Also from DAF - Connery just looking so cool riding atop the elevator. It was at that moment that I really appreciated how great it was to have Connery back as Bond.
Moneypenny in a customs official uniform. Bond also gets a kick out of this.
Seeing the hovercraft leaving.
Bond pretending to be making out in the alley.
Connery pretending to be an elevator man "Who is your floor?" cracks me up every time.
The hearse drivers. "I godda bruddah. Small world"
Q getting jackpots on the slot machines.
All the scenes with Klaus hergesheimer G Section.
Bond climbing out of the underground pipe in a tuxedo.
"Baja? I haven't got anything in Baja!"
Blofeld discussing possible targets and dismissing Kansas because no one would notice.
In Thunderball, my two Tiny Pleasures both occur in the same scene:
The way Bond says "hello" when he opens the bathroom door to see Fiona in his bath...
The almost innocent look on his face when he hands her slippers...
Sublime.
Yes, brilliant! Connery at his best.
Also, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER is chock-full of fantastic Connery moments. I don't understand why it's hated so much. The confident look on his face when he smells the glass after Tiffany Case has dusted for fingerprints is pure class.
In TLD after Saunders chides Bond for being late, Bond gives him a stare for a long beat, it's a wonderful moment, full of possiblities as to what's going on inside Bond's head. -{
Watched Goldeneye again last night. Loved the bit where Onatopp guns down all the Russians while making noises like she's getting some sort of sexual gratification from it. The look on Ourumov's face is absolutely priceless )
DC in Casino Royale "NO, NO, TO THE RIGHT, THE RIGHT!"
And two scenes from OHMSS where Lazenby is 'reading' the porn mag and when he slides on his stomach while shooting during the siege on Blofeld's headquarters.
"Thank you very much. I was just out walking my RAT and seem to have lost my way... "
In TLD after Saunders chides Bond for being late, Bond gives him a stare for a long beat, it's a wonderful moment, full of possiblities as to what's going on inside Bond's head. -{
Mainly, 'I should be doing Shakespeare, not slumming it in this sh*t...'
Mainly, 'I should be doing Shakespeare, not slumming it in this sh*t...'
I was thinking more along the lines of 'They did it to me again. Another unprofessional semi-competant field agent with a superiourity complex. I'm getting tired of this job.'
Connery in Goldfinger (again - sorry) in the PTS when he's just removed his shoulder holster, looks at the girl (Nadja Regin?) and says:
"Now, where was I? ... Oh yes" as he pulls her to him... The way he says it is another tiny pleasure.
And it just gets better when he spins her into the capungo's path so she takes the full force of the blow.
You know, BlackLeiter 's right: more tiny pleasures with Connery than any other Bond just proves who's the daddy. )
When I made my list, I racked my brain for tiny pleasures in the Connery films and could not come up with very good, single examples, then realized that in the films when Connery was great or at his best, pretty much everything in those films even in scenes without Connery, were "pleasures." It's just not the fact that Connery was the starring Bond, but because by virtue his films up to YOLT made up the golden age of the series and everything (including his delivery, plus direction, music, etc.) was serendipitious.
"...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
In TLD after Saunders chides Bond for being late, Bond gives him a stare for a long beat, it's a wonderful moment, full of possiblities as to what's going on inside Bond's head. -{
I also love the line: "It's a stradivarius... they all have names" -{
I'd say there's a few for each movie, but I have a favorite from each one...
-From DN (each time I hear it, I laugh): "You, you...rats!" (Paging Mr. Cagney...)
-From FRWL: "Back to the salt mines..." (Ever wonder how many sons Kerim had, anyway?)
-From GF: "My name is Pussy Galore." "I must be dreaming." (As in, literally dreaming.)
-From TB: "She's...just dead." with that look of "Okay, I gotta go now!"
-From YOLT: The Gyrojet rocket guns. Bob Mainhardt (a.k.a. the designer) insisting they be made to shoot like minature bazookas as opposed to underpowered pistols and pistol-caliber carbines must've been something. Likewise, the idea that both Bob Mainhardt and Wing Commander Ken Wallis were present on the same set. Let's see, two genius inventors promoting their non-competing, yet rather off-the-beaten path solutions via a Bond movie...can you imagine what their conversations must've been like?
-From OHMSS: Reading the Playboy mag.
-From DAF: "I'm Klaus Hergesheimer...G Section? Uh...checking...radiation shields?" (I still crack up at that)
-From LALD: "Oh the second one is twice as simple. You just open up his mouth and pull out all his teeth." (One of the best villain comebacks to Bond of the Moore era)
-From TMWTGG: M finally telling Q to shut up.
-From TSWLM: The two scientists looking around the elevator after Stromberg's secretary gets eaten.
-From MR: "You missed, Mr. Bond." "Did I?"
-From FYEO: Columbo's constantly eating pistachios. Supposedly, much of it was unscripted and Chaim Topol just really liked pistachios.
-From OP: The Indian hotel worker. Underrated in the hotness department. Aside from that, the look on Kamal's face when Orlov bashes the Fabrege egg to smithereens with the butt of his pistol. (Remind me again why you had to choose priceless, one-of-a-kind jewels you can't possibly appreciate to fund this, again?)
-From AVTAK: "More! More POWER!" (Straight out of Walken's SNL appearances)
-From TLD: "James! We're free!" "Kara...we're on a Soviet air base in the middle of Afghanistan."
-From LTK: "Just cutting overhead." (I'm convinced Truman-Lodge was actually meant to annoy the audience as well as Sanchez, who finally snaps, kills him after his tantrum, and deadpans a one-liner after doing so.)
-From GE: "Tell him Dmitri!" "Well, it depends on a few things..." "Silence!" (Good help must be getting hard to find.) Tied with it is the look on Ourumov's face when Xenia goes postal in the Severnaya facility. "Hmm...maybe I am sane after all."
