Subj : Re: OT: The new James Bond is....
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise,alt.tv.star-trek.next-gen,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager
From : Alric Knebel
Date : Sat Oct 15 2005 02:33:18

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise

Keeper of the Purple Twilight wrote:
> Daniel Craig.
> 
> You're thoughts!

I just heard that story no more than an two hours ago, and only five 
minutes after watching LAYER CAKE.  Because of such a recent familiarity 
with him, I was able to form an immediate opinion.  He's an excellent 
choice.  With darker hair and a tuxedo, he'll definitely fit the mold. 
The show I saw the report on is MSNBC, the one where the newscaster does 
that countdown.  He claimed that sources say that Craig is more like the 
Bond in the novels.  As a teenager I read all almost all of those Bond 
novels, and so far, the closest to the character in the novel -- and the 
closest adaptation in FEEL -- was the man in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET 
SERVICE, George Lazenby, and Brosnan came in a very, very close second 
(the commitment by producers of the films to the silly gadgetry 
detracted from the potential he brought to it).  Roger Moore was the 
worst.

I loved James Bond movies as a kid, but I've hated them since my early 
twenties.  Yet, I still hope with each new film that they'll stop making 
them silly action flicks.  Here comes another one, and they're going to 
use as source material the only novel that hasn't been seriously 
adapted, CASINO ROYALE (there was a ridiculous David Niven thing, with 
Woody Allen as a villain), and they're promising to make it like the 
novel.  From what I understand, the gadgetry will be added to the plot, 
but it won't dominate.  Or perhaps I heard what I wanted to hear. 
Anyway, with Craig as Bond and a more serious approach by producers, 
maybe they'll make a Bond film to rival the Jack Ryan films.  Audiences 
are clearly sophisticated enough to appreciate espionage presented 
without villains living in stainless steel caverns and hatching almost 
campy plots to rule the world.
-- 
Alric Knebel

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