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Better? ;)
So much promise but Sam Mendes and his Henchmen screw it up with stupid mistakes everyone whose seen it , especially bond fans, knows about already.
Acting-wise Scorrupco blows her out of the water in GE.
Not a very sexy face
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Funnily enough the one person in the supporting cast I'm less sure about now is Mr. Bean.
So beautiful. Love the look of European women.
On the Bond Girl spectrum, she's on the dull side.
I think Bean is very good as Trevelyan, but the sloppy way he is written just doesn't make sense. Bean simply isn't old enough to have been around during WW2, even being of an age where he wouldn't remember it. Likely a hold over from the older written Trevelyan,, but someone should have picked up on that before filming.
I like Bean sometimes in the film (he's at his best in the graveyard scene where you really feel his hatred towards Bond), but I think he overplays things a bit occasionally (watch the weird movements he does with his mouth).
"Good for Bond, bad for you"
The great thing about Scorupco in GE is that they went out of their way to make her look Plain Jane, and yet her natural beauty just shone through (to me anyway). Quite the opposite from Halle, who was basically going out of her way to showcase her beauty on screen (which is formidable too no doubt).
We have Campbell to thanks for this. He did it again in 2006 with Eva and Caterina, just as he had 11 years earlier with Izabela and Famke.
Yes she is. A Polish woman I used to work with told me how excited local people were in 1995 that "one of their own" was in a Bond film.
Scorrupco and Janssen 20 years after GE:
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Eva Green and Caterina Murino 10 years after CR:
I could have done without the tiresome speech on the beach. That's probably Babs though.
Pity all those action scenes are ruined by horrible editing.The film was just trying too hard to be Bourne.
Yeah that wasnt bad but the editing at the start of the fight/chase as Mitchell kills the agents is absolutley atrocious editing.its almost impossible to make out what just happened.Also the editing at the start of the PTS is very bad,barely any shot lasts more than one second.I also could not understand what happened during the end of the boat chase first time i watched it.
Am not a big fan of the opening car chase. As I've said before, the way its cut feels like a trailer or high-budget television ad rather than a proper chase sequence.
The hand-to-hand fight with Mitchell as well as the fight with Slate are the examples where it works best.
The boat chase is the worst example. Horribly over-edited and subsequently not exciting..
I agree with you on Natalya. She is by far and a way the best leading lady of the Brosnan era. As far as a character goes she is important to the plot - by actually impacting on it in a significant way (you'd be surprised at how few of the leading ladies do.) She is smart, determined, resourceful and principled.
The last couple of times I watched GE I was actually impressed with her and I think Scorpucco is underrated as an actress. She's no oscar winner, but she's believable and her performance isn't as self-consciously affected as many of the established actresses of this era like Hatcher, Richards or Berry. Natalya's introduction scene is one of the few times a leading lady gets a significant scene away from bond.
But Melina Havelock is a good comparison because both the FYEO and GE scenes are massacres that start by showing a life for these women away from Bond and provides motivation and dedication for them due to the events they depict. And it shows these events rather than just tells us about them (like in the case of Stacey Sutton, Camille or Madeline). These are scenes that aren't arbitrary either - they have to do with the plot that involves Bond - but he's just not on screen and it gives someone else a chance to shine.
I'm MajorDSmythe, and I approve of this post. :-bd
2 excellent choices! I'm finishing up TLD now and watched TND recently. I should have paired them!