you are not dom ive been a staunch dalton defender for years and its wonderful to finally see him getting some appreciation on these threads. It has taken a fair few years but im pleased to see quite a lot of praise for his version of bond. I think the problem was it was way ahead of its time and audiences were probably not ready for such a dramatic change of tone.
Definitely, such a shame he didn't get to do more. Fleming would have approved, I think. I love both of Dalton's films, when I saw The Living Daylights at the age of 12, it totally blew me away. Still does. One of the very best, I reckon.
Not _especially_ before his time. His approach worked *really well* with the slight Roger Moore hangover. It worked like....like....like that little bit of mint jelly you get with your lamb chops. A contrast and a counterpoint, yet somehow they go together and achieve a complete whole. That's what's missing in the Craig era--the deftness, the lightness of touch, through which a dark Bond grounds it.
mts ts I also have the feeling Dalton is underrated because he has done only two films. If he had done, say, five the audience would have been much more used to him.
3:31 is John Barry's way of saying: 'welcome to a new era of Bond' - a grand departure away from those slow, creeping, haunting orchestral overtures to the James Bond theme. What a man. What a Bond. What a film.
Dalton was awesome as bond. To date, this is still my favorite bond movie. Loved how he operated like Indiana jones... Got the job done, but always by the seat of his paints. Grounded him more then any other Bond to me.
Dalton was a great Bond. The producers had their eye on him going back to OHMSS. He had the gumption to acknowledge he was too young to play him at that point. Great theatrical actor. He knew exactly how to play Bond. True to the books in terms of portrayal of the character. I agree with some of the comments down here that he was before his time. Anyone seen him in Penny Dreadful? He's a fantastic actor!
We can only imagine what could have been if he was in ‘Goldeneye’: his ruthlessness battling it out with Alex Trevelyan, pissing off Valentin Zukovsky and getting sexual with Xenia Onatopp
It seems like there’s a an age bracket established by Bond actors. Roger Moore wanted to stop because he was getting old, and an actor who was rumored to play Bond said he was too young for the role. That’s something!
JAMES BOND WAS NOT AN ASSASSIN NOR COLD-BLOODED FFS! Everyone and their granny now says and thinks this. Actually read the books, James Bond was a spy with a special "licence to kill" and a tiny sidearm as an emergency thing, and the SIS would use the double-O section VERY occasionally for really necessary assassinations abroad. He was NOT a hit-man, he was a spy and secret government investigator. He also literally is described many times as never killing in cold blood and having a real dislike of doing so. Most of his jobs were investigatory work that just happen to land him in so much difficulty that he is forced to shoot his way out or escape in some dramatic fashion. In about 2 stories he was actually sent on a hit job, and those were very rare often with even M humming and hawing over whether or not to go ahead with it at all. In fact, a few of the novels explain how most of the time Bond is stuck in an office doing paperwork even. I swear people are so thick and gullible. Literally everyone says now Bond is a "cold-blooded assassin". For anyone who has actually read and paid attention to the novels that is like hearing everyone saying an apple is an orange... I do not know where this massive ignorance surrounding the original character of James Bond came from, but it's total bollox. He actively avoids killing anyone unless they are imminently trying to kill him or others first. The very few times he is forced to kill (or attempt to anyway) in cold blood, he utterly reels from it and tries to avoid doing it. It's clearly stated in many of the novels and is a major part of his character.
He was supposed to do 1 more in '91 but due to the powers to be involved in a lawsuit it took a 5 year hiatus. After everything was settle , TD was still up to do 1 more but Cubby Broccoli told him he would have to make 5 more films since it was a 5 year hiatus then that's when TD declined and Pierce Brosnan replaced him for the next 8 years.
actually he was scheduled to do 3 but due to the 6 yr legal hiatus between ltk and ge he left cause he no longer wanted to play bond...james bond you have just read a james bond fact from john rooney thats my alias my real name will never be mentioned ever in this universe have a good day weekend whatever day it is when you read this comment
He only did two because Licence to Kill never smashed the box office in America and audience just weren't buying into him and the contract with the 007 crew and MGM had ended because of it as Licence to Kill was too over rated. At the same time Albert Broccoli took heart problems and stopped producing until his daughter took over in 1994 and asked Timothy Dalton to return but he thought with 5 years having passed that he was getting too old for the role and the role went to Pierce Brosnan who was originally suggested for bond in The Living Daylights
Eon did start some pre-production work on the 17th movie provisionally entitled “The Property of a Lady” but obviously this came to nothing. However some elements e.g. the assault on the Soviet nerve gas plant were taken over for Goldeneye.
