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Maybe it was. The fight itself was definitely meant to be comical.
The fight scene is obviously humorous but I think the meeting and Dario was meant to be played straight.
I know this is nit-picking but I've also noticed how Dalts changed his pronunciation of "fast" from the previous film ("we're losing fuel, farst")
Farst us the correct pronunciation and the queens English.....just how Bond should say it.
...but in LTK he says "faast".
I think you mean nitpicking on your paaart.
Indeed. Thoughout the bar scene (pre the fight) he has this maniacal glare on his face the whole time.
Bond is supposed to look tough yes, but not psychotic.
I have to say I find Dalton's performance in TLD infinitely superior to LTK where he comes across as too theatrical most of the time and downright hammy on occasion. His overacting in the scene where he finds Felix and Della bears no comparison to the similar but sublime scene in TLD where he finds Saunders.
"He's had enough...run the tab"
Yeah I get what you mean.
Also, I don't particularly like Della anymore. I find her character bland and slightly annoying ("end up going fishing on my honeymoon") and her relationship with Bond not all that convincing.
That said I LOVE Dalton's response when she talks about marriage outside the house. Actually, one of my favourite moments of his.
She was in an episode of Starsky and Hutch though!
I've not seen Starsky and Hutch but I have seen a rather graphic photo of her with her legs apart. To be honest that kind of made me think less of both the Priscilla Barnes and Della as a character. There's not a lot to her other than just being a bit of a ditzy blonde and sacrificial lamb. Her best bit is when she's "shushed" gently by one of Sanchez's thugs.
Yes Dalts is guilty of overacting at times. Yes to what I have bolded above from both @wiz and @bain.
Hammy, yes! I also cringe a tad when I hear his delivery of the strawberry jam line in TLD. I know the reference is a direct lift from the Fleming short story, but I don't hear Bond delivering like that.
Dalton oversells it I think. He is guilty of over-dramatics, extra emotion at times.
My question for Glen then is.... when directing their two films, did he feel a need to curb Dalts Shakesperian tendencies?
As for screen Bond vs book Bond. I personally think Connery nailed book-Bond, with direction from Young initially.
I say this because, even though we were privy to much of book-Bonds internal monologue, and thus knew how he was feeling, his emotions etc, I don't get the impression he was wearing these feelings on his sleeves, so to speak.
Outwardly, to those who encounter him, we have every reason to believe he appears ever relaxed and menacing. Book-bond holds it together. This is the external Bond persona.
This is what we got from Connery. He was unflappable, with occasional glimpses of emotion, such as when those near to him got killed.
Book-Bond also was no dour sourpuss. He's very glib. Dangerous but charming. He cracks lines throughout the books, notably in GF and in the latter stages of YOLT - at least those are two examples that immediately come to mind.
IMO the Bond persona, both lit and film is relaxed and menacing. Exception granted of course for time shortly following supervillain blowing away your just-married true love.
Otherwise Bond holds it together like Connery.
But what takes away from this argument somewhat is that Connery seems to have a different facial look than how most of us envision Bond's mug.
I am a Connery purist, but even when I read the books, I can't conjure up images of Connery. Rather I picture a harder edged Roger Moore, as ideally I think that is what Bond looks like.
Don't think that's a question I'll put to him ....
I have one problem with that - 'License to Kill' should be 'Licence to Kill' - Americans! :P
He did grow up in the north though. Think he lived in Derbyshire and went to school in Manchester
According to Wikipaedia he's part Welsh, part English, part American.
And part wolf.
Thanks for the compliment you paid me in that thread that's just been removed - I'm honoured.