Friday, October 28, 2005

007 - Actor not Character

Saw this at the Smallest Minority.

Very irritating. Proves, yet again, why I think actors are generally fools.

Daniel Craig will have a problem playing the new James Bond - because he hates guns.

The actor will wield 007's famous Walther PPK in the movie Casino Royale.

But he revealed in OK! magazine: "I hate handguns. Handguns are used to shoot people and as long as they are around, people will shoot each other.

"That's a simple fact. I've seen a bullet wound and it was a mess. It was on a shoot and it scared me. Bullets have a nasty habit of finding their target and that's what's scary about them."

Man, and all these years I've been aiming. If they can find their targets out of habit, what the hell have I been doing wrong?

Then there is this quote by the Bond I loathe the most:
Roger Moore, who played the superspy from 1973 to 1985, said after quitting the role that he hated "that awful pose" of Bond with his gun which has become an iconic movie image.

The actor later became an ambassador for children's charity Unicef and declared: "Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children. I played every role tongue-in-cheek because I don't really believe in that sort of hero. I don't like guns."

I expect you had to play them tongue-in-cheek, because if you ever actually had to do the real thing you'd probably just shoot yourself in the foot, or worse, shoot the person you're trying to save.

Moore was the worst Bond ever. Let's just hope Craig can act the part.


2 comments:

Granted said...

I'm going down to chastise all my ammunition 'cause the stuff has been letting me down. I'm going to inform it that I now know it can find the target on it's own and I expect a much higher percentage of bull-eyes.

He's clearly a prat and so was Moore.

geekwife said...

If one really believes that handguns are EVIL because they destroy young children, then how can one justify earning a living by making films that, to some extent, glorify the use of handguns? Aren't both these actors essentially saying that guns are immoral and they're uncomfortable with the use of them in the films (films that do not in any way carry the message that "guns are bad")?

If you do something that you believe is morally wrong for money, does that make you a whore or a hypocrit? Or both? Or is talking about how uncomfortable you are with it supposed to redeem you?

I love movies, but sometimes I think actors are the most self-centered, self-important, stupid creatures on the planet.