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I described Laz's performance a few years ago as "brave, occasionally brilliant but underwhelming".
He has some very nice scenes and there's a tenderness that comes through in the second half (one can't help feel sorry for him at the end) but his inexperience does show on several occasions.
I once read a review in which Laz's performance was likened to an untrained musician stepping into John Lennon's shoes. Didn't help that Laz was succeeding an unbelievably charismatic man in Connery.
Tell me @4EverBonded would OHMSS rank higher with you, if one of those three actors starred in it; would it trouble your top ten?
I watched it last night too funnily enough. I still can't help but feel kind of mixed with him. Potential? Definitely! But at the same time he does deliver a fair few of his lines in the same flat way:
"Why are they looking for you?"
"Suspect they're trying to kill me"
Really George? What made you think that? Was it when they were on ski's shooting at you ;)
Having said that I did genuinely feel for him in the key scenes. The barn scene in particular is great. Also, one can't deny his superior physical skills.
Keep it coming ;-)
Given his limited acting abilities, what he did in OHMSS is nothing short of remarkable, despite many flaws in his performance and delivery. He humanized Bond, and was fortunate to some degree that he was given the role in a Bond movie that was quite different from any other, thereby limiting direct comparisons with Connery.
I'm sure he could have matured into the role very well, if given the chance by the public (this is a big 'if' however....I personally don't think he would have been given that chance, since he was following a very popular actor in the role. It appears that the only way to follow a popular Bond actor is to reinterpret the character, like Moore did, and like Craig has done. It's not clear that Lazenby would have been able to do that, given his limited acting range. He was fortunate that he didn't need to do it in OHMSS since the movie itself was so different to what had come before).
I think ultimately his one Bond film is excellent because it was a one off in every sense of the word.
Yeah it probably was. I just...didn't find it very funny.
Roger Moore in TSWLM
Timothy Dalton in TLD
Pierce Brosnan in GE
Daniel Craig in CR
Laz did have some issues with delivering a quip, tho. Apart from "You must give me the name of your oculist"
Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever
Sean Connery's presence is sorely needed in Diamonds Are Forever, who managed to find that missing “spark” that deserted him in You Only Live Twice. Tom Mankiewicz said about Connery, that he “has an old graces pro” about him, mirroring that Connery is maturing in the role. He can still knock the living hell out off someone, as exemplified by the lift fight, but Connery has the air of a veteran agent about him; calm, collected and authoritative, with just a hint of wryness, which is borne out of the fact that, Connery's Bond "has seen in, been there" ethos.
I remember thinking even as young boy the first time I saw it when I actually liked DAF that they'd changed the actor playing the part he looked so different and by that I mean he didn't look like Sean Connery. Quite possibly one of the worst of the series of one of the worst portrayals of the character, at least Pierce was trying.
Moore was much better at playing Bond like this, Connery just comes across as smug and looked so unfit and not like James Bond 007 super spy.
I think Connery was just going along for the ride and did not care at this point. So it is not a good performance for me, no. Just ... okay. He seemed to be enjoying himself at times and that was somewhat enjoyable for me. But was it a good Bond film? No. Good Bond performance? No, just meh.
He just didn't feel like Bond.
I liked him, but then again I only watched him. I had no compulsion to feel him.
fair enough, but, as other people have said, he virtually unrecognisable to the character he played in DN.
That is true for all Bond actors with more than two films under their belts.