...another James Bond pistol rant

[Rumpelhardt]

There are only two true Bonds. The ones played by Moore and Connery. All others are just a knock off.

[Seaman]

I'm still carrying a PPK (manufactured in 1933) and have had trouble trying to retire it. Just can't find anything as good looking and performance-perfect. I guess the best looking gun right now is the Kimber Solo. That would be my choice for Bond.

So why didn't I replace my old PPK with the Solo? Because when I went to my LGS to buy one I was told they sent them back to Kimber on recall and they wouldn't be getting any more, so I bought a PPS. Ugly. Very ugly. Good shooter tho.

[Sharpsdressed Man]

I think George Lazenby, an Aussie, is/was pro gun. Someone made reference in an earlier thread that he used his down time target shooting while filming in Switzerland on the Bond film.

[coldbeer]

I'd love to see dirty Harry knock that prissy little English twit James Bond up side the head with the butt of his revolver.

[Guv]

And drive off in his smokey ass diesel afterwards! Relax coldbeer, it's all fantasy.

[Skans]

Korth 9mm.

[PeterGunn]

Bond should have a primary sidearm... one that he carries most often. If that's the PPK/s, so be it. That said, if my primary carry is a PPK/s in .380 and I know I'm going into battle, my .380 will take on a backup role to something more substantive and with a higher capacity. A carbine/or combat shotgun would also make it into the mix.

[KenL]

The whole deal with going back to the PPK in Skyfall is that the movie was supposed to be a 50th anniversary of the start of the franchise. Thus the whole retro feel, with the Aston Martin, the office at the end, and of course Moneypenny.

[KyJim]

I agree with those saying the PPK was the perfect pistol for Bond in Skyfall. Nothing fancy or too "obvious." While there are certainly special effects, it is pretty much a gadget-free movie. This, along with the plot and Craig's acting give the movie a very gritty feel for a Bond movie. I think it may be the best.

[wgsigs]

Why not the PPK? Skyfall was kind of a re-boot of the Bond franchise with the introduction of a new "M", the move back to the old location for MI6 HQ, the introduction of "Q" and Moneypenny so a new story for Bond's Walther PPK.

[Aguila Blanca]

Originally Posted by wgsigs

Why not the PPK? Skyfall was kind of a re-boot of the Bond franchise with the introduction of a new "M", the move back to the old location for MI6 HQ, the introduction of "Q" and Moneypenny so a new story for Bond's Walther PPK.

??? Huh?

Do you perhaps mean the introduction of a new Q and Moneypenny? Both were there in the early Connery movies, and Bond's flirtation with Moneypenny was in most (if not all) the original books.

[wgsigs]

??? Huh?

Do you perhaps mean the introduction of a new Q and Moneypenny? Both were there in the early Connery movies, and Bond's flirtation with Moneypenny was in most (if not all) the original books.

That is why I called it a kind of re-boot. Craig's Bond never had a Q or a Moneypenny or a PPK, that I recall. It is a kind of a restart, an explanation of how the characters first came together. Everybody is now relatively young (Ralph Fiennes vs Bernard Lee for example) except for Bond (Craig).

[Mk VII]

After reading Casino Royale, British gun writer Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote to Ian Fleming, saying, among other things, that he didn't think much of Bond's gun and making a number of suggestions for changes, principally that Bond should have a .357 revolver. Some of Boothroyd's suggestions were incorporated into Dr No, and the armourer character was named 'Major Boothroyd'.

Boothroyd wrote an article about it all in 1985. His S&W .38/200 was borrowed by Fleming for the painting on the cover of From Russia With Love. The trompe-l'œil artist Richard Chopping said the gun had been the "very devil to paint" but he managed it well and did several other covers. It was recreated here in a photo shoot.

[Pilot]

Moore played the part like he was told to by the director and producers. I didn't like him nearly as much as Connery, who in my mind is the only true Bond, until Clive Owen gets the part.

[Guv]

That might just work Pilot, although I have nothing against Dan Craig.

[seeker_two]

I had hoped once that Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan) would have been chosen. He could pull off the suave Bond & the action Bond.

If they ever do another Bond parody like the first CASINO ROYALE or the Moore films, I'd pick Hugh Laurie.....

[Kev]

The Wikipedia list of Bonds firearms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._Bond_firearms

[lechiffre]

Moore played the part like he was told to by the director and producers

This is true. He played Bond a bit differently in the movies directed by Guy Hamilton ( Live and Let Die, TMwtGG). He also played 007 more "real" in For Your Eyes Only.