6 the month previous but less did the consensus 0As such we behave as if we were an order Considerations which lead all right in ChinaThe degradation of the environment is obviousShe still overshadowed in the past six months5 million thirty years ago today they are 3Its leaders were apparently able to reassure investorsBarack Obama leads all right to socialismThe slightest electoral law is still debateAnd the American Dell could follow them suitI was about to marry me, which is a very risky thing. I created Bond to isolate me the shock waves. "Laconic and mufle check, explanation of the birth of the most famous secret agent of all time was delivered in 1963, preface to a new edition of"Casino Royale"by Ian Lancaster Fleming himself. Charming to Mrs. Geraldine Fleming, which, moreover, complained long living a household to three with her husband and 007. Widowed in 1964, she could nevertheless, with this secret lover, sleeping on a pile of gold in his Jamaican retirement, lavish property bought by Fleming and named "Goldeneye". Not that said piece of junk was paid with the rights of author of the eponymous novel, but because Fleming was a cult to the novel by Carson McCullers, "Reflections in a Golden Eye".
Supreme pastiche
The new film adaptation of "Casino Royal" that can be see from next Wednesday is a good film. The first, in 1967, was lavish and delirious. Subsequent to the first four leap to success, this pastiche assembled au gratin of cinema Hollywood Orson Welles, Deborah Kerr, George Raft, William Holden and European Jean-Paul Belmondo, Dahlia Lavi, Charles Boyer and, cherry on the cake, offered on a plateau at the suave David Niven soft vengeance to play James Bond after having been evicted by the producers of "Dr. No".because that too expensive. He camped a James Bond aging, retirement, arranged the Aston-Martin. And with a megalomaniac and imbecile son, Jimmy Bond, interpreted as any zaniness by Woody Allen also author of the scenario writing twenty hands by Peter Sellers, Billy Wilder, Ben Hecht, Terry Southern, John Law... and directed by six directors different. The scenes between Sellers and Ursula Andress are a Summit. Launched by "Dr. No" after the wave in ivory cotton bikini, the Swiss ensembles in Hollywood since 1955, was the absolute sex symbol of the "sixties". In "Casino Royale" she sang the role of the all-powerful Vesper Lynd. Everything is taped to a soundtrack composed by Burt Bacharach, whose main song "the Look of Love" performed by Dusty Springfield was a huge success. First of the twelve novels and two collections of news written by Ian Fleming and published between 1953 and 1966, "Casino Royale" escaped to 2000 to the "franchise", i.e. the "James Bond business". Boiling novels, written as scenarios, are considered by film, Fleming had traded in 1954 "Casino Royal" rights to the Columbia, which initially contenta pâlotte TV adaptation. Rights will remain in the anyway of Columbia, who will be pleased to remember and exploit the vein after the phenomenal success of the first four 007 on the big screen produced between 1962 and 1965 by the firm of EON, company holder of the rights of other James Bond films: "James Bond against Dr. No.", "Good kisses of Russia", "goldfinger" and "Operation Thunderbolt". Shot with an impecunious budget of $ 900,000, "Dr. No" in reported 355 million. As "Operation Thunderbolt", with its 806 million, remains the unrivalled champion of saga bondienne, just in front of "Goldfinger" (705 million dollars).
Four questions in the wind
Red Lantern of the series, a late James Bond: "To kill" ("License to Kill", 1989) brings only $ 227 million. It is the most hated of the Bond by its fans as 007 is embodied by Timothy Dalton. "No 007 where Bond is not high and aggressive towards Q deserves a place in this book!", insurgent Martin Buckley and Andrew Roberts, authors of "Cars in movies" (Haynes Ed.) where, of course, James Bond cars occupy a whole hearty chapter. Because since the Sunbeam Alpine driven in "Dr. No" to the BMW of the 007 of recent invoice, Bond cars interested public. And make u-turn collectors.
For forty years now, only the last James Bond is on the screens that already all integer raised four questions about the next in order of increasing interest: who sings the song What car will lead 007 Who will be the villain And, of course, who will play Bond Regarding the new "Casino Royal" out, here are a few responses, developed in parallel with the great choices past...
Chris Cornell, singer of the Group Audioslave, who sings the title song "you know my name", not without violating the rule which requires, since "Goldfinger" as the title of the main song is also the film, to add to its advertising history. English singer Shirley Bassey made a cardboard of "goldfinger", still the most iconic of all written and composed for the series, before "Live and Let Die" Paul McCartney.
Then the car: "Casino Royale" as the matrix myth James Bond novel, his new adaptation replace the secret agent of the Crown to the origins of the legend. How Bond became 007 ("license to kill"), and how he trades his Bentley Continental 54 (described by Fleming in the book) for the famous DB5 Aston-Marton, won the game on a powerful villain.
The villain now, or rather the (almost) evil: after Ursula Andress, parodic version 1967, is the French Green Eva that interprets the fabulous Vesper Lynd. Discovery by Bernardo Bertolucci in "innocent people The Dreamers", the young actress is the daughter of Marlène Jobert. There are also a bunch of evil testostéronés in "Casino Royale", including sales, but nothing comparable to Jaws, giant in the jaws of steel who terrorized the crowds
and donna twice while the wire trouble it bite toothy this dear James in "The spy who loved me" and "Moonraker".James "Blond".
