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James Bond
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Monique Delacroix
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Franz Oberhauser
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Vesper Lynd
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- 'Well, I understand double 0s have a very short life expectancy.. so your mistake will be short-lived. '
- ― James Bond to M in Casino Royale
Commander James Bond, C.M.G., R.N. (born April 13, 1968) is a fictional Senior Operational Officer of the 'Double-O' ('00') branch, an ultra-covert Black Ops unit within the BritishSecret Intelligence Service (MI6). As an agent of MI6, Bond holds code number '007'. The 'Double-O' prefix indicates his discretionary licence to kill in the performance of his duties. He serves as the main protagonist of the 007 reboot franchise.
Daniel Craig is the sixth official actor to appear as James Bond and was doubled by stunt-performers Ben Cooke and Jay Richardson.[1] The character appears in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and Bond 25 (2020). In addition Craig also provided his voice and likeness for several James Bond video games including Quantum of Solace (2008), the 2010 remake of GoldenEye 007, Blood Stone (2010), and 007 Legends (2012), in which the character was voiced by British actor Timothy Watson.
Biography
Youth and Meeting Blofeld
James Bond was born on April 13, 1968, in Glencoe, Scotland, United Kingdom. His father Andrew Bond was a Senior Accounts Manager for Vickers Defence Systems (now BAE Systems Land & Armaments Group), while his mother Monique Bond (née Delacroix) was originally from Yverdonm Canton de Vaud, Switzerland. Until age 11, Bond was educated in Switzerland and Germany, where his father was stationed as a Vickers executive. Both parents died tragically in a climbing accident while attempting to scale north-east ridge of the Aiguille de la Persévérance.[2] After the death of his parents, he was privately tutored while he lived at the family's estate in Scotland, Skyfall Lodge.[3]
On his father's command, from age 12 to 13, Bond attended Eton College until he was expelled for repeated curfew violations and 'trouble' with one of the maids. He then attended his father’s alma mater, Fettes College. While there he won numerous athletic competitions and twice boxed for the school as a light weight. He also formed the first intermural judo league for the public school circuit. During his teens, he spent time studying both climbing and skiing with local Austrian instructor Hannes Oberhauser of Kitzbühel during term breaks at Fettes.[4] Bond's one strong relationship, this friendship ended when Oberhauser disappeared mysteriously. Bond has referred to Oberhauser as a second father. During a stint at the University of Geneva under an exchange program with Fettes, Bond led an expedition to the very mountain where his parents had died. Bond climbed it with friends and never told them of his personal and tragic link to the location.
After graduating from Fettes at the age of 17, Bond began attending the Britannia Royal Naval College. While there, Bond excelled in all areas of training. Bond matriculated from his coursework at BRNC with passable marks. However, whilst excelling at athletic competitions, strategic operations, and counter-intelligence courses, his unconventional approach to his education, his diffident attitude to some of his superiors, and a lack of respect for curfew drew him many demerits. On more than one occasion, a fellow candidate was strongly suspected of lying to protect Bond from punishment. In his later teens, Bond lost his one surviving close relative, his aunt Charmain Bond.[4]
Military Service
Bond conducted his year of Sea Service with high recommendations from his Chief Petty Officers and Warrant Officers. He applied for and was uniformly recommended for work in Naval Intelligence. Bond served as an intelligence officer on HMS Exeter both before and during Operation Granby, and later was able to transfer to submarine service, touring on the HMS Turbulent. His natural abilities, mental quickness and confidence impressed his commanding officers. Within the year of being assigned to HMS Turbulent, it became apparent that Bond was not being sufficiently challenged with his duties, so Bond volunteered for the Special Boat Service. Bond excelled at SC3 and Underwater and Aquatic Warfare training. He constantly equaled or bested his superior officers and instructors in all areas after nominal experience.
Bond earned the distinction of being the only candidate to entirely escape detection during the night limpet placement operation at Plymouth. There was some doubt as to whether Bond had actually accomplished the mission per the assignment until he demonstrated his rather ingenious method of eluding the underwater infra-red cameras and sonar systems in-place. His techniques were rapidly included in future training.
Upon completion of UAW training, Bond commenced Advanced Commando Parachute training at Brize Norton. A very dramatic incident occurred when Bond participated in the first group freefall exercise. At 900 meters the third jumper Lieutenant Cameron's ripcord pins jammed causing the main chute to malfunction, and he panicked. As the fourth jumper, Bond spotted Cameron, and at great personal risk, repositioned himself to aerially intercept Lt. Cameron at approximately 450 meters, and deploy Lt. Cameron's chute. Bond deployed at 250 meters. Lt. Cameron shattered his hip upon landing, although Bond escaped without serious injury.
Bond's record with training earned him placement with the 030 Special Forces Unit, rather than deployment as a swimmer-canoeist with the standard SBS Units in Poole. During further training with 030 SFU, Bond earned certifications for the operation of assault helicopters, Harrier-class jets, fixed wing aircraft, hovercrafts, marine assault vessels, armored vehicles, and other crafts. Bond served with distinction in the 030 Special Forces Unit. He proved adept at training other candidates, initiating athletic competitions, and fostering a creative environment. During his three-year tenure with the 030 SFU, Bond rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He saw covert service in Iraq, Somalia, Iran, Libya, and active service in Bosnia. Upon completion of his duties in Bosnia, where Bond was credited with saving the lives of nearly 100 men from a Serbian militia in one village. Bond was recruited by the RNR Defence Intelligence Group and awarded the rank of Commander.
Bond's work with the Defence Intelligence Group at Defence Intelligence and Security Centre, Chicksands, proved highly satisfactory, although his fellow officers noted Bond's rather casual attitude toward command structure and protocol. Bond's work provided vital intelligence during key moments with Libya, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Indonesia, China and North Korea. In Libya, Bond was able to secure detailed assessments of the status of the Libyan government's reputed financial ties to numerous terrorist organizations. During his tenure at the RNR DI Group, Bond attended specialized courses at Cambridge (where he achieved a first in Oriental Languages), Oxford and other institutions. Bond left the RNR DI Group after recruitment by MI6 at the age of 30.
MI6
James Bond completed all orientation and MI6 Covert Operations training in eight weeks. He received exceptionally high marks for physical endurance, logic, and Psychological Ops exercises. His first assignment was at the British Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica. His duties there included: translation of Haitian, French and Dutch West Indies communiqués, interdiction efforts with gun and drug smuggling between Kingston and London (resulting in a letter of commendation from his superior, Charles DaSilva), and four days of Black Ops reconnaissance in Cuba, penetrating military compounds.
Bond then was appointed Senior Advisor at the British Embassy in Rome. He was promoted to Ops Specialist simultaneous with this posting. Although based nominally in Rome, his duties took him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, France, Spain, China and the United States. He worked back-channel sources to aid in solving a minor crisis between the U.S. and China. Afterwards, Bond was posted to the MI6 headquarters in London, where he continued to work as a Mission Specialist (within Black Ops) in such locations as Cuba, the United States, Austria, Spain, Russia, the Ukraine, Uzbekistan, the Sudan, and the UAE.
Film biography
Casino Royale
At the age of 38 in 2006, Bond was promoted to ‘Double-O’ (’00’) status youngest agent in MI6 history. The ultra-secret '00' Branch is the elite of the Secret Intelligence Service. These covert agents, known as 'double-Os', have proven themselves capable enough in the field to be entrusted with the license to kill -- the authorization to, at their own discretion, commit assassination and acts that might be otherwise considered murder in order to complete their missions, without having to seek permission from headquarters first.
Bond earned his stripes in the '00' Branch by killing two people, Section Chief Dryden - who had been selling secrets from within MI6 - and Dryden's contact. After Bond killed Dryden's contact in a bathroom in Lahore, Pakistan, he flew to the Czech Republic, where he assassinated Dryden in the Section Chief's office. Bond was consequently granted '00' status and awarded the infamous code number '007'.
On his first mission as agent 007, Bond and an agent named Carter worked cooperatively in an attempt to capture international bomb-maker, Mollaka. At a mongoose/cobra fight in Madagascar, Bond and Carter conducted surveillance on Mollaka but, due to a foolish mistake made by Carter, the suspected criminal realized he was being watched and attempted to escape. Bond pursued Mollaka through the jungle, up an enormously high construction site, where the two engaged brutally in hand-to-hand combat, and finally to the Nambutu Embassy, where he attempted to arrest the suspected bombmaker. However, since Bond found himself surrounded by Nambutu soldiers, he manages to escape after he shot and killed Mollaka and caused an explosion that partly also destroyed the embassy. The incident infuriated the British government, as Bond had only been instructed to capture Mollaka, but the criminal's cell phone led Bond to discover a terrorist plot to blow up a gigantic prototype Skyfleet airliner at Miami International Airport. Bond managed to stop the terrorists from succeeding and killed a man named Carlos, who had replaced Mollaka as the criminal responsible for destroying the airliner.Following this success, M informed Bond that the mastermind of the incident was a man known as Le Chiffre, who served as private banker to terrorists. Le Chiffre had been using his clients' money to short sell successful companies and then would engineer terrorist attacks to sink their stock values so he could make a fortune. When Bond foiled Le Chiffre's plan to destroy the Skyfleet, the banker was left with a major loss since he had shorted the company's shares.Having lost several high-ranking operatives in his organisation and needing to recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre had set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Hoping that a defeat would force Le Chiffre to aid the British government in exchange for protection from his creditors, MI6 entered Bond into the tournament. He was assisted in the mission by a fellow MI6 officer named René Mathis and Vesper Lynd, a foreign liaison agent from HM Treasury's Financial Action Task Force. She was sent to make sure that Bond adequately managed the funds provided by MI6. Bond overcame several obstacles: He was forced to save Le Chiffre from a vengeful Steven Obanno which resulted in the latter's death, he was beaten in the game but Felix Leiter bought him back in, and he was also poisoned by Le Chiffre's sweetheart, Valenka, but Vesper manages to save him. Despite everything, Bond went on to win the tournament and since then James Bond has proven himself to be one of the most capable officers in MI6's employ.
