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The GE casino scene is like someone doing a skit where they are playing at being Bond. The dialogue with Xenia is shockingly forced.
Compare this to Laz strolling in and owning the place before casually lighting a fag. Lovely stuff.
I love the bit where Blofeld exposes Hilly and Laz just sits casually back in his chair like couldn't give the slightest f**k.
Much better than Bros doing strange facial contortions to supposedly convey betrayal when Graves and Miranda rumble him.
The Broz has screen presence, I don't think Laz does. That's why he makes his cash from real estate.
You can be a boring bastard in real life and charasmatic as hell on screen, in fact a lot of actors are (and vice versa). He doesn't hold my attention the way the others do. He's just a shell with very little going on behind the eyes. I can almost see the autocue.
I would posit that Fleming's Bond does not seem overly charismatic. I certainly don't picture Broz when I read the books.
Tom Cruise has charisma and owns the screen as per above but would he make a good Bond?
Although obviously Laz did get lucky with one of the best scripts of the series and Broz never got a good script so who knows. I'm certainly not a Broz hater and he is usually the best thing in his films.
That sort of touches on my point, Brosnan manages to hold pictures that risk falling apart, but Lazenby is blessed that he's the main man in a film that is well written and expertly directed.
Well we'll never know for sure.
Perhaps Laz in a mess like DAF wouldve sunk the series?
By the way despite Broz doing his best DAD does fall apart in case you hadn't noticed!
Ha ha, I'd still blame Tamahori. Christ, the guy had to surf a CGI wave and still turned in a bucket load at the box office. I honestly think he was a big draw, even against Craig his figures stack up in the US.
I don't disagree with you there. I've always felt Broz was the patsy for DAD when Babs and MGW should've been sacking themselves for letting it happen.
The bloke always gave his best and loved being Bond and didn't deserve to be the scapegoat for DAD.
True. I always wonder if we'll ever get some sort of veiled apology from Babs and MGW in a doc. Unlikely, but it would be welcome. I can still watch it, but they really dropped the ball giving Tamahori carte blanche.
Personally I don't think Lazenby gets enough credit. The guy wasn't even an actor. He was a chancer that blagged his way into getting the most coveted role at the time; and all things considered did a fantastic job given his non existent acting experience.
Everything and everyone else around him was probably EoN's peak of artistic mastery which obviously made OHMSS not just one of the best Bond movies but one of the best films made in general and although Lazenby's performance was flawed he acquitted himself nicely.
Very much in full agreement.
Fair enough, but it's a bit like giving credit to Jonathan Wilkes for scoring a wonder goal against a bunch of pros. Club singer and Robbie's best mate; might be good for a charity match, but would he last the season?
Not sure that analogy holds water.
Jimmy Greaves is probably our greatest ever striker and pisses all over Geoff Hurst whose career, 3 knockout games in a World Cup aside, was pretty average.
But which one is a legend?
I don't really think about it. People often say Lazenby could have grown into the role had he stayed on; could be true or maybe not but there are too many variables for a coulda-shoulda-woulda. In any case what he did do I'm happy with; enough to not have him ranked at the bottom of all 6 actors.
Are we suggesting Wilkes and Hurst are one and the same? I wish this was a pub conversation.
NO! That's the point. He suited the film, despite not being an accomplished actor.
Wilkes suited that game - luck was on his side. Doesn't mean he's a great player.
It's not luck, at least in the case of Laz. You said it yourself - serendipity.
Same thing. Fluke, luck... etc.
No, it isn't the same thing.
Chance, accident, luck, fluke, coincidence... I love his film and I don't dislike him, but if he was the superior actor some claim he'd have had some semblance of a career.
He'd have had a better agent too, for starters. ;)
He wasn't a brilliant actor, but you don't have to go to drama school to play one character well once.
Not at all. I just feel he's overrated amongst fans on here. People would say the same about a footballer having one good game, I feel a bit like that with Laz.