Do you agree with this?

[Trazalca]

From IMDB.com-

Lee Praises "Best Bond" Brosnan

Christopher Lee has hailed Irishman Pierce Brosnan as the best actor to ever play suave superspy James Bond. Lee, who played Bond villain Scaramanga in 1973 installment The Man With The Golden Gun and recently defended the casting of new 007 Daniel Craig, insists Brosnan depicted Bond exactly as author Ian Flaming intended. He says, "In my opinion - and I think I know as much, if not more about Bond than anyone, particularly about the characters on whom Ian told me Bond was based, Pierce Brosnan was by far the best and closest to the character."

[Kara Milovy]

Lee was friends with Fleming, but I think that Dalton was closest to Fleming's original conception. However, in many ways I agree that Brosnan was the best.

[Cooper]

I love Brosnan... but whenever I read a Fleming book, I couldn't help but picture Connery and in a few rare cases, Dalton. It's boring to say that Connery was the best, but it's the truth. ...It also doesn't hurt that he starred in the best Bond films. They were the best Bond films because they stuck VERY close to the books. The deviations were minor, until they reached You Only Live Twice. You can't get farther away from Fleming's Bond than Roger Moore. The guy was just too smug. He was too much of a dandy to be "Fleming's Bond".

[Daltons Chin Dimple]

When reading all the Fleming books I think of Connery, for all the Gardner books I imagine Dalton, and for all the Benson books it is Brosnan. Just can't shake that !!!

I imagine if Craig does three films or more, and some continuation novels come out, I will picture Craig as I read them.

[Boromir006]

Dalton may have been closest to what Fleming wanted, but by no means was he the best big screen Bond. They're really two separate creations, and I don't think the series could have lasted this long had Bond not been given the panache of his big-screen persona. Would we really want 21 films about a guy morbidly doing a job he hated?

It's still Connery for me. But who am I to argue with the great Christopher Lee?

[Martini97]

Was Christopher Lee related to Ian Fleming somehow, like a third cousin?
You do have a few individuals who would critique Connery performance as "Wooden" rather than the best. Dalton really has my respect, and it would have been nice if Goldeneye was his third film, or Casino Royale being his first, and TLD and LTK being his second. It is not at all surprising for me if people say that Craig has a tough act to follow after Brosnan. I don't think it would be that difficult for him. I would say physically (facial features), Brosnan come close to the Fleming's Bond. However, emotionally, if anybody who can mimic the sexist, politically incorrect, and sometimes disgruntled secret agent from the Fleming's novel- I picture Connery.

[jayce78]

Yes , Christopher Lee is Ian Flemmings cousin.

I thought Brosnan was a great 007 , as everybody knew he would be . . .

It's just a shame the movie's didn't do him justice , with the exception of Goldeneye. . .

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