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He does look well fed for a man who's been imprisoned and tortured for 18 months.
Part of the torture was eating frozen yoghurt snacks. ;-)
Can’t say this is something I’ve ever thought about. But I suppose you’re right.
Bear in mind that this was Brosnan's fourth (and ultimately final) Bond film. With his wages I'm sure he was well fed (and watered) and good luck to him!
Seriously though, surely a certain amount of creative licence has to be allowed to the filmmakers? The Bond films have never exactly been about method acting. That was a point I already made above.
How do we know it was over a year?
Educated guess.
I thought it was three to six months.
My point exactly.
On the flipside, if he had actually looked like what someone who had been tortured and imprisoned for 18 months, there would be no film as Bond wouldn't be able to walk due to basic muscle function loss and malnutrition. Even if Brosnan starved himself for months before filming, he still wouldn't be accurate in appearance.
Far better made, in this case.
I thought it was one month or two months maximum...
I'm with @MaxCasino and @jobo. I'd like to know what went into educating this guess.
I actually prefer Brosnan's extra bulk in DAD to his leaner frame in GOLDENEYE. There are a few shots in his first outing where I feel he looks a little too thin. I think he looked his best in TND.
True. Looks wise as Bond definitely. But his performance and the tone of GE is good. His other films were pastiche, making his Bond such, taking away from him ‘looking like a great Bond’.
Of course it's all movie bullshit but still. He is really rocking that beach outfit and the sweatsuit...
True, but it kind of defeats the point of having been imprisoned and tortured for 18 months. Looking at him, it seems that all they did was keep him away from razors and cissors.
Were they cursed frozen yoghurt snacks?
Agreed. Great hair in TND, too.
Well, maybe then they should also have done away with the invisible car. The sci-fi extravaganza of DAD is another problem but it does not take away from the unbelievable nature of Bond's early predicament. Two wrongs can't make one right.
I may have miscommunicated! My point was, if you think ANY of these movies is the type of flick where an actor should emaciate himself to heighten the drama, you may not have a grip on the nature of these films.
What would make it right? The only way to fix it would be to have Bond just not be captured.
He looked great everywhere else. Poor judgment on the part of the filmmakers.
Maybe they should have GGI'd his Guinness belly away?
But in the end, this is a prime "we have thought about this not very good movie way too much"-discussion...
I'm guessing the 14 months timeframe was designed to ensure the September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001 could be factored in as happening since Bond's capture, imprisonment and torture began. I think M says to Bond, "While you were away the world changed." This was the writers' way of acknowledging all that had happened in the real world since the last Bond film was released in late 1999. The War on Terror was in full flow and in a film series such Bond it had to be acknowledged in some way in a 2002 film.
Either make it a serious "edgy" Bond film, where he does get captured and suffered from it (no need to be super realistic and turn him into Winston Smith in the Ministry of Live, just show that it had a toll on him), or go fantasy TSWLM Bond (not my favourite approach by the way) and do away with the emprisonment and torture. In other words, choose what kind of Bond you want and commit to it.