AJB live commentary on DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

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  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    Thunderbird 2 wrote:
    This snooping about and gymnastics in “contemporary” black tie, classic Connery era Bond.

    Black dinner jacket here following the white one he wore in the earlier Vegas scenes. No wonder he puts two massive suitcases into the hearse at Vegas airport. He must have packed everything.
    . Bought locally. The white one uses a clip on bow tie. The ‘rippled’ black satin on the black one is a bit festive. Prob a Vegas tailor!

    I do like how Bond suspects a trap floor in the elevator. Foreshadowing TSWLM by a few years.
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Love the raised section of desert with the cactus on top from which Wint and Kidd drive from the Whyte House, it's like the entrance to the batcave or Tracey Island :)) :))
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    The first time I saw this I remember thinking "What the hell are they doing?"
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,206MI6 Agent
    A silly way to try and kill Bond, just shoot him.
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    I particularly love the stainless steel elevator.

    No room for a delicatessen.

    Keep your hair on.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Bond's move in the elevator here is the self-same move he makes in Stromberg's elevator in Atlantis... saving him from the sharks.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,330MI6 Agent
    This scene would have worked much better if they had used thre enormous vehicles they wanted to use.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Golrush007 wrote:
    I particularly love the stainless steel elevator.

    No room for a delicatessen.

    Keep your hair on.

    :)) :)) :))
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Machine that goes Snap crackle Popping...!

    The tunnel tester thing.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Music “Bond Smells A Rat” A frequently used cue title (MR, NSNA)
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Albert R. Saxby :)) :)) :))
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The flap with the cactus on it opening up to the road... similar to the exit from the Batcave for the Batmobile in the 60s Batman TV series. Adam West was one of the actors auditioned as Bond for DAF before they signed John Gavin and then got Connery... and Jill St John had starred in the pilot episode.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,330MI6 Agent
    Bond likes to brag about himself :))
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,206MI6 Agent
    All logic flies out of the window in the second half :#
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Q! states that he has kids- wonder if one of them was Ben Whishaw? (Possibly grandkids?)
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Made one of these for the kids last Christmas!

    That always makes me laugh - the glutt Of talking toys that popped when I was a kid in the Eighties...
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    Music “Bond Meets Bambi and Thumper” Bond Theme and DAF mingled together
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Bond Smells A Rat” A frequently used cue title (MR, NSNA)

    But not by Thomas Newman for the far less effective Bond/rodent encounter in SP.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Q! states that he has kids- wonder if one of them was Ben Whishaw?

    I'll happily go along with that theory.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,854Chief of Staff
    AJB interviewed Trina Parks (Thumper) last year- https://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/51850/ajb-interview-with-trina-parks/
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,206MI6 Agent
    This house is brilliant!
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Albert R. Saxby :)) :)) :))

    If the 'R' stands for Romolo then I think we are onto something... :))
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,330MI6 Agent
    Great location! The idea for the fight is inspired, but it's undone by the way Bond wins by just holding them underwater. He should have just killed them in the end instead.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Love the pink tie. Appropriate for a scene where he gets beaten up by a couple of girls.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    More fun in swimming pools. Where's Plenty when you need her?
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,206MI6 Agent
    Poor fight this, Bond just stands there t to be hit
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    Number24 wrote:
    Great location! The idea for the fight is inspired, but it's undone by the way Bond wins by just holding them underwater. He should have just killed them in the end instead.

    Barry's action cue, segueing into comic sax, helps out with that. Connery's final victory here in the pool is merely token... which may even be a deliberate joke, I feel.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,816MI6 Agent
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    Q! states that he has kids- wonder if one of them was Ben Whishaw?

    I'll happily go along with that theory.

    Nah, that’s his Grandson! Wish aw is younger than Me.

    Jimmy Dean is brilliant as Whyte... didn’t he become firm friends with Connery?
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Barbel wrote:
    Music “Bond Meets Bambi and Thumper” Bond Theme and DAF mingled together

    My favourite cue from this score. I love how comfortably the DAF theme and the James Bond theme sit together. If I'm not mistaken this cue was used at the beginning of the Moonraker trailer.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,330MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Great location! The idea for the fight is inspired, but it's undone by the way Bond wins by just holding them underwater. He should have just killed them in the end instead.

    Or rather he should have killed one and threathening to down the other in a realistic way.
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