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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, you could tell he was a horrible person by how he gave Alex Trebek such a hard time.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Shut it, Rustydomino, your mother's a whore!

/s

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Schuck it, Reverendender! Schuck it long, and schuck it hard!

[–] eltrain123@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

PENIS MIGHTIER!

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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!

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Book Bond is a much more textured and vulnerable character than movie Bond is generally allowed to be.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

He's also much more of an utter prick.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't Casino Royale the first novel to be published? It might have just been that he was new to writing, and not thinking about movie rights.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I meant that the first book and at least some more were great. Then the quality of the writing did a nosedive for whatever reason.

I highly recommend reading Casino, though not the full book series.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Ahh I misread, my bad. Does the book also have the parkour chase sequence?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's interesting, Casino Royale and Live and Let Die were the first two published in 1953 and 1954, then the first adaptation was Casino Royale as a 1 hour drama for television in 1954.

Moonraker - 1955
Diamonds are Forever - 1956
From Russia, With Love - 1957
Doctor No - 1958
Goldfinger - 1959
For Your Eyes Only - 1960
Thunderball - 1961
The Spy Who Loved Me - 1962

All of that would be done before the first film, Doctor No, in 1962. Filming was January to March and it released in October.

The Spy Who Loved Me released one month after filming completed but before the premiere.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 1963
You Only Live Twice - 1964

Posthumous publications, Fleming died in August, 1964:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 1964
The Man With The Golden Gun - 1965
Octopussy and the Living Daylights - 1966

[–] Muscar 5 points 5 months ago

Huh, I had missed that he passed away (or forgotten about it). Hope he's being abused by women in the afterlife.