Couples - James Bond (007) & Vesper (Casino Royale)#2 - Because who needs nudity to make a shower scene sexy? - Page 2

daritah · 01-18-2007, 10:02 AM

Oh I want taht scene on the DVD too!! I'm dying with the pics here.. seriously...

JennieN · 01-18-2007, 05:47 PM

HI ALL

Congratulations to our 2nd thread. It will be fun

I don't have any problem viewing that pictures on the title page!

**Enigma** · 01-18-2007, 09:11 PM

New thread.

Love the title.

And the pics are great!!!

ellie_dakota · 01-18-2007, 10:48 PM

Thanks for adding me.

And I just have to say that the opening post is awesome. There is so much there!

Bella Cullen · 01-18-2007, 11:26 PM

OMG were on to thread 2 yay ohh we ROCK!!

I also think that the last screencap rocks, really hoping that the scene is on the DVD, its gonna be heartbreaking if it aint, lol!

ALEXA82 · 01-19-2007, 02:08 AM

Heartbreaking and really a not so good note in my book if Eon does this

But guys you won´t believe what I just found...my daily newspaper "International Herald Tribune" features a big article about the Bond movies...as a headline in their online edition

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The French know where 007 acquired his savoir-faire

By Elaine Sciolino
Published: January 19, 2007

PARIS: James Bond has never seemed fascinated by the French, but the French certainly are fascinated by James Bond.

The British secret agent has driven British cars, worn Savile Row and Brioni suits, flashed Swiss watches and demanded Russian caviar and Norwegian honey.

But he speaks French — at least in the 1953 novel "Casino Royale." He detests English tea. He insists that his tournedos béarnaise be served rare and his vodka martinis be splashed with the French aperitif Lillet.

He has sported a French cigarette lighter and French cuff links (S. T. Dupont) and drunk rivers of French Champagne (Bollinger). He has romanced beloved French actresses like Sophie Marceau.

For three days this week, French and foreign researchers came together in a conference sponsored in part by the National Library of France and the University of Versailles to dissect and psychoanalyze, criticize and lionize Ian Fleming's debonair creation.

Titled "James Bond (2)007: Cultural History and Aesthetic Stakes of a Saga," the conference — France's first scholarly colloquium on James Bond — was aimed at developing a "socioanthropology of the Bondian universe."

"James Bond is a fascinating cultural phenomenon who transcends nationality and politics," said Vincent Chenille, a historian at the National Library who helped organize the conference, which ended Thursday. "He's very human. His faults are identifiable."

Hubert Bonin, an economic historian from Bordeaux, who spoke on "the anguish of capitalist conspiracy and overpowering," had a different explanation. "In France we have the myth of the savior, the Bonaparte, the de Gaulle," he said. "Here, we're always searching for the providential hero. James Bond is a very reassuring figure for France."

The conference was a breakthrough in French scholarly circles. Umberto Eco, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin have all written seriously about Bond, but the French intelligentsia has been slow in embracing global popular culture.

Fleming, a French speaker whose Bond novels were translated into French decades ago, never has been considered a first-rate novelist. Film studies in France focus on the "artistry" of directors like Truffaut and Hitchcock; Bond films have been treated as haphazard commercial enterprises that, lacking a single director, have no artistic or thematic unity.

"This conference is a revolutionary act," said Luc Shankland, a lecturer on media and cultural studies at the Sorbonne who is writing his doctoral dissertation on Bond and British cultural identity. "To put this artifact of popular culture in a setting like the highbrow National Library is a kind of provocation. It's been a taboo in intellectual circles to say you like James Bond."

But on the political and the popular level, the French appreciate James Bond. Sean Connery, who is married to a French painter and played Bond in seven films, is a chevalier in the French Legion of Honor and commander of Arts and Letters. Roger Moore, a star of seven later Bond films, is a French officer of Arts and Letters.

French television routinely airs Bond films; 7.1 million viewers saw "The World Is Not Enough" last month on the leading French channel, TF1. A Bond fan club publishes a magazine called "Le Bond" and organizes trips to sites in the novels and films.

As far back as 1973, Jean-Paul Belmondo parodied Bond in Philippe de Broca's film "Le Magnifique." Last year a Bond spoof called "OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies," with a comic actor playing a French spy made to resemble a young Connery, was a runaway hit.

The "Casino Royale" remake has been seen by more than three million people in France since it opened in late November. Eva Green, the film's Bond girl, is half French in real life. French magazines have published lengthy descriptions of her upbringing in France, favorite Parisian restaurants and boutiques, and devotion to her mother, the well-known French actress Marlène Jobert.

