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Well, she was the face of Chanel No. 5 for many years. 😊
Yup. And he turns down the sexual advances of a much younger female. It was obviously the right thing to do, but telling her he would buy her an ice cream pushes the idea of Bond-as-paternal. Even the rendezvous with Cassandra Harris looks like two old retired people on a Florida beach.
Outside of the initial exposition dump the film never really capitalizes or even acknowledges the threat, it's just sort of swept under the rug, it doesn't help that Bond seems so nonchalant about the whole thing. He constantly throw his mission to the side for Bebe, taking her skiing, visiting her at the hockey rink, taking a nice morning break along the beach with Lisl, his expression on the yacht after losing the ATAC says it all, barely even seems bothered by the whole thing. Also, the plot being furthered by a damn Parrot... really.
None of that is helped by the underwhelming villain that is Kristatos. Even the end of the film feels anticlimactic, having two old men (Columbo, Kriststos) wrestle it out in some playground fight before taking off to the helicopter with Gogol.
I adore this film, it does so many things right but also does everything it can to undermine or remove any sense of impending danger or threat.
“I don’t have any friends” is an excellent response to the question
You do sort of wonder: can they not just change the launch codes or something? It is their own Navy and they're still in control of it for the whole thing: are they really slaves to their signalling systems?
Yeah I do wonder about the taking-Bebe-skiing thing. At this point in the story he knows that the Russians are on to both him and Melina and know their identities (Melina has been sent a telegram in his name), and he has a main suspect who is Columbo. So what's he doing hanging around in Cortina?! Looking for Locque? Well... he's not, is he? :D
I'm pretty sure he's a Russian double agent :)
Haha! That's marvellous :D A Bond catchphrase I never knew he had!
When I was watching FYEO the other day I did smile at a Roger catchphrase I didn't realise he had: Roger's characters are always looking for "information"- when he meets Kristatos at the ice rink:
"Well, gentlemen, how can I help you?"
"We'd like some information."
:D
I am in awe of your memory as well, Thanos. I'm a fellow reporter also, although my memory isn't nearly what it was.
As for "information," that is another Moore era hallmark. I can think off the top of my head in LALD at the Fillet of Soul in Harlem "I'd like something on the side as well: information." To Sheik Hussein in TSWLM" Hussein: "Would you like dates, vodka martini?" Bond: "Information." GoldenGun mentioned to Corinne in MR; not sure about OP or AVTAK.
"-Where are you going?
- l need some information"
And Live and Let Die:
"- No ice. - That's extra, man.
-I'd like something on the side as well. Information."
"There's no need to be frightened. You'll soon be rid of him, I promise. I promise.
I just need a little bit of information, that's all."
"-There are two ways to disable a crocodile, you know.
- I... don't suppose you'd care to share that information with me?"
RogerBond: always information hungry! :D
From AVTAK:
"The Sûreté has no information on Zorin before he came over from East Germany?"
Although it is covered in Ferrara's blood, and he presumably just leaves it in Italy :D
That line made it to the Marvel comic adaptation.
Moore is at his least sexual Bond here. And it a stark contrast with what came before and after. That said, I really enjoyed his performance overall.
A large part of the problem is no chemistry with Melina. And I believe Bouquet said, "He reminds me of my father."
The final scene where Bouquet derobes comes across kinda gross and creepy. This is when people should have known Moore needed to be replaced. Maybe somebody with foresight placed Moore with Adams in the next film - somebody who was looking about as old as him.
It worked much better in OP, where the leading lady was much closer to his own age. The romance with Melina seems to have come as an afterthought.
Even though Melina is a stronger character, and is portrayed by a much better actress, she does share that weird chemistry with Bond where the romance is only there in the final scene with Stacey.
I'm glad in OP that's done much better. I would even say that his romance with Octopussy is Rog's most convincing one.
Agreed - a drab palette, especially considering the locations.
My second quibble is that FYEO suffers from what I consider the main 'sin' of the Moore era: a refusal on EON's part to leave anything on the cutting room floor.
Listen: in the midst of a 'serious, gritty' Bond film, you can either have a wheelchair-bound slapstick Blofeld dropped down a chimney chute, or you can have a Thatcher impersonator getting propositioned by a talking bird. But you can't have both.
I'm not a big fan of MR, but the film is never boring.
It worked fine as I recognize that back 40 years ago when this was filmed they never anticipated home video that would expose such practices. I still think something like GE's Bond freefall into the plane thing looks worse and it was done nearly 15 years later. We won't mention CGI.