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Yes, but the film made it better than the book (the OHMSS romance in the book didn't worked), the film improved upon it, the film made the impossible, possible of the believability of Bond and Tracy relationship, through developing Bond and Tracy's love story, by lending more time to have each other which the book failed to provide.
I agree, I'm actually tired of these OHMSS arguments and it's been going on for years, those are the same old complaints, for a Bond film, It's the best love story that we have.
Aye, the book was fairly terrible. Even the final assault on Blofeld's lair was told in passing.
Not the first, nor the last, occasion in which the film sorted out Fleming's mess.
I mean I think her reaction to be called by SMERSH shows her complete lack of composure in the spy-game. She questions all her jokes, and nearly throws a spoon out of a window and then panicked decides to see her fate. Fleming says she's just in the English translation department. Klebb thinks lowly of her, as a "silly chit of a girl." And the plan was to kill her, so clearly they didn't really think much of her anyway. Bond says she doesn't seem much like a Russian spy and is too gay to be anything like an operative
A large motivation of hers is fear as well. Her lovers and family are threatened if she doesn't go through instructions. She thinks if she confesses anything to Bond she'll be thrown off the train and she'll lose both Bond and be punished by Moscow. Instead if she complies she naively thinks she'll get the best of both worlds: Bond will love her and they'll in England together and she'll be able to be a spy. She doesn't think her betrayal of Bond is particularly important and states that she won't think he'll care.
I think that's probably the one thing Bianchi nailed the most, a beautiful innocence opposite Bond.
The movie doesn't sink but it doesn't exactly help. There are many flaws in other films that I am willing to forgive before this one.
I'd rather "be bored" by TB than watch Lazenby dubbed. ;)
Ah, fair enough, chief
Your opinion, but put in my mind that Lazenby was not the only actor in the series to be dubbed, and again, fairly reasonable if he's under a disguise of someone else, in this case, Sir Hillary Bray, he went through extensive training and research to copy Bray to make himself unrecognizable that in return, nearly succeeded, when Blofeld didn't recognized him.
But it's your perspective and opinion, after all, the way we look at these films were subjective.
Thank you for further explanation 😊.
I always did think a better film for Lazenby would have been LALD. It’s essentially a chase movie, and would have benefitted his physicality more than OHMSS.
Maybe, but I did recently watch LALD quite soon after OHMSS, and it really is striking just how much better Roger is when you put them alongside each other. In fact, I'd actually say that Lazenby would fare worse in LALD because it's quite small and Bond feels even more front and centre of it to me.
Watching this scene in his hotel room with Rosie I was struck by just how much Roger is doing: he's being playful and half winking at the camera, he's being suspicious, he's being a spy, we're laughing with him at times, he's the butt of the joke at other times too. I just imagine George's rather disconnected, charisma-free presence in this and the whole thing dies.