That moment at the end "Thank-you very much. You did a great job, sir." - that must be one of the only times that Bond has actually been thanked for doing his job.
Agreed. It was seen at the time as more lighthearted than Moore's previous Bond movies (and thus good), and is retrospectively seen as goofy and one of the weakest Bond movies. And while the humorous elements are hit-and-miss, there's a layer of early Eighties, late Cold War nuclear tension hanging over everything throughout the movie. This is punctuated with the initial murder of 009 in East Germany, the meeting in the Kremlin, and the bomb reveal and the race to disarm it. As a child of the Cold War, it had a lot of resonance in 1983 and still does today.
Loved the shocked looks from everybody when the lock was shot off, and they realized that it was a real bomb, just like Bond said. Still a tense scene, even today. 😱
One of the few moments where the "villains" are innocent people who thought Bond was crazy, adds so much more tension to this scene than if it were him getting stopped by actual villains!
People might make fun of the Bond clown suit disguise but its genius on Bond’s part - you have ten minutes to enter a well guarded circus tent - as a regular joe panicking about a bomb you’d get hauled away by the MPs but as a clown no one is going to stop you. Genius writing. Great scene and movie.
It works well for the film which has a nice blend of action, thrills and sly humour. I can't imagine Dalton, Craig, Connery or Bronsan pulling it off. I loved this film as a kid it had such escapism, all the stuff set in India with the animals and what you think is a story of smuggling and fakery is actually a really good twist of a soviet general planning to detonate a nuke in Germany. Moore played to his strengths which was to explore more the romantic seductive and humourous side to the series.
You know, I first learnt about this scene out of context and it really turned me off of this movie and Roger Moore's tenure in general. And when I started my last year's Bond marathon, I wasn't looking forward to it or Sir Roger's tenure in general. While LALD quickly set me straight on Roger as Bond, I was still dreading this scene, thinking it would be some kind of jump the shark moment, that's just unjustifiable. It's my favorite scene from any of the Roger Moore films and one of my favorite Bond moments in general. Sir Roger sold the absolute hell out of this scene. This is the most tense and desperate his Bond has ever been.
Nobody was perfect as Roger Moore as bond we lost one of the great actor as James bond so much perfectness in his acting R.I.P sir Roger Moore the octopussy was one of the great movie of my childhood
This is possibly the best of Roger Moore as 007! This entire scene gives me chills every time I watch it. He saves the day as usual. RIP Roger Moore (007)! You are missed, love all your work!
The best two Roger Moore Bond films are clearly The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only. Everything else is really just mediocre to average, and a couple of them-The Man With The Golden Gun and A View To A Kill-were downright awful, and Moonraker was not far from awful. In Octopussy, in the above scene, there is a nuclear bomb about to go off, and Bond takes the time to dress up as a clown in order to disarm it. Right.
this scene best summarises roger moore's portrayal of james bond, comedy/serious. only roger could make james bond in a clown suit hilarious and nail biting at the same time.
This was the only time the series one-upped it's own material. This was better than Goldfinger because you saw the innocent people in danger and the real possibility of Bond actually loosing with no Calvary on the way to save him.
William Macky also Roger Moore has good suspenseful and darker moments when goes against the twin killers of fellow O0 agent killer and when talking to Orlov on the train about his master plan and the scene with Bond on top of the plane holding on for dear life. Even the fight with Gobina was good scene.
The human cannon ball guy didnt even know he came this close to being blown up... he was so funny when he poked his head out and said, 'now?' making the children laugh
I love how serious Bond is when he's telling people about the bomb in the cannon "Let go..... Damn it there's a bomb in there" I like it when Rogers Bond gets all serious
I always thought the criticism of the clown angle was pretty superficial. This scene is actually one of the most tension-filled in the entire series, even after watching it a few dozen times. Bond, dressed as the figurative and literal "Sad Clown", runs about trying to avert annihilation while everybody around him is oblivious -- a pretty good metaphor for the Cold War itself, in which we came close to annihilation several times and didn't even know about it until years later. And when he extracts the detonator with less than a second to go, it's pretty gripping. Nothing funny about the scene.
