What if Piece Brosnan start in Living Daylights
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How do you think it could have happened if Piece Brosnan debuted in The Living Daylights in the year 87 instead of than in The Golden Eye in 95.
I don't thin Living Daylights would be too much different with Brosnan in it, only it will become a way bigger blockbuster and hit #1 film all aroud the world. I think Piece's James Bond would have been more fuuny like Moore because he was follows him immediate. That eight year difference from The Living Daylights to The Golden Eye was make a big difference and affects the way Brosnan played Bond.
I don't thin Living Daylights would be too much different with Brosnan in it, only it will become a way bigger blockbuster and hit #1 film all aroud the world. I think Piece's James Bond would have been more fuuny like Moore because he was follows him immediate. That eight year difference from The Living Daylights to The Golden Eye was make a big difference and affects the way Brosnan played Bond.
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The producers wanted to go tougher and darker after Moore's era, and they were going to set this tone no matter which actor they picked. Brosnan would probably have played it just like he played his movies, being lighter than Dalton, but the tone of the movies would be the same. Personally, I think Dalton is a much better fit for his movies than Brosnan would have been, and I believe Dalton is a better Bond than Brosnan (although Pierce is excellent, IMO). But stylistically, I don't think there would be a great amount of divergence. There certainly wouldn't have been as much of a divergence as there would have been if Dalton were hired in the early-70s instead of Roger Moore.
I don't actually differentiate Dalton's Bond from Brosnan's... The only thing these two had different, was that Dalton not as suave and sophisticated as much as Brosnan. Also, Dalton was a little bit (just a little...) rougher with the ladies, but otherwise I wouldn't differentiate the two of them, that much. In fact, I think their portrayal is similar.
A darker, grittier Bond, who relies on his wits (... and the occassional gadget) to get out of danger.
One of the reasons I'm sad Brosnan left is because I may miss this specific portrayal...
I would say that Dalton is tougher than Brosnan, and that he isn't as humorous as Brosnan (which I personally think is a good thing). I also get the sense that Dalton's Bond, strangely, is more overtly sensitive than Brosnan's Bond, who seems to subdue emotion a bit in wishing to address the bigger picture at hand. Again, I like this about Dalton's Bond. But again, I am definitely a fan of Brosnan, and I would say that, generally, their portrayals are quite similiar.
Pierce would have been really good in LTK, too.
I am a big fan of Timothy's portrayal of Bond in that picture. I much prefer it to his performance in LTK, because there is a slightly better balance between toughness and humour. LTK took it a little bit far IMO, but was still a good film. TLD, is my favourite of the two though, and this is in no small part due to Dalton's performance. I just think Brosnan looked a bit 'boyish' at that time. Dalton's timing was bang on for his entry as Bond, whereas Brosnan was more ready for it by 1995.
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. Dalton is by far my favorite Bond, and one of the great disappointments with the Bond franchise is that he did not take the job when he was younger after Connery.
But I think Pierce would have portrayed Dalton's films similiarly from a stylistic standpoint.
Not sure about the follow-up LTK with its harshness... Dalton, on the other hand, looked crazy enough for it to work.
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LTK definitely wouldn't have happened- I'm not sure what we would have got in its place, but I think I'm glad we got to see a whoel new Bond plus Pierce's Bond as well instead of just Pierce.
Timothy Dalton was originally offered the role of Bond for what is known to have been at least the third time. However he was about to embark on a Shakespeare double bill in the West End & so declined the role. At that point several other actors were screen tested from whom Brosnan was selected. It was at this point NBC chose to cut up awkward & hold Brosnan to contract. By this time Dalton was available & the film was finally made with the original choice of lead actor.
Also, I feel Brosnan would not have worked well at all in LTK. Most say he would help balance the humor with the grittiness of the film, but this is one of the few films in my opinion that did not need that. The scenes with Q gave me enough laughs. I can only see Dalton in LTK. I don't even think Craig could have pulled LTK off that well. LTK is a delicate and special Bond film unlike most others and luckily it had the perfect actor for the role.
I like Brosnan well enough in the role and think he did fine in the emotional scenes, but I cannot imagine him being as gritty or as intense as Dalton, which is key to both TLD and LTK. In TLD, if you remember Bond's gunpoint confrontation with Pushkin or the scene where he tears Kara's robe to show her that he knows how the scar got there, these are hard, rough scenes that I can't quite picture Brosnan pulling off. I think Brosnan would have been "good" but Dalton was great.
That said, I can certainly appreciate the comments made above that Brosnan might have lightened up LTK a bit, which might have helped the film (and perhaps the box office?).
Dalton will always be "the" Bond in my eyes, and as much as I LOVE Daniel Craig, I admit to getting a little bitter when people think of his tough, cold, Fleming-esque portrayal as "truly original." Whenever critics or fans say this, I always get the urge to gently point out that Dalton had done it 20 years prior.
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I think that you are right in as much as Craig's conception of Bond does build upon Dalton's with the common link being that they both have been keen to 'return to the source' i.e. the novels, and that they are both fine actors within the theatrical tradition.
It could of course be argued that Dalton's Bond drew a lot from Connerry...so we can see both an arc and a pendulum in how Bond is portrayed
I think that Dalton's portrayal also influenced elements of PB's Bond in his more serious and tense moments. So I think that Dalton can be viewed as a very influential Bond even if you did not like his own characterisation. For me he is probably my favourite, although I have enjoyed each actor in the role with the exception of Roger who I know has his loyal fans, but was to lightweight and tounge in cheek for me to appreciate, and very far from my idea of a recognieable 'Fleming' Bond.