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The James Bond film series deals with the British author Ian Fleming's most famous character, MI6 agent James Bond, also known as agent '007'. He has been portrayed, as of 2015, by six actors in the following 24 official films from EON Productions started by film producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman.

Catchphrases[edit]

• Bond .. James Bond
• Shaken, not stirred. [Also used below]
• Espresso Martini. Shaken, not stirred.
• Good luck out there in the field.. And please return the equipment in one piece.
• Ah, Mr Bond, we’ve been expecting you.

• Some variant as quoted in Telegraph

Films[edit]

• Dr. No (1962)
• From Russia with Love (1963)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• Thunderball (1965)
• You Only Live Twice (1967)

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
• Live and Let Die (1973)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
• Moonraker (1979)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)
• Octopussy (1983)
• Never Say Never Again (1983) [Not an EON Productions film]
• A View to a Kill (1985)
• The Living Daylights (1987)
• Licence to Kill (1989)
• GoldenEye (1995)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• The World Is Not Enough (1999)
• Die Another Day (2002)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Quantum of Solace (2008)
• Skyfall (2012)
• Spectre (2015)

About James Bond (film series)[edit]

• I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean. It was a very hard one to grasp the meaning of, for me. The violence was never real, the brute force of the man was never palpable. It was quite tame, and the characterisation didn’t have a follow-through of reality, it was surface.
  • Pierce Brosnan, 'Pierce Brosnan: 'I was never good enough as Bond' Hannah Furness, The Telegraph, (12 Apr 2014).

• The only real difficulty I found in playing Bond was that I had to start from scratch. Nobody knew anything about him, after all. Not even Fleming. Does he have parents? Where does he come from? Nobody knows. But we played it for laughs, and people seem to feel it comes off quite well.
  • Sean Connery, Sydney Morning Herald, (1963); as quoted in 'Sean Connery On James Bond', Stuff Nobody Cares About.

• Yes, I do identify with him. I too enjoy drinking, women, eating the physical pleasure – smells and tastes living by my senses, being alive. And as far as Bond is concerned, he has no past.
  • Sean Connery in Elizabeth Trotta, Newsday, (1963) as quoted in 'Sean Connery On James Bond', Stuff Nobody Cares About.

• Bond makes his own rules, and that’s fine as long as you’re not plagued by doubts. But if you are—and most of us are—you’re sunk. That’s why Bond is so attrac­tive to women. By their na­ture they’re indecisive, so a man who is absolutely sure comes as a godsend.
  • Sean Connery in Anthony Carthew, New York Times, (1964); as quoted in 'Sean Connery On James Bond', Stuff Nobody Cares About.

• Hitherto, whenever I’ve tangled with a beautiful spy, have you noticed what in­variably happens? Even if I know the girl is a nasty and dangerous little snake, I’ve still had to kiss her first and kill her later. That’s the persona Ian Fleming and the film producers built up for me as James Bond. Every time I see a girl, I have to give. One of my producers, Cubby Broccoli, said to me: ‘It’s like this, Sean. James Bond is a nut for girls. Even if he hates her, his amor­ous instincts die hard – and she dies soft see?
  • Sean Connery in Leonard Mosley, New York Times, (1964), as quoted in 'Sean Connery On James Bond', Stuff Nobody Cares About.

• He (Bond) is really a mixture of all that the defenders and the attackers say he is. When I spoke about Bond with (Bond creator, Ian) Fleming, he said that when the character was conceived, Bond was a very simple, straightforward, blunt instrument of the police force, a functionary who would carry out his job rather doggedly. But he also had a lot of idiosyncrasies that were considered snobbish–such as a taste for special wines, et cetera. But if you take Bond in the situations that he is constantly involved with, you see that it is a very hard, high, unusual league that he plays in. Therefore he is quite right in having all his senses satisfied–be it sex, wine, food or clothes–because the job, and he with it, may terminate at any minute. But the virtues that (Kingsley) Amis mentions–loyalty, honesty–are there, too. Bond doesn’t chase married women, for instance. Judged on that level, he comes out rather well.
  • Sean Connery in Playboy, (1965); as quoted in 'Sean Connery On James Bond', Stuff Nobody Cares About.

• “Immoral? I’ve never seen him steal anyone’s wife, anyone else’s woman, or betray his own; he doesn’t have one. He likes women all right, but he never rapes them; it’s they who worm their way into his bed. He kills people, he has to; if he doesn’t, they’ll kill him. He abides by no laws, but nor is he protected by the laws that protect others; society does nothing to defend him, he isn’t known to society. He’s rather ignorant, O.K., but he doesn’t exactly have the time for reading Joyce. His struggle for survival obliges him to be practical, functional, to reduce everything to the verbs sniff, look, listen, taste, think. His safety depends on this and not on Joyce. He doesn’t fight for old people and children, but who said he couldn’t? Have you any proof? Your accusations wouldn’t be valid in any court of law. Yes, sure, it would be interesting if I spoke badly of Bond. But I’ve got nothing at all against Mr. Bond, and I’m only too sorry he has to die.”
  • Sean Connery in Oriana Fallaci, interview in Paris, (1965); as quoted in 'Sean Connery On James Bond', Stuff Nobody Cares About.

