It's clever actually, he was trying to copy a German attempting to speak English & in German the translation is "Wo ist dein Stock" "Wo" can means who or where.
Gotta love Connery's fight scenes as Bond. They were just naturally brutal. No stylized poses or highly improbable video game 8 hit combos, just two dudes doing their best to knock each other off in close quarters combat...
@Ministry of Mystics, if you try any of the stylized moves you see in flicks today, you will get your butt whipped by a dude who didn't know karate but definitely knew crazy😂 First rule of fighting: the luckiest punch wins!
I am pro-dub, this is another reason in my opinion dubbing is better than subs, it can even improve the original. English dubbing isn’t as good as other countries always but it’s getting there
@@RONALDRENFRO83 I have that issue. The title is, "Vegas Comes Up 007." In one photo, Connery poses with a show-girl who's outfit is, ahem, most revealing.
@@richardadams4928 I kinda disagree there, there's something charmingly cheesy about the plot, which I think fits very well with the film. Bond tracking down the diamonds is just very fun to watch.
Gosh, Jill St John was pretty in this. What I love about this is how realistically scrappy and brutal the fights are - no ridiculous martial arts or superpowers or pithy one liners - just two guys grappling in unplanned, unpredictable melee to the death. Also bond fooling his way into the building by fake-snogging and smiling at people - he's very human. In a brutal kinda way.
I get what you're saying, but I've never liked this fight. A much better version of this would be the staircase fight in Casino Royale, where it's just two men brutally fighting to the death. For me, the choreography of this fight could have been better, and it was shot and edited rather poorly, in my opinion. They really could have done a better job. My fear is that the next Bond movies after Daniel Craig may end up being influenced by John Wick, and we could see Bond taking out five guys at once. I hope not, of course.
While everything else is totally unrealistic. A guy kissing a girl (wether she's there or not), for any real agent is a good clue there's an enemy agant following him. And when there's a guy speaking German with ANY British accent, it's like everything screming; 'The enemy presence IS OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!!!'
@@thomhardcastle9897 Casino Royale sucks.... along with all the fight scenes. A catastrophic, lame, weak excuse of a bond movie. A train wreck. The fighting was boring all the time.
The guy Bond is fighting here, Joe Robinson, was actually a boss in real life. He once fought off a group of about 10 muggers by himself when he was 70. He taught Connery judo for YOLT and he accidentally pulled off Connery's toupee when they were filming this scene.
There are certainly older gentlemen in the UK who served in certain military organisations, some of whom are more secretive than the SAS for example, and who still be very capable of seriously or killing anyone who had a go at them.
@@shahrulamar5358 That's right. Jill St John's been married to former 'Hart To Hart' star Robert Wagner for decades now. Apparently, she originally wanted to be a marine biologist befire becoming an actress and she also has a genius I.Q rating of 164.
The lift fight scene here was one of the highlights of the film. Two huge guys rumbling in a small lift breaking all kinds of things in a small amount of space. Joe Robinson would played Peter Franks was a legit tough guy, with his background in judo and karate, the pro wrestling scene in Europe in the 50's. Still amazing how at 70 years old that dude fought 8 guys in South Africa who tried to rob him. Sean Connery always brought an intensity to his James Bond fight scenes. RIP both Sean Connery & Joe Robinson.
The guy fighting Bond here was in the film "A kid for two farthings". He played a local London wrestler who ends up fighting the former giant heavyweight boxer Primo Carnera (a wrestler now) who was six foot six, and built like a tank. This guy was dwarfed by Carnera, but is an absolute unit in real life, especially next to a guy like Connery. Great fight scene and up there with the one in "On Russia with love".
The kissing illusion at the start is hilarious, as it would not have worked for the guy he was trying to fool, as he would have had a sideways perspective!
