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Posted on 02/11/2010 9:48:45 AM PST by Perdogg
well to me, at least for that one particular movie....epic fail.
If he was trying, I didn’t hear it. Connery always spoke like Connery. I’d like to have imagined how he’d have handled the scenes in OHMSS when JB was having to do the “Sir Hilary Bray” English accent. They had to dub Lazenby, who couldn’t do it, and it would’ve looked awkward as hell dubbing over Connery. They might’ve just had Connery speaking normally.
And we saw how well that worked out.
I read somewhere that Ian Fleming wanted Cary Grant to play James Bond in Dr.No, but he was too expensive.
The biggest mistake of his career was being the clean-up guy for the Kennedys.
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Its a good movie. However the seen where he is in his under drawers ruined all my fantasy’s about Clint. He has a shovel butt.
They had a black guy playing M’s right hand man in the Pierce Brosnan era. He looked good for the role. Clive Owen is my pick, but I like the way craig is portraying the role.
Big Deadwood fan here. Also Open Range with Costner and Duvall. I have read that thew gunfight in the street with the locals joining in against the bad guys is very realistic.
Good song
Grant’s problem is that by 1962, he was 58, too old to start the role. He stopped acting not long after as it was. If the role had been around in the ‘30s, he’d have done well then.
That makes sense. Of course, had Lord stuck around, it probably would’ve launched him into a substantial film career instead of his ending up on “Hawaii Five-O” (not that that wasn’t a nice deal, but movie star ranks above tv star).
The first James Bond movie with ian Fleming. Ivar Bryce, Kevin mcclory and Jack Whittingham (Xanadu productions)wanted to have Richard Burton play Bond, Shirley Mclain play Domino and they wanted the movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Even though the westerns were made by an Italian company, the subject matter was the American west with American characters being portrayed. Your analogy is pi** poor given the fact James Bond was a British character working for the British government.
Welsh Bond, hey ! Shirley MacLaine would’ve been just ridonkulous. Who was going to play Largo ? Peter Lorre ?
Initially Fleming was skeptical of Connery as Bond but after the initial success he warmed to Connery. In response he decided to give Bond a Scottish background and that is what he wrote into the novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Fleming died in 1964 so he only saw the first two movies Dr. No and From Russia With Love.
I kind of thought that Eastwood charactor in Gran Torino was like an old Gunny Highway from “Heartbreak Ridge”.
Eastwood was right about passing on the Bond movie. That was written for a British actor and an American couldnt pull it off like Connery could.
He also wrote it in Bond’s obit in “You Only Live Twice”.
Mary Goodnight ‘wrote’ her famous “I shall not spend the remainder of my life trying to extend it” in the same chapter.
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