I think like Sean Connery before him, Pierce Brosnan will now go on to a
rewarding career in older character parts. He's a fine actor not
frightened of playing the heavy. After Connery I always thought he was
the best 007, managing to bring (albeit not as strongly due to the
homogensation of the series that started with the last real Connery)
that icy edge of what the character is - a government paid assassin
doing wetwork for the British government's security services.
With GOLDFINGER came the window-dressing of bigger and bigger stunts and
the dumbing down of the charcter created by Fleming in his
wish-fillfilment fantasies.
Roger Moore, for me, was always just a big-screen extension of his SAINT
persona, a character already watered down from the Charteris originals.
The worst of the Moore Bond films are now virtually unwatchable.
Phil
Jonathan McKeown wrote:
How true, Joe. I wouldn't put it past them.
It almost sounds like Pierce didn't like playing James Bond. Or maybe he's
trying to
not sound hurt by the mere one phone. Trying to keep the ole ego from getting
bruised.
-- Jonathan
On 17 Aug 2005 at 21:58, Joe Bonelli wrote:
Surely the "young" Powers that Be will now happily anoint a younger, more
up-to-date Bond---
Can you say, "Eminem"???
"Hey, gurlfren,
"Wassup, ho?!
"Bon', James Bon,
"Yuh f>@%^in' Mo- Fo!"
Arghhh!!
Joe B.
From: Movielegends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2005/08/17 Wed PM 04:17:32 EDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] Goodbye Mr. Bond.....
Pierce Brosnan Out As James Bond Lead
NEW YORK (August 17) - A single, surprising phone call
and it was over. That's how Pierce Brosnan says he
learned that his services as James Bond would no
longer be required.
"One phone call, that's all it took!" the 52-year-old
actor tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its Aug.
19 issue.
Brosnan starred in four Bond films. He says that
before they stopped negotiations, the producers had
invited him back for a fifth time.
"You know, the movie career for me really started with
Bond," says Brosnan, acknowledging that by the time
"GoldenEye" premiered in 1995, he was already 42.
He then starred as 007 in "Tomorrow Never Dies"
(1997), "The World Is Not Enough" (1999) and "Die
Another Day" (2002).
His departure from the role was a "titanic jolt to the
system," says Brosnan, followed by "a great sense of
calm."
"I thought. ... I can do anything I want to do now.
I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled
by some contracted image. So there was a sense of
liberation."
Brosnan says he's grateful to have had the role, but
adds: "It never felt real to me. I never felt I had
complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these
stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always
felt phony doing them."
He plays a foulmouthed, skirt-chasing hit man in the
upcoming film "The Matador."
"(For this) to come on the heels of my departure from
the world of Bond is sweet grace, to play this one as
a farewell to that chapter in time - it certainly
wasn't planned."
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