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It quoted DC extensively, and so was swearier than an episode of The Thick of It directed by Quentin Tarantino. DCINB was not mentioned by name, but the author, Sarah Marshall (had to look up her name on Amazon, cos I was forgetting...I'll get me coat) mentioned that "one website" showed doctored pictures of Craig next to Vladimir Putin and Gollum. I hate to break it to you, love, but they weren't doctored.
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Kristatos wrote:It quoted DC extensively, and so was swearier than an episode of The Thick of It directed by Quentin Tarantino. DCINB was not mentioned by name, but the author, Sarah Marshall (had to look up her name on Amazon, cos I was forgetting...I'll get me coat) mentioned that "one website" showed doctored pictures of Craig next to Vladimir Putin and Gollum. I hate to break it to you, love, but they weren't doctored.
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Did it mention the famous FBF in the story?
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Kristatos wrote:It quoted DC extensively, and so was swearier than an episode of The Thick of It directed by Quentin Tarantino. DCINB was not mentioned by name, but the author, Sarah Marshall (had to look up her name on Amazon, cos I was forgetting...I'll get me coat) mentioned that "one website" showed doctored pictures of Craig next to Vladimir Putin and Gollum. I hate to break it to you, love, but they weren't doctored.
Fame at last guys..... :P
At last? This site WAS notorious........not it's the IN place to be with the minions coming to the realization that FBF is correct and Eon has imprinted an evil plague in the hearts and minds of young adolescents who waste their parent's money on seeing a non-Brosnan mummified Bond :!:
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There is one a Russian dissident group made. I'm sure they are in the gulag now. No Photoshop in the gulag :(

There is something about Craig untouched up by the steady hand of professional photographers, he is so darned odd looking. I went through hundreds of photos last year most of it was for some event and the photo site had other events as well, I scrolled though a good number of them. Bloody odd face Daniel, if he is not pouting on botox he has some weird looks. I don't mean it like FBF of BJ would, I honestly men he has a odd facial features unchecked pictures he can look incredibly strange.
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bjmdds wrote:Did it mention the famous FBF in the story?
None of us got individual mentions, sad to say. They didn't even mention the name of the site - for fear of giving us more traffic?
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I seen it mentioned someplace recently but I don't think it a big a deal as it was in 2006 where it was the story of Craig over coming the mean people who hate him because he is blond I almost don't care about his hair. I still don't get his $10 Fantastic Sams buzz cut. :?
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Let me guess...the book was on a sale-must get rid of 'em table. :mrgreen:
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Dr. No wrote:I seen it mentioned someplace recently but I don't think it a big a deal as it was in 2006 where it was the story of Craig over coming the mean people who hate him because he is blond I almost don't care about his hair. I still don't get his $10 Fantastic Sams buzz cut. :?
Yeah, the blonde thing by itself is hardly a deal breaker for me. I care more that Bond is suave, sophisticated and British than I care that he has dark hair. The problem with Craig is not that he's blonde (someone like Paul Bettany could have made a pretty decent Bond in spite of being blonde). The problem is that he's ugly, and EON's wardrobe and stylist people seem hell-bent on making him uglier. Worse, he has all the charisma and charm of a pet rock.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is blonde. Crag-like, would you consider him as Bond?
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FormerBondFan wrote:Benedict Cumberbatch is blonde. Crag-like, would you consider him as Bond?
Yes I would. I think that like another Sherlock Holmes who was considered as Bond, Jeremy Brett, he's a bit too odd (in a good way) to be Bond, however. Both Brett and Cumberbatch play eccentric characters who look and often act rather bohemian. Bond is ideally a bit of a blank slate. In Fleming's novels people find hard to read other than that he looks vaguely cruel looking. I don't think Brett could do cruel looking, and I don't think Cumberbatch can either.

So I don't think Cumberbatch is ideal as Bond, but he'd make an interesting, off the wall choice. And I'd be happy to give him a chance in the role. He'd be a hell of a lot better than Craig, at least.
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Ben does look like Bond in Ian Fleming's illustrated description a bit.

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FormerBondFan wrote:Ben does look like Bond in Ian Fleming's illustrated description a bit.

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That's true, he does. For that matter, the other two most famous Sherlock Holmes actors - Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett match up well with Fleming's description. I think that had Bond movies been made in the 1940s, Rathbone would have been excellent for the part. I'm a bit doubtful about Brett in LALD or Cumberbatch in Bond 24. I think the reason is that Brett and Cumberbatch don't obviously have that much quoted upon trait Sean Connery had - the ability to alternate between light and dark rather quickly. All of the classic Bond had this quality to some extent or another. TSWLM is a great example of this with Rog - in the space of one movie he uses one girl as a human shield, and risks his life to save another woman who has vowed to kill him.

I'm not sure is Cumberbatch could convincingly be 'dark' for the "shooting Professor Dent" type scenes. That's why I said I'd consider him, but I'd have to see the screen tests. He's an intrifuing casting option though, and my mild resistance to him has nothing to do with his hair.
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Actually, I ought to clarify my views about the next Bond in a way that will bring things back on topic. I think that ANY potential Bond ought to be well screentested AGAINST OTHER POSSIBILITIES. What stands out in the Bond casting searches of 1968, 1972, 1986 and 1994 was how far EON flung its nets out. Even in 1972 and 1994, when there was a clear frontrunner who was eventually hired, they still looked into a lot of possibilities and screentested many of them. I've heard from some sources that Craig himself did many screentests, and from other sources that he did next to none. But what is almost universally agreed upon is that EON really wasn't looking at anyone but Craig (Martin Campbell wanted Henry Cavill, but it's pretty clear the producers were set on Craig already). So if the idiot writing the Craig biography no one will ever read wants to understand where all the anti-Craig hate comes from, it's because Craig was never vetted! We have an unprecedented case of a serving Bond being (effectively) dismissed at the height of his popularity (it would be like firing Sean after Thunderball or Rog after Moonraker) and the new guy hasn't even been properly vetted, nor has there been a proper search.

I have a hard time naming actors right now who strike me as good Bonds for Bond 24. In 2005, I could think of dozens of possibilities, virtually all of them too old or too popular now to be cast as Bond. EON screwed up. They need to actually do their homework next time, because a dockyard worker who swears like a sailor and has a face that makes Robert Davi look handsome should never have been cast as Bond, which is why Daniel Craig biographies sell for less than or equal to what Pierce Brosnan biographies sell for on Amazon.com (and this years after Pierce has been in a major blockbuster)!
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Crag-like, what about Pierce's kid as Bond? He is American, but he is trained as a British actor. And he is blond also.

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FormerBondFan wrote:Crag-like, what about Pierce's kid as Bond? He is American, but he is trained as a British actor. And he is blond also.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112492/
He's certainly got the looks to be Bond.
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A Crag-like face wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:Crag-like, what about Pierce's kid as Bond? He is American, but he is trained as a British actor. And he is blond also.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112492/
He's certainly got the looks to be Bond.
Well....I think give him a few years...too baby faced still IMO.
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I think BJMDDS should write a biography of Daniel Craig. :wink:
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carl stromberg wrote:I think BJMDDS should write a biography of Daniel Craig. :wink:
It would be fun just to see how many epithets he can come up with ("morose goblin" is still my favourite).
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