As he and Vesper have dinner, he receives information from Mathis that Le Chiffre was apprehended by the Central Intelligence Agency. Soon after, Vesper gets a call from Mathis. Bond suspects something, follows her and sees her kidnapped. He then goes to rescue her. As he races to find Le Chiffre, he swerves his car when he sees a bounded Vesper on the road. The impact of the swerve injures him, rendering him unconscious and Bond and Vesper are captured by Le Chiffre and his cronies. At a nearby tramp steamer, Bond is stripped and tied to a chair, where Le Chiffre proceeds to torture him of using a rope to strike his scrotum. Bond refuses to give information to Le Chiffre (the password to the account where the winnings are held). Le Chiffre is about to castrate Bond when Mr. White arrives, murdering Le Chiffre's goons and personally executing Le Chiffre. Mr White rescues Bond and Vesper, leaving the two of them for MI6 to find.
Bond regains consciousness at a hospital where Mathis, who is beside him, reveals that he is the mastermind behind his and Vesper's capture. MI6 agents appear to capture Mathis. Vesper visits Bond to confess her love for him and a Swiss banker gives them the password. Bond resigns to go on vacation with Vesper.
In Venice, Italy, M phones Bond about his resignation and that the British government wants the money returned.
Vesper arranges a secret meeting to a man named Gettler and his cronies. Bond ensues a gunfight with the men, where he wins and kills them. Vesper, however, locks herself and takes her own life by drowning herself. Bond manages to recover her and attempts to revive but to no avail.
Later, after informing M about Vesper having a boyfriend being held in Le Chiffre's organization, Bond finds Mr. White's number through Vesper's cell phone and tracks him down. Bond tracks Mr. White, anonymously phones him and shoots him in the leg. Bond appears, saying to White 'The name's Bond. James Bond.'
Quantum of Solace
After shooting Mr. White in the leg, Bond has captured Mr. White and manages to evade pursuit by his various minions in a chaotic car chase in his Aston Martin DBS V12 painted in black. After interrogating him with M at a closed off location, Bond and M are both betrayed by a disguised minion (Mitchell) who, after a toss and tumble, is later dispatched and killed by James. Mr. White takes this time to vanish and is never seen or heard from again (except for being briefly spotted at the opera among other Quantum members.)
Bond and M return to London and search Mitchell's flat, discovering through tagged banknotes that Mitchell had a contact in Haiti. Bond tracks the contact, Edmund Slate, and learns that Slate is a hitman sent to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her lover, environmentalist Dominic Greene. While observing her subsequent meeting with Greene, Bond learns that Greene is helping an exiled Bolivian General Medrano—who murdered Camille's family—to overthrow his government and become the new president in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of desert.
Bond then makes it his mission to go after Greene when he realizes his connection to Vesper's death. He follows Greene to a performance of Tosca in Bregenz, Austria. Bond infiltrates Quantum's meeting at the opera, exposing the identities of Quantum's executive board to Bill Tanner, and a gunfight ensues. Greene's men kill a Special Branch bodyguard working for Quantum member Guy Haines, an adviser to the British Prime Minister, after he fights with Bond. M assumes that Bond killed him, and has his passports and credit cards revoked when he refuses to return home and debrief.
Bond heads to Italy and convinces his old ally René Mathis to accompany him to Bolivia. At the La Paz airport, they are greeted by Strawberry Fields, an MI6 officer, who demands that Bond return to the UK immediately. Bond seduces her before they attend a fundraising party Greene holds that night. At the party, Bond rescues Camille from Greene. Leaving, Bond and Camille are pulled over by Bolivian police working for Medrano. They had earlier attacked Mathis and put him in the boot of Bond's car to frame Bond; and, in the ensuing struggle, Mathis is killed.
He is forced to go rogue after Fields is killed off by mysterious assailants (in a similar manner seen in Goldfinger). Bond meets with CIA agent Felix Leiter, who discloses Greene and Medrano will meet in the Atacama Desert to finalise the coup. Warned by Leiter, he evades the CIA's Special Activities Division when they attempt to kill him. He is aided by Camille in his raid on Greene and his organization in Bolivia where he foils his plan on controlling the nation's water supply. Bond kills the Chief of Police for betraying Mathis, and confronts Greene. Meanwhile, Camille kills Medrano, avenging the murders of her parents and sister. The struggle leaves the hotel largely destroyed by fire. After a frenzied brawl, Bond captures Greene and interrogates him about the Quantum organization, before leaving him stranded in the desert with only a can of engine oil. Bond and Camille kiss before they part. Bond then finds Vesper's former lover and member of Quantum, Yusef Kabira and is reinstated by M.Skyfall
James Bond, six years after the Casino Royale/Bolivia mission, is in Istanbul, Turkey, late July/August 2012 teamed up with Miss Moneypenny and Sebastian Ronson to protect a computer drive later revealed to contain the identities of every NATO agent embedded in terrorist organisations the world over. A French mercenary called Patrice eludes Bond and ransacks the safehouse, where he fights and kills Ronson and steals the computer drive. Bond, armed with his standard-issue Walther PPK, finds Ronson's body and briefly tries to save the latter, but M coerces him into pursuing the Frenchman.
Leaving Ronson to die, Bond and Moneypenny briefly pursue him in a van, but they eventually corner him in the Grande Bazaar. The local police try to defuse the situation. Patrice unsheaths a machine-gun and mows down the police, cornering Bond. Moneypenny distracts him and Patrice tries to escape on a motorbike, but Bond steals a motorbike himself and gives chase, going over the rooftops of the Bazaar. The chase drives the two of them to a bridge, where Patrice boards the top of the train and Bond heroically severs the motorbike in an attempt at boarding the train too. After a destructive chase, Bond corners Patrice and they fight. Patrice manages to hold out against the 00 agent and soon manages to gain the upper hand, despite the use of a knife, a machine-gun and a brilliantly convenient chain. In the ensuing brawl, Bond is about to beat Patrice before Moneypenny unwillingly shoots him. Bond is thrown from the train, into the waterfall, allowing Patrice to escape with the computer drive. Moneypenny reports that Bond is down.
It is revealed that Bond has survived the bullet, the fall, the water and the asphyxiation. He is somewhere in the Meditarrenian region of Turkey, engaging in gambling, alcoholism and prostitution almost obsessively. When news arrives of the attack on MI6 headquarters, Bond finally decides to go back to England and protect M. He breaks into her flat one night and reveals his survival. He and M argue fiercely and then Bond decides to rejoin MI6, since being officially dead means he isn't part of MI6 anymore. He is taken to the new MI6 headquarters in the War Rooms and immediately engages in training. Meanwhile, Bill Tanner tells him about the situation with M's attacker. He then engages in psychological tests, where he scornfully labels M as 'bitch'. Then, after digging into his biography, the examiner mentions 'Skyfall'. The examiner repeats several times, but Bond remains extensively silent. Then, with a callous gesture of disinterest, he mutters 'Done' and leaves the room.
He actually fails the tests because of his sexual engagement, excessive use of drugs and alcohol. He was also unhinged by the mention of Skyfall, triggering immense childhood trauma. He then removes the bullets that Patrice gave him during the chase on the train, gets them analysed. He identifies Patrice as a serial killer-for-hire and is assinged to pursue and apprehend the mercenary so they can discover the identity of his paymaster. He meets Gareth Mallory, who coldly suggests that Bond 'stays dead' since very few agents get the opportunity to retire so peacefully. Bond makes it clear that it is because he puts his country before his ego. Mallory, whom Bond deduced to be a former prisoner of the IRA (A feat that expresses extreme bravery and patriotic loyalty), leaves with a sarcastic demand not to 'cock it up'. He then meets wiht his Quartermaster, a teenager who is also an intellectual genius, as he liked to boast. Bond remains sarcastically skeptical of Q's competence because of his age, to which Q wittily retorts by calmly noting his exceptional aptitude with computers. Q then gives him a specially adapted Walther PPK, modified so that only Bond can use it. He also gives Bond a distress signal device, and M dutifully sends him to Macau, where he hunts down Patrice.
He corners Patrice at the top of a building, where he is about to make a kill. Bond stalks the man right up to the moment where Patrice completes the kill. Then Bond tries to sneak-attack him. Patrice recognises him from the motorbike chase and turns around and fires just as Bond attacks. But Patrice misses, Bond smashes into him and they fight briefly, ending with the French mercenary hanging over the edge of the building. Bond angrily interrogates him, but Patrice remains silent and commits suicide, falling to his death. Bond reacts furiously, scolding himself. And then he spots a woman in a backless black dress, staring at him malevolently. He then tracks the woman to a casino, where Moneypenny reveals that the man who stole the list has put the first handful of names on YouTube. Later, she accompanies him as he tracks the woman in the backless dress into the casino, where she reveals herself to be Sévérine. They flirt until he deduces that her 'bodyguards' are using fear to manipulate her.
He deduces that she was once a teenage prostitute at the age of twelve when the man who stole the list saved her and used her as a contact and, for his own means, a sex slave. She reacts angrily, but he remains calm to her. She reveals that her bodyguards are going to kill him if he tries to leave. She tells him the location of her boat, and that she will take him to her employer. Bond lets her leave, then he himself attempts to leave. Sévérine's bodyguards stand in his way. Bond sarcastically replies, then fights back. The skirmish takes him and the surviving thug into the sandpit, where a Komodo dragon is circling them. The thug regains consciousness and they fight brutally. After using Q's cunning devices to survive, Bond finally manages to kill the thug, who is later eaten by the Komodo dragon. Bond escapes to her yacht and secretly has intimate, naked sex with Sévérine, locked in her shower.
The following morning, they arrive on a deserted island, where the man revealed to be Raoul Silva tricked the settlers into retreating after a faux gas leak. Bond is left alone in a church hall and Silva reveals himself. They talk for a long time and Silva reveals that he attacked M's headquarters and hired Patrice. He then unearths that M lied and that he failed all the tests, but M sent him anyway because she trusted him to save the day. Silva later makes it absolutely clear that he hates M, and then takes Bond out where a bloodied Sévérine is held captive against a pillar. Silva challenges him to a marksmanship contest, places a glass of scotch on Sévérine's head and challenges Bond to shoot the glass off without hitting her head. Bond deliberately misses in an attempt to save her life, but Silva arrogantly sees through him and shoots her in the head, killing her and spilling the scotch. Bond shows no emotion to this, but he is clearly devastated. He then attacks, overwhelming and killing Silva's thugs in a matter of seconds, and then holds Silva at gunpoint. Bond reveals that he called MI6 after arriving on the island and Silva is overpowered and arrested.
