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Then we can discuss the quality management of EON?
then i suppose someone will make a James Bond Fan Edit and use footage of him
from November Man....
Same here. I love how much work she is getting now, and starring next to leading man after leading man. Where do you go next after acting beside Daniel Craig, Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck and Pierce Brosnan? The sky is the limit.
I am super excited for this film as well, ever since I first heard about it. Pierce has the aged spy look down and I think will be cool as all hell in this film. One of the shooting locations is Serbia, and I can't wait to see how spy intrigue happen there, the perfect spot to shoot a spy film!
Other than the regrets of 2008, it's been mostly much improved since 2002 and I think they've realized some of their past errors. A better and apparently more popular actor, better scripts, perhaps Pierce can come up with an original characterization this time around ;)
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I certainly hope he can come up with more than a Bond caricature >:)
I think Pierce will impress everyone. I believe he will do better when the chains are off and he doesn't have to worry about playing such an iconic character this time around and will be without all the pressure he had during his 007 tenure.
GE could either make or break the series, he'd been the publics top choice in America (and wherever else Remington Steele was popular) since pre TLD, and people had got their expectations for his Bond really high.
Makes it even more impressive that he managed to pull it off and give be a great Bond really (and a very popular one too).
In the pressure category I have to give it to Lazenby.
Hmm...I think I'd give the edge to Brosnan. Unlike Laz so many people knew who Brosnan was and had already made up their minds that he would be great...so Broz had to live up to that. The pressure was on HIM rather than "the actor who followed Connery".
To be honest I don't get the feeling Laz was bright enough (back then I mean) to be too worried about pressure. He just thought about when he'd get his next shag.
I think Brosnan and Craig probably had more pressure to deliver and ensure the survival of the series than Laz did. If the series had stalled after their debut's there was no going back to their predecessors.
Craig, too, but it was not as heavy on his shoulders as Brosnan when he stepped into Bond's shoes. tux.
Agreed, Craig wasn't as self-conscious as Brosnan. With Dan you get the sense it was like "I'll give it my all and if the people don't like it then I can do something else". With Brosnan (at least in GE - less so in TND) you get the feeling that the pressure was on for him.
That's not to say that Brosnan didn't have some excellent moments in GE though but you could just tell he was anxious to deliver.
The premise of the movie: an oddball comedy about a businessman and a hitman having to team up; could have been a very tired, tested and formulaic affair. However, Richard Shepard really created something very new, exciting and most of all fun with The Matador.
The film isn't quite the straight-faced Coen brothers brand of black comedy, and nor is it the out-and-out Will Ferrell type laugher, instead the film exists between the two and what we get is a rather interesting dark-comedic character study.
The movie is really about the friendship between these two men, who on the surface are very different but actually beneath are relatively similar. Both are lost, but while one is looking for a confidant the other is looking for an escape and a bit of excitement. Kinnear does hold his own but it's Brosnan who runs away with the film. His Julian Noble is a gift of character, and not for the obvious 'shedding the Bond image' reasons, but because Julian Noble really walks into the film fully-formed and is never apologetic for who is he and never at any point feels a need to justify himself.
I truly forget I was watching Pierce at times and only in occasional turns of phrase or looks to camera was I reminded 'shit, thats James Bond!' Brosnan transforms for the role, ditching his suave ladykiller persona and instead adopts the brass, sleazy persona of Julian (a perfect image to summarise this comes when Julian plays the bongos on a hooker's arse as she walks up some stairs). So lets forget all that talk of how Brosnan is deliberately stepping out of his Bond character, because at the end of the day the guy's an actor and it's his job to make you believe and invest in a host of different characters. And its this that Brosnan does so damn well with Noble.
The movie is fundamentally a character study, as we explore A hitman past his prime and slowly loosing his edge. Furthermore, the guy is having a massive existential crisis as well as having a nervous breakdowns and panic attacks everytime he's on a job. Not a good trait for a professional assassin. Brosnan plays the lightness of the role, he can handle the sleazy uncouth nature of the man (cracking a penis joke when Kinnear tells him about his dead son), but he can also brings a real pain to the guy, the moment he tells Danny that he is his only friend is genuinely affecting and Brosnan's final meltdown is rather harrowing stuff.
It's a great movie, its a rare thing to think once the end credits roll that you could have happily sat through more of this, but it's how I felt. I hope they can do something more with The Matador, if not a sequel maybe a TV series or something. Richard Shepard write a hell of script and Brosnan is show-stealing good in it.
Super hilarious; well done, Pierce. :))
What a bastard Pierce was...
What mostly unknown history was depicted.
Thumbs up!
Happy three score birthday, sir!
Also the fact that CR was an origin story gave DC the chance to play the role in a different way that avoided comparisons.
With Pierce they didn't try to reinvent the wheel, he played it in a very recognised way and people lapped it up.
@Murdock : waiting for his return to the spy genre too ! ...with worldwide success I hope so.
Craig and Lazenby had far more pressure then Brozzer did. Pierce probably had the least pressure of all the Bonds because he was seen as the king in waiting.
Thats probably why his performance was so lacklustre.