I’m one of those Bond fans that actually loves Diamonds. A simple, campy, fun, and sometimes silly spy Adventure. The action, music, and sets are super fun, plus the comedy is fun too. I don’t need to hear other’s opinions on the matter as I’ve heard enough and don’t care, nobody’s very civil about it either. So if you’re prepared to tell me OHMSS is king (even if it is), this is worse than QOS, or that it’s bottom five, then go yell at a cloud because I’m not listening. I’m glad this was Connery’s goodbye to Bond (No I don’t consider NSNA an actual Bond Film) for the films because I really like this last adventure of his. It’s not nearly on the same level as Goldfinger of course but I put it quite high up R.I.P Sean Connery-My favorite Bond
Never understood the dislike of it. It's the perfect Bond movie with one of the most iconic villains and some unexpected twists along the way. It's honestly one of my favorite movies and favorite intros. Also has one of the most hilariously dated insults in any classic movie I've seen "Why don't you blow up your pants"
I agree with you, after recently watching this film, Sean Connery still made a great performance despite him looking 10 years old than he did in YOLT. I too found this film enjoyable and I do not think the hate is deserved for the film. Not my most favourite Bond film, but still is a great one nevertheless.
It would be better, if Connery should have play in O.H.M.S.S. and this was a revenge film and not a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''. Here, who is older and heavier, is perfect, as Bond after Tracy's death. Also if Connery’s last Bond was ''Live and Let Die'' in 1972 to celebrate ten years of Bond films. And I prefer, in this scene, an MI6 agent card with Tiffany saying "you just killed a secret agent'', and the deleted scenes that Plenty returns and the frogmen. 3.13 - 4.03 ruclips.net/video/cTZCtdoBtQU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/qdH-z-FMpIY/видео.html
@@RabidNemo Diamonds are Forever is one of the first Bond movies I ever saw when I was 7 years old and loved it. The problem is I was 7 and lived it until I was 18 . The older I got , although it’s a part of my youth it was cartoonish and I can’t see how an adult watching it today like the movie . But If ur young and like adventure and imagination , it was fantastic
@@Batman-jc5uc I agree, secret service is arguably the best bond of all and George is sastafactory in the role, no question he had the looks and physicality for the role.
@@Batman-jc5uc , what???? Please tell me that was a typo! Other than the fact OHMSS gave us the death of Mrs. Bond as canon, that film is easily forgettable in the Bond franchise. It's in the bottom five by a wiiiiiiide margin...
3:26 “You’ve just killed James Bond!” I thought he was meant to be a spy, not some sort of well known celebrity that every Tom, Dick or Harry had heard of?
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER is one of my favourite Bonds. The beautiful and very clever Jill ST. John was great as a Bond girl as well as two of the VERY best villains/henchmen ever! The whole film just flowed like perfection and i loved the Las Vegas setting. Connery`s performance was perfect here as well as supporting characters like "Plenty O` Toole, etc. Lovely atomspheare throughout with some brilliant action scenes. I always missed this film while in primary school, when boys had the toy moon buggy. I was always intreaged by it but never seemed to see it. Eventually when i did, i saw what a great Bond film it was.
I'm just picturing the conversation the director was having with Sean and Joe for this particular scene. Director: "Okay, guys. I want you to fight in this elevator, but I want it to be as authentic as possible." Sean: "What did you have in mind?" Director: "I want you to break the elevator. Just f*ck it all up." *Sean and Joe trade confused and anxious glances.* Joe: "It's glass. Won't we risk cutting ourselves for real?" Director: "As I said, I want this fight scene to be as authentic as possible."
This is easily one of my favourite fight scenes in all of Bond. It's brutal, hard hitting and messy and I love how at first, there's no music until Bond's head could possibly be squashed. And I'll say it: Diamonds are Forever is one of my absolute favourite Bond films and my favourite with Connery. Keep in mind, this was the second Bond film I ever saw, after Octopussy, and so I have a personal connection to it and this was before I saw Goldfinger, considering how similar in plot these two films are. I just love it for being a fun, light-hearted and breezy spy adventure with Connery clearly looking like he was having fun and having one of my absolute favourite Bond Girls with Tiffany Case.
Sean Connery really is amazing here. He pretends to make out with himself, speaks in a fake foreign (Dutch?) accent, fights a big dude in an elevator, and delivers some of the most nonchalant one-liners in the whole series. I used to dislike the more campy films-this one especially. Now I truly appreciate them-it’s part of what makes these films so damn entertaining.
