James Bond: Secret to spy's success

Daniel Craig: It was going to change everything, change how I was perceived in the world and I suppose I was incredibly nervous about that.

Anderson Cooper: Was part of the concern that, you know, though you were well known before, this is a global thing?

Daniel Craig: Yeah and also because everybody says, "Oh well you're going to get typecast. And that's obviously true, you're going to get -- I'm now, forever known--going to be known as James Bond. But that's not a bad thing, I mean, that's not a bad label to have.

Craig finally accepted the role after nearly two years. When he was introduced as the newest 007, some fans complained he was too short and too blond to be Bond. But once filming began on "Casino Royale," Barbara Broccoli was convinced the critics would be proven wrong.

Barbara Broccoli: He was just electrifying. We knew what we had. And so--

Anderson Cooper: Are you talking about the scene where he gets out of the water in the bathing suit?

Barbara Broccoli: Well, yeah, how did you know that was what I was thinking about?

Bathing suit aside, Craig plays Bond like Fleming wrote him - dark, flawed, very human. In a scene taken right from the pages of "Casino Royale," Bond is tied down to a chair and brutally beaten.

Anderson Cooper: When you go back to the Ian Fleming books, I mean, he's basically a guy who gets tortured a lot. And that's what happens to you, it seems, a lot.

Daniel Craig: Yeah, I mean he is tortured. He gets tortured and is tortured. You know Fleming has a love-hate relationship with him, and wants to kill him off all the time. But that's kind of part of the whole deal.

Anderson Cooper: But there's a danger to your Bond, that you know, Roger Moore didn't have.

Daniel Craig: Look, if I could play it like Roger Moore, I would. It'd be a lot easier on my limbs.

But no matter who's playing him, what man doesn't secretly -- or not so secretly -

Joss Skatto: I'll give you this gun.

Want to be James Bond?

Joss Skatto: This is the Walther PPK.

That's Bond's signature gun.

Joss Skatto: Both eyes open.

Anderson Cooper: OK.

And at this firing range, Joss Skatto taught Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan how to shoot like James Bond.

Joss Skatto: You don't hold it like a bunch of flowers.

He tried to show me.

Joss Skatto: Move the top part of your body, hips upwards, that's the way. This arm's going to be straight. That's the stance you're going to be doing and go!

Joss Skatto: A bit more aggressive on this one. Very nice.

Anderson Cooper: I don't feel like James Bond yet.

Joss Skatto: You will do. About 15 minutes.

Anderson Cooper: Oh yeah, that's all it takes? Fifteen minutes?

Joss Skatto: No. (laughs)

Anderson Cooper: That is the part of the fantasy, I think, the appeal of this character is that people want to be-- guys want to be him.

Daniel Craig: But I want to see sides to him. I want to see a kind of-- I want to see a fallibility about the character. Because, you know, he's an assassin. He kills people.

Daniel Craig has breathed new life into the series. His two films to date have earned record highs for the franchise.

As for his newest adventure, "Skyfall" - known in production as Bond 23 - it's not even out yet and there's already talk of Bond 24. But Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the guardians of the franchise, aren't giving up any of its secrets.

Anderson Cooper: Where does Bond go from here? I mean he's sort of done it all.

Michael Wilson: That statement could have been made 20 years ago and been just as valid as it is today.

Anderson Cooper: How much longer do you think you can keep on going?

Barbara Broccoli: As long as audiences want to come see the movies, we'll make them.

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[supernevadasmith]

I could pontificate endlessly on how John Barry, The Soundtrack Composer for most of the James Bond Franchise was the secret to 007's success, but in the vein of: :A Picture is worth a thousand words", than: " A Listen is worth a Million Posts". Hear: "Alpine Drive" in GoldFinger; "Bond Meets Stacey" in A View To a Kill; Go To "Hercules Take Off" in The Living Daylights"; All The Classic John Barry 007 Title Songs. Listen and the secret turns out to be not so secret anymore.

[supernevadasmith]

Double Oh Seven's real identity has been exposed to be the late Mr. Barry, John Barry the award wining Soundtrack Composer, for most of the more memorable James Bond Movies. John Barry who co-authored-a subject still in contentious dispute- the original 007 music theme, but it was his exciting and beautiful Movie Scores,especially starting with "GoldFinger" that solidified The Bond Franchise durability. Consider that the franchise was able to survive those horrid Roger Moore Bond Flicks.
No, in evaluating The James Bond Phenomena most critiques are confusing the smoke for the fire. John Barry, one of the most significant and Innovative Movie Soundtrack Composers (The New Contemporary Classical Music) to have ever lived,--Dances With Wolves,etc.--is The Soul of 007 and leads me me this assertion: John Barry's Bond Movie Music will "Echo An Eternity" while the actual Bond is relegated to yesterdays trivia.

[pleasebbetter]

Ok...almost everyone enjoys James Bond. So, this requisite 'fluff' closing piece on '60 Minutes' perhaps boosts ratings, even though a barely disguised prime-time promo for the new Bond film/old Bond franchise.
Oh, and Anderson Cooper got to indulge one of his fantasies....

I gotta make sure to catch segment intro clips at the program's beginning to better avoid this stuff.

[hypnotoad72]

In the 1990s, Bond ditching the Aston Martin for a BMW was nuts... especially as villains are the ones who typically drive the non-Aston Martin brands... Bond's trademarks and images never should have changed...

Baccarat was replaced by poker (?!) and I hope it's the villain who drinks the beer...

Okay, we all know why poker was given precedence (Americans are the ones being catered to), but that's beside the point...