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A View to a Kill. Let's make it better!
This was an interesting thread I saw on the old board and I was right about to contribute until the board went away! So I thought I'd start it up again here.
Here's my thoughts.:
1. Bring in Dalton (or if not, at least don't dress Roger like an old man. Aside from the Tux, his wardrobe made him look like a grandpa)
2. Lose the Beachboys song....
3. Get better henchmen! I understand they were 'running out of guys that it looked like Roger could actually beat up' but looking at the movie now I feel like I'm watching a made for TV movie. I felt like I could take on these henchmen MYSELF. If you have to cast weak henchmen for the sake of the actor playing Bond's age, all the more reason to bring in Dalton! Imagine how good the fights COULD HAVE been!
These are off the top of my head.... let's hear your ideas!
Here's my thoughts.:
1. Bring in Dalton (or if not, at least don't dress Roger like an old man. Aside from the Tux, his wardrobe made him look like a grandpa)
2. Lose the Beachboys song....
3. Get better henchmen! I understand they were 'running out of guys that it looked like Roger could actually beat up' but looking at the movie now I feel like I'm watching a made for TV movie. I felt like I could take on these henchmen MYSELF. If you have to cast weak henchmen for the sake of the actor playing Bond's age, all the more reason to bring in Dalton! Imagine how good the fights COULD HAVE been!
These are off the top of my head.... let's hear your ideas!
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Maybe do a Moonraker and have her reject Bond for another man.
Surely there's a much better plot somewhere out there that preferably doesn't link microchips to horse race cheating AND weird oil pumping AND forcing a woman to give up her shares AND flooding the SA fault...
Lol yeah the horse cheating was kind of pointless in retrospect.
One other thing that would have helped is if Roger Moore played his age (if he was in it at all). In Never Say Never Again, Connery's Bond was older and a 'relic'. While the movie was still ridiculous, at least it wasn't laughable with him chasing young girls around, lol
I'm thinking of Stacy and the girl from the PTS- too young for him!!
Pre title sequence: Introduce Dalton as the new 007 in a mini-adventure that has nothing or little to do with the rest of the picture(in the style of the teasers for GF, TB, FYEO and OP).
Title Sequence:(I would've retained the Duran Duran song, one of the few highlights of the actual film)
Albert R. Broccoli presents
Timothy Dalton as James Bond 007 in Ian Fleming's
FROM A VIEW TO A KILL
(I would have restored the full original Fleming title)
starring
Alison Doody as Mary Ann Russell
Patrick Macnee as Sir Godfrey Tibbett
Fiona Fullerton as Pola Ivanova
Christopher Walken as Max Zorin
and Tanya Roberts in a very small 5 minute appearance as the "sacrificial lamb" Jenny Flex
Movie opens proper: The first 20-30 mins would be a relatively faithful adaptation of the actual short story "From A View To A Kill". The SHAPE driver's murder would appear on screen and 007's subsequent investigation. He would be assigned to work with fellow agents Tibbett and lovely Mary Ann Russell(the girl in the original story), and would impersonate the SHAPE driver and infiltrate the Russian spy gang in the forest. The head assassin(who Bond is sure he has seen before) of this spy gang gets away and Bond finds a stash of Zorin microchips among the KGB spy ring materials. After a brief dalliance with the gorgeous Mary Ann, Bond reports this information to M. Bond would learn that Zorin industries are a private British defense contractor that is developing microchips that are impervious to the magnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion but they've not been put in use by the British defense systems yet. Zorin would still be of East German origin but he defected to England, became a U.K. citizen and then spent several years in New York where he made his millions. (This would explain Walken/Zorin's NY accent). M then sends Bond to investigate Zorin at a party his Chantilly estate. While there Bond meets and flirts with Zorin's mistress/secretary Jenny Flex(who Zorin brought from NY, also explaining her accent) Bond also runs into another lady at the party, his ex-lover, ballerina/KGB agent Pola Ivanova. After some brief flirting and catching up on old times, Pola mysteriously vanishes. To get more info on Zorin, Bond starts romancing Jenny which Zorin learns about and of course has her promptly executed(a la Corinne Dufour). Bond uses his gadgets to listen in on Zorin and his partner-in-crime whom he recognizes as the KGB assasin from the forest. Thru closer detection, Bond realizes that Pola and the KGB assassin are one and the same. Bond is caught spying and is captured by Zorin & put in some deathtrap from which of course he escapes but not without Zorin thinking he is dead.
Bond continues his mission in pursuit of Pola to learn more about what she and Zorin are up to. The Siberian ski chase could be inserted here where Bond pursues her but ultimately rescues Pola from an avalanche(a la Bond and Elektra). After this experience, they "warm up" in a hot tub reminiscing about old times. As Bond gets more of the information on their plan, Pola doublecrosses Bond and he is again captured by Zorin. It turns out that Zorin and Pola are planning to cause a nuclear blast in outer space over the U.K. to, as Frederick Gray put it, "paralyze us at the Russian's mercy". This will be done after Zorin installs the "nuclear-explosion impervious" microchips(which of course won't be) in all of Britain's national defense systems. In the end, Bond of course thwarts Zorin and Pola's plans with the aid of Mary Ann who Bond ends up with in the final clinch. Tibbett would also have a larger role as Bond's ally and not be killed off. Perhaps Tibbett should become head of Station F-France.
Replace the scary hench woman.
Replace the scream queen.
The rest (kinda) works for me.
I don't mind Mayday tbh, but not with an older Moore.
Some of the stunt doubling was awful, and the dummy crashing through the boat on to the wedding party was a bit embarrassing.
I think the fight scenes let the film down so a younger actor may have improved the film by a good 10%.
I love that Rog is too old. I love that he is out of time, that this is the new age, 80's Bond, out of his element in a flashy action flick. Rog still gives it his all, has a great screen presence here, looks so smooth and comfortable in the role... I just don't care about the other issues. He rocks.
But I wish they would have played that up more. That this is an older Bond, to give him a proper send off, a tribute film he deserved. I think the finale at the Golden Gate Bridge is amazing and about as close as we could get. But they coulda done better.
Everytime it's not Roger Moore as Bond, take a shot. Just think about it... you'd have freaking alcohol poisoning by the end! lol
Yes I used to blindly follow Bond and stick up for it to the point of embarassment but I've seen far too many much better films and some I haven't to want to throw my rose tinted glasses on and trawl through that crap again!
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Of course, that's all within the confines of the AVTAK we know. As alternative, it'd be as above but with Warbeck as Bond. B-)