SmittenDramaKitten wrote:That was a sweet story SG!!! Thanks for sharing...
I come hotfoot from my office to tell you about a small but nevertheless interesting development in Daniel-Land. I was at the supermarket at lunchtime and picked up the latest edition of Empire Magazine. They have done a list of the 300 greatest movies of all time, as voted for by the general public...
SKYFALL is number 45!!!
Is that good? I'm not 100% sure. I obviously think it should be number one. What IS number one?? Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back. Typical. Despite loving sci fi, I never managed to jump on the SW band wagon...
Now, this might piss you all off but I am unable to do a mag scan and there was a couple of pages of an article on SF. There was a pic of Daniel with Sam in conversation on the 'underground MI6 set'. The pic of Daniel is to the side with his head down. There is also a small pic of Daniel and Sam on set at Skyfall Lodge - it's outside and Dan is wearing the Barbour jacket.... we've seen that before too. Finally, there is a rather small pic of Sam filming Judi as M's death scene. The interview is with John Logan and, no, no real talk of Bond 24 is engaged in. JL just discusses the impact of SF and what it was like to be involved in it. JL mentions that his 'fondest memory' was the email he got from BB after she read the Macau Casino scene..
"FRICKIN' KOMODO DRAGONS????!!!!" was apparently the immortal line...
It's 'small potatoes' but, in this Dry Spell, I think we take what we can get!!
Now who CAN do a mag scan??? SG???
Of Daniel, JL says in the article............
Q. What makes Daniel the best 007 EVER?
A. He moves me. And I believe him (JB) as a lonely killer. Those icy blue eyes can chill your blood and melt your heart almost simultaneously. Just like the character Ian Fleming created. Read the end of Moonraker and you'll see Dan's Bond in every line.
Thanks! I have always referenced the last passage in MR as providing Fleming's most interesting insight into Bond's character. It's a fascinating final passage, that like Logan says really sums up Craig's interpretation of the character.
In the novel Bond is on a mission with a woman called Gala Brand and after the job is done Bond begins picturing his life possibly with Gala. He goes to meet her in the final chapter after he deciding to take her on holiday, only when he arrives he realises that Gala already has a boyfriend. Bond realises that he must let Gala and her boyfriend live their lives and Fleming ends the book with this passage regarding Bond: 'He must get out of these two young lives and take his cold heart elsewhere...He must play the role she expected of him. The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette.'
The essence of Bond I feel lies somewhere in that quote. It seems that Bond has resigned himself to an almost half-life. He can't escape and go into Gala's world as his role in the world has permanently been decided as that of the 'Secret Agent'. A man waiting for death.
A few weeks back I had a conversation with CockH on Bond 24 thread about the novels and I quoted among otbers the final lines from Moonraker. It is one of my fav books in tge Bond series.
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Germangirl wrote:Just saw this. He looks well and OUR old jacket is back. Didn't think, I would see that one again.
Seems he is doing more and more of this - giving back, he most likely calls it and doing something with his fame, that has a meaning for him.
Me too GG. My eyes went right to the jacket then I had to see if it was a current article or older one. How funny the things we set as a signature piece of clothing.
Over all it's good to get new pictures.
I saw this, too. Interesting, that I also read buzz that's he'd ALREADY had some work done.
I will say this: when I saw him in person back in November, he did look old. But it seemed more like he was worn out, exhausted. In recent photos, he looks rejuvinated: due to some much needed R&R?
I saw this, too. Interesting, that I also read buzz that's he'd ALREADY had some work done.
I will say this: when I saw him in person back in November, he did look old. But it seemed more like he was worn out, exhausted. In recent photos, he looks rejuvinated: due to some much needed R&R?
He can look old and haggard in some pics (at least 10 years older than his age), but then this face can look rejuvenated (last charity pics with hair longer.) We know he uses filler to lessen the deep forehead crease between his eyes. I would bet he has a little this and a little that done (injections) but it's for more of a preventive rather than corrective reason. The thing is, fillers don't turn on and off. They last for several months. He can turn haggard overnight. Lol. I will agree that he does not have good genes in the facial aging department. Sometimes I almost futily search for a facial resemblance between the CR DC and the DC of today. It used to be that he couldn't take a bad pic. That's no longer true. But for us here, it's the total package, not just the face, which I still find extremely handsome for so many reasons.
Thanks for sharing...
There was a pic of Daniel with Sam in conversation on the 'underground MI6 set'. The pic of Daniel is to the side with his head down. There is also a small pic of Daniel and Sam on set at Skyfall Lodge - it's outside and Dan is wearing the Barbour jacket.... we've seen that before too. Finally, there is a rather small pic of Sam filming Judi as M's death scene. The interview is with John Logan and, no, no real talk of Bond 24 is engaged in. JL just discusses the impact of SF and what it was like to be involved in it. JL mentions that his 'fondest memory' was the email he got from BB after she read the Macau Casino scene..
