Well, that look was meant to be the future, right? And with Jewish space lasers, it will fit right in.
I meanâŚthe less said about Zardoz the better, was more showing that Connery was in much better shape than DAF makes him look.
And, yes, the GOP seem to be using Conneryâs cv as recruitment modelâŚThe Untouchables are yet to comeâŚ
Crews will do that to an actor sometimesâŚ
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Exactly. When Tiffany says she doesnât mix business with pleasure, there is no redoubling of the effort on Bondâs part.
Your precise wording brought a thought to my mind: the gliding may not be to the taste of some viewers. They may prefer the sweat/strain of Dalton/Craig Bond. Now that you have called my attention to itâI adore the gliding.
Tossed this around in my mind, and I am going to say âNo.â Why? If this were true, I would expect to see a certain air of entitlement/smugness in Conneryâs performance, and to my eyes it isnât there. As you saidâhe glides.
The violence is upped in DAF, but then again, he is trying to find out who assassinated his bride.
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Agreed.
The great novelist Thomas Berger occasionally reviewed movies for Esquire. Below is a link to his review of DAF. The article starts with him saying he turned down a screening of DAF to see STRAW DOGS, which he proceeds to review brilliantly, and then relates how he ended up buying a ticket to DAF and liking it.
âConneryâs thickened figure is all to the good, contributing a solidity to his imposture, as well as a slight wearniness which is usefully evident when two young women give him a savage drubbing at bare-handed combat, and which is reassuring, at least to those of us with one foot in the grave, when, wearing a towel, he moves to bed the more natural kind of Bond girl.â
âAnd how good it was to see the gadgets again, the gymnastic grace of the fantasy-violence, the comedy of the imaginary sex, and that quality of the Bond pictures at their best which I can only call geniality. Preposterous predicaments, impossible menances, and an invulnerable hero who, unlike Achilles, never sulks in his tent.â
The whole article is worth readingâBergerâs intellect and command of language is as amazing as ever. He is my nominee for most underrated American novelist of the second half of the 20th century. He was overshadowed by Pynchon and DeLillo (among others), but is definitely their equal.
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Ah, but isnât the Craig Bond working his way from the sweat/strain of Dalton
to the glide of Connery?
He is becoming the thing he used to pretend to be.
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True. As I was writing my post, it occurred to me that a possible reason I like SPECTRE best of the Craig Bonds is because it is the film where Craig glides. Then I thought about the stairwell fight in CR, and how I just want Craig to take a shower and freshen afterward, while after the train fight in SPECTRE, I think the segue to sex is just fine.
At that moment, however, I couldnât take the time to work it all out (I am at my office, and trying to give the gliding appearance of dutifully answering emails and handling business). Thanks for the nudge to develop the idea.
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Wasnât Moore perpetually gliding through his adventures?
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Moore perpetually glided just to get the kitchen to boil the kettle.
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Quite literally in LALD and MR.
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General consensus seems to be that gliding is cool. I agree. Bond should always glide
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Oh all right clever clogs⌠maybe thereâs the odd exception!!!
He knows who it was. Although given that it was Irma Bunt, is mistaken, which probably makes that little incident even worse.
It actually is played for laughs: hah, the bikini lady thought this guy who just arrived would have amazing sex with her not only embarrasses her but threatens to kill her if she does not tell him where Blofeld is.
By the way: why would she know? She seems to be one of the many girls one keeps sunbathing at the pool in case Sir Roger needs a promo shot for Octopussy.
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Thanks for the correction. It is a terrible incident, but then the violence in DAF seems to have been upped.
All the talk of gliding prompted a thought: the violence in the Connery Bond films of the 1960s is accompanied by a Bond who is much more the sexual predator. In DAF, Connery Bond enters his louche uncle phase, which might make the contrast between his sexual persona and the violence he commits more pointed, resulting in the filmâs level of violence appearing to have been increased (hence my italicizing âseemsâ in the sentence above).
What do you think about NSNA, by the way?
(Itâs kind of TENET related to talk about remakes, I supposeâŚ)
Thunderball ended with the main bad guy being killed by the woman he physically abused, itâs not that far off topicâŚ
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I would have to watch it again to have anything close to a coherent/informed opinion.
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Tis worth a rewatch
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