Which would you prefer?
Sean Connery as James Bond in…On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)?!
George Lazenby as James Bond in…Diamonds Are Forever (1971)?!
Inspired by Twitter user @runtmanollie, I wanted to have some photoshop fun with the famous gun barrel image James Bond fans have come to love as a staple of every James Bond movie.
Starting off, some promo images of the six James Bond actors fit pretty well into the barrel, different from the normal “walk and shoot” we normally see from afar (note the start of the blood pour at the top of each image, signifying you’ve been shot!):
Sean Connery as James Bond
George Lazenby as James Bond
Roger Moore as James Bond
Timothy Dalton as James Bond
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond
Daniel Craig as James Bond
Aside from standard James Bond actors, I expanded the scope to anything and everything I could think of – from funny to ridiculous. Remember: you as the shooter are pointing a gun at the target. Enjoy! 🙂
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Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig side by side as James Bond
Anyone else creeped out by these Bonds’ faces side by side?!
Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) tortures James Bond (Daniel Craig) by making him watch Die Another Day (2002)
The Daily Struggle meme takes on the James Bond movies
James Bond (Sean Connery) battles it out with a baddie in Osato’s office in You Only Live Twice (1967)
A closeup of the Japanese kanji on the wall during the scene
During the awesome fight sequence between 007 and an Osato goon in You Only Live Twice, we can see two Japanese symbols on the wall. My furious Googling has led me to these two characters:
According to my two linked sites for each symbol, it translates to “big village” – an oxymoron? Or maybe a reference to the big city of Tokyo where YOLT takes place? If you know Japanese and I am mistaken or you can confirm, please feel free to comment!
The end “wave goodbye” in >From Russia With Love (1963)
The only cheesy flaw from this otherwise awesome movie??
In this short, dialogue-free sequence from No Time To Die (2021), James Bond (Daniel Craig) hops back on the double-oh saddle in style after getting lost at sea. In London, and on his way back to MI6, he visits a garage and dusts off an old Aston Martin V8 Vantage (hat-tip to Dalton’s Bond who drives it in The Living Daylights (1987) with the same license plate number, “B549 WUU”). We also see where he stores M’s infamous Jack the Bulldog figurine (“the whole office goes up in smoke and that bloody thing survives”) – obviously not in a prominent place and seemingly halfway in the trash.
In an oddly-edited shot, we see Bond turn on his invisibility superpowers and magically hop in the car, only to deftly spin his wheels on the way to the office. No offense to the Aston Martin DB5, but I was glad to see the unveiled automobile wasn’t the DB5. Overall, I think we are at capacity with the DB5’s onscreen time, and any more exposure or throwbacks to it in future movies would be overkill. I love the DB5, of course, and I get that it’s iconic and it deserved the exposure it has gotten, but now I think it’s time to move on.
In typical Craig Bond fashion, his car and any subsequent gadgets are tragically underutilized, and here we see it serve the minimal auto purpose – getting from point A to B in a commute. What a bummer! But at least we get to hear the Bond theme and we get an awesome shot of him exiting the vehicle in one of the most memorable shots from NTTD promo materials and arguably the coolest Craig has looked in his entire 007 career.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) looking suave AF in No Time To Die (2021)
James Bond (Daniel Craig) and Q (Ben Whishaw) meet at the National Gallery in London in front of painting The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838, an oil painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner in Skyfall (2012)
This is a cool two-scene sequence from Live And Let Die (1973).
As Bond (Roger Moore) and Felix Leiter (David Hedison) prepare to investigate Mr. Big further, we get a glimpse into their literal dressing room. As Felix ties up loose ends with the “airplane matter” from the previous scene, Bond shows his diva side by working with a tailor for his mission outfits, with room service in tow, nonetheless.
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