Shirley but not a Bassey surely…
Best anecdote to taking things too seriously.
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I’m watching, and hugely enjoying, ‘Casino Royale’ on ITV4 at the moment. Thankfully, it’s the fairly recent ‘proper’ one with Daniel Craig, rather than the monstrous 1960s ‘spoof’ with David Niven making an absolute arse of himself. Does that version ever get an airing, or has some sensible person decreed that all copies be destroyed?
Eva Green is simply delectable as the tragic Vesper Lind.
Antidote, surely?
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Eva Green is my favorite Bond girl. No contest. I feel that it isn’t even necessary to mention her appearance, but her character has real wit and substance. Almost like a beautiful Katherine Hepburn. The dialogue on the train is worthy of a Hepburn-Tracy movie.
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I’m amused that you write that there’s no need to describe Eva Green’s appearance in one sentence, then you call her ‘beautiful’ (by inference) in the next.
You need to make up your mind, old fruit.
My favourite Bond theme has to be the one for The Spy Who Loved Me - Carly Simon’s Nobody Does it Better;
I have huge affection and respect for Roger Moore. By all accounts, he was even more charming off screen than on, and fame never went to his head. I’m reminded of the wonderful anecdote shared by Marc Haynes some years back:
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It took me ages to track down a DVD copy of the original ‘Casino Royale’. Love it!
It’s a wonderfully ridiculous romp, with an enduring soundtrack. The theme song is so memorable, and I must now add Dusty’s “The Look of Love” to my list of the best Bond songs ever.
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Well, each to their own, of course. I don’t happen to like the film, but no one is making me watch it.
I do not think, however, that the producers should ever have been allowed to call thei film ‘Casino Royale’. That carries the risk of people shelling out their hard earned, expecting to see a James Bond film, and getting crud instead. (No doubt any objections by the guardians of Fleming’s Estate were met by copious quantities of folding currency.)
By all means make a spoof of a James Bond-type film, as Rowan Atkinson has done very successfully with ‘Johnny English’ (even though it doesn’t appeal to me).
Anyway, I’ll leave well alone, as I’d rather post about things that I like.
Ha! I guess one can’t help it sometimes!
I was, of course, just teasing Graham. 
I enjoy the first ‘Casino Royale’ as a stand-alone film. I don’t regard it as part of the true Bond franchise, any more than I would ‘Never Say Never Again’, ‘Johnny English’ or even ‘Austin Powers’, but for me, is no less enjoyable.
(The Austin Powers soundtrack is well worth a listen by the way; the strongest part of the film by far).
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The other day a friend came over for some music listening.
We talked James Bond songs and he came with this tune composed by Monty Norman in 1961:
Later then adapted it for the James Bond movie apparently.
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Sean Connery was above all others…best 007
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I agree, and I don’t think that any reasonable person could doubt that.
We are lucky to have Daniel Craig in the part currently, after so many ‘wrong’ actors cast in the role. I always found Roger Moore woeful as Bond - he was just about good enough to play The Saint on TV, but it’s not enough just to raise an eyebrow occasionally to be an actor.
The Bond in the original Ian Fleming books was a thug, which I think Connery’s Bond was too.
(Many years ago some thuggish politician was described as ‘a semi-house-trained polecat’, and I think that the Bond of Fleming’s books and Connery’s films fit that description well.)
PS I think that the ‘semi house-trained polecat’ was Norman Tebbit, which would make sense.
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Roger Moore woeful as Bond
[/quote]Agree
I love the Propellerheads version…
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I have a David Arnold album of Bond themes somewhere, dating from the 90s. I think that’s on there and if it’s the same one, yes, I agree!
Least we forget the first British Bond.
Bob ‘Blockbuster’ Holness.
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Shaken and Stirred (1997) is indeed great. David McAlmont’s version of Diamonds Are Forever is fabulous and has some Earth-shattering bass on it too!
Mark
I watched it, as a bond fan I thought it was very good.
My favourite is this one
For your eyes only*, can see me through the night*
For your eyes only, I never need to hide
You can see so much in me, so much in me that’s new
I never felt until I looked at you
For your eyes only, only for you
You’ll see what no one else can see, and now I’m breaking free
For your eyes only, only for you
The love I know you need in me, the fantasy you’ve freed in me
Only for you, only for you
For your eyes only, the nights are never cold
You really know me, that’s all I need to know
Maybe I’m an open book because I know you’re mine
But you won’t need to read between the lines
For your eyes only, only for you
You see what no one else can see, and now I’m breaking free
For your eyes only, only for you
The passions that collide in me, the wild abandoned side of me
Only for you, for your eyes only
Goldeneye I like very much too!
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