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Originally Posted by Narfle
According to himself in an interview i saw once, it was because of his agent at the time advising him that if he continued to take the role of Bond, he would never be able to get any other kinda parts and forever be associated with that exact type of character.
Just the thinking of Dalton makes me want to spark up the old AHA albums : )
And its good to see i wasnt the only one that voted for him.
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I'm actually pleased to see him getting votes. What I respect about Dalton is how seriously he took the role. He'd thought a decade or more beforehand how he wanted to play Bond : less like a suave, wise-cracking playboy; more like a deadly assassin. You have to respect that he held out for the role until he thought audiences would accept a new style of Bond.
The problem with playing Bond more straight, however, is you make him like almost every other action hero. Bond was the original one-liner action hero. His style of humor defines the movies more than anything else. When you remove it from the equation, you're left with Rambo, Commando, The Matrix, Batman. All great movies but if we'd wanted an action hero for Bond, let's face it, would we really have chosen Tim Dalton over the numerous hardmen of cinema? I think whats so great about Bond as a movie character is how hard he is to cast. You need the coolest, most handsome, toughest motherfucker on two legs.
I'm not gonna knock Dalton, but I think he would have done better if he'd injected more humor into the role.