It was part of a legitimate corporation owned by Willard White, so it has to keep up appearances for those OSHA inspectors.”All is in order, nothing to see here!”
Everything about this film screams 1970s. The cassette tape being some sort of cutting edge technology, the campiness, Connery's toupee/sideburn combo.
@@CaptainSpalding72 True, that's why I said everything about this film screams 1970s... bit of an overreaction, my friend. No need for name calling (even if it is something a kid would call someone).
If it’s any consolation to the good people of Kansas, he did call Britain “a pitiful little island” which is far worse. We weren’t even good enough to be a target!
In the Bond films there was also Joe Don Baker who played a good guy and a bad guy - Brad Whittaker in The Living Daylights (1987) and Jack Wade in Goldeneye (1995) and Tomorrow never Dies (1997).
I never understood the hate for his take on Blofeld, he's so campy and in line with the silly tongue-in-cheek script of DAF, much as I adore Donald Pleasence, his Blofeld, or the Telly Savalas version, would feel out of place.
@@horrorfanandy4647 people are stupid is why. This is the "second" Blofeld after the surgery used as disguise. He is basically a different character in each iteration. This being his last.... :(
I think the same, Charles Gray, he made an excellent Blofeld, I liked him much more than the other Bald actors in that they only spent time manipulating and giving orders, while Charles gave it another meaning, even the actor Christoph Waltz used a similar style Charles and not bald like the others.
The Philips compact cassette was very much cutting edge technology at the time this scene was shot in 1970 /71. The compact cassette had been introduced in 1968, only two years before.
Philips introduced the compact cassette in September 1963, originally intended mainly for dictation machines. As the quality improved in the following years, it found its way into more demanding application areas as well.
@@KowabrassKeith Richards of the Rolling Stones had one of the earliest Philips/ Norelco cassette recorders available to the public and in the spring of 1965 he wrote, I Can't Get No Satisfaction on it ...IN HIS SLEEP! He actually used to sleep with his guitar...really ...and he kept his Philips/ Norelco cassette recorder next to the bed on his nightstand. He woke up one morning and found that the tape was at its end . He had no idea what was on it, he rewound the tape and listened to it to find to his surprise 5 minutes of himself playing and singing the guitar hook, the chorus and part of the first verse to Satisfaction and 40 minutes of himself snoring loudly. It was a number one hit for the band and put them on the international scene as a hit pop act. Had it not been for that Philips/ Norelco technology that hit song may have never been written and recorded. True story
@@dkizxpt-su3ze Tiffany Case switched the tapes back after Bond had put in the fake tape and took the one Blofeld needed. Bond was annoyed with Tiffany for switching tapes.
It's odd that Roger Moore is three years older than Sean, although Moore played Bond after the Sean period. I liked them both, and oddly they both lived to about 90 years.
Connery got voted sexiest man alive in 1989, when he was around 60. His transition period from lean and rugged to a silver fox was really awkward though. This movie is a good example, kind of a bloated face, super thick eyebrows, sideburns, meh wardrobe and bad toupee combine to give his arguably worst look as Bond. Never Say Never actually made him look better, while acknowledging his aging.
@@masterexploder9668 at 52 he looked better in Never Say Never Again like you said then did at age 40 in Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. He looked bored and at times pissed in the movie but add the bad toupee and looking out of shape but he looked better in his 50s in movies like The Untouchables at 57 and even The Rock in 1996 at 66 years old. He was bored and annoyed in You Only Live Twice as well but could tell then he was ready to be done playing Bond and only did Diamonds Are Forever for the money to return for $1.2 million to which he donated the entire sum to charity.
I've always loved that cool entrance! And of course the villains have the perfect dock to take in the balloon. They must have foreseen that British heroes might arrive like this :)
Bond villains are usually a step ahead of the hero through most of the film. "We've been expecting you, Mr. Bond." Then he acquires some unexpected ally or uses one of his silly gadgets to turn the tables once he's figured out their plan. Just shoot him.
I think you need to enjoy the camp and odd feeling of 70’s America to appreciate this film. I love the shots of Vegas around that time and the characters seem to fit well within it.
I can never picture anyone else portraying James Bond 007 as good as Sean Connery did just as like I can never picture anyone else portraying Batman as good as Adam West.
@andree france paquette 41 is not old these days. Probably was treated like that in 1971. In Eastern Europe they're still quite ageist also I found on my travels. Very bigotted and boringly conditioned. Thank God I wasn't born under Communism.
Men back then seemed to age a lot quicker, or maybe we're just used to the modern man looking all smooth and metrosexual. Sean Connery died at age 90 so him looking older 50 years ago didn't shorten his lifespan. It must be said that he never really looked like a boy, he always had that 'Mad Men' look :)
Ernst, his full name is Ernst Sravro Blofeld. Sorry if you already know that haha. But yeah, it is weird seeing as nobody in the franchise refers to him by his first name, ever.
