and Cary Grant. The problem was that by the time EON started making the series they were all too old for the part
- even Niven turned fifty in 1960.
I'm inclined to go for this as well; it seems like it would be closer to Fleming's political environment than the modern films.
To me The Living Daylights is the last one that actually felt like a "Spy thriller" and also happens to be my favourite Bond film.
I know it has a couple of silly moments (cello case anyone?) but it has a really solid spy story, which, in places, takes a bit of following with all the double-crosses going on.
Coupled with what I think is the best single Bond performance by an actor, I think it is a winner.