Of course, foils the plot and saves the day and gets the girl. As the series was based on the novels by Ian Fleming, many of the tropes that have become ingrained in the series are already a part of it in the very first film, like the girls, the booze and the arch villains. Released just one year after Dr. No , From Russia With Love continued to introduce fans to all the iconic pieces of the franchise.
For the first time, fans met the head of Q branch, played by the legendary Desmond Llewelyn, a role he would play in an incredible 17 Bond films over the years.
Continuing the run of releasing a movie a year, brought Goldfinger. When ranked, this film probably comes out on top the James Bond movie list most often. That's saying a lot considering how long it's been since its release and all the content that's followed. Featuring an iconic theme song sung by Shirley Bassey, an iconic villain in Auric Goldfinger, an iconic Bond Girl with the most famous of names, Pussy Galore, played by Honor Blackmon, and an iconic henchman in Oddjob, Goldfinger is, to say the least, iconic.
James Bond travels from London to Miami to Kentucky chasing the supervillain Goldfinger and in the end, saves the day when he foils Goldfinger's plan to rob Fort Knox. Released just 14 months after Goldfinger , Thunderball might have the campiest opening of any of the Connery James Bond movies, with Bond escaping while using a jet pack.
Nearly two decades, Warner Bros delivered a second adaptation of the original Thunderball novel, with Sean Connery playing Bond once more. So Connery has the distinction of getting to perform in two different versions of one spy tale.
He resigned halfway through filming, announcing that he would not return in the next film. For the first time on the screen, Sean Connery was not the star of a James Bond movie. After Connery announced he was leaving, the producers went on a search for the next Bond. They landed on Australian George Lazenby, and they offered him a seven picture deal. Blofeld is back, this time played by the legendary Telly Savalas.
James Bond in the movie. George Lazenby has a little more of an edge to his version of Bond, and this one of the darker films in the series.
Sean Connery is back! John and Lana Wood, respectively. Oh well. Roger Moore became Bond and he would go on to make the role truly his own, playing it much campier and looser and less edgy than both Connery and George Lazenby had before him. Live And Let Die marked a big change in the franchise as Moore was likely to be playing the role for a while.
Not only did he play the role different but the tone of the movies changed to match it. The characters became a little more over the top, as did the stories. Live And Let Die has one of the most bizarre stories as the producers attempted to cash in on the Blaxploitation genre that was popular at the time.
Although Yaphet Kotto is excellent in the two roles he plays as the villains, the whole thing is rather bizarre. Jane Seymour is one of the best to every play a Bond Girl though, as Solitaire. He is played by the great Christopher Lee and his main henchman was the iconic Nick Nack, played by the legendary Herve Villechaize. So yeah, there are definitely enough familiar elements in this movie.
It also happens to feature an amazing theme by Carly Simon. Moonraker has the dubious distinction of consistently being at or near the bottom of the list when the James Bond movies are ranked. The truth behind it may explain some of the problems. Though he was a major box-office attraction after the overwhelming success of Goldfinger , Connery had reportedly already tired of playing Bond by the time he made Thunderball Afraid of being pinned down to his famous alter ego, he began seeking out different and more challenging roles, scoring hits with such films as The Man Who Would Be King Meanwhile, other actors kept the Bond franchise going over the years, with varying degrees of success.
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Octopussy kicks off with the death of before turning into a story about stolen treasure involving a beautiful jewel smuggler Adams and a villainous prince Louis Jourdan. Moore was 57 years old by the time he got to this, his final Bond film, and it shows.
Still, A View to a Kill has plenty going for it, including Christopher Walken hamming it up as a genetically engineered super-villain and the final performance of Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny.
Maxwell had played the part since Dr. However, Brosnan was currently starring on the TV series Remington Steele and was unable to get out of his contract. So Timothy Dalton donned the tuxedo instead and gave Bond a gravitas that had been missing since the early Connery installments. After License to Kill , EON took six years to get the next movie off the ground, as well as sort out some brand new legal problems. By the time they were ready to roll, Dalton was out and Pierce Brosnan was finally free to take the role as originally intended.
Times had changed. Incidentally, this is also the first Bond film not based on a Fleming novel. Remember newspapers? They used to be a thing. Anyway, here Bond battles a media tycoon Jonathan Pryce who plans to use international tensions to manufacture a war just to boost his sales and TV ratings. Michelle Yeoh also appears as a Chinese spy who teams up with Bond to prevent their nations from going to war.
Bond is assigned to protect the daughter of an ex-KGB agent who literally cannot feel pain, and Denise Richards plays a nuclear physicist named Christmas Jones. Yes, that Madonna. That brings us to the current Bond era. Most Bond actors get sort of a soft reboot of the franchise when they come on board, but with Daniel Craig the franchise opted for a total reboot to start the series from scratch.
An excellent origin story that opens with Bond earning his license to kill and ends with Bond fully becoming the character we all know and love, Casino Royale was helmed by GoldenEye director Martin Campbell.
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