I guess you can show power over a baddie by showing little respect. Tiffany is the only character in the series who’s ever just called Blofeld “Ernst” (or at least to my knowledge).
enough that Wolverine used it too. Maybe the second amusing is that sign, "If In Doubt, Ask". Even an evil lair needs to have a reminder to people not to f-- up....but it also hints at a moral code not in play.
The new Bond flick looks trash. Hopefully they never release it and our memories of Bond can stay somewhat pure, wish the same could be said about Star Wars.
@@the6ig6adwolf The current bland blonde Bond is having an identity crisis. He doesn't know whether he's Bourne, Rambo, Statham or in a Nolan's movie. The producers should have killed Bond in Casino Royale.
The thing that amazes me here really is, not so much that Connery was younger than Moore and looked about 10 years older by 1971...but that he looked about the same as he does here still, if not slightly better, when he did Never say Never Again in 1983! Just goes to show what making a bit more of an effort to get fitter can do I guess, as I know by this point he really didn't give a damn and just did it for the paycheck.
@@gregorsamsa2271if Roger had played bond in DAF then everyone would consider this the worst James Bond movie ever, but because it's Connery they are more forgiving
I have a message for the legend himself: Roger if you listen or read from heaven i want you to know that i love as a person, i adore your portrayal of bond, I can understand some of your issues regarding certain violent moments in your films an i completely agree with you that it was a mistake to come back for a 7th outing. But common Roger, why did you made that stupid statement, giving more feedback to your haters, if you have said you only live twice it would be acceptable but DaF makes your Moonraker look like the Dark Knight by comparison "
Blofeld couldn't have ejected the tape just like that - he had to press the stop key first! I should know, I have 4 of that Philips N2205 tape recorder.
"No One Lives Forever 2" was obviously heavily, heavily inspired by just about everything in this film. 💪😎✌️ Especially the "H.A.R.M." personnel. 😂🤣😂 Tape cassette stuff, too.
@@belykwater5601 Good one, good sir. I think for Sir Christopher I prefer his disposition (he has the carriage of a Victorian army officer) to this vocabulary or his elocution.
Connery is better in first four, where everything is like a big family. After ''Thunderball'' his relatioships with producers is very bad. But is Bond for everyone until the early 70s. Here shows bored, has not shaved his eyebrows, is aged and heavier, but if D.A.F. was a revenge film and not a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice'', he is perfect as Bond after Tracy's death. Connery should have play in O.H.M.S.S. and I can imagine him in ''Live and Let Die'' in 1972 for celebration 10 years Bond films. He would had ended as 007 from there where he started ten years before (Jamaica).
That is an incorrect assumption that a lot of people make that don't do the research. He liked making this film, much more than YOLT and Thunderball, where he felt he was being made into a button pusher. He loved the dialogue in this movie and that's why he tried to get Tom Mankiewitz, who wrote DAF, to be the head writer on Never Say Never again, when he made his comeback 12 years later. But TM felt a loyalty to EON and therefore declined. Contemporary critics said Connery's performance was his most relaxed and confident since Goldfinger.
Why do they disclose all their secret plans to Bond when they are going to kill him anyway ? Funny how all those complex computers can be controlled by a simple audio cassette.
Well Well Well. Look what the cat dragged in. Charles Gray as Blofeld previously in You Only Live Twice as Henderson. And in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
"Search him from his toe nail to the last follicle on his head....then bring him to me" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 .................and search him again This guy was a paranoid freak indeed
Well it is James Bond so I can hardly blame him and he’s freaking tired of the game they play (even though to Bond it’s just a job as well as personal revenge at this point)
Sean Connery remains the only Bond. The problem was that he was an actor and an actor does not like by anyway to get stuck to a character forever, he would prefer change drama.
So your comment remain only gribrish. If SC would be the only Bond, then the whole franchise would die with him, yet it survived and thrived under new actors. Honestly, Craig revived James Bond for XXI century. Other actors were half bad too. most of the time the script was lackluster?
@@chrishill3536 Yes and no. His Bond had less energy because Craig's Bond was a subversion of the cliche Bond tropes in order to bring new life to the character. If he had stopped at Casino Royale he'd be on par with George Lazenby for not overextending his presence and leaving on a good note.
@@metal87power Craig's Bond did not revive squat. If anything, the series got more uneven and all over the place. First two dead serious Bourne rip-offs, then a Dark Knight wannabe overly complicated revenge plot, then a pathetic and lazy retcon of all previous movies and finally they kill him off in the cheapest way possible.
