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With his fourth movie you can see how comfortable.Brosnan felt with the part.
Very well said and I agree with nearly everything you said. I do find his TND performance his best, but DAD second. I don't fault him much at all though with GE and it is close to DAD. There is so much crap in DAD it is easy to miss the ease, confidence, and solemnity Pierce brought to that portrayal. There are very stupid moments (walking sopping wet into the hotel, for example) and the tone of the story changed abruptly and went downhill at the speed of light at that point. And Pierce had to act with Jinx's lines and Halle's interpretation being thrust at him (I'm sure he got the point, but kept acting anyway, more to his credit). :D
I enjoy a good deal of Pierce in DAD, and mostly the first 1/2 of the film.
TWINE is not his best performance; it was uneven. Love him in the PTS, all the interaction with Zukovsky, he's so wonderful with Q, and a very good kill shot for Elektra. Other parts were a let down. Uneven does not make best.
Are you saying that Brosnan adlibbed "cell phone"? Surely it was in the script. Take it up with the writers, director, and producers then. :P
I can almost live wih 'cell phone' compared to the crime against humanity that is 'time for a station break'. What the actual f**k? Has anyone British ever said this in history?
Thing is 90% of the crew is British, Brozza, MGW and Babs lived in England half their life but literally no one stood up on the set and said 'hang on that's bolllocks'?
If it's coming down from the studio that the gormless American audience won't understand it unless they say it in American why can't they shoot two versions for different territories? Or just redub it? Pretty sure for station break Bond has his back to camera as he fiddles with the fuse box and in the cell phone scene you could just cut to a shot of Kaufman. But no EON prefer to just spit in the face of who Bond is by having him speak in American.
The day Bond says 'you do the math' is the day I go round to EON's offices and commit a Columbine style massacre.
Thankfully I doubt this will happen on DC's watch as he has the clout to stand up to EON and Brozza always was Mr Midatlanic anyway - he probably sees nothing wrong with it.
Mind you 'I gotta go' in CR was pretty dismal.
or when Bond says"hey" in greeting to Felix :))
How many times are there Americanized expressions in Bond films? I don't know. You do the math. So basically you are preaching to the choir, honey, because I do think Bond being British means he should speak Brit-speak. Hang on, I'll get back with you in a jif 'cause right now I gotta go - I'm outta here!
(gag! Even I am gagging!)
Ah, the great Dalton-Cambell collaboration we never got to see. One of the great historical missed opportunities.
"Hey" has been a product of the Friends culture that Americans (and English) have adopted.
I must admit even as an Englishman I wasn't too bothered by the "stationbreak" line. Maybe I'm just used to growing up with Americanisms. The "cellphone" remark in CR stood out for me more actually. MOBILES are around all the time and no Englishman calls their MOBILE a cellphone.
Which, being from Florida, makes me laugh; but then so does "maths." That just sounds so utterly wrong.
But then I do say "toh-may-toh". Oh, let's call the whole thing off. ;)
Mobill?? :-&
We say "Tom-Mar-toe" :p
I never heard an "r" from a British person in that word before. Interesting!
And yeah, in Florida mostly it would be a "mo-bill" phone. Or a "mo-bill" home.
If from the deep South, like JawJah (Georgia) or Bama (Alabama) it may well be "mo-beel" just like "eel" in there.
I guess this really needs its own thread. Sorry ya'll! :D
Sometimes I suppose people would say "to-mah-toh" if they are from the North.
I had a British boss the last 2 years (from Devon), so I'm basing it on that too.
If your boss actually has a proper Devon accent then that should have been very amusing. It is proper farmer country.
That bit of American eye candy they cast as the nuclear physicist was an unforgiveable piece of casting - harking back to the lamest Bond girls of the Moore era. Morceau was not bad, but the plot was dire (although good enough apparently to be rehashed for SF) and Brosnan's acting attrocious. And to top it all they have M taking up way too much screen - should have seen where that was all heading.
TND was definitely the high water mark in terms of Brozzer's performances, and also the best of his four outings.
Spottiswoode should have done TWINE & DAD.
:-\"
But Spottiswoode wasn't an obvious choice either, was he? Still, I actually think he did the best directing work of the Brosnan era. I actually think GE is really quite bad on multiple levels - not as bad as TWINE and DAD, but still not very good at all. I was actually really surpised that Cambell did such a good job with CR. I think CR still has faults, but it's as if it was from a different director to GE IMO.
Agreed about Apted. What a shame! That scene with the BMW & the helicopters was such a missed opportunity. No tension at all, despite a great premise. It just had Bond running around a lot. Same with the ski scene (such a great premise but lousy direction, especially compared to the great stuff we saw when Bond was last in skis in FYEO some 18 long years prior). Same with the mining scene (infamously remembered for Bond running, jumping & twirling his machine gun like a cheerleader's baton). Apted should have realized he was out of his depth and resigned, for the sake of the series. It just felt to me that he was shoehorning these action sequences/set pieces into the plot....they did not seem integral.
Agreed too about Spottiswoode. His effort was much better. However, from what I remember, TND was a very difficult production with tensions with Hatcher, Brosnan getting injured etc. that it likely was just a bad experience all round.
I just want that rumoured ski sequence in Bond 24 to recapture the greatness of FYEO, OHMSS or TSWLM (I prefer to forget AVTAK & TWINE).
Absolutely. Bring on some quality skiing scenes. Amazing that an amateur with a digital camera strapped to their forehead can capture more exciting apline footage than what Apted managed in TWINE. I remember watching it and thinking 'how do you actually make skiing this dull?'
I know you won't agree, but even in TND I can almost sense Spottiswoode struggling with this huge vacuum in the middle of the movie - where James Bond is supposed to be, you have a preening, pain-facing catalogue model. The problem just seems to become more evident as the Brosnan era goes on. Unlike with Moore, where you had the option to bring things back to a lower key when necessary, the only possible option with Brosnan was to keep on ramping up the sillyness, with the inevitable conclusion being DAD.
:))