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2) Pushkin hotel room scene
3) The fair with Saunders and the ballons
4) That scene with M when he takes Dalt's license to kill
5) TLD on the plane with the bomb, whole sequence was great
It's hard to do only five b/c there are so many great moments. He only did two films but man, he made it count!
1. The pseudo assassination of Pushkin, TLD. Dalton and Rhys-Davies are both amazing here. The look in Dalton eyes radiates extreme danger and for me, at that moment during that glorious opening weekend in 1987, he became the personification of the professional side of literary Bond as I understood Fleming's version to be. Up until that point I wasn't 100% convinced he was any better than Moore during his best moments in the series, at that moment he elevated his status to the best Bond actor short of Connery in the glory years 1962-1965.
2. Confrontation with M at the Hemingway House, LTK- Probably my favorite Robert Brown moment as well. Dalton Bond is ready to explode with rage and M is having none of the personal stuff as you'd expect from the boss, Bernard Lee would have handled him the same way. All this is going on amidst a lush, quiet spot in the bustling Key West, bystanders oblivious to the drama going on within. So well done.
3. Killing Sanchez, LTK- Not so much the entire sequence, which was still great, but when Dalton puts his tanker on cruise control reaching perilously towards getting on Sanchez' tanker, the action goes up another notch. A "holy shit" moment when they go off the road and you wonder how anyone could have survived that fall, only bettered when Felix and Della's gift becomes the final instrument of Sanchez' destruction. It's even more awesome when you see the uncut version of Sanchez going up in flames and fall to his knees still screaming before he and everything else short of Bond goes up in a huge fireball, finally panning towards a physically spent and bleeding Bond letting out a sigh as he realizes it's over.
4. Killing of Sharkey/Escape from Krest, LTK- From "compliments of Sharkey" to the highly original escape from Krest's men by harpooning the landing gear and water skiing his way onto the plane. Great let down moment as well at the end of the sequence when Dalton looks at all the cash he's scored and laughs.
5. Showdown with Whitaker, TLD- Tough choice between this, the cargo net fight with Necros, and the hilarious crashing of Kara's post concert celebration by Shah and his men, but I always loved this scene. Starting out with Felix helping Bond get Whitaker's man in the gardens, to machine guns and flying glass everywhere with Barry's music driving the tension even higher until a Q gadget saves Bond yet again, another well written and conceived scene.
Special mention to all of Dalton's scenes with D'Abo. Dalton wasn't much the womanizing ideal of Bond for sure, yet in our rush to praise the tough girls who are savvy to Bond's world, we often overlook the innocent civilian citizens and think them bumbling idiots based on a few. Kara has a few awkward moments, but she figures it out and manages to be tough enough to survive it all. I love how she unexpectedly and innocently falls head over heels for Bond and maintains that no matter what it going on short of Koskov deceiving her for a brief moment. TLD wouldn't be a top 5 film for me without her, we hadn't gotten such a wonderfully written romantic character since OHMSS.
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2.TLDL PTS sequence
3.Don't you want to know why …then the flames over Sanchez.
4.LTK underwater fight and catching the sea plane.
5.Interrogating Pam in Bed and pulling her gun.
Glen didn't know hot to get the best out of TD. sad.
1. standing by while Killifer is killed by the shark LTK
2. the hotel suite with Pushkin in TLD
3. Holding the knife to Lupe's throat in LTK
4. Throwing Pam on the bed and sticking the gun in her face in LTK
All these are great moments and lots of the one's on this post are great. You always knew that Dalton meant buisness and he was not one to mess around.
One of my favorite moments. Desmond was even more on his game in LTK. :))
When Bond and Milovy are in the holding cells at the air base and he whistles 'Rule Brittania' and the guards faint (albeit briefly) from the stun gas, one of them comes to, and lunges for Dalton, and (Maryam) d'Abo has this fantastic expression on her face that I couldn't even describe. Almost like a giraffe. "James........."
The 'drowned rat' appearance at the Isthmus casinos
Someone at the Bimini Bar brawl has a great swordfish decoration in his hands and lunges at Bond (if I remember, been a while since a last viewing) and Dalton gives a shocked look
When he looks back at the Sanchez distribution center being engulfed in flames, before he gets into the 'plane with Pam Bouvier
Never seen the end of TLD my DVDs scratched at the very end tell me what happens
The Landrover Chase with Roof fighting.
The Monypenny relation
The Car Chase in Aston Martin
The Romance with Maryam in the Push Cart
The fight with Henchman & The Villian
The Romance in the end with Kara
LTK: The tying The plane Pre title
The Fight in Aquaria
The burning Sanchez alive
The pool romance with Pam
Very much agreed,except Point 4 that is!