I respect almost no critic outside Roeper and one or two others since Siskel and Ebert passed. Those guys typically understand what an audience feels and can write for them. But even they had their awful moments. Both Siskel and Ebert gave a thumbs down to "Dead Poets Society," which post people would rank as one of the most beautiful movies ever! To me, there needs to be ACTION critics. For the comic series, for the agents adapted from books, because critics don't grasp the established characters the way a fan of the books/movies does. For example, a critic would bash say, "License to Kill," because Timothy Dalton wasn't as cheeky as say Moore or Connery. Well, because Dalton read the books and especially the subject matter of this movie, he played the more serious, I'm on a mission Bond. So the critics should instead say: "There are multiple versions of Bond, and Dalton resembles somewhat of the last half of Roger Moore's Bond in Octopussy, where it's not about getting with Octo's you know what or making punny jokes. But about a trained agent who has a mission that he must complete or people will die. If this is the kind of Bond you like (which I very much do), you HAVE to see this movie."
It's not a humorless scene. The clown clog in the yank's nether region is a nod to the 'urge' to comedify the moment in order to highlight the situation's seriousness but also to give a slight dash of contrasting comedy entertainment. There is other comedy in this scene - Keystone Cops-like chase and the clownish gesturing to get past the guards to the tent. It's all Bond humour but subdued as it needs to be amongst the full-on clown visuals + countdown.
@@orangefox1231 Same here. Those critics had opinions that always differed from one another when it came to reviewing films. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel would fight each over films all the time and it was great to watch because it showed they weren't at all pretentious and weren't scared to showcase their differences unlike today's critics who almost never disagree with one another and the reviews are basically the same every time you read them.
This was filmed at RAF Upper Heyford between Banbury and Oxford. Its mainly buisnesses and housing now but the hangers are listed buildings.I used to deliver stuff to companies on the site and it was cool recognising bits
What I personally miss are moments where Bond leads a large-scale attack on the enemy, like The Spy Who Loved Me, rather than either doing it by himself or with a number of allies you could count on one hand.
@@michaelc.6532 But the spectators may not have known it was a bomb at all, never mind an atomic bomb. They may have thought it was just part of the circus act. Obviously, the Air Force personnel would have known it was an atomic bomb after Octopussy shot the padlock off and they would have stayed calm because they would have been trained to live with the likelihood of being vaporised - though there would probably be a huge cluster of cases (Covid pun intended!) of post-traumatic stress disorder on the Air Force base afterwards!
"Thank you very much, you did a great job!" ..."We don't need to do a debriefing with you, or coordinate with MI6, or anything like that. You can just be on your way now." ;)
I respect Roger Moore a little more after watching this wild ass scene. He pulled it off with a straight and convincing face. "Let me go Dammit, there's a bomb in there. Let me go!" in clown make up while there's a twin clown getting Rodney King'ed, there's showgirls fighting cops, sailors in the audience and Melania Trump just pulls out a pistol and shoots at a bomb that's attached to a cannon with a dude dressed as a silver 'bug' inside of it. That's some David Bowie shit if I ever seen it. A+ for creativity.. WoW LMAO!
Love that the actor who played the Waldorf Salad guy in Fawlty Towers and the Rebel General on Hoth in The Empires Strikes Back was the Base Commander in this scene.
a few extra syllables could mean a few precious seconds good job he just said ''THERE'S A BOMB IN THERE!'' AH HA HA!! one of my favorite scenes out of the underrated classic CHEERS!
I can already see all the lazy haters coming to comment here and to trash the scene because they dont properly look at it and say its goofy! Its one of the most serious, scary, dark and tense setpieces in the series, damnit! Think about it! Bond puts on the clown suit BECAUSE HE IS SERIOUS! He doesnt have another choice! Its the only way for him to go undercover! Plus, he also has to think fast about how to go undercover! He had to get all the way there! He had to figure out how to get there! He had no choice but to steal 2 cars! He can only estimate when its gonna blow and cant know exactly! There were a ton of people denying the whole thing on his way there non stop! He had to find the general to warn him about the whole thing! The general/base commander also didnt believe him at first.. Octopussy had the reflex to shoot at the lock. Firing a gun that close to a nuke, if that goes wrong? Well, goodbye. I mean can you imagine having to do something like this in real life?? This migt just be the most serious and tense half hour of the entire Roger Moore era! THIS IS AS SERIOUS AS BOND COULD POSSIBLY EVER GET! STOP BEING LAZY, HATERS!
