Could you imagine Roger Moore starring in Diamonds Are Forever?
JohnMasterson
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I don't know about you, but in this hypothetical situation I can kinda/sorta see it happening in my head, because 1971's Diamonds Are Forever is exactly the type of campy Bond film that Roger Moore was used to doing for twelve years...So Diamonds would've been right up his alley!
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The same thing could be said about Live and Let Die & The Man with the Golden Gun. And when you think about it really the only reason why Diamonds wasn't as good as YOLT in terms of production value is because they had spent almost the entire budget on Sean Connery but maybe if Roger Moore had been available much earlier they could have spent the money on Moore and they still would've had the budget to make Diamonds.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Yes, but continuity-wise, when you think about Diamonds Are Forever in terms of being a successor to You Only Live Twice it makes no sense because Connery's Bond was looking old, fat and tired during YOLT's fighting choreography and yet he was able to easily thrash the henchmen in DAF? Where's the logic in that?
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Oh by the way, I had meant to bring this up earlier but it had almost completely slipped my mind until now...Didn't Roger Moore's James Bond character kill Ernest Starvo Blofeld in the FYEO pre-title sequence? Because it seemed like whomever had played Blofeld in that movie was trying to imitate Anthony Dawson's performance as Ernest Starvo Blofled from 1963's From Russia With Love up until Bond had grabbed ahold of Blofeld with the helicopter. And then the inevitable screaming and begging for mercy happened because apparently Blofeld couldn't face death with some dignity and pride.
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Anyway my point is, that little scene with Roger Moore killing Blofeld at the beginning of FYEO was kinda like Moore's Bond character taking on Ernest Starvo Blofeld but it just happened to be a very brief encounter that's all! Because they needed to get this old storyline wrapped up and out of the way fast, so they could focus on a much bigger threat than a washed-up, wheelchair-prone, former head of SPECTRE.
Because while that line is not as dark as, "In my job. When I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'Live and Let Die,'" it's still a dark line and I doubt Roger does dark humor, well.