He may have built a reputation in the underworld from all the minions lucky enough to survive. People do talk in prison. People he's rescued, interrogated, or slept with around the world probably talk about him too. Obviously, he'd only be well-known in certain trades, not by everybody in the streets like an actor or singer. As for the random cop in San Francisco...maybe they're both members of the Playboy club and Bond did something that got him well-known within it? I don't know. I don't think movie-goers thought about things like that when these movies were made.
@@realJoeMavro I agree he could have a reputation within the intelligence community and within some criminal organisations and law enforcement. People did think at the time he is supposed to be a secret agent a double 00 with the highest clearance proberly. People would not know who he is. Even Connery and especially Moore have brought this up in interviews laughing at the writing but they got on with it. You could argue that the police captain was briefed by the CIA and told him MI6 were working in partnership with them in the city, and the captain had heard of Bond before being in law inforcement himself. But I don't think the writers were thinking that. I don't know what they were thinking in either movie, and I bet it was from the same writer in both films.
These fights for the general public are so funny. No professional black belt in martial arts would fight like that. But it must be done in a way any amateur in the audience in the cinema / theater, can relate to. And therefore I think the directors, screenwriters and producers make it so funny, the old scripts for Sean Connery as Bond were so entertaining, I really loved them. ANd then somebody mistook this lightness of heart for vaudeville comedy and we got Roger Moore with kitchy tongue-in-cheek.
@Jim Minestrone 007 is just a number. Its natural that, at some points, spies get replaced by new ones. Bond still is Bond. Its his name. Only the number 007 now is different. Also, I think that the Craig timeline won’t be continued by a new Bond. There will probably be a reset with Bond back as 007
For me, Diamonds Are Forever is certainly in the bottom 5 of the Worst Bond Movies Ever Made. But THIS scene is among the best fight scenes in all of the series.
@@marquan1976 And I don't just mean the character in the context of the story, either. The icon of James Bond: the suave, sophisticated, British secret agent with a penchant for martinis, girls, and guns, is all but shredded in this current age of political correctness and wokeness. "Is that who it was?" was exactly my reaction too. There is no James Bond in No Time to Die, just a pussy Galore-whipped Daniel Craig running around in a suit.
Sean pretending to make out with himself will always be one of the funniest moments in this series
Its funny nowadays but If you can suspend your disbelief the character development is pretty cool.
One could argue that if anyone were Sean Connery in his prime, they'd make out with themselves too. XD
The broken English is funny”Who is your floor?”
Yet when i do it...I get arrested
It's clever actually, he was trying to copy a German attempting to speak English & in German the translation is "Wo ist dein Stock" "Wo" can means who or where.
Gotta love Connery's fight scenes as Bond. They were just naturally brutal. No stylized poses or highly improbable video game 8 hit combos, just two dudes doing their best to knock each other off in close quarters combat...
@Ministry of Mystics, if you try any of the stylized moves you see in flicks today, you will get your butt whipped by a dude who didn't know karate but definitely knew crazy😂 First rule of fighting: the luckiest punch wins!
Grants fight was the best
@@seanbonella Always. Such a personal and brutal fight
Fun Fact: In the german dubbed version of this scene, Sean Connery answers: "What? Is that who it was? Well, I guess it is true, you only live twice."
Nice! :)
Nice reference they made there
That is such a good line. Why didn’t the script have that?
That is such a brilliant line!
I am pro-dub, this is another reason in my opinion dubbing is better than subs, it can even improve the original. English dubbing isn’t as good as other countries always but it’s getting there
St. John: “Is he dead?”
Connery: “I sincerely hope so.”
One of the greatest Bond one-liners!😂
Haha, yup underrated!
Jill St. John appeared in the December 1971 issue of Playboy magazine
@@RONALDRENFRO83 I have that issue. The title is, "Vegas Comes Up 007." In one photo, Connery poses with a show-girl who's outfit is, ahem, most revealing.
'Who is your floor' is a lovely little detail, Diamonds are Forever is underrated.
No. Just An incredible piece of crap apart from maestro Connery and Mr Kidd and Mr White are decent.
@@P.M.- Oh, it's campy and cheap as hell (For a Bond movie). But... I kinda love it for that.
Camp, cheesy but tons of fun! It’s worth it for Charles Gray’s Blofeld alone!
Not really a good movie, the plot is utterly stupid. Worth seeing for Tiffany and especially Plenty.
