Great interview with Lazenby at the time, why didn't he have that voice/accent during the film? Also worth it for the b+w clips of the early Connery films, a nostalgia rush for the older generation who grew up watching them on an old telly...
OHMSS has got to be my favorite of the Bond films... but yeah, there are really cornball parts ("You LIKE chickens...") and the totally "Love Story-ish" romance scenes to the tune of "We Have All The Time In The World" is kitchy... but it set a high standard for the Bond films.
The PTS is (to me) outstanding and builds up to the introduction of Lazenby as 007. Today, there's no fanfare as a new actor plays the part, but at the time, Connery was so identified as Bond, there was no other way to go. The titles and other references set up such continuity with the previous films, too.
It's not a bad film, especially when it's mentioned in the same breath as FRWL and FYEO (which had it's bad and embarrassing parts too)
Just realised the big prob with Lazenby in this film (after watching my posted youtube clip) - he never has his own voice in the movie. He's either unconvincingly dubbed by George Baker, or he has that rather smarmy English accent attempt, it doesn't feel natural.
All the other actors were allowed to use their own voice, and would have suffered otherwise. Though Dalton tried to make it northern in LTK, realising perhaps that Welsh isn't always a cool accent (Burton great though).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCAymU9p1Ww&feature=player_embedded
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Ooh nice Mister Napoleon...
Great interview with Lazenby at the time, why didn't he have that voice/accent during the film? Also worth it for the b+w clips of the early Connery films, a nostalgia rush for the older generation who grew up watching them on an old telly...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
The PTS is (to me) outstanding and builds up to the introduction of Lazenby as 007. Today, there's no fanfare as a new actor plays the part, but at the time, Connery was so identified as Bond, there was no other way to go. The titles and other references set up such continuity with the previous films, too.
It's not a bad film, especially when it's mentioned in the same breath as FRWL and FYEO (which had it's bad and embarrassing parts too)
All the other actors were allowed to use their own voice, and would have suffered otherwise. Though Dalton tried to make it northern in LTK, realising perhaps that Welsh isn't always a cool accent (Burton great though).
Roger Moore 1927-2017