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Absolutely.
Brossa doesn't come anywhere near Fleming's Bond, in my humble opinion.
The smugness alone rules him out!
He wasn't as close to Fleming's Bond as Dalton, granted.
But I do think there were some Fleming elements on him. A highly trained 00 agent feeling the strain of his profession, reflecting on his job (and the upcoming confrontation with a former friend), sitting on a Caribbean beach. This moment has always reminded me to the beginning of Goldfinger (book) where he reflects on killing the capungo.
That's debatable. Personally I much prefer Brosnan to Craig, so each to their own.
CR with Brosnan would have been really interesting, IMO. It's a shame he never got a story like CR to work with.
Mmmmmmm... Eva Green.
True...but who's the waiter in front of her?
That said, I wasn't missing him by CR.
Bar that opening sequence, the rookie agent angle really should've been dropped. They could have easily intimated it took place a while back, to help establish him at his beginnings but not his very start. That part has always bugged me as well.
Interesting idea, though.
I think that was pretty much EON's mindset. They acquired the rights to the novel in 1999 but seemed to have no intention of making it with Brosnan, as he confirmed he no longer had the role months before it was officially announced that Bond 21 would be CASINO ROYALE.
But it is telling that they held back on making CR when Brosnan had been abundantly clear that he wanted to take the films in a darker and grittier route. TWINE was certainly an attempt to give him his own OHMSS, but that lost its way in the insistence on formula instead of honoring the 1969 film.
As it is, it’s my least favorite Bond film, with Brosnan giving his worst performance, which I pin on the director because nobody is particularly great in it. What could have been a pretty amazing scene with the confrontation between Bond and Elektra feels like a bad soap opera.
And don't think I didn't try. ;)
The only thing I know for sure is that Pierce stated that he would have loved to do final one in the style of CR.
I think TWINE is his best performance as Bond.
Oh yes, it's my second favourite Brosnan performance. He's great in the early scenes, unshaven. The least problematic "un"word that can be used to describe DAD. ;-)
And who would've thought that Rosamund Pike would turn out to be such a brilliant actress?
There also would have been a sense of repetition with Brosnan Bond being fooled by a female double agent, given the same thing had happened in DAD only without the love story angle. Come to think of it, it would have been the third time a Bond girl betrayed him in a row.