AJB live commentary on DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Bond inside the burning coffin is one of the most memorable scenes in DAF.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    The cross in the chapel window is upide down, a satanistic symbol. I wonder if it's intentional?

    I love the witty charade played out between Slumber and Bond... comically irreverent

    Connery is playing this script as an expert comedian. He's as talented at this style of acting as with the more brutal stuff.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree! Totally not the book character, but very enjoyable
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Love the funereal music :007)

    Yesterday while playing the soundtrack cd on the hifi I insisted on listening to this music on high volume, possibly concerning for my wife and neighbours.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    Leonard Barr sadly lacks both pace and class in his delivery of "Pace! Class!"
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    The Vegas music here is included in “Additional And Alternate Cues” on the 2003 remaster
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Leonard Barr sadly lacks both pace and class in his delivery of "Pace! Class!"

    Paste!
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    The cross in the chapel window is upide down, a satanistic symbol. I wonder if it's intentional?

    I love the witty charade played out between Slumber and Bond... comically irreverent

    Connery is playing this script as an expert comedian. He's as talented at this style of acting as with the more brutal stuff.

    DAF has some excellent lines and Connery delivers them very well.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    Time stamp please
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Valerie Perrine, pre-stardom, as one of Shady's acorns
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    Surprisingly, Connery is on record as declaring himself an avowed Carry On fan. He really loved what they did - and all comedy fans know that they're just brilliant at making silk from a sow's ear, there's a real intelligence and timing to the laughs.

    In a fictional drama about the affair between Barbara Windsor and Sid James, in one memorable scene set at Pinewood lookalikes of Connery in a tux, Eaton in Gold paint and Oddjob are shown in the background.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Time stamp please

    Wint & Kidd visit Shady
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Golrush007 wrote:
    Love the funereal music :007)

    Yesterday while playing the soundtrack cd on the hifi I insisted on listening to this music on high volume, possibly concerning for my wife and neighbours.

    :)) :)) As long as you don't wake up in a box tomorrow morning with the music playing in the background...
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    edited June 2020
    It's a shame that the funny Sammy Davies Jr bit hit the cutting room floor. I love SDJ's Mankiewicz line about Bond: "There's no cake big enough to put him on top of!"
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Bruce Cabot as Saxby- the hero of the original "King Kong"
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    Surprisingly, Connery is on record as declaring himself an avowed Carry On fan. He really loved what they did - and all comedy fans know that they're just brilliant at making silk from a sow's ear, there's a real intelligence and timing to the laughs.

    In a fictional drama about the affair between Barbara Windsor and Sid James, in one memorable scene set at Pinewood lookalikes of Connery in a tux, Eaton in Gold paint and Oddjob are shown in the background.

    Connery was good friends with Sid James who he starred with in a pre-Bond film
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Plenty :x :x :x :x
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    I would have liked the Sammy Davis Jr bit to stay in the film.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    A brief recall of the "old" faceless Blofeld"
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    The portly casino guy overseeing the crap table... I love his muffled line delivery: being himself
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    Lana Wood is fab
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Funny to watch Lana Wood's height relative to Connery change from scene to scene
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    Lana Wood looks fantastic and Plenty is a fun presence.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Plenty, Then Tiffany”
  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,421Quartermasters
    Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole...as a child she appeared in one of my all time favourite films The Searchers as Debbie. Her older sister Natalie played the more grown up Debbie at the end of the film.
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 22,334MI6 Agent
    The Searchers is one of the best westerns ever.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Connery was good friends with Sid James who he starred with in a pre-Bond film

    Hell Drivers, with Patrick McGoohan. -{
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 2,998MI6 Agent
    A plot weakness in the film is the way bits were cut out which explained how Plenty ended up at Tiffany's apartment later, only to be killed. But who cares about the plot hole? Not the original audience, for sure... it's all excellent fun!
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,211MI6 Agent
    Sean has always looked older than his years
    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,860Chief of Staff
    Music “Circus, Circus”

    Mankiewicz had originally written "The Flying Broccolis" but Cubby told him to change it
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