@@richardadams4928 I kinda disagree there, there's something charmingly cheesy about the plot, which I think fits very well with the film. Bond tracking down the diamonds is just very fun to watch.
Gosh, Jill St John was pretty in this.
What I love about this is how realistically scrappy and brutal the fights are - no ridiculous martial arts or superpowers or pithy one liners - just two guys grappling in unplanned, unpredictable melee to the death. Also bond fooling his way into the building by fake-snogging and smiling at people - he's very human. In a brutal kinda way.
I get what you're saying, but I've never liked this fight. A much better version of this would be the staircase fight in Casino Royale, where it's just two men brutally fighting to the death. For me, the choreography of this fight could have been better, and it was shot and edited rather poorly, in my opinion. They really could have done a better job. My fear is that the next Bond movies after Daniel Craig may end up being influenced by John Wick, and we could see Bond taking out five guys at once. I hope not, of course.
While everything else is totally unrealistic. A guy kissing a girl (wether she's there or not), for any real agent is a good clue there's an enemy agant following him. And when there's a guy speaking German with ANY British accent, it's like everything screming; 'The enemy presence IS OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!!!'
'I sincerely hope so' is literally a liner lol
@@alwaysOPEN4business No it isn't you dope lol
@@thomhardcastle9897 Casino Royale sucks.... along with all the fight scenes. A catastrophic, lame, weak excuse of a bond movie. A train wreck. The fighting was boring all the time.
The guy Bond is fighting here, Joe Robinson, was actually a boss in real life. He once fought off a group of about 10 muggers by himself when he was 70. He taught Connery judo for YOLT and he accidentally pulled off Connery's toupee when they were filming this scene.
They were mates before he even became Bond, I think he was in consideration for the role of Grant in FRWL.
A 70 year old man did NOT fight off 10 muggers. Unless the muggers were all 90.
There are certainly older gentlemen in the UK who served in certain military organisations, some of whom are more secretive than the SAS for example, and who still be very capable of seriously or killing anyone who had a go at them.
@@Spookieham Precisely!
@@Spookieham Martial arts isn’t magic, doesn’t matter how much training you’ve had there’s some things you just can’t do.
00:28 "I speak English! Who is your floor?"
Haha! 😅
I Miss James Bond Two Actors
1. Roger Moore as James Bond (1927 - 2017)
2. Sean Connery as James Bond (1930 - 2020)
We will also miss Daniel Craig after October
@@nilayanghosh9902 Oh, is he set to die in October?
@@MasterOfKnowledge. his last film is in October
@@MLI-qg6sz I know, I was making a joke XP
@@MasterOfKnowledge. 🤣🤣🤣
My old karate sensei in Brighton near Gloucester Road, lessons before opening the shop around 8 am. Still remember how cold it was in the winter.
This is one of the best fight scenes in the entire Bond series.
The fight scene is the highlight of this disappointing bond film.
@@randyacuna3248 The car chase is pretty good also.
@@hejla4524 the important thing is that this film has so few highlights, diamonds is among the worst bond films in the franchise.
@@randyacuna3248 It is disappointing, but it's a bit of an enjoyable nostalgia trip for those like me who were kids when it came out .
@@hejla4524 if you enjoyed it , that's OK.
This film is so quintessentially 1970s. Everything from Connery's toupee/sideburns to the fact that Bond's ID is a Playboy Club card.
@andree france paquette My point is the lack of flares in the Bond series was correctly amended during the Roger Moore era.
still have my playboy card ,moneypeny i need a new one. Wife not amused lol.
@andree france paquette playboy used to be considered a classy publication
Also, don't forget the white shell cassette tape that was featured in this film.
@@stephenalanmoore7278 Lol, yes forgot about that. Cutting edge stuff.
This is actually some great cinematography!
Method acting: Connery looks at the "diamond chandelier" and imagines his salary for this movie.
This was the first Bond film I saw with my father at the movie theater when I was ten years old (1971). Loved Bond ever since.
I know this isn’t exactly a beloved bond film but this is definitely one of the best fights in the series.
The only people who can kill Bond….is Bond
Or Safin😂
The only people who can kill Bond is now Safin : ( haha
@@ughugh351 SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUT UP
@@ughugh351 Safin didn't kill Bond, he destroyed him. So did Silva.
who was he really?