Silva is interrogated, where he reveals his affairs with M and that she left him for dead with the Chinese just before the Hong Kong handover after his illegal cyberterrorist activities. M reluctantly reveals that Silva's real name was Tiago Rodriguez and that he would have been an excellent agent if not for his sexual appetites and criminal habits. Bond and Q then try and hack Silva's computer, but Silva then outthinks them and escapes. Bond leaves and starts a lengthy chase through the London Underground, which leads to several counts of violence and illegal activity. Silva outmatches Bond several times and storms M's trial. Bond arrives just in time and an intense shootout breaks out. Mallory, Moneypenny, M and Bond himself overpower Silva's men, during which Mallory is injured, and Silva escapes. M is led to a car to take her to a safehouse, but Bond 'takes her hostage' and they escape to Skyfall Lodge.
Bond is traumatised by his return to his childhood home, and eventually meets Kincade, who helps to arm Bond with several minor weapons, but they make up for it with several traps and explosives. Silva's men arrive and they easily overpower them. Then Silva arrives with a large amount of mercenaries and a climatic battle ensues. Bond duels Silva, who arrives by helicopter. He holds out at length against the cyberterrorist, but Bond then decides to destroy the lodge in order to kill Silva's men and, with luck, Silva himself. Bond sets up numerous explosives and, before leaving through a priest's hole he used as a boy, he remarks that 'He always hated this place.' Having left the lodge, Bond detonates the explosives. The helicopter and all but two of Silva's men are incinerated, but Silva narrowly survives.
Bond then confronts Silva on the frozen lake, but Silva tries to kill him, ending with Bond and one of Silva's men fighting under the lake. Bond gains the upper hand and arrives just in time to kill Silva, once and for all, by hurling a meat cleaver at him from the other end of the chapel. Silva's spine is severed, he begins to bleed internally. Bond reveals himself and sarcastically remarks, 'Last rat standing,' in reference to their conversation back on the island. Silva dies, leaving Bond the last living person whom M sees before she succumbs to her wounds from the skirmish and dies.
With M dead, Gareth Mallory takes her position. Bond returns to London, triumphant and still alive yet traumatized and exhausted from the ordeal. He briefly confronts Moneypenny, who reveals that M left her Churchill bulldog -- an ornament that survived Silva's attack -- to Bond in her will. Bond accepts Moneypenny as his secretary and goes in to meet Mallory. After the battle, Mallory was left with his arm in a sling. He is now head of MI6 and remarks that he was unused to field work, considering his injury a trophy. Mallory hands him a file with his name and serial number on it. He asks Bond if he is ready to get back to work. Eager for the next chance to save the day, Bond replies, 'With pleasure, M. With pleasure.'
Spectre
On a mission in Mexico City, unofficialy ordered by the previous M, James Bond tracks down Marco Sciarra during the Day of the Dead festival. He and Estrella enter a hotel and Bond leaves, on the way to assassinate Sciarra. Bond walks the rooftops of Mexico City and eavesdrops on Sciarra's conversation. Bond then kills Sciarra's associates and explodes half of an apartment block. Bond manages to escape the crumbling building and chases Sciarra.
After a short chase, a helicopter lands and picks up Sciarra, as requested by Sciarra. Bond enters the helicopter and engages in a ferocious fight with Sciarra. Bond manages to kick Sciarra out of the chopper, when it is completing 360 degree turns in the air. James kicks out the pilot and uses the helicopter to get back to London.
Back in London, the new M (Gareth Mallory) is not pleased with Bond because he 'caused an international incident' by blowing up a block of houses with innocent civilians. Bond responds that the explosion had nothing to do with him, he was merely 'taking an overdue holiday'. As Bond is about to leave, Max Denbigh, the new Head of the Centre of National Security comes in for a meeting with M. He is very friendly to his new employee Bond despite the fact, that his nine eyes program will get Bond fired. Bond calls Denbigh C. On his way back from M Bond is joint by Moneypenny, who tells him that the forensic department has released personal things from Bond from the destroyed Skyfall Lodge. Bond asks her to bring them to his apartment later that evening.
Moneypenny enters his apartment and gives him a black box. Bond asks her to search for someone named 'the Pale King', the name he overheard at Sciarra’s meeting in Mexico, minutes before the explosion. He also revealed that he killed Sciarra because of a video message from the deceased Olivia Mansfield the M before Mallory, which told him to find Sciarra, kill him and to visit his funeral. Moneypenny is clearly shocked at this. As she leaves, Bond sits down on his sofa and sees through the black box. In it is a letter that announces the temporary guardianship of Franz Oberhauser to a twelve year old orphan James Bond. There is also a photo of Franz and Bond skiing and another person, whose face is unseeable thanks to the flames. The next day, James meets Bill Tanner and together they ride through the Thames on boat, while searching for Q’s new laboratory. Tanner tells Bond of Denbigh’s nine Eyes program, that includes the unison of all secret services of nine countries including England. Denbigh also plans to use drones to do the work of 00 agents. As they arrive at Q’s laboratory, Q shows Bond and Tanner a new Aston Martin, and tells them that it is given to another agent after the incident in Mexico City happened.
Then Q gives Bond an exploding watch and injects him with smart blood, to track his movements and health status from everywhere in the world. Bond asks Q to make him disappear to which Q states that the program of smartblood could not work properly the first 48 hours. Bond then goes to Rome to visit the funeral of Marco Sciarra. There he meets the widow of Marco Sciarra, Lucia Sciarra. He introduces himself after all other guests left, as a life insurance agent and questions her grieving. Lucia leaves and drives to her villa outside Rome. She then puts on music and pours herself a glass of Scotch, as she knows that her bodyguards are going to kill her. Just as they are about to execute her, Bond, who had followed her from the graveyard intervenes and kills the two men.
Lucia isn't grateful for her rescue, but Bond invites her for a drink inside. When Lucia finds out that Bond killed her husband, and despite hating Marco slaps Bond. Bond then drags her to a wall and she admits of feeling lonely and tells him that the organization her husband was part of will meet that night at the Palazo Cadenza in Rome to choose a replacement for her husband. Bond then sleeps with her. At midnight Bond leaves Lucia, leaving her the phone number of Felix Leiter, his colleague and friend of the CIA who will get her out of Italy and to safety. Bond is coming past the suspicious guard by showing him the octopus ring on his finger that he stole from Sciarra while battling with him. Bond overhears the meeting standing at a balcony.
First Doctor Vogel tells the group at a large table on the ground floor that they made large progress with taking migrant women into the leisure industry, which points to white pornographic slavery. She is interrupted by doors opening and a man coming in. As he stands at the table, all get up to show their respects. A few moments pass before the man says, that he didn't want to interrupt, to which all sit down again and Doctor Vogel finishes her report. After that, Moreau, the spokesman brings the matter to the death of Marco Sciarra and asks the Spaniard Guerra, at the other side of the table, if he wants to fulfill Sciarra's task by going to Altausee and terminate 'the Pale King'. Guerra emphatically agrees. After a short and quiet discussion from Moreau with the man who came in, Moreau asks if there any others who want to have this position. Mr. Hinx comes in and beats Guerra, gouges his eyes out and breaks his neck. Guerra falls to the floor. Hinx wipes his bloody finger with a handkerchief and takes Guerra's place. The man who came in then welcomes James and calls him a cuckoo.
James, compromised battles the man from the door and escapes the building and gets into his car. He is chased by Hinx. After evading an old man in his car driving very slowly and listening to opera, Bond calls Moneypenny whom he finds out has spent the night with 'a friend of hers'. Moneypenny then informs him that he already met with the 'Pale King'. As she sends him a photo to his cellphone, Bond recognizes the man as his enemy Mr. White, head of the Quantum organization, who escaped custody nine years prior. Moneypenny informs him that he was last seen in Altausee four months ago. Bond asks her to search the file for Franz Oberhauser, whom he thinks is the man who came in at the meeting of the organization. Bond then tries to use some of the gadgets of his car, but most of them won't work. Bond can evade Hinx by driving his car into the Tiber and escaping it via a parachute. Bond then travels to Altausee in Austria to find Mr. White. He finds him in an old abandonded hut near the lake. As Bond finds him, Mr. White is sitting in apanic room with a morphine intravenous infusion. Mr. White thinks Bond wants to kill him and pleads with him to make it quick.
Bond drags White upstairs and tells him he heard White’s name at a meeting of his organization. White reveals that he dropped out of the organization due to them expanding in sex trafficking, and as a result was poisoned with thallium, with only a few weeks to live. White shouts a Bond that the leader is everywhere. Bond reads through the lines and concludes that White is protecting someone. As his wife left White long ago, Bond concludes that it must be his daughter. Bond reassures him that he will protect her, if White tells him where to find the leader of the organization. White is uncooperative until Bond disarms himself. White takes Bonds gun and tells him that his daughter works at the Hoffler clinic and that she can lead him to L'Americain. He then farewells Bond and shoots himself in the head. Bond closes White’s eyes and searches his suit. He find a wallet with a picture of younger Mr White with a young child. Bond then reveals the identity of White’s daughter as Doctor Madeleine Swann, a psychologist working in the Hoffler clinic in the Austrian Alps.
He comes to the clinic as a patient of Doctor Swann's and in the interview he is being asked questions about his life style and his work, before he reveals that he knew her father and that he is dead. Madeleine is shocked by this and orders Bond to leave. Bond surrenders to her wishes and stays in the clinics bar, where to his annoyance alcohol isn't served. Q approaches him and tells him that Franz Oberhauser died in 1995 in an avalanche alongside his father Hannes and that Bond should come to MI6 immediately since Q lied to M’s face about Bonds whereabouts. Bond asks Q if he can find out more from the octopus ring, since White stared at it, when Bond gave it to him. Q reluctantly agrees and goes to his hotel. Bond realizes that Swann is kidnapped bis Hinx and fellow henchmen. Bond shakes the security guards of the clinic off and pursues Hinx in an Aircraft.
He rams Hinx's car several times, and when he causes an accident the car comes to a halt. Bond gets out of the demodulated aircraft and takes the shocked Madeleine out of the car. Madeleine is angry at Bond, shouting at him because he blew her cover. But Bond can convince her that he is the only chance for her to survive. Then they go to the hotel, where Q is staying, Q tells them that there was another terrorist attack in Kapstadt after attacks in Hamburg and Tunisia. He then tells Bond that Oberhauser is still alive and that all his previous enemies (Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene, who was part of the Quantum group Raoul Silva and Mr. White) belonged to the organization, that Oberhauser heads Q doesn't know the name of the organization, but Swann answers that its name is Spectre and that she knows it because her father had been part of it for years. She also reveals that in contrary to Bond's assumption L'Americain isn't a person but a place.