This particular scene tends to get some real criticism. I actually think its an extremely tense scene of which had everyone on the edge of their seat when I watched this for the first time at the cinema. Literally everyone was gasping and willing the Police to let him go. Even as a 10 year old I had a fair idea of what that atomic bomb would have done had it detonated. Lets say it would have been more than the circus tent that would have been levelled. Probably the entire airfield and everything within a 5 mile radius. The Tarzan cry though was pretty awful...even as a kid!
The "Tarzan yell" is one of two major flaws in the Bond film "Octopussy". The other flaw being the moment when Bond tells a tiger to "sit". Thankfully the producers of the film deleted in the final cut of the film a scene in which Bond is seen moving across the sky on a "flying carpet". As it stands, the scene in which Bond swings on a vine and the "Tarzan yell" is heard is the lowest moment in all the Bond films, although Bond being swung back and forth on the end of a hook-and-ladder fire truck in the film "A View To A Kill" is almost as low a moment in the history of the Bond films.
@ starscream91. The deleted flying carpet scene is from "Octopussy" not "The Living Daylights" because that is the type of absurd scene you would expect in a Roger Moore Bond film which tended to have way over-the-top comedy, not in a serious Timothy Dalton Bond film. No screenplay writer would write that type of absurd scene for a Dalton Bond film. Although John Barry made a mistake in putting in the whistle sound in the car jump scene in "TMWTGG" , as ridiculous as that is, it is nowhere near as bad as the Tarzan yell in "Octopussy" or the Keystone Cops - type scene in "AVTAK" in which Bond is swung back-and-forth on a hook-and-ladder fire truck.
A LOT of elements in this movie mirror elements in the film "GOLDFINGER". Here, we see how far Bond has come, as this time, he doesn't need help to disarm an atomic bomb SECONDS before it's about to go off.
Even so, the ENTIRE sequence could have been averted, if Bond had yanked that woman out of the phone booth and called the army base, instead of stealing her car. (A similar scene happened in the film "ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL", when the 2 girls actually grabbed a guy who was using a pay phone and threw him into the street, so they could call the radio station and win tickets to the Ramones' concert.) I've always felt the end of the pre-credits sequence in "THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS" was a tip of the hat to this, when Timothy Dalton YANKS the cell phone out of that woman on the yacht's hand, says, "She'll call you back", and then dials his office. Clearly, Dalton wasn't going to mess around the way Moore had for 7 pictures.
Media Sawdust I was Air Force Security Police and yes him discharging his weapon like that always made me laugh. That was when it was still split as Law Enforcement and Security Specialists. Now they are referred to as Security Forces. I worked the gates my first three years basically.
I don't know why but for some reason, Roger Moore wearing clown makeup reminds me of Cesar Romero as the Joker in the 60s Batman series. The only difference is he didn't have a moustache to smear over with makeup.
Virolaxion yes let’s run away from the bomb that’s about to go off in 10 seconds in a base with nuclear warheads stored instead of letting the guy defusing it concentrate. Great idea Einstein.
It's funny how back then if you say something like " there's a bomb in there" they would joke around thinking you're joking or lying These days if you do that they take it seriously and you will get fined if you're lying. Lol the world change so much
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the claim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe its a joke” Søren Kierkegaard “Either/or”
1:07 The glance at the watch is a great detail. What was he thinking. That he has 5 minutes to apply some clown makeup and clothes, before a nuke blows everyone up. Look at the make-up, there's a tear-drop and eyeliner. He really sat infront of the mirror and took his time, they should have showed the process as the clock ticked. Imagine if his tear drop was too wonky and had to restart. That's what I like about Roger, he didn't take Bond seriously at all.
I genuinely don’t get what the big deal is about this scene? Bond is literally trying to stop a bomb from exploding in a circus full of families and military personnel. Who cares that he’s wearing a clown suit?
@ Paul McNamara. Maud Adams in "Octopussy" and Diana Rigg in "OHMSS" are the 2 best Bond women in all of the Bond films because of the intelligence and sophistication that they brought to their respective roles in the 2 films in addition to their obvious beauty.