"you've just killed James Bond". Wait until exactly 50 years later Ms. Case...
Terrible decision btw in my opinion..
RIP Sir Sean Connery 😞😢🖤🏴🥀⚰️
He is missed.
RIP who is your floor
@@JamesBondCanada Jill still alive.
@@shahrulamar5358 That's right. Jill St John's been married to former 'Hart To Hart' star Robert Wagner for decades now.
Apparently, she originally wanted to be a marine biologist befire becoming an actress and she also has a genius I.Q rating of 164.
@@stephenalanmoore7278 Wagner former spouse, Natalie drowned mysteriously one night in 1981. 😟😟😟
Those dislikes are from Peter Franks' grandchildren 😫
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Wait he has grandchildren
53 grandchildren. Either he had a lot of children or his children were pretty damn busy
"Well, it jusht provesh no one'sh indeshtructible."
Captain Scarlet: Hold my beer
Captain Jack Harkness: Yeah, me too.
Vamp: Me three.
Nice one
The lift fight scene here was one of the highlights of the film. Two huge guys rumbling in a small lift breaking all kinds of things in a small amount of space. Joe Robinson would played Peter Franks was a legit tough guy, with his background in judo and karate, the pro wrestling scene in Europe in the 50's. Still amazing how at 70 years old that dude fought 8 guys in South Africa who tried to rob him. Sean Connery always brought an intensity to his James Bond fight scenes. RIP both Sean Connery & Joe Robinson.
The guy fighting Bond here was in the film "A kid for two farthings". He played a local London wrestler who ends up fighting the former giant heavyweight boxer Primo Carnera (a wrestler now) who was six foot six, and built like a tank. This guy was dwarfed by Carnera, but is an absolute unit in real life, especially next to a guy like Connery. Great fight scene and up there with the one in "On Russia with love".
I know its considered one of the worst films by Bond fans but I don't care, I always loved this movie!
I liked it
Better then QOS To me
@@mikaylafaithparteli9412 Thats another hot take of mine, I actually love QoS. Its a great quick action film.
I push those fans aside. Any Bond adventure can be good-great.
Just have a good time! Diamonds is one of my favorites for that reason.
Agreed
Had the pleasure..in meeting Jill St. John, with Robert Wagner, back in 99', at the pump room in Chicago. They were extremely nice..!
Interesting to note that Robert Wagner’s then sister in-law was also in this movie.
"Is he dead?"
"I sincerely hope so"
Who is he? I have no idea .This chap has been following me all day today.
The perfect Bond..Sean Connery..love him n his movies..all movies well directed n acted...love his Indian Jones n the best one THE ROCK ...
Indian Jones?
2:33 I thought he was a proper English, but he knows how to extinguish
Bond is actually Scottish
I love that he throws the fire extinguisher on his body at the end as an extra "f you" 😂
Yeah like “if the beating didn’t kill you, you can drown in fire extinguisher foam, asshole” lol
Imagine James Bond actually pretending to not be James Bond.
You know, like a spy would?
Craziness.
There’s a theory that James Bond is just a code name for 007 but I don’t think it’s true
Isnt bond an agent not a spy
@@GroovyAsh04 no it's his birth name.
@@jimmymunz874 exactly cuz sky fall was proof
Pavementl 'The presence of enemy agents is over NINE THOUSAAAND!!!'
The kissing illusion at the start is hilarious, as it would not have worked for the guy he was trying to fool, as he would have had a sideways perspective!
This, plus a friendly continental guy, and a German guy speaking with British accent.It's like everything shouting; 'it's trap, and a very bad one!'
I’m one of those Bond fans that actually loves Diamonds. A simple, campy, fun, and sometimes silly spy Adventure. The action, music, and sets are super fun, plus the comedy is fun too.
I don’t need to hear other’s opinions on the matter as I’ve heard enough and don’t care, nobody’s very civil about it either. So if you’re prepared to tell me OHMSS is king (even if it is), this is worse than QOS, or that it’s bottom five, then go yell at a cloud because I’m not listening.
