On Bond
I've been posting a lot about James Bond lately. Deal with it.
Gus and Jen stopped by earlier to give me my Christmas gift. Last year it was a U2 poster and a Borders gift card, which were excellent gifts. This year it was something every bit as appropriate: James Bond: The Legacy by John Cork and Bruce Scivally. I immediately made a point of finding the section about George Lazenby, the shortest-lived James Bond in history.
Earlier this year I watched Lazenby's film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with a high degree of skepticism. I'm quite honest in saying that it's one of the best 007 films there is. It doesn't fit the mold of the larger-than-life Bond films of Sean Connery and Roger Moore; in its own time, it was billed as "without gimmicks." George Lazenby as a human James Bond, and Telly Savalas as a very believable Blofeld make the movie a delight to watch, while retaining plenty of action and an exciting plot.
George Lazenby was a different sort of Bond, and in order to keep people from comparing him too negatively with Sean Connery, they engineered the film to be different than the ones Connery made. Unfortunately, it played poorly with the audiences because it was different than what they'd expected. Folks, if you have an opportunity, rent this film. If you dislike it, you're hopeless.
Gus and Jen stopped by earlier to give me my Christmas gift. Last year it was a U2 poster and a Borders gift card, which were excellent gifts. This year it was something every bit as appropriate: James Bond: The Legacy by John Cork and Bruce Scivally. I immediately made a point of finding the section about George Lazenby, the shortest-lived James Bond in history.
Earlier this year I watched Lazenby's film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, with a high degree of skepticism. I'm quite honest in saying that it's one of the best 007 films there is. It doesn't fit the mold of the larger-than-life Bond films of Sean Connery and Roger Moore; in its own time, it was billed as "without gimmicks." George Lazenby as a human James Bond, and Telly Savalas as a very believable Blofeld make the movie a delight to watch, while retaining plenty of action and an exciting plot.
George Lazenby was a different sort of Bond, and in order to keep people from comparing him too negatively with Sean Connery, they engineered the film to be different than the ones Connery made. Unfortunately, it played poorly with the audiences because it was different than what they'd expected. Folks, if you have an opportunity, rent this film. If you dislike it, you're hopeless.
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