Is James Bond turing into Jason Bourne?

I would love to say that I do not miss Pierce Brosnan as the James Bond but it would be a lie. However, I have to finally admit that he is James Bond no more. I have two choices in front of me, either I all and find someone other than James Bond to entertain me for I can learn to live with the fact that I have a new James Bond to contend with.

There were certain things that made James Bond what he was, his attitude towards women, his attitude towards life, his attitude towards drinking, his attitude towards death; it was all that made the James Bond different from a Jack Ryan or a Jason Bourne. When James Bond comes to our minds the obvious thing about him that we tend to recall of the gadgets, the woman and the villans.
In order to make James Bond more realistically have already taken away all the gadgets that he used right through the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s and for a large part of the 21st century. Without the gadgets, without the woman, without the larger-than-life persona or without those amazing yet unbelievable stunts how his James Bond any different from Jason Bourne? I agree that the invisible car in "Die Another Day" was an insult to the intellect of every James Bond movie fan, however, it was a mistake committed by producers and script writers for the movie and not by the average fan like me. In order to collect their own mistakes they have completely changed the character that we so loved.
If this is what is going to happen to the James Bond franchisee I'm afraid a lot of the loyal James Bond fans will turn their backs but then I must also admit that many new-age fans will also be generated and perhaps that's is what's producers are looking at. is quantum of solace going to be any darker than the last one? Are we finally going to see a transition from the darker Bond to the more carefree Bond? let us remember if this born is a prequel to the James Bond played by Sean Connery then he somewhere in his journey will forget to take things too hard and try to remember it is just a job. When will Craig Daniels move from the Jason Bourne type Bond to the James Bond that we all loved through the decades.

RIP: James Bond Theme is No More

If rumors are to be believed, the James Bond Theme which used to make our pulses race is no more. The producers have apparently decided that the new darker grittier Bond can do without the glitter of the famous James Bond theme written by Monty Norman and performed by John Barry & Orchestra for the first time in Dr. No.

The theme, however, will still form the basis of the opening theme of the movie. Watch the space for more updates on this matter. Meanwhile listen to the theme that we all love...

The Guns of James Bond

007 has to have guns... that is a must for someone licenced to kill... unless he a certain Mahesh Bhatt who can kill people by just talking to him...

Here are some importat tit bits about Bond and his Guns...

1. When Major Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote to James Bond creator Ian Fleming after reading "Casino Royale", he criticized Bond's use of firearms. He stipulated that Bond's Walther PPK was not as potent a weapon as the .44 magnum (used by Dirty Harry) and that a shoulder holster (as seen in Dr. No (1962)) does not provide as quick a draw as a belt holster (viz many Westerns).

2. James Bond creator Ian Fleming once wrote an article for the Sunday Times and Sports Illustrated about the Guns of James Bond.

3. The character of Q (aka Major Boothroyd) in the Ian Fleming James Bond novels is said to be based on Major Geoffrey Boothroyd, a gun expert who lived in Glasgow, Scotland. They share the same surname. Boothroyd wrote to Fleming about the James Bond character and his choice of firearms. Major Geoffrey Boothroyd can be seen with Sean Connery in the black and white 1964 short documentary "The Guns of James Bond".

4. The famous pose of Sean Connery holding a gun across his chest had to be redone at the last minute. The Walther PPK was left at the studio, but the photographer had an old air pistol in his car. The gun in the picture is the air pistol.

5. James Bond has a new gun in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). It is the Walther P99, which is the replacement for his trademark Walther PPK. He picks up the gun in Wai Lin's apartment. Sales of real and toy replica Walther P-99 pistols went through the roof after Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was released.

6. The only time James Bond fires a gun in Moonraker (1979) is when he shoots the sniper out of the tree with Drax's hunting rifle.

7. In Thunderball (1965), the actor playing James Bond - Sean Connery performed the opening gun-barrel opening sequence for the first time. In the first three Bond films, Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), the gun barrel walk was done with stuntman Bob Simmons. Roger Moore became the first actor to perform the gun barrel sequence without a hat in Live and Let Die (1973). The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) featured a more modern version of the gun-barrel opening sequence. It featured a closer shot of Roger Moore against a more colored background. In GoldenEye (1995), for the first time, computer graphics were used to create the famous "gun barrel" opening. In Die Another Day (2002), the sequence had a bullet zooming towards through the barrel after James Bond fires. In Casino Royale (2006), the sequence is radically altered, it has no gun barrel walk and begins after the opening sequence not before.

8. During the beginning of the teleplay "Climax!: Casino Royale" (1954), a prop gun was accidentally misfired and went off unintentionally. Four shots are heard but only three gunshot markings are seen on the casino building.

9. The Golden Gun in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) consisted of a number of gold components from Pistols Scaramanga's personal effects. These included: A gold 15 x 1.5 cm fountain pen which became the gun barrel; a 8 x 4 cm gold cigarette lighter which formed the hammer and bullet chamber; a 10 x 6 cm gold cigarette case doubled as the gun's magazine hand grip (or gun butt or handle); whilst a solid gold cuff link from his shirt cuff was adjoined to the cigarette case turned into Publish Post gun's trigger. In the movie, custom made 23 carat golden bullets with nickel trace elements were manufactured for the gun by Eastern expert Portugese gunsmith Lazar. It fired single shot 23 carat 4.2 mm golden bullets with nickel trace elements whereas in the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, The Golden Gun was just a gold plated .45 caliber Colt 45 revolver that fired silver jacketed solid gold bullets.