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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      Non-Film Score Discussion: Adjectives and Nouns for James Bond     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 9:20 AM     By:   joan hue   (Member) I thought it might be fun (or not) to make a list of adjectives and nouns that actors should possess in order to play James Bond. It looks like we will be getting a new one. I have read a few of the books, and I’ve watched all the Bond movies (good and bad) and have decided that actors should possess certain characteristics in order to play Bond. First I will start with a noun: male. I’ve actually read lists of suggestions for a new Bond that have women listed. Nope. Bond is male. Would we cast a woman as Tarzan? Would we cast a man to play Madam Curie? Hope not. Handsome. Bond seems to easily attract women, so being homely isn’t going to work. He should have a kind of rugged “handsomeness” not a feminine type of good looks. Physicality. Bond fights and fights well, so he should have a certain physical size to outwit those nasty assassins. British or United Kingdom: I realize that actors can adopt a British accent, but I like the idea of keeping him embedded in the UK gene pool. Suave, sophisticated and intelligent. He should at least appear to have those traits. An expert in the delivery of double entendres as well as being rather witty. Emotionally cold and calculating at times as he can be a killer, and yet sensitive in some cases if he falls in love. Should he be a Thespian? Now there’s the rub. Does the part of Bond call for the thespian abilities of say a Laurence Olivier? I haven’t seen that need yet in Bond roles; and yet acting like a mannequin doesn’t really endear him to audiences, so what acting chops are needed? How much depth in acting is necessary? Your list? P.S. Have fun and try not to infect this topic with “grumpyitus.”    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 9:31 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Hang on Huey - you ask us for a list of adjectives - then proceed to itemise a bloody comprehensive list??! How are we supposed to top or add to that?? Honestly....! P.s do i win the opening shot at grumpyitis ??!! I better. Or im im gonna go up a gear!    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 9:32 AM     By:   Grecchus   (Member) He just needs to look good in a tux and be able to state his name legibly with a cigarette stuck to his lips.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 9:42 AM     By:   joan hue   (Member) Hello Billy. Sometimes posters ask for input without giving their own. I gave my list. Now you can add to it or capitalize on some of my listed traits. You can agree with my adjectives and extend them, or you can do the really "stewpid" thing and disagree with me which is the kiss of death. Just join in the fun. Looking good in a tux, Grecchus? Of course.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 10:10 AM     By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member) I find myself in the BillCarson column, Joan. I think you've already said it all so eloquently and completely that I'm at a loss to contribute anything more. Except... Bond must have a fabulous physician. Perhaps an entire team of them. I'm not going to try to count all of the gorgeous ladies he's bedded since his first appearance in 1963, but somehow he has managed to be STD free all this time! Ahhhh…the movies.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 11:00 AM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) At the risk of having "grumpyitus", the only adjectives I can come up with relate exclusively to the latest 007 incumbent and these would be: Vapid Torpid Dismal    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 11:06 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Ha! Ive got one!! He needs to have got a 1st at oxford in Japanese, right?! However many nouns, adjectives, objectives, pronouns, verbs, proverbs and hardy perrennials in that sentence i havent got a scoobie!!    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 11:25 AM     By:   Solium   (Member) He needs to be the most interesting man alive.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 11:26 AM     By:   joan hue   (Member) Mike, why not just list traits YOU WANT Bond to have in the future? Might be interesting. Chris, Bond must not have STD's. I agree. Bill, what is a "scoobie?" Speak English please. People can always chime in on whether or not Bond should be a deep, layered actor. I like Sean Connery, but I never saw an Oscar for him until he left the Bond role and did a fine job in The Untouchables.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 11:31 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Scoobie = scoobie-doo = clue. Cockney rhyming slang thats filtered into english language. You wanted words!    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 12:54 PM     By:   Mike_J   (Member) Mike, why not just list traits YOU WANT Bond to have in the future? Might be interesting. Joan, is Roger-Moore-esque a word?    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 3:36 PM     By:   joan hue   (Member) Yes, Mike, you just coined a new word. Bravo.    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 5:05 PM     By:   Cmdr. Bond   (Member) Here's one: ingenuity. That's also, I'd contend, the best noun to describe the theme song. When we hear that da--da-da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da . . . , we know: 007 has an idea!    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 9:46 PM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) Daniel Craig; Hot. That's all I have to say.....    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 10:20 PM     By:   Christopher Kinsinger   (Member) SeanConneryEsque, GeorgeLazenbyEsque… RogerMooreEsque… TimothyDaltonEsque… PierceBrosnanEsque… MichaelCraigEsque… HAVE I MISSED ANY???    Posted:   Apr 19, 2016 - 10:36 PM     By:   joan hue   (Member) Edwz, Mike won't agree with us, but I too found Daniel Craig "hot." Pretty good, Chris, except it is Danielcraigesque, not Michael. I like Cmdr. Bond's adjective: ingenuity. Absolutely.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2016 - 12:59 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Hey, dont knock it, I like michaelcraigesque much better! Huey i think we have something. What best describes bond? Michaelcraigesque.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2016 - 8:48 AM     By:   edwzoomom   (Member) Edwz, Mike won't agree with us, but I too found Daniel Craig "hot." Pretty good, Chris, except it is Danielcraigesque, not Michael. I like Cmdr. Bond's adjective: ingenuity. Absolutely.    Posted:   Apr 20, 2016 - 1:02 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) Aston-ishing    Posted:   Apr 20, 2016 - 2:02 PM     By:   Octoberman   (Member) Deviousness. He has to be able to either kill or caress at a moment's notice and never reveal in his eyes which of the two he's about to do.     Non-Film Score Discussion: Adjectives and Nouns for James Bond    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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