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You know I can't imagine Sir Nov without his delectable and iconic facial furniture.
@mtm I wonder if Fleming knew Niven as a Commando?
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PIERCE BROSNAN
Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in
GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), Die Another Day (2002).
Pierce ended up in only one top 3, which was however a first place, making him the lowest-ranked in general who is also someone's absolute favourite 007.
He did complete six more top 5's, with two 4th and four 5th places. Five 6th places and, crucially, three penultimate places sealed the deal though. To put things in perspective, that's three members preferring at least one non-EON Bond over Pierce.
The only Bond that had no Fleming material to work with did bring in some excellent box office figures and was, and I think still is, very popular amongst general audiences. Children of the 90's will also remember his era as a succesful videogame period for 007.
Unfortunately for Pierce, the distinct academy that makes up this particular game, decided that was not enough to end up higher in the overall ranking.
In total Pierce Brosnan obtained 71 points.
(I'm afraid I totally forgot to enter my ranking so I'm here purely as an observer)
Still, a bit of controversy keeps things interesting!
So far, my ranking 100% agrees with this game.
Personally, I think he is excellent at being a good-looking, fun-loving, action and humour-oriented 007. I'd say the more dramatic moments might not have been his forte, but his 007 is elegant and funny in my book, a Bond one would very much like to be.
His non-Bond work (apart from that ABBA thing) has been excellent as well I think, and while we're not rating that here, I thought it fair to mention it.
Overall he's my 5th favourite Bond, by no means because I don't like him, on the contrary, it's just that I like four others even more.
I personally rate his performance in GE very highly. Actually I’d argue it was a stronger, more confident screen effort than either of Dalton’s. I consider it one of the best Bond performances. I really like him in TND too, and despite a few odd moments and the material he had to work with, I actually think he’s generally good in DAD.
Easily, yeah.
There is so much an actor can do with the material he's given and Brosnan certainly wasn't to blame for the mostly dire dialogue he was gifted.
Definitely a fine actor, but the trademark smugness which may be appealing in a character like Remington Steel, is much less befitting a character like Bond in my opinion.
As for Lazenby, he can be derided till kingdom come, but for my money he exceeded Brosnan in just about every department, except for looks.
I ranked Brosnan 5th. In GE, his performance is appropriately stoic, but I can't really think of any defining feature or moment for his Bond in the film.
In Tomorrow Never Dies Brosnan turns up the charm and his Bond performance reaches the Connery-Moore averageness that he's generally known for. There are some serious moments, and Brosnan does well with them, but he also does well with the lighter moments, giving a more well-rounded performance than Goldeneye.
TWINE is a mixed bag. Sometimes Brosnan does too much, but he still balances serious and light relatively well.
DAD is perhaps his best performance. He makes some of the sillier lines and scenes a bit more serious, and he gives quite a good performance across the first hour when the material demands his credulity.
Unfortunately, I couldn't push him higher than fifth. Lazenby was carried quite a bit by his film, and Brosnan was a better ambassador regardless, so he got into 5th comfortably. With the other four, you had the two biggest icons of Bond (Connery and Craig), and two actors who I really enjoy in their Bond films (Moore and Dalton). Even though he was great, and probably deserved higher, I couldn't make any space for him.