As someone who hasn't seen every James Bond movie, this video is so timely to understand the entire scope of this franchise. Thank you, Dave! Great work. 🙌
James bond Jr was a 65 episode one season series you watch the show online and RU-vid but it's been rejected by many tv executives like Netflix hulu peacock hbomax and many other's
When he showed the images on the screen of the show, immediately the theme song played in my head. I don't think I ever watched it (might have been too young for it to appeal) but I remember the commercials for it and the brief part of the theme that played.
Of all the actors who played James Bond, Timothy Dalton is my personal favourite. He was a killing machine who, deep down, loathed the life he has, and is not afraid of disobeying authority when it comes to exacting revenge on criminals who hurt a friend of his. And of all 25 Bond films, On Her Majesty's secret service is my favourite due to being a good balance between action and drama, supporting each other, as well as the best Blofeld in the form of the great Telly Savallas.
22:39 Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean & Johnny English's (a James Bond-esque character parody) first film appearance in Never Say Never Again, alongside the late Sir Sean Connery.
I met Barry Nelson in the late 90s, and he must have been that old. Him and his wife would come into the Macaroni Grill I served at. He was also in "The Shining".
@@thedangerousfella5860 honestly, I may have asked him about "the shining"... I only found out about Jimmy Bond much later. Plus he was trying to eat with his lady, I didn't want to bother them. They were a strange older couple.
What seems to be ignored nowadays is modern Action films got their template from the Bond films. There is a clear cut between films made pre 1960 and those made 1968 onwards so much so they seem like different worlds. Inbetween was the transition period and the most popular fictional character of this time was Bond. The action hero archetype, the exotic locales, colorful villains, beautiful female, the almost cartoonish invulnerability, the sense of fun and spectacular action sequences all came together here. These are taken for granted now. Before this "action" was westerns, crime dramas, swashbuckler adventure films. More films with action scenes in them. Then in the 1980s the Bond template creates the action movie formula, where the same template has the action as the point of the whole thing.
This Evolution of James Bond is awesome and this has became a Amazing Franchise for over the Years so I hope there will be a Cartoon Evolution about The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!🤩❤🌎😎⭐😁
Bond is clearly one of the gold standards of pop culture with some of the biggest influences of all time. We've seen so many great parodies of spy thrillers with Bond being heavily referenced and spoofed. From Get Smart to Austin Powers to Archer. Which begs the question. With all the cartoon parodies of James Bond, how come the actual James Bond cartoon sucked so much? Everyone's done a James Bond parody, how come those are all so much better done than the official one?
Fun fact: Legendary actor Christopher Lee was Ian Flemming's step-cousin and he played the titular Bond-villian in The Man with the Golden Gun. Lee would during his career play Dracula and Frankenstein's monster in The Hammer Horror Movies as well as Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes and late in his life wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogy and Count Dooku in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith. Lee was a fan of Tolkien's books and read The Lord of the Rings every year throughout his life since they were published and met J R R Tolkien (the only actor in the LOTR cast and crew to do so), who gave him the blessing of playing Gandalf (though he auditioned for the role, he landed on Saruman as Lee was in his late 70's at the time, making it too demanding with all the traveling, riding and fighting which was required for Gandalf's character which Ian McKellen was more suitable, being in his 60's during 1999 and 2000). The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies was the final film he did before passing away in 2015 at the age of 93.
This was a pitch perfect distillation of The Bond series 😄 amazing work ! Skyfall is my favorite Bond film , to me it cemented Craig as the ultimate Bond !
Sean Connery is Number One James Bond for me. George Lazenby is Number Two and Timothy Dalton Number Three. My favorite Bond movie is “On Her Majesties Secret Service”, “From Russia With Love” number Two and “ You Only Live Twice Number Three.
