Hello and welcome to Retrospection where we take an old show or film as if it's still shepping off to be slapped with a double O rating like just a big fat zero. In this episode, we're looking at Timothy Dalton's debut as James Bond in The Living Daylight from 1989. Hello to all our listeners, my name's Colin and we have an old saying too, Gageg, and you're full of it. And I'm Paul and anytime you want to listen to my Barry Manolo collection.
You have a Barry Manolo collection, too. There is a Barry Manolo collection in the house, I wouldn't say it's mine. Oh, it's yours. That was more creepy than what I said.
The plot, as IMDB claims, is James Bond in Sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies and uncovers an arm steal that potentially has major global ramifications. So are we accurate? Yes, not bad one, right? Yes, not bad one.
You can have written that. Thanks, I think. Is that Slara on your writing card? No worries.
Oh, okay. Or is it a Slara on IMDB? So, Blake, I'm a good flat one. All right.
It's there. It's two feet altered as James Bond. Maryam Diabo, Esquero, Niavi. Jerome Krab, General Guillaki, Koskov, Joe Donbakos, Brad Whitaker, John Rees Davis, General Leonid Pushkin, Erzmalak as Cameron Shaw, Desmouli Wellness Q, Robert Brown as Em and Caroline Bliss as Miss Ronnie Penny.
Did well with some of those names. I wonder where you were going to go. Thanks. I think I folded off.
It was good to go. Nobody knows. Music's about John Barry with the theme song performed by Aha. What do you think of the theme song?
Sorry, I like it. It's one of the better ones. Yeah, I think I had it on 7-inch single. From back then.
Sorry? What's a 7-inch single? As my son asked me when I had one play and it was stuck in the groove, he said, Dad, he's that buffering. I like her hair though.
Yeah, I quite like her hair as well. They didn't get along with John Barry when they were doing it, did they? Oh, I heard that. Yes.
It's in the documentaries I watched. Yes. You know, apparently there's two versions of this. There's the version that was released for the movie and then their own version that which was on their album, which they think is better.
It's minus all the strings and it's fine. They're getting it right. So it removes everything that makes it a bumsong. Pretty much, yeah.
It's a bit of a ha ha ha ha. It's a ha ha ha ha. What are we doing? I'm not drinking.
And it's directed by veteran Bond, Helmer John Glenn, who also directed The Smile Love Me and Moonraker. And the non-op Bond films, The Seawalls, The Wild Gies and Murphy's War. And you've got to say that he's got a good eye. It looks very, very good.
It's a lovely shot at times this film. Yeah. John Glenn is one of the better Bond directors, right? Yes, yes.
We could do with the John Glenn now, couldn't we? You said that, not me. I don't know what you're talking about, Pa. Can't first show.
You guys true. So a little bit of info. Originally conceived as a prequel in the series to introduce Smursh. Smursh is a part man toe of the Russian words, she meant to be an up, death to spies.
Smursh was a real organisation. It was formed in 1942 and decided to stop the Germans from infiltrating the Red Army on the Eastern front. So why didn't they use it then? I read that it was also designed to be, as you say, a prequel for a young Bond, wasn't it?
It was supposed to be Bond younger. And I read that it was supposed to end where he was going to go off in his mission to confront Dr. Natto. Oh, I see.
OK. And then I dropped that idea. Oh, we can't confuse it. Hey, wouldn't it?
Although they kind of did it like with Daniel Craig, didn't they? I mean, he's a reboot and prequel kind of thing. Yeah. Other choices for this new Bond to Sam Neil and Pierce Brosnan.
The Remington Steel, which is the TV show that Brosnan was in, had just been cancelled. But they were interested in Brosnan increasing because of his possibility of playing Bond. NBC exercised a 60-day option in his contract to make another series of Remington Steel. This made broccoli withdraw the offer because he didn't want Bond's connected with a TV series.
Thus, interesting Remington Steel died down and only five episodes of the new series was filmed. And Brosnan had to wait another six years to get the chance to play the British spy. I bet he was gutted. I bet.
