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Examples of the Americanisation of James Bond Films/Character/Dialogue etc.?
Dragonpol
https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
We all know there was Jimmy Bond in the CBS Climax Mystery Theater 1954 TV production of Casino Royale of course, but what other attempts would you say were made to Americanise James Bond?
Here are a few that I can think of offhand:
Burt Reynolds was considered for the Bond role, as was Adam West for OHMSS.
John Gavin actually signed on to play James Bond for DAF before Sean Connery agreed to return to the role he had made so famous.
I'm sure we can think of many more in the Bond films, character or dialogue or anything else.
If so, I'd really love to hear from you. :)
Here are a few that I can think of offhand:
Burt Reynolds was considered for the Bond role, as was Adam West for OHMSS.
John Gavin actually signed on to play James Bond for DAF before Sean Connery agreed to return to the role he had made so famous.
I'm sure we can think of many more in the Bond films, character or dialogue or anything else.
If so, I'd really love to hear from you. :)
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Yes, indeed. I should have made that clearer in the OP.
How is that Americanised?
Also, Brosnan AND Craig use the term cellphone at least once.
You clearly haven't seen The Apprentice :p
No, watch the birdie is an old expression photographers used. That never jarred with me. Heard it a lot and used it myself.
But when RM says 'lengthwise' in LALD that's totally American - we say 'lengthways'.
Ah ok.
"Yo Momma": DAD
"My cell phone opens the car": TND
*sigh* are there any that DIDN'T come from the Brosnan films?
There's an argument for the "Yo Wade" comment that Bond simply said it back to him in response to "yo Jimbo".
Imagine Fleming rolling in his grave at the thought of an American contact calling his creation "Jimbo" :)) :))
However I feel we do have a new contender wih SP and the '00 Program'.
Perhaps not as outright offensive to English ears as 'station break' but it pisses on the legacy of Fleming's '00 Section' and given Judi was still calling it the '00 Section' one film ago why the sudden urge to make Bond sound more like Bourne?
And to add insult to injury they keep on saying it over and over again: C, M, Blofeld!! I think the only character who doesn't is Bond. Just F**K OFF with your 00 Program!
Yeah I was 12 when I saw TND the first time and Station Break always threw me.
They should release a new version of DAD that doesn't have that line - Die Another Day (the mercifully cut version)
In Diamonds Are Forever the producers had been trying to Americanize the
series; it would have been filmed in Hollywood, and the actor they had found to replace George Lazenby, was John Gavin, of “Psycho” fame, an American, for example.
However when Connery said yes, the filming was to take place in good old Pinewood, not Hollywood, to take advantage of the Eady Levy; all films, at that time, were given a subsidy for filming in the U.K. Thus the Americanization of the series stopped. The film-makers had the questionable idea that American audiences were turned off by the fact that On Majesty's Secret Service was set in Europe. The producers seemed to have forgotten that Thunderball, the highest grossing Bond film, was set in the Bahamas.
Given the success of 'Rogue Nation', maybe EON will use the term 'The 00 Force' for Bond 25, based on 'Impossible Mission Force'. ;)
They changed the Harry Potter books for American consumption, which annoys me. I'd love to own a copy of the British versions.
Although that said i do think the Americanisation of the character reached a new low in Brosnans latter days. His delivery of "Ahm Checkin' out" after faking a cardiac arrest in DAD i simply loathe. Its not what james Bond would ever ever say. Plus Brosnans mid Atlantic "Baaahnd. james Baahnd". Add to that the hateful character of Jinx. "Yo Momma", "Bitch" "The Owls"
Thankfully i really think Craig has clawed back a lot of the britishness of the character. Subtle things like the way he stands up when a lady approaches a table, refers to m as "Ma'am", and says "thank you" the whole time. Craig films are replete with Union Jacks, british understatement and wit "You do have a difficult day ahead".
My main gripe which started with Brosnan and has continued to some extent is the loss of the peculiarly British aspect of Bond character of snobbery. A connoisseur. This is missing from SF and CR. I wish he name checked his drinks, or delivered put downs aimed at the villains choice of tailor or drink. It would have felt more true to the character in SP for example if when he was offered Champagne by Oberhausers butler, rather than a bland "Maybe later" he said "My dear fellow, champagne without oysters is like ....blah blah" A double "up yours"
It worked so well in CR when he ordered the drink and pissed Le Chiffre off. These days we seem limited to cufflink adjustments.
I took this moment as Bond thinking the champagne might be drugged.