Sean Connery? Roger Moore? George Lazenby? V.F.'s writers make the case for six different Bonds.
Lazenby’s one-off run at the Bond character is often maligned. He’s Australian; he isn’t much of an actor; he came tofrom the worlds of modeling and commercials. But in retrospect, his interloper status—Connery would return to the role foris a curious Bond movie, full of pathos and ending on a terribly bleak note. It would be strange to see Connery doing that. Better, then, that it’s Lazenby’s genial, emotive take absorbing and reflecting the film’s darker tones.
By then, Dalton had moved on, and nostalgia had driven fans backward: Dalton’s Bond fought the Cold War and drug cartels, but’s secret agent would return to sci-fi plots, invisible cars, and villains with ice palaces. Given Daniel Craig’s eventual success, Dalton’s tougher 007 proved to be two decades ahead of his time, and he never got the runway to truly take off.For me, it’s Pierce. Oh, it helps that in between obsessive replays of the Nintendo 64, Brosnan’s Bond is the one I grew up on.
In Brosnan’s hands, Bond evolved from a Cold War–era hero into an agent of the global community, someone comfortable with computerized gadgets and fisticuffs alike—a chameleon who acts on behalf of the queen but is somehow comfortable anywhere in the world. Brosnan’s Bond isn’t vulnerable or nuanced; he isn’t, you know,What he needs is his Walther P99 and a female love interest, and then he becomes bizarrely competent.
Ultimately, what I love, though I love Brosnan’s Bond, is that by the end of his run, his version of the spy hero was no longer sustainable. His films are studded with the corpses of women he loves, leaves, and then lets die, and it barely stops him in his tracks. Brosnan was kind of the perfect asshole Bond, a silver-tongued charmer who asserted the crown’s authority in a world that has nearly moved on without it. James Bond: indelible jerk.
to be released in theaters. But in a way it’s also perfectly fitting—even the universe didn’t want to say goodbye just yet.
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