• With James Bond, people are sure there's gonna be a bit of sex, a bit of fun, a bit of action, a bit of drama and it's gonna be a bit of a joyride. My personal choice is From Russia With Love because that's got all the glamour and the locations and the twists and the humor and rather good storytelling, and places like Istanbul. The Bond pictures will continue on, I suppose.
  • Sean Connery 'Connery's take on life in the movies', Rogerebert.com, (Dec 25th 2000).

• I feel that Roger - which I think he may have inherited in part from after Diamonds Are Forever, where they were already getting into that area of too much hardware - that that was more important.
• His is a sort of parody of the character, as it were, so you would go for the laugh or the humour at whatever the cost of the credibility or the reality. I think that's basically the difference.
  • Sean Connery, (1983); as quoted in 'Roger Moore dead: Revisting Sean Connery's brutal critique of actor's James Bond portrayal'Independent, (23 May 2017).

• He’s very fucking lonely. There’s a great sadness. He’s fucking these beautiful women but then they leave and it’s … sad. And as a man gets older it’s not a good look. It might be a nice fantasy – that’s debatable – but the reality, after a couple of months …
• Hopefully, my Bond is not as sexist and misogynistic as [earlier incarnations].
  • Daniel Craig, 'Daniel Craig: James Bond less 'sexist' than before' by Benjamin Lee, The Guardian, (1, Sep 2015).

• I think Roger was fine as Bond, but the films had become too much techno-pop and had lost track of their sense of story. I mean, every film seemed to have a villain who had to rule or destroy the world. If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world. That's a demand I made, and Albert Broccoli agreed with me.
  • Timothy Dalton in 'Celebrating Timothy Dalton’s James Bond' by Mark Harrison, Den of Geek, (Oct 29, 2012).

• James Bond was established by Ian Fleming as a white character, played by white actors. Play 003 or 006, but you cannot be 007. A lot of people say we should be allowed to play everything. Don’t be ridiculous. If I say I want to play JFK, I should be laughed out of the room.
  • Yaphet Kotto, 'Former 007 villain Yaphet Kotto says James Bond cannot be black', Ben Child, The Guardian, (8 April 2015).

• I mean the reasons that I wanted to be Bond were simple. I looked up to Sean Connery as an actor, and I thought that I would get laid a lot more. The strange thing is it actually had the opposite effect. Short hair and suits didn’t get you laid in the late 1960s. Everyone was wearing bell-bottoms.
• I tend to forget that I even played James Bond until somebody reminds me. But I am glad I got to share the story.
  • George Lazenby, 'George Lazenby on How Becoming James Bond Changed His Life' by Charles Thorp, Mens Journal.

• I wouldn’t have changed it from the way I played it. I played it slightly tongue-in-cheek because I never quite believed that James Bond was a spy because everybody knew him, they all knew what he drank. He’d walk into a bar and it would always be, 'Ah, Commander Bond, martini, shaken not stirred.’ Spies are faceless people.
  • Roger Moore in “Roger Moore interview: 'I was never very confident with girls'” by Tim Auld, The Telegraph, 23 May 2017.

• 'Bond isn't going to be downing three or four martinis, and then winning a fight with five guys,' Swartzwelder tells Shots. 'He might be starting the fights, but he's not winning them.'
  The old saw that every drink kills lots of brain cells isn't true, Swartzwelder says. 'But chronic drinking does damage neurons and brain circuits over time,' he says. 'And there are parts of the brain that you don't want to damage if you're an international spy.' First off, chronic alcohol abuse can injure the cerebellum, the brain region involved with coordination, Swartzwelder says. 'It allows you to string together a series of athletic movements.'
  'If Bond is pickling his cerebellum on a regular basis, he's not going to be able to learn fight sequences, jump through windows and shoot at the same time or even learn those dance sequences with his girlfriend,' he says.
  The second brain region damaged by years of heavy drinking is the hippocampus, Swartzwelder says. Shaped like a little sea horse, the hippocampus is dedicated to forming new memories.
  'It is very sensitive to the effects of alcohol,' he says. 'Bond wouldn't be able to remember all those names, card numbers at poker games or even all his girlfriends' phones numbers if his hippocampus wasn't working correctly. 'Believe me,' Swartzwelder says. 'Bond wouldn't have been doing the things that we he was doing in those movies if he drank as much as the study found.'
  • Scott Schwartzwelder as qtd. in Michaeleen Doucleff, “If You Drank Like James Bond, You'd Be Shaken, Too”, All Things Considered, NPR, (December 12, 2013).

