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He’s married to lovely Phoebe Cates. So, I imagine that he’s quite happy! 😊
Watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
That’s all I’m going to say.
Surprised to hear Connery was having conversations with EON about his replacement
Roger Moore once mentioned that he and George would exchange jokes by e-mail.
I'm also certain had Dalton been in GE, there would still have been a few unused Fleming scenes tossed in there for good measure too, due to Dalton's (and probably Cubby's) desire for wanting to keep it in line with the books.
I think the outcome would be quite a different film to the one we eventually got with Brosnan.
Agree. That being said though I think had we got the film we did with Dalton, I think he would've carried it quite well. Yes, they would've probably tapered back the innuendos, but I feel that the narrative of Goldeneye would've fallen straight into the wheelhouse of Dalton. I would've loved to have seen the relationship between Dalton/Bean which I believe would've been a real highlight.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Dalton and Hopkins was mooted at one point wasn't it? That would have been amazing.
Dalton looked too seasoned. Bean was at the time a very young Bond villain, against Dalton he would have appeared rather youthful and would lack a certain menace. Against a younger looking Brosnan (even though Brosnan was already in his forties at the time), he is more menacing in comparison.
Now Dalton against Hopkins would have been interesting, especially if Trevelyan had remained Bond's former mentor, as I understand he was meant to be in earlier drafts. Something that Bean could not have been with Dalton.
(That said whatever I said regarding Dalton being more menacing than Brosnan, as a fighter I always found Dalton-Bond to be extremely frustrating.)
I might be imagining this but wasn't his dad in the SAS/SOE during WW2 as well? His dad was basically a Bond type character.
I think it was an approach they took for the character at that point. Dalton was very convincing as a fighter in The Rocketeer. It was also a terrible decision detrimental to Dalton's tenure. Especially in the 80s, a time literally filled with action heroes of all sorts, all of them capable fighters. Even Daniel Larusso could hold his ground! Heck the elderly Mr Miyagi could fight a dozen men without breaking a swept.
It's not like in the character in the novels was a highly skilled bruiser anyway.
Interesting. Although John Glen was a terrific action director. I think the area where Bond had often (not always) underperformed was in the hand to hand fight sequences. Although TLD has that rather good fight with Necros in the kitchen of the safe house. Just a shame it doesn't involve Bond.
Yeah, the kitchen fight is thrilling, What about the Cargo Plane fight?....Bond & Necros were reeling, but I thought that was thrilling & suspenseful too.
I also understand the loyalty that united Broccoli to him, although it appears to have deteriorated in the late 1980s and Glen was never expected to return for a third Dalton film, but I would have preferred to see a new director for the new Bond that was Dalton, even if both The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill stand among my favorites. Ted Kotcheff would certainly have been an interesting choice for Bond 17, although not necessarily obvious at first.
Certainly preferable to how the stuntmen in AVTAK didn’t even look like Moore. It’s like they didn’t even try.
Not only a new director was needed for Dalton but it needed a younger DP. Alec Mills’ photography/lighting looks like it belongs in the 1960s. Its something that partly made Dalton’s films look antiquated compared to contemporary films.
Imagine if Jan de Bont had been the DP for LTK, it would have been GORGEOUS looking rather than cheap.
Dalton didn't exactly live up to his menace when he was going mano a mano against someone. He never seemed to truly have the upper hand. Wasn't Bond in the novel a boxing champion at uni or something of the sort? In any case an operative should be a capable fighter.