@@gregkirby9059 not actually. Dalton was offered the role of Bond before Brosnan many times. After view to a kill. Dalton was busy filming Brenda Starr. So he couldn't take the role. They moved on to Brosnan. Then Brosnan thankfully could not take the role after NBC renewed his contract. By then Dalton was free to start filming the Living daylights. Dalton only did two films because of a lawsuit that held up filming his third and fourth films. By the time the lawsuit was over. Dalton wanted to move on. He did offer to do Goldeneye. But the producers wanted Dalton to do five more films.Dalton said no thanks. He waited long enough.
Fantastic music. The film is and always was underrated. It was the last Bond movie released during the cold war. An very topical geo-political storyline with Jihadis featuring prominently. It was 10 years ahead of its time.
Exactly why I didn't like him or Craig. The movie Bond and the book Bond are two different characters. One is a gritty killer and the other is a suave, debonair lady's man with gadgets, fast cars and knack for saving the world from villains who would dominate it. I don't like Fleming's Bond, though I wouldn't mind seeing Gardner's Bond on the silver screen. Just as Brosnan blended the best of Connery and Moore, Gardner blended the best of the Fleming and the Broccoli/Saltzman Bond. Nobody Lives Forever would make an awesome film. So would Icebreaker for that matter. And let me throw in Role of Honor for "honerable mention."
@@esotericsage6914 I disagree. Roger and Brosnan made Bond way too campy. James Bond needs highstakes and danger a d neither achieved that in thier tenure as Bond. Craig, Dalton and Connery are better Bonds.
@@eramos8916 I agree to disagree. Not on the Connery front, but Craig and Dalton? Please. You say highstakes and danger, I say gadgets and one liners. The Living Daylights wasn't bad but License to Kill was barely a Bond movie and Craig was so far removed from everything Salazar and Broccoli made Bond out to be that I don't even recognize them as a 007 movies.
The music in every scene is so well done and it makes the film as good as it is. He is a master and will always be associated with Bond. Bond wouldn't be Bond without him.
I know for a fact he did actually held on to the roof of the car in this scene. Don't know about jumping out of the plane, though he did do the parachute scene in Licence to Kill.
Dalton did do most of his own stunts “if you see it’s me, its me... if you believe it’s me it’s me! A famous quote dalton once said in an interview regarding stunts
He was on the plane indeed but if you watch the making of, stunt doubles we’re hanging out the back of the c130 on the sack of medical supplies. Then when they went into the studio that had a back ground and a mock-up of the c130 door and rear ramp and Dalton and Wiesniewski did their close up shots and then it was cut together.
Great soundtrack to a great Bond Movie. I was born in 1986 and was brought up on reruns of mostly Roger Moore era Bond movies. As I got older, I learned to appreciate and enjoy the Sean Connery era Bond Movies. I've now seen pretty much all the Bond movies. I can see how Timothy Dalton was a good choice to play James Bond in 1987 and 1989. The action sequences in both his Bond movies resemble similar sort of action scenes in other 80's era action movies. The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill was certainly better suited for Timothy Dalton than it would of been for Roger Moore. It is a shame Timothy Dalton did not get to reprise the role again after Licence to kill. Oh well such is life.
It was sad that this was John Barry's last James Bond soundtrack. I loved how he tried to modernise the sound on this movie by bringing in the drum machine and synths into the mix.
Of all the post-Cubby Broccoli sins that WIslon and Barbara Broccoli have committed, never bringing Barry back for another Bond score is among the most egregious.
