8/15/2023 0 Comments Roger moore spouse licence to killI think she’s quite good looking and has lovely legs that get featured a lot, as at least three times she’s forced to pull out the gun she wears in a garter pretty high up on her right leg. Bouvier is played by Carey Lowell who often gets derided as one of the weakest Bond girls but I firmly disagree. She helps Bond out a few times because she thinks she’s found that protector. There is Talisa Soto as Lupe, who is Sanchez’s girl but is tired of being whipped when “bad” and is looking for someone who can really protect her. He will take down Sanchez, even if he has to do it alone. But Bond has just stood as best man and he knows what it’s like to have your wife murdered and he won’t stand for it. He lost his wife and for a long time was denied vengeance because, well, because Blofeld changed actors and it seemed kind of dumb. It might also work for Craig’s Bond as well, but none of the others really could be the man who quits the service, knocks out his own people and flees so that he can take revenge. This is a film that only works for Dalton’s Bond. Bond even ends up ordered by M to stay out of it and “let the Americans clean up their own mess.” That’s filmed in a scene at the Hemingway house with polydactyl cats running around all over the place – that made Veronica want to cuddle them, as we used to own a polydactyl cat who was named Hemingway – as well as providing Bond, after he has licence revoked and is ordered to give up his gun a chance to say “I guess this is a farewell to arms.” Sanchez isn’t going to come so easily – after escaping, he has Leiter’s wife killed and Leiter is chomped on by a shark, and even after that it’s clear the American authorities aren’t going to do anything about it. But this film really does seem to come right from the headlines at the time, with Sanchez standing in for Manuel Noriega, whose drug-running became so overwhelming that Bush 41 actually invaded the country and brought him back for charges even if no one remembers that anymore. If you don’t remember the American invasion of Panama you’re certainly not alone – I had to remind Veronica about it. He is captured early on by Bond and Felix Leiter but he escapes and flees back south. Sanchez is a drug kingpin in a place called Isthmus City. Why, of course, is the question being asked by Sanchez. But now we have Timothy Dalton, and we get this line: “Don’t you want to know why?” Yes, he would occasionally get angry, but in all of Roger Moore’s time, except for when he kicked Locque’s car down the cliff, we never really saw much in the way of emotion from him. That was it for emotional moments for Bond. It was a moment of genuine emotion for Bond, even if George Lazenby wasn’t really a good enough actor to pull off the line. “We have all the time in the world.” That was what Bond said to his wife as she lay dead in his arms. Bond Support: Robert Brown (M), Caroline Bliss (Moneypenny), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), David Hedison (Felix Leiter).Bond Villain: Robert Davi (Sanchez), Anthony Zerbe (Milton Krest), Benicio del Toro (Dario), Wayne Newton (Joe Butcher).Bond Girl: Carey Lowell (Pam Bouvier), Talisa Soto (Lupe Lamora).
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