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I'll go with keeping TLD and LTK, just simply because I prefer my Bond to react to losing someone with anger and resolve rather than with sadness.
That's a good assessment of both of them in my view. I concur.
Yes cold war. Bond is a cold war creation and many miss out on Dalton playing him in a cold war mentality way., "Death to spies, minister."
I disagree about Dalton being weaker with women. He is a dominant personality and played how Bond in the books was with women.
Also we forget he took over Bond in the safe sex era due to the Aids hysteria in 1986. Bond was a target by the media of promoting unsafe sex.
It was the producers who wanted to tone it down. He did an interview saying he wouldn't have minded grappling the ladies more.
I don't doubt it, but all we have to go off is what's on screen.
I think the romanticism of TLD was a nice temporary change for the series. I am surprised the books are less referenced than the films. Who is the character that created a legendary film series and the source where it all began?
I was referring to Vienna, particularly the theme park where he seduces Kara like a first date. Very smooth. The short story, The Living Daylights by Fleming shows Bond having a schoolboy crush on the female cellist. That was well captured.
But you are right about the manipulation and we see the switch off after Saunders death.
Im one of them,but the other way round : I like LTK and have no time for TLD....
Agreed...LTK sits nicely at #8 ...TLD is rock bottom at #24...
I don't care much about LTK. It is solid but has absolutely no Bondian flair. Rather feels like Lethal Weapon 3. TLD however is the last and imo best cold war Bond film.
I will agree vis-a-vis TLD that the first half is spectacular. Dalton is magnificent as a Cold-War Bond. It took me almost 30 years to finally like the second half. I watched it last November with my wife, who was seeing it for the first time. And we got to the half-way point closer to the Afghanistan scenes. Well, I suggested to her to pause the film, as it was late. But, she says to me, you cannot stop it now! This is so good. She is a huge Harry Potter fan, and said TLD was better.
My humble point, is that I expected her to be in the middle of the road, in terms of liking the film. But, it amazed me how her enthusiasm made me watch it as a whole entity as opposed to stopping at the half-way point like I used to.
I think it has a bit of the OP template, with the future Al-Qaeda. However, I think TLD second-half in terms of western foreign policy is an interesting study for future generations. I think TLD may be The Taliban's favourite Bond movie :)
Indeed. Watching TLD second-half, and it is scary how the same mistakes politically are being made as we write. Freedom fighter or rebel is a euphemism for......????? :)
To quote one of the more amusing characters in DAD:
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
I remember that. That was the most serious comment in the film, which quickly dropped the narrative and focused on umbrellas in outer space. They thought it was still 1979, or at least wrote the film that way.
Brosnan's acting when he gets electrocuted by Gustav Graves in the plane was Oscar-worthy. And as the helicopter was falling to earth, he did Moore eyebrow raising than Moore in seven films.
DAD was responsible for me running to my local HMV shop to buy an old Bond film, after that horrific experience. DAF is Doctor Zhivago in comparisson!
Here is one of the legendary sequences.
I must say this is the film that finally made Brosnan stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the unbeatable Sean Connery!
I literally went back to the cinema the next day, hoping that I was dreaming during my first viewing.