The film has had a ripple effect. At one point, Bond rattles off his martini order: three measures of Gordon's gin, one of vodka, half a measure of Lillet, shaken over ice and topped with a thin slice of lemon peel. The recipe, taken from Mr. Fleming's novel, has shone the spotlight on Lillet, a little-known aperitif produced near Bordeaux since 1872.

"We're a small company, and our distributors used to be told: 'Lillet? That's old,' " Bruno Borie, the chief executive of Lillet, said in a telephone interview. "The film has given a boost to the brand. It's changed our place on the map."

Last month the French accessories company S. T. Dupont introduced two James Bond "seduction cases." The $3,880 "mini-seduction case" includes a bottle of S. T. Dupont's own label of Champagne, two flutes, a Dupont cigarette lighter and a metal "Do Not Disturb" door sign. The deluxe $25,800 model comes in a yardlong buffalo leather trunk and includes a setting for caviar, an ice bucket, an MP3 player with Sony speakers, a Baccarat bud vase and candles.

At the Paris conference, speakers dazzled the audience with Bond trivia. Some lamented the fact that the "Casino Royale" remake had lost the novel's French setting and had been transported to Montenegro.

It was noted that the title "Casino Royale" had a grammatical error in French: "casino" is a masculine noun, "royale" a feminine adjective, an effort by Fleming to give the novel a French-sounding title. The first French translation corrected the error.

As for his culinary tastes, Bond was a "pitiful connoisseur of wine," said Claire Dixsaut, a researcher at the European Center for Audiovisual Writing. He "never ordered a gastronomic menu," he said. "He loves grilled chops, sole meunière, rare tournedos and fresh vegetables. He was, at the table as in his investigations, in search of the truth."

Other topics included Switzerland as a financial haven in James Bond, the geopolitics of James Bond, the evolution of female figures in James Bond and the metamorphoses and permanence of the Bondian personality.

The scholarly seriousness has amused some Bondophiles.

"The propensity people have to speak of so many things with so much seriousness — it's incredible," Jean-François Halin, a screenwriter of "OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies," said in a telephone interview. "In our film, we mock the French colonial, paternalistic vision of the world. We make fun of the James Bond films. But I guess you can find seriousness in everything."

Maia de la Baume contributed reporting.

Source:The French know where 007 acquired his savoir-faire - International Herald Tribune

So Bond is now official intellectual and an item for universities

daritah · 01-19-2007, 03:21 AM

Thanks for th article

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So Bond is now official intellectual and an item for universities

It seems that way

ALEXA82 · 01-19-2007, 12:54 PM

^ unbelievable, isn´t it

Oh and yet another pic of my 2nd fav DC/EG photoshoot

pic found at Aily´s LJ

I mean it´s

how he looks into the camera...like right through

Mooshu · 01-19-2007, 04:37 PM

Congrats on the new thread!

Thanks to everyone who posted pics and info. There is nothing better than Bond/Vesper goodies after a long week.

Welcome to all the new supporters!

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It´s weird indeed. I tried my best but still there seem to be problems with some of the caps in the quotes section. I replaced some but since I don´t have them safed on my comp I had to search new ones. Maybe Jennie and Mooshu can repost some of their caps so that I can refresh the links or so

I'm having problens seeing some of the pics too. It was the same with the previous thread. Um, I can repost caps, if you want, I just don't remember which ones. I will look tomorrow - I'm too pooped out now. The opening post is looking good though.

Oh right, story time. Casino Royale came up as a conversation topic at work this week. I've finally met one person who doesn't like it - not that I go around looking for these people, but I find it interesting that it's like one in 20. Anyway, she said she thought DC was a terrible Bond and I started a whole ~~argument~~discussion about it. After a while, she started looking at me like I was some obsessive, crazed Bond fan. I wanted to refer her to this thread, but that would only reinforce her theory about me being crazy. But I know you would have totally backed me up.

DefLeppardFan · 01-19-2007, 08:42 PM

That picture of Daniel is

JennieN · 01-19-2007, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by DefLeppardFan (View Post)

That picture of Daniel is

well, though we merely have a real image of Eva. She is so cute looking sideways!

daritah · 01-19-2007, 09:52 PM

Could Daniel be more hot?! Seriously... I look at the guy and sigh automaticly

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Oh right, story time. Casino Royale came up as a conversation topic at work this week. I've finally met one person who doesn't like it - not that I go around looking for these people, but I find it interesting that it's like one in 20. Anyway, she said she thought DC was a terrible Bond and I started a whole argumentdiscussion about it. After a while, she started looking at me like I was some obsessive, crazed Bond fan. I wanted to refer her to this thread, but that would only reinforce her theory about me being crazy. But I know you would have totally backed me up

That we would! I still don't understand how people can find him a terrible Bond. I can see why some people would think he wasn't the best, but ot say he was terrible... to me it doesn't happen. I have a friend that didn't like it either, she said it wasn't the usual Bond movie you would see nad the couple was too lovey-dovey. I was like, this is supposed to be the first movie. Like a start over, 'cause it's when he first got the license to kill. But even then she was all "Whatever... he wasn't a goo Bond, he was blond!" and, if you think the guy wasn't good 'cause of the color of his hear, then your opnion really don't mean a thing to me. Sorry.

