I have used many visual references to visualise what a certain character would look like. This would include how they should dress.
The first character, being James Bond, was rather easy to visualise. Also, there were various source materials that I could use to visualise what the character would wear. However, I would like to visualise he original Ian Fleming character than the one portrayed in the films. It turns out that the Bond in Flemings original books does not like to wear bow-ties and would rather wear a standard tie with a suit while working.
This image shown above is the newspaper comic visualisation of the character Fleming described originally in his first book 'Casino Royale'. These were created before the films started being made the in early 1960s. We see that Bond is always wearing smart clothing an he does tend to wear smart overcoats.
Despite this, the Bond portrayed in the original film 'The Living Daylights' is actually quite similar to that of the originally character. Overall opinion of Timothy Dalton is that he is the closest interpretation of the original character of James Bond and thus chooses a similar style of clothing.
I found that Dalton has quite a fierce look in his eyes in certain photographs. He has a charming persona but he looks as if he would kill someone without batting an eye if need be. this is something which I would wish my actor portraying Bond to share.
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