re: James Bond is Not a Code Name

The marketing was really weird, I didn’t see it till it was out of theatres myself bc it looked pretty dumb. Caught it on a flight and it’s fantastic.

Why down vote this good review?

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1967. Casino Royale. Revealed that James Bond is a code name.

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Not apart of the Eon Productions canon. Nice try though.

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Want us to list everything from the "Eon" productions that can't possibly be canon? You've got a Bond born in '68 who didn't turn 21 until '90. He missed the entire Cold War.

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Continuity in James Bond films don’t matter. Look at the timeline. No way does an agent in the 60s appear that young in current days.

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Continuity most definitely existed in the James Bond series all the way up until Timothy Dalton took the role in 1986-87.

Sean Connery was 31 years old when he filmed Dr. No back in 1962. At the end of Roger Moore's run as Bond in 1985's A View to a Kill, Moore himself was in his late-50s. One could deduce that from 1962-1985, we watched as Bond went from a young and cocky field agent in Dr. No to an aging, confident, and more mature field agent in A View to a Kill.

Even though Bond inexplicably got 15 years younger between A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights, he still maintained the same personal and professional relationships with established characters - indicating that it was the same man despite the difference in age.

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Continuity in James Bond films don’t matter. Look at the timeline. No way does an agent in the 60s appear that young in current days.

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No way man, James Bond movies are very serious documentary style renactment films and the historical accuracy of the real MI6 agent Commander James Herbert Bond is of the utmost importance.

As I said above:

Continuity most definitely existed in the James Bond series all the way up until Timothy Dalton took the role in 1986-87.

Sean Connery was 31 years old when he filmed Dr. No back in 1962. At the end of Roger Moore's run as Bond in 1985's A View to a Kill, Moore himself was in his late-50s. One could deduce that from 1962-1985, we watched as Bond went from a young and cocky field agent in Dr. No to an aging, confident, and more mature field agent in A View to a Kill.

Even though Bond inexplicably got 15 years younger between A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights, he still maintained the same personal and professional relationships with established characters - indicating that it was the same man despite the difference in age.

By the way, the first black Felix Leiter was Bernie Casey way back in '83. But since that was a different production company, I'm guessing that the warped logic of this thread would result in a Sean Connery Bond film not being a part of the Sean Connery canon.

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FWIW, I think Idris Elba would make a fantastic James Bond. I wonder if they've considered him as the next bond?

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First I’ve heard of it

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Even though Bond inexplicably got 15 years younger between A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights, he still maintained the same personal and professional relationships with established characters - indicating that it was the same man despite the difference in age.

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That's the price you pay for a character that stays in a certain age range in a 50 year film franchise.

If Elba is Bond, he could maintain the same personal and professional relationships, indicating he's the same man. This presumes the viewer isn't so stuck on race that race is somehow different than the other lack of continuity the films have to have.

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I can’t think of a franchise in which the canon is objectively less important than James Bond

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There is a difference between canon and continuity. Canon includes the car he drives, the tuxedo he wears, the beverages he consumes, the catchphrases he uses. Take those away and it is not Bond.