I mean, it pretty much has said numerous times that he was, right? Never stops talking about it. Didn't they even go so far as to kind of announce that he was going to be the next one? I'm pretty sure they had a press conference.
Oh, really? I think it's on one of the Blu-rays, I think. Oh, gosh. Yeah.
They had to go backtrack afterwards. But I think it was right, though. Maybe he was a little bit too young. Oh, you think?
OK. Back in the Remington Steel days, he was a little bit too young, looking. Which is interesting. The same thing happened to Dalton.
Dalton was actually considered for Bond five times before this. Five times. Five times, yeah. So the first one was in 1969, believe it or not, when they were making a Majesty's Secret Service.
Was he 12? He was very young. But it was felt that he was too young after he, um, to be tested for it. Right.
And then again, he's 71 for diamonds. This time he turned it down because he felt he was too young. OK. Um, and then again, in 1883, for your eyes and octopussy.
Um, and that was when each time it was uncertain for Roger Moore was going to come back. But even at this point, Dalton took some persuading to take the role of Bond. Exactly. And the last time was for a view to a kill when they weren't sure that Roger Moore was going to come back.
And he declined because he had previous commitments. Right. So too much in being asked five times. Yeah, it's almost like your dating technique.
Well, you know, if you're personal enough, you get a result, don't you? Yeah. I didn't. Yeah.
I didn't. Yeah. OK. Yeah.
I can't, I can't sell one's usually. Yes. Yes. That's not good advice.
Don't, yeah. Yeah. I think that was a good move for him. I think we'll talk about that as we talk about the movie, because there's certain things in this that don't really work.
I think. And I know it does, but there are things that don't work. Yeah. And I read something about this a long time ago, but I can't find it now to confirm it.
So I'll talk about that as well, which links to that. Fun fact. Have you got one? Yeah.
One. The Macar. All right. The Macar squawking in the kitchen, a blade in the house where Nick cross attacks the offices is the same Macar from the end of Foyara eyes only.
Wow. Yeah. The things that bird scene. Yeah, I know it's.
Roger Moore's sagging breasts. And God, how was he? We go with this. And some breasts that weren't saying lovely, lovely, lovely.
Do you have anything else to say before we leap into the trailer? I was going to say this is apparently the last one moving with an original inflamy time until casino I out in 2006. You know, I am D when you often get these facts that you never know whether they're true or not. And they're usually about actors that offered the part.
Yes. Yes. The great one I read was that apparently Christopher Reeve turned out a million dollar contract to play bottomed in this movie. All right.
First thing is not British. So everything a million dollars is not really that much to play James Bond, is it? It was the broccoli star. I mean, the animator is a frugal, aren't they?
Well, yeah, but still that's like nothing, right? Yeah, I thought it wasn't that much for it either. No. Even in 1986.
Yeah, that must have been, yeah. Okay, imagine that much. Did you read that the ending was originally supposed to have parodies of trails and Diana in it in the same way that they'd done parodies of Margaret Thatcher and Dennis? That would have dated.
It would have dated almost as much as they get a blaster later. Yeah. Yeah. This was an interesting one.
When it was unclear if Roger Moore would return, the producers came up with an idea just in case he did come back, where they would have pitted him against an evil villainous played by Betty Davis. That's very interesting. Imagine that. I can.
I'm doing it right now. He's very right age at that point, wasn't it? Yeah, but the bum girl would have still been half his age. Well, more than half his age, half his age is still to hold.
Well, I don't, I don't hate to see Roger Moore going up against Betty Davis. That would have been. That's a whole different film, par. That's a going up against, rubbing up against.
Oh, OK. The two other facts that I thought were interesting was the pressure boys were actually originally appointed to do the song, but they actually thought they were going to get to do the soundtrack as well. I would love to hear a pet shop boy's theme tune for the Bond films. I think they'd be perfect for it.
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Another fun fact for you Colin that I found just for you.
