![]() But while Octopussy falls back into autopilot through Roger Moore’s one-liners and disarming charm, Never Say Never Again leans into the plot of James Bond getting older. We can kind of put both of these films on an equal footing, as the basic structure for both stories sees 007 trying to stop an atomic bomb from ruining the world. Unfortunately, the tale drags on all eight tentacles, despite actually giving James Bond an atypical partner in Maud Adams’ titular smuggler/anti-hero. Mostly returning to the wit and charm of Moore’s sillier qualities, the story does have serious moments of tension that harken back to the killer edge Sir Roger had just shown two years ago. However, Octopussy has the ultimate strike against its own case of nuclear panic: it just happened to follow For Your Eyes Only, the best Roger Moore Bond film of all time. With a killer (literally) video game sequence, Kim Basinger as the new incarnation of Bond Woman Domino Petachi, and some humor added at the expense of Sean Connery’s aging 007, it seems like Never Say Never Again would likely be the loser. By its very nature, Never Say Never Again is a remake, taking Thunderball and updating it for the 1980s. This may feel like a simple open and shut case. Which 1983 James Bond Film Has The Better Story? We’ll save that story for another day though, as this ends our quick lesson, and allows us to launch into comparing James Bond’s official antics against his legally allowed, but still off brand hijinks.) (Though past that film’s existence, there’s several other attempts that saw everyone from Timothy Dalton to Liam Neeson potentially playing 007. Out of several attempts, one of which was co-scripted by Sean Connery himself, Never Say Never Again was the only one that actually succeeded. After a legal battle that eventually saw Kevin McClory win the rights to SPECTRE, Blofeld, and the story of Thunderball, the producer made it his mission to remake the film as many times as he possibly could. The only problem was, McClory thought that Fleming stole his ideas to create SPECTRE, as well as the tale of atomic threat at the hands of one Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and his villainous front of the moment, Maximillian Largo. Previously, in the 007 saga, author Ian Fleming and producer Kevin McClory worked on a concept that would eventually become Thunderball. Maybe it was to make sure he would look tall next to the leading women in heels.Wait, How Does Never Say Never Again Even Exist? ![]() Large enough for me to clearly notice it and think "hmm, those shoes look bigger than regular". ![]() ![]() One more thing I noticed the other day was that (again, in the 70's Bonds) Moore's dress shoes tended to have quite a large looking heel. What I said was that Moore was VISIBLY shorter, definitely not the taller one out of the two. Maybe he wasn't exactly "an inch" shorter than Michael Lonsdale, who cares. I also know a guy who is exactly my height and weighs 65 lbs less. I know a guy who is 2 inches taller than me but weighs 40 lbs less. Does that look like a big, bulky guy to you? He just simply had a smaller (thinner) frame. Even that b&w photo above on this site shows that. He did not have a broad chest, he was not very muscular in general (not a bodybuilder). Rory: I said "comparatively" narrow shoulders. I think the producers requirement for him to lose weight for Live and let die was precisely designed so that he would appear tall, not stubby, on screen. If your natural build is slim, there's no way out of it except to build a LOT of muscle (which Moore did not have) or appear to be overweight (which Moore did not do). I'll also repeat that being slim is very 'ordinary'. I did NOT mean he looked starved or underweight. That is actually what I meant earlier when I referred to Moore as being 'slim' or 'slender'. Dalton looked like a BIG guy, not just a tall guy. The comparison with Dalton being slightly more relevant I suppose, since not that much time had passed between his and Moore's Bonds.Īlso compare the build of Dalton vs. The significance of this is that Dalton is supposed to have been close or equal to 6'2" and Brosnan some measure shorter than Dalton. One more odd thing is that BOTH Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan looked clearly (meaning more than an inch) taller than Desmond Llewellyn, but Moore looked to be around the same height or just barely taller.
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