Daniel Craigs physique for Bond 23
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I think he was too beefy in CR. In QoS he looked more trimmed. Maybe hell be even more leaner in Bond 23. I hope so.
He will look better in a suit and blend in better.
Maybe this is a way for the filmakers to show how he evolves from a beefy brute to a lean sophisticated killing machine in three films?
What kind of physique do you think Craig should have in Bond 23?
He will look better in a suit and blend in better.
Maybe this is a way for the filmakers to show how he evolves from a beefy brute to a lean sophisticated killing machine in three films?
What kind of physique do you think Craig should have in Bond 23?
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I'm not complaining for either... although you are right, he does look a bit too beefed in CR and his trimmed down physique is a better match in QoS - however, he is going to have to hit the gym... as recent pics of Daniel show him as quite a lot slimmer - and even a bit gaunt.......No doubt he will get back into shape... (I think it helps with all the stunts he does too)
As long as we get to see the results..... then I'll be happy
I thought he was nearly perfect, build-wise, in QoS...wouldn't want him to get much leaner than that :007)
The gal I was seeing recently was not a Craig fan at all...in fact she singled out Craig's beach shot in CR and said: "He is NOT an attractive man."
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The beach shots were taken at an angle so he looked bigger than what he was.
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How I got my 007 body:
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Sounds like Tab nonsense.
Could be...but the technique definitely works...so I would be surprised if he didn't use it...
At 44 DC looks fab, I work out 3/4 times a week and will be trying to go for that look on hol this summer.
Either way, I think DC is definitely the hottest 007 so far!
I guess the finished article will show the truth.
On a side note; there is some truth to the kyro theory. I always have a cold shower before I work out and it does make a difference compared to days when I omit one. When I was in the rowing team at university, our coach would have us take a cold shower before training and the routine has stayed with me. Try it out!
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That said, though I think he looks a little ridiculously "pumped up" in the beach shot in "Casino Royale," his thicker body in that film fit the physical punishment his character was supposed to endure. It made it almost believable that he would take a nail to the shoulder, for instance, and simply yank it out and carry on as though nothing had happened. I think it gave his Bond in that film the right presence and also made the potentially campy torture scene much more plausible. In "Quantum of Solace," his character did not endure quite the same amount of physical assault, so it made sense for him to be leaner. Though it doesn't really matter to me either way, I will say that when he is pumped up he moves more like Connery, with the kind of fluid confidence that I feel after exercising and the muscles are both tired and fired up at the same time.
Last I read he is more a cardio man then a pumping iron guy.
I preferred the look of him in CR however for a secret agent QoS physique is more realistic, more athletically fit then muscle!
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In the cold light of day, nothing will make a greater impact upon his physique than his diet, with his training regime tailored to suit the requirements of the movie. Personally I preferred his CR look, as I think it matched his character portrayal extremely well & sat well with the physicality of the film. He looked in great shape in QoS too, however the leaner look doesn't have the same screen impact for me.
i.e. he prob had weights knocking about, did press ups or swam seconds / minutes prior to the film rolling to get the pumped up effect, Stallone, Arnie etc would always do this just before a take which involved their shirts off.
When I pump iron my physique can look quite impressive for the 30 mins after a gym session when the blood is pumping, unfortunately it doesn't stay that way
Compare that with Brosnan's physical make-up, and, by his own admission, that he hated working out, that after filming he much prefered to relax with a beer than hit the fitness routine.
But Brosnan had the tall dark and handsome thing cracked, an area in which Craigy, erm, struggles...
Play to your strengths, then, I say (and I think EON agree).
Im sure its just blokes who think this, every bird I know fancies the pants off Craig and the hysteria that beach scene caused appears to have eclipsed anything Pierce has done as 007 when it comes to women swooning over Bond. That CR pic still seems to be used on websites in 2012 when Bond is mentioned (although of course he isn't tall and dark)
I think the Craig-as-buff-Bond has been developed and marketed brilliantly, and I'm sure you're right that Criag is fancied for his physicality by his contemporaries more than any Bond since Connery in 1965 as a consequence.
But I do think, the marketing apart, the peak Brosnan is the one would be looked at more if he entered a crowded room or bar than Craig. Medium-height with good physique is easier to do - and achieve, common place even - than tall, dark and shaving ad pretty.
But that's the secret in the marketing. EON has tuned its Bond to the current appeal of the "Everyman" look rather than the unattainable.
I'd venture the whole reason those women in your life are positive about Craig is as a result of EON's marketing magic; I wonder how many would have, or indeed had(?), looked at Craig, followed his career, and thought what a handome fellow before the EON marketing machine went to work and retooled Bond in his, very different, image
I also doubt "most" women find Connery more handsome as an older more than as Bond, either...
Wouldn't "EON's marketing Magic" also have been employed for Brosnan? I always thought PB was lacking in charisma. He was basically a small screen actor trying to fill a big screen. Look at the difference between his Thomas Crowne and Steve McQueen's, for example.
I'm not sure the marketing department would have had to work quite as hard on Brosnan as they did to re-imagine Bond in Craig's image. Throughout that tv career to which you refer, Brosnan had been auditioning for Bond, had been the Bond in waiting for at least 10 years before GOLDENEYE, was of the accepted Bond type; I think VERY few people would have seen Craig in his pre-Bond careeer and say "yes, that guy should be the next James Bond".
As for Brosnan's acting and charisma, I agree there is something lacking, perhaps indeed a TV movie cheapness and lack of confidence as a consequence. Some of his interviews wreak of pretentious guff and he has a talent for cardboard overacting. Yet, in the MATADOR he is outstanding, quirky, dangerous, and while Steve McQueen has far greater screen power there are many who prefer Brosnan's THOMAS CROWN, seeing McQueen's as stylised 60s nonsense: I enjoy the Brosnan film more, but prefer McQueen's performance.
And no, I've never seen anything of McQueen in Craig, though some, apparently, have.
It's an odd one - and perhaps something to do in away with cultural differences between the US and the UK - that over here the impression is is that Craig's appeal is more as the "bit of rough", the gym obsessed, potential dullard who compensates by ripping his shirt off at every opportunity, most of them inappropriate, to make up physically for what he lacks in mental capacity, and therefore more likely to appeal to the "less educated" woman, blue collar appeal, if you will.
Brosnan's slimmer, un-gym-enhanced figure with its "so I'm slight, take me as I am" approach would be more in keeping with broader thinking, "more educated" woman. Brosnan's all-round appeal is far more sophisticated, white collar, essentially.
The fact that Brosnan looks like he spends a lot of time admiring himself in the mirror notwothstanding, of course...
Different perceptions of masculinity, of insecurity, of vanity.