Most Important Skills of James Bond
jbondresearcher97
Posts: 5MI6 Agent
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
-...
Hope you can help! Thanks.
Current List:
- Firearms
- Martial Arts
- Evasive Driving
- Skydiving
- Scuba diving
-...
Comments
- Knowledge of fine wines and drinks
- Piloting helicopters and planes
Thanks for your input!
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-Finding and using listening devices
-skiing
I would extend ’disguise‘ to convincingly posing with alternate identities/ covers.
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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.
-a knowledge of style and clothes
- hacking
- parkour
- poker
- knowledge of foreign cultures
I think you're using the ....
.... " Baby I F**ked her, But I make love to you " argument.
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!
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 .
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.
Zeno's paradox ? All getting very meta on AJB is it not?
I have to agree with Number24 on this one. Bond is not doing parkour in CR.
The best example is, where Mollaka swings through a tiny slot at the top of a wall and Bond just runs the thing.
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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.