I’m glad this was Connery’s goodbye to Bond (No I don’t consider NSNA an actual Bond Film) for the films because I really like this last adventure of his. It’s not nearly on the same level as Goldfinger of course but I put it quite high up
R.I.P Sean Connery-My favorite Bond
Never understood the dislike of it. It's the perfect Bond movie with one of the most iconic villains and some unexpected twists along the way. It's honestly one of my favorite movies and favorite intros. Also has one of the most hilariously dated insults in any classic movie I've seen
"Why don't you blow up your pants"
I agree with you, after recently watching this film, Sean Connery still made a great performance despite him looking 10 years old than he did in YOLT. I too found this film enjoyable and I do not think the hate is deserved for the film. Not my most favourite Bond film, but still is a great one nevertheless.
It would be better, if Connery should have play in O.H.M.S.S. and this was a revenge film and not a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''. Here, who is older and heavier, is perfect, as Bond after Tracy's death. Also if Connery’s last Bond was ''Live and Let Die'' in 1972 to celebrate ten years of Bond films. And I prefer, in this scene, an MI6 agent card with Tiffany saying "you just killed a secret agent'', and the deleted scenes that Plenty returns and the frogmen.
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@@RabidNemo Diamonds are Forever is one of the first Bond movies I ever saw when I was 7 years old and loved it. The problem is I was 7 and lived it until I was 18 . The older I got , although it’s a part of my youth it was cartoonish and I can’t see how an adult watching it today like the movie . But If ur young and like adventure and imagination , it was fantastic
Me too. I didn't even learn of the hate until decades later. It was the Connery film I watched most as a kid.
Connery will always be the true Bond 👍
They are acting. Amazing how they do the fight scenes. Some good fights. Train fight with Robert Shaw. arguably the best.
This film is so bad it's good. 😂 And the dialogue is so witty and enjoyable throughout.
I agree. Definitely one of the worst Bond films. The film that preceded it, On Her Majestys Secret Service, was the best Bond film.
@@Batman-jc5uc what is your taste in bonds lol OHMSS sucks compared to the rest George lazenby was a crap bond
@@symbiotetoast3649 if you actually liked Diamonds Ar Forever you might need your brain examined.
@@Batman-jc5uc I agree, secret service is arguably the best bond of all and George is sastafactory in the role, no question he had the looks and physicality for the role.
@@Batman-jc5uc , what????
Please tell me that was a typo! Other than the fact OHMSS gave us the death of Mrs. Bond as canon, that film is easily forgettable in the Bond franchise. It's in the bottom five by a wiiiiiiide margin...
This is my Second Favorite James Bond Movie I Love the Las Vegas Setting and the Story is Superb.
I love Diamonds Are Forever
I too
Me too. I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t love it.
The old fire extinguisher trick wins every time!
Wow that's so amazing fighting Sean Connery in elevator 👍☺
3:26 “You’ve just killed James Bond!”
I thought he was meant to be a spy, not some sort of well known celebrity that every Tom, Dick or Harry had heard of?
He has to have a reputation in the spy and criminal underworld community,
@@pizzabandit1518 I suppose. They probably have a spy WhatsApp group or something.
I was just laughed at loud when he looked at his watch before attacking 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂
Was gibt es da zu lachen? Sean erledigte seinen Job, und gut ist! Im übrigen wurde dieser 007 Klassiker zurecht in die Top 3 gewählt!
I know some people hate the film, But I actually quite enjoy this movie It’s my guilty pleasure along with octupussy. I got this ranked #14 out of 24.
Peter Frank-sh. Love Sean as Bond, so cool.
The best thing about this scene?
Jill St. John.
Jill still alive.
You know the reason you came back here
When he says I am English, just makes me laugh. 😀
Does he? He looks worn out in this one.
For a million dollars in 1971 currency he should be having a ball.
Fun? Lol he only did this for the paycheck (which he donated to charity like a boss)
@@angelcastaneda529 His worn out look would be perfect as Bond after Tracy's death, if was a revenge film and not a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''.
@@ΜακηςΛ-ε5ρ, one of the many reasons why I don’t like this one. It completely ignored OHMSS.
The extended dvd has a great segment on the filing of this scene.