Feldstadt was no real air base...only for the bond film a feldstadt air base exists...i dont know in which location they make this part of the bond movie...but im sure this location is not in germany...
The thing is, it's highly unlikely that the circus tent would've been anywhere near where any weapons were stored on the base. Especially nukes. So even if the bomb did go off, they would have seen upon investigation, that the blast originated in the wrong place. So there still would have been questions...
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That moment at the end "Thank-you very much. You did a great job, sir." - that must be one of the only times that Bond has actually been thanked for doing his job.
He ends up with many smoking hot women after his mission.
Don't care what anyone thinks. That was suspense filled. Great Bond scene.
Octopussy is actually my favourite Roger Moore Bond film! This scene alone makes it good!
This film is brutally, tragically, ridiculously, criminally, strongly, tremendously underrated.
Agreed. It was seen at the time as more lighthearted than Moore's previous Bond movies (and thus good), and is retrospectively seen as goofy and one of the weakest Bond movies. And while the humorous elements are hit-and-miss, there's a layer of early Eighties, late Cold War nuclear tension hanging over everything throughout the movie. This is punctuated with the initial murder of 009 in East Germany, the meeting in the Kremlin, and the bomb reveal and the race to disarm it. As a child of the Cold War, it had a lot of resonance in 1983 and still does today.
Amen.
Agreed
This scene of bond dresses as a clown might be ridiculous, but the bomb defusing scene is tense, suspenseful and engaging.
Loved the shocked looks from everybody when the lock was shot off, and they realized that it was a real bomb, just like Bond said. Still a tense scene, even today. 😱
One of the few moments where the "villains" are innocent people who thought Bond was crazy, adds so much more tension to this scene than if it were him getting stopped by actual villains!
Not that few, actually. Similar themes occurred in Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, and a number of other films.
People might make fun of the Bond clown suit disguise but its genius on Bond’s part - you have ten minutes to enter a well guarded circus tent - as a regular joe panicking about a bomb you’d get hauled away by the MPs but as a clown no one is going to stop you. Genius writing. Great scene and movie.
It works well for the film which has a nice blend of action, thrills and sly humour. I can't imagine Dalton, Craig, Connery or Bronsan pulling it off. I loved this film as a kid it had such escapism, all the stuff set in India with the animals and what you think is a story of smuggling and fakery is actually a really good twist of a soviet general planning to detonate a nuke in Germany. Moore played to his strengths which was to explore more the romantic seductive and humourous side to the series.
For sure. Actually, my favourite Roger Moore Bond movie! This scene is the best part!
Rest In Peace Sir Roger Moore. Unbeatable class, top action sequence.
I can only imagine the sheer mortal desperation Bond would have been going through to stop the bomb as he's trying to convince them
This was so awesome. Bond by himself, racing against time to stop a bomb. Even in that clown suit, you never feel that the tension breaks.
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You know, I first learnt about this scene out of context and it really turned me off of this movie and Roger Moore's tenure in general. And when I started my last year's Bond marathon, I wasn't looking forward to it or Sir Roger's tenure in general. While LALD quickly set me straight on Roger as Bond, I was still dreading this scene, thinking it would be some kind of jump the shark moment, that's just unjustifiable.
It's my favorite scene from any of the Roger Moore films and one of my favorite Bond moments in general. Sir Roger sold the absolute hell out of this scene. This is the most tense and desperate his Bond has ever been.
It is one of the best scenes in the entire serie. The proof is I remembered it for over 20 years.
Nobody was perfect as Roger Moore as bond we lost one of the great actor as James bond so much perfectness in his acting R.I.P sir Roger Moore the octopussy was one of the great movie of my childhood
This is possibly the best of Roger Moore as 007! This entire scene gives me chills every time I watch it. He saves
the day as usual. RIP Roger Moore (007)! You are missed, love all your work!
The best two Roger Moore Bond films are clearly The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only. Everything else is really just mediocre to average, and a couple of them-The Man With The Golden Gun and A View To A Kill-were downright awful, and Moonraker was not far from awful. In Octopussy, in the above scene, there is a nuclear bomb about to go off, and Bond takes the time to dress up as a clown in order to disarm it. Right.
I gotta chilly too
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@@jackbassindale4336 That is merely a tautology.
I love how the circus crew just goes to defend one of their own against law enforcement.