-From TND: Vince Schiavelli attempting a German accent. As per my father, Bond's gun misfired and a bunch of angry Germans killed him.
-From TWINE: Technically in the theater. Seeing Sophie Marceau naked and catching her exposed nipple JUST as I'd hit puberty...Jackpot! Next to that, "the insurance company is NEVER going to believe this." Played for humor, but it worked.
-From DAD: "Get me a new anger management therapist." (It was probably the last thing you saw coming.)
-From CR: "Skewered. One sympathizes."
-From QoS: "We're schoolteachers. We just won the lottery."
-From SF: "Uh, good luck with that" combined with the look on Daniel Craig's face as the bad guy is being dragged off by the Komodo dragon.
In TLD after Saunders chides Bond for being late, Bond gives him a stare for a long beat, it's a wonderful moment, full of possiblities as to what's going on inside Bond's head. -{
I also love the line: "It's a stradivarius... they all have names" -{
Another superb moment- good call. Can't imagine it happening now though.
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Yes, brilliant! Connery at his best.
Also, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER is chock-full of fantastic Connery moments. I don't understand why it's hated so much. The confident look on his face when he smells the glass after Tiffany Case has dusted for fingerprints is pure class.
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
I have to agree. - they're all brilliant but Connery just tops the league...
Another good thread turned into a Dalton- fanboy- gospel, Thunder -{
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#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
And two scenes from OHMSS where Lazenby is 'reading' the porn mag and when he slides on his stomach while shooting during the siege on Blofeld's headquarters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKN57C0iB0c
Just something about the way he says it!
Mainly, 'I should be doing Shakespeare, not slumming it in this sh*t...'
Roger Moore 1927-2017
#1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
"Now, where was I? ... Oh yes" as he pulls her to him... The way he says it is another tiny pleasure.
And it just gets better when he spins her into the capungo's path so she takes the full force of the blow.
You know, BlackLeiter 's right: more tiny pleasures with Connery than any other Bond just proves who's the daddy.
When I made my list, I racked my brain for tiny pleasures in the Connery films and could not come up with very good, single examples, then realized that in the films when Connery was great or at his best, pretty much everything in those films even in scenes without Connery, were "pleasures." It's just not the fact that Connery was the starring Bond, but because by virtue his films up to YOLT made up the golden age of the series and everything (including his delivery, plus direction, music, etc.) was serendipitious.
I also love the line: "It's a stradivarius... they all have names" -{
-From DN (each time I hear it, I laugh): "You, you...rats!" (Paging Mr. Cagney...)
-From FRWL: "Back to the salt mines..." (Ever wonder how many sons Kerim had, anyway?)
-From GF: "My name is Pussy Galore." "I must be dreaming." (As in, literally dreaming.)
-From TB: "She's...just dead." with that look of "Okay, I gotta go now!"
-From YOLT: The Gyrojet rocket guns. Bob Mainhardt (a.k.a. the designer) insisting they be made to shoot like minature bazookas as opposed to underpowered pistols and pistol-caliber carbines must've been something. Likewise, the idea that both Bob Mainhardt and Wing Commander Ken Wallis were present on the same set. Let's see, two genius inventors promoting their non-competing, yet rather off-the-beaten path solutions via a Bond movie...can you imagine what their conversations must've been like?
-From OHMSS: Reading the Playboy mag.
-From DAF: "I'm Klaus Hergesheimer...G Section? Uh...checking...radiation shields?" (I still crack up at that)
-From LALD: "Oh the second one is twice as simple. You just open up his mouth and pull out all his teeth." (One of the best villain comebacks to Bond of the Moore era)
-From TMWTGG: M finally telling Q to shut up.
-From TSWLM: The two scientists looking around the elevator after Stromberg's secretary gets eaten.
-From MR: "You missed, Mr. Bond." "Did I?"
-From FYEO: Columbo's constantly eating pistachios. Supposedly, much of it was unscripted and Chaim Topol just really liked pistachios.
-From OP: The Indian hotel worker. Underrated in the hotness department. Aside from that, the look on Kamal's face when Orlov bashes the Fabrege egg to smithereens with the butt of his pistol. (Remind me again why you had to choose priceless, one-of-a-kind jewels you can't possibly appreciate to fund this, again?)
-From AVTAK: "More! More POWER!" (Straight out of Walken's SNL appearances)
-From TLD: "James! We're free!" "Kara...we're on a Soviet air base in the middle of Afghanistan."
-From LTK: "Just cutting overhead." (I'm convinced Truman-Lodge was actually meant to annoy the audience as well as Sanchez, who finally snaps, kills him after his tantrum, and deadpans a one-liner after doing so.)
-From GE: "Tell him Dmitri!" "Well, it depends on a few things..." "Silence!" (Good help must be getting hard to find.) Tied with it is the look on Ourumov's face when Xenia goes postal in the Severnaya facility. "Hmm...maybe I am sane after all."
-From TND: Vince Schiavelli attempting a German accent. As per my father, Bond's gun misfired and a bunch of angry Germans killed him.
-From TWINE: Technically in the theater. Seeing Sophie Marceau naked and catching her exposed nipple JUST as I'd hit puberty...Jackpot! Next to that, "the insurance company is NEVER going to believe this." Played for humor, but it worked.
-From DAD: "Get me a new anger management therapist." (It was probably the last thing you saw coming.)
-From CR: "Skewered. One sympathizes."
-From QoS: "We're schoolteachers. We just won the lottery."
-From SF: "Uh, good luck with that" combined with the look on Daniel Craig's face as the bad guy is being dragged off by the Komodo dragon.
Another superb moment- good call. Can't imagine it happening now though.