The next days, Bond and Madeleine travel to Tangier in Marocco. After they found their way through oriental markets and they find L'Americain which turns out to be an old, modest hotel. In a sideway. Madeleine takes her to a suite and tells Bond that her father visited this room with her mother at her wedding night and that they came back every year took them with her. White continued coming back, after the divorce. Bond is shocked at this but still searches the place. He finds nothing and a drunken Madeleine tells Bond that she loathed her father for his dangerous lifestyle. Bond defends the deceased White but Madeleine wants to go to bed. The next morning Bond sees a mouse disappearing through a hole in the wall, and finds out that there is a secret room.
Bond finds a wall full of photos of Madeleine and Mr. White and also weapons and maps and videos from Mr. White’s actions, one of them is labeled Vesper Lynd interrogation. Bond turns an old computer on and finds out, that White was looking for Oberhauser and that he send Bond to finish Oberhauser and end his reign of terror, by giving him coordinates of Oberhauser headquarters in the Sahara. Madeleine tells Bond that she is coming with him. Some days later, Bond visits Madeleine in her cabin in the Orient Express that they are taking to visit Oberhauser’s hideout. Bond wants to teach Madeleine how to use a gun. Madeleine repeatedly refuses but then shows Bond that she knows how to deal with a gun. She reveals that her father taught her how to use weapons and that she had to kill an intruder as a little girl who wanted to eliminate her father. Later that evening Bond and Madeleine are having dinner in the eating chariot.
Madeleine asks Bond why he choose the lifestyle of an assassin Bond first jokes the question away, but remains more silent and thoughtful as Madeleine inquires deeper. Suddenly Hinx, who seems to be on train by coincidence, sees Bond and attacks them. A wild struggle ensues between Bond and Hinx, and Hinx seems to gain the upper hand despite Bond's very best efforts - Hinx endures being thrown through a wall, having an empty bottle of wine thrown at him and even being set on fire, all the while not losing any exhaustion. Madeleine intervenes, shooting Hinx in the shoulder. As Hinx attacks Madeleine, Bond ties a rope which is tied to barrels and causes the barrels to fall out of the train and via domino effect, throw Hinx out of the train too, to his apparent death. Bond and Madeleine then lean against the wall exhausted. They then return to their sleeping cabin, kissing passionately and having sex.
The next morning, Madeleine and Bond get out at an unnamed train station in the dessert, that just consists of an old wooden hut. They wait for a couple of hours and finally an old Rolls Royce stops in front of them and the driver asks Bond and Madeleine to get in. They are driving to Oberhauser’s hideout in the Sahara, which turns out to be a beautiful oase, with the most modern technology. Bond then must give his gun to one of Oberhausers employees. Bond and Madeleine are brought into separate rooms, with clothing for them prepared on the bed. On a table in each room there is a photo in Bond's room one of Hans, Franz and Bond skiing, when Bond was a child and in Madeleine's room one of her as a young girl and her father outside a house.
This should remember both of them of their personal problems and weaknesses Bond of his criminal turned brother and Madeleine of her assassin father. Afterwards Bond and Madeleine in their new clothes- a black suit and black dress- are led to Oberhausers headquarter. There they find themselves standing in front of a meteorite, ' the Kartenhoff the oldest in human possession' as the appearing Oberhauser boasts. He then tells Bond that he is glad to see him. and tells Madeleine resembling a good family friend that he met her as a little girl, when he visited her father at home. Then they go through long halls, where Oberhauser reveals his plan: had terrorist attacks committed throughout the globe to convince the countries to join an intelligence network he financed. This network is called nine eyes, and C is one of Oberhauser’s employee. With this network Oberhauser will have all the information from all people watched by MI6 and other secret services and can use them for his bad purposes.
Oberhauser explains his philosophy that something bad can lead to something wonderful. He taunts Bond by recalling Vesper’s and M’s death. and he taunts Madeleine by showing her the video of the suicide of her father, as an example of Mr White’s suicide, Bond and Madeleine met because of this. Madeleine is deeply traumatized and James is knocked off. As James regains consciousness, Madeleine is tied to an electric chair and Oberhauser tortures him by drilling into his brain, with a small metal stick. He wants to show James the power he has over his little foster brother who he loathed from the beginning, because he was afraid the new brother would take his father’s love for him. This hate drove Franz to kill his own father in an avalanche and fake his own death. With Franz Oberhauser dead, he rose to the head of Spectre under a new name 'Ernst Stavro Blofeld' from his mother’s bloodline.
He then wants to punish Bond whon he takes responsible for all his criminal life. He wants to make Bond to be blind and recognize nobody on the way to his grave. Blofeld tortures Bond further. Madeleine, who had to watch it, runs to Bond and tells him that she loves him. Bond whispers to her to take the exploding watch and throw it in the direction of Blofeld. Se does this and when Bond shouts ' Doesn't time fly?', the watch explodes apparently killing Blofeld. Bond then fights his way through Blofelds henchmen and then the two get to a helicopter that Blofeld parked for an escape. Bond and Madeleine get into the helicopter and fly to London. In London they search shelter in an old abandonded building, which is an MI6 safehouse. There they meet with M, Moneypenny, Tanner and Q.
Bond tells M about the death of Blofeld and M wants to go to C, arrest him. Bond agrees to go with him, while Q wants to stop the nine eyes program from going online. Madeleine saw all the weapons and decides for herself that, she doesn't want to go back to the life of violence and murder and leaves Bond. Bond is driving in one car with Mallory while Q, Moneypenny and Tanner are following in another. In a tunnel they are attacked by Blofeld's men and Bond is kidnapped while M is able to escape. Bond is brought to the old MI6 building that was abandoned since Silva's attack two years earlier. There he discovers that his name is written on the memorial wall of men who died in line of duty with an arrow. Bond follows the arrow and comes to the cell part of the building Inside the cells are pictures of people he came to care about in the previous missions: his enemies Le Chiffre, who tortured him with a rope; Dominic Greene, who was part of Vesper’s killing; Raoul Silva, who killed his beloved M.
Also presented are his allies, the former M who was like a mother to him and killed by Silva, Vesper Lynd, his being one, who was made to kill herself thanks to her betrayal, and Mr. White, his former enemy who too had a major role in Vesper Lynd's death, and would have been his to-be father- in-law. Bond then found Blofeld, behind bulletproof glass who didn't die in the attack but who was injured severely. Blofeld told his foster brother James, that Madeleine was hidden somewhere inside the building and that a bomb was going to explode in three minutes. Blofeld left Bond a choice: die trying to save Madeleine or escape the building and live with the guilt over Madeleine's death for the rest of his live. Bond then ran through the building, searching for Madeleine. Bond discovers Blofeld's helicopter which inadvertently through his flashlights gives him a clue. He finds Madeleine strapped to a chair, frees her and they leave the building just in time through the River Thames. Bond the tries to shoot Blofeld's helicopter down, while Madeleine navigates the boat.
The helicopter - hit by one of James bullets - crashes onto the Westminster bridge. While all other passengers are dead, Blofeld crawls out alive, with a leg injury, Without a weapon, he tries to crawl away from the scene, similar to Mr. White at the end of Casino Royale. Bond runs through the police and swat team blockade and confronts Blofeld his gun drawn. Madeleine runs to the other end of the bridge. Blofeld taunts Bond to finish him, he thinks he can manipulate his foster brother to kill him and lose Madeleine by doing this. Bond decides to leave Blofeld to M and MI6, as he has better things to do than kill his foster brother. He throws his weapon on the ground and kisses Madeleine as he reaches her. They both leave from the scene with Bond deciding to leave the world of espionage and be happy with Madeleine.
The next day, Bond visits Q's laboratory one final time and gets the Aston Martin. Together he and Madeleine drive through London and enjoy their lives.
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Blood Stone
Takes place in between the events of Quantum of Solace and Skyfall.
Greco, an international terrorist, is planning a suicide attack on the G-20 Summit at the Acropolis structure in Athens. M sends Bond to investigate and prevent an attack from occurring. After a brief encounter with Greco on his yacht, Bond pursues him through Athens by boat and then on foot. After a second confrontation with Greco which ends with Greco left alive, Bond stops a bomb-laden car destined for the Acropolis structure by knocking it off the road with an Aston Martin DBS V12 he had commandeered, saving the G-20 summit from potential disaster.
The next morning, Bond is assigned to rescue a missing professor, Malcolm Tedworth. Tedworth was originally feared dead until an anonymous tip and tracing of his cell phone led MI6 to an Istanbul construction site. Bond investigates the area that Tedworth's phone signal was lost in. In the catacombs, Tedworth is interrogated by a man called Bernin who demands the password to a USB drive. Tedworth submits to the torture and is promptly executed. Bond interrupts, pursuing Bernin by Aston Martin DB5, and on foot, the chase ending at an old coliseum. Bernin however manages to get the data extracted, only to reveal Stefan Pomerov's name to Bond before being pushed off a ledge to his death by Bond after attempting to kill him.After learning that Pomerov is going to be in Monaco, Bond travels to Nice, meeting with his contact, a wealthy jewellery designer (and MI6 agent) named Nicole Hunter. Hunter takes Bond to one of Pomerov's casinos in Monaco. Nicole distracts Pomerov while Bond sneaks in and breaks into his safe. Bond recovers documents and a camera that contains a video of Tedworth's interrogation. On it, Tedworth reveals that he was the lead scientist who was trying to create an antidote to both smallpox and anthrax to cure soldiers in the event of a biological attack. Having been discovered, Bond shoots his way out of the casino and escapes with Nicole in her Koenigsegg CCXR. M informs Bond that the files he found were invoices for sophisticated chemical manufacturing equipment designated to a defunct Siberian chemical refinery owned by Pomerov.
In Siberia, Bond and Nicole enter the refinery with Bond posing as her bodyguard. Nicole enters the building to get into Pomerov's office while Bond is contacted by Tanner at Q Branch and says they found Tedworth's research but were locked out before they could read them. Bond locates and manages to gain access to the main computer. As he does so, Bond discovers that Pomerov built a bio-factory and is manufacturing toxins. Bond makes his way to a central control room where he triggers a meltdown. Nicole and Bond pursue Pomerov's train (by Aston Martin DBS V12), which is meant to smuggle the toxins out of the country. Bond follows the train to a port where the toxins are loaded onto an ekranoplan that takes off along the river with Pomerov inside. Using a boarded hovercraft, Bond damages the plane and boards it, killing Pomerov in the process by shooting the emergency exit, sucking him out of the plane. The bio-weapons are recovered, and Bond and Nicole part ways. He tells M that the tip about the bio-weapons was fabricated and it was set up by someone who wanted Pomerov dead. Using Bernin's cell phone, Bond finds a lead from Bangkok. Bond contacts Chinese intelligence officer Colonel Fu San Ping in Bangkok, Thailand.
