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Ah Sir Rog, a true legend.
Exactly. Moore's films are full of those little moments.
He's such a legend on screen. People slag him off left right and centre, but he's totally in control. A master technician. Brilliant.
I think there are some good Connery fear moments in the early films as well - moments of sweaty, eye-twitching concern. Flashes, rather than extended scenes, but it's all there if you want to find it. More so, I'd argue than in the Craig era.
Are we talking CR again? Sure you're right. Dan is a good actor. I like him. I just prefer most of the others. And for me his Bond is not very good at conveying vulnerability. He conveys a sense of invulnerability and looks like a complete bruiser. I just don't get the sense of him being in danger - you almost feel sorry for the other guy who is about to get boshed.
Have to say that was my overriding feeling about the CR torture scene. How Craig's Bond asserts dominance and control even in a position of grave peril. You actually feel Le Chiffre's fear a lot more in that scene - he stinks of fear. He needs the info from Bond (is it info? can't remember exactly what he's trying to extract), so cannot kill him, and knows he is battling time before he himself is killed.
It's not a criticism necessarily of Dan. I'm just saying for me he conveys a dominance and invulnerability that none of the other Bonds really had, perhaps appart from Connery.
yes, but he conveys fear. I personally didn't get that from Dan. it's a great scene and I'm not criticising his performance. it's just that for me it's actually Le Chiffre who comes acorss as fearful and on the back foot, ironically. that's a clever way to have done it IMO, but does not align with how others are interpreting the scene.
Exactly. Le Chiffre is afraid and thus he is playing nasty because he thinks he has a chance to get through. His fear is purely selfish and it triggers cruelty in him. Bond's fear is the one of fatalism: he does not think he will get through, but he will not humiliate himself by begging for his life or trying to save it by giving in.
It was a masterful performance by both actors and a very suspenseful scene. I'm glad that Mikkelsen is doing well with Hannibal, and that CR put him on the map with US audiences. He deserves every success.
This really made me laugh!
Truth. Maybe he just lucked out with one of the best, most solid scripts/stories of the franchise, but Lazenby for me goes down as one of the all time under-appreciated pieces of the Bond mosaic. And as for Dalton, The Living Daylights is among my more favored Bond films, License to Kill being a farce but at no fault of Dalton's (were it not for him it truly would have been an unmitigated disaster).
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Ouch.