Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
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Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.
What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.
I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.
Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.
I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.
I always thought of myself as James Bond.
The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got into the Fleming books after watching 'A View To A Kill' a few years later.
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