What are the differences between Fleming's and Connery's James Bond?

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  • Matt SMatt S Oh Cult Voodoo ShopPosts: 6,610MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Matt S wrote:
    Because if you want to sell, you need to have a likeable character and a happy ending.

    That was true in the 1960s but certainly not now. That's why there's some sort of tragedy at the end of all of Daniel Craig's Bond films, and he's not nearly as likeable as most of the other Bonds.
    Another thing Craig's Bond gets very right.

    Only if you're judging the films purely based on the novels. I'm not one who judges the films based on how much they are like the books.
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Matt S wrote:
    Only if you're judging the films purely based on the novels. I'm not one who judges the films based on how much they are like the books.
    If that were the case with ME, TND would not be my third favourite Bond. ;)
    I appreciate a literary Bond best, when done right (and I will be the judge of that for ME), but a rousing cinematic Bond with all the bells & whistles is cool too IMO. {[]
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I'm not exactly sure, but did Connery ever read the Novels?
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    I'm not exactly sure, but did Connery ever read the Novels?

    Yes, in a 1970s interview (on the DAF SE DVD) Connery said that he had read three of the Bond novels.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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