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'Harris'..? MP in the Brosnan films is played by Samantha Bond
Apart from the Barry Manilow stuff she does OK in TLD and in LTK she does what she can with her three lines. I'll give her credit for letting her voice wobble to show concern when she says 'Q branch please'. Not much more she could do with such a thankless script.
agreed
"Wrong again Moneypenny, you aaarree"
"I'll file that with the other secret information around here".
Urgh. Bliss is dreadful in that scene and it's possibly Dalton's weakest scene in the film. He can't pull off a line like "Moneypenny be a darling/dear" in the way Roger could. He seemed, like Broz later on, too self-conscious in his MP scene.
As for Brosnan, yes his first Q scene is his weakest. The way he looks at the baguette before Q grabs it off him looks so mannered.
Surely you mean Samantha Bond? It was bad enough getting all that nonsense from M, nut Moneypenny too. She makes Pamela Salem (who had even less to do than Bliss) look good by comparison.
"Someday you'll have to make good on your innuendos."
Yay for feminism.
Let's face it, both M and MP were right. Fleming and James Bond were old outdated old farts by this point.
The "you've never had me" line is the polar opposite to Maxwell's "you never do anything WITH me".
Agreed but....
Agree with this too. None of the cast members are impressive.
How about Robbie Coltrane? Everyone seems to love his Suckoffsky. I thought he was pretty bad.
Yeah rather overrated in GE I tend to feel. And in TWINE he's a bit of a comedy buffoon. Redeems it with a decent death scene though.
Re the 'Walther PPK' line - how good is his peripheral vision by the way? Or can he actually tell the type of gun merely by the sound of it cocking?
Probably combined with its smell, and the shift in the number of air molecules in its vicinity, due to its weight and shape.
I just go along wz the premise that he knows Bond is there already,hence the henchman sticking a gun against Bond’s head straight away from behind the curtains.
Whereas Bond can't even tell a loaded from an unloaded gun in DAD.
I preferred him in GE to TWINE personally. He seemed more menacing, whereas I found him a complete clown in the later entry.
Frost tampered with the firing pin, leaving the loaded but inoperable handgun the same weight (and maybe even functioning normally short of allowing the firing pin to strike the primer to fire the bullet).
Bond not realising the magazine in his gun was empty was merely him putting on the waterskis. The shark jump was yet to come.
Correct. That was a mere grenade. They went nuclear after that.
@RichardTheBruce
Benson did well then. Too bad we need to turn to a novelisation to figure it out. ;)
In a similar way I don't need to be convinced and explained how the pursuing boat in QOS was suddenly pulled off Bond's craft and launched into the air--I saw it happen on screen. And the film moves on.
I created a whole thread in the ‘flying boat’ in QOS and so far nobody has a concrete theory !!
I also liked the fact that they didn't focus on backstories for the existing MI6 team, but rather just had them exist, with new relationship dynamics vis a vis Bond (I'm thinking of M & MP in particular but also Robinson).
In that respect, I prefer it to what they've attempted in the Craig era, by shoehorning backstories into existing regulars.
Too bad they don't do those any more, @barryt007.