D.A.F. comes after O.H.M.S.S. but as a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''. Producers ignored O.H.M.S.S. as in O.H.M.S.S. ignored Bond and Blofeld meeting in ''You Only Live Twice''. The opportunity to use the older, heavier and totally fed look of Connery, as Bond's perfect image after his wife death, was lost.
Thanks for the comment. Originally the ending of OHMSS where Tracy dies was to be the opening sequence of Diamonds. But I assume they realised Lazenby wasn't returning so they put it in as a cliff hanging ending and then decided not to mention it again until strangely The spy who loved me several years later
He wasn't fed up in this. He came back here as a one off for a fantastic sum of money and intended to go out in style. He was fed up filming YOLT and that's why he quit and didn't do OHMSS. He wanted more Connery loved all the witty dialogue in DAF and tried to get that writer back when he made his comeback as Bond 12 years later.
Connery looks to be enjoying himself here, at least compared to You Only Live Twice. It’s better to think of DAF as a follow up to YOLT rather than OHMSS.
I, too, would have liked to give the tape back to Tiffany in this discreet way. As, indeed, I would have liked to swap with Connery for all the scenes involving her.
Connery's James Bond was tough, but human enough to get hurt and captured. Cartoonishly killing, with an "I'm too sexy" smile to avoid the trap of taking it too seriously and looking like a physchopath.❤️Like some incredibly overpaid "zombie" 007 actors
WHICH side do you put it back?? Are both sides the same recording? Diamonds was a great film seeing early Vegas and all the various villains- terribly dated now in so many ways, but so glad they were made of a fun innocent time when men were men and everyone was well spoken even the bad guys...
You mean men were stupid and prideful with bs bravado outside of serious situations? Sure I mean nostalgia is nice and all but spare us that glorified crap. Even Connery was a bastard IRL at that age
A jolly good actor/actress is the one who does not always plays the same kind of person forever and ever. Thus he/she may develop many skills as he/she can afford. As a matter of fact.
I think they should make some retro Bond films. His character was set in the 50s-60s. It could include technology from now. Mobile smart phones, laptops, email. These would all have qualified as top secret gadgets only available to super privileged individuals. Remember this was an era when a computer with the computational power of a modern day smart phone would be the size of a small room. That would in my opinion be far more interesting than setting Bond in modern times.
@Jin Lee Sarcasm noted…Very Dumb. Villains do exist. 😂😂😂 Trump has been they same man for decades and he was embraced by, Democrats, Hollywood, the MSM and black “leaders” and celebrities (he was praised by Jesse Jackson). Trump has been espousing the same political, economic and social views he’s had since the late 70s. What many idiots don’t know because their fooled by all the fake news is, it’s the sleazy career politicians and their corrupt media buddies who change with the wind and their opinions come from the elite ruling class who also pay for their salaries and loyalty. It is easier to fool the people than convince them they’re being fooled. Keep thinking “Orange Man Bad” and stay real dumb.
You got it wrong. Smartphones are several thousands times more powerful than computers of the era. Actually 70s calculators were more powerful than 50s coumputers.
@@SparrowNoblePoland i wasn't plumbing for historical accuracy and never eluded to being a historian i was merely making a suggestion that some of today's gadgets would make for interesting bond gadgets and it would be interesting to see how they could have been used to tip things in either bond or his opponents favor.
@ 4:30 "Put it back Mr. Bond. IMMEDIATELY." Why the hell would you have HIM put it back? Why would you give him any chance to screw with the tape? Immediately have him step away, and do it yourself.
Yeah and it’s not like he’s a superhero, he’s just very lucky and well-trained and even has a soft heart for those he doesn’t feel deserve a death by his hanf
I love the fact that even spectre has to put up health and safety notices.
even evil organizations must follow OHS guidelines
It was part of a legitimate corporation owned by Willard White, so it has to keep up appearances for those OSHA inspectors.”All is in order, nothing to see here!”
Remember, like the sign says: _If in doubt _*_ASK_*
And who couldn't love: _No pollution. _*_NOT ANY_*_ Take every precaution_
Even Spectre? H&S likely CAME from an evil supervillain organization in the first place.
Well dead henchmen cost time and money to replace ya know. Much more efficient to just put up a sign.
Everything about this film screams 1970s. The cassette tape being some sort of cutting edge technology, the campiness, Connery's toupee/sideburn combo.
Uk
Cassettes were new technology then, dummy
@@CaptainSpalding72 True, that's why I said everything about this film screams 1970s... bit of an overreaction, my friend. No need for name calling (even if it is something a kid would call someone).
Love the 70s
Yeah , but he was cooler than the other side of the pillow and you envied him at the time.
"If we destroy Kansas, the world may not hear about for years."
