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With Peter Hunt and Savalas returning as well. That would have been something...
The public wanted nonsense. They always will. We nutty fans must be grateful for every morsel of Fleming we get in films these days.
I am primarily a fan of the films, not the books. I have only read MR, which was enough to confirm to me that although perhaps Connery is not Fleming's Bond, those early Connery films capture the spirit of the books better than anything since. I just feel that the mixture of reality and fantasy in the early films seems to perfectly match the mood I picked up on in MR. Perhaps I should read more of them and I'd have an even greater appreciation of Dalton.
But any way, by point is that I enjoy the films as films, and not consciously because of the source material that they're based on. Having said that, it's often noticeable that when the source material is Fleming, the stories tend to be stronger, and the films are much better.
I think this is perhaps part of the difference between the UK and US. Dalton was reasonably well known in the UK and was a bit of a hearthrob. May be not quite Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudive proportions, but not the almost complete unknown that he appears to have been in the US.
This is a bit of a silly take on acting training... the implication here being actors are trained to react as the "character" would, and not how they would? That actors are trained to be bad actors?
Have you taken any acting training?
I don't think that is what was meant.
There are different kinds of acting methods - for example, the Stanislavski method has the actors using their own experiences to better connect to the character they're playing and to become the character. Method acting has the actor almost literally becoming the character - much like Heath Ledger becoming the Joker in The Dark Knight - he let the role completely take over.
So it's not a "silly take", some actors are trained to "become the character" and act as the character would, not as they would - they can create back stories to the characters that only they know about, but is woven into the characters. It can make the characters more realistic and believable and it can help audiences forget that an actor is in a role and just see the character for the character.
Interesting information, my apologies for misunderstanding.
No need to apologise, I could have put it a little clearer.
I am also primarily a Bond film fan, and read the books to augment that. But in reading the character as a guy who doesn't consciously draw attention to himself, and is in ways an introvert that scores with babes mainly because he falls for them so honestly was a shock. The novel Bond is a MUCH more complicated beast than the cinema one. I find Dalton's Bond to be the closest to literary Bond in the cinema venue. The best of both worlds, as it were.
Gotta get my mind out of the gutter.
I have to agree with this statement. All of them have expressed fear and other emotions on a realistic level. But I agree that this was more the case with Lazenby and Dalton.
Not sure Craig has conveyed fear to me.
indeed. In fact the first two Connery Bonds have moments when he looks genuinely vulnerable.
That statement doesn't really add up. If you're trying to pull in the Arnie and Sly crowd, why would you cast a skinny RADA alumni in the lead role?
Need to watch it again, but fear wasn't the overriding emotion. Defiance. Devil may care defiance an 'F You' desire to go down fighting. But not predominantly, or even particularly fear, no. Although I think it's fair enough if that's how you interpreted it.
He was afraid. In a desperate, resigned way.
From my perspective, one of the great "sh!# my p@nts" moments of acting ever displayed. What's more he did it while still appearing cool on screen. I remember thinking, this is how Bond would panic. With class, even while naked and strapped to a bottomless chair with his privates hanging out.
Only Lazenby has done it as well in the village of Lauterbrunnen while escaping Blofeld's thugs imho.
(sound quality isn't that great)