Just for you. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on.
Let me strap in. You're going to want to strap in for this. Trust me. One of the actresses who were originally auditioned for the role of Cara was Matilda May.
Oh, really? No, she's supposed to be Russian, right? It would have confused 80s audiences, let's say. Not no, I don't think, but I think in the 80s it would have confused people.
Yeah, maybe still. I would have liked it. Never a true or would have said my podcast. That's right.
OK, so do you want to play the trailer? Yeah, let's hear the trailer. That music segment is back from the model of James Bond. A girl must get very talented.
Shoot her. Believe me, my interest in Cara is purely professional. What is this? I have a few optional extras installed.
Wherever he goes, adventure follows. With I'm in a dead cosgos named you, then I must die. Eliminate him. Kill it!
This is for Dincter. He lives for the moment. He lives on the edge. Well, she was, I must have scared the living daylight sound of James Bond, 007, the living daylight.
Well, that tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it? So he opened with a comfy and familiar, united artist's logo. You know where you are there, don't you? Yeah, the white such lights and the Bond Eye, with Dalton making his first appearance, he turns, he fires.
Bond is back. You know, I'm going to be really angry if there's no gun barrel sequence at the start of no time to die. Prepare to be angry, Paul. They did it, Inspector.
Sort of. They'll do it, sort of in this as well. No, he had an old fashioned one at the beginning of the spectrum. I'm sure he did.
Did he? Yeah. Oh, God, all those domes blend into one now. Yeah, I know what you mean.
They did it. But by that point he's Bond, so they did it. Okay. Well, hopefully they'll do it with this one.
But he's not Bond, is he at the start of it, apparently. He's retired, so maybe they won't. No, if they got the, who's the actress that's going to be, that everyone was outraged that she's the below seven, maybe they should have her walk on into the search. Like, turn the fire.
That would really drive people insane. You know what? No, you've said it. I wouldn't be shocked if they did it.
If I was convinced now you've said it, they're going to do that. That would be great. Yeah, yeah, that would be great, would it? I think Daniel Craig comes out of Pushy's Rover.
So hold your look for the Bond films. It's going back to the original Casino Royale. No, not the remake, but the original Peter Sellers version. Yeah, but he won't.
No. Do you know that I guarantee you? We'll talk about this come April, but I bet that happens. We'll see.
We open up and what looks like the fortifications of Normandy on D-Day, but it's in fact Gibraltar. Easy mistake. Easy because my typo on my thing says nominee rather than Normandy. As I had to, like, gnarbit.
No, he didn't. No, he was going to have fortifications up again. Oh, bloody gnarbit, were he's fortifications. The camera pans up the famous Rock of Gibraltar.
Inside, what appears to be in office, is Em addressing some many black uniformed equipment. He tells them that while as far as the Ministry of Defense is concerned, this is only an exercise. For him, it's a matter of pride that 007 section has been chosen for this test. No, some of these double-hose aren't going to survive this, aren't they?
Does any 007 survive anything? I was going to say that we should say that no other 00's in any Bond movie ever lived, do they? Nope, there's a few killed in this one, and then 006 gets killed in GoldenEye. That's true.
Yes. And we had the one at the beginning of Octopus, he was rolling against a knife in the back, just as a clarin. Yeah, that's right. No, the below three and a half, that was right.
It was, yes. He got the half for slapping someone. He's out because you get the below, it's the killing someone, so you have half for slapping someone. Oh, we're only okay.
A woman? Oh, a woman? Cadda back, no. No.
No. We see a pilot clip, Em, into a secure line. He continues to dump the job, is infiltrate the radar installations of Gibraltar, but the SAS have been placed on full alert to expect them. He signals with his head and wishes to men good luck, and then we see we're on a Hercules troop carrier.
They're a plane for you. How do I want it? Okay, the back opens. Em, so he realizes his papers are going to be blown everywhere and runs back to stop them.
