Time For 007

James Bond movie musings. 007 words, 007 sentences. Twice daily at 10:07 AM/PM UTC.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Alimentary, Dr. Leiter.

In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond delivers one of the series’ more gross wordplays when explaining to covert CIA agent Felix Leiter where smuggled diamonds are concealed inside a corpse. The line cleverly riffs on Sherlock Holmes’ famous line “Elementary, my dear Watson,” replacing an intellectual phrase with an anatomical reference to the alimentary system (digestive tract) in a way that showcases Connery’s dark humor and unmistakable wit.

I don’t even want to think how they managed to get the diamonds ready for transport. Yuck!

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