As someone who lives in Kansas, I find this line both hilarious and accurate.
Not until prices for their processed junk food corn products and ever precious ethanol skyrocket.
Most people only see Kansas from 35 000 feet on their way to NY or LA. 😂
I've said as much about Iceland myself.
@@dbsommers1 The “land of fire and ice” holds a bit more attraction I would think.
If it’s any consolation to the good people of Kansas, he did call Britain “a pitiful little island” which is far worse. We weren’t even good enough to be a target!
Jill St. John laying on the couch at 2:59 is one of my favorite Bond scenes. She is my favorite bond girl.
And the brunette flying the helecopter with roger moor the spy who loved me i think it was
Charles Grey, a terrific actor in my opinion, must be one of the few who has played both a goodie and a baddie in the same film franchise.
In the Bond films there was also Joe Don Baker who played a good guy and a bad guy - Brad Whittaker in The Living Daylights (1987) and Jack Wade in Goldeneye (1995) and Tomorrow never Dies (1997).
I never understood the hate for his take on Blofeld, he's so campy and in line with the silly tongue-in-cheek script of DAF, much as I adore Donald Pleasence, his Blofeld, or the Telly Savalas version, would feel out of place.
@@horrorfanandy4647 people are stupid is why. This is the "second" Blofeld after the surgery used as disguise. He is basically a different character in each iteration. This being his last.... :(
He also got the "Shaken not stirred" Bond Martini upside down!...in YOLT!...ie; "That's stirred not shaken isn't it?"
I think the same, Charles Gray, he made an excellent Blofeld, I liked him much more than the other Bald actors in that they only spent time manipulating and giving orders, while Charles gave it another meaning, even the actor Christoph Waltz used a similar style Charles and not bald like the others.
The Philips compact cassette was very much cutting edge technology at the time this scene was shot in 1970 /71. The compact cassette had been introduced in 1968, only two years before.
Bah, spare me that stone age nonsense!
That’s nothing in comparison to the Sony mobile, remote viewing screen he previously used in Japan. In color no less…
Philips introduced the compact cassette in September 1963, originally intended mainly for dictation machines. As the quality improved in the following years, it found its way into more demanding application areas as well.
@@KowabrassKeith Richards of the Rolling Stones had one of the earliest Philips/ Norelco cassette recorders available to the public and in the spring of 1965 he wrote, I Can't Get No Satisfaction on it ...IN HIS SLEEP!
He actually used to sleep with his guitar...really ...and he kept his Philips/ Norelco cassette recorder next to the bed on his nightstand.
He woke up one morning and found that the tape was at its end . He had no idea what was on it, he rewound the tape and listened to it to find to his surprise 5 minutes of himself playing and singing the guitar hook, the chorus and part of the first verse to Satisfaction and 40 minutes of himself snoring loudly.
It was a number one hit for the band and put them on the international scene as a hit pop act.
Had it not been for that Philips/ Norelco technology that hit song may have never been written and recorded.
True story
I am not shure of that. I think the Compact cassette was introduced by Philips in 1962.
It's always delight to watch Sir Sean Connery as Bond.
RIP Mr. Bond 🪦
Is it me or in this film, Connery used fake eyebrows and a wig?
The fact that Tiffany changed back the tape after Bond already switched it was hilarious.
What?
Jill St. John
Some Bond girls aren’t very smart these days.
@@dkizxpt-su3ze Tiffany Case switched the tapes back after Bond had put in the fake tape and took the one Blofeld needed. Bond was annoyed with Tiffany for switching tapes.
CGI tech was at its infancy back then
It's odd that Roger Moore is three years older than Sean, although Moore played Bond after the Sean period. I liked them both, and oddly they both lived to about 90 years.
Yeah, always thought Sean was older. They both died aged 90.
@@discepted9569 Sean aged better though.
@@discepted9569Connery was 90 when he died but Moore was just of that as died at age 89 in May 23rd 2017 and would have turned 90 that October.
Connery got voted sexiest man alive in 1989, when he was around 60.
His transition period from lean and rugged to a silver fox was really awkward though. This movie is a good example, kind of a bloated face, super thick eyebrows, sideburns, meh wardrobe and bad toupee combine to give his arguably worst look as Bond. Never Say Never actually made him look better, while acknowledging his aging.
@@masterexploder9668 at 52 he looked better in Never Say Never Again like you said then did at age 40 in Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. He looked bored and at times pissed in the movie but add the bad toupee and looking out of shape but he looked better in his 50s in movies like The Untouchables at 57 and even The Rock in 1996 at 66 years old. He was bored and annoyed in You Only Live Twice as well but could tell then he was ready to be done playing Bond and only did Diamonds Are Forever for the money to return for $1.2 million to which he donated the entire sum to charity.
