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On the other, I really enjoy Lazenby in the film. I like how his overconfident, chipper Bond at the beginning contrasts with the wreck at the end of the story.
Connery's Bond always had a certain detachment even when he was scared for his life, whereas Lazenby really seemed at the end of his rope escaping Piz Gloria. Not that the former is bad. But I think the second approach works better for OHMSS.
Would they have cast Diana Rigg opposite Sean? In all likelihood not, which would be a tragedy in itself.
It’s very possible she still would have been cast. After all, Honor Blackman was cast.
Just because some of the previous Connery films had beauty pageant winners cast as leading women doesn’t mean Peter Hunt would have done that again, especially for casting Tracy Bond.
Agreed, and no, just no. I just don't liked her (Bardot) for the role or in any of the Bond girl roles.
Diana Rigg is one of the reasons why Tracy became one of my favorite Bond Girls, she truly owned the role, improved the character on the source material by her great performance. Brought charm, inner fire, warmth, toughness and sexiness into the role, she's almost a perfect Bond Girl to me!
She's irreplaceable!
As for the photos of Diana, have you seen her daughter?
Yes, and she would also make a good Moneypenny or even a Bond Girl.
Rachael Stirling
I think I read somewhere that Connery said that he had tired of the gadgets and how Bond had turned into Superman by the time of YOLT, but that he would have liked to have done OHMSS when he saw how it turned out
I think a slightly ageing slightly disillusioned Connery could have chimed well with the slightly ageing slightly disillusioned Bond character in OHMSS. And it would have delivered a great character arch for Connery Bond to have resigned and got married, in an era before character arcs had been invented.
A slightly different film perhaps, but could have been magnificent - Connery’s best
That being said, if they could stick the book as much as possible, Connery would have been far better than Lazenby, and it would have been an even better movie than it already is. It's odd how people don't think he could have pulled off the final scene as well as Lazenby, as if Connery didn't have a ton of great dramatic performances to his name like The Hill and The Untouchables.
That's all, folks!
I wouldn't lose Rigg over Connery being cast in this one.
Both Bardot and Deneuve, don't really liked them for this role, same for, like Angelina Jolie or Charlize Theron for the Vesper Lynd role.
Diana Rigg really perfected it.
And I think Lazenby worked because not only the vulnerability, but the naivety and raw performance that he gave, it really matched the film's tone.
Connery was all about swagger and confidence, something that wouldn't fit into this film.
As for Bond and Blofeld recognising each other, didn’t the book say that Blofeld had had plastic surgery? And, of course, Bond had a cunning disguise of glasses and a funny accent.
Not forgetting Bond’s previous disguise as a a Japanese fisherman the last time they met
Although as @MI6HQ said I wouldn't want to lose Diana Rigg because she is Mrs Tracy Bond
Yep, agreed. Although I'd also happily take a Roger version too, and I think I might even prefer that.
Agreed about Roger, and there's a higher possibility that Diana Rigg would likely to be cast too, but, again, because of some circumstances, I'm fine with Laz.
Just not Connery, just let him with Bardot in Shalako (and they have no chemistry in that one either), what I want for Connery was not returning in DAF, he should have stopped after YOLT.
Any actor with Rigg? Okay! 👍
Connery, or any other actor with a different actress? No way! ✋
I'm not sure, Moore showed us that there's a life after Connery, he wanted to be different than him, he played Bond more as a romantic guy. He could've carry it, he's the first Bond who departed himself from Connery, although Lazenby attempted it but there's still some marks of Connery in him.
My only complaint about Moore was the fight scenes, the stunts, I don't think he could've carry those fights like Lazenby did, that's why I'm still leaning on Lazenby.
Or just any other actor from the 60's.
I tend to see Connery's physical appearance in DAF as the result of grieving. He's considerably older and not as trim. The grieving would've taken place off screen so when the gunbarrel opens we are presented with a Bond out for revenge yet ready to move on from Tracy and get back to plain solid work.
Yup. They leave it to viewers to interpret how they see it.
I see it as being somewhere in the middle. I can see the connective tissue, but also acknowledge that the filmmakers were largely aiming DAF for audiences that likely skipped out OHMSS.
I know you can read things into DAF that ties it into OHMSS more, but the films are so different tonally I can't really make it fit in my head.
I guess it would have depended on the year the movie would have been made: Connery's fifth film was always meant to be helmed by Gilbert and, if OHMSS was made in '67 with him as the director, I doubt it would have been really close to the novel (I think an early draft from the mid-sixties included a submersible Aston Martin in the PTS when Bond saves Tracy). If it was made in '69 with Hunt, I think the latter would have pushed for a more faithful adaptation, and Connery could have receptive to such prospect after YOLT.
Anyway, even if I think Connery could have nailed the part in a faithful adaptation, I wouldn't want to lost Lazenby. Firstly because it pushed Eon to cast Rigg as Tracy, secondly, and maybe more importantly, because it gives a very particular flavour to this movie, something unique, that wouldn't have been possible if it was an actor's fifth or sixth instalment.