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[Dr. Noah]

I thought Dalton's slicked-back hair with sideburns was a perfect style for Bond's "rogue agent" look in LTK.

Exactly.

One of the things LTK has over TLD is Dalton's hairstyle. Yes it's thinner, but it's very "roguish" throughout, even in the non-casino scenes where it's on the "wild" side. Not only is he not trying to hide the fact his hair isn't "what it used to be", but he doesn't even seem to care. Very cool, very Bond.

I didn't mind the hair. It's the clothes! Too much Miami Vice pink in this film!!! Too much Miami Vice, period! (Al Palcino in Scarfacemight have been a bigger influence, but MV was the more obvious inspiration.) We'd seen it so much on TV that it wasn't exotic anymore in South/Central America (or wherever the hell Isthmus is supposed to be).

They should've kept the setting as China, like in the early drafts. Of course, today it's less of a problem, because this film has outlived the TV show. But pink is still pink!

But fortunately, they used a lot of Fleming source material, they had great leads, and the film can be judged on its own merits today.

[Dalton's Wendy]

I thought Dalton's slicked-back hair with sideburns was a perfect style for Bond's "rogue agent" look in LTK.

Exactly.

One of the things LTK has over TLD is Dalton's hairstyle. Yes it's thinner, but it's very "roguish" throughout, even in the non-casino scenes where it's on the "wild" side. Not only is he not trying to hide the fact his hair isn't "what it used to be", but he doesn't even seem to care. Very cool, very Bond.

Very DALTON.

[Stephen Spotswood]

I seemed to recognize a large portion of the movie from the book "Live and Let Die." I may be wrong about the title, but I think that's where you had all the business on the dock, and the sharks getting Felix McNuggets.

[Dr. Noah]

I seemed to recognize a large portion of the movie from the book "Live and Let Die." I may be wrong about the title, but I think that's where you had all the business on the dock, and the sharks getting Felix McNuggets.

Plus there were echoes from a short story and TMWTGG (the novel I mean).

[krypt]

I thought Dalton's slicked-back hair with sideburns was a perfect style for Bond's "rogue agent" look in LTK.

Ex-actly; pre-cisely; couldn't have said it better!

(Not to mention a gorgeous look.)

Oh you like that look do you? I alternate my hair style between slicked back ... and side-parted with the "comma" over the eyebrow. (Thanks to my family genes I was blessed with thick, dark hair ... although I have silver on the temples these days).

[addyb]

I think that Publius said it well. Dalton was balding in LTK and that's all that it comes down to. Yes, it's a bit of a "Dracula" look but in the long run, does it really matter? I would've KILLED to see him do Goldeneye! (But probably with a hair-piece)

Adam

[Doctor No]

You can be balding and trying to look roguish or sleazy without making Bond look like an (donkey). Dalton deserved better than that . I would rather Bond have taken Jack Burton's "Henry Swanson" disguise/alias from "Big Trouble In Little China" than have that hair. Those of you that have seen BTILC know what I'm talking about!!

Edited by Doctor No, 17 March 2006 - 06:22 AM.

[Dalton's Wendy]

Hey, has no one ever noticed that this thread has a very bizarre title to it:

"Hairstyle Manfunction:Why the Dracula look in LTK?"

Manfunction?

Was this a Freudian slip, Tarl?

[medrecess]

With a good wig he could have looked nice but i think Dalton could have become bond in the early 80s

[Stephen Spotswood]

James Bond is the ultimate man function. Although come to think of it, it does sound rather onanistic.

[Dalton's Wendy]

With a good wig he could have looked nice but i think Dalton could have become bond in the early 80s

And he would have looked so spectacular then!

He was asked by Cubby Broccoli to take on the role in 1985, but he was too busy at the time with other projects.

James Bond is the ultimate man function.

Which is why I was convinced that Tarl's typo was entirely Freudian in nature!

[Mr. Somerset]

I think that Publius said it well. Dalton was balding in LTK and that's all that it comes down to. Yes, it's a bit of a "Dracula" look but in the long run, does it really matter? I would've KILLED to see him do Goldeneye! (But probably with a hair-piece)

Adam

I agree. I would've given him the haircut he had in The Rocketeer for GoldenEye, though.