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Roger Moore's age really wasn't a problem at face value?

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (20304)
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The real problem is that they wrote his James Bond as if he was ostensibly, still a younger man, like he was when he did Live & Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun or even when Moore was younger than that, when he was on The Saint.

So of course, Bond in A View to a Kill is performing stunts as if it's no big deal and we're supposed to accept or believe that it's clearly not Roger Moore. And he's so lecherous, that he has little qualms with hooking up and bed hopping with multiple women (many of whom, such as Tanya Roberts, literally look like they could be his daughters) in a single film.

Had they written Moore's Bond like he was in For Your Eyes Only, then don't you think that the public would've been more accepting of the fact that a 50+ year old man was playing 007? In other words, that movie seemed to allude much further that we were watching a more mature, wiser Bond.

[–] millsey72 (10666) 3 years ago

Yea, Bond still hooking up with all them women is a plot hole for sure

[–] ebhaynz (3732) 3 years ago

It's ironic in that Roger Moore in his personal life was ALWAYS dumping his women when they got even a little older then gallivanting away with a younger lady.

[–] MCguy (1294) 2 years ago

Moore said one of the reasons he quit was because he was older than Tanya Robert's mother.

[–] [deleted] 3 months ago

He'd just had a face lift. Now I've seen him after this film in interviews where he looked much better than he did here. So I don't think the it was awful work he's had done, more that the filming took place too early it to let It set in. His eyes always look too wide throughout the film.

And yes, it would've been better if they'd have confronted the fact that Bond was getting older but I think they didn't because Connery had gone that route already with Never Say Never Again. Shame.

They should've given Bond a younger field agent to work with instead of Patrick Macnee as well. If you pay attention to Moore, maybe it's just because he was a gentleman, but he doesn't come across creepy in his scenes with Tanya Roberts. He acts it as if "I'm too old for her and I'll play it more like a father figure" but then they ruin it with the ridiculous tacked on shower scene because... well it's Bond.

I still enjoy it but getting rid of the sexual element with Stacy, not hiding away from Bond's age, and removing the Beach Boys song in the pre-credits sequence, would've made it a classic to me.