Meeting at an aquarium, Ping tells Bond he had a team in Geneva following a lead on a man called Rak who operates out of Bangkok. Before Ping can reveal more, an assassin kills him. Bond pursues the assassin on the rooftops of Bangkok and then chases him in a tow truck while the assassin pilots a dump truck. Bond drives off an unfinished bridge and ends up getting the dump truck to crash and the assassin is killed by multiple injuries to the head. Bond tries to get background information on Rak from M while evading the Thai Police. Bond meets up with an old friend, known as Silk, who tells him where Rak's secret hideout is; when Bond leaves, Silk informs someone where Bond is going and also says to make sure Bond does not make it. Bond is caught by Rak's henchmen and is captured.
Bond is taken to Burma where he is tortured. Shortly after he escapes, Bond engages in multiple fights with Rak. The conflict reaches its climax when Bond fights Rak on a catwalk in a dam, eventually knocking him off. Rak pleads for mercy, but Bond has already deduced who Rak's employer is. Bond leaves Rak to fall to his death, only for Rak to land on top of his Osprey. Bond shoots Rak, causing him to fire his rocket-propelled grenade into the Osprey, destroying it with Rak still on it.
Back in Monaco, Nicole is revealed to be the one who kidnapped Tedworth and is planning another kidnapping. She drives off in her Koenigsegg CCXR and Bond follows her, in his Aston Martin DBS V12, ultimately cornering her on the Millau Viaduct. After being confronted, Nicole reveals that she did it to prove herself to a rich and powerful man. Bond tries to get his name but she refuses to give it claiming he's 'bigger than everything' (including MI6), and that he was watching them. Suddenly, an unmanned drone flies toward them and shoots Nicole dead. M then contacts Bond and asks him if everything is all right. He claims that she will need a new contact in Monaco and prompts her to stay in contact. As Bond signs off, he is left alone on the bridge with Nicole dead at his feet.007 Legends
Taking place after the opening but prior to the events of Skyfall, James Bond is shot and left for dead during a botched assignment in Istanbul.
As his life hangs in the balance, he begins to remember his previous adventures — foiling Operation Grand Slam, the assault on Piz Gloria, his vendetta against drug kingpin Franz Sanchez, his encounter with Gustav Graves, and thwarting billionaire industrialist Hugo Drax's plot to kill the entire human race. Straight after his return to the present day, Bond realizes that he's still alive. He tracks down Patrice, whom he was after in the very beginning of the game, to Shanghai where he stops an assassination plot and eliminates the hitman.
The game presents a What if? scenario where all of the 'classic' Bond adventures have taken place during the six-year gap between the storylines of Quantum of Solace and Skyfall.
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- Raoul Silva: 'Just look at you, barely held together by your pills and your drink.'
- James Bond: 'Don't forget my pathetic love of country.'
- ―Skyfall (2012)[src]
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See also
External links
- James Bond (Daniel Craig) on the Heroes Wiki.
References
- ↑Jay Richardson. (2018). The Stunts of Bond with Paul Weston & Jay Richardson (YouTube). James Bond Radio. Event occurs at 35:55.
- ↑You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming, 1964
- ↑Skyfall, 2012
- ↑ 4.04.1Octopussy and The Living Daylights, Ian Fleming 1966
After months of speculating who would take over the role of James Bond, a name was finally confirmed this past week. It turns out that the only actor capable of replacing Daniel Craig is.. Daniel Craig.
After lengthy salary negotiations, Craig is now confirmed to return as 007 in the twenty-fifth Bond movie scheduled for 2019. On the one hand, this should come as good news for fans. Daniel Craig is widely considered as the best Bond since Sean Connery, giving the character an unheard of humanity in movies that revitalized the franchise, as seen with Casino Royale and Skyfall.
On the other hand, news about Craig’s return can be seen as a red flag. Though the actor was able to successfully keep the franchise afloat, his legacy as one of the best Bonds could be put at risk for the sake of continuing massive box office success.
Craig has been quite vocal regarding his distaste for his James Bond role, so much so that he even said in one interview that he would rather slash his wrists than return to Her Majesty’s secret service.
With so many cons, and so little pros, it might be a better idea for Daniel Craig to hang up the tux for good now and retire while he still has the chance.
Here are the 15 Reasons Why Daniel Craig Should Retire As James Bond.
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Start Now15 The Bond Franchise Thrives on Reinvention
The Bond franchise knows that, in order to survive, you have to be willing to adapt. The ability to keep things fresh has saved Bond from becoming outdated, despite a legacy spanning 24 films. When one era of 007 has overstayed its welcome, it’s back to the drawing board to reinvent a formula that has been proven to work time and again.
It’s no secret that Craig’s era has certainly been profitable; Skyfall was the biggest earner of the franchise, crossing the $1 billion mark worldwide. However, constantly relying on Craig could act as a pitfall rather than protection. As we’ve seen time again, Bond’s survival is dependent on adaptation, and how can the series do that when it’s so defiant about moving on?
Obsessing over keeping Craig on board is fighting the inevitable. It’s just a matter of time before the actor has to go, so why not let him go out on a relatively high note?
14 Daniel Craig Would Rather Slash His Wrists
While James Bond might seem like the dream gig to any actor, the life as MI6's top agent isn't as glamorous as it might seem. During an interview with Time Out magazine before the release of Spectre, Craig had some less than enthusiastic words about returning as 007.
When asked if he’d reprise the role in a future sequel, Craig responded with, “I’d rather slash my wrists,” going on to say, “I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”
Craig’s public distaste to return as Bond made moviegoers take a step back. Though the interview was conducted some time ago, and Craig’s feelings might have changed, it seems as though the role has certainly taken its toll on the actor.
It’s surprising that, after being so vocal about his aversion to returning, Craig would sign on to do one last Bond movie. His feelings may have changed since that infamous interview, but we find it hard to believe that the actor is completely gung-ho about a role he had so much disgust for.
13 The Bond Franchise Needs New Blood
As we’ve previously mentioned, the Bond franchise thrives on reinvention, and there’s no better way to switch things up than casting some new blood in the role of 007. Ever since Craig’s public statements about retiring, rumors have rapidly circulated about who would step into the tuxedo of James Bond next, and we’d be lying if we said we weren’t enticed by some of the possible candidates.
One of the names that frequently came up in discussion was Idris Elba, with so much support that even he has stated that he’s the most famous James Bond actor who has yet to play James Bond. With a stable of action films under his belt, Elba has proven that he certainly has the chops to play the secret agent, not to mention he would usher in a new era to be the first Bond of color.
Along with Elba, other names that were frequently mentioned in conversation were Tom Hiddleston, Tom Hardy, and Henry Cavill. With so many enticing casting possibilities, it’s almost a downer that it will be Craig coming back for his fifth Bond outing.
12 Bond is a Reflection of his Era
Like his many villains, James Bond tends to reflect the era in which he occupies. Connery was 007 during the sexual revolution of the '60s, Roger Moore appeared during the decadent disco-era decade, and Pierce Brosnan took over the Clinton-era of the 1990s. Their movies encapsulate what was going on in that time period, and no one is more representative of the post-9/11 world than Daniel Craig's Bond.
Step up 3d cast streets. The James Bond of today's day and age more closely resembles that of Jack Bauer on 24 than Sean Connery in Goldfinger. Like Jason Bourne, Craig's take on the character is a stoic, man-eating super assassin who's not afraid to get his hands dirty.
However, the era we live in now is a different world than the one in which Craig first started, and it's time for a new Bond to reflect that. Each 007 eventually needs to pass the torch to a successor of the next generation, and Craig's time should be now.
11 It's Time to Bring Bond Back to Basics
While Craig’s four films have ramped up their sense of scale, realism, and stark depiction of violence, they’ve also been accused of phasing out some of the crucial elements that make up a Bond movie. There’s been a serious lack of submarine cars, explosive pens, and laser watches in recent outings.
Fans of the earlier versions of 007 have come to expect the wacky gadgets, expensive cars, sexual innuendos, and one-off adventures involving a crazy villain in an eyepatch. Obviously, having a Bond that flies off with a jet pack would look silly in this day and age, but there are still ways to incorporate some of these goofier elements gracefully with a nice wink to the audience.
From a film perspective, Craig’s outings are some of the best, but sometimes they take themselves so seriously that they don’t even feel like James Bond movies.
10 We Need a More Suave Bond
If every version of Bond entered into a battle royale, we’d definitely put our money on Daniel Craig to come out on top. Out of all the Bonds, Craig’s is easily the most deadly, but there’s a lot more that goes into James Bond than being able to take out a room full of baddies at break-neck speed.
To be honest, Craig was never the smoothest Bond around. Yes, there were moments in all four of his movies where he puts on the tuxedo and plays the debonair agent, but those moments often came off as mere afterthoughts compared to the action sequences.
Connery is often cited as the actor who best meshed the suave nuance with a deadly demeanor. Say what you will about Pierce Brosnan’s crop of movies, but no one ever accuses his Bond of not being smooth. While audiences loved a cold, calculated 007, perhaps it is time to get an actor who isn’t afraid to be a little more charming and a little less lethal.
9 Franchises Suffer When Their Stars Don't Want to Be There
Even though he’s returning for Bond 25, it’s clear that Daniel Craig isn’t even Daniel Craig’s first choice to come back. Additionally, as we’ve seen from other franchises that feature marquee stars that would rather be anywhere else, it never turns out good.
Franchises that plod along using the same money-making actor as their lightning rod at the box office tend to get very stale very quickly. Watching a performer just go through the motions is never fun, especially when you’ve paid good money to watch it them in the theater.
It’s not exactly a blast to see Johnny Depp shuffling along in the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean romps, and Bruce Willis looks like he hasn’t been passionate about aDie Hard movies since the 1990s.
As it stands now, Craig’s Bond is already one of the most melancholy. How exciting is it going to be to watch an already dour 007 on screen when the actor couldn’t care less?