It's easy to forget that because we've seen this film so many times, it was probably surprising that they're on a plane. Yes, yes, because there's no indication at first, and so it's a very good play on the normal way a barn's film opens with Em, I mean, not the actual opening, but an Em opening, because he's always in his office. So yeah, it's good. And we've also seen his office being different locations before.
Yeah, yeah. Apparently this is the last time they do that. Oh, really? What, have an Em office?
I haven't had an Em office in different places other than London. Oh, okay. The Hercules is high up and the men jump from the back of it. They free fall over Gibraltar.
You know, this is an Em, possibly a movie. Tom Cruise would do this for real, don't you? Yeah, he would. He would.
Yeah, but you know, it's not. So they didn't open in their parachutes as they get closer to the ground. And in the bushes, a man with a pair of binoculars watches them. Familiar part?
I don't know what you're talking about. I've never used binoculars. All right, you just look with your normal eyes. Don't you?
Don't need binoculars, you're really close up. Dude, can podcasts incriminate you? No, no, I think it's like some kind of like no man's land or international waters. Okay, good to know.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first man lands on a sandy track. Sandy tracks?
I was like 1960s groups. He'd be like, oh, get off me now. But this guy quickly pulls in his parachute. And the second and the third land on a road, the fourth, crashes into a tree.
He releases his shoes as he dangles in the ear and drops to the ground. He starts to take his gear off on a whirr of an S.A.S. soldier approaching from behind him. The soldier fires a paintball that explodes into the man's back.
He turns to the soldier, fires again. That's it, Tom. You're out of it. This would be me, wouldn't it?
Killed instantly after being stuck in a tree. Yeah, that sounds about right. He's like, what's he doing? Don't worry.
He's just a branch off. He's like, oh, we're good. So another agent throws a grappling hook up the cliff side and starts to climb. Up above, we see the man that was watching them look down.
He reaches for something from his pocket. Just then a soldier, paintballs him in the back. Games up, mate. You're dead, he says.
But the man pulls out a gun with a sign, sir, and kills the soldier. Why are all the S.S. Copy gazes? And that's part of the requirements of being in the S.A.
Seriously, you got to be a copy of the gazer. Yeah, apparently, yeah. Yeah. I could do that.
Good. I could do that. I could go back. Oh.
Yeah. I could throw that in. I could go back as cockney as a flat cap and whip it. He reaches back into his pocket and pulls out what looks like a tag.
The agent climbing up the rock face sees him and wonders why he's doing. The man hooks the tag onto the agent's rope and it slides down towards him. He looks at it. There's something written on it.
But when he looks up, the man is cutting his ropes. He's like, no, has a rope his cart and he plummets down the cliff side. Bond. We don't know his bond yet.
But he turns and sees the body bouncing off the rocks. He looks up and sees the killer on top of the cliff side. The music starts to get rousing. It's a great reveal for a new bond, isn't it?
Yes, it is. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah. Bond runs to the top of the cliff.
He examines the rope and sees it's been sliced away. He finds the body of the shot soldier. It's only a battery, a startle bond as its camp has passed. Meanwhile, the killer murders another soldier and steals a military land Rover.
Bond looks over the cliff side down through the road and sees the land Rover speed away. He gives chase. Dontons Bond doesn't work well with animals, does he? You know it's not.
I haven't. Explain. Well, he gets startled by birds twice, once at the end of his movie and again he laces to kill. Okay.
And he has an encounter with a little monkey thing in this one. The only thing he's scared of. Right, so they should just throw apes at him. Well, I'm surrounded by small baboons.
Yeah. Get them my pets. Just, no, no, no. Yeah, Blaufeld just rubbed a smaller agaton instead of a cat.
No, I don't say right. Was rubbing his aragaton again? Which are the ones with the red bombs? They go baboons, aren't they?
Yes, baboons, you're right. Yes. Yes. You want one now, you know, you would you?
I don't know. I love the big collet. Hey, any baboon to the part? Isn't that the saying?
