EoN sells up - Amazon MGM to produce 007 going forwards (Steven Knight to Write)

CommanderRoss

Mendes4Lyfe wrote: »

I think someone said it right with TLD/GE Bond should return. Personally I think Dalton in TLD might be my favourite version of Bond, he is cynical and burnt out, but crucially we don't see much behind the mask. He is carried along on the Breeziness of the adventure that we only see his rage boiling under the surface in moments. I think OHMSS and CR work well as films where the specific goal is to look behind the mask and delve into Bonds character, but otherwise I think just getting a flavour of it, and being too caught up in the story and action is much preferred. It's the same with Bruce Willis in the Diehard series, obviously he is a man with a lot of issues to do with family, his past, addiction, and he would be quite a tragic figure if we stopped and took a deeper look into his home life, but it just so happens that he's caught up with saving new York city that we don't have time for that, so we just glimpse at aspects of his personal side like like shining torches into a dark, deep cave system.

oddly enough, QoS brings this in spades, a stoic hero who puts his inner turmoil aside to fulfill his mission, and is highly criticised for it as beeing a 'revenge' film, whilst the opposite is true.
But yes, that's one of the reasons it sits up somewhere on top of the list-i-prefer-not-to-make.

Mendes4Lyfe

007HallY wrote: »

I’d say Dalton’s the Bond who made an overt attempt to highlight Bond’s inner conflict if anything. It’s very much there in his performance - look at how he reacts after Saunders’ death/the anger on his face (he even turns away from Kara to face us, the audience, in the moments after, with us seeing his expression). He’s not carried along by the ‘breeziness of the adventure’, he doesn’t follow through with an order to kill a woman, and from there senses something is wrong. He’s doing his duty in the way he sees as right. It’s all very comparable to CR if anything!

Yeah, that's what I said, hes a very Fleming cynical Bond but the story is brisk enough that we don't get the opportunity to see behind the mask, besides in brief moments such as Saunders death. He is forced into keeping composed as a result of his circumstance, whether it be his passion for avenging his fallen 00's, playing the role of the Koskovs' friend for Kara's benefit, or putting on a smug, unbothered persona to hide his desperation when captured in Afghanistan (another moment where the cynical Bond bubbles to the surface "we're inside a bloody Russian airbase!")