8 Craig is No Longer Passionate About Bond
If you want to make a good movie, passion definitely has to be part of the process. This goes for everyone involved, from the director right down to the music composer. If you’re just going through the motions on a project, it will most certainly come across on screen, and Daniel Craig has long since checked out of caring about 007.
During his now infamous interview with Time Out magazine, Craig mentioned that, if he did come back to the role, it would only be “for the money.” Does that really sound like an actor who should be playing 007 in the next Bond film?
We’ve already gone over the list of actors who would most likely jump at the chance at playing cinema’s most famous spy, so why keep a guy around that looks like he’d rather be doing almost anything else? Craig’s comments sound just like Connery’s before he came back for Diamonds are Forever, and we all know how that movie turned out.
7 The Narrative Has Run Its Course
Before Craig’s era of movies made their mark on the franchise, the James Bond series was mostly comprised of one-off adventures. While there was the occasional film that relied on past continuity, it wasn’t until the recent batch of films that there was a through-line that ran through each particular story.
While it’s been fun to connect the dots and actually see James Bond grow and change during his tenure at MI6, Craig’s narrative has pretty much hit a dead end. 007 has loved and lost, grown older, fought his arch nemesis, learned a little something about life, and came out on top. It’s nice to build up a sense of continuity, but there’s no longer anywhere left to take the story without it feeling completely forced.
At this point, every film with Craig just seems to set up characters and elements for future adventures, when all audiences want is to watch one of these adventures without story beats from previous films getting in the way.
6 Craig Can Do Other Stuff Besides 007
Though most would recognize him as the face of James Bond, Daniel Craig isn’t just a one-trick pony. The British actor has already proven that he has the range and acting chops to do just about anything, and not just be pigeonholed as Britain’s famous spy.
Beyond Bond, the actor has taken a wide range of projects, from everything like historical dramas like Defiance to sci-fi blockbusters like Cowboys and Aliens. Among his number of diverse roles is a seedy drug dealer in Layer Cake, a villainous coward in Road to Perdition, a conflicted assassin in Munich, and a Southern criminal in the recent Logan Lucky.
Craig is capable of taking parts that challenge him as an actor, and while we love him as 007, we can understand why he doesn’t want to play the martini-drinking super spy until the end of his days.
5 James Bond is More Popular Than Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig is certainly good in the role of James Bond. In fact, we could even say he’s great. However, the appeal of Bond flicks isn’t just in the name of the actor portraying him; it’s in the very title of 007.
The Bond franchise has been chugging along since the release of Dr. No in 1962, and that was long before anyone had ever heard of Daniel Craig. Over the years, the role of 007 has been replaced five times, yet the character is now just as popular as ever.
It’s not the actor’s name that draws people into the seat, but the character himself. When you walk into a James Bond film, you know what you’re going to get: slick action, awesome one-liners, beautiful women, and your martinis shaken, not stirred.
Despite what 007’s face looked like, those elements have never changed throughout the franchise’s history, and we doubt they’ll change in the absence of Craig.
4 Craig is Too Expensive
It’s no secret that Hollywood is lined with a list of overpaid actors. Names like Robert Downey Jr., Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jennifer Lawrence are just a few who frequently continue to pop up. Now that he’s just signed a much anticipated deal to return in Bond 25, Daniel Craig’s name can be added to that list.
While the rumor that Craig was offered $150 million to come back as Bond as since been debunked, the offer that he did settle on can't be too far off from that number. The studios are so preoccupied by having Craig return that they would do anything to ensure that happen, including offering him a ridiculous amount of money to do so.
We get that it’s Craig’s face that the studio is after, but a good chunk of his payday would probably be better used elsewhere. After the disappointment that was Spectre, it wouldn’t hurt to spend a few extra dollars on some decent screenwriters.
3 The 12 Year Rule
When Craig was cast in Casino Royale, he was one of the youngest actors to portray the character next to George Lazenby. However, it’s now four movies and eleven years later, and Daniel Craig isn’t getting any younger.
Most Bond actors have called it quits around the 12-year mark, the one exception being Connery’s return for the unofficial Never Say Never Again in 1983. This year marks Craig’s 11th year as the famous British spy, and while he would still retire fairly young at 49 (Roger Moore was 58 when he announced his retirement), the actor isn’t in the same condition he used to be.
We’re not saying that Daniel Craig can't still kick some butt as an older Bond. There are plenty of older action stars, like Liam Neeson, who still know how to rock it. That being said, it would be nice for Craig to go out while he can. It would just be sad to see James Bond chase after the bad guys with a rocket-propelled walker.
2 The Name's Bond.. Jane Bond
With each passing year, casual audiences are starting to realize that the women in action movies can kick just as much butt as their male counterparts. Just this past year, films like Atomic Blondeand Wonder Womanare making Hollywood reassess certain casting choices.
With the recent news of Jodie Wittaker’s casting as the next Doctor in Doctor Who, it’s not totally beyond the realm of possibility that we might soon see a Jane Bond with her own license to kill.
The likes of a lady Bond would certainly provide an unconventional casting choice, peaking an audience’s curiosity while providing a new take on a decades-old character. The franchise has already phased out much of the sexism of its early years, so the possibility of a Jane Bond is now realer than ever.
Is the world ready for a Jane Bond? With the days of Pussy Galore and Honey Ryder now long behind us, we would like to think so.
1 There Have Been Better Bonds
Like most fans, we could sing praises of Daniel Craig as James Bond all day. He's the best thing a modern 007 fanatic could have hoped for-- convincing, imposing, sophisticated, and able to give Bond a touch of humanity that others were incapable of providing.
But the best Bond ever? Well, that's debatable. The truth is, you could make a case for almost any actor that's had the role over the last 55 years, even for George Lazenby, who only had one film to leave his mark.
Sean Connery is still largely considered the greatest for his rugged machoism, Pierce Brosnan gets points for his natural charisma, and Timothy Dalton is often the unsung hero for being the first brooding Bond.
Our point? Craig might be good, but there have been plenty of great James Bonds before him, and there will most likely be some great James Bonds after him. It's time to stop delaying the inevitable and try and find the next potential 007 in the making. Like Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan, Craig will certain have a lasting legacy, and in the end, that's the best thing you can hope for.
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A lot of people have been asking about the Daniel Craig workout and diet since Skyfall just came out recently. There is no doubt Daniel Craig has done it again by getting into tremendous shape for the new bond movie.
Skyfall is Daniel Craig’s third time playing James Bond. Craig’s first time was Casino Royale and his second was Quantum of Solace.
In both movies Daniel Craig came in for filming in amazing physical condition.
The Daniel Craig workout allowed Craig to muscle up significantly for Skyfall. This was most likely a challenge for Craig because he let himself wither away in his previous movie, Cowboys and Aliens. Therefore Craig would have to start from scratch to build up his scrawny body.
Also, at the age of 43, Craig feels he is already getting too old to cope with the extreme physical demands of playing James Bond.
The Daniel Craig Bond Workout
With little information on Daniel Craig’s actual workout routine, I can only speculate as to what he actually did. Fortunately, I have helped hundreds of men transform their bodies into the condition of Daniel Craig, Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans.
As well, I have gotten into very similar condition as Daniel Craig as demonstrated below. I would say the only difference is that I am carrying about 7 more pounds of muscle.
That being said, I have a good idea of what most celebrity workouts look like, as well as what it takes to achieve a body like Daniel Craig.
In order to trigger muscle growth Craig had to lift heavy weights 3-4x per week. At the age of 43 Daniel Craig was unable to handle or even benefit from training 5-6x per week. This is because as you get older your recovery abilities become reduced.
As a result, Craig needed to limit the training sessions to being 45-60 minutes and training no more than 3-4 per week.
The following is my spin on the Daniel Craig workout routine:
Workout A – Chest & Triceps
- Incline Barbell Bench Press: 4 sets x 6-10 reps (3 minutes rest between sets)
- Flat Barbell Bench Press: 3 sets x 6-10 reps (3 minutes rest between sets)
- Low Incline DB Flyes: 4 sets – 12, 10, 8, 6 (30-60 seconds rest, same weight each set)
- Skull Crushers: 3 sets x 6-10 reps (2 minutes rest between sets)
- Rope Extensions: 2 sets x 8-12 reps (1 minute rest between sets)
Workout B: Back & Biceps
- Weighted Pull ups: 4 sets x 6-10 reps (3 minutes rest between sets)
- Deadlifts: 3 sets x 4-6 reps (3 minutes rest between sets)
- Cable Rows: 4 sets – 12, 10, 8, 6 (30-60 seconds rest, same weight each set)
- Barbell Curls: 3 sets x 6-10 reps (2 minutes rest between sets)
- Incline Dumbbell Curls: 2 sets x 8-12 reps (1 minute rest between sets)
Workout C: Shoulders & Legs
- Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press: 4 sets x 6-10 reps (3 minutes rest between sets)
- Lateral Raises: 3 sets x 8-12 reps (2 minutes rest between sets)
- Upright Row: 4 sets – 12, 10, 8, 6 (30-60 seconds rest, same weight for each set)
- Bulgarian Split Squats: 3 sets x 6-10 reps per leg (2 minutes rest between sets)
- Standing Single Leg Calf Raises: 3 sets x 10-15 reps per leg (1 minute rest between sets)
Notes on the Daniel Craig Bond Workout:
Work out 3x per week on non consecutive days. There are many benefits to training with this frequency.
Example – Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
What About Abs?
Abs should be trained 2-3x per week for maximum development.
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How Small Was Daniel Craig Before His Transformation For Skyfall?
Daniel Craig stands 5’10 tall and was down to 160 lbs for Cowboys and Aliens. As you can see Craig appears very slim and lacks the muscular and dominant look that he displayed as James Bond.
Craig actually lost weight on purpose for this role as he felt he needed to be scrawny to play a cowboy. He accomplished this by eating a low calorie diet in conjunction with absolutely no weight lifting.
Consequently he lost a good deal of muscle. The studio head was not happy with Craig’s weight loss and thus ordered him to gain weight for Skyfall.
What is the Daniel Craig Diet for Skyfall?
Daniel Craig desperately needed to gain some serious muscle for Skyfall. His bosses actually wanted him to gain 15-20 lbs before filming began. Fortunately for Craig he had muscle memory on his side.
Therefore he would be able to gain muscle quicker than expected once he starts hitting the weights and upping his calorie and protein intake.