A soldier tells Bond to halt and fires a paint pellet on him. Bond knocks him over and continues running. He jumps off the road and onto the roof of the landrail, versus the soldier yells, Ah, come, you're dead. More cocky gazers.
Yeah. The killer, realizing Bond is on the roof, tries to swerve, left to right at high speed to knock him off. Bond clings onto the roof. The killer fires his gun through the canvas roof, but Bond luckily avoids those shots.
The landrail speeds towards the citric post of a barrier. The soldier shoots paintball it, the windscreen smearing it, but the killer runs the soldier over and crashes through the barrier. That needs to shame about the dodgy back rejections during all this, because the rest of it is really good. That's not bad, dodgy.
I've seen worse in a Bond film. Yeah, yeah. Yes, but it is. You just kind of take your eye a little bit, and come and see it.
You notice it, I think. No, I've never thought that when I've watched it. Okay. Some of the times it is Timothi Dalton on the roof of a cat that's moving.
I'm not sure it's moving at that speed. Which is what's weird about it. They obviously needed some extra footage, didn't they? So, well, also you can't have Timothi Dalton on a fast moving cheap on a small road in Gibraltar, because you don't want to kill him.
So, he's obviously filmed in different places. He's literally on top of that. Oh, a few times though. You can see it's real.
Yeah, but it's probably not in the same location, probably not moving at the same speed. No, what I'm saying though is, if they could get those shots of him in the real world, why put the back projection in later? Why do you want to do more? That's probably a logistical reason that we don't know.
But all right, it doesn't bother me, but it bothers you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
A soldier of real ammo jumps out of the central post and opens fire. It hits the wooden boxes in the back of the land, rather. These boxes are full of ammunition and flames that ignite around them. Bonds continues to hang on.
He pulls out a knife, slices the roof, and reaches into grab the killer. They struggle. The land robot now is smoked and fired, continues along the road. The killer nugs the knife out of Bonds hands.
The care careers into the tables of Churz of an outside cafe and a souvenir stand. That's traditional Bond. It is very traditional Bond. And I'm waiting for the guy with the drink.
Yeah, he's not in this. Missed opportunity. And I hope he's in no time to die. Can I come back?
He's still in the car, aren't I? Is he? Yeah. He's got cirrhosis, but I believe it.
No, he's still high. He's got a cricket in the neck from all that double-taken. He's done. That's what the new Bonds are missing.
A pigeon double-taken. Oh, could you? Oh, that would be amazing if they did that, wouldn't it? It would, yeah.
One last gasp. I did like the headbutt in the car. Look. Give us a guy.
Yeah, you like a good headbutt, right? Yes. But it's very connery. Yeah, it is.
Like, any means necessary, right? Yeah. You've got to say that if it's true, and I think you're going to talk about this, aren't you? And I've read both versions that it is true, and then another version that it isn't true.
But there's that story, isn't that this originally written for Roger Moore? Doing this? No. I could imagine Roger Moore's stuntman doing it.
I was going to say that the terrible way that they fake everything, you know, the physicality of it all. Yeah, you complained about the back projection. Imagine the amount of back projection you would do if Roger Moore was doing this. Absolutely.
Absolutely. I know. Yeah. Bond tries to grab the steering wheel, the Land Rover side swipes a number of cars and crashes through a wall over a cliff, heading to the ocean below.
Bond punches the killer, then one of his foot smashes the windshield through. He then pulls a rip-cord of his parachute and is pulled out to the back of the vehicle. The killer screams and the Land Rover explodes. Bits of burning wood hit Bond's parachute setting a light.
He needs to find somewhere to land. And what he sees is a private yacht. He's now smoking burning parachute twirls as he steers towards it. On the yacht, a woman and a bikini is on the phone.
She's complaining. It's so boring here. Nothing but playboys and tennis pros. If only I could find a real man.
There's a crashing sound from above. Bond swings from the roof. I need to use your phone. He takes it.
She'll call you back. Who are you? She asks. Bond.
James Bond. Exercise control. Bond here. A reparting an hour.