Excellent! I'm delighted to see another Pop Culture Evolution. I hope to see many, many more in the future. And for what it's worth, :Pierce Brosnan is my Bond. Going to see "Tomorrow Never Dies" at a cinema in Ankara, Turkey on Christmas Day 1997 and then going to a party straight afterwards.... it doesn't get much better than that.
This really REALLY makes me want to see an Evolution of Lupin the Third, who is very much cut from the cloth of James Bond, but with some Tom and Jerry. I know it would be so much research and indeed quite long, but I hope it’s in the cards, Dave!!
Wow great video Dave. You gave me so much information that I had either missed over the years or had forgotten. James Bond Jr is a great example of my forgotten childhood shows.
A cool thing that I did with my dad is we watched every James Bond movie chronologically. We did this starting when I was in middle school. Looking back, I think starting James Bond when I was 11 was too young, but I do have fond memories. Pierce Brosnan was always Bond to me. I grew up when he was the current Bond (Just as Sean Connery is Bond for my Dad). But also I thought Brosnan was just so cool and handsome. I mean my family had a James Bond board game and the Goldeneye video game so Brosnan was the Bond I always saw. But also, I tripped over my local tv station playing re-runs of Remington Steele and I loved him in that too. I will always love the more fantastical approach to bond because Superheroes were always my favorite thing growing up. So while I now understand why they took the approach they did with the Daniel Craig era, I personally can't appreciate it and it doesn't appeal to me much. I no longer care to see the James Bond movies and I don't believe I've seen the latest 2. Edit: But now I don't have to worry about looking forward to Bond films anymore now that Superhero films are actually a thing now. So i'm overly satisfied. It's okay, all you Daniel Craig era fans can have Bond now.
My favorite interpretation of James Bond would have to go to Daniel Craig, though Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan are pretty good themselves. I haven't seen any Connery-led Bond films so I can't really make my opinions on that as of now. Favorite Bond film: Quantum Solace would have to be my favorite James Bond film. Also, it's great for you to make another Pop Culture Evolution video after the Superman vid, to the point where I've really enjoyed watching this one. Hope you make another great one whenever you can. And at that, I'd like to give you a very *big* thank you, Dave!
For Cartoon Evolution, please do more videos including The Simpsons, Pokémon (Ash, his Pikachu, his friends, Team Rocket and more), Tiny Toon Adventures, The Fairy OddParents, The Powerpuff Girls, more Hanna-Barbera characters like 👍 The Jetsons, Top Cat, Yogi Bear, The Smurfs, Jonny Quest and many more!, other Looney Tunes characters including Pepe Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, Granny and more, please 😃😃😃
Only recently did I really get into Bond with a bunch of VHS tapes from Connery's movies. I've seen various other Bond movie over the years but Connery's are my favorite.
Connery is my favourite but Timothy Dalton comes a close second for me, Living Daylights was ok at best but Licence to Kill is a solid bond film where Dalton really was starting to come into his own, I think had he gotten his chance to do his 3rd let’s say around 1991-92 he probably would’ve won more audiences over. At least now his fan base has grown.
Timothy Dalton all day. I was hoping you'd bring up the character "Jaws" portrayed by the late legendary actor Richard Kiel. The character seems to appear in 1976's Silver Streak, starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor. Here, the character is called "Reace," but would appear almost exactly the same in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977, as Jaws.
Every James Bond portrayal is what makes Bond what he is today. The Best 007 film in my opinion however is The Spy Who loved Me. The perfect blend of Bonds charm and serious mixed with the outlandish and fun. The Spy Who Loved Me should satisfy the tastes of ANY Bond fan. Oddly it has got a weak villain that is unfortunately forgettable but makes up for that drawback with the greatest henchman of the series in Jaws. Roger Moore in his prime and the sexy Agent XXX it is by far my favorite and the perfect blend of Bonds.
It's really something how they don't give lazenby too much credit when he was actually the true James Bond of them all, the guy was a babe hound and and was, in my opinion, the best Bond by far.
