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These days may be. TV is a lot better now than it used to be.
Still not totally sure tho. Look at John Hamm in Mad Men - excellent. But in everything else he's rather forgetable. I suppose that's casting as much as medium, but I don't think everyone can make the transition.
Btw, I'm not saying Brosnan can't do big screen - just that as Bond, particualrly in GE, I don't feel he was right. After that he became more sure of himself, but that just came across as cocky.
Agreed.
What about drinking on the plane thinking about Vesper in QoS? Or the crying at M's death in SF? I agree that Dalton is underated though.
Daniel's Bond is the most vulnerable....E.g.
Whatever is left of me - whatever is left of me - whatever I am - I'm yours. This is the real Bond.
Vesper Lynd: You love me?
James Bond: Enough to travel the world with you until one of us has to take an honest job... which I think is going to have to be you, because I have no idea what an honest job is.
This is the real Bond.
Vesper Lynd: You can switch off so easily, can't you? It doesn't bother you? Killing those people?
James Bond: Well I wouldn't be very good at my job if it did.
This is an act and suppressing emotion.
Well Dalton's filmography seems to suggest that he's better fitted to the small screen than the big. It's mainly appearances in television shows and TV films. That's not exactly a bad thing but he's not really made much of an impact cinematically. I think it's fair to say that he doesn't have the reputation of some of his contemporaries.
As has previously been said, most of the top actors can switch between the two.
Broz is essentially a lightweight B-movie actor. That I agree with. But his looks and charisma have obviously helped propel him into larger leading roles - or at least they did in the 90s/2000s (now he seems to be going back to B-movie territory bar the odd more interesting role). To be fair he's probably pushed for a lot of that himself, but surely you wouldn't get to that level if others didn't see something in you.
Also, another little thing: I remember when Brozza's step-daughter sadly passed away. I remember that story made the news headlines. Unfortunately, I very much doubt that, had Dalton experienced such a sad event, it wouldn't be as "big" in terms of news.
Re Brosnan, Getafix mentions the word cocky, I would class him as smarmy (that opening scene of GE in the car race!), definitely not a trait i would assosciate with 007! He got worse as the films went on, culminating in the abominable DAD!
Spot on...Brosnan has a much bigger reputation and influence in the film world...especially thanks to films like The Matador,Tailor of Panama,The Ghost,Seraphim Falls,The Thomas Crown Affair etc.
Not a bad run of films for a B-Actor .
(Which he isn't,Brosnan is an A-movie actor IMO)
I agree here too.
I quite agree again.
Agreed!
In his young days Dalton was already working with some of the best around, even the almighty Ms. Kate Hepburn, and he could hold his own with great power. He was a respected colleague and was a lad working amongst the gods and goddesses of his art form.
I get into this with people all the time, but acting on the stage seems to be utterly dismissed in favor of film work, which is a crying shame. Stage is a far more challenging and demanding thing for an actor, as they put everything out there and there's no chance to go back and do another take. The art lives and dies in that moment, and that art's quality rests on the shoulders of the actors moment to moment. Movies can edit things to look better and choose the one cut of one hundred where an actor doesn't look like an idiot, but on the stage you only have that one shot and screw-ups mean something. And when a film comes out, you can buy it and watch it two hundred times in a row if you want, and enjoy it. With stage performance, you get one shot to see an actor work and that's it, as the next night the mood could be completely different. Film never changes, stage work must always change by its very nature.
That world is Dalton's arena, and it shows. He knows how to play to an audience, but I think part of the problem for some people is that on a movie set that audience became the camera (there was nothing else for him to look at, really), leading to the belief that he was really over-performing because he was addressing us behind the screen in moments. There's those instances, yes, but Dalton's stage tendencies trained him from early on to really emote with power and draw eyes in a very visceral way, and I feel so much of that when I watch him in Bond.
Brosnan gets a big benefit as a "star" because he's more movie friendly and that's largely all people care about. People want to go out and see a movie, then be able to see that same movie when it releases digitally and on the disc. Dalton's finest work is work many or even most of us have never seen, because we haven't gone to the stage and watched him act. The same could be said for Daniel, whose stage work in the past few years, including the most recent Othello, has been acclaimed across the board.
Brosnan does okay to great work, and we see it all. Dalton does okay to great work that we see, and rousing things we never will.
A very strange comment. The reason that was such a big thing is because Brosnan's daughter died from the same inherited condition her mother had also died of. It was less a case of just one sad and random loss and more a tragic continuation of an illness that carried across family genes and that had long been signaled to be a risk, which is all the more tragic considering the two beautiful lives it silenced.
I was just trying to point out in my last comment that even now the media seems more interested in a story* featuring Brosnan than a story featuring Dalton. The same thing happened when Broz was caught with a knife in his luggage at the airport.
*obviously a death is more than a "story" but not in the eyes of the press.
But you're right, Dalton would be the less featured Bond media-wise, and he's not in the habit of making himself a public fixture either, which makes him feel all the more private. Dan's a very private person too, but I think the media get their jollies off making him a public thing. The great thing about Dan is he can dish out double what he takes, to amusing effect.
Or...he just values his privacy.
Never more than in The Greatest! :D But I don't care, love Brosnan! And Dalton!
Yeah I've seen The Greatest. Dodgy acting in that clip there from Pierce indeed. You can see him trying to cry.
I didn't really buy into Dalton's performance in TLD, other than a few fleeting moments (bursting the balloon after Saunders death, getting ready to shoot the sniper), but in LTK he really nails the Fleming character, far more than any actor before or since.
Sometimes Craig gets close to the Fleming Bond, but this is more down to the script itself, rather than Craig actively pursuing the Fleming Bond. Dalton became obsessive about it, wanting his hair and eyebrows to match the literary description as much as possible, and throughout LTK this is entirely obvious in his performance. Even his wardrobe matches closer to the literary character.
As for SF, to me it doesn't really resemble anything from Fleming the way LTK does. The closest Craig has got to Fleming is the second half of CR.
:))
No, that Dracula hairstyle in the casino scene really didn't suit Dalton, did it. I did think his hair throughout the rest of the film looked pretty much spot on though (thick comma over the right eyebrow).
There's also the scene when he's with Lupe in the casino and he dramatically orders her to "take me to him". That's a moment that's bugged me for a while as it feels over-played with the pause and quick movement.