ALEXA82 · 01-20-2007, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Mooshu (View Post)

I'm having problens seeing some of the pics too. It was the same with the previous thread. Um, I can repost caps, if you want, I just don't remember which ones. I will look tomorrow - I'm too pooped out now. The opening post is looking good though.

It´s FF then I tell you guys! Cause I saw them yesterday but today...is one of the "I don´t see them all days" again

But whenever you´ve time I think some of the caps from the beach scene at the end. Are those I´m always having trouble with and the one from the dinner were Vesper is laughing...the others I tried to relink already...anyway they don´t all work all the time now as well

so don´t bother just in case you´ve time

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Oh right, story time. Casino Royale came up as a conversation topic at work this week. I've finally met one person who doesn't like it - not that I go around looking for these people, but I find it interesting that it's like one in 20. Anyway, she said she thought DC was a terrible Bond and I started a whole ~~argument~~discussion about it. After a while, she started looking at me like I was some obsessive, crazed Bond fan. I wanted to refer her to this thread, but that would only reinforce her theory about me being crazy. But I know you would have totally backed me up.

BAckup is our nickname

but that´s really weird. I at least could convince my best friend to see it, though she still hasn´t but promised to do it. Others I´ve talked about it with gave me weird looks (well maybe that´s why I hide all my other TV show obsessions from them

), saying that they either don´t like Bond or Daniel Craig. But then here in Germany DC was´t that famous before so they can´t fully know him/ his acting. All movies except Tomb Raider or Munich just were released on DVD here...so IMO they all bought the gossip/bad press stuff and make their judgement from that. (Or the colour of his hair - I´m with you daritah what a logical and mature point of view is that?! None!!!!) I went to see the movie to make up my own opinion and ended up loving it. But those who judge a film and don´t even have seen it or don´t even try to go see it when I tell them they are wrong and preocupied. Their loss. The miss a beautiful movie.

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well, though we merely have a real image of Eva. She is so cute looking sideways!

I especially love that Jennie. That way it looks like a snapshot and more natural. Indeed it must be a snapshot I think. Eva being distracted but Daniel still having an arm around her naturally. I love that

Oh and an other sweet fanfic surfaced: FanFiction.Net : Cold Very well written and a sweet idea.

Mooshu · 01-20-2007, 01:18 PM

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It´s FF then I tell you guys! Cause I saw them yesterday but today...is one of the "I don´t see them all days" again But whenever you´ve time I think some of the caps from the beach scene at the end.

I think I still have them in my photobucket account. I'll check and post up the link and you can use whatever. I'm trying to get better quality but that might only happen when the dvd comes out.

*agrees with daritah and Alexa* Basing DC's acting ability on his hair colour is really reaching for a reason to hate him. It's like there is nothing to fault him on so let's pick on his blondness.

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I have a friend that didn't like it either, she said it wasn't the usual Bond movie you would see nad the couple was too lovey-dovey.

That was the same argument this girl I work with had. I don't completely disagree with it - CR was not the usual kind of Bond movie and I think that's why I liked it so much. I was never a Bond fan before but I really like this new take on the franchise. And under any other circumstance I probably would have found the love story far too cheesy, but TPTB did such a fantastic job setting them up I didn't care how lovey dovey it got. Anyway, the discussion at work turned from DC to mocking the underwater scene where Vesper drowned. I was horrified!

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But then here in Germany DC was´t that famous before so they can´t fully know him/ his acting. All movies except Tomb Raider or Munich just were released on DVD here...so IMO they all bought the gossip/bad press stuff and make their judgement from that.

People didn't know much about DC here either. But luckily people here also don't bother too much with the media, so most opinions they have of DC are based solely on CR. That's why s few ppl hate him.

ALEXA82 · 01-22-2007, 11:56 AM

Found a new vid, so well done, so sad

YouTube - Bond and Vesper - Somewhere Enjoy!

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I think I still have them in my photobucket account. I'll check and post up the link and you can use whatever. I'm trying to get better quality but that might only happen when the dvd comes out.

Oh yes high quality caps from the DVD

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