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER is one of my favourite Bonds. The beautiful and very clever Jill ST. John was great as a Bond girl as well as two of the VERY best villains/henchmen ever! The whole film just flowed like perfection and i loved the Las Vegas setting. Connery`s performance was perfect here as well as supporting characters like "Plenty O` Toole, etc. Lovely atomspheare throughout with some brilliant action scenes. I always missed this film while in primary school, when boys had the toy moon buggy. I was always intreaged by it but never seemed to see it. Eventually when i did, i saw what a great Bond film it was.
I'm just picturing the conversation the director was having with Sean and Joe for this particular scene.
Director: "Okay, guys. I want you to fight in this elevator, but I want it to be as authentic as possible."
Sean: "What did you have in mind?"
Director: "I want you to break the elevator. Just f*ck it all up."
*Sean and Joe trade confused and anxious glances.*
Joe: "It's glass. Won't we risk cutting ourselves for real?"
Director: "As I said, I want this fight scene to be as authentic as possible."
This is easily one of my favourite fight scenes in all of Bond. It's brutal, hard hitting and messy and I love how at first, there's no music until Bond's head could possibly be squashed.
And I'll say it: Diamonds are Forever is one of my absolute favourite Bond films and my favourite with Connery. Keep in mind, this was the second Bond film I ever saw, after Octopussy, and so I have a personal connection to it and this was before I saw Goldfinger, considering how similar in plot these two films are. I just love it for being a fun, light-hearted and breezy spy adventure with Connery clearly looking like he was having fun and having one of my absolute favourite Bond Girls with Tiffany Case.
This combat is epic.
"Just proves no one is indestructible"
Lol.
Sean Connery was James Bond. RIP these two great tough actors, for the entertainment they brung
The music is really good. John Barry is by far the best Bond composer
Crazy how he got away with that German "Guten Abend" in the Netherlands.
The opponent fought well enough to actually make Bond angry enough to throw the extinguisher.....admirable
Good old lift fight. Great to see Connery another accent that isn’t a British one.
I always liked Connery and Moore, but Connery had the most intense fight scenes.
007's attempt to sound like a Dutchman talking English was interesting to say the least.
This scene was on my mind, recently...
Popular Opinion: Every single one of ya'll agrees that Diamonds are Better made our Day:
Unpopular opinion: It’s still the worst Bond movie.
It’s the worst Connery film but I still like it
@@tripi7906 I think Thunderball is worse.
That elevator was in the Spectre opening
Also In The living daylights too
i believe Craig also did a stunt similar in skyfall
Well, you'd hate to waste a perfectly good lift!
Sean Connery really is amazing here. He pretends to make out with himself, speaks in a fake foreign (Dutch?) accent, fights a big dude in an elevator, and delivers some of the most nonchalant one-liners in the whole series. I used to dislike the more campy films-this one especially. Now I truly appreciate them-it’s part of what makes these films so damn entertaining.
0:32 "Who is your floor?" Haha!
0:46 That right hand would have put many men down. Peter Franks took it like a boss.
Good fight. Not quite as good as the one in From Russia. But definitely a good one.
Is the secret agent James bond a celebrity in the DAF universe? What were they thinking when they wrote that scene?
I mean.... in "A View To A Kill", a random cop in San Francisco knows who James Bond is.
I thought the exact same thing. Like...how good a spy can Jimmy be if people know his name and rep?
And surely if he's thar well known they would know what he looks like 🤣
He may have built a reputation in the underworld from all the minions lucky enough to survive. People do talk in prison. People he's rescued, interrogated, or slept with around the world probably talk about him too. Obviously, he'd only be well-known in certain trades, not by everybody in the streets like an actor or singer. As for the random cop in San Francisco...maybe they're both members of the Playboy club and Bond did something that got him well-known within it? I don't know. I don't think movie-goers thought about things like that when these movies were made.
@@realJoeMavro I agree he could have a reputation within the intelligence community and within some criminal organisations and law enforcement. People did think at the time he is supposed to be a secret agent a double 00 with the highest clearance proberly. People would not know who he is. Even Connery and especially Moore have brought this up in interviews laughing at the writing but they got on with it. You could argue that the police captain was briefed by the CIA and told him MI6 were working in partnership with them in the city, and the captain had heard of Bond before being in law inforcement himself. But I don't think the writers were thinking that. I don't know what they were thinking in either movie, and I bet it was from the same writer in both films.