Step 1: He Increased His Calorie and Carb Intake
Daniel Craig was very lean after filming Cowboys and Aliens. Since he was so skinny his body had actually become primed to build muscle and gain weight. You see after a period of intense calorie restriction all kinds of anabolic hormones and receptors get up regulated. Therefore once you begin eating normally again you are able to direct a lot of nutrients to building muscle.
With that said Craig still needed to be careful not to consume too many calories. At the age of 43 Craig is more susceptible to fat gain due to lowered testosterone levels. Therefore he needed to keep his calorie intake close to around maintenance.
For building muscle 16 calories per pound of target body weight is a good amount to shoot for. Depending on your activity levels you may need to go lower or higher. For Daniel Craig’s target weight of 180 lbs this amounts to 2880 calories per day.
When eating at a calorie surplus or maintenance you should be getting most of your calories from carbs. Carbs will help maximize your glycogen stores which will maximize the anabolic growth signaling. In addition plenty of carbs will give you more energy to train hard and plenty of carbs will improve sleep and rest.
Step 2: He Made Sure He Got Adequate Protein
Consuming plenty of protein is very important for building quality muscle. Daniel Craig made sure to include plenty of protein into his diet to allow for muscle growth to occur optimally. In addition, protein can be very helpful to avoid gaining fat.
This is because protein is the most filling macronutrient. Low protein meals tend to welcome overeating. As well protein is very hard to store as fat because it is so metabolically costly.
A high protein intake was a key strategy in Daniel Craigs transformation. Younger folks can tend to get away with less protein and still build muscle efficiently. However, as you get older giving protein more priority helps to build muscle while avoiding fat gain.
A good protein intake to shoot for is 0.8 grams per pound of goal body weight. For Craig’s goal weight of 180 lbs this was 144 grams of protein per day.
What Was His Weight and Body Fat % In Skyfall?
In Skyfall Daniel Craig muscled up to 180 lbs at 5’10. Craig’s body fat percentage is around 10% which is considered very lean. Descargar windows 10 pro 32 bits gratis. Craig has visible abs, a clean line down his chest and a very defined jaw line. These three traits are very indicative of a low body fat percentage. 10% body fat is a great goal for guys to shoot for.
At 10% and solid muscle development you will blow most people away. As well, maintaining a low body fat will ensure that you look great in nice, stylish clothes by having that crisp GQ look.
Now if Craig was 8% body fat or lower we would see more vascularity through his arms, legs and lower abs. As well his abs would be much more shredded. This level of definition while impressive is probably not necessary. As well, if you drop down to 6-8% body fat you start to appear quite a bit smaller. This is because it can be rather challenging to hold onto muscle at such a low body fat.
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James Bond is arguably the most famous spy in cinematic history. Created by British author and journalist Ian Fleming in the early 1950s, the always-suave character with a license to kill has been at the center of 26 films, with the 27th, directed by Danny Boyle, planned for 2019.
Even the most devoted Bond fan would have to admit that not every Bond film is of equal quality. The series uses a winning combination of fast cars, cool gadgets, exotic locales and theme songs sung by top artists of the day, including Paul McCartney, Adele, and Carly Simon. And let's not forget the beautiful Bond girls.
Still, in some Bond films, plots can be stale, jokes can fall flat, and acting can come across as contrived, tired or uninspired.
To determine the best Bond films of all time, 24/7 Wall Street created an index based on each film’s Rotten Tomatoes average critic rating, Rotten Tomatoes average audience rating, and IMDb average user rating.
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We averaged the user ratings from Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb, weighted by the number of votes for each. The combined user rating was averaged with the Rotten Tomatoes critic rating. Domestic box-office data comes from IMDb and is not adjusted for inflation. Favorable reviews refers to the percentage of users that rated each film a 3.5 out of 5 or above on Rotten Tomatoes.
26. 'Casino Royale' (1967)
> Starring: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress
> Favorable reviews: 35% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: N/A
Originally conceived by producer Charles K. Feldman as an entry to Eon Productions' James Bond series, which had already released four Bond films, 'Casino Royale' was instead released as a satirical spy comedy by the now-defunct Famous Artists Productions after Eon rejected the project. Despite starring Peter Sellers, Woody Allen and Orson Welles, the movie is generally regarded as the worst Bond picture and — for many — isn't considered a Bond picture at all.
25. 'A View to A Kill' (1985)
> Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts
> Favorable reviews: 40% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $50.3 million
'A View to A Kill' is the final Bond film to star Roger Moore, who was 57 during the shooting. The film is the first to show Bond travel to France — which would go on to be a popular destination in the franchise — despite being the 16th of the series, including the 1967 'Casino Royale' and 1983's 'Never Say Never Again.'
24. 'Never Say Never Again' (1983)
> Starring: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer
> Favorable reviews: 37% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $55.5 million
'Never Say Never Again' is the second film adaptation of author Ian Fleming's novel 'Thunderball.' It is one of two James Bond films not produced by Eon Productions, which released the more popular 'Octopussy' the same year.
23. 'Moonraker' (1979)
> Starring: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale
> Favorable reviews: 43% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $70.3 million
Eon Productions originally planned to release 'For Your Eyes Only' after 'The Spy Who Loved Me.' However, because of the success of 'Star Wars,' which came out in 1977, the company reconsidered and instead made the space-themed 'Moonraker.' The movie was the highest-grossing Bond film until the release of 'GoldenEye' in 1995.
22. 'The World Is Not Enough' (1999)
> Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle
> Favorable reviews: 49% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $126.9 million
'The World Is Not Enough' is the final movie to feature actor Desmond Llewelyn in the role of Q, putting an end to a 17-film streak. It's also the first film in the series to feature a female character as one of the lead antagonists: Sophie Marceau as Elektra King.
21. 'Octopussy' (1983)
> Starring: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan
> Favorable reviews: 47% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $67.9 million
'Octopussy' was released approximately four months before the independently produced 'Never Say Never Again,' starring Sean Connery. The film grossed $12 million more in the U.S. than the latter release.
20. 'Die Another Day' (2002)
> Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike
> Favorable reviews: 41% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $160.9 million
Pierce Brosnan played the role of James Bond in four films, completing his tenure with 2002's 'Die Another Day.' The film, which is the 20th Eon-produced Bond movie, was released 40 years after the first Bond film, 'Dr. No.'
19. 'The Man With the Golden Gun' (1974)
> Starring: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland
> Favorable reviews: 56% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $21 million
Another Roger Moore turn as 007. This time, Bond faces the imperious Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), who plans to sell solar cell technology to the highest bidder. The movie is memorable for Scaramanga's alluring hideout — an island redoubt off the coast of Thailand — and colorful supporting characters such as Scaramanga's diminutive henchman Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize), and tobacco-chomping Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton James).
18. 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997)
> Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh
> Favorable reviews: 53% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $125.3 million
The 18th Bond movie made by Eon Productions features Jonathan Pryce as media titan Elliot Carver, who has his sights set on breaking into the Chinese media market. After he is rebuffed by the Chinese, Carver tries to instigate a conflict between China and the West. Worth noting: The minister of defense in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' is played by 'Downton Abbey' creator Julian Fellowes.
17. 'Licence to Kill' (1989)
> Starring: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell
> Favorable reviews: 60% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $34.7 million
'License to Kill' is the second and final film to star Timothy Dalton as James Bond. Being generally more violent than other films in the series up to that point, it is the first Bond film to receive a PG-13 rating in the U.S. There was a gap of six years until the next Bond film, 'GoldenEye,' was released — the longest gap between Bond movies.
16. 'Live and Let Die' (1973)
> Starring: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour
> Favorable reviews: 65% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $35.4 million
'Live and Let Die,' the first of Roger Moore's seven appearances as the British agent, takes Bond to the bayou after the mysterious deaths of several British agents within 24 hours. There he encounters Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), a major heroin dealer, and voodoo master Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder). The comic relief is provided by good ol' boy Sheriff J.W. Pepper (Clifton James). The movie is also known for its theme song, performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.
15. 'Quantum of Solace' (2008)
> Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric
> Favorable reviews: 58% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $168.4 million
The second Bond film starring Daniel Craig is both violent and fast-paced, with many critics such as Roger Ebert criticizing it as being too much of an action film. Yet the film has many supporters who believe it to be an exciting, modern take on Bond. It's gritty, engaging, and, at 106 minutes — the shortest film in the series — exceedingly to the point.
14. 'The Living Daylights' (1987)
> Starring: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbe
> Favorable reviews: 66% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $51.2 million
'The Living Daylights' is the first of two Bond films to star Timothy Dalton, following Roger Moore's departure from the series. While some at the time criticized Dalton's portrayal as moody and humorless, others were highly impressed, including 'The Washington Post' film critic Rita Kempley who, in 1987, described Dalton as the 'best Bond ever.'
13. 'Diamonds Are Forever' (1971)
> Starring: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray
> Favorable reviews: 58% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $43.8 million
'Diamonds Are Forever' is the final Eon Productions James Bond film to star Sean Connery, although the actor would return to the role once more in the independently produced 'Never Say Never Again.' The film is highly regarded for its humor, including a number of comical sight gags.
12. 'For Your Eyes Only' (1981)
> Starring: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol
> Favorable reviews: 64% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $62.3 million
Following 1979's space-themed 'Moonraker,' Roger Moore returned two years later as Bond in 'For Your Eyes Only,' a more grounded entry in the series that was shot in England, Italy, Greece, and the Bahamas. The film follows Agent 007 as he attempts to retrieve a stolen automatic targeting attack communicator that can be used to control British military submarines.
11. 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969)
> Starring: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
> Favorable reviews: 64% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $22.8 million
This is the only film in which George Lazenby played 007, and the first Bond movie that did not star Sean Connery. When the movie was released, critics were not kind to Lazenby, a model who had never acted in a movie before. More recent assessments of the movie have shown a greater appreciation of Lazenby as a more vulnerable Bond. In 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Bond battles Spectre leader Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who plans to use women from various countries to contaminate the world's food supply. The film is remembered for Blofeld's henchwoman Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) and for Bond love interest Teresa 'Tracy' Draco (Diana Rigg), who marries Bond and is killed by Bunt.
10. 'Spectre' (2015)
> Starring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Lea Seydoux
> Favorable reviews: 61% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $200.1 million
'Spectre' is the most recent Bond release and the fourth to star Daniel Craig as 007. It's the first film to feature criminal organization Spectre and its leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld since 'Diamonds Are Forever' in 1971. The organization's first appearance was in 1962's 'Dr. No.'
