by 007hertzrumble | Nov 19, 2013 | Live Tweet Digests, Wraparound
The T-Dalt-era departs as quickly as it arrives. Gone too soon. Sob. Sniffle. What could have been, should have been, would have been… if Timothy Dalton had had the opportunity to play James Bond on at least one more occasion. Licence to Kill always makes me a little gushy and from the sound of it, there may have been some LTK-conversion going on during the #Bond_age_ Licence to Kill Live Tweet session. THE JIMMY ENJOYS #TheSmolder!
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by 007hertzrumble | Nov 19, 2013 | Live Tweet Digests, Wraparound
…and because one volume wasn’t big enough for #TheSmolder’s final bow, here’s Volume 2 of the Licence to Kill Live Tweet Digest…
by 007hertzrumble | Nov 12, 2013 | My Favorite #Bond_age_
Licence to Kill is one of the most daring, interesting and revolutionary Bond films ever made. Even the modern films of Daniel Craig, praised for their ‘edge’, ‘grit’ and ‘darkness’, owe a debt to this ‘unpopular’ predecessor. If this seems like an outlandish suggestion, then read on, and let a British child of the 80s show you why…
Reboot Revoked: The Postmodern Deconstruction of Bond
by Paul Harrison (@Doc_Harrison)
Artwork by Bob Peak
This article does not seek to be the definitive one-stop for all things Licence to Kill. You have your double DVD special edition, or remastered Blu-ray for that. I’m not going to focus on the trivia, such as that they altered the name from Licence Revoked. You know that story. I’m not even going to venture too deeply into the suitability of Dalton. He was, and remains, an excellent actor, and sound choice. I’m especially not going to tackle what seemed to be some reeeaaally awkward sexual tension between Dalton’s Bond and Felix Leiter’s ill-fated bride-to-be. No.
This article will focus on two key things: the context that created (or reinvented) a ‘darker’ Bond, who would endanger the life of dozens of bystanders that may deserve a bullet in order to get the one guy that did; and the notion that what makes this Bond movie stand out (and unpopular) is the fact that it isn’t a spy movie, let alone a ‘Bond’ movie as audiences knew him. Despite this, it is a thematic precursor to all three of Daniel Craig’s more recent blockbuster iterations in many ways. (more…)
by 007hertzrumble | Nov 12, 2013 | Misc.
Though it may be much maligned (misunderstood?) LICENCE TO KILL is killer #Bond_age_.
Bond goes off the reservation, executes a bunch of heavies in increasingly gruesome ways all in the name of avenging his good buddy Leiter (though in my essay on Licence to Kill I suggest there’s more to this rampage than just a convenient friendship with Felix Leiter). Tune in Wednesday at 9pm EST for the Licence to Kill Live Tweet. Follow hashtag #LtK.
by 007hertzrumble | Nov 11, 2013 | #Bond_age_ Project, Licence to Kill
This essay on Licence to Kill is the sixteenth essay in a 24-part series about the James Bond cinemas co-created by Sundog Lit. I encourage everyone to read the other essays, comment and join in on the conversation about not only the films themselves, but cinematic trends, political and other external influences on the series’ tone and direction.
Of [In]human #Bond_age_ #16: The Immaculate Revenge of Licence to Kill
by James David Patrick
I sat down to write this essay for Licence to Kill and stared at an empty screen. I’d inadvertently used many of the points I’d plan to discuss in my conversation about The Living Daylights. And if not for my essay on guilty pleasures and The Man with the Golden Gun, I could have done something similar here. Outright Carey Lowell worship seemed too shallow (off to Tumblr!). Discussing the abundance of television actors in the Bond films of the 80’s seemed more like a TV Guide cover story. Underrated Bond villains? Davi’s at the top of the list. Do they still print TV Guides by the way? Boy is that a publication that overstayed its utility. I do, however, remember anticipating the arrival of the new TV Guide in the mailbox. I’d scan every day’s primetime schedule grid looking for cartoons, especially the holiday Peanuts’ specials and Garfield. I never missed a primetime Garfield special. I was diligent. But I digress. How could I digress without even getting started down a single path? Doesn’t that mean that the initial path was a digression, thus making the digression the legitimate path? After all, Licence to Kill does indeed mark a drastic series transgression — this essay could merely be a thematic homage that somewhere along the way stumbled onto relevancy.
Speaking of relevancy, check out this picture. There’s too much smolder going on here for mortal humans to fully process.
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