Review of Octopussy (1983) by Richard Corliss for Time — 02 Jun 2017
When he had started playing this game of Save the Planet—when he was roguish Sean Connery and the world was so much younger—Bond had been a kind of role model for people of a certain class and ambition.
Savoir-faire meant the aristocracy of style: which wine to decant, which brand of cigarette to smoke, which automatic weapon to carry under the armpit. Now that he was Roger Moore, 20 years later, Bond had degenerated into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism.
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This review of Octopussy (1983) was written by Richard Corliss and published by Time on 02 Jun 2017.
Octopussy has generally received mixed reviews.
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