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 Whether
Crown or Bond, Pierce Brosnan is Class Pierce
Brosnan hits the big screen again on November 19th in The
World is Not Enough, the third James Bond installment with Mr. Brosnan
as the character. Brosnan's hit summer movie,  The
Thomas Crown Affair, with Rene Russo broke new ground for Hollywood
with Russo playing the leading lady as an over-40 year old actress. Does
World introduce new tricks? Brosnan as Bond is a comfortable match
without innovation.
Millionaire
Magazine recently interviewed Pierce Brosnan and provided some clues
into the Irish actor's personality. The interviewer, David Giammarco, quotes
Mr. Brosnan as saying that "I was terrified, playing Bond. It was a long
way to fall if you screwed it up..." Not exactly the tone one might expect
from the confident British agent character universally associated with the
Bond name.
But Pierce Brosnan is neither predictable or stereotypical; he has infused
Jame Bond with a bit of compassion and mishap; in a scene from "Goldeneye",
the first Brosnan-Bond film, 007 is found sitting on the beach remorseful
about his pending fatal encounter with former friend Agent 006. And in "Tomorrow
Never Dies", wonder woman Michelle Yeow wrestles with 007 for control
of the motorcycle on which both are riding while fleeing from gunmen |
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| Mr. Brosnan's
ability to step into the Bond character, then exude endearing traits from
his own personality without weakening Bond, has been instrumental in reviving
life into the movies series. Millionaire
does a good job of capturing from Mr. Brosnan why this has occurred in a
quote he provides; "You learn to create your own happiness. And you learn
to forgive, to rise above it, and to find your own independence." Maybe
that quote should be the motto for all would-be Millionaire
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 In
a more intimate article with Madison
Magazine, Mr. Brosnan is deftly portrayed as a regular guy, and
everyman with contemporary refinement and a quiet gratitude for his blessings.
Guy Lesser for Madison tells us that it took only two years in movies
for Brosnan to land the Remington Steele television series, at the age of
28, but that critics have underrated his acting. He also tells us that Brosnan's
createive roots lie in commercial art, which later led to theatre work.
And, charmingly, he describes Mr. Brosnan as "a great deal more lithe than
any man midway through his forties should be."
One interesting peice of trivia that comes from the Madison story
is that Brosnan's first "development deal" in producing was at Columbia,
where "At one end of the corrider was Cher, and at the other end was Madonna."
He proposed some work based on Checkhov poetry, which did not fair so well.
But he learned that "clout" was critical, and "Goldeneye" was able
to give him all the clout needed to start the Irish Dreamtime production
company.
Lesser sums up his time with Mr. Brosnan, and reference to Brosnan's model
life, in a revealing proposal about the essence of stardom. He says, "Even
if the ideal is uusually impossibly elusive, two keys to a happy - even
exemplary - existence are relatively simple. First, staying on an even keel,
with grace and humor (becoming neither arrogant nor bitter nor unfeeling)
- regardless of what fortune's whims might dish out. And second, making
the most of your gifts (whatever they be) - particularly over the long haul."
It appears that Mr. Brosnan's "life of learning" philosophy may have rubbed
off on his interviewer.
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