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Me too. "You affect me James", delivered with thick accent.
Well put. Connery does look great in NSNA, and he wears those suits supremely well, as he always did.
I've always felt DAD homaged that sequence with the Jinx CGI dive.
This battle is rather short as is the little fight underwater.
I'll take this over SPECTRE's ending any day.
Same with TWINE, DAD and QoS.
True. The location looks similar. That section is probably one of my favorite scenes in DAD.
Another fine viewing of NSNA under my belt.
Included subtitles:
English
French
Spanish
Connery
Indeed...
Do they actually exist, these rocket-like vehicles?
This is true.
I don’t understand how this is true outside of one’s interpretation.
To me: Connery is Connery.
In NSNA he never reminded me of Cary Grant, but especially not Moore.
Connery played his aging agent in the only way he could: the Connery way. That’s what made him so unique.
I didn't mean what I said literally. I generally see Moore as the most nonchalant, unflappable and weary Bond. I think my perception is framed partly due to the fact that he got the part later in life and partly because of who he was and how he interpreted the character. Additionally, while Moore's age was never acknowledged in the EON films, it is apparent to most of us due to how he moved (clumsily at best) and because he generally and frequently had to rely on his wits and smarts to get out of tight jams rather than use brute force.
In NSNA, I see less of the young, aggressive & assertive panther Connery of the early EON days. Rather, I see a more aged, less intense, more laid back and calm character. One with more wisdom and who's a little more worn out & mellow. Not only is his age directly acknowledged (unlike with Moore, where it was apparent despite no direct mention), but he's also seen wise cracking his way out Fatima's death trap with a gadget and furthermore using his urine to dispatch Count Lippe after having an awkward (dare I saw Moore'esque) fight. He's even calm as a cucumber as the bomb goes off in the wrong room. Those again are qualities I associate with Moore and also with the unflappable Grant in his various later colour Hitchcock and Donen efforts when he was similarly in his 50s. It's very noticeable to me because there's a big gap between DAF & NSNA and consequently a lot has changed in Connery.
This is of course just my opinion on the matter, framed by my own perceptions.
Absolutely. He comes across as more mellow and calm than in the earlier films, in which he feels more volatile and dangerous. He is also mellow in DAF, by the way, but in that film he has an undercurrent of smartassery which threatens to turn into cruelty, a quality which is absent from NSNA. Of the earlier films, I figure GF and YOLT are probably the closest to NSNA in terms of Connery's performance, though there are still differences, for sure.
@peter, in this case, 'true' was just a word to express agreement. It's indeed a matter of interpretation.
I got the Cary Grant comparison and agree.
I would say, though that I felt Moore's age was acknowledged in an extremely subtle way. Tracy's tombstone for instance gives the 1969 year of her passing, thus making Bond around 50. Or at least pushing 50. The backstory involving Major Dexter Smythe some years previously also implies that by 1983 Moore's Bond was older. Finally, Bond's reactions to Zorin give me the impression he very much remembers WWII and has an extremely distaste for Zorin's Nazi background. I always think of Moore's Bond as being the best in the field to the point that he simply didn't abide by the standard age retirement of 45. He just stayed on and remained a double-O.
The age angle for Connery in NSNA is far more directly acknowledged. I personally think that film did a marvelous job having Bond come back as an older agent. I prefer their approach of that theme to SF, in which it was far too early for Craig to be burnt out and over the hill.
Old VHS copy here............begins with a silent United Artists logo................
The colors look like the film did on ABC.
Bigger sound, actually.
The focus is a bit soft, but decent color timing.
Connery looks cool in the black polo and brown sports jacket.
The cat's meow is the traditional MONO version. Cubby's name is before Harry's in this copy.
He looks damn suave in the M scene.
When he drops the scorpion down Dr Tynan's shirt never fails to make me laugh.
The letter U is for....................you know the rest.
She's only in this for a minute ...........yet the chemistry, flirtatious banter is all there.
No need for a Scooby Gang in this one.
Jill St John is great, IMO. Though I tend to picture Fleming's Tiffany looking a bit more like Lauren Bacall.