I've always loved that cool entrance!
And of course the villains have the perfect dock to take in the balloon. They must have foreseen that British heroes might arrive like this :)
The fatal flaw of all Bond villains: they don't just shoot him when they see him.
As long as one is properly attired…
Bond villains are usually a step ahead of the hero through most of the film. "We've been expecting you, Mr. Bond." Then he acquires some unexpected ally or uses one of his silly gadgets to turn the tables once he's figured out their plan. Just shoot him.
I think you need to enjoy the camp and odd feeling of 70’s America to appreciate this film. I love the shots of Vegas around that time and the characters seem to fit well within it.
5:18 that’s gotta be the best delivery of a line in cinematic history
"Just like her. .....................................Bitch."
Sean Connery was looking a bit older here but still looked very handsome. RIP SEAN CONNERY
I can never picture anyone else portraying James Bond 007 as good as Sean Connery did just as like I can never picture anyone else portraying Batman as good as Adam West.
@andree france paquette 41 is not old these days. Probably was treated like that in 1971.
In Eastern Europe they're still quite ageist also I found on my travels. Very bigotted and boringly conditioned.
Thank God I wasn't born under Communism.
@@steffanhoffmann8937 When the life is hard, you get old sooner.
He is on early 40s at that time by the way...
@@viantzpradz4771 I am and I look better than he did. Hollywood life is not all it's cracked up to be. 🇬🇧
Smoother than an '80s mix-tape.
But not as smooth as the young Jill St. John's bare ass.
He was out of shape also
Haha one of the only times where Bond is seen cursing
" oh, when we destroy kansas, the world may not hear about it for years." savage
Hard to believe Connery was 40/41 here - he looks 10 years older.
He always looked older than his years and was out of shape in DAF. Also hard to believe his successor Roger Moore was older than him too!
Men back then seemed to age a lot quicker, or maybe we're just used to the modern man looking all smooth and metrosexual. Sean Connery died at age 90 so him looking older 50 years ago didn't shorten his lifespan. It must be said that he never really looked like a boy, he always had that 'Mad Men' look :)
he never aged well. he was wearing a wig for his early Bond films because of his balding.
in daf i think he came back for money, but lazenby coudve well have done it
@@Cubsfan122112 and
It's hard to believe that Sean Connery was only 40 years old in this movie.
With those thick (and kafe) eyebrows and clearly a wig.
looked like in mid 50s
It's also hard to believe that with all the premature aging he did he still lived to 90.
@@aansul888 8
Hard to believe he missed this perfect opportunity to give a woman a slap
Heh I love the look Bond gives when he was proven right on how simple the damn device was. His face was like “oh ffs I was joking, Blofeld”
4:45 “Hi Ernst!”
What an undignified way to address a mass murdering psychopath we all know and love.
Ernst, his full name is Ernst Sravro Blofeld.
Sorry if you already know that haha. But yeah, it is weird seeing as nobody in the franchise refers to him by his first name, ever.
@@firebeardnc6012 Yes, I did know that. Thank you anyway.
I guess you can show power over a baddie by showing little respect. Tiffany is the only character in the series who’s ever just called Blofeld “Ernst” (or at least to my knowledge).
I didn't know that there was a pool down there has to be one
the funniest lines in a bond film.😀
Completely different scene. Yet, still hilarious!
enough that Wolverine used it too. Maybe the second amusing is that sign, "If In Doubt, Ask". Even an evil lair needs to have a reminder to people not to f-- up....but it also hints at a moral code not in play.
That actor was shot at the beginning of The Man With The Golden Gun. Same director - Guy Hamilton.
@@williamfoy599 The Mighty Marc Lawrence.
the things that always got me impressed about Connery as Bond is who grew up fastly from dr no to Diamonds which by the way is not bad movie.
Used to be the only movies I saw in a theater were the latest Bond and Star Wars movies....now, it's just Bond, James Bond.
The new Bond flick looks trash. Hopefully they never release it and our memories of Bond can stay somewhat pure, wish the same could be said about Star Wars.
@@the6ig6adwolf The current bland blonde Bond is having an identity crisis. He doesn't know whether he's Bourne, Rambo, Statham or in a Nolan's movie. The producers should have killed Bond in Casino Royale.
They stopped making James Bond movies 20 years ago.
@@oldcountryman2795 Daniel Craig is literally the best Bond after Connery
@@Usario321 Daniel Craig is a steaming pile.
This scene ALONE is why this Bond film is in my "bottom five" list of the Bond series.
Please stop using her as the butt of your jokes!
an excuse for a bottom pun. Oh, dear.
Don’t be so cheeky.
These jokes crack me up
@@stevemossholder A flat butt to be sure.
