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"Mr. Bond, who knew your eyes could be so cruel? Just like I can be so cruel! Oh May Day..."
"I WILL KILL HIMMMMM..."
No im talking all films. Im struggling to think of better trilogies.
I can think of quite a few to be honest. But is DN-GF a trilogy per se?
It's not a trilogy, it's a series.
I have always thought the same..i don't think Connery or Moore could have brought it off at the time the film was made.
He nailed everything else they threw at him though, so I'm willing to bet he could have done this as well. Just differently.
And the soundtrack. And Macnee with Moore, one of the better pairings in the series.
If they'd made OHMSS after GF as was originally intended I think Connery would've nailed it. Post-YOLT, no, I think Lazenby was a better bet.
Spot on....I think it was meant to be..in all of Connery's films since Bond ,whenever he dies he is the martyr,i have never seen he cradling or mourning someone else in his arms as Lazenby did per se.
I agree. And Lazenby's Bond seems genuinely afraid and vulnerable in certain scenes, in a way that I have never seen Connery be, in any film. Connery is more like Eastwood, the stoic hero.
The fear he shows at the ice rink genuinely passes to the viewer,when he is hunkered down,collar up ,and just watching feet and ice skates and trying to think what to do ,when he knows SPECTRE (at its most scary and powerful imo ,alongside TB) are surrounding him and he has to contact London somehow,is a brilliant and realistic scene of a really scared man .
The relief when he sees Tracy and the way he blurts out "it's SPECTRE,they're trying to kill me" is almost child-like.
Only Lazenby could pull that off.
One of the many reasons that OHMSS is my #1 Bond film.
Actually this might be controversial. Not only was he better than Connery ever would have been in OHMSS, I think if Lazenby had stayed on and got more comfortable in the role, and done a couple more films with Hunt, he could have actually surprassed Connery in general. To me he's the only Bond actor to really 100% capture Fleming's Bond, and he managed that in his first film when he was still just a model who managed to blag himself the role. Imagine how good he'd have been if he stayed on and worked at it and improved as an actor. He had such good screen presence. The only thing he had against him in OHMSS was that sometimes his line delivery felt a bit wooden but if he'd stayed on that definitely would've improved, and we would have got one of the best Bonds ever. Might have even rivalled Dalton.
Yeah I agree with this. Love Walken as Zorin. But Bowie as a Bond villain at some point would have been fun to see, especially opposite Moore.
But...
About hopeful Bond directors of the near future:
IS VILLENEUVE more a visionary than NOLAN?
I love Nolan and his films, from MOMENTO onwards..., but...-
I'm watching THE ARRIVAL and combined with THE ENEMY, THE PRISONER and the flipping-awesome SICARIO.... I believe, IMHO, that Villeneuve is the man to direct a Bond film-- whether DC's last, or a new actor's beginning...
Man, he almost re-made DR. NO in scenes from the ARRIVAL when the characters had to wash off potential radiation...
Denis Villeneuve for B25 or B26 with a new actor, or...
Villeneuve to send Craig away, and be the driving force behind the new Bond for B26. He's class, atmosphere and action-- better than Mendes, and, dare I say it?... Better than Nolan...
Perhaps. But better than campbell for the job of closing the Craig arc?
@peter I enjoyed Sicario and Prisoners (highly recommended) but couldn't stand Arrival personally. I haven't seen Enemy.
Somehow I don't think it will be him though. Demange and Mackenzie were rumoured much earlier in the year, so these two are more likely of the three recently mentioned.
This time out, I see them going for a financially cheaper visionary that can still deliver the goods...
Aside from that, I think there's a genuine argument to debate: Nolan or Villeneuve???
In terms of Villeneuve vs. Nolan, I think it will depend on who the next actor is, since Nolan isn't going to be involved for B25. Someone like Hiddleston, Turner or Hardy could probably work well with either.
I actually like all the Rome scenes up to the car chase, which is where SP starts to falter. There's some real atmosphere there.
I like Samantha Bond more than Harris, but I don't like the way they turned t,he character into something confused and not real likeable. One minute she's not so much flirting with Bond as an excuse to make cheap double entendres then in DAD being part of one of the worst comic moments in the series. I do like her chemistry with Judi Dench, though. Their TND byplay is enjoyable.
Still, I also don't want Moneypenny the action hero either. I'd have preferred the character stay on the sidelines.
If he wanted it and if they would have let him of course he could have pulled it off.
What to my mind makes Connery the greatest actor ever to play James Bond is the extreme range of his. Watch almost every of his 1970s movies (including the only ever tragic take on Robin Hood) or - decades later- family business when standing in front of the court explaining to the judge that he probably must have felt so afraid of the police man that he had to severely beat him up.
Problem is at this point in time he was completely fed up with James Bond. Even if EON had been wise enough to let him have a larger slice of the cake instead of just enforcing their contract, he probably would have felt better of the role but he still must have been very very much annoyed with all the hype around him. I once saw an old interview in black-and-white with him in which he relates that when he is standing at the traffic light in his car girls just jump into his car and want to come with him. He said in a very estranged tone without any trace of frivolity in it "why the hell would they do that?"
Also, last year I saw an interview with Karin Dor and she relates how he was disgusted with the press and all the other hyper around him. She said he was the most lovely and professional partner to have and he,his wife and she often made out in Tokyo together and that day and night the hotel lobby was full of Japanese girls having little overnight backs with them, waiting that James Bond came to take them up to his room. Can anyone of you imagine a scene like this nowadays?
I guess it's very hard for us to re-imagine all this hype/hysteria back at those times around Bond/Connery and it seems he was really very tired of it.