That handbrake turn was amazing...... Great film very enjoyable and casual
One of Bond's greatest wins. He prevents a nuclear weapon from going off & saves Europe from Russian dominance as Europe would disarm.
One of the best suspense sequences in the entire Bond series.
this scene best summarises roger moore's portrayal of james bond, comedy/serious. only roger could make james bond in a clown suit hilarious and nail biting at the same time.
I can understand why Octupussy gets some shit, but this scene proves its a good movie
This was the only time the series one-upped it's own material. This was better than Goldfinger because you saw the innocent people in danger and the real possibility of Bond actually loosing with no Calvary on the way to save him.
Especially with his clown disguise making it more difficult to convince anyone that there really is a bomb
William Macky also Roger Moore has good suspenseful and darker moments when goes against the twin killers of fellow O0 agent killer and when talking to Orlov on the train about his master plan and the scene with Bond on top of the plane holding on for dear life. Even the fight with Gobina was good scene.
I cant. Maybe a few gags too much but remove some of them and you have a perfect Bond movie!
"He'll destroy the entire operation."
Well, you could just let the bomb detonate and wipe out all them problems.
The human cannon ball guy didnt even know he came this close to being blown up... he was so funny when he poked his head out and said, 'now?' making the children laugh
That was to relieve the tension after the danger was over.
I love how serious Bond is when he's telling people about the bomb in the cannon "Let go..... Damn it there's a bomb in there" I like it when Rogers Bond gets all serious
Fantastic scene! My favorite part of any Sir Roger Bond film.
Sir Roger Bond Plays James Moore 007!! Hoe Yah!
Very cool. This scene was filmed at RAF Upper Heyford, England. I was stationed there 78-80.
I was stationed there 1976-78
You know James Bond is serious when he’s got no choice but to wear a clown costume.
I always thought the criticism of the clown angle was pretty superficial. This scene is actually one of the most tension-filled in the entire series, even after watching it a few dozen times. Bond, dressed as the figurative and literal "Sad Clown", runs about trying to avert annihilation while everybody around him is oblivious -- a pretty good metaphor for the Cold War itself, in which we came close to annihilation several times and didn't even know about it until years later. And when he extracts the detonator with less than a second to go, it's pretty gripping. Nothing funny about the scene.
They criticized it? Ha. Critics....I loved this scene!
100% agree! And critics constantly rate Octopussy as one of the "bad" James Bond movies :(
I respect almost no critic outside Roeper and one or two others since Siskel and Ebert passed. Those guys typically understand what an audience feels and can write for them. But even they had their awful moments. Both Siskel and Ebert gave a thumbs down to "Dead Poets Society," which post people would rank as one of the most beautiful movies ever!
To me, there needs to be ACTION critics. For the comic series, for the agents adapted from books, because critics don't grasp the established characters the way a fan of the books/movies does. For example, a critic would bash say, "License to Kill," because Timothy Dalton wasn't as cheeky as say Moore or Connery. Well, because Dalton read the books and especially the subject matter of this movie, he played the more serious, I'm on a mission Bond.
So the critics should instead say: "There are multiple versions of Bond, and Dalton resembles somewhat of the last half of Roger Moore's Bond in Octopussy, where it's not about getting with Octo's you know what or making punny jokes. But about a trained agent who has a mission that he must complete or people will die. If this is the kind of Bond you like (which I very much do), you HAVE to see this movie."
It's not a humorless scene. The clown clog in the yank's nether region is a nod to the 'urge' to comedify the moment in order to highlight the situation's seriousness but also to give a slight dash of contrasting comedy entertainment. There is other comedy in this scene - Keystone Cops-like chase and the clownish gesturing to get past the guards to the tent. It's all Bond humour but subdued as it needs to be amongst the full-on clown visuals + countdown.
@@orangefox1231 Same here. Those critics had opinions that always differed from one another when it came to reviewing films. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel would fight each over films all the time and it was great to watch because it showed they weren't at all pretentious and weren't scared to showcase their differences unlike today's critics who almost never disagree with one another and the reviews are basically the same every time you read them.
Best scene in the film. Very tense. "Damn it there's a BOMB IN THERE"!!!
