Tag: Diamonds Are Forever
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Bond 26 locations: revisit or somewhere new?
For the longest time, I’ve been firmly in favor of Bond movies venturing into new and exotic locations, giving each adventure its own sense of discovery and seemingly expanding Bond’s proverbial horizons. But in the years since No Time To… Read More →
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I got a brother. Small world.
In Diamonds Are Forever, this throwaway exchange between Bond, posing as Peter Franks, and one of the goons transporting his “brother’s” corpse to a funeral home neatly captures one of the movie’s biggest character dynamics. Here’s Bond, an elite international… Read More →
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Thumper Wants Monogamous Bond, Harkens Back Jinx
Although discussions about Bond’s female co-stars and female empowerment always seem to resurface before a new movie, I was genuinely surprised to see actress Trina Parks weighing in through a recent Telegraph interview. Parks played the campy acrobatic assassin Thumper,… Read More →
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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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