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Which might have been okay if he'd planned to use that gun, to blow up the moon or shoot down the space shuttle or something (I know there weren't shuttles then, but you know), but it's a pointless gun with no purpose and nothing to shoot at, and it turns out he wants to get out of the assassination business anyway and get into franchised power plants, which is a bit dull. He's not trying to destroy the world, he's a businessman looking to exploit a perfectly legal project which he has legitimately invested in (admittedly he murdered his business partner which makes him quite a git, but it's not really any of Bond's business). As evil plans go, it's not quite evil enough.[/quote]
Brilliant !
(At the traditional meal between Bond and the enemy, so brilliantly skewered in Kingsmen)
"You see, Mr. Bond, I tire of all the killing. I've got plenty of money. I find that I can generate a greater return on my funds were I to simply invest in a grouping -- and it need be so many, it turns out ! -- of fast food franchises ! Rather than making a million for each assassination, I can make that much and more, and bring in more of those millions in, say, a year, than by assassinating people." Pauses..."Of course, I'm not giving up on being Eeee-vil. You see, by serving fast food to the masses, I will kill far more people than I ever could using my handy golden gun."
He's basically Zorin if Zorin hadn't planned to blow up Silicon Valley and just keep selling microchips. He's just a man doing business. At least Mr Big was selling drugs, which do harm! :)
The jumping-on-the-bandwagon continued from LALD and was disappointing for a Bond movie, again. And what did the martial arts insertion in the film lead to ? Bond's surprisingly -- umm, ridiculously -- capable fighting companions and the local agent LEAVING him behind !!! That was not funny, and it made NO sense. After the one-two of LALD and TMWTGG it was painfully obvious that Bond was on the ropes. TSWLM was formulaic, yes, but followed a BOND formula, not jumping on someone else's bandwagon. And it was BIG. When that one came out -- even before, because the posters not only said so, but showed it -- BOND was BACK !
It's the one Bond film I'd like to see remade, because there are the beginnings of so many good ideas in there, but they don't go anywhere.
The thing that people tend to forget about his plan is that he intends to sell the giant sun gun as well and as Bond says that's trouble. That could obviously be very dangerous in the wrong hands. I do agree that he's one of the less evil Bond villains though, by comparison with the others.
Not much of an evil scheme though. Goldfinger already had one of those ten years earlier! :)
That's a point. Somehow I'd forgotten about that! I think there were slight differences between the two lasers though. A continuous beam in GF and a kind of "fire and forget" beam in TMWTGG suggesting it was more economical and targeted than the one in GF. It is much the same technology though, I grant you.
That's pretty good! I agree with @mtm that TMWTGG is the most remakeable of the movies. But as is, I still love it, and think that it's a contender for best Bond film up until the sumo wrestlers show up...
Something like that, yeah (you actually make it sound a bit like Shatterhand’s castle which is cool) but he needed to be poised to do one big hit which would plunge the world into chaos or something.
That's a good sounding plot and certainly a lot better than the then topical Solex Agitator energy crisis plot that ended up getting married to the most dangerous assassin in the world plot in the film. In the literary sphere one novel that comes to mind that could work with this type of plot is John Gardner's Never Send Flowers (1993) where the villain kills famous people with the same level of senseless and irrational madness and wantonness as Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his Garden of Death in the novel of You Only Live Twice (1964). Basically just killing and allowing others to kill themselves en masse just because they're good at it and just because they can seemingly in the service of pure evil. So maybe that novel could be adapted as a kind of The Man with the Golden Gun II. It even has an animatronic theatre museum that could have been inspired by the funhouse in the film version of TMWTGG.
I concur!
What, he's even better than Ringo Starr? 😲
Don't know, but he's a better narrator of Thomas than he was a James Bond.
A damning indictment of the Brosnan Bond. He is my least favourite Bond though so that's OK.
Lazenby can act, it just wasn't as refined as the other 5.
Brosnan can act but Lazenby has to be given an allowance as it was his first acting role and it's widely agreed to be the best Bond film in the series.
I’m American, so I’m biased towards George Carlin being my favorite narrator. It was so against his type. He was so proud of it.
Brosnan can act but Lazenby has to be given an allowance as it was his first acting role and it's widely agreed to be the best Bond film in the series. It is my favourite as I feel it's the closest adaptation of a Fleming novel we've seen thus far and they've of filmmaking and storytelling was of a consistently very high standard.
Whether it’s his first film or not is irrelevant. The performance we got is the performance we got, and it’s pretty wooden compared to the other five actors. And the film IS great, but that’s in spite of Lazenby, not because of him. I credit Peter Hunt for how solid OHMSS is.
My controversial opinions about the OHMSS to LALD time period:
1)Only Moore could have been maybe, maybe, MAYBE accepted as Connery's successor for OHMSS.
2)Only Connery could have sold DAF. Put any other actor and the franchise would have ended then and there.
3)Only Moore could succeed to Sean Connery.
And here's another one:
4)Dalton's tenure was doomed from the start.