>> No I expect you to die Mr Bond.
You see, without being picky, I think the line as delivered - "No Mr Bond. I expect you die" is more powerful just by swapping the name around.
I guess that's the kind of thing that scriptwriters spend hours and hours on, honing each line.
I too much prefer Connery's Bond to any other. I think Goldfinger is a great entertaining film, which is all I ask really.
Lazenby actually made quite a good crack at it, and it's a shame he didn't do more. Later Bonds are "meh" to me, and I'll go out of my way not to see Craig's Bond. Modern Bond is I'm sure very lovely, it's just not for me. I'd rather watch Jason Bourne.
And who knew that the Hopkins character of Philip Calvert had a whole bunch of movies ahead of him when they made When Eight Bells Toll, and was seen as the new Bond. Because Connery had said at the time he wasn't going to do Bond any more, and so there was a gap in the market. They thought there wouldn't BE any more Bond movies.
Then Bond came back, and that gap closed. Hopkins may have had an entirely different career path.
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