Save the Bikini Girl at the end scene. This is simply an embarrassing Bit! There have been two 00's killed (acording to Fleming two thirds of the 00 Section) and he doesn't even mention it,when he calls HQ! Instead he decides to spend a little Time with the Girl. Hell, why bother hunting down the Back up of the Killer (after all he must have have an exit strategy to get away from Gibraltar probably involving some third Party ). Does that sound professional to you? To me it ain't! It's the first of so many "wrong turns" in the Storyline of TLD, all of which keep me from really seeing it as a "realistic" or seriousTake on Bond (together with Daltons complete lack of Charisma and his almost smeery Approach to Karla in Vienna).
So innocent, full of life.
Bond returns to the innocence of childhood.
If only for a moment before the bloodshed begins.
A storm is coming.
I wonder.
Did Bond laugh like this in his childhood days at Skyfall estate?
4) compliments from Sharkey
3) escaping with the plane in LTK
2) the sniper scene in Bratislava
1) cargo net fight with Necros in TLD
From TND:
The knowing look he gives Saunders as they watch the Harrier take off in the distance.
"Stuff my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl don't know one end of a rifle from the other. Go ahead. Tell M what you want. If he fires me I'll thank him for it." Probably my favourite Dalton moment. Straight out of Fleming.
"Heard from Georgi? Yes, I got the message."
From LTK:
"You earned it. You keep it."
To Lupe: "You better find yourself another lover." Followed by "Complements of Sharky."
To Sanchez: "You were just in time. Things were about to get nasty." Love his accent there!
Trying to buy time on the conveyer belt. "Who's got the stingers!" Great Fleming style scene.
Bond.
Very much agreed. First of all, Dalton did an excellent job displaying his grief and frustration with the situation when he found the body and the cut rope. Furthermore, he was hell bent on avenging him when he showed his determination to catch the killer. So it's not like the death didn't affect him at all. Lastly, as a 00 agent, Bond is all too aware of how his life could end at any moment. So he lives life to the fullest and takes great pleasure in beauty. This is the essence of what James Bond is.
That's one thing about Dalton I never could understand. One moment he's all business, then next instance, a kind of Moore-type impassive approach, so soon after the event. But take nothing away, still probably the best James Bond I ever saw, and closest to Flemings original character
1. Eliminating Sanchez with the "Leiter"
2. Faking Pushkin's death at the convention center
3. Dissing the CIA agent at the hospital ("looks like Sanchez's law operates north of the border too")
4. Giving Necros "the boot"!
5. Watching with grim satisfaction and horror as Sanchez eliminates Milton Krest in the pressure chamber
If it hasn't been mentioned and just as an update,
- 'You earned it, you keep it - old buddy'
- 'I guess it's a farewell to arms' - and the way he leaps over the balcony and runs off into the trees - almost cat-like
- 'Whoever it was, it must of scared the living daylights out of them' - hence the films title
- 'He met his Waterloo'
- 'I've had a few optional extras installed'
- 'You should of brought lillies'
- 'I'm more of a problem eliminator'
1. Exercise at Gibraltar - TLD- great opening to introduce a new bond all the way through the jet taking off from the building
2. When he stuffs the cello into the Aston Martin and makes the comment about learning to play the violin -TLD
3. Tanker chase scene and fight LTK- many have mentioned this one and it is worthy, but Gilbraltar was still better
2. The bomb on the plane in 'The Living Daylights'
3. Setting fire to Sanchez - 'Licence to Kill'
4. Bond and Kara's romantic moment - 'Are you calling me a Horse's arse?'
5. Bond and Pam's romantic 'Then why dont you ask me' moments..
I will mention my LEAST favourite Dalton moment, and that's when the credits started rolling for Licence To Kill on my most recent viewing. I knew I was on to GoldenEye next, and I think part of the reason I felt so upset at this point was probably because we were going onto my least favourite of the six Bonds (and the only one I really dislike), but I think most of it was because I knew Dalton was never going to be Bond again. Watching Licence To Kill in the past, I'd never really been bothered too much by it because I was a kid. But this was my first time watching it in at least seven or eight years, and it's always been one of my favourite Bond films, so to see that last shot of Tim and Carey Lowell in the pool, knowing that we were never going to see him in the tux again, was a bit hard-hitting on me this time around.
# Stealing the sunglasses when Leiter's girls pick him up. Doesn't pay, just jumps in the back seat and doesn't give it another thought. Watch it again - pure Dalton
# The fight at the Bimini Bar in License to Kill when someone takes a swordfish and lunges at him, and just misses, and Dalton has a great expression as in 'I can't believe what just occured'
# The interrogation of Bouvier in the same movie release when he thinks she's working for Sanchez. "I want the truth". Unshaven, on edge, and frantic
# Smoking a cigarette at Q branch in The Living Daylights when Q runs through a list of suspects. The epitome of cool
# When he explains to Milovy how she got the scratch on her arm before the Chloral hydrate takes over. "Because.... I was the man sent to kill you..."