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
Of course. How this is not obvious is a riddle.
Bond got it though, cause he doesn't have a dirty mind. ;-)
I just found it disconcerting that the Moore Bond would have ever really said that to Melina. He's the Bond the Bond who dropped a man from a roof to his death (TSWLM) simply for kicks. Granted, it was a camp movie, but that's my point. FYEO was a much more serious and physical Bond movie. It require a more physical, younger and serious Bond.
I understand what you're getting at regarding a change of actor, as it was originally written for someone new to inhabit the role. However, I think Moore played it perfectly and absolutely nailed the serious moments. What he may have lacked in physical prowess, he more than made up for in other areas, in my opinion, of course.
exactly... And I would even say that some serious moments and some lighthearted moments also fit together in one film as it was the case in the Dalton films, especially in TLD. After all Bond films show escapist adventures that should take themselves seriously but not too seriously. We all know that no Bond film is by any means a realistic spy thriller. Spy work has nothing to do with the things Bond does. This is fiction and trying to make it too serious and rid of any humour or irony rather ruins it in my eyes.
It was the single most stupid plot twist in the history of Bond.
Kidding actually. The above posts regarding Lois Maxwell, and Dench's M being killed off remind me of that article in the Bond girls issue of People Magazine in 1983. Maxwell said they could send Moneypenny on assignment and have her killed. The public would weep. Interesting how back them a comment like that could be made, then by AVTAK it was back to business as usual. Now, in the post re-boot era we actually do get a main character in Bond's universe killed off.
Though I disagree with the assumption that Lois wasn't attractive in the first place. I've always found her quite lovely, inside and out. Sure, they could have recast the role as the Moore era crept on and on past its expiration date, but if Roger was still around, she sure as hell deserved to be too.
Eep...that is controversial. Of all of these, I think Samantha is by far the best actress. Naomi is supposedly amazing in her new film, Moonlight, so maybe her best Bond performance lies ahead...
That was going to happen after OP,with Miss Smallbone coming in,as that was supposed to be Sir Roger's last film.
That was merely one example. There have been many instances of Moore's Bond's comedic disregard for life throughout the 70s. And that worked fine for the 70s, thanks to Moore being a great fit for that type of Bond.
My point is though, that FYEO is really a series reboot giving us a more "serious" (relatively speaking, as we know that no Bond movie is meant to be truly serious) Bond character, one who suddenly cares about a woman experiencing the regrets of a vendetta kill. It was jarring to see Moore in that role.
Imagine seeing Connery continue in the 70s camp Bond movies. It wouldn't have worked. In fact, Connery's one camp Bond movie, DAF, did not work, and for that exact same reason. DAF too, was basically a series reboot, from the tonally balanced era of the 60s to the camp 70s. Yes, I know that the Bond movies of the 60s became increasingly camp, and that YOLT had a few really camp moments, but DAF took the series to a rebooted extreme in sillyness.
It was jarring seeing Connery play such a camp re-interpretation of Bond in such a silly movie. I hold to the belief that FYEO would have been a way better movie with Dalton in the role of Bond.
I'm not a Moore hater though. I can't imagine a better actor in the Bond role of the camp 70s era, which were perfectly fine Bond movies for a decade known for its campiness (and even tackiness), even outside the Bond universe. It's just that, for me, MR was the last movie in which Moore was a good fit, and should have been the last Bond movie with him in the role.
Of course, as a disclaimer, I'm also a huge fan of Dalton as Bond, and wish he had played the role throughout the 80s, beginning with FYEO.