![]() ![]() Moore also played the role of the thief/detective Simon Templar on the TV series “The Saint”, and teamed up with Tony Curtis for “The Persuaders” series as well.(admittingly I have not seen either). He was also well known as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador(United Nations Children’s fund). The third James Bond after Connery and Lazenby, he featured in seven Bond films, outranking Connery by one film. Certainly too old (I'm probably imagining a more FYEO/OP vintage of Moore), and yet.Roger Moore died today. Here's a pic of him in a film released the year after. Tone-wise the end of that film is not a million miles from LTK at times, and certainly feels like the same director. ![]() When he's blown he's actually sarcastic with Zorin and spits his lines at him. Even if you watch AVTAK, one of the things which I was quite surprised is that Roger is mostly playing it quite straight, and by the time the film has moved to San Francisco there is a bit more grit there, and he's playing Bond as absolutely despising Zorin, which I don't think he'd really done with any of his villains before. I know it's a bit of a joke, and the thought is that he'd have had to make quips at every point, but the more I think of it the more I think he'd have actually managed it fine, and I can't think of a scene he'd really struggle with in it. I think superado's point about the film featuring his Felix is a fine one too there would certainly be more chemistry there. I'll do anything for a woman with a knife, that's for sure" The weird thing is, I actually don't find it too hard to imagine! □ Certainly he'd slot into the PTS no trouble at all ("Felix, relax", "Friends of yours perhaps?", "Well, if I, er, don't get you back for the wedding, I'm a dead man, certainly!" "I always said we should go fishing, Felix!") I think at the wedding party he might have been less of a terrible grump and brought out the charm, so you might even have got a feel for why Bond and Felix are supposed to be friends, unlike in the finished film! "Well, er. It's tempting to speculate that it was on the strength of Moore's TWG material that Glen, wearing his director's hat, felt that he could ask the actor to perform Bond's vengeance on Locque in FYEO as vindictive (with that kick!) LTK was written with Dalton's Bond in mind, but in that gritty TWG scene we see Moore - midway through his Lewis Gilbert Bond romps - as every bit as ruthless/ dark/ vengeful as the LTK Dalton, even more so! I remember first seeing TWG in 1978 and reacting to that particular Moore scene with: wow! ![]() ![]() Witness his "On your knees and eat!" scene as Sean Finn in 'The Wild Geese' (1978), when, outraged by a girl's death with an overdose, he forces a mafioso supplier to scoff huge quantities of his Class A drug! Maybe that's just because he saw Bond in a certain light.īut could he have acted it? Yes (questions of age and timelines aside). I think a Roger Moore who'd had qualms about his Bond kicking Locque over the cliff edge, or about Zorin letting fly with an automatic weapon on defenceless miners, might have balked at playing some of LTK's darker themes and moments. ![]()
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