Ahead of his time is what I always say. He portrays it similar to DC but in my opinion he's a much better actor. Infact probably the best actor to play him.
Watching this interview with Timothy Dalton and seeing the movie that was so good it's hard to believe it was his last Bond and to think he could have easily did three or four more 🎞️
After the lawsuit was settled, he was willing to come back for only one more but because of the time gap cubby said that he can’t do that he has to do more and he made the right and smart decision NOT to come back because he didn’t want what happened to Roger to happen to him
@@mohammedashian8094 I know, but it still sucks because we all wanted that film very badly. Broccoli would’ve just given him that one film we would’ve been happy, so blame it on him
Dalton should have gotten more recognition and credit than what he gets. When Dalton took over the role of James Bond in 1987 with The Living Daylights, he tried to accomplish a more darker and serious Bond closer to Fleming novel. His next Bond film liscense to kill was more of a pre cursor to Craig's Casino Royale. Liscense to Kill was very dark and gritty. This was not the kind of Bond people were ready for in 1989 because of all the escapism and humor we had with some of the previous Bond movies before Dalton took over the role. Dalton would have gotten more appreciation for his 2 Bond movies today, unlike which he did not receive in the late 80s. Daniel Craig learned how to play tje gritty Bond character by watching Timothy Dalton. Only when Daniel Craig took over Bond in 2006 Casino Royale people were ready for the real dark tone of Bond.
Lots of folks think Timothy Dalton got the “boot”, but in reality he was asked to do several more Bond films. Problem was that the studio was embroiled in a contentious lawsuit re: the film for 6 YEARS, and when they were finally ready to shoot, Timothy Dalton was no longer interested in playing Bond. Sigh
I don't believe that I think they wanted brosnan and they pushed Dalton out I can't believe he would say no to doing more Bond films but continue doing movies like The beautician and the beast that does not make any sense
@@bencool5823 Dalton said he would have done Goldeneye and no more. One must understand that action movies are mostly the product of the second unit. Actors are more like props in those movies. They really don't have breathing room. The films that you mentioned are bad but they allow Dalton to be a bit more creative.
If you look in to it a bit you can see what really happened the director himself said they didn't want him back either they wanted to start fresh no Dalton
I would have loved to see Dalton in a 3rd Bond adventure. He clearly loved the character and the movies, so would have given him a chance, like Moore and Craig, to perfect his Bond.
@@Selbstbetrachter The theory, like you said, doesn't make sense. Both of his films are very high in my list, such a shame he only got two in the end...
3:12 - This really summed up for me what's missing from more recent Bond movies. While they can be lighter and more silly or darker and more real etc, a James Bond film needs that unique level of magical escapism within a relatively real world scenario. Bond needs to be an ultimately fun hero - a dark and damaged human being but a hero nonetheless, taking on some evil figurehead and saving the day (or indeed the world). There needs to be a unique Bond movie style of elegance and exotic lavishness, being taken on a journey of intrigue, opulence, danger which is ultimately fun. Now, Bond movies seem to be becoming incredibly dreary affairs, straying too far from the whole point and quality of what makes a Bond film (whichever style or actor). They have become blue filtered, drab, depressing and often plain pretentious in an amateurish and cringy way - eg, the pretentious opera scene in QoS or in Skyfall having Bond randomly sitting in an art gallery brooding at some painting then having a dialogue with an over-acted Q which sounds utterly scripted and unnatural. Bond has become a fairly short, gingery blonde Russian henchman of a character who's always stiff, awkward and angry, saying "bloody" all the time for some reason (because Dalton said it once maybe) and always doing parkour chasing. Oh and every movie he leaves the service for some reason then gets asked back because of a big terrorist.
Agreed. Like what they were saying in this interview about keeping Bond movies original and finding new ways of doing things I understand it is tough and getting tougher to do that as the films go along and Bond has to evolve. But I think the Craig era has lost alot of elements that people like about Bond movies. I don't like Bond acting like a wounded animal all the time as you say brouding about this and that. I know Daniel Craig has said the same that he wants some of the old elements brought back in but keeping the good he has brought to the role.
