Tag: Diamonds Are Forever
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May his soul rest in peace
Morton Slumber of Slumber, Inc. comes across more like a smooth-talking car salesman than a funeral director. As Bond, posing as Peter Franks, attends his “brother’s” cremation, Slumber delivers a polished routine complete with rehearsed condolences, dramatic curtains, and an… Read More →
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I’m on top of the situation
In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond coyly reassures Tiffany Case that he’ll handle the fallout from her role in the diamond smuggling operation. It’s a classic Bond double entendre since Bond is literally on top her in bed and an amusing… Read More →
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Character Spotlight: George Lazenby as James Bond
It’s a challenge to distill any Bond actor into 007 sentences or less, but I’ll try my best with George Lazenby. His singular outing in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is too often reduced to a footnote, when in truth… Read More →
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La bombe surprise
In Diamonds Are Forever, Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd finally find their groove as faux room service, turning Bond’s oceanic journey home into a neatly staged farce. Bond and Mr. Wint have a compelling, devious exchange, before Bond catches on… Read More →
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You stupid twit
In Diamonds Are Forever, Bond delivers this juvenile insult to Tiffany Case after her ill-timed tape switch derails Bond’s sabotage of Blofeld’s control codes cassette tape aboard Blofeld’s oil rig. I particularly enjoy Bond’s quick delivery of this line and… Read More →
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Look what the cat dragged in
In a scene that is a microcosm of Diamonds Are Forever’s campiness, Blofeld uses this well known phrase with Persian cat in tow after he (apparently) lures Tiffany Case away from Q and out of the casino. Not only is… Read More →
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Shady Tree’s campy comedy routine
Shady Tree’s stand-up routine in Diamonds Are Forever is one of the movie’s several eye-roll inducing scenes. I get that he was going for a vaudevillian style comedy routine, and maybe it’s just because it’s the 1970’s, but his watered-down… Read More →
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James Bond doesn’t wear glasses
This quick line from official Bond movie Goldfinger alum Ursula Andress in the unofficial Casino Royale (1967) references the lack of eyewear of James Bond as if he’s a colloquially known figure. It happens again in the movie when the… Read More →
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Character Spotlight: Norman Burton as Felix Leiter
In Diamonds Are Forever, Norman Burton’s Felix Leiter ranks among my least favorite interpretations of the character. The shortcomings are less an indictment of Norman Burton’s acting abilities and more a reflection of the movie’s pervasive campiness. In that sense,… Read More →
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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,… Read More →
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