Pop quiz: what are the essential elements of a James Bond movie? There are the Bond girls, right? Well, we’ve already given you our favorites. What next? The villains? Done and done! Then, of course, there’s whoever is playing 007, and we just recently published our James Bond Actors Ranked list. But, what else is missing? Why the gadgets, of course! So, check out our list of the ten best James Bond Gadgets!
Just as essential to the James Bond series as a vodka martini and a tuxedo are the fantastic assortment of gadgets provided to James Bond through his erstwhile armourer, Q (the great Desmond Llewelyn and now Ben Whishaw. While the character was first introduced as Major Boothroyd in Dr. No (played by Peter Burton), Llewelyn himself only took on the role in From Russia With Love and proved to be an essential part of the franchise to his death in 1999 (for a short spell John Cleese would replace him as R).
In this James Bond Top 10 list, we count down some of the franchise’s greatest gadgets while also paying tribute to the legendary Llewelyn, who remains an essential part of the franchise who’ll never really be equalled. Until Whishaw came along, you had plenty of James Bonds, but only one man was considered the real deal as Q!
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