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
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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 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!
@@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...
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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cTZCtdoBtQU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qdH-z-FMpIY.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
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.
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 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.
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.
@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.
@@darthbriboy ''Diamonds Are Forever'' is a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice'', and has similar style and low budget, with ''Live and Let die'' and ''The Man with the Golden Gun''.
The only, small dislike about this is how the heck is James Bond so famous, if he's a secret agent? i better go back and watch this from the beginning. The fight is brutal and wonderfully choreographed.
Peter Ustinov wrote in his memoirs that he was interviewed during WW2 for recruitment by British intelligence, but was rejected on the grounds that he looked distinctive and would stand out in a crowd, and they preferred more anonymous-looking people.
@@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.