Good morning bond and gentlemen 👍 even Connery he looked young age 40 or 41 in 70s. RIP Sean Connery. 007 is forever.
Connery “young looking” age 41? Surely you jest...Roger Moore at 46 in his first outing appears far less aged.
He looked 50 rather then 40 years old in Diamonds Are Forever
5:17 what a savage line lol 🤣💀
I don't remember hearing this "bitch" line. Maybe they cut it in the movie I saw?
Ikr. So blunt. Just straight up called her a bitch
@@MikeSmith-fs9wh Didn't make "ABC Sunday Night at the Movies" which is how I watched the TV-recorded version for a few decades! :)
It was the time when some people in bond movies realy were bad and not crazy like in bonds today. The old actors were extremly better
idk the villain in skyfall has got to be top 3 bond villains of all time, maybe even number one
Those old sub machine guns look really cool
in a scene with a bikini, you spot the Swedish K in the background? :)
The thing that amazes me here really is, not so much that Connery was younger than Moore and looked about 10 years older by 1971...but that he looked about the same as he does here still, if not slightly better, when he did Never say Never Again in 1983! Just goes to show what making a bit more of an effort to get fitter can do I guess, as I know by this point he really didn't give a damn and just did it for the paycheck.
Well said!
Blofeld to Bond: I've made you a mix tape, maybe we can listen to it together
This was Roger Moore's favorite Connery Bond movie. Hard to believe but true.
Actually it's not hard to believe at all. Says a lot about the Roger Moore era of Bond.
@@Uniongamers Yes, it was a great era!
Hard to believe? This movie had a huge 70's look, and was pretty campy overall. Roger Moore himself would have perfectly fit in this movie actually.
@@gregorsamsa2271if Roger had played bond in DAF then everyone would consider this the worst James Bond movie ever, but because it's Connery they are more forgiving
I have a message for the legend himself:
Roger if you listen or read from heaven i want you to know that i love as a person, i adore your portrayal of bond, I can understand some of your issues regarding certain violent moments in your films an i completely agree with you that it was a mistake to come back for a 7th outing. But common Roger, why did you made that stupid statement, giving more feedback to your haters, if you have said you only live twice it would be acceptable but DaF makes your Moonraker look like the Dark Knight by comparison "
Sean was such a handsome guy.
He looks as old as me in this picture and I'm 74 (and I don't need a wig).
@@None-zc5vg lol
The sign in the control room reads "when in doubt ask" 😂
One of my favourite random background details of in a Bond film. Even Spectre is nice enough to put signage to guide their employees.
Jill was beautiful, shame this didn't get to the "Such nice cheeks, if only they were brains" line a minute later!
Well said!
My lord what a gorgeous woman
Blofeld couldn't have ejected the tape just like that - he had to press the stop key first! I should know, I have 4 of that Philips N2205 tape recorder.
Special SPECTRE edition presumably 🤣
and yet, he did it.
Yo Jill St. John was tasty back then 🦶🏻👍🏻
"Your problems are all behind you now."
Lmaoo
"No One Lives Forever 2" was obviously heavily, heavily inspired by just about everything in this film. 💪😎✌️ Especially the "H.A.R.M." personnel. 😂🤣😂 Tape cassette stuff, too.
I think this clip is so cool because it shows the Japanese F1 circuit in the background
There are two actors in all of cinema who were utterly well spoken: Charles Gray and Peter O'Toole.
Sir Christopher Lee
@@belykwater5601 Good one, good sir. I think for Sir Christopher I prefer his disposition (he has the carriage of a Victorian army officer) to this vocabulary or his elocution.
James Mason
By Jove, you are correct. James Mason's voice is utterly snobbish. Cheers, sir.@@ricardocantoral7672
Connery doesn’t want to be in the film it shows he is bored. He should have left the series after thunderball and never return
Connery is better in first four, where everything is like a big family. After ''Thunderball'' his relatioships with producers is very bad. But is Bond for everyone until the early 70s. Here shows bored, has not shaved his eyebrows, is aged and heavier, but if D.A.F. was a revenge film and not a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice'', he is perfect as Bond after Tracy's death. Connery should have play in O.H.M.S.S. and I can imagine him in ''Live and Let Die'' in 1972 for celebration 10 years Bond films. He would had ended as 007 from there where he started ten years before (Jamaica).
That is an incorrect assumption that a lot of people make that don't do the research. He liked making this film, much more than YOLT and Thunderball, where he felt he was being made into a button pusher. He loved the dialogue in this movie and that's why he tried to get Tom Mankiewitz, who wrote DAF, to be the head writer on Never Say Never again, when he made his comeback 12 years later. But TM felt a loyalty to EON and therefore declined. Contemporary critics said Connery's performance was his most relaxed and confident since Goldfinger.