The woman clinks a champagne glass. Bond looks across. Won't you join me? Better make that too.
He stays into the phone. Now that is a Bond opening. It is. It's a fantastic pre-credits sequence.
It's one of the best I think. This woman's only other rumpy-pumpy in this film as well. Oh. OK.
Well, we'll have that, wouldn't he? No, he would have done five by now. But yeah, it is a great opening. It's one of the best.
Yeah. And it reminds me of, well, this little last bit reminds me of the opening in Russia from Love. Bond is with his girlfriend, Sylvia Trench, who he met in Dr. No, which is an interesting point that she carries over for two films.
And he gets a call on his car phone. And he stays on the phone. I'll be there in an hour. And then she puts her hands on him.
And he says, make that an hour and a half. Yes. So it's like Dalton's already more of a role. Yes.
You can go for two. Well, yeah. Yeah. But it's a nice call back, I think.
It is. And there's another call back to Conner's Bond later in this film, The Diagnosis. Cool. And now we're going to the music and the opening sequence by Maris Binder.
One of his last ones, isn't it? I think so. Yeah. It's a good one.
It's a good one. It does his usual half-nicky boob and a bit of bush. You prefer these to the Maris ones, right? Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely. What's the one with all the playing cards bleeding all over the place? Casino Royale. Oh.
Where's the women skiing half-naked? Where's the suggestive gun barrels poking into things? Where's that gun? Why can't we have that anymore?
Revealing very much about yourself. I'm just saying. It's a shame, isn't it? It's a shame.
What the world's come to? We open on a street scene at night in a place called Bratislava in Czechoslovakia inside a concert hall, an orchestra, a performing. A man sits in one of the box seats. He impatiently checks his watch.
Bond enters. You're bloody late. Bond says they'll still have time, and that's where their man is. Sanders points him out.
Bond also notices the woman playing the cello. From the moment that he walks in, then he sits down to the first line. We already know that this is going to be a different, more intense character than we've seen before. Don't we?
Yeah, he's a miserable sod. He's just committed to his job. Focused. He's not that focused.
He's focused on the woman playing the cello. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's that. But yeah, I agree with you.
Yeah. But Sanders tells Bond that for once he should forget the ladies. Sanders goes on to say that Cusco will leave the concert at the interval and that they better get ready. They head to an office across the street, upstairs the into a room and Sanders turns the lights on.
Bond tells him to turn it off. It's clear that he has no time for Sanders, and Sanders doesn't like Bond. No, Bond thinks that Sanders is an idiot, doesn't he? Well, that's pretty much.
Yeah. I mean, only for two seconds. He already thinks he's an idiot. Well, he's met the type before.
He has his. Yeah. There's a sophisticated sniper rifle under the sheets on the bed. Sanders tells Bond that Cusco is a top KGB mastermind, and that his defection is his baby.
The office Bond, the soft tipped bullets, but Bond takes the steel tip because of the body armor KGB operatives were. Bond, Sanders, what the exit plan is, and Sanders smugly says that under Section 25 paragraph five, it's a need to know basis. I'm sure you understand those, man. I like the voice.
It's good. Thanks. The big enough gun though, isn't it? Yeah, get the job done, right?
Yeah, I remember my nose. Bloody big gun, Jimmy, isn't it? But he can handle it. He's used to a big gun.
Oh, crazy ever, eh? One of the strangest biggest ones is in the posters for a few to a kill. I don't remember that. You're wrong, mate.
OK, Roger Marr and Grace Jones are stood back to back. Now, Grace Jones is a lot taller than Roger Marr. So what they did was they extended the size of Roger Marr's gun, so it matches the height of Grace Jones' head. I'll have to go back and have a look at that.
Yeah, take a look. Yeah, that's interesting. I'm pretty sure that Roger never needed to extend the size of his gun for anybody really. He was Roger.
Marr. Marr, yeah? I'm having enough more. Cuscoff has a sniper assigned to him and asks if a Bond personally protects him.