These fights for the general public are so funny. No professional black belt in martial arts would fight like that. But it must be done in a way any amateur in the audience in the cinema / theater, can relate to. And therefore I think the directors, screenwriters and producers make it so funny, the old scripts for Sean Connery as Bond were so entertaining, I really loved them. ANd then somebody mistook this lightness of heart for vaudeville comedy and we got Roger Moore with kitchy tongue-in-cheek.
watching this fight scene makes me want to go to the chiropractor
Zed: It's a trick! Esbon!!!
May: What was it?
Zed: It was a tale of a british secret agent, James Bond...Esbon 😆
I love Sean as James bond
Oh noes, this hits harder after NTTD
3:35
That's a shot at Captain Scarlet!
aspect ratio is cropped
One of My Favorite Scene in the Movie.
WAITING FOR NO TIME TO DIE 007
@Jim Minestrone No - she is just another double "0"
@Jim Minestrone 007 is just a number. Its natural that, at some points, spies get replaced by new ones. Bond still is Bond. Its his name. Only the number 007 now is different.
Also, I think that the Craig timeline won’t be continued by a new Bond. There will probably be a reset with Bond back as 007
50 years later, it really happened...
Non-canon in my opinion
For me, Diamonds Are Forever is certainly in the bottom 5 of the Worst Bond Movies Ever Made. But THIS scene is among the best fight scenes in all of the series.
Franks can handle himself, even against 007.
The angle that guy was going up the stairs, he'd see James Bond was pretending to kiss a girl lol.
I love how she knows the name "James Bond".
All the crumpet do.
3:21 My reaction to No Time to Die.
😠SPOLIERS. Just Kidding it was mine too.
@@marquan1976 And I don't just mean the character in the context of the story, either. The icon of James Bond: the suave, sophisticated, British secret agent with a penchant for martinis, girls, and guns, is all but shredded in this current age of political correctness and wokeness.
"Is that who it was?" was exactly my reaction too. There is no James Bond in No Time to Die, just a pussy Galore-whipped Daniel Craig running around in a suit.
How woefully ironic this is. Curse you, Fukunaga! You don’t kill James Bond!
It was not Fukanaga, from the begining of filming it was already clear that Bond will die at the end. This was even Daniel Craigs Idea
@@ughugh351 crying
smh
craig and broccoli
Directors could learn a few things from these fight scenes. The desperate, sloppy nature of the fight makes it feel real.
Funny how a Secret Agent is so well known kinda doesn't make him secret anymore huh.
Sean Connery is the best Bond !
Unbestritten
Jill St John tho .. 😍
Would still fire one into her.
Pwwwoarr!
Elevator going up elevator going down elevator going up elevator going down and there goes Peter Frank.
Looks like they are dancing with each other 2:10 🤣🤣
Ballroom Battery
@@FredericFreedom hmm
0:09 that’s the absolute worst when you have an itch on your back that you can’t reach
He's just pretending he's kissing someone
Start of the fight is the real fight choreography ❤, its not about wires, dupes, VFX
Still can’t believe Sean isn’t with us anymore.
He was 90 years old and accomplished more than 7 mean combined. We all have to go eventually and sadly his time was up
Roger is gone too sadly but we all must pay a price!
@@angelajohnson6659 he was pretty old as well 89 isn't bad it makes me think bond actors are granted with long life
Yes I'm waiting On No Time To Die 007.
Us too!
I think all of us. I wrote on a Majesty’s Secret Service video when the movie was coming out last year in April. Remember that?
I can't wait. Hopefully this October!
0:44 fight scene
3:25 you just killled James Bond 007
Subscribe 007.👍
Jill St. John, Henry Kissinger tapped that. My hero 😁
0:07 James is making out with himself hahaha
This movie is pretty bad but this is a good fight
Agreed, every Bond film has at least 1 great sequence.
Crazy... Sean Connery was 40/41 but looks mid 50's.
He was 28 in Dr. No but looked late 30's, he had a tough life growing up homeless on the streets of Glasgow...
32 in Dr No.
Who’s ready for No Time To Die?
That doesn't happen for another 50 yrs after that.
Damn you're right