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Its on TV now actually (Sky Classics)
I'd say LALD is still petty well remembered if only for the theme song and you could throw MR in there, I think that's fairly well remembered (or lots of people have heard of it) because of the space stuff.
Moonraker also stands out for most as the first, and so far, only time, Bond has gone into space. It had better be the freaking last one can only hope
Once again, I don't think On Her Majestys Secret Service is overrated. It's a fine adventure with a decent Bond in Lazenby, that gets unfairly ridiculed by some areas. Both actor, and release. Easily one of the biggest and recognized Bond releases of the 1960s decade for me
Most excellent movie - modern trailer twist alert here.
The whole Draco backstoy describing Tracy's tragic recent past is the most boring backstory every committed to a Bond film, I've seen it many times and it makes no impression at all, does she get married or something? I dunno.
It seems that Lazenby is so maligned and yet this book, even film, is considered one of the best.
This classic should never be remade. It's perfect as it is.
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Save the Kilt,that is! It just kills me EVERYTIME i watch the Movie.
Well as I am a Scotsman I hope its not the kilt your laughing at!?! :))
I'll take his Bond over Pierce and although Rog's Bond is more recognised I prefer Laz interpretarion.
I know that they were supposed to have got on really badly on set, but Lazenby and Rigg Are just really convincing. It's not just one of the best Bond on-screen romances, it's perhaps one of the most convincing film romances full stop. I know Craig and Green did an excellent job in Casino Royale, but in comparison with Lazenby and Rigg, that just seems like puppy love.
As with Dalton only doing two films, you really have to regret the fact that Lazenby wasn't given a chance to do at least one more. 0HMSS just sets up the Blowfeld revenge story so perfectly and diamonds are forever just squanders it. Just having Lazenby do a solid revenge film in DAF would have been amazing.
The bullfighting scene, the scene in the car with Tracy when they are escaping, the scene with Draco ("that's quite an inducement") and the first scene with M in the office ("does this mean you've lost confidence in me"). Those are four scenes that instantly came to mind. He's as stiff as stiff can be in those four.
HOWEVER I agree that the romance with Tracy is very believable on the the whole. That barn scene in OHMSS is SOOOO much better than the equivalent from CR ("I have no armour left")...and I rank CR as one of the top films.
Incidently OHMSS is #2 for me behind FRWL.
No I don't. I'll hand it to Peter Hunt, but Lazenby commands little respect from me. Brosnan destroys him.
On a related note, the actress who played Ruby also plays a store clerk in 'Day of the Jackal'. Ruby is far more exotic.
I mean the first scene. It's great. Admitedly mainly because Bernard Lee justs ignores him. I think it's really nicely done.
May be I'm being overly generous about the subtelty of Laz's performance and not all of this was intentional, but one of the things I love about his performance is actually the way he doesn't need to dominate every scene. Connery and his shere charisma does just that - just commands and dominates whenever he's on the screen. Laz has charisma in bucket-loads (IMO), but some of the best scenes are when he is on the back foot. It's just the perfect performance for this story and this movie.
I was reading someone the other day talking about how the point where you really see him fully, totally falling for Tracy, is where he's sitting disconsolately on the bench, trying to escape Blofeld's men and sort of being at his wits end. And then Tracy skates up in front of him and rescues him. You could never imagine that working with Connery. Just brilliant. And of course, as you rightly say, the following scenes are just brilliant.
It would have been just fantastic to see a broken, hate-filled Laz take on Blofeld in the next movie.
The more I think about it, the more I think Laz's departure was actually one of the biggest losses to the series. More so than Dalton even, dare I say it!
That said, even in the novel we don't have Bond adopting a silly ass voice when pretending to be Sir Hilly, though you get the sense he does moderate his manner. I suppose Lazenby's voice doesn't pass for a man of learning, that said in the previous film Bond was meant to have gone to Cambridge! But if he had to be dubbed, they should have got in someone other than George Baker, it is so obvious it is him, it doesn't match Lazenby's vocal at all, it doesn't sound like him. They should have got someone anonymous to do it so you think it might be Lazenby.
That said, Bond looks young in this as the actor was 29, not many 29 year olds are knighted, eh, if he is to pass himself off as Sir Hilary? I suppose if the rugged Connery had played Bond, or if they'd got Burton in for a one-off, both could have passed for an early 40s academic type (A Fine Madness, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wold? respectively) who could be knighted. Bray wearing glasses is another film touch I think; in reality it would only take one of the gals to nick them playfully and put them on and exclaim 'But Sir Hilly, you're not short sighted at all!' for the gig to be up.
Blofeld angling for a pardon made more sense in the novel when he had only the failed Thunderball operation behind him, in the films he's been on the case since Dr No - a pardon would be as likely to have been offered to Bin Laden. Not plausible him wanting to be made a count, but it's all Fleming so it gets a free pass.
I could go on all day about OHMSS's problems.