Another great vid in this series! My dad and I are currently going through the Bond movies, and this just made me more hyped to finish them! Thanks Dave!
Excellent Evolution (no surprise there). The other '60s Bond-inspired movie characters left out Matt Helm, played by Dean Martin (!). There was also an oddly related movie "Operation: Kid Brother" starring Connery's brother Neil, a tongue-in-cheek B picture featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (named "Operation: Double 007" in that copy of the movie). Probably not noteworthy for the video, but worth a mention here.
There's a video game that makes it what if all of the old movies took place now and Daniel Craig was James Bond. It starts out with you "dying" in Skyfall by the sniper and then has him remembering past missions. Emissions have been changed though so like there's cell phones when obviously those didn't exist back when those movies were made.
I believe the lesser known actor Scott Adkins should be considered for the role of James Bond. He has the physique build Ian Fleming describes in the novel "For Your Eyes Only", he has that English accent and could easily portray a flamboyant style yet is the man ready for any type of action the criminal element throw at him. He has starred in many action movies to date. Check out how good he looks in a suit. He would be my James Bond character down to a T.
Saying that Fleming's Bond is like David Niven's version and then saying that he's like Timothy Dalton's version is a major contradiction. Dalton is like Fleming's Bond, while David Niven is not. Fleming may have envisioned Niven in the role, but Niven did not play the part the way Fleming envisioned it. Niven's Bond is a comic version of a prig who dresses like a dandy. That's not Fleming's Bond. P.S.- Niven was 57 when the movie was released not 52.
Niven's portrayal of the character's personality - IE. dapper, suave and mannerly - is entirely inline with how Fleming envisioned it - regardless of whether it's a parody or not. The TONE and STYLE of Dalton's Bond matches that of the Fleming novels.
@@DaveLeeDownUnder Niven is more like Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg than Fleming's Bond. Both characters are sophisticated but very different in many other respects. Niven's Bond is a prude, Fleming's Bond is not. P.S. - Of all the actors that have played James Bond on the silver screen, Niven's portrayal is the least like the literary Bond.
@@DaveLeeDownUnder yeah, I enjoyed it a lot, there aren't too many James Bond history videos. So I'm glad that this one is brilliant. So I very much enjoyed it.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures is one of the current owner of James Bond franchise and characters since United Artists, MGM's current sister company since 1981 distributed all James Bond film series including EON-produced and non-EON-produced films (also including Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures as a Co-distributor, and 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment and later, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and currently, Studio Distribution Services, LLC. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment joint venture) distributed in home media worldwide distribution rights for all James Bond franchise under licensed from MGM Home Entertainment).
@DaveLeeDownUnder, but what about special Agent Oso? They mock James movies and they mock up the episode names with movie titles from the James Bond movies!
Not going to lie I watched every Brosnan Bond in the cinema however I never liked 50% of Brosnan personaly I think the creators lost ideas and Craig well.....
The views are still in the hundreds after more than an hour, I’m sorry Dave. Maybe you could do videos in this vain but with things like Transformers or Ninja Turtles where you go into the history of the thing from the very inception to the modern day, unlike what you do in your Cartoon Evolution where you talk about whatever icon and how they came to be recognized in the public consciousness. I’m sure you have ideas of your own but I’m sure that you made this video and the Superman video cause you wanted to do something different. I personally prefer these videos but I hope that your efforts for such well researched will not be for nothing.
Thanks, Michael! It’s okay - I was expecting it, because as you say, it’s a little different (and it’s important for me to try new things every now and then, even if to simply give my brain a chance to refresh). I’m hoping it should find an audience in time (like Superman has), instead of being an immediate hit like the others. Plenty of ideas for both this series and Cartoon Evolution going forward, just have to keep grinding away. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Saving to watch later. I was given my father’s movie collection the other day since he past on in August. He had a bunch of the various James Bond movies in it so I’m sure this video will be a good resource for me when I go to watch them.
