RIP Roger Moore

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  • RavenousRavenous Frets: 1484
    cj73 said:
    seriously though, no mention yet of Wild Geese or North Sea Hijack?
    I'd completely forgotten about those! I remember The Wild Geese as a kid.
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30826
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • richardhomerrichardhomer Frets: 24793
    Gassage said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Really?

    I was referring to Roger Moore himself - though as I recall - he didn't play Bond with much of a Scottish accent....
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  • mellowsunmellowsun Frets: 2422
    The Wild Geese was one of the greatest 'men on a mission' movies ever made. Hilariously awful but thoroughly entertaining.
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  • JezWyndJezWynd Frets: 6021
    Hilariously awful but thoroughly entertaining.

    Sums up most of Roger Moore's movies. A life well lived for all that.
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71956
    Gassage said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Only when Ian Fleming re-wrote him to be so after seeing Connery in the role. He wasn't originally - and initially, Fleming didn't like the choice of Connery, until he saw the first film.

    Nevertheless Moore wasn't Fleming's concept of Bond either. If anything Dalton may have been the closest, but his version worked less well on screen for some reason.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    ICBM said:
    Gassage said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Only when Ian Fleming re-wrote him to be so after seeing Connery in the role. He wasn't originally - and initially, Fleming didn't like the choice of Connery, until he saw the first film.

    Nevertheless Moore wasn't Fleming's concept of Bond either. If anything Dalton may have been the closest, but his version worked less well on screen for some reason.
    IIRC Bond was half Scottish, half Swiss ( although born in Scotland) apparently. I'm not sure it was particularly obvious in the novels although it's explored a lot in the young Bond books (I read the first couple). Moore lived a lot of his life in Switzerland which is a sort of connection. 
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • bingefellerbingefeller Frets: 5723
    RIP, one of my favourite Bonds.   
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  • cj73cj73 Frets: 1003
    ICBM said:
    Gassage said:
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Bond was Scottish.
    Only when Ian Fleming re-wrote him to be so after seeing Connery in the role. He wasn't originally - and initially, Fleming didn't like the choice of Connery, until he saw the first film.

    Nevertheless Moore wasn't Fleming's concept of Bond either. If anything Dalton may have been the closest, but his version worked less well on screen for some reason.
    That's because he played a cold, hard, unlikeble bas**rd.....kinda like Fleming wrote it.


    Can you tell it's my fav bond film?
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30826

    I have lowered my eyebrows to half mast as a mark of respect.

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • exocetexocet Frets: 1948
    Sad to see him pass away. On the "best Bond" question,  with hindsight I thought he was. Bond films were never "that great" in my view - loved them as a child / teen but compared to more modern action films they were lacking in many areas. Roger Moore's Bond just had an effortless grace about him. 
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  • DominicDominic Frets: 16010
    edited May 2017
    He was a handsome man in a very English way -thought he was great as Bond , he had a very refined Public School image although that wasn't his background.
    James Hunt was similar in many ways……………and both real Ladies men.
    I would have liked to see Roger Moore in my favourite film of all time …Dirty rotten Scoundrels ………I think he would have been so much better than Michael Caine in the Gentleman Scammer role 
    "Rupret !…..the genital cuff "
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  • siremoonsiremoon Frets: 1524
    edited May 2017
    A legend.  I had the pleasure of meeting him many years ago.  An extremely nice man who didn't take himself too seriously.
    “He is like a man with a fork in a world of soup.” - Noel Gallagher
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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33725
    Dominic said:
    He was a handsome man in a very English way -thought he was great as Bond , he had a very refined Public School image although that wasn't his background.
    James Hunt was similar in many ways……………and both real Ladies men.
    I would have liked to see Roger Moore in my favourite film of all time …Dirty rotten Scoundrels ………I think he would have been so much better than Michael Caine in the Gentleman Scammer role 
    "Rupret !…..the genital cuff "
    One my my favourite films too.
    Never thought about Moore doing it.
    I like the idea, although Caine was great too.
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  • ChristopheChristophe Frets: 62
    edited May 2017
    Saw him last year at "an audience with" evening and I'm so glad I did. I sat in the front row like a star struck kid and I didn't want the evening to end. My wife said my grin was so wide it looked like someone had wedged a coat hanger in my mouth!  The stories and anecdotes he told were so very entertaining and he was often the butt of his own jokes. As the Bond of my youth he held a special place in my affections. All round bloody nice chap.  RIP Sir Rog
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  • DesVegasDesVegas Frets: 4510
    Cannonball Run ftw!! Rest in peace
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  • JezWyndJezWynd Frets: 6021


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  • SchnozzSchnozz Frets: 1926
    My favourite Bond - the quintessential English gentleman. RIP
    Yep - Mine too.

    So many great childhood moments watching those films with my Gran. RIP Roger.
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  • jonnyburgojonnyburgo Frets: 12255
    He was definitely the perviest of the Bonds, and for that he has my eternal respect, RIP.
    "OUR TOSSPOT"
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  • joeyowenjoeyowen Frets: 4025
    Robbed from a guy called Marc Haynes (Shared by Dave on here)

    As an seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?"

    As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.

    I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.

    Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.

    And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."

    I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

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