Eps 1: James Bond Just Became a Triple-Oh Agent
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The second movie in this James Bond film listing is From Russia With Love, which also stars Sean Connery in the role of Bond. The second and final James Bond film to be directed by Timothy Dalton is one of the more underrated films in the franchise, License To Kill . Due to a combination of finances and legal disputes, Licence to Kill would become the final Bond movie for six years, and in that intervening time, there were many significant changes, perhaps the biggest being that producer Barbara Broccoli had his own take on Remington Steele starring Pierce Brosnan.
Robert Carlyle was great as the villain, and the movie would also see John Cleese make his first appearance as R. Unfortunately, this would also be the last James Bond film for the legendary Desmond Llewelyn as Q. Llewelyn was killed in a road accident soon after the films release. Our Man Flint stars James Coburn as unstoppable, incredibly competent agent Derek Flint. Just as the Bond franchise, Our Man Flint follows a covert operative on a dangerous assignment, traveling to foreign land in search of clues to an evildoer, only to be caught up in a final, high-tech, stylized showdown with the villains at a bad guys highly-technical, stylized lair.
Our Man Flint is also comedy, a send-up of everything that makes the Bond series so loved. Our Man Flint did very well at the box office, spawning a sequel in 1967, and also a Canadian TV series, but its biggest contribution to movie culture was bringing into the mainstream the revered tradition of James Bond spoof films. Our Man Flint elevated James Coburn from supporting actor to leading man, turned a profit for a major studio , and proved that parody films--both James Bond-related and not--could succeed in New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s. The comedy was an early Sean Connery-actor 007 film, was the debut for American actor Christopher Walken as Bond, and was also an uncharacteristically heartfelt action-drama, one in which we are meant to see the films central romantic relationship as an eternal courtship, not as a love affair.
Yes, A Comedic stars Actor Sean Connery in a role that made him a star, and the movie is a cutting-edge riff on the now-fashionable theme can James Bond prosper in a modern world. Alas, actor Sean Connery is starting to tire at this point, and twenty minutes of screentime spent turning James Bond into a Japanese man is at once insulting and tragically wasted in the comic. Scottish actor Sean Connery was the original Bond, and he is still considered the best by many fans of the more than two dozen films. I would say that part of the reason British actor Roger Moore is a bit of an underrated actor of James Bond is that his run ended in comedy.
In seven Bond appearances, Roger Moore became the oldest Bond actor, since he was 58 years old when he made his last Bond movie, A View To A Kill. The comically savvy British actor Roger Moore represents the biggest gap between film quality and Bonds chanting. Arguably the finest moment in Roger Moores time as the iconic superspy, The Spy Who Loved Me pairs Bond with lovable KGB agent Anya Amasova , a.k.a. The double-opportunity superspys partner has appeared or been mentioned in more than two dozen films.
Dr. No features a number of the iconic superspy staples, such as the head of Britains secret service, Ms secretary, Miss Moneypenny, and the CIAs Agent Felix Leiter, Bonds regular ally. Unidentified Two films, Thunderball and The World is Not Enough, feature scenes where James Bond is joined by groups of other Agents-00 at briefings. In the Ian Fleming novels about James Bond, and in the films that derived from them, MI6s Section 00 is considered elite within the intelligence services. Fictional characters do not get much more popular than James Bond, Ian Flemings disappointingly charismatic British secret-service agent.
Coincidentally, GoldenEye was also the first Bond movie to not be based on an Ian Fleming novel. As part of its plot, Sir James Bond , having assumed the identity M, decrees all MI6 agents--male and female--to rename themselves James Bond 007 to confound enemy agents from the SMERSH. In GoldenEye, the iconic superspy must prevent his former friend and Double-O fellow agent Alec Trevelyan from wiping out London using an electromagnetic pulse satellite. One interesting tidbit about GoldenEye is that James Bond producer AlbertCubbie Broccoli initially approached Steven Spielberg about making a film based on him, but he turned them down because he was doing post-production work on Jaws .