KINDLE and the first time That 007 is swearing
RIP Roger Moore :(
RIP Roger Moore ;(((((
I am very , very sad to learn he passed away ...
3:15. Poor cop just trying to do his job and gets kicked in the balls with a size 20 clown shoe.
Ouch! 😖
Imagine what would of happened if the guards held Bond back for a millisecond longer.
In my opinion Moore’s best bond films were the spy who loved me and octopussy.
I was stationed there at RAF Upper Heyford 1976-78
I was there '77 '86
Easily one of the most underrated scenes in bond.
One thing's for certain, Bond wasn't clowning around (ironic, considering exactly how he was dressed!). And that's no joke😄😄😄😄
This was filmed at RAF Upper Heyford between Banbury and Oxford. Its mainly buisnesses and housing now but the hangers are listed buildings.I used to deliver stuff to companies on the site and it was cool recognising bits
I was stationed there RAF Upper Heyford, England 1976-78 as a Security Police, those guys were Law Enforcement in the light blue shirts.
still remember this scene deeeeep down in my merories... somewhere 2010 or something... back then when the world was okay
When James Bond tells you to let go, you fucking let go damn it !!
I miss these bonds, something missing from todays
Over the topness, more humour and insane action sequences with over the top villans who want to rule the world
What I personally miss are moments where Bond leads a large-scale attack on the enemy, like The Spy Who Loved Me, rather than either doing it by himself or with a number of allies you could count on one hand.
I love how everyone stands there watching the bomb being defused instead of escaping.
Alan Mackenzie The blast radius made escaping irrelevant.
@@michaelc.6532 But the spectators may not have known it was a bomb at all, never mind an atomic bomb. They may have thought it was just part of the circus act. Obviously, the Air Force personnel would have known it was an atomic bomb after Octopussy shot the padlock off and they would have stayed calm because they would have been trained to live with the likelihood of being vaporised - though there would probably be a huge cluster of cases (Covid pun intended!) of post-traumatic stress disorder on the Air Force base afterwards!
This was the best of Roger morre films as 007 the other clown in this was John Chipperfield from the Chipperfield circus family x
"Thank you very much, you did a great job!" ..."We don't need to do a debriefing with you, or coordinate with MI6, or anything like that. You can just be on your way now." ;)
I respect Roger Moore a little more after watching this wild ass scene. He pulled it off with a straight and convincing face. "Let me go Dammit, there's a bomb in there. Let me go!" in clown make up while there's a twin clown getting Rodney King'ed, there's showgirls fighting cops, sailors in the audience and Melania Trump just pulls out a pistol and shoots at a bomb that's attached to a cannon with a dude dressed as a silver 'bug' inside of it. That's some David Bowie shit if I ever seen it. A+ for creativity.. WoW LMAO!
Roger Moore, the real James Bond of my youth, high suspense and low farce at the same time.
Love that the actor who played the Waldorf Salad guy in Fawlty Towers and the Rebel General on Hoth in The Empires Strikes Back was the Base Commander in this scene.
Don’t forget he also played Orrin Hudson’s father in Howard’s Way 😂
"There's a bomb in there!"
He seemed reluctant to mention it was an atomic bomb. That might alarm people.
A panic would delay his defusal of the bomb.
a few extra syllables could mean a few precious seconds good job he just said ''THERE'S A BOMB IN THERE!'' AH HA HA!! one of my favorite scenes out of the underrated classic CHEERS!
The clown that was mistaken as Bond was Christopher Reeve. He went to set to meet Roger and ended up getting a small cameo
Good continuity here as the reason Bond was able to defuse the bomb so quickly is because he had done so in The Spy Who Loved Mex
‘LET ME GO DAMMIT! THERES A BOMB IN THERE!’
I can already see all the lazy haters coming to comment here and to trash the scene because they dont properly look at it and say its goofy! Its one of the most serious, scary, dark and tense setpieces in the series, damnit! Think about it! Bond puts on the clown suit BECAUSE HE IS SERIOUS! He doesnt have another choice! Its the only way for him to go undercover! Plus, he also has to think fast about how to go undercover! He had to get all the way there! He had to figure out how to get there! He had no choice but to steal 2 cars! He can only estimate when its gonna blow and cant know exactly! There were a ton of people denying the whole thing on his way there non stop! He had to find the general to warn him about the whole thing! The general/base commander also didnt believe him at first.. Octopussy had the reflex to shoot at the lock. Firing a gun that close to a nuke, if that goes wrong? Well, goodbye. I mean can you imagine having to do something like this in real life?? This migt just be the most serious and tense half hour of the entire Roger Moore era! THIS IS AS SERIOUS AS BOND COULD POSSIBLY EVER GET! STOP BEING LAZY, HATERS!