Bond? Bond is why. Sanders says Cuscoff is under depression, you're the best, and he says that like sarcastically. Bond takes away the way the Bond looks at him when he says it as well.
It's like, yes, I am. Where you were to be bombed? Bond takes the rifle and goes to the window. Sanders can get his night goggles to work.
Bond opens them for him. The bloody big goggles, isn't it, aren't they? They're very 1996. Yes, that's true.
You think they'd be very small now? Oh yeah, I'm sure they are. Yeah. OK.
The orchestra finishes. Cuscoff goes to the bathroom. He climbs out of the window. Bond and Sanders seem escaped.
Bond sees a sniper in the window. It's a woman with a cello. Cuscoff runs across the street. Sanders earns his bond to shoot her.
Bond fires, hitting her rifle. You miss his standards deliberately. Cuscoff runs across the street and Sanders lets him in. The KGB run out of the counter toll to try and find Cuscoff.
Sanders lets Cuscoff out the backway. Bond, watch his a cello player leave. There's a lot of toilet action in this film, isn't there? You get some toilet action here and then there's a big toilet scene coming up later.
Yes. You want to have to be happy about that? No, no, no. I'm just saying I like toilet action.
You might want to rephrase that a little bit. Well, I like actually in toilets. Yeah. I mean, you know, I don't know.
I don't know any people call it cartaging. No, I don't live in the country. It's always interesting to see, um, to see, to see toilet action. You love toilet action.
Yeah. You're actually very rarely see a toilet in a film. That's what I'm going for. That's what I'm trying to say.
Oh, okay. That's what you're saying, right? So if you ever made a film, it'd just be toilet action. Three hours of toilet action.
I think I've seen that one. Yeah. This film flushed away. Is it like, you know, children's cartoon?
Oh, hell no. Could you imagine if you got that in a run box? Yeah. There'll be some lawsuits there.
Getting in the run box is better than the plot to have a fleshed away. My version. Yeah, well, I've made it. You will do that one day.
Well, I feel wrong. Awesome. Literally. Okay.
Just say, so he missed killing her, not because she was a sexy lady, which is what Saunders thinks. Right. Missed because he recognized the fact that she was an amateur. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Oh, that's what it is. That's what, and I'm doing giant air quotation.
He says later. Yes. Well, wouldn't you? Yes.
Yes. Bond leaves the back way and as Sanders work, off his office is in the boot of the car. First place they'll look, says Bond. Get him out.
But by escape route, protest, Sanders. Scrubbed. Replies Bond. He tells Kaskoff to get in the front, and he tells Sanders to lose the equipment and to meet them at the border.
Where are you taking him? How are you getting out, Sanders? Sorry, old man. Section 26 paragraph five.
Need to know. I'm sure you'll understand. Now again, we've gone from a really strong pre-credits sequence to an opening sequence in a Bond movie, which is just as good, I think. Always fantastic, isn't it?
It's very spy. Yes. Yeah. We've gotten to Bond like this for a long time, I don't think, up to this point.
Oh, don't tear up, Paul. Don't tear up. Not yet. I'll do it.
All right. Okay. He drives away, leaving Sanders with the gun. Bond and Kaskoff navigate the streets.
Kaskoff has Bond if he killed a sniper. Bond says he would rev it up, talk about it. Kaskoff has. How's he going to get out?
Bond replies, don't worry. We have a pipeline to the West. So this is what I was referring to earlier, with the things that don't work in this movie, as a little one-liners that Dalton has to say. I don't think that he doesn't feel natural to him, I don't think.
Yeah, this one I don't mind, but there's some later, like, he got the boots and things like that. Yeah, they don't fit. And would give me evidence to think that whoever wrote the script thought that it was going to be a Roger Marfield, to a certain degree? You can imagine him saying that he's going to work if he said them.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Probably when you get licensed, there's very few in that at all.
Yes, right. Right. As much as I like to, if he Dalton, he's not the most comedic of actors. No, no.