The First Blond Bond
Submitted by Meg Wilson on November 17, 2006 - 05:55.
 Daniel Craig is the first blond James Bond in the 21-picture history.
He's a tough Bond who gets sweaty and out of breath. According to Stephen Hunter he "stands in direct counterpoint to the majority of post-Connery Bonds, especially Roger Moore but also toward the end Pierce Brosnan, who always seemed such lightweights that you suspected all that hair spray had soaked into their brains and turned them into fashion models...
That hair symbolized everything that was wrong with late-issue Bonds: Beyond their unbelievability, they stood for a figure completely unrooted in any sort of reality. The movies had become almost decadent in their removal of Bond from the physical world: He was a kind of male fantasy conceit grown stale and prissy, sited amid big, dull special effects that were always right up to last year's standards."
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