I have always loved this scene. A clown trying to convince a general that there is a bomb in the cannon ROFL
Roger hated wearing the clown makeup. I thought he looked good for a clown. I mean a British secret agent. ;)
3:13 EPIC FIGHT SCENES!
RIP, Sir Roger Moore.
This particular scene tends to get some real criticism. I actually think its an extremely tense scene of which had everyone on the edge of their seat when I watched this for the first time at the cinema. Literally everyone was gasping and willing the Police to let him go. Even as a 10 year old I had a fair idea of what that atomic bomb would have done had it detonated. Lets say it would have been more than the circus tent that would have been levelled. Probably the entire airfield and everything within a 5 mile radius. The Tarzan cry though was pretty awful...even as a kid!
The "Tarzan yell" is one of two major flaws in the Bond film "Octopussy". The other flaw being the moment when Bond tells a tiger to "sit". Thankfully the producers of the film deleted in the final cut of the film a scene in which Bond is seen moving across the sky on a "flying carpet". As it stands, the scene in which Bond swings on a vine and the "Tarzan yell" is heard is the lowest moment in all the Bond films, although Bond being swung back and forth on the end of a hook-and-ladder fire truck in the film "A View To A Kill" is almost as low a moment in the history of the Bond films.
@ starscream91. The deleted flying carpet scene is from "Octopussy" not "The Living Daylights" because that is the type of absurd scene you would expect in a Roger Moore Bond film which tended to have way over-the-top comedy, not in a serious Timothy Dalton Bond film. No screenplay writer would write that type of absurd scene for a Dalton Bond film. Although John Barry made a mistake in putting in the whistle sound in the car jump scene in "TMWTGG" , as ridiculous as that is, it is nowhere near as bad as the Tarzan yell in "Octopussy" or the Keystone Cops - type scene in "AVTAK" in which Bond is swung back-and-forth on a hook-and-ladder fire truck.
01:52 That little smile, saying "Hey, it's just me, guys !" is so funny !
A LOT of elements in this movie mirror elements in the film "GOLDFINGER". Here, we see how far Bond has come, as this time, he doesn't need help to disarm an atomic bomb SECONDS before it's about to go off.
Even so, the ENTIRE sequence could have been averted, if Bond had yanked that woman out of the phone booth and called the army base, instead of stealing her car. (A similar scene happened in the film "ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL", when the 2 girls actually grabbed a guy who was using a pay phone and threw him into the street, so they could call the radio station and win tickets to the Ramones' concert.)
I've always felt the end of the pre-credits sequence in "THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS" was a tip of the hat to this, when Timothy Dalton YANKS the cell phone out of that woman on the yacht's hand, says, "She'll call you back", and then dials his office. Clearly, Dalton wasn't going to mess around the way Moore had for 7 pictures.
Anyone else notice the USAF offiders are General Reikan and Admiral Motti?
Bond a pretty good driver under pressure.
I wish bond was more serious.the intro with clown is suspenseful.
How about another joke, Blofeld?
For any one who was curious, Magda was saying at 4:27 "Back of course" instead of "Back to India"
According to IMDb, the filming location for the West German airbase is RAF Lakenheath.
This was filmed at RAF Upper Heyford where I was stationed 1976-78. Look at the UH on tail of those F-111's
Yes it was RAF Upper Heyford. I was there 82-84.
I said what IMdB says.
@:17 Air Force cop shooting blindly in the air. Only in the movies.
Media Sawdust I was Air Force Security Police and yes him discharging his weapon like that always made me laugh. That was when it was still split as Law Enforcement and Security Specialists. Now they are referred to as Security Forces. I worked the gates my first three years basically.
0:29 I find this line funny.
