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I've heard Liam Neeson was one other actor considered besides Brosnan.
There has to have been others too.
According to GoldenEye IMDb trivia page, Paul McGann would have been Bond if Brosnan had turned down the role. Ralph Fiennes is mentioned as having auditioned, too.
It's not a complete list, but alternative007.co.uk wrote an article about many of the actors who were (allegedly) considered. Here's the section about GE:
http://www.alternative007.co.uk/303.htm
They probably won’t, but that’s because they won’t have a company over them going bankrupt and not allowing them to make a Bond film for a certain amount of time. Or changing hands with either legal battles or battles over creative rights ensuing… y’know like MGM (or indeed Amazon-MGM)…
Hopefully a pandemic or writer’s strike won’t crop up either. And the director of the film decides to stay.
Anyway, I really like Craig’s performance in SF. It’s more subdued (or subtle) in many ways but I feel that’s the point. It’s fantastic acting. I’d say it’s ever so slightly above his performance in CR, but both are great films involving the same Bond at different stages of his life.
I just remembered a mate of mine used to laugh at the line “Bring the chair” in the TLD sniper scene, a pretty innocuous bit of dialogue which Dalton imbues with great brooding significance! :D
I would also add that with those 3 words, Bond wants to put Saunders in his place. Saunders has gone out of his way to be an insufferable pen pusher, but he's in Bonds world now.
Yeh, there's that too! Good point. Saunders reaction shows that!
I think he just wanted the chair :)
Completely correct. It’s pure Fleming.
Dalton and Thomas Wheatley are brilliant in this opening scene.
It’s subtle and says so much at the same time.
TLD is full of these moments. The Bond and Pushkin interrogation scene, or when Bond pushes the coffee away in the Prater cafe.
Some of these are subtle and may be missed. But for those who noticed them, like the ‘bring the chair’ scene, it’s first class Bond.
The sniper sequence is Dalton doing a great job of playing Bond as professional and cold and then how he must reckon with the impact of killing.
As 007HallY put it, it’s a little theatrical and not very subtle. It’s a line about a chair which he gives a big dramatic pause for and a bit of an emotional emphasis to… it’s just a bit much for my taste and feels a bit silly given the line itself.
I think it's supposed to show the amount of care and consideration that Bond puts in every element of operation, even something as insignificant as whether he will sit or kneel to shoot. The intensity is supposed to represent a large contrast between how lax he is at the concert.
The next line about strawberry jam also sort of contextualises Bond's mood. Every detail must be perfect, or Koskov dies. The chair is supposed to represent a small consideration on Bond's part and the intensity conveys to Saunders the importance of everything being perfect.
I don't personally find it overacted but I suppose it's a matter of taste.
He's not particularly lax at the concert though: the "we have time" is practically spat out. There's not a huge amount of variation there and I just feel like he's doing a bit too much, trying to put deep meaning into every word. A bit theatrical and over-intense.
I just find that a bit over-wrought. It's a chair. Can you guys really not see how we laughed at that a bit?