@@grantmalone Because there was no point of difference in the marketplace. Up against major competition, "Licence to Kill" just looked like a television show and the general lack of style didn't help it.
I would switch Connery and Dalton (you can't beat King Connery!), but otherwise I totally agree. Brosnan was despicable in the role and Lazenby isn't an actor.
@@MemphisFlash84 Well, "Never Say Never Again" was not made for Eon productions, but by Kevin McClory for Warner Bros.; he only had the rights to the "Thunderball" story, so the film had to be a remake if it was supposed to be based on one of the original Bond stories. But I find Connery's performance quite enjoyable in the picture despite it being so shockingly, awfully bad.
"Bloody Brilliant Bond" Daltons portrayal was fantastic. Reinventing the character to the 80's. His gruffer, more exasperated tone was great. The iron curtain was falling and Pablo Esclabar was in the headlines. Drug Catrtels, gun runners- terrorists. The landscape was shifting and so too must Bond. I feel the later Craig movies are what we were destined for with Daltons. Grounded more "real" takes. If Dalton had continued, Jason Issacs rather than Brosnan taking the role if Dalton Bowed out. I grew up with Brosnan, but there's something about those two movies that really gripped me and I think it's Dalton himself. Craig, perhaps because I'm old and don't like new things, to me never was Bond. Until No Time to Die, Dalton just felt right. Aforementioned Issacs I think too fits that era well.
I honestly believe that Dalton and Pierce Brosnan look most like the original sketches of Bond than any other actor that has portrayed the character. They look like Bond, to me.
The finger accident happened when Benicio Del Toro accidently sliced Dalton's finger on the conveyer scene with his character's knife. But he was a class act about it from what I understand.
They should have let him come back to do more Bond films he would have been great it's clear he really loved the character and I don't believe that that he didn't want to come back I think they just wanted to replace him if you seen the movies he was doing after Bond like beautician and the beast come on like he would say no I'm not going to do Bond 📽️
You know, he turned the role down once already in his twenties. So I believe him. And he doesn't seem like someone who prevaricates very much. It is strange the crappy projects he's done, but I think he just loves acting. And Fran Drescher was an iconic actress in the 90s. It's not inconceivable it could have been successful like Clueless. I heard he was good in it, in any case.
@@ampa4989 you mean you never even seen beautician and the beast and your commenting on it . And if you research it like his interview on The arsenio Hall show in 1991 two years after license to kill was released arsenio Hall said to Timothy Dalton I have to ask you this are you coming back as Bond and he said oh yes I hope so we were supposed to do one last year but hopefully we can still make another one
@@bencool5823 Yes, he wanted to do it in 1991. But then the studio delayed the next one for another 3 years and he was no longer interested. So we'll have to agree to disagree. As for Beauty and the Beautician, no, I can't watch all his films because some of them are just so bad, even if he's good in it, though maybe I ought to give it a try.
@@ampa4989 The producers delayed production for five years because they didn't want Dalton back. In a 2016 interview director John Glenn said the producers wanted a new director. New writers and a new Bond so they could start fresh . But you can't blame Dalton it's easier to say you didn't want to come back then to say they didn't want you back. It's sad really to think he had to do Scarlet the TV soap opera movie instead of GoldenEye . But lazy people who are misinformed just read an article and think that's what happened. And as for beautician and the beast he was quite good in it and she was an iconic actress so maybe you should watch it before you give a review on 🎰🎲
@@bencool5823 I'll have to see the interview myself. But you seem awfully invested in the history of what transpired. I'm entitled to my opinion as much as you are to yours. Not everyone needs to be consumed with the history of an actor or a film :P
Dalton à vraiment le charisme d'un poulpe mort🥱 d'ailleurs le public ne s'y est pas trompé. Mal habillé dans des costumes trop grand ,007 n'était pas pour lui