Most Important Skills of James Bond

jbondresearcher97

What are the most important skills a 00 agent should be trained on? I've already got a few, but I'm looking for many more.

Hope you can help! Thanks.


Current List:
- Firearms
- Martial Arts
- Evasive Driving
- Skydiving
- Scuba diving
-...

Barbel

Moved to more appropriate forum.

Number24

- Demolitions

- Knowledge of fine wines and drinks

- Piloting helicopters and planes

jbondresearcher97

Oh, yeah! That's great! I'm trying to put together an "unofficial fan list" of every skill a 00 would need.

Thanks for your input!

AugustWalker

seduction of course!

Number24

Opening zippers and bras, with or without the aid of gadgets from Q branch.

jbondresearcher97

Yes; an essential skill for every 00!

Jellyfish

Languages & disguises.

Number24

Bond hardly ever uses disguises. He was disguised as a clown in OP and I guess he was under disguise as Hilly in OHMSS.


-Finding and using listening devices

-skiing

AugustWalker

Jellyfish wrote:

Languages & disguises.

I would extend ’disguise‘ to convincingly posing with alternate identities/ covers.

Number24

OK, even though 007 doesn't do that very often either.

Matt S

Number24 wrote:

OK, even though 007 doesn't do that very often either.

Bond has had quite a few covers: David Somerset, Mr Fisher, Peter Franks, Robert Sterling, James St. John Smythe, James Stock, James Beech, and others. I would also consider situations like Klaus Hergersheimer to be using a cover.

Sir Hillary Bray

OK, it's not really a skill, but c'mon -- Bond's most important trait is a cast-iron liver.

Number24

Matt S wrote:

Number24 wrote:

OK, even though 007 doesn't do that very often either.

Bond has had quite a few covers: David Somerset, Mr Fisher, Peter Franks, Robert Sterling, James St. John Smythe, James Stock, James Beech, and others. I would also consider situations like Klaus Hergersheimer to be using a cover.

James Bond has taken on many names, but I would argue he hasn't taken on many identities. In most of these cases he has another name in his identity papers and he introduces himself with another name. But does he change the way he talks, walks, jokes, his interests …. how he behaves?

Matt S

Number24 wrote:

Matt S wrote:

Number24 wrote:

OK, even though 007 doesn't do that very often either.

Bond has had quite a few covers: David Somerset, Mr Fisher, Peter Franks, Robert Sterling, James St. John Smythe, James Stock, James Beech, and others. I would also consider situations like Klaus Hergersheimer to be using a cover.

James Bond has taken on many names, but I would argue he hasn't taken on many identities. In most of these cases he has another name in his identity papers and he introduces himself with another name. But does he change the way he talks, walks, jokes, his interests …. how he behaves?

He has only done that a few times, as Sir Hilary Bray and as James St John Smythe. But an identity for Bond usually just means papers, such as the papers he had in Octopussy.

Number24

To get back on topic:

-a knowledge of style and clothes

jbondresearcher97

What about...

- hacking
- parkour
- poker
- knowledge of foreign cultures

Number24

I can't remember him hacking or doing parkour.

Thunderpussy

) you clearly haven't seen Casino Royale

Number24

He doesn't hack or do parkour in CR. Molakka does parkour, Bond doesn't.

Thunderpussy

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I think you're using the ....
.... " Baby I F**ked her, But I make love to you " argument.

Matt S

Number24 wrote:

I can't remember him hacking or doing parkour.

He shows that he can hack in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service when he goes for a ride with Tracy. He also hacks M’s computer in Casino Royale. So he can hack in two entirely different meanings of the word!

jbondresearcher97

Even if it was never shown in one of the films, wouldn’t it still be an important skill to have as a 00?

Number24

I forgot about Bond hacking into M's computer, but I too think doing something once make sit an important skill.
And trying to catch a parkour runner doesn't make you one, a bit like using a motor boat to catch up with a sailboat doesn't show you have the skill to sail a sail boat .