BOMB! And the numbers countdown just like 007
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I don't know why but for some reason, Roger Moore wearing clown makeup reminds me of Cesar Romero as the Joker in the 60s Batman series. The only difference is he didn't have a moustache to smear over with makeup.
its a 100 Kt thermonuclear weapon ... so Bond does what it takes ... personally, I think this is the best bond movie .. ever ..
That is absurd. Octopussy better than From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, and Goldeneye?
good call
@@trwent GoldenEye was shit.
@@thekoranhasscientificaccur2818 I wouldn't go that far but GE is overrated.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Nope, it was indeed vapid and badly done!
"Quiet everyone! Let's raise the tension a bit instead of running away!"
What would be the point?
Running away from a nuke in less than 10 Seconds?
@@hint0122 let Bond concéntrate in disarming the bomb
@@Charlitos1988 i meant running away
Virolaxion yes let’s run away from the bomb that’s about to go off in 10 seconds in a base with nuclear warheads stored instead of letting the guy defusing it concentrate. Great idea Einstein.
It's funny how back then if you say something like
" there's a bomb in there" they would joke around thinking you're joking or lying
These days if you do that they take it seriously and you will get fined if you're lying.
Lol the world change so much
No, they would know he was serious by the urgent warning tone in his voice.
@Starscream91 True, but that just adds to the drama here. No-one listens to Bond, not even the base commander, so he has to try and stop it himself.
Bond should have hidden his red shirt somewhere in the caravan after changing into the clown costume.
And the American guy still didn't get his Waldorf salad
“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the claim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe its a joke”
Søren Kierkegaard “Either/or”
1:50 007 It version (Do you want a balloon, child?)
Upper Heyford :))) ex-US air base in Oxfordshire. I recognised.
1:07 The glance at the watch is a great detail. What was he thinking. That he has 5 minutes to apply some clown makeup and clothes, before a nuke blows everyone up. Look at the make-up, there's a tear-drop and eyeliner. He really sat infront of the mirror and took his time, they should have showed the process as the clock ticked. Imagine if his tear drop was too wonky and had to restart. That's what I like about Roger, he didn't take Bond seriously at all.
And the general passed the aptitude test and this is the best he can do.
Klasse!
I want to know something in this scene, how did Bond put on a clown costume and makeup in less than a minute?
HunterLewis726 lol. Great question
Because he is bond James Bond
Took Bond about a minute to don the full clown outfit, makeup and all. That has to be a Ringling Brothers record of some sort.
When 007 runs the gate, the aircraft in front of him appears to be an F-111!
I genuinely don’t get what the big deal is about this scene? Bond is literally trying to stop a bomb from exploding in a circus full of families and military personnel. Who cares that he’s wearing a clown suit?
Wow bonds a hero
Best bond movie ever to me and by far the most gorgeous women those two are as fit as hell.
@ Paul McNamara. Maud Adams in "Octopussy" and Diana Rigg in "OHMSS" are the 2 best Bond women in all of the Bond films because of the intelligence and sophistication that they brought to their respective roles in the 2 films in addition to their obvious beauty.
Feldstadt was no real air base...only for the bond film a feldstadt air base exists...i dont know in which location they make this part of the bond movie...but im sure this location is not in germany...
Some of the AF cops are real cops from RAF Middenhall.
This was filmed at RAF Upper Heyford
I know this movie gets a lot of hate especially this scene where Bond is dressed as a Clown, but it still a really good movie.
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The best part of the scene is God-made sexy Maud Adams!
Sarah Crizaldo will be Hank Ends at 3:45pm is:
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That Bomb looked pretty nasty
Khan didn't find out until later that night when saw octopussy alive to what she said Bond was able to stop the bomb from going off
10 seconds left: "Let him go...it's on him of the bomb goes off"
James is brave
The thing is, it's highly unlikely that the circus tent would've been anywhere near where any weapons were stored on the base. Especially nukes. So even if the bomb did go off, they would have seen upon investigation, that the blast originated in the wrong place. So there still would have been questions...
This is the ultimate pleb filter Bond scene
Why is the digital clock on the bomb timer both ticking and beeping at the same time?
Richard Dzien And why did the timer look similar to the timer in Max Zorin’s bomb in AVTAK ?
RAF Upper Heyford Oxfordshire England
......the hangers are still there
Filmed at Upper Hayford when it was US Air Force base .