Assuming you already know what this documentary is about, I'll just get to what I thought of the 1 and a half hour documentary where George Lazenby tells his "life story" and how he got the role of 007. However the documentary seems to be more about George Lanzenby's sex life at the start. For some reason their is a segment about how he lost his virginity too his hot 23 year old neighbor when he was fifteen, but whats the point of that segment? I guess to segway into Lazenby's sex addiction (if he had a sex addiction). But through out the documentary I didn't get the sense that he had a sex addiction because he is portrayed as dumb, witty, charismatic Australian who is just doing what he wants.
The part where it starts to get interesting is when his agent tells Lazenby that he should become Bond. But George Lazenby was only a male model at the time so he had to lie to get the job. So you see how he used his quick witted tricks to get the role of James Bond.
George later meets the love of his life Belinda and they become hally together but her father doesn't approve of him because of his lower class. So Belinda is sent away with her father in London, but George can't stand not hearing from her after she has stopped sending him letters. So he travels all the way from Australia to London to not find Belinda. He later meets Belinda in a pub with her new boyfriend, but a couple of weeks later she confesses that she still loves him and move in together. However Lazenby's model career kicks off and he has an affair with another woman and Belinda leaves him. A couple of years later George has the role of James Bond and he is told by the studio to go on vacation to escape the press. George invites Belinda to where he is staying in South France and surprisingly she agrees to go with excitement. When Belinda arrives George tells her that the studio has called him to go to London for a press conference and tells her that he will be back in a couple days, but he doesn't know that it would be years before he would return. George wouldn't see Belinda again until 20 years later but by that time she had already been married and had kids. The real George Lazenby telling the story while this all happens on screen begins to tear up and you feel with him. We had followed his adventure and relationship with Belinda so it was sad to see her and George have to leave each other not lnowing that it would be the last time they would see eachother for 20 years.
Later on in George Lazenby's career his agent tells Lazenby that he should become Bond. But Lazenby was only a male model with no acting experience at the time so he had to lie to the casting director, the head of the studio, and tbe director of the movie get the job. You see how he used his quick witted tricks to get the role of James Bond when the casting director asks him his life story and George just keeps naming countries that they couldn't trace him too so that they wouldn't know if it was true. The director outs him as a phony but says that lying his way through an organization is such a James Bond thing to do, so the director makes him 007.
The best part to me was the last few segments were Lazenby turns down a contract to be Bond for 6 more films and a 1 million dollar signing bonus while everyone is trashing him for it, saying it was notoriously one of the worst decisions in the world. But for Lazenby, he just wanted to live the life he wanted too. He just didn't want to be Bond off screen.
I really felt for Lazenby because he struggled in school, he found the love of his life only to lose her 3 times, 2 of which not being his fault. After all that personal stuff he turned down the next 6 Bond films for his own sake only to be ridiculed by everyone. The documentary has some glaring problems with its tone and it feels like the story can get side tracked but I think that was just George Lazenby telling his story and getting distracted by his sexual experiences and Hulu didn't have a whole lot to work with. I have no idea if most of the stuff Lazenby was saying was true, so I began to wonder how this story could be adapted perfectly and I thought of a George Lazenby Martin Scorsese movie, the documentary follows alot of themes Scorsese has dabbled with, such as sex and drugs.
The part where it starts to get interesting is when his agent tells Lazenby that he should become Bond. But George Lazenby was only a male model at the time so he had to lie to get the job. So you see how he used his quick witted tricks to get the role of James Bond.
George later meets the love of his life Belinda and they become hally together but her father doesn't approve of him because of his lower class. So Belinda is sent away with her father in London, but George can't stand not hearing from her after she has stopped sending him letters. So he travels all the way from Australia to London to not find Belinda. He later meets Belinda in a pub with her new boyfriend, but a couple of weeks later she confesses that she still loves him and move in together. However Lazenby's model career kicks off and he has an affair with another woman and Belinda leaves him. A couple of years later George has the role of James Bond and he is told by the studio to go on vacation to escape the press. George invites Belinda to where he is staying in South France and surprisingly she agrees to go with excitement. When Belinda arrives George tells her that the studio has called him to go to London for a press conference and tells her that he will be back in a couple days, but he doesn't know that it would be years before he would return. George wouldn't see Belinda again until 20 years later but by that time she had already been married and had kids. The real George Lazenby telling the story while this all happens on screen begins to tear up and you feel with him. We had followed his adventure and relationship with Belinda so it was sad to see her and George have to leave each other not lnowing that it would be the last time they would see eachother for 20 years.
Later on in George Lazenby's career his agent tells Lazenby that he should become Bond. But Lazenby was only a male model with no acting experience at the time so he had to lie to the casting director, the head of the studio, and tbe director of the movie get the job. You see how he used his quick witted tricks to get the role of James Bond when the casting director asks him his life story and George just keeps naming countries that they couldn't trace him too so that they wouldn't know if it was true. The director outs him as a phony but says that lying his way through an organization is such a James Bond thing to do, so the director makes him 007.
The best part to me was the last few segments were Lazenby turns down a contract to be Bond for 6 more films and a 1 million dollar signing bonus while everyone is trashing him for it, saying it was notoriously one of the worst decisions in the world. But for Lazenby, he just wanted to live the life he wanted too. He just didn't want to be Bond off screen.
I really felt for Lazenby because he struggled in school, he found the love of his life only to lose her 3 times, 2 of which not being his fault. After all that personal stuff he turned down the next 6 Bond films for his own sake only to be ridiculed by everyone. The documentary has some glaring problems with its tone and it feels like the story can get side tracked but I think that was just George Lazenby telling his story and getting distracted by his sexual experiences and Hulu didn't have a whole lot to work with. I have no idea if most of the stuff Lazenby was saying was true, so I began to wonder how this story could be adapted perfectly and I thought of a George Lazenby Martin Scorsese movie, the documentary follows alot of themes Scorsese has dabbled with, such as sex and drugs.