...another James Bond pistol rant
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It's a tool box...
Bond should have a primary sidearm... one that he carries most often. If that's the PPK/s, so be it. That said, if my primary carry is a PPK/s in .380 and I know I'm going into battle, my .380 will take on a backup role to something more substantive and with a higher capacity. A carbine/or combat shotgun would also make it into the mix.
Bond should have a primary sidearm... one that he carries most often. If that's the PPK/s, so be it. That said, if my primary carry is a PPK/s in .380 and I know I'm going into battle, my .380 will take on a backup role to something more substantive and with a higher capacity. A carbine/or combat shotgun would also make it into the mix.
I agree with those saying the PPK was the perfect pistol for Bond in Skyfall. Nothing fancy or too "obvious." While there are certainly special effects, it is pretty much a gadget-free movie. This, along with the plot and Craig's acting give the movie a very gritty feel for a Bond movie. I think it may be the best.
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??? Huh?wgsigs said:
Do you perhaps mean the introduction of a new Q and Moneypenny? Both were there in the early Connery movies, and Bond's flirtation with Moneypenny was in most (if not all) the original books.
That is why I called it a kind of re-boot. Craig's Bond never had a Q or a Moneypenny or a PPK, that I recall. It is a kind of a restart, an explanation of how the characters first came together. Everybody is now relatively young (Ralph Fiennes vs Bernard Lee for example) except for Bond (Craig).
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After reading Casino Royale, British gun writer Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote to Ian Fleming, saying, among other things, that he didn't think much of Bond's gun and making a number of suggestions for changes, principally that Bond should have a .357 revolver. Some of Boothroyd's suggestions were incorporated into Dr No, and the armourer character was named 'Major Boothroyd'.
Boothroyd wrote an article about it all in 1985. His S&W .38/200 was borrowed by Fleming for the painting on the cover of From Russia With Love. The trompe-l'œil artist Richard Chopping said the gun had been the "very devil to paint" but he managed it well and did several other covers. It was recreated here in a photo shoot.
Boothroyd wrote an article about it all in 1985. His S&W .38/200 was borrowed by Fleming for the painting on the cover of From Russia With Love. The trompe-l'œil artist Richard Chopping said the gun had been the "very devil to paint" but he managed it well and did several other covers. It was recreated here in a photo shoot.
seeker_two
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I had hoped once that Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan) would have been chosen. He could pull off the suave Bond & the action Bond.
If they ever do another Bond parody like the first CASINO ROYALE or the Moore films, I'd pick Hugh Laurie.....
If they ever do another Bond parody like the first CASINO ROYALE or the Moore films, I'd pick Hugh Laurie.....