Thunderpussy

So if someone is running away from me and I give chase, I'm
Not running too. ? If we both fall in to water and he can swim
but I can't and we both drown , then I haven't really drowned as
I wasn't a swimmer ? )

Number24

Thunderpussy wrote:

So if someone is running away from me and I give chase, I'm
Not running too. ? If we both fall in to water and he can swim
but I can't and we both drown , then I haven't really drowned as
I wasn't a swimmer ? )

Yes, but Bond and Malukka use different techniques to get from A to B. Simply put Bond often uses brute force and muscle strength, while Malukka uses agility and fancy moves. The obvious example may be that Malukka jumped over a high wall and Bond smashed through it. I think my sailboat/motorboat example was pretty neat: both travel on the water, but the way to acomplish it is very different. I guess boxing and judo is another example. The way I understand parkour it's about using the environment to get somewhere in an agile and elegant way. I think what Bond did was more seeing the environment a series of obstacles that are problems that must be handled using superiour muscle power.

It's the same task, but the philosophy and how it's done are different.

zaphod99

Thunderpussy wrote:

So if someone is running away from me and I give chase, I'm
Not running too. ? If we both fall in to water and he can swim
but I can't and we both drown , then I haven't really drowned as
I wasn't a swimmer ? )

Zeno's paradox ? All getting very meta on AJB is it not?

Matt S

Number24 wrote:

Thunderpussy wrote:

So if someone is running away from me and I give chase, I'm
Not running too. ? If we both fall in to water and he can swim
but I can't and we both drown , then I haven't really drowned as
I wasn't a swimmer ? )

Yes, but Bond and Malukka use different techniques to get from A to B. Simply put Bond often uses brute force and muscle strength, while Malukka uses agility and fancy moves. The obvious example may be that Malukka jumped over a high wall and Bond smashed through it. I think my sailboat/motorboat example was pretty neat: both travel on the water, but the way to acomplish it is very different. I guess boxing and judo is another example. The way I understand parkour it's about using the environment to get somewhere in an agile and elegant way. I think what Bond did was more seeing the environment a series of obstacles that are problems that must be handled using superiour muscle power.

It's the same task, but the philosophy and how it's done are different.

I have to agree with Number24 on this one. Bond is not doing parkour in CR.

AugustWalker

Number24 wrote:

Thunderpussy wrote:

So if someone is running away from me and I give chase, I'm
Not running too. ? If we both fall in to water and he can swim
but I can't and we both drown , then I haven't really drowned as
I wasn't a swimmer ? )

Yes, but Bond and Malukka use different techniques to get from A to B. Simply put Bond often uses brute force and muscle strength, while Malukka uses agility and fancy moves. The obvious example may be that Malukka jumped over a high wall and Bond smashed through it. I think my sailboat/motorboat example was pretty neat: both travel on the water, but the way to acomplish it is very different. I guess boxing and judo is another example. The way I understand parkour it's about using the environment to get somewhere in an agile and elegant way. I think what Bond did was more seeing the environment a series of obstacles that are problems that must be handled using superiour muscle power.

It's the same task, but the philosophy and how it's done are different.

The best example is, where Mollaka swings through a tiny slot at the top of a wall and Bond just runs the thing. )

zaphod99

Matt S wrote:

Number24 wrote:

Thunderpussy wrote:

So if someone is running away from me and I give chase, I'm
Not running too. ? If we both fall in to water and he can swim
but I can't and we both drown , then I haven't really drowned as
I wasn't a swimmer ? )

Yes, but Bond and Malukka use different techniques to get from A to B. Simply put Bond often uses brute force and muscle strength, while Malukka uses agility and fancy moves. The obvious example may be that Malukka jumped over a high wall and Bond smashed through it. I think my sailboat/motorboat example was pretty neat: both travel on the water, but the way to acomplish it is very different. I guess boxing and judo is another example. The way I understand parkour it's about using the environment to get somewhere in an agile and elegant way. I think what Bond did was more seeing the environment a series of obstacles that are problems that must be handled using superiour muscle power.

It's the same task, but the philosophy and how it's done are different.

I have to agree with Number24 on this one. Bond is not doing parkour in CR.

Of course he isn't. The great thing about that set piece is that it's his tenacity and determination to succeed when outclassed that really works for me. These are not necessarily skills but attributes. Probably the most important aspects of his character. It's what makes him Bond and not a Superman. Of course he has skills, but it's only as a Marksman that he is anywhere near exceptional. He's proficient in unarmed combat, but not world class. Fleming describes him as 'tough and tenacious. That scene captures that perfectly as does the Train fight in SP. Two clear highlights that embody a lot of what Connery did so well. Daniel can capture this really well.

superado

Most important skills? Kind of all related, innovation, problem-solving, ability to see big picture/crux of a problem, clever, ingenious, out-of-the-box thinking, all pretty obvious, but overlooked traits that have clinched success for Bond over impossible situations.