He did not care about the females
#1
Posted 15 March 2011 - 04:39 PM
#2
Posted 15 March 2011 - 08:10 PM
This is what I like about Timothy Dalton. The mission was more important than the females. What do you think?
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Seriously now...females?
#3
Posted 15 March 2011 - 08:20 PM
This is what I like about Timothy Dalton. The mission was more important than the females. What do you think?
I don't think so, even so it would move him closer to Fleming's Bond.
#4
Posted 16 March 2011 - 02:23 AM
Edited by AMC Hornet, 16 March 2011 - 02:26 AM.
#5
Posted 16 March 2011 - 05:52 PM
#6
Posted 16 March 2011 - 06:11 PM
#7
Posted 16 March 2011 - 07:26 PM
I actually find TLD to be the most romantic film of the series. The main reason for this is that Bond and Kara are in a situation together and Bond actually romances her. The dress, the carnival etc. In both OHMSS and CR, the romance just sort of happens, we don't really see the build up to them falling in love.
Indeed. Could not have said it better.
#8
Posted 16 March 2011 - 08:48 PM
I actually find TLD to be the most romantic film of the series. The main reason for this is that Bond and Kara are in a situation together and Bond actually romances her. The dress, the carnival etc. In both OHMSS and CR, the romance just sort of happens, we don't really see the build up to them falling in love.
So true! I mean, they attempt to build up the scene with the Louis Armstrong theme "We Have All The Time In The World" playing, but yeah it seems rushed. But with The Living Daylights, it is played out very well. You're so right. Well said.
#9
Posted 17 March 2011 - 05:05 AM
#10
Posted 17 March 2011 - 07:15 AM
#11
Posted 17 March 2011 - 11:00 AM
#12
Posted 17 March 2011 - 01:28 PM
Dalton's Bond was very much one on one. Predatory. He presents a tough exterior to the majority of people because he doesn't have time for garbage. I imagine he would seek out others with similar character traits and ideologies. He's looking for a genuine connection and someone to trust. But as we know, that's few and far between. If you can get in, there'd be no-one nicer or more intensely committed.
I agree there, Dalton's Bond seems on the lookout for something that basically doesn't exist - or is so rare as makes no difference. But much of this is only implied and not really seen in the two films. So it's interesting here that neither Kara nor Pam seem to fit that particular mould. Kara not at all (she's more the innocent-bystander type and much too naive) and Pam only up to a point. She is a committed professional, but on a different level and from a different perspective.
I imagine the break with Kara came after the third or so call from headquarters, while she was on world tour and met that famously talented young conductor who was after her for a year already and later became principal conductor of the LSO.
The break with Pam probably came when Bond got the assignment to wipe out a bunch of arms dealers. Which happened to be a black ops mission of the pick-your-three-American-letters-and-it's-not-*ss. Bond accomplished his mission. Pam didn't.