It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
^ Back to Top
The MI6 Community is unofficial and in no way associated or linked with EON Productions, MGM, Sony Pictures, Activision or Ian Fleming Publications. Any views expressed on this website are of the individual members and do not necessarily reflect those of the Community owners. Any video or images displayed in topics on MI6 Community are embedded by users from third party sites and as such MI6 Community and its owners take no responsibility for this material.
James Bond News • James Bond Articles • James Bond Magazine
Comments
Oxygen made on Mars.
Welcome back!
I know you don't need to hear sanctimonious bullshit, but I always try to keep spaces like this a positive distraction instead of a suffocating burden. So I think stepping back can sometimes be freeing and I hope you can find the fun in participating again.
can almost overpower us.
Why don t you finish it now? Sure @Creasy47 would be delighted and that he isn t sore or anything. Creasy is one of the good guys.
And great to see you back. I wondered what happened.
I think you mean @StirredNotShaken ;)
Welcome back, StirredNotShaken !!
Apologies, that's who I meant. I've amended my post above. He's been away for so long I've clearly forgotten how his name goes! :D
Dikko made the same mistake, so no shame in it.
Yes, I was going to reference that in my reply but couldn't think of anything clever enough!
I have to say, having just watched the two in pretty rapid succession, I stand even firmer by my opinion that Charles Gray is incredible in YOLT, and abysmally miscast in DAF. It's not even that his performance in DAF is "bad", it's more just... Blofeld? Really? THAT'S supposed to be Blofeld?
Agreed! Henderson was a nice, small role to play and he was great! As Blofeld, especially after Savalas' performance.. @-)
It is amazing that you two agree. I was sure you would feel the opposite.
It's like a yin and yang of the drinks world! :)
thought part of the problem with DAF has to lie with the director Guy
Hamilton. As everyone seems to be playing it as a light comedy, so I'm
guessing they'd been instructed to play it that way. Charles Gray could
play a very menacing villain The Devil rides Out is a clear example.
Yes, and that was exactly what Guy Hamilton said to the actors on TMWTGG such as Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. He told them to play it "lightly, lightly", to have fun with it and not take it too seriously. No doubt he told the actors on DAF the same thing. Like yourself I feel that was a big mistake on Hamilton's part.
It's like what someone once said about Ian Fleming. He laughed at his Bond work after he'd written it ("I do write such rubbish!") but he didn't laugh while he was writing it or in the work itself. There is a difference between having fun on a film set and it carrying over into the finished film itself. Clearly the lines got blurred between the two on films like DAF and TMWTGG.
No hard feelings here, I hope I wasn't any source of further anxiety for you! There were lots of people who flaked out or stopped replying during those interviews so you certainly aren't alone and it really isn't a big deal at all, anyway. Don't feel any shame or embarrassment for it, it's just good to see you're back. Hope you've been doing well!
We've got such users as:
Thunderfinger
Thunderpussy
octofinger
We're still missing:
Goldball
Octoball
Goldpussy
Go ahead, future MI6 Community user, complete the pattern!
And the future of mankind, when you think about it. ;)
Yes, I doubled up the joke. I'm a double yolker.
Dragonpol meets Le Chiffre, you could say. ;)