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Someone seems to agree with me :P
Really Mr Crab, I had you down as one of my favorite new members and now this atrocity
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Live and Let Die is a classic, it has all the ingredients you could ask for, danger, suspense, humor, scares, lovely women, intimidating characters, a good Bond, outstanding music, enthralling action sequences etc, how anyone can dare to berate it is a mystery, go and have another watch I say, but now time for some sleep I-)
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Its funny to say too old when he was only 43 when he did DAF and this was about the same age as TD and PB when they did their first and younger than RM when he did his first.
I think the problem with Connery in DAF was that he held the producers to ransom and decided that the only character prep and grooming he would do was to plant the 1st available toupe on his head and be as overweight as he wanted.
In NSNA 10 years later he looks much better, fit and groomed and is very good as Bond. Shame about the film :)
LALD, good, yes, classic, you must be joking. Falls way below TSWLM, FYEO and OCT even on Sir Rog list.
I think the biggest thing both LALD and TMWTGG have going for them is that Sir Rog looks so damn young and good which is the one thing he gets criticised for his last 3 films for, although I hope I look as good as he did at 57.
In fact, if you took all of his 7 films and imagined them filmed with the 1973 version of him then you would see a drastic shift in LALD popularity.
The producers were careful to sell the film on the action rather than anything else, plus Roger Moore was the most popular TV actor in the world at the time and everyone was intrigued to see him as Bond.
As such there is a generation of people who hold the film dear to their hearts despite the fact the plot has more holes than a Swiss cheese.
I wouldn't call it a classic though. I reserve that status for the first 6 films and that's it. The 70's was a whole new exciting Bond world, sprung from the 60's classics.
What?? I love LALD. I just meant that it's a stupid question. And my answer to why it's classic is 'cause it's classic. That's why I put the smiley there. LALD is one of my favourites.
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Why don't you get a life, Dimi? I just said I think it's a classic.
Sorry for the dubble post.
Mod edit: double post fixed.
so what Broccoli did was something pretty unique to major film scene, and that was cast the majority of the cast with black actors and actresses - it helped shine the spotlight on a lot of talents that might not have gotten the same breaks otherwise, or not as soon.. The fact that the role many of them played as being "stereotypical" is only stereotypical by today's standards... for a black actor to get such a prominent role as a villain - was not widely done... most black actors were kept to very few speaking roles, and if they were on screen, many of them played butlers, sidekick, servants, or your typical hood rat, or the like.... i can't think of too many major hollywood films from that time period or before, where a black actor was given a role with clout and power, and menace - and yet have the sophistication and class that Kananga had.... it was extremely rare to do.... he wasn't the typical "ghetto thug".. while yes, he was a criminal - he was also a dignitary and intelligent..
Yaphet Kotto speaks greatly of Cubby, and what he did to help his career as a black actor at the time..
beyond it's cultural impact - for me, LALD is a great Bond film... it has a good balance of humor and action... Moore in his debut proves the role isn't too much for him to handle, and he settles in nicely (though his true greatness comes out 2 films later)..
Yaphet Kotto is superb as Kananga.. i tend to love villains who possess both charm and menace - which Kananga has without question..
Martin provides one of the best Bond scores that wasn't conducted by a man named Barry... it has a great rock/funk/groove feel to it - and it's a great soundtrack to thrown in while on a road trip during the summer..
Also, as others have pointed out, its seems aims at a slightly more mature audience than the other Moore missions.
Its unfortunately extremely slow until you get to Bond and Solitaire on the train. However, I do wish the film had been a stricter interpretation, because once it gets good, it gets really good.
Thread title: How did LALD became so " Classic" ?
Your post: Because it is a classic!
Okay, elaborate then and add arguments. Also, the added emoticon is not the best tool to convince people you're being very serious... No hard feelings though.
But the main point is the bizarreness of the story. A two-bit dictator turning out to be a hughe criminal, using the occult as cover (and believing it himself). We are first lead to believe it actualy works (solitaire telling of Bonds' arrival) but then it's he himself who mocks it and she's wrong. It's this tension that makes it a classic.
I'll be sure to do a write up on it, when I next view it but for me along with For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy, these three Moore films get a big thumbs up and are three of my favourites from the series and that's from someone who prefers every other Bond actor to Moore bar Brosnan! I blame the films though, not him.
1. Roger is in his prime and looked so good. (he was 45 but looked 35)
2. Jane Seymour was hot and a great Bond girl.
3. The film is sooo 70's. Blaxplotation...it is unique
4. Finally the villians are so much fun to watch. Kanaga/Mr.Big and his gallery of rogues were a fun bunch. Tee Hee, Whisper, Adam and Baron Samedi. Not until LTK did we see such care and attention paid to casting the bad guys.