Finally, we focus on the hero of the story... James Bond: 1.83 m, 76 kg, eyes blue, black hair with a wick falling on the front and a scar on the right cheek. Thus described by Fleming, James Bond is as much a secret agent, a kind of techno-dandy that reads the "Times", drinking champagne Taittinger hit on frost of the Mont-Blanc, claiming its Dry Martini "stirred, not shaked", smoke five cigarettes at the time, a Special Morland, is rights costumes out of the best makers of Savile Row, white shirts, knit black silk neckties and, in the evening, smoking and knotted black Butterfly Slim Jim.
From the beginning, Fleming had bond well tempered character RADIUS maniaqueries: thus, in the short "007 in New York" new published in 1959, the forecastle deplores the inability of restaurants to serve as otherwise only wet toast and the futility of the "scrambled eggs". And Fleming to the recipe for "eggs scrambled to the James Bond": 12 eggs for 4 people, the 60s butter, onions and chives. Prepare, mix, bake and file all, sparkling wine, on slices of bread of mie (dry!) toasted, buttered, all drizzled with rosé champagne Taittinger.
This scheme, one wonders how Bond, with such lipid balance, will be held and line forty years. And will be also sexy. Before Bond, most spies and secret agents of the film reflected the sexiest of a milling sole. With Bond, the Spy will be automatically a "love machine" would. So profiled, James Bond is now interpreted by English actor Daniel Craig, decreed "the more bitter, the most fearsome Bond since Sean Connery".
Since "Dr No", it is against animal and sexy of the most famous Scots of the 7th art as all successors Bond and successive last and must be measured, Roger Moore to meteoric George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton to Pierce Brosnan. Mocked and derided James banging "Blond", Craig, the new, is indeed the first 007 not brown. And, paradoxically, whose route artistic pré-Bond most closely resembles that of Sean Connery to debut. On the beautiful La Perla Uomo swimsuit and Brioni, old costume of thirty-seven years, actor of theatre, already seen in the cinema in Spielberg's "Munich" and "Lara croft", vaguely famous for flirtouillé with Kate Moss, Daniel Craig embodies a 007 Basic. It expected the verdict of the bondophiles.
Symptoms of the bondmania
Child, the latter focused on the reproduction of the car with its gadgets. Produced at best 3.900.000, the Aston - Marton DB5 was imposed as the second best-selling of 1: 43 behind the Batmobile. Intact, the now extremely rare thing today displays a rating at 650 euro! Become adult, the bondophile collects facts, statistics (Bond killed 586 of 1,183 dead of his films), anecdotes, thoracic the Bond girls whose bawdy names (Holly Goodhead, Pussy Galore) put San Antonio for Jean of Ormesson, idolizes the French who were Claudine Auger, Corinne Cléry, Carole Bouquet, Sophie Marceau...
The bondmaniaques another marotte, the false 007. A large family of secret agents, attempting to save the Western world of threat parasitized by a bunch of well rolled pullets, and all played by tuna as expressive as a log. Apart from James Coburn with the series of the "Flint", Dean Martin with the "matt helm" and Frederick Stafford with the OSS 117 which takes the service and the hair of the beast in the skin: Jean Dujardin (big public success), this 2nd Office was crowded of tocards, called in Italy "Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". Hastily turned to the metre in Italy and Spain, the following emerge "Officer 3 S 3" (with Giorgio Ardisson), "Officer Segreto 070" (with Dan Christian), "AG 777" (with Mark Damon) or "Officer 077" (with Ken Clark).
Those who were not James Bond also animate the clubs fans forums and 007 pages of many books. Fleming dreamed of Hitchcock and Cary Grant as well as Richard Burton for wear and embody his hero in the film. It is less known that James Mason and James Stewart were approached and then excluded as too old. Changed also Patrick Mac Goohan, then hero of the series of espionage "Danger Man" and not even prisoner No. 6, and Roger Moore "young" the first with the wrong to be American, the second, in the eyes of producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, may not be enough manly (!). Result, 600 applicants played bends to be Bond in the cinema, all capped at the post by Sean Connery has - bondera to the "diamonds are forever". Subsequently, Burt Reynolds had all the favours of Saltzman. But Broccoli veto: 007 must and can only be British! Yesterday found chochotte, Roger Moore therefore fit the case.
Finally, here is a happy listing of original French titles of the novels of James Bond since 1957 by Gallimard and the international press: "Sharks and secret services" ("Live and Let Die"), "Gimmick in the azimuth" ("Moonraker"), "hot ice." ("Diamonds are Forever"), "Failed to Orient-Express" ("From Russia with Love"), "Operation chloroform" ("Goldfinger"), "Motel 007" ("The Spy who Loved Me")... Needless to that once Bond on the ciné-rails, French publishers are quick to give a decent title to these works, history to avoid the "000" pointed. By chance, person not ventured to franciser the name of James Bond: Jacques link.
