He seemed like a classy guy. He made the decision to stop playing Bond because he said the leading ladies were young enough to be his granddaughter, and "it was disgusting."
Wow, mad respect.
This is one of the most wonderful celebrity stories I’ve seen
I always preferred Sean Connery but Sean was a horrible person.
I'd like to think that actors get remembered for who they were rather than who they pretended to be.
Yeah, you could tell he was a horrible person by how he gave Alex Trebek such a hard time.
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Connery's Bond was also awfully sexists and misogynistic. It's incredibly cringe trying to watch certain scenes of that era. Some are rape fantasies through and thru.
The first book is interesting... it has the typical Bond setup... here's your mission, your exotic location, and your beautiful assistant... and Bond goes:
"A woman? What are you sending a woman for, she'll only get in the way."
(!)
I was surprised!
Book Bond is a much more textured and vulnerable character than movie Bond is generally allowed to be.
Casino Royale is awesome. And I was also very surprised that the movie kept a lot of the plot.
The books start getting real bad at some point. I had a feeling it was because Flemming was writing them just as movie fodder, though I never checked the chronology.
Huh, I had missed that he passed away (or forgotten about it). Hope he's being abused by women in the afterlife.
If you liked this, you need to see Roger Moore's performance in Cannonball Run. Lolol, he plays a rich boy who is pretending to be a spy/actor named Roger Moore, it's beautiful and fits well with this story.
Goldeneye was my favorite film as a kid but Moore was always the classiest, a real gentleman.
Timothy Dalton was the best Bond, closest to the books.
That's a fact!
License to Kill was a bit before its time. Bourne before Bourne was a thing. I think people still wanted the campy Moore era and just weren't ready for that.
Casino Royale aped the Bourne thing later and was a smash hit.
He was much better as a supermarché owner in any case.
A real slasher of ... bad guys.
the greater good
I don’t think Lazenby gets enough credit but yeah I’d agree. Dalton is also the best actor outside of Bond, Connery probably has more credits but he’s not a time lord.
I have to admit, I was a bit leary coming in here, but that's a great story.
That's a great story, it's nice hearing about people being treated well by famous people. Thanks for sharing.
The Roger Moore films are extremely corny and campy even by Bond standards - which is saying something! I've got a bit of a soft spot for them though. All the Jaws plotlines probably resonated with me as a freakishly tall person.
Roger Moore is my favorite James Bond!
I've got a friend who thinks Pierce Brosnan is the best one because he was "our generation's Bond". Both born 92/93 so Goldeneye, et al. were a sensation for us at the time.
Personally I like Sean Connery but that's an unoriginal opinion. I enjoyed the story about the casting producer who wanted him for the role immediately because he "walked like a panther". What a departure from being a milkman in Edinburgh!
You've got a couple of seasons of the Saint to go! It's basically Moore doing exactly the same thing!
They were all a bit shit, but since I grew up in the 80s, most of the time a Bond film was shown it was a Moore one so I've got a soft spot for them.
The only one that was actually good was probably Live and Let Die, and that scared the shit out of me as a kid because I didn't like the scarecrows.
That pressed a tear out of this man here. Great story! Great man!
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