0:55 Pretty good Burn
03:15 Pretty good Bum
Love Bond's smartass smile at 2:28.
He hasn't the creepiness of Donald Pleasence.
"Out Standing" Performer! Sean Connery was a 1 of a Kind!!
Never cared for Diamonds Are Forever.
Neither have I.
Few did. The worst Connery Bond, and it’s not even close. It’s like it doesn’t even exist
rip sir sean 🙏🏻🇬🇧
Why do they disclose all their secret plans to Bond when they are going to kill him anyway ? Funny how all those complex computers can be controlled by a simple audio cassette.
The arch-villians are always required to tell all their secret plans to Bond. It's part of the formula.
A last chance to try and rub it in his face and hoping he’d have the good sense to die already (in their mind).
This movie so damn underrated
Agreed
Its not, it is absolutely utter rubbish, with a garbage script and Connery's over weight presentation proves, he was longer dedicated to the role!
It's the worst James Bond movie ever, it's just boring
Lol " Out It Pops ! "
I loved that, trying to wind Blofeld up lol.
That part is one of my favorites. He's pretending to marvel at Blofeld's grand design then nonchalantly sabotages it as if he's greeting his neighbor.
3:40 - If in doubt, ask.
Well Well Well. Look what the cat dragged in. Charles Gray as Blofeld previously in You Only Live Twice as Henderson. And in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Charles Gray was great in the role of Blofeld. But Donald Pleasance was brilliant
Charles Gray was more like a comedian.
@@santannavalter Look out for a film called "The Devil Rides Out". Charles Gray was brilliant
Oh boy! I just took a peek: heavy stuff.
Bond just walking up to her and going "Bitch" is so hilariously un-Bond. Yes, that's the point, but it's no less hilarious.
"Search him from his toe nail to the last follicle on his head....then bring him to me"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
.................and search him again
This guy was a paranoid freak indeed
Well it is James Bond so I can hardly blame him and he’s freaking tired of the game they play (even though to Bond it’s just a job as well as personal revenge at this point)
2:42 The way Tiffany looked at Bond, you can tell she has contempt towards him
Sean Connery remains the only Bond. The problem was that he was an actor and an actor does not like by anyway to get stuck to a character forever, he would prefer change drama.
that why he was a good actor he expand his skill as a actor.
So your comment remain only gribrish. If SC would be the only Bond, then the whole franchise would die with him, yet it survived and thrived under new actors. Honestly, Craig revived James Bond for XXI century. Other actors were half bad too. most of the time the script was lackluster?
@@metal87power Craig is not a good jame bond he does not bring energy the other actors bring.
@@chrishill3536 Yes and no. His Bond had less energy because Craig's Bond was a subversion of the cliche Bond tropes in order to bring new life to the character. If he had stopped at Casino Royale he'd be on par with George Lazenby for not overextending his presence and leaving on a good note.
@@metal87power Craig's Bond did not revive squat. If anything, the series got more uneven and all over the place. First two dead serious Bourne rip-offs, then a Dark Knight wannabe overly complicated revenge plot, then a pathetic and lazy retcon of all previous movies and finally they kill him off in the cheapest way possible.
"It all sheems so shimple - I jusht pressh thish there and out it popsh."
"Put it back Mr Bond.... immediately."
3:46
If In Doubt
ASK
For being a megalomanic Blofeld has some some decent company policies. Better to ask than assume
And at the end: "No pollution. Not any. Take EVERY precaution."
Hank Scorpio really was modelled after Blofeld in every way.
Awesome that isn’t it. Had to chuckle
At times seems like a Bond spoof. Such a disappointment after OHMSS. And Connery looks totally fed up. Which is not surprising given the material
D.A.F. comes after O.H.M.S.S. but as a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''. Producers ignored O.H.M.S.S. as in O.H.M.S.S. ignored Bond and Blofeld meeting in ''You Only Live Twice''. The opportunity to use the older, heavier and totally fed look of Connery, as Bond's perfect image after his wife death, was lost.
Thanks for the comment. Originally the ending of OHMSS where Tracy dies was to be the opening sequence of Diamonds. But I assume they realised Lazenby wasn't returning so they put it in as a cliff hanging ending and then decided not to mention it again until strangely The spy who loved me several years later
He wasn't fed up in this. He came back here as a one off for a fantastic sum of money and intended to go out in style. He was fed up filming YOLT and that's why he quit and didn't do OHMSS. He wanted more Connery loved all the witty dialogue in DAF and tried to get that writer back when he made his comeback as Bond 12 years later.
Connery looks to be enjoying himself here, at least compared to You Only Live Twice. It’s better to think of DAF as a follow up to YOLT rather than OHMSS.
