Interesting how they said he was too dark and brooding to be Bond at the time. Now they love the dark and brooding Daniel Craig as Bond. Guess he was ahead of his time. He should get more respect for his Bond portrayal.
shareHe wasn't dark and brooding to the point of being charmless. He played a good conflicted Bond with flashes of debonair bravado when the scene called for it.
shareFor those of us who read the novels, he personified Fleming's actual description of Bond's physical attributes.
shareAgreed db-
Bond was nearly suicidal in the old/original Fleming novels (drinking/chain-smoking/did not care anymore)
He felt really awful about killing those first few targets and it was pretty well written story-wise...really liked most of the movies but only Dalton and Lazenby played the human side of the role
Not quite sure about Lazenby, but Dalton seemed to have the chiseled features, black hair and steely, cold, blue eyes and intensity Fleming attributed to the character.
shareYeah Dalton was cool and kinda angsty as Bond should be
Check out Lazenby's one and only performance as Bond sometime when youre free...good movie
Dalton's problem was he agreed to do Living Daylights as it was written for Roger Moore. I think when it did poorly they decided to drop him but he was already filming License to Kill which was made for his style. Unfortunately the box office suffered for it.
shareMy third favorite Bond and leagues better than Craig who needs to fucking go already.
shareGoing for “dark and brooding”(like everyone else)....was fucking stupid.
The BOND formula ain’t about trying to be John fucking McClane or Jason Bourne.
By embracing a uniform VANILLA formula...they destroyed the mystique that made Bond stand out.
Personally...I LIKED Timothy Dalton as Bond.
But he was shit as Rhett Butler.
I liked Dalton as well. Craig plays Bond very cold and charmless.
shareI wish Dalton had gotten both A View to a Kill and Goldeneye. That would have solidified his run as one of the best.
shareDalton was good, pity he didn't do more than 2. Sam Neil done a test for Living Daylights and I think he would have been good but not as good as T-DALT . See below ⤵
https://youtu.be/5_qEo0D3N94
I just really like people referring to this guy as T-DALT. All Bonds should be given a hip-hop type moniker:
R-MOOR
$-CONN
P-BROS
D-CRAIG
and MC LAZ