With the Daniel Craig era, James Bond has recently become more vulnerable and human than ever. In the ’80s, Timothy Dalton took on the iconic role of 007 in two films that anticipated this evolution of the spy. The secret agent had never been seen so cold-blooded and tough before.
On Friday evening, ProSieben will broadcast the second and last Dalton Bond James Bond 007 – License to Kill, which focuses on the protagonist brutal vigilante trip sends. It’s possibly the hardest part of the entire series.
License to Kill is an incomparably intense James Bond film
In the film’s story, the wife of Bond’s longtime friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison) is raped and murdered in a gruesome act of revenge. Leiter himself survived being tortured and badly injured. Bond swears revenge and embarks on a merciless mission, for which he even resigns from MI6 and without the titular license to kill acts.
Without the backing of his client, 007 mutates into a brutal one-man army in this Bond film. In the reviews of the time, such as the Washington Post, it was not for nothing that the strip was called a kind of Rambo Bond designated. License to Kill is more reminiscent of Charles Bronson’s flicks like A Man Sees Red, in which questionable vigilante justice serves as the motor for merciless action.
Later Bond parts of the Craig era like James Bond 007 – Quantum of Solace, in which 007 mutates again into a stormy berserker, you can definitely see how strongly they were inspired by Dalton’s uncompromising exceptional Bond.
When is James Bond – License to Kill on TV?
ProSieben beams James Bond 007 – license to kill on September 1, 2023 at 8:15 p.m out of. Immediately afterwards, the first Dalton Bond, The Living Daylights, will run at 11:05 p.m.
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