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<font color=blue size=7><b>Maud Adams had improved on her acting when she did OP compared to TMWTGG.</b></font>
Agree with thesis. It would be normal after 9 years for someone working hard at their craft to have improved, and she did. I think Maud looked better too.
Very fine actress. I would say she's the Moore Bond girl par excellence.
Disagree- I think talent wise, she was about the same. She just had more to do in Octopussy. I will add that she does suit Roger's Bond very well!
Agree to a point as really her part in TMWTGG was far smaller than in OP.
Agreed. I've always found her rather wooden during the scene in TMWTGG where Bond interrogates her though it is one of Moore's best scenes in the role. By the time of OP, she's much more relaxed, confident and natural. The chemistry between her and Moore is outstanding and she's the leading lady who suited his Bond best IMHO.
Just a bit!! 'Give me that' - awful and only excusable due to the shower scene before it.
Thesis most certainly proven.
An expanded role gave her more room to breathe with her character in OP, but being totally honest, I found her quite boring in both.
<font color=blue size=7><b>It made no sense for the DAF Felix to be still working for the CIA when helping Bond in the US.</b></font>
Indeed.
In the novel, Felix is a man with connections and thus he can help Bond. But isn't the CIA supposed to keep its business in foreign territories?
I see your point, but I don't necessarily agree. As @0iker0 has pointed out, it wouldn't have made sense in Goldfinger either. And to that, I'll add Live And Let Die (in two cities, mind you). DAF has its fair share of problems, no arguments there. But I think this is truly one of the less offensive or important ones, at least compared to others. I don't believe the Bond films as a whole ever took every single element of international espionage and gave it a sacred treatment. It's just part of the style.
"That's a nice way to handle the CIA @DarthDimi."
:P
Exactly why I originally said if it existed back then ;)
I gottha be careful not to end up on the FBI's 10 most wanted list now...
#:-S
<font color=blue size=7><b>The fact that Bond isn't monogamous in most films is part of the fun and shouldn't be taken too seriously.</b></font>
Sure he's had one or two serious relationships (Tracy and Vesper), but most of the time Bond is just shagging a different girl every film without really getting attatched to them, and that's fine.
Cmon, we all wish we got laid as much as Bond :D And we all wish we had his power of immunity to STDs too.
Thesis 160: Of course! That's one of the main features that defines the character of Bond! Agree.
Fully agree with this thesis! We all know how Bond works and seeing as they have now been going 50 years? I do not think it bothers too many people? Besides? It is escapism movie making afterall!