Most inconsistent tone?
DieAnotherDay
Glasgow, ScotlandPosts: 460MI6 Agent
Which Bond flick has a few drastic shifts of tone throughout the film? I'd need to go for TMWTGG or my beloved DAD. Both of those films start off as a solid thriller but veer off into moments of pure madness. TMWTGG has very serious & comical moments back to back and it comes off as off-putting in many parts while DAD seems like two completely separate films at times...
....and the best he ever managed was a sermon on the mount.
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One particularly stark example of the tone (really the pacing, but it ties into the story) changing very starkly is when they're in the submarine. Bond gets into a lighting-fast gunfight with Renard's mooks that turns into a fistfight. It's REALLY fast-paced. But then when they get into the reactor room, everything slows down to a snail's pace. A good in-universe explanation was pitched for Renard (that he was starting to weaken) when I first described this, but nobody has been able to explain why Bond slowed down all of a sudden. Then, as soon as Renard gets the reactor rod blown into his stomach, it speeds back up!
An earlier example of uneven pacing was the parahawk attack. For the most part, it's evenly paced--but then when they land, it's sped up too much, and then it really gets weird because once Bond destroys one of the two ground-borne parahawks, it slows back down again, in the middle of the chase! I always thought that really hurt an otherwise-excellent scene.
EDIT: Yes, I know, "tone and pacing are different things!" Well, moving from fast-paced to slow-paced, in the case of TWINE, really distracts from the tone of the film, much moreso than the just-as-unevenly-paced QoS (which manages to remain consistent in tone). It was like they tried to insert too many nuances in the slower-paced parts while going full steam ahead into action mode in the faster-paced parts.
According to Bondtoys it was because they didn't use Willi Bogner
Which I have to agree with, Bogner is a Genius when it comes to
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I could not have put it any better than that. At least, not in so few words.
I thought that both TND and GE maintained relatively consistent tones (GE to a lesser degree, although it was necessitated by Trevelyan's change in tone). TWINE, as mentioned, I thought was imbalanced throughout. DAD is strange because if you chop it up into "the movie up until Cuba", it's actually VERY consistent in tone. The whole sequence in Iceland is radically inconsistent, and everything thereafter just flies off in odd directions, although, interestingly, directions that seem consistent with one another.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
+1, totally agree. Back in 83 I was sure NSNA would blow OP away, and was pleasantly surprised to find the Moore film beat the Connery one easily.
especialy at the end of the film when all those gorgeous girls in skin tight red jump suits
start fighting ,the little one called Midge was a dancer in Pans people ,for all of you under 30 probably
wouldn't know that ,but for people like TP and me she brings back memories of sitting in front of the tv in our tank tops thinking dreadfull thoughts
I agree that OP is overall a better made film but for one glaring exception - Connery is still a far better Bond than Moore, even in NSNA!
+1
…and some say that John Glen was an uninspired workman-like director. Go figure.
It's just unfortunate that his love for goofy gags was not kept in check by the producers.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
I agree. The first hour's brilliant with Moore on top form. Then just after the kung fu fight it's as if Guy Hamilton & co handed over the reins to another production team. Barmy.