Sean Connery
Daniel Craig
and umm....
Roger Moore
Now than, as I was saying. My go to man to be Bond, would obviously be Sean Connery. He is the Bond for classic movies, well all of them are classic but the ones we all know off the top of our head. His firing stance setting the norm for every other actor. His quips to Q setting the annual teasing of the old gadget maker. His voice being the trademark accent used to ask for a Martini or in my case Chocolate Milk,"Shaken, not stirred." He is a badass.
However after all of that giddy gushing over the classic Bond, he is NOT my favorite Bond. This will probably upset most people, but Craig is my favorite Bond. Daniel Craig is the Bond a young me thought of when older cousins explained James Bond. He was cool, controlled emotions, calculating, and a winner with the ladies. He is what I thought James Bond was all about. He is polite to everyone he comes in contact with even when he was hiding veiled hatred for a character, Craig can control his emotions and get the job done. Maybe not at first, his emotions getting the better of him in Casino Royale and somewhat wild in Solace. But that's what I like about him,and the movies. His growth into a deadly agent.
The older movies, regardless of how clever or charming they were, were not as awesome in my eyes. Old era Bond relied a lot on gadgets. He didn't really need to be skilled in tons of various things. Need to climb a mountain? Pen-rope. Need to blow up a car? Gum-Bomb. Need to check your phone messages? Deodorant-phone. So that is gripe number one. Point number two, is that the cheeky one liners were kinda worn out. What they really were were puns hidden in the musky voice of someone faking a British accent. We automatically think it's so very clever. But that's all it was. Just a bad joke about someone's genitals. Daniel Craig's retorts tend to be less double entendre, and more filled with danger and teeth. "That last hand, almost killed me." Something normal people would say, but only the intended hearer of that sentence would know how much trouble he was in.
3rd, and final point. Daniel Craig, IS British. Most other Bond actors are from the other isles or regions. But Craig is the quintessential Bond actor to me and feel fee to disagree. I'd love to talk Bond with you, because after all. I just love James Bond.