See also[edit]

• Ian Fleming, author of the original James Bond novels and stories
• James Bond 007: Nightfire, a video game
• James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, a video game
• James Bond 007: From Russia with Love, a video game
• James Bond 007: Blood Stone, a video game
• 007 Legends, a video game

External links[edit]

• Encyclopedic article on James Bond in film at Wikipedia
• Media related to James Bond films at Wikimedia Commons

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'Dr. No' - 1962

In 1962, the movie-going world was introduced to James Bond, a British secret agent with a devil-may-care attitude and license to kill, and with it, the success of the spy movie in the 1960s was born. In this first film, Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of a fellow British agent, only to encounter deadly assassins, a sexy femme fatale, and even a poisonous tarantula. With the help of CIA agent Felix Leiter and the bikini-clad Honey Rider — who makes an unforgettable entrance — Bond searches for the headquarters of the fanatical Dr. No, a Chinese scientist bent on world domination. Made on a low budget, Dr. No was a big box office hit and laid the cornerstone for what would become the most successful film franchise in history.

'From Russia With Love' - 1963

Connery returned for this second installment to the series and toned down 007’s ruthlessness from Dr. No in favor of a suave and sophisticated demeanor. This time, Bond is tasked with reclaiming a decoder device stolen by the evil SPECTRE organization, which contains Russian state secrets and threatens to unbalance the world order. He travels to Istanbul, where he confronts the cunning assassin Red Grant (Robert Shaw) whose preferred method of killing is a garotte wire hidden inside his wristwatch, and the dour Rosa Klebb, who wears deadly poisoned-tipped shoes. From Russia with Love received a bigger budget, thanks to the success of Dr. No, and helped solidify Connery’s standing as the definitive Bond. The film ranks high in comparison to the other installments, with some considering it to be the best of the franchise.

'Goldfinger' - 1964

Undeniably the gold standard of Bond films, Goldfinger set forth the template for all other 007 pictures: theme song sung by a popular artist, a focus on high-tech gadgets – in this case an Aston Martin complete with ejector seat – and a maniacal arch-villain who spouts campy one-liners while devising Rube Goldberg-like methods of trying to kill Bond. That’s not to say any of this is bad; Goldfinger is a wildly entertaining movie that introduced a lethal hat-throwing henchman called Oddjob and the sultry villainess Pussy Galore. It was a clear departure from the first two films and set the stage for increasingly flashier productions, setting the precedent that each subsequent film had to surpass its predecessor.​​

'Thunderball' - 1965

Originally intended to be the first Bond film, Thunderball was embroiled in a legal battle involving Fleming’s former screenwriting collaborators Kevin McClory and Jack Wittingham, who settled out of court and received executive producer credits. Bond again takes on SPECTRE, which steals nuclear warheads, buries them deep in the ocean and demands a £100,000,000 ransom while threatening nuclear disaster. Jaunting to the Bahamas, Bond battles evil mastermind Emilio Largo while vying for the attention of three beauties: British agent Paula Caplan, Largo’s mistress Domino Derval and SPECTRE agent Fiona Volpe. A step down from Goldfinger, Thunderball nonetheless has been held in high regard by fans since its successful release.

'You Only Live Twice' - 1967

While on location in Japan, Connery publicly announced that he would be retiring from the role after five movies. In the film, Bond takes on the head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasance), in an effort to prevent a world war after a mysterious rocketship seizes manned space missions from Earth’s orbit. For the first time, Blofeld’s face was revealed on screen – only his hands and back of his head were seen in From Russia with Love and Thunderball – while the movie continued the trend of shifting away from the real-world espionage of the earlier movies toward the campy world-domination plots that defined the Roger Moore era.

'Diamonds Are Forever' - 1971

After George Lazenby made his only appearance as Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Connery stepped back into the role for what would be his last appearance as 007 for over a decade. Lazenby declined a return to the series, which left producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to search for another actor. In the end, they paid Connery an unprecedented $1.2 million to reclaim his role; this time, Bond disguises himself as a diamond smuggler to uncover a plot by old foe, Blofeld, to build a giant laser. Globetrotting through Las Vegas, Amsterdam, and Germany, and featuring the aptly named Plenty O’Toole, Diamonds Are Forever was a box office hit, but ranked as one of the campier Connery efforts, thanks to a rather silly chase involving a moon buggy through the Nevada desert.

'Never Say Never Again' - 1983

In 1971, Connery famously said that he would never play Bond again. Fast-forward 12 years and he agreed to return for one final performance. Never Say Never Again was the only Bond film not produced by Broccoli and Saltzman’s Eon Productions. Instead, it was written and produced by Kevin McClory, who managed to retain rights to Fleming’s novel, Thunderball, after a lengthy legal battle. Essentially a remake of Thunderball, the movie saw an aging Bond brought out of retirement to do battle with megalomaniacal millionaire Maximillian Largo, who steals several nuclear warheads in order to bring the world to its knees. The film opened mere months after Roger Moore’s Octopussy and set a record for the best opening for a Bond film. It also was a return to form for Connery after the silliness of Diamonds Are Forever, and allowed him to depart the character on a high note.