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
--
Fascinating scenario. I can imagine this happens these days with rock stars and the like (perhaps that punk Beiber too), but probably not with too many actors.
(I'm also just realizing that during the Brosnan years Llewelyn never had a scene with anyone outside of Brosnan/Cleese, which is a shame. Would've been nice for a scene where Dench tells MP to send in the Quartermaster.)
Agreed. That goes for the whole MI6 gang for me.
I also think he would have done it well if asked and willing to do it. My controversial opinion: Sean Connery at the time could have been the only one able to sell to the public Bond falling in love and getting married. Moore was a convincing grieving widower but only accepted in the role.
Personally, I think any of Craig, Moore, Connery or Dalton could have pulled it off just as well as Lazenby. I shudder to think of Brosnan grieving behind the wheel of the Aston (overacting galore most likely) based on his attempts at emotion in TWINE.
You obviously haven't seen this guy's attempt at grief...
Brosnan would do fine with showing emotion subtly. He has done it enough in his Bond films.
http://i.imgur.com/qUoXrMa.jpg
+1
"Are we there yet? I really need ro go!"
Brosnan had a wide range of acting in his Bond films. Craig has about five different facial expressions, his favourite being looking exhausted from running/fighting/climbing...so I guess Brosnan's acting skills look like overacting to some.
I agree with @bondjames, the man was overwrought in his emotional scenes, and personally, I don't think he had that type of range-- as has been seen in some of his other films as well.
I would have liked to see Brozzer play Bond more closer to the role he had in THE FOURTH PROTOCOL. The man was ice in that. He was deadly. Unfortunately, I didn't get this same sense when he played Bond. I didn't find him physically threatening, or deadly. I hated the way he threw a punch.
I mean, I liked PB enough, but not enough to return to his films over and over (in fact, I find his era the toughest to watch outside of GE).
But in the end, it's just my opinion and it means nothing other than that. You love the Brozzer, and all the more power to you.
And if you think DC's coming back just for money, then, once again, your opinion. However, i think we got a hint of the man's motivations when he said to Colbert he wanted to go out on a high-- which would indicate he knows SP wasn't that film (or, I'd bet my house, and I don't bet, he would have retired after that film). Now, whether he's successful in doing this, we will have to wait for the film. But I think it's safe to assume he has more money in the bank than he knows what to do with.
Everything people here claim Craig does better, Brosnan has done at least as good, maybe not that often as Craig, as Brosnan's Bond was clearly portrayed differently which was the producers good judgment.
As for deadly, well Brosnan had at least half a dozen ice cold deadly kills in his four films.
I don't buy the "wasn't deadly enough" argument at all. Also physically neither Dalton or Moore were very threatening. Craig is way too physical in his films, a little less would have done him favours. But that's the producers's decisions.
To me it's similar to the Hinx fight, and even that felt more "real"... But again, my opinion.
And, actually, revisiting Moore's films recently, the man was a big boy, and physically I liked his work in his first two efforts.
Dalton was more intimidating to me than PB-- he looked like a cruel SOB and would tear your throat out if he had to (although his fight in the LTK bar was pathetic).
You don't have to "buy" anything I say. It's my opinion. And it's my opinion that PB wasn't a physical threat-- he was an actor acting tough.
Like I said, he was far more realistic in TFP-- watch that and you'll see what I mean. Or maybe you won't. After all, opinions...
We all have our favourites, and we all have our least favourites, but to think of some of the actors that could have played the role, I think we should all be quite thankful that we've got, who we've got!
It goes back to what @peter was saying about him not seeming tough enough, and so when one threw emotion on top of that it just appeared a bit wimpy to me. I think it's a combination of factors that gave me this impression. Part of it was his frame, which at the time was a bit slight & thin shouldered despite his height (it was apparent in GE when he threw that chap down the stairs aboard the Manticore and again when he fenced with Graves in DAD). Part of it was his voice and part of it was his acting which seemed uncomfortably exaggerated to me in those particular instances. One must never feel as though one would personally handle an emotional situation in a more composed fashion than a Bond actor, and on too many an occasion during his tenure, that was the impression I was unfortunately left with.
I didn't find him credible in the running scenes either. The same goes for Moore of course.
I found him to be quite effective in some of the gun kill scenes though (Ouromov kill, Kaufmann kill etc.). I also found him to be pretty suave, more credible with the ladies than Craig, and generally a much more accessible and 'cooler' cinematic Bond.
Ultimately they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Only Connery was near perfect imho.
my posts are aimed at the forum in general and not you personally of course, I respect your opinion actually.