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Felix, the character, was utilized beautifully throughout Craig’s tenure.
I honestly felt he could've received another weighty appearance after being sorely missed in SF and SP (throwaway mention by Bond in the latter aside), but yes, that was a great demonstration of nicely incorporating a longstanding character into the era. The others? Not so much, aside from Mathis (even if I wish he hadn't died).
I'd go for someone along the lines of Boyd Holbrook personally.
Or Lee Pace?
I can see that. I can imagine both being closer to the Felix of the novels in both look and personality (if that's a route they want to go down).
I enjoy Renner. Think he’s great in Mayor of Kingstown.
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Yeah. Sure.
True.
I think that's probably representative of how standards of male attractiveness have changed.
It’s kinda wild when you learn how old he was (not even 40) and that he played similar types of middle aged characters around that time.
That said I think it’s one of those things that when you actually look at him closely you can see he’s relatively young. It’s the fact that he’s balding, has grown out a moustache, wears specific clothes, and acts in a certain way that gives that impression. It’s the combination that makes someone who already looks a bit older anyway come off more so, and there’s usually an element of that when people say younger people decades ago looked older in films.
It's called retrospective ageing. This video explains it:
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Undoubtedly.
I think modern Hollywood is also partly to blame for warping our perception of ageing. The average 60-year old doesn't look like Tom Cruise for instance, but we perceive ordinary people as looking older than they are (or older than they should) because we're used to seeing beautiful Hollywood actors, when in fact they look normal for their age.
There was an interesting discussion about this on the ajb007 forum. Unfortunately it devolved into petty arguing, but the first page raised some interesting points about how leading men of the 80s and 90s, like Pierce Brosnan or George Clooney, who on the surface seem to be channeling their counterparts from previous eras (Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, etc.), are actually quite different in appearance, not just in terms of fashion, but their innate physical characteristics represent something entirely different.
https://www.ajb007.co.uk/discussion/49513/brosnans-hair-style
Yeah. Very good points. I don't also see actors who look like Richard Burton anymore. On a side note, had Burton played Bond, he would have played it like Dalton.
It's quite interesting watching a film like The Wild Geese where compared to Richard Harris and Burton (both notoriously heavy drinkers and smokers) Roger Moore looks like he's from a different generation altogether, and yet he's older than Harris and is only two years younger than Burton. Moore still looks like he's in his early 40s while the other two look like they could plausibly be over 60.
But yeah, that sort of lifestyle can catch up with you. Someone like Peter O'Toole, who I'd say looked quite youthful throughout the 60s, aged quite rapidly in his 40s as a result of drinking and of course likely his cancer too.
True. Even Dalton before his late 30s wasn't far off that. Like I often say, some of the actors just needed to age a little bit in order to get to their full Bond potential (I'd say Brosnan was a similar case).
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Also, actors from that era were ruggedly handsome. Most of them also had blue/grey/green eyes. Vincent Price is another one.