I knew when I first saw Dalton in FLASH GORDAN that he was going to be bigger then Prince Baron. I thought he deserved a better Bond review then he got, too.
*Get down on your knees, now hands behind your back* You are professional.... You do not kill without reason... OH MY DAYS... This is why Dalton's Bond was the best... A vengeful Bond but one who doesn't mess around!
Dalton's Bond was the best Bond. It had the perfect mix of everything and James Bond felt like a forced to be reckoned with unlike the cartoonish bond before him.
I like how RU-vid brings people with the same interest together and I get to see other people's opinions on Dalton. I'm born in the 90s and most of the people I speak with IRL have never seen a pre-Brosnan Bond film, except perhaps one or two with Connery.
+Every Year in Music Playlists That's because they are around your age and haven't explored past their lifetime to see the original Bond films. Sad really, because there are LOTS of pre-me and pre-you Bond films! I was born in 1979 and even I'm "too young" for older-than-me Bond films, yet I've seen them and love them! Classic Bond IMO was the BEST Bond. But, I do love Dalton's role here too!
+lisardo weisert I was born in 1995 and my first bond film I saw was live and let die. I watched Roger Moore run over Crododiles. From that moment on, I was obsessed with James Bond.
I was born in '96. Had quite a few run-ins with some classic Bond films at a young age (mostly Roger Moore and Sean Connery), but then I got older. Found out about Dalton... he makes for a damned good Bond, if not the best Bond due to his dedication to playing him by the books. Never did particularly like Craig... Moore was cheesy at best. Connery was definitely clear-cut for the role, while Brosnan felt like a mix between Connery and Craig. Lighthearted when things are looking up, but deadly serious when things are getting down and dirty. Never did get to see Lazenby's interpretation of Bond, but I hear it wasn't half-bad. The Living Daylights will always be one of my top picks for Bond films... but I still have to say Goldeneye is my personal favorite. Goldfinger is a little dated, but still works excellent. Hard to say what was best from Moore...
Something about the Bond theme being played with horns and strings instead of a guitar riff.....that elevates it to epic status. Fits the film and Dalton's Bond to a T.
When Roger Moore dies, a newspaper in my country had the headline as "THE BOND WHO CAME IN BETWEEN..." When Dalton will die, i wish they print "THE BOND WHO CAME BEFORE HIS TIME..." Had Dalton been in Goldeneye, it would have been more awesome. The license to kill is my favourite, for in it Bond in reel resembles more closely to the Bond in print!
Loved Timothy Dalton as Bond but I Loved Goldeneye with Pierce Brosnan but Dalton could easily have pulled off View To a Kill wasn't a fan of Moore tbh but by then he looked too old to be a secret agent anyway.
+Griffin Tremaine That was always the problem with John Barry. He was brilliant, he was also an idiot. He put completely different pieces on the same song. Didnt think much about his listeners, and for that and his over-use of horns, hes only my third favorite Bond composer. He had moments of brilliance, but my GOD was he inconsistent.
Arguably one of the better 007 movies. Timothy Dalton WAS 007 to me. And he always will be over every other one and I wish he'd gotten to be in Goldeneye over Brosnan.
The Living daylights is my second favorite Bond film, License to kill is in my bottom 5 though cause of how it tries to be another Die hard or Lethal weapon.
He had the grit and seriousness of Daniel Craig's Bond, but retained enough of the charm and humour from earlier Bond incarnations to be a better all round package, especially in The Living Daylights. The Barry music in the movie was eternally memorable as always. The blond KGB assasin disguised as a fake British milkman was a pretty cool Billy Idol-esque baddie too.
This opening sequence is up there with the spy who loved me for shear escapism.....I've believed in bond all my Life as an ideal to aspire too,maybe I'm just a dreamer fool.....but because of him I've never sat on the fence....done some incredible things.....I hope my son's too get bond and Barry in there blood.......thankyou 007👍
I don't understand the comparison of Dalton and Craig. Dalton actually resembled Fleming's Bond and although he had an edge, he still had a certain refinement that Craig lacks.
