Wow! Can't believe only one comment! I guess folks did not appreciate your "un-Bonding" of Bond from the franchise! Most 007 fans can be so touchy! Lol I loved your insights & I made similiar comparisons, myself, while watching Tailor. I will have to watch it again because it's been a long time since I saw it. Never watched the other movie, I'll have to look that one up, too! I totally get what you are saying, and it certainly seems correct. Gives me a little more respect for Pierce too. Thanx for your hard work! :-)))))
Thanks. Yes, I do feel that Brosnan's impact on the whole James Bond mythos needs to encompass non-Bond films he did such as Tailor, Matador, etc. where he and the filmmakers are seemingly doing a "play" on the Bond character. Glad you enjoyed and have had similar feelings / impressions!
If Brosnan would've played Bond right after Moore, I feel he and the producers would've kept with the "old formula" model, all because he revered both Moore and Connery's takes. However, I also deeply believe Dalton's two experimental outliers may have influenced Brosnan to want more out of the character and the films, hence his "peel back the layers" comment that would frequently come up during his tenure. Of course, there most likely were clashes of ideas: Brosnan wanting to do darker stuff, and the producers wanting to mostly play it safe, for box office sakes. And so, the compromises for both are on display in his films, sometimes with muddled results. He's The Composite Bond (a mixture of Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton). And his films are like standard Bond movies, with a dash of "this time, it's personal" in each of them. I think he really desired to make them more in the vein of OHMSS, and you can see it especially "The World is Not Enough." But in the end, "playing it safe" overruled the "layer-peeling" most of the time, so Brosnan did deep dives into the type of Bond he wanted to play, through works outside of the franchise. Hence Thomas Crown, The Matador, and Tailor; shucks, even with The November Man. These films are almost his way of saying to Bond fans, "Hey, these here are what I REALLY wanted to do with James!"
Wow! Can't believe only one comment! I guess folks did not appreciate your "un-Bonding" of Bond from the franchise! Most 007 fans can be so touchy! Lol I loved your insights & I made similiar comparisons, myself, while watching Tailor. I will have to watch it again because it's been a long time since I saw it. Never watched the other movie, I'll have to look that one up, too! I totally get what you are saying, and it certainly seems correct. Gives me a little more respect for Pierce too. Thanx for your hard work! :-)))))
Thanks. Yes, I do feel that Brosnan's impact on the whole James Bond mythos needs to encompass non-Bond films he did such as Tailor, Matador, etc. where he and the filmmakers are seemingly doing a "play" on the Bond character. Glad you enjoyed and have had similar feelings / impressions!
If Brosnan would've played Bond right after Moore, I feel he and the producers would've kept with the "old formula" model, all because he revered both Moore and Connery's takes. However, I also deeply believe Dalton's two experimental outliers may have influenced Brosnan to want more out of the character and the films, hence his "peel back the layers" comment that would frequently come up during his tenure. Of course, there most likely were clashes of ideas: Brosnan wanting to do darker stuff, and the producers wanting to mostly play it safe, for box office sakes. And so, the compromises for both are on display in his films, sometimes with muddled results. He's The Composite Bond (a mixture of Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton). And his films are like standard Bond movies, with a dash of "this time, it's personal" in each of them. I think he really desired to make them more in the vein of OHMSS, and you can see it especially "The World is Not Enough." But in the end, "playing it safe" overruled the "layer-peeling" most of the time, so Brosnan did deep dives into the type of Bond he wanted to play, through works outside of the franchise. Hence Thomas Crown, The Matador, and Tailor; shucks, even with The November Man. These films are almost his way of saying to Bond fans, "Hey, these here are what I REALLY wanted to do with James!"
Hmmm... I see here that you seemed to have fixed your audio mixing. Nice job. Please disregard my previous criticism! :D
No worries. The music volume-to-commentary is always a bit tricky, so feedback is good. :)