Pics of Dalton in Octopussy

darenhat

I had some fun in Photoshop this weekend and played a little 'What if..."

Here's some scenes from Octopussy starring Timothy Dalton as James Bond:


Flying the Acrostar
Property of a Lady
"I'm sure this would be ample security!"
Chasing Orlov
"Do you know how to fly this thing, Q?
Raid on Monsoon Palace
Sabotaging Kahn's plane

crawfordboon

Nice work, and such a concept has so many possibilities for crossover combinations! Pierce Brosnan in TLD would be one. However, the pictures do tend to confirm for me that Dalton jsut wasn't a credible action star and didn't possess the necessary coolness to be a top level Bond - unlike Moore on both counts.

darenhat

crawfordboon wrote:

Nice work, and such a concept has so many possibilities for crossover combinations! Pierce Brosnan in TLD would be one. However, the pictures do tend to confirm for me that Dalton jsut wasn't a credible action star and didn't possess the necessary coolness to be a top level Bond - unlike Moore on both counts.

Thanks!

To be fair to Dalton, though, the pics can't really be confirmation of his acting. I was the one who chose which expression to use, and that was often limited to the angle and light of the picture I took it from. And the body and posture is all Roger Moore's. The images aren't perfect by far...just a bit of fun.

Mr Martini

The pics looked good to me darenhat. The only pic that might looked photoshopped is the Raid on the Monsoon Palace. Other than that, very nice work. Any idea if you'll be having more fun in the future? Like TD in GE?

0064

Very nice Darenhat...I think that it is very funny how he looked so nervous in each of the pics...but very nice nonetheless...

MrsDalloway

Delightful work, Mr Hat.

Is this skill related to your profession in some way, or just a hobby?

Klaus Hergescheimer

These pictures just confirm to me what I have long felt:

Dalton would have been absolutely perfect in the last Moore films. He looks perfectly at home in pretty much all of those shots.

The man should have had more movies. It's the biggest tragedy of the franchise that he didn't. He is the literary 007 to a T.

darenhat

MrsDalloway wrote:

Delightful work, Mr Hat.

Is this skill related to your profession in some way, or just a hobby?

Thank you kindly, Mrs. D. It is some of what I do. A large part of my workday involves requests to photoshop coworkers' heads into various pics. Fun, until people tend to forget you have 'real' work to do.

And, in answer to your question, Mr. Martini...I do hope to have fun with some other Bond actors as well.

RogueAgent

Very impressive work, Darenhat. I think that you captured this quite well with the lighting and all. {[]

I love The Property Of A Lady one.
We would have seen a much darker film had this took place.

Napoleon Plural

The Acrojet is best - superb!

Moore Not Less

Napoleon Plural wrote:

The Acrojet is best - superb!

Agreed. Good work darenhat......but I prefer Roger Moore as Bond in Octopussy.

darenhat

Moore Not Less wrote:

Napoleon Plural wrote:

The Acrojet is best - superb!

Agreed. Good work darenhat......but I prefer Roger Moore as Bond in Octopussy.

I would expect nothing else from someone with your username. Please understand, though, that using swapping Roger was nothing personal...just a bit of fun!

Moore Not Less

darenhat wrote:

Moore Not Less wrote:

Napoleon Plural wrote:

The Acrojet is best - superb!

Agreed. Good work darenhat......but I prefer Roger Moore as Bond in Octopussy.

I would expect nothing else from someone with your username. Please understand, though, that using swapping Roger was nothing personal...just a bit of fun!

Absolutely understood that it's all a bit of fun and nothing personal. I like the idea of using/swapping the Bond actors around. Seems to me there's potential for some real humour if you can find the right images.

Sir Hillary Bray

Those are fun, darenhat -- good work. The "Property of a Lady" one is quite scary actually -- with that expression and overbite, Tim looks a little too much like Freddie Mercury!

mrwoodpigeon

I may be the odd one out but I like Dalton as Bond. He was a serious *******, but wasn't Bond too.

Napoleon Plural

Now you need to photoshop Roger Moore into... Die Another Day.

darenhat

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Now you need to photoshop Roger Moore into... Die Another Day.

All in good time, NP! (I was actually thinking of a which film I would like to put Roger in. That's an excellent suggestion). I already know which film and actor I'm going to tackle next. Hope to have them ready soon!

Dan Same

If you're taking suggestions, perhaps you could insert Connery into the last scene of OHMSS.

Great pictures BTW (even though I'm happy that they aren't real. )

Napoleon Plural

Dan Same wrote:

If you're taking suggestions, perhaps you could insert Connery into the last scene of OHMSS.

Great pictures BTW (even though I'm happy that they aren't real. )

I second that... excellent idea.

Alex

I'd rather see a mixup of the ladies. (place Fiona in GF and Domino in DN)

crawfordboon

I have to disagree with Klaus here - for me Dalton never quite looked or felt right as 007. Sean Connery no less put it quite siply "the guy isn't cool." JB has to be cool, Dalton had him as a highly strung, on the edge type. Excellent photochopping, but I just can't see anyone other than Moore in that film.

Klaus Hergescheimer

crawfordboon wrote:

I have to disagree with Klaus here - for me Dalton never quite looked or felt right as 007. Sean Connery no less put it quite siply "the guy isn't cool." JB has to be cool, Dalton had him as a highly strung, on the edge type.

Read the novels.

Alex

crawfordboon wrote:

I have to disagree with Klaus here - for me Dalton never quite looked or felt right as 007. Sean Connery no less put it quite siply "the guy isn't cool." JB has to be cool, Dalton had him as a highly strung, on the edge type. Excellent photochopping, but I just can't see anyone other than Moore in that film.

