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Agreed. She's easily my favorite Bond girl.
The leads are definitely one of the film's greatest strengths. For my money, the film has the best Bond, the best Bond girl, and the best villain.
Same here. LTK is an underrated gem. Dalton is way more comfortable in the role, Robert Davi is excellent as Sanchez, and Pam Bouvier and Lupe Lamora might just be the two most underrated and stunningly beautiful Bond girls ever. I always feel sad when the end credits roll, because Dalton never got this third!
You and me both!!
We wuz robbed your honour!
Never mind a mere third, I'd have been happy if Dalton had continued on until 1999 and given us another five Bond films. :)
Absolutely. No question about it. Dalton doing only two Bonds is ... just not good enough for me. My pic gives it away, I guess, but I love his portrayal as Bond. He had his heart in the right place for the part. It's a shame he was dealt such bad corporate cards in the early '90s, with the suits and evil McClory getting in the way.
In LTK, I've often wondered what that mission was in Istanbul, that M berates Bond for not taking up, just before he resigns?
True! That would have been a fun angle to follow up on. “About that mission you bailed on…”
A thread dangling in our heads. Maybe Jackie Chan dealt with it in Accidental Spy... :P
That was actually one of those TSWLM/MR, end-of-the-world type missions. Little known fact, GoldenEye is actually a hard reboot as the world ended before Bond and Pam could get out of the pool.
I have one comment here: :-B
Who cares about Armageddon when you've avenged your best friend? Honor, loyalty and friendship are more important than the survival of the human race. LTK has a lot to say as a film.
I’m just saying, you know, maybe M had a point at the Hemingway House…
Yes, it’s the Sanchez way. Bond seems to like it.
Which is why both films rocked so hard.
They certainly have played with notions of duality between Bond and the main villain since LTK (Bond and Trevelyan as you say, Bond and Graves, Bond and Silva, Bond and Safin). I suppose the first significant instance of this was Bond and Scaramanga (though, while not addressed in the dialogue or themes of the film, Largo himself was also a kind of dark mirror to Bond).
Scaramanga was the most obvious one in the dialogue (I love that film, btw, bloody haters piss off), Largo as a dark mirror, uhh, not getting that.
This was much more apparent in the novel where Largo was described as being attractive, having large appetites, and indulging in all the things Bond goes after—women, gambling, fine living, etc.—all the way down to having his own particularly designed cocktail. Again, the film doesn’t really do anything with this, but the parallel can still be found under the surface.
Well explained sir. With the novel in mind, yes.
I think the film does a nice job with showing Bond and Largo in a contest of one-upping each other at the gambling table, skeet shooting, over Domino and so on. Fiona even ribs Largo on it, rattling him, and Bond always having the edge.
What exactly did he say after "Idiot!"?
Yikes. It's good they removed all of that, though I do like his "whatever" line.
@ToTheRight
"If it wasn't for you, everyone could've gotten out of this alive."
Thanks, @slide_99.
Possibly I guess in that we can't see him saying any of the lines, but the way he's delivering them all seem to match.
There's another version on YouTube where someone claims to have the audio only, and they put it over the existing scene, without distortion. This appears to be that video with the distortion added and new claims to be the workprint. Seems unlikely that the audio was discovered alone, and then years later the video of the same scene was discovered.
And it seems unlikely that any of this new dialogue was ever written at all! "Whatever!" Really?! 😀