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Missed what? I can't imagine what Dalton's intro 'didn't have'... :-?
"It's all so boring...if only I could find a real man"
Right on queue Dalton shows up (with an admittedly cool flip onto the boat)
It just seems a bit...silly now. Audience pleasing nonsense. It would have been better if she'd just been sunbathing and not talking on the phone.
THIS I do agree with, also the other film clips in the MTS and the use of the props from other films when he clears out his office. Too self-consciously remembering the 'other fellow', though back then it was new ground, recasting arguably the action star/franchise of the decade.
Don't know what exactly. Not a bad intro, but there was something lacking. I never found Dalton comfortable enough in the role, I guess, in spite of his acting skills. I think sometimes it does show. Or rather, I always felt he was uncomfortable with the icon that is Bond (something Brosnan was very comfortable with, even though he often had struggle with the character). Anyway, in the action scene, I find Dalton capable. When he gets on the boat, I find him less convincing as a seducer.
I know what you mean.
Keep in mind that both Brosnan and especially Dalton had to follow perhaps the most natural on-screen seducer and one-line deliverer in Roger Moore. I don't think either of them were that good with the 'quips' and I think it showed on screen.
Moore and Connery before him were masters of this, truly. It's an underappreciated skill to not make it appear 'forced' on screen IMO.
I agree. I can't help feeling a bit...meh...when he says "better make that two". I don't think he quite sells it. When it comes to being a seducer Craig sells it better IMO.
It echoes of Roger Moore in the end, but Dalton is not at his best when they give him Moore's material. And I will also say that he was not the most convincing seducer, or the most comfortable one.
No. He had too much class! ;)
Agreed. A little forced.
Wow, talk about 007 being prepared for everything. ;) ("How thoughtful of Q ...")
:)) =))
I think they missed a trick with Dalton's tenure. From the self-assured narcissism of Connery, to the mock narcissism of Moore, that late 80s had male heroes on a curve where they could still be heroic but had to be tortured in some way, ie like Mel Gibson as Riggs, or reluctant hero McClane in Die Hard. Dalton could have been part of that, but they didn't play up his flaws at all, only his realism and dourness. Even his womanising isn't presented as much of a flaw. They could have played up his drinking or something, so you wonder if he might go off the rails a bit.
Now we have Craig and he can be a hero but it's obvious we're not really meant to want to be him, and most action film are ensemble pieces like X-Men, Avengers, Lord of the Rings, etc.
Perfectly said. They didn't really take advantage of where Dalton wanted to go with it. They were stuck in the middle.
No doubt a major part of their problem is they were still making the movies every 2 years apart at that time (not enough of a time gap for the public to accept such a change in character), and they were stuck with their own legacy which is immense. Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and others did not have that legacy to contend with.
It really took 19 years (from TLD to CR) of peppering 'Bond vulnerabilities' throughout the movies before the public really embraced a deep look at Bond's flawed character, and it also needed an escapist mess (DAD) thrown in immediately before as well.
I'll contend that the public may still not have accepted it without the reboot, which really allowed them to say what they wanted to say, and in a way that the public would accept.
I think the scripts would've been the same in the 70s with GL.
This is simply one of the best Bond films ever made, and his physicality for me puts him easily right behind Connery and neck-and neck with Craig, who is a tough, gritty Bond. That fight scene in the hotel room is just brutal, right there among the best of them.
Would have loved, loved, loved to have seen George in LALD and especially in MWTGG. They would have had to recast Christopher Lee, since he simply would have been no match physically for Lazenby.
Well, its always about physicality for you, isn't it? ;))
Well, yeah. Can't a have a non-tough guy in a tough guy role.
Contrasted with Lazenby, that might have worked.
Surely no one could expect Lee to match up with Lazenby physically.
I'd expect Lee to match up with anyone physically.
However, neither novel nor film are anything to shout about.
Most certainly a Lazenby Bond fighting jaws would have been a lot more fun from a fighting standpoint.