Mmmmm...whether you like Craig or not I don't think he can be accused of not committing to the role once he had accepted it. True there was that bit of actorly snobbery in the beginning while he was undecided, but once 'in' I think he has given it his all. Independent of whether it chimes with you or not, he has not as yet 'phoned it in'
That's why I think 3 outings should become the norm from now on as it allows for development and growth, but finishes before boredom is likely to set in. As films take longer to reach the screen these days it safeguards against the problem of a Bond who is too long in the tooth ( although I long for the fin de siècle world weary Bond at the end of his career which Dalton seemed to promise)
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I agree. The days when one actor does six or seven Bonds should be long gone. Best they do just three or four. It safeguards against staleness & keeps the producers' creative juices flowing. I think it was a brave move to replace Brosnan when he was still popular. End your time on a high... Okay, I know all about the wrath aimed at DIE ANOTHER DAY ) but it was still popular with the masses.
I always thought Five films was about right, giving an actor a couple of Films
to grow into the character then, (hopefully) three good Movies were
the actor can establish his take on Bond.
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If you judge by box office then four films is the optimum. Thunderball and Moonraker were the most successful of Sean Connery and Roger Moore's eras. Roger's seven films were made in twelve years. The following seven films were made in nineteen years. That is very likely to be the norm from now on, so the days of an actor doing seven films are almost certainly over.
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I'm going to stick my neck out on this one & say Lazenby gives a better performance as Bond in OHMSS than Connery does in YOLT. I'm aware of Lazenby's shortcomings. Some of his line readings are a bit wooden, but he has a good physical presence & should be commended, as a non-actor, for carrying a 140 minute picture virtually on his tod..
I watched 'North By Northwest' at the BFI last night, the first time I've ever given Cary Grant a serious viewing. 'North By Northwest' has often been credited as an influence on the cinematic Bond (the most obvious Bondian homage to Hitchcock's movie being the sequence in FRWL where Bond is pursued across open ground by the SPECTRE helicopter), but what I hadn't realised until yesterday evening is that, in OHMSS, Lazenby's vocal performance as Bond (when George Baker isn't dubbing him as Sir Hilary Bray) is a pretty good and possibly intentional impersonation of Cary Grant's voice: the affected, semi-Americanisation in Lazenby's accent and the occasional hint of a lisp, half transforming 's's into 'z's or 'zh's, sound spot-on Cary Grant (at least as he performs in 'North By Northwest').
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Mmmmm...whether you like Craig or not I don't think he can be accused of not committing to the role once he had accepted it. True there was that bit of actorly snobbery in the beginning while he was undecided, but once 'in' I think he has given it his all. Independent of whether it chimes with you or not, he has not as yet 'phoned it in'
That's why I think 3 outings should become the norm from now on as it allows for development and growth, but finishes before boredom is likely to set in. As films take longer to reach the screen these days it safeguards against the problem of a Bond who is too long in the tooth ( although I long for the fin de siècle world weary Bond at the end of his career which Dalton seemed to promise)
to grow into the character then, (hopefully) three good Movies were
the actor can establish his take on Bond.
working with George. ( it's quite short )
http://youtu.be/QiRaiidtTYQ
I watched 'North By Northwest' at the BFI last night, the first time I've ever given Cary Grant a serious viewing. 'North By Northwest' has often been credited as an influence on the cinematic Bond (the most obvious Bondian homage to Hitchcock's movie being the sequence in FRWL where Bond is pursued across open ground by the SPECTRE helicopter), but what I hadn't realised until yesterday evening is that, in OHMSS, Lazenby's vocal performance as Bond (when George Baker isn't dubbing him as Sir Hilary Bray) is a pretty good and possibly intentional impersonation of Cary Grant's voice: the affected, semi-Americanisation in Lazenby's accent and the occasional hint of a lisp, half transforming 's's into 'z's or 'zh's, sound spot-on Cary Grant (at least as he performs in 'North By Northwest').