Who do you picture when reading the Bond novels?

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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Close enough...
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    True -{
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • O07O07 Oxford, EnglandPosts: 50MI6 Agent
    Connery, Thunderball build and hair with a touch of Dalton in the facial features, minus the bum chin but with his eyes and pale colouring.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    When reading the Bond novels, I imagine myself, ... Reading the Bond novels. :D
    I don't see any of the actors, but I imagine, someone like Richard E Grant. -{
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    No, I don't see Richard E. Grant at all.
  • O07O07 Oxford, EnglandPosts: 50MI6 Agent
    I certainly can't see Richard E Grant winning a fight with many of the villains.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Luck you don't imagine him then :)) he does just fine in my imagination. ;)
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    When I'm reading the books, I see Connery (I might just have mentioned this before), but sometimes I see Fleming himself and just sometimes Dalton (who is basically a better-looking version of Fleming). That's it. I never see any of the other actors, even in the relevant scenes.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Mainly Dalton.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    If I'm reading a Fleming Bond, then I picture Dr No Connery. But if I'm reading a Gardner Bond, I picture DAF Connery.
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • 002002 New ZealandPosts: 558MI6 Agent
    Book Bond is either Connery or Lazenby for me. I can't imagine any of the others, try as I might.
  • DutchJamesBondFanDutchJamesBondFan the NetherlandsPosts: 414MI6 Agent
    I always picture Moore, because of his safarisuit :D Because there some safariscenes in FYEO (short stories) and SOLO. And if I don't, I see this picture, only then with colour 270?cb=20130506225418
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  • Westward_DriftWestward_Drift Posts: 3,085MI6 Agent
    When reading the Fleming books I sometimes picture a cross between Connery and Lazenby. (I picture Connery until the Hoagy Charmichael description, then it's closer to Lazanby).

    Gardner's books were always Roger Moore circa MR or FYEO, but able to throw a punch.

    Benson's books...I honestly can't remember. Too dull to leave an impression, I guess.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Nope. For me it's always the Daltonator. Mostly.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    I always picture Moore, because of his safarisuit :D Because there some safariscenes in FYEO (short stories) and SOLO. And if I don't, I see this picture, only then with colour 270?cb=20130506225418

    That's a Drawing that Fleming commissioned -{
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,644MI6 Agent
    I always picture Moore, because of his safarisuit :D Because there some safariscenes in FYEO (short stories) and SOLO. And if I don't, I see this picture, only then with colour 270?cb=20130506225418

    That's a Drawing that Fleming commissioned -{

    It's pretty much how I picture the literary Bond too. :) -{
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,924MI6 Agent
    Me too -{
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    This.
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    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • hehadlotsofgutshehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,107MI6 Agent
    Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?"

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  • Lady IceLady Ice Posts: 279MI6 Agent
    Just finished Casino Royale. I picture a different person, most similar in looks to Dalton, but a sort of film noir figure of a type that you probably couldn't get nowadays.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,061MI6 Agent
    Interesting...
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,053Chief of Staff
    Lady Ice wrote:
    Just finished Casino Royale. I picture a different person, most similar in looks to Dalton, but a sort of film noir figure of a type that you probably couldn't get nowadays.


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  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,292MI6 Agent
    I always picture Moore, because of his safarisuit :D Because there some safariscenes in FYEO (short stories) and SOLO. And if I don't, I see this picture, only then with colour 270?cb=20130506225418

    That's a Drawing that Fleming commissioned -{

    It's pretty much how I picture the literary Bond too. :) -{

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I always imagine a Richard E Grant type of guy, as I think he's
    Very close to the famous drawing of Bond.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Lady IceLady Ice Posts: 279MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Lady Ice wrote:
    Just finished Casino Royale. I picture a different person, most similar in looks to Dalton, but a sort of film noir figure of a type that you probably couldn't get nowadays.


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    Not Hoagy Carmichael :) He doesn't look dark enough for noir. And doesn't it say in Casino Royale that Bond doesn't think that he looks like him? So even if he did resemble him facially, Bond doesn't identify with him.

    I think a young Ralph Fiennes would be closest to how I imagine him. Good-looking but can look cold; the paradoxical quality of beautiful/cruel hasn't really been captured fully by any of the Bond actors- which is great because it leaves a lot of scope for Craig's successor. I can't think of current actors that do this but Ralph Fiennes was excellent at playing that (Schindler's List is a good example but there's others- The English Patient and Wuthering Heights spring to mind).

    I would like to see the scar because I think it shows the 'ugliness'- if they could do it well.
  • Lady IceLady Ice Posts: 279MI6 Agent
    I always imagine a Richard E Grant type of guy, as I think he's
    Very close to the famous drawing of Bond.

    Ooh, that's good -{
  • Smiert-SpionamSmiert-Spionam Posts: 318MI6 Agent
    Mostly Connery especially in Dr No which I've just finished. I had Dalton in mind when I read The Living Daylights though as that sniper scene is so suited to him.
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  • CmdrAtticusCmdrAtticus United StatesPosts: 1,102MI6 Agent
    Lady Ice wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Lady Ice wrote:
    Just finished Casino Royale. I picture a different person, most similar in looks to Dalton, but a sort of film noir figure of a type that you probably couldn't get nowadays.


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    Not Hoagy Carmichael :) He doesn't look dark enough for noir. And doesn't it say in Casino Royale that Bond doesn't think that he looks like him? So even if he did resemble him facially, Bond doesn't identify with him.

    I think a young Ralph Fiennes would be closest to how I imagine him. Good-looking but can look cold; the paradoxical quality of beautiful/cruel hasn't really been captured fully by any of the Bond actors- which is great because it leaves a lot of scope for Craig's successor. I can't think of current actors that do this but Ralph Fiennes was excellent at playing that (Schindler's List is a good example but there's others- The English Patient and Wuthering Heights spring to mind).

    I would like to see the scar because I think it shows the 'ugliness'- if they could do it well.

    I'm still of the opinion Fleming was describing his brother to some extent as he was probably jealous of his "leading man" looks. It's probably why he wrote some thought Bond resembled Carmichael to a degree but Bond did not due to his scar and what he perceived to be a more emotionally hardened appearance.

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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    welshboy78 wrote:

    That's a Drawing that Fleming commissioned -{

    It's pretty much how I picture the literary Bond too. :) -{

    Me also

    I always thought this picture looked like a young Peter Cushing with a dash of Christopher Casenove...
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  • JamesbondjrJamesbondjr Posts: 462MI6 Agent
    I have always pictured a very specific face when reading the novels and had a nagging feeling of recognition. Today I finally realised who it is. Randomly appearing on my twitter feed was the picture below. My initial thought was "holy ****, that's my James Bond" before realising who it is.

    It's Alec Guiness:

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    1- On Her Majesty's Secret Service 2- Casino Royale 3- Licence To Kill 4- Goldeneye 5- From Russia With Love
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