| After more than four decades, Hollywood is still relying on the James Bond franchise to be a strong force in theaters and on DVD shelves during the upcoming holiday season. The most recent bond flick, now in theaters -- Casino Royale -- arrives on the scene 44 years after Sean Connery brought the Bond character to audiences for the first time in 1962's Dr No. There is a lot riding on Casino Royale being a hit. The Bond franchise has been a mix of success and failure. Royale represents the biggest release of any of the 20 Bond flicks. The other Bond movies have not been packaged in four separate DVD sets. Each set sells for about $90. Most retailers have discounted the sets to about $60. The sets have been put together randomly ... there is no specific order to what has been included in each of the four different DVD sets. There are other Bond products going onto the market at the present time, including such things as a wall calendar and posters. It has been four years since the last Bond movie hit theaters ... which some industry experts believe is the biggest hurdle to overcome. People associated with this Bond movie believe that it will be successful, and will reignite an interest in the Bond franchise generally.
The number of the diplomatic passport of Bond is 0094567.
AGE: In this respect, we all may not agree about his age. Bond was born in 1924 - this information can be obtained from the book by Ian Fleming “You Only Live Twice”, in the chapter “Obituary in Times”. Hence, the age of Bond in 2003 was 79 years. The superannuation age of the agent of class “00” is 45 years; therefore, he must have retired in 1969. Bond joined the secret service, according to Fleming, when he was just a green young man i.e. at the age of fourteen years, that is in the year 1938 (poor boy - this information can be obtained in the book of Fleming “From Russia with Love”. It is just worthless to talk about films – in movies the age of Bond changes constantly – sometimes he grows older, and the other times get younger.)
APPEARANCE: Height - one meter eighty three centimeters, weight – seventy six kg, eyes - blue, hair - black, on the left cheek he has a vertical three inch scar, on the back side of his right palm – he has the traces of plastic surgery.
In the first novel about the agent 007, Ian Fleming compares his appearance with the actor Hoagi Carmichael.
Again it is not worth to compare the appearance of this “reel” Bond with the Bond from novels - this would be meaningless, and in this stiff controversy about this question, simply a can of whoop-ass can be opened on you. But personally in my opinion, Timothy Dalton suits the most out of all the actors playing agent 007, as per the description given by Fleming.
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[ New James Bond movie "Casino Royale" was #1 in all 27 countries where
it opened, earning $42.2 mil from the UK, Russia, India and small
territories in the Mideast and Asia. In the US, however, 007 flick lost the first spot to Warner's "Happy
Feet." ]