9. 'You Only Live Twice' (1967)
> Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama
> Favorable reviews: 69% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $43.08 million
'You Only Live Twice' is the last of the first five Bond movies starring Sean Connery, who sought to get out of Bondage and avoid typecasting. Like the previous four Bond films, 'You Only Live Twice' was a rousing success. In the movie, American and Soviet spacecraft vanish in orbit, and each nation blames the other. Bond travels to a Japanese island to confront Blofeld (Donald Pleasence), the head of the crime organization Spectre that is behind the disappearance of the spacecraft.
8. 'Thunderball' (1965)
> Starring: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi
> Favorable reviews: 73% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $63.6 million
By the time 'Thunderball' was released in 1965, Connery had played the unflappable James Bond three times and was becoming concerned about being typecast. Still, the moviegoing public couldn't get enough of 007, and 'Thunderball' was a huge hit. In it, Bond goes to the Bahamas to try and keep Spectre villain Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) from holding the world hostage with stolen nuclear warheads. The movie is remembered for its underwater battle between scuba divers firing spears at each other.
7. 'GoldenEye' (1995)
> Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco
> Favorable reviews: 83% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $106.6 million
'GoldenEye' is the first Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan, who replaced Timothy Dalton in the role of James Bond. It is also the first film to feature Judi Dench in the role of M, a character never before portrayed as a woman. James Bond personally kills 39 people in the film, the second highest body count behind only 'Octopussy.'
6. 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977)
> Starring: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jurgens
> Favorable reviews: 76% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $46.8 million
There are highlights aplenty in 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' from the breathtaking skiing sequence at the beginning of the film to the conversion of the Lotus sports car into a missile-firing submarine. There is also one of the great Bond assassins in Jaws (Richard Kiel), a large man with metal teeth who chomps a shark to death. Jaws is employed by madman Karl Stromberg (Curd Jurgens), who tries to provoke a nuclear holocaust and then create a civilization under the sea. Bond reaches a detente with Russian spy Anya Amasova to try and stop Stromberg.
5. 'Dr. No' (1962)
> Starring: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee
> Favorable reviews: 82% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $16.1 million
'Dr. No' is the movie that launched the franchise. Producers Harold Saltzman and Albert Broccoli considered Cary Grant and James Mason, among other actors, to play the British agent, while Bond author Ian Fleming preferred David Niven. But once Connery won the role, he put his stamp on the character. The plot of 'Dr. No' revolves around a deranged scientific genius, Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman), who wants to disrupt the U.S. space program.
4. 'From Russia With Love' (1963)
> Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
> Favorable reviews: 83% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $24.8 million
'From Russia With Love' is one of the few Bond movies whose plot addresses Cold War tensions. Bond travels to Istanbul to try and get hold of a Soviet decoding machine before the crime organization Spectre gets it. The film is also remembered for Bond's fight with humorless former KGB agent Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who tries to dispatch Bond with poison in the toe of her shoe.
3. 'Goldfinger' (1964)
> Starring: Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Honor Blackman
> Favorable reviews: 89% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $51.1 million
This might be the archetype of Bond movies. First, the characters and actors: Gert Frobe plays the formidable Goldfinger; Shirley Eaton is the gold-painted Bond girl Jill Masterson; and Harold Sakata portrays lethal villain Oddjob, who wields a deadly bowler hat. Of course, Bond drives the ultra-cool, tricked-out Aston Martin, equipped with bullet-proof shield and machine guns. And the over-the-top plot involves Goldfinger's plan to contaminate the gold at Fort Knox to boost the value of his own gold supply. Not to mention, it is in 'Goldfinger' that Bond utters his most famous line: 'A Martini. Shaken, not stirred.'
2. 'Casino Royale' (2006)
> Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench
> Favorable reviews: 89% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $167.5 million
2006's 'Casino Royale' is the first film to star Daniel Craig as James Bond. Fans and critics alike immediately took to the blond-haired Craig in the role. The film is considered a reboot of the series, and classic characters such as Q and Miss Moneypenny were absent from the script. Yet the focus on other characters, such as Bond himself, is strong compared to what was seen by many as an increasingly excessive focus on gadgetry in prior Bond films.
1. 'Skyfall' (2012)
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> Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris
> Favorable reviews: 86% of audiences
> Domestic box office gross: $304.4 million
'Skyfall' is, according to fans and critics, the best Bond film of them all, a view is supported by the numbers. The film grossed more than $304 million at the domestic box office — $100 million more than 'Spectre,' which is the second-highest grossing film in the series. The film also scored five Oscar nominations (more than any other Bond film) and won two. It was also the first Bond movie to be filmed in China — an element that may have helped it become the first movie in the franchise to gross more than $1 billion worldwide.
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The complete list of official James Bond films, made by EON Productions. Beginning with Sean Connery, and going through George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. Have you ever wondered how many James Bond movies there are? The newest film, Spectre, was released in October 2015.
#1Dr. No, 1962
James Bond: | Sean Connery |
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Bond Girl: | Honey Ryder |
Director: | Terence Young |
Running Time: | 110 Minutes |
Synopsis:
Dr. No was the first 007 film produced by EON Productions. Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of MI6 agent John Strangways. He finds his way to Crab Key island, where the mysterious Dr. No awaits.
#2From Russia With Love, 1963
James Bond: | Sean Connery |
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Bond Girl: | Tatiana Romanova |
Director: | Terence Young |
Running Time: | 115 Minutes |
Synopsis:
When MI6 gets a chance to get their hands on a Lektor decoder, Bond is sent to Turkey to seduce the beautiful Tatiana, and bring back the machine. With the help of Kerim Bey, Bond escapes on the Orient Express, but might not make it off alive.
#3Goldfinger, 1964
James Bond: | Sean Connery |
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Bond Girl: | Pussy Galore |
Director: | Guy Hamilton |
Running Time: | 110 Minutes |
Synopsis:
The Bank of England has detected an unauthorized leakage of gold from the country, and Bond is sent to investigate. The suspect is one Auric Goldfinger, the richest man in the country. Bond catches Goldfinger cheating at cards, with the assistance of Jill Masterson, who is killed and painted gold in revenge. Bond must foil his plots, while avoiding the deadly Korean, Oddjob.
#4Thunderball, 1965
James Bond: | Sean Connery |
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Bond Girl: | Domino Derval |
Director: | Terence Young |
Running Time: | 130 Minutes |
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Synopsis:
Emilio Largo, the Number 2 at SPECTRE, has stolen two nuclear warheads. He threatens to destroy a city in the United States and England unless a large ransom is paid. Bond is sent to the Bahamas to investigate.
#5You Only Live Twice, 1967
James Bond: | Sean Connery |
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Bond Girl: | Aki |
Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
Running Time: | 117 Minutes |
Synopsis:
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is hijacking American and Russian space capsules, in an attempt to start a war between the two nations. Bond is sent to Japan to investigate, with the help of Tiger Tanaka, the head of station in Tokyo. Armed with over 100 trained ninjas, Bond infiltrates Blofeld's volcano lair.
#6On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969
James Bond: | George Lazenby |
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Bond Girl: | Tracy Di Vicenzo |
Director: | Peter Hunt |
Running Time: | 140 Minutes |
Synopsis:
Bond rescues the suicidal Tracy Di Vicenzo, and is brought at gunpoint to meet her father, Marc-Ange Draco, the head of one of the largest criminal organization in Europe. Draco strikes a deal with Bond, agreeing to reveal the location of Blofeld, if Bond will look after his daughter.
#7Diamonds Are Forever, 1971
James Bond: | Sean Connery |
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Bond Girl: | Tiffany Case |
Director: | Guy Hamilton |
Running Time: | 120 Minutes |
Synopsis:
Sean Connery is back for a fast paced hunt through a diamond smuggling pipeline. MI6 arrests small time smuggler Peter Franks, and Bond takes his place, meeting courier Tiffany Case. He follow the trail of the diamonds, as everyone who touches them gets killed. The end of the pipeline is Blofeld, with another plan for World Domination.
#8Live and Let Die, 1973
James Bond: | Roger Moore |
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Bond Girl: | Solitaire |
Director: | Guy Hamilton |
Running Time: | 121 Minutes |
Synopsis:
Several British agents are killed in a short period of time, during routine surveillance of dictator Dr. Kananga. Bond is sent to New York to investigate, and falls into a trap of gangster Mr. Big, thanks to his psychic tarot card reader, Solitaire.
#9The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974
James Bond: | Roger Moore |
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Bond Girl: | Andrea Anders |
Director: | Guy Hamilton |
Running Time: | 125 Minutes |
Synopsis:
MI6 is sent a golden bullet with 007 engraved onto it. M fears that Bond will be assassinated by Francesco Scaramanga, the $1 million a shot hitman, known for his golden gun, and sends Bond to find him first.
#10The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977
James Bond: | Roger Moore |
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Bond Girl: | Anya Amasova (XXX) |
Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
Running Time: | 125 Minutes |
Synopsis:
British and Russian submarines have been hijacked, and the two countries come together, sending 007 and Russian Agent Anya Amasova to track down a stolen microfilm and investigate. The tension rises as Amasova discovers that Bond had killed her lover in the course of duty. Bond needs to get Amasova on his side as a life insurance policy against her threat to kill him when their mission is over.
#11Moonraker, 1979
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James Bond: | Roger Moore |
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Bond Girl: | Holly Goodhead |
Director: | Lewis Gilbert |
Running Time: | 126 Minutes |
Synopsis:
A space shuttle, on loan to MI6 by Hugo Drax, is hijacked in mid-air. Bond is sent to investigate Drax, on the pretence of an official apology. Bond discovers that Drax hijacked the shuttle himself, and stumbles upon a secret lab with fatal poisons. Drax plans to create a space colony and commit a global genocide, to regenerate a perfect species.
#12For Your Eyes Only, 1981
James Bond: | Roger Moore |
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Bond Girl: | Melina Havelock |
Director: | John Glen |
Running Time: | 127 Minutes |
Synopsis:
A ship containing an Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), which can control ballistic missile attacks, is sunk. Bond is sent to retrieve the ATAC before the Russians do. MI6 had sent archaeologist Timothy Havelock to discretely locate the ship, but he and his wife were murdered in front of their daughter Melina. Bond tracks down their killer, Hector Gonzales, and must complete his work before Melina takes her revenge.