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Jill St. John is so much of the hot as this Bond girl. I will forever wonder if the carpet matches the drapes.
Connery set the bar at the top !!! Jill/Tiffany is oh soooo hot !! WOW !!
"Prepare my Cowardly Custard YellowBelly 4000 escape battlesub immediately."
Charles Gray=Master!
Thanks a lot.
I, too, would have liked to give the tape back to Tiffany in this discreet way. As, indeed, I would have liked to swap with Connery for all the scenes involving her.
Connery looks so old here much different than the 60s movies lol
Blofeld: "Hold your fire!"
If you could pinpoint that one wrong turn when you could've got yourself a happier outcome.
A jump to the left !
and then a step to the right !
Put your hands on your hip !
@@deadaccount6616 And pull your knees in tiiiight...
Tiffany my dear…
LOVE YOU 007
Klaus Schwab would make an excellent bond villain..
As it is, he’s nothing more than a transnational REAL villain.
Has a bright future behind her...
Connery's James Bond was tough, but human enough to get hurt and captured. Cartoonishly killing, with an "I'm too sexy" smile to avoid the trap of taking it too seriously and looking like a physchopath.❤️Like some incredibly overpaid "zombie" 007 actors
WHICH side do you put it back?? Are both sides the same recording? Diamonds was a great film seeing early Vegas and all the various villains- terribly dated now in so many ways, but so glad they were made of a fun innocent time when men were men and everyone was well spoken even the bad guys...
You mean men were stupid and prideful with bs bravado outside of serious situations? Sure
I mean nostalgia is nice and all but spare us that glorified crap. Even Connery was a bastard IRL at that age
I wish Donald pleasance had come back as blofeld.
Yeah, I l know. His portrayal as the character was always much more definitive.
A jolly good actor/actress is the one who does not always plays the same kind of person forever and ever. Thus he/she may develop many skills as he/she can afford. As a matter of fact.
*4:26** that was the look your father gave you when he found your fun drugs.*
I wonder why they never hid any weapon in Sean Connery's hairpiece? At this age here you could hide a veritable rocket launcher in it, I presume.
tsk tsk. Rest in peace, Sean! You were the best Bond. Unlike Roger Moore's gay Bond impersonation.
They just don't build 'em like Jill St.John anymore.
Yeah but he came back 12 years to do never say never again in 1983 remake of thunderball
It must be said, Jill St. John was a real killer hottie in this movie!
What's amazing is how old he aged from Dr. No to this.. Dr. No was 1962 and Diamonds Are Forever was 1971. 9 years and he aged 20... Don't drink.
"We're cleaning up the world and thought this would be a shuitable shtarting point".
He was almost like a bond villan who you could actually get along with 😅😅.
DAAAAMN!!! I do love a sexy redhead - & they don't come any sexier than 1971 Jill St John - absolute perfection!!❤❤😍😍
Best bond
I think they should make some retro Bond films. His character was set in the 50s-60s. It could include technology from now. Mobile smart phones, laptops, email. These would all have qualified as top secret gadgets only available to super privileged individuals. Remember this was an era when a computer with the computational power of a modern day smart phone would be the size of a small room. That would in my opinion be far more interesting than setting Bond in modern times.
@Jin Lee Sarcasm noted…Very Dumb. Villains do exist.
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You got it wrong. Smartphones are several thousands times more powerful than computers of the era. Actually 70s calculators were more powerful than 50s coumputers.
@@SparrowNoblePoland i wasn't plumbing for historical accuracy and never eluded to being a historian i was merely making a suggestion that some of today's gadgets would make for interesting bond gadgets and it would be interesting to see how they could have been used to tip things in either bond or his opponents favor.
@@JWS1968 Yes, if nerfed a thousand times. Otherwise you would have just pissed the audience.
Would be right in thinking that's probably ONE of the only times we've ever heard James Bond swear?
1971 and they already had music cassettes by then?!?
Oh no, I come from a pitiful little island 😔
Tiffany Case looking quite delicious
One of the lower ranked Connery Bonds but I rank it above any Bonds by Daniel Craig or Pierce
@ 4:30 "Put it back Mr. Bond. IMMEDIATELY."
Why the hell would you have HIM put it back? Why would you give him any chance to screw with the tape? Immediately have him step away, and do it yourself.
she has an incredibly feminine body. no fake tan or tattoos, they dont make em like this anymore
yeahhhhh
in old time bonds movie. the villain always tell their plans. then bond ruined it.
Yeah and it’s not like he’s a superhero, he’s just very lucky and well-trained and even has a soft heart for those he doesn’t feel deserve a death by his hanf
"If only they were brains"!.
Washington DC,. Excellent choice