Bond actor's recurring behavioral traits.

walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
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What are some recurring physical traits or movements that you've seen one of the Bond actors do more then once, whether it be part of their characterization of Bond or just a personal habit that carried over.

I've noticed that Craig's Bond likes to nonchalantly toss things (car keys, hotel key, cellphone).
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent
    Connery adjusting his cufflinks, often as he enters a casino.

    Brosnan straightening his tie.
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Moore arching his eyebrows.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I hope you're not calling Craig a Tosser. walther p99 :))
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Enlighten me, TP. What's a "tosser"? (I assume it's a British term for something DC wouldn't want to be?)
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I hope you're not calling Craig a Tosser. walther p99 :))
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I'm Far too polite, BL. Although It would be a Term for a Man
    Who Likes to Please himself. In a Very Naught way. :D
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    Uh oh! ?:)
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I'm Far too polite, BL. Although It would be a Term for a Man
    Who Likes to Please himself. In a Very Naught way. :D
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Onanism

    "My dad sid if you keep Doing that Son, You'll go Blind !"

    I said " Dad I'm standing over Here "
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  • superdaddysuperdaddy englandPosts: 917MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I'm Far too polite, BL. Although It would be a Term for a Man
    Who Likes to Please himself. In a Very Naught way. :D
    From now on TP it will be known as having a Daniel :))
  • superdaddysuperdaddy englandPosts: 917MI6 Agent
    I so love gutter humour.
  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    Moore arching his eyebrows.

    DC bursting into rooms.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    As we haven't had many Gadgets in Craig's movies as yet.
    Which Bond was always very Flipant With. Perhaps this is
    Craig's take on Bond's Disregard for equipment. So
    Phones and Keys are casually Thrown on to Seats etc.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    After the Murder of Tracy, Bond became more humorous. My Theory is that this was Bonds way of coping with the Death of his Wife.
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  • jon couragejon courage Posts: 129MI6 Agent
    Craig also tosses his poker chips quite disdainfully.

    Also the classic Bond swagger with slight side to side head shake and wry slight grin. Craig does it several times but I believe others did as well, Connery, Moore.
  • LastRatStandingLastRatStanding ScotlandPosts: 296MI6 Agent
    Connery - One hand in pocket.
    Now, they only eat rat.
  • walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
    LastRatStanding wrote:
    Connery - One hand in pocket.
    Craig also does this, and i think Pierce as well.
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  • LastRatStandingLastRatStanding ScotlandPosts: 296MI6 Agent
    walther p99 wrote:
    LastRatStanding wrote:
    Connery - One hand in pocket.
    Craig also does this, and i think Pierce as well.

    Pierce definitely does now I think about it!
    Now, they only eat rat.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Pierce looking down at the ground then looking up again when delivering a thoughtful line ("that always sounds good" in TND and also when talking about Renard at the MI6 lodge in Scotland in TWINE, among others...)

    Connery does a similar thing in YOLT in the plane with Helga when he mentions that MI6 will put their 'best man' into looking after her, too...
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,828MI6 Agent
    Pierce Brosnan doing his Paddy Ashdown squinty eyes and moving on as seen in TWINE PTS. :)
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  • Le SamouraiLe Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
    Brosnan does some odd things with his lower jaw, such as jutting it out a bit or holding it slightly to one side.
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  • DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
    Brosnan in Goldeneye after delivering a line immediatly shuts his lips together. It's a little perk he does all the time in that movie. I never really noticed it untill it was pointed out to me in an analysis video.
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    DC has this thing where he turns down his mouth when something gets quite brutal. The first time he does it is in when he's just killed Gettler and pulls the nail out of his shoulder blade. I noticed it again in the PTS sequence of QoS, as the Land Rover narrowly misses Bond's Aston.
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  • Sir James MoloneySir James Moloney LondonPosts: 139MI6 Agent
    Le Samourai wrote:
    Brosnan does some odd things with his lower jaw, such as jutting it out a bit or holding it slightly to one side.

    He had Bell's Palsy as a child. I imagine it's a physical or psychological throwback to that.
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  • Le SamouraiLe Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
    Sir James Moloney wrote:
    Le Samourai wrote:
    Brosnan does some odd things with his lower jaw, such as jutting it out a bit or holding it slightly to one side.

    He had Bell's Palsy as a child. I imagine it's a physical or psychological throwback to that.

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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,347MI6 Agent
    Connery's flared nostrils
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  • Jedi MasterJedi Master UKPosts: 1,093MI6 Agent
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    Connery adjusting his cufflinks, often as he enters a casino.

    Do you think Craig was referencing this in the PTS (in the clip which was in all the trailers) when he dropped into the train from the digger?
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  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    Jedi Master wrote:
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    Connery adjusting his cufflinks, often as he enters a casino.

    Do you think Craig was referencing this in the PTS (in the clip which was in all the trailers) when he dropped into the train from the digger?

    certainly, and Brosnan adjusting his Tie.
  • DaltonFan1DaltonFan1 The West of IrelandPosts: 503MI6 Agent
    zaphod wrote:
    Jedi Master wrote:
    Napoleon Plural wrote:
    Connery adjusting his cufflinks, often as he enters a casino.

    Do you think Craig was referencing this in the PTS (in the clip which was in all the trailers) when he dropped into the train from the digger?

    certainly, and Brosnan adjusting his Tie.

    I think they're both intended to imply that Bond is in his element blowing $h*t up.
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  • DelicatessenInSteelDelicatessenInSteel Posts: 181MI6 Agent
    Pierce Brosnan breathing or exhaling through his nose really loud with a pause so his line deliveries are more dramatic.
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,427MI6 Agent
    Craig in banter with a woman, turns head sideways and smiles, then back to front. You see it in deleted scene in CR when he and Vesper are about to check into a hotel in Venice, but you see it again at times I'm sure.

    Maybe, anyway.

    Wouldn't mind seeing CR with the deleted stuff, esp with Vesper.
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  • MooseWithFleasMooseWithFleas Philadelphia, PAPosts: 754MI6 Agent
    Craig purses his lips a lot. I've subconsciously started doing it myself now people say :007)
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