BS: Bond, Jane Bond!

Subject: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Alba
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:05 PM

Now I am not what you would call a fan of 007 Movies. In fact I honestly haven't really watched a whole James Bond film at all as far as I can recall...but
I understand that there is a bit of a flap going on over the 'new' James Bond, being played by actor Daniel Craig, why I don't know but it got me thinking...alright I know that's dangerous but anyways
I got to thinking since it's 44 years since the first Bond film, Dr. No, was released in 1962 maybe it's time to have a Jane Bond Film!
Watcha think!
Now I realise that if some are in a bit of a twist about Craigy baby playing 'James' the concept of 'Jane' may just tip them over the edge but maybe it's time for 007 to move with the times...**BG** Who would be the ideal Jane Bond.. or is the idea just too not "Bond" for some:)
Anyone got any ideas?

Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:13 PM

La Femme Nikita

http://imdb.com/title/tt0100263/

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:18 PM

Wanda Sykes!!!

Judy Dench!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:20 PM

Modesty Blaise

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:28 PM

Thora Hird..

her motorised stair lift would be way cool if it fired missiles

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 06:37 PM

Never mind all that-- let's cut right to the chase. The BOND BOYS!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 07:12 PM

She would be just another of 'Charlie's Angels'.

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 07:43 PM

Barbarella!

Stripperella!

Been done...

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 07:46 PM

Oh, how could I forget?

RED SONYA!

... and Tank Girl....

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 08:02 PM

I've heard the name Daniel Craig, but that's all; is he "swishy", or what's the fuss about?
I s'pose Diana Rigg is a little mature to be acceptable for the role now, damnit; can't imagine anyone more perfect. Assuming she's out:

       Drew Barrymore?
       Calista Flockheart?
       K.D. Lang?

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Alba
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 08:52 PM

Yes Frogprince Diana Rigg, now we are sucking Diesel.            
We are talking brains and beauty here you know not Airhead and plastic surgery!!!
.
As for La Femme Nikita well she wasn't exactly a willing employee but I see where the similarities are but still....:)

Think Sean Connery and then think classy Jane Bond.
My Goodness "Tankgirl", Foolestroupe did you actually watch that Movie...**BG**
Love
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 08:58 PM

The surviving Monty Python members are a little old for the part too...

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Don Firth
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 09:37 PM

I read all of the James Bond novels. Moonraker was pretty weak, but the rest of them were good.

Dr. No was a good movie version of the novel. They did change the end a bit. In the movie, Bond killed off Dr. No by pushing him into boiling water heated by an atomic pile. In the book, Bond used a different kind of pile:   he buried Dr. No under several tons of guano (dried bird poop). What a way to go!

From Russia with Love was pretty good. I thought the movie version lost a great opportunity for suspense by changing the latter part of the novel. In the novel, when Bond and the girl were on the Orient Express on their way to Paris, Fleming built up the suspense nicely because the reader knew that the British agent that Bond was expecting to meet was actually a brutal Smersh assassin—a psychopathic killer—(played menacingly in the movie by Robert Shaw) sent to do Bond and the girl in. You knew it when he showed up, but Bond didn't. They did play it that way in the movie, but it was much better done in the novel. It was the kind of high suspense that Eric Ambler used to write. Then, in the movie, they bunged in that scene with Bond and the girl ducking and dodging while the baddies in the helicopter tried to drop grenades on them.

Goldfinger was pretty well done, but that was the one that in which Q started loading Bond down with his cockamamie gadgets (the tricked-up Aston Martin for one) and the movies started going downhill from there. But Goldfinger wasn't too bad.

Thunderball was where they started getting downright silly. And it was pure comic book from there on.

Sean Connery made the movie role. As far as I'm concerned, he was the only James Bond. Timothy Dalton liked the novels and wanted to get back to Fleming's original concept of the Bond character, but with the scripts they gave him, he was fighting a losing battle. Too bad.

There was an American version of Le Femme Nikita called Point of No Return (1993) starring Bridget Fonda. Very good! Bridget Fonda. Yummmm!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 10:07 PM

The "fuss" about Daniel Craig is because he has blond hair and has a weathered face. Instead of hiring a pretty-boy like the last few Bonds, the producers decided to go back to basics. They are cutting out the ridiculous gadgets and telling a good spy story once again.

I've watched all the films (it has been going downhill ever since Roger Moore) and read all of the Flemings books plus a good number of the subsequent books.   Bond has always been a favorite, ever since I stood next the Aston Martin at the 1964 World's Fair and they guard let me check it out up close. (Never would happen today!)

I for one look forward to this new film. I could not stomach the last two films. No one will ever replace Connery, but Craig has some promise!

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 10:36 PM

Well, if Think Sean Connery and then think classy Jane Bond, then that would be Catherine Zeta-Jones or Angelina Jolie, who are both veterans of action films.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 11:04 PM

Really I haven't been getting to enough movies to know who to pick; I think I've seen Jolie listed in some of the junk like movies based on video games, and I saw her a few months ago in something awful; I've blotted out the name. She was a cop, totally promiscuis, drank like a fish. Part of the clever plot twist turned out to be that when you saw her apparently pass out drunk, over and over, she was actually drugged. I don't know that anyone could have looked good with that script. For all I know she may have shown some real "chops" in other movies.

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Mar 06 - 11:52 PM

'Tomb Raider' didn;t have enought 'chop-chops' for you?

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Alba
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 12:34 AM

Laura Croft was ok but a bit...just a bit, blah but compared to 'Tankgirl'

...I'll say no more...:)

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Grab
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 08:16 AM

I'm with you, Don. I thought Timothy Dalton was an excellent Bond, although you're right that his two films were a bit ropy, mainly due to poor supporting actors and indifferent scripts. He reintroduced the early Sean Connery thing of surviving due to determination and better skill, instead the later Sean Connery or Roger Moore thing of just pulling out another gadget. I think Timothy Dalton's films were the first decent Bond portrayal since Goldfinger.

If they can keep some of the strong supporting characters from Brosnan's time (and let's face it, he needed them more than most) and get back the edginess of Dalton and Connery, I think they're onto a winner.

Re the Jane Bond thing, it'd work for a spoof. You could have a love interest called Willy Galore... But for a film to be taken seriously - no way. Could *you* imagine a male version of Lara Croft?

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 10:23 AM

Sure: Indiana Jones.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Mar 06 - 11:23 PM

Well, there was the infamous "Casino Royale" - and the Dean Martin? sendups.

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Grab
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 03:00 PM

But *called* Lara Croft? Lars Croft, perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 03:05 PM

Angelina Joli would make a fine Jane Bond

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 03:08 PM

Deborah Moore is a very attractive woman with an established family tradition of playing Bond.

Subject: RE: BS: Bond, Jane Bond!
From: RangerSteve
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 06:28 PM

There's already a female Bond. The show, now off the air, is called "Alias". It's ridiculous, far-fetched, and completely absorbing, maybe one of the most fun TV shows ever. It's available on DVD. I highly recommend it. Jennifer Garner is one hot babe, too.