Agreed about RM. He's great.

But jeez, who cares what Connery might or might not have said, Timothy Dalton gives much to appreciate, the standard hollywood sex perception of 007 be darned. There are a hell of a lot of people who love the novels. Is one to follow his own preference or what another actor has said one time probably on a post rainy day?

Apparently this is true, all one has to do is look at Casino Royale. Thank goodness for that!

JennyFlexFan

And if AVTAK is Daltonized, you better run FAR FAR away.

darenhat

JennyFlexFan wrote:

And if AVTAK is Daltonized, you better run FAR FAR away.

Don't tempt me, JFF! I think I may enjoy seeing Dalton and Alison Doody in a shot together!

crawfordboon

For my thoughts on the novels, and how they shouldn't really be taken into account when commenting on James Bond FILMS, see the current debate on Blofeld in the General Chat.

To elaborate briefly, like the huge huge majority of Bond fans I've never read the novels* - for the public James Bond is what we see on screen, not what is written in some airline fiction novel half a century ago. It's time people stopped revering Ian Fleming and his work and judged the films in their own right, by their own merits, instead of marking them down if they don't measure up to some sort of 'Flemingeseque' standard.

*Having written that sentence, I just remembered, I have read CR. Just shwos what an impact it had, if I forgot about it!

heartbroken_mr_drax

Alex wrote:

crawfordboon wrote:

I have to disagree with Klaus here - for me Dalton never quite looked or felt right as 007. Sean Connery no less put it quite siply "the guy isn't cool." JB has to be cool, Dalton had him as a highly strung, on the edge type. Excellent photochopping, but I just can't see anyone other than Moore in that film.

Agreed about RM. He's great.

But jeez, who cares what Connery might or might not have said, Timothy Dalton gives much to appreciate, the standard hollywood sex perception of 007 be darned. There are a hell of a lot of people who love the novels. Is one to follow his own preference or what another actor has said one time probably on a post rainy day?

Apparently this is true, all one has to do is look at Casino Royale. Thank goodness for that!

Why does he have to be cool? I think when someone is serious then funny it really makes you laugh and apprciate them.

Dalton is pretty funny in the fight in the bar in LTK and the horses ass thing, you cant deny it makes you laugh

But yea you cant watch him and go Dalton is so cool! Connery, Moore and Brosnan are all cool but Dalton doesnt have the coolness, but i dont think it was needed, his portrayal is too different.

Sir Hillary Bray

crawfordboon wrote:

...like the huge huge majority of Bond fans I've never read the novels - for the public James Bond is what we see on screen, not what is written in some airline fiction novel half a century ago.

Um, crawford, you're talking to a bunch of James Bond fanatics here, not the general public. And still you would like us to receive your opinions in some fantasy universe that doesn't acknowledge the novels? Get real, friend.

crawfordboon wrote:

It's time people stopped revering Ian Fleming and his work...

) Thanks for this gem, however. The single most ridiculous and unintentionally hilarious comment I've read in my 3.5 years on the board.

TonyDP

darenhat wrote:

I had some fun in Photoshop this weekend and played a little 'What if..."

Here's some scenes from Octopussy starring Timothy Dalton as James Bond:

Good stuff Darenhat. Personally, I'd like to see some pics of Dalton in FYEO; I always thought he'd have fit well in that movie.

JennyFlexFan

darenhat wrote:

JennyFlexFan wrote:

And if AVTAK is Daltonized, you better run FAR FAR away.

Don't tempt me, JFF! I think I may enjoy seeing Dalton and Alison Doody in a shot together!

Obituaries:

Today, authorities recovered the body of a dead person (they couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman) on the ground near its computer chair. The last website he was on was a certain "AJB007" and the post fixated on was made by a Mr. Darenhat feauturing a picture of Alison Doody as Jenny Flex and Timothy Dalton as James Bond.

Authorities interviewed people on this website to understand the JennyFlexFan's fatal reaction to this photo. A Mr. Dan Same is here to comment.

"They touched AVTAK. Anyone who touches AVTAK and mixes it with Dalton were bound to cause a fatal reaction for JFF, as we both hate Dalton in his roles. I may not like AVTAK, but JFF... don't even TRY bashing that movie"

JFF is survived on this board by his "NSA" compatriots (which we have no idea why the National Security Agency would have its members posting here, but whatever) and will be forever missed. He's buried with an autographed picture of Alison Doody and his AVTAK Special Edition DVD.

darenhat

JennyFlexFan wrote:

darenhat wrote:

JennyFlexFan wrote:

And if AVTAK is Daltonized, you better run FAR FAR away.

Don't tempt me, JFF! I think I may enjoy seeing Dalton and Alison Doody in a shot together!

Obituaries:

Today, authorities recovered the body of a dead person (they couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman) on the ground near its computer chair. The last website he was on was a certain "AJB007" and the post fixated on was made by a Mr. Darenhat feauturing a picture of Alison Doody as Jenny Flex and Timothy Dalton as James Bond.

Authorities interviewed people on this website to understand the JennyFlexFan's fatal reaction to this photo. A Mr. Dan Same is here to comment.

"They touched AVTAK. Anyone who touches AVTAK and mixes it with Dalton were bound to cause a fatal reaction for JFF, as we both hate Dalton in his roles. I may not like AVTAK, but JFF... don't even TRY bashing that movie"

JFF is survived on this board by his "NSA" compatriots (which we have no idea why the National Security Agency would have its members posting here, but whatever) and will be forever missed. He's buried with an autographed picture of Alison Doody and his AVTAK Special Edition DVD.

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R.I.P.