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"My God ..You've just killed James Bond !! "
Does anyone else find this scene/comment one of the most annoying in the series ?
"You cant just kill James Bond and sit around waiting for the cops to arrive,we've gotta get these diamonds outa here and fast !!"
It seems to me this moment in DAF set the scene for the comedy Bond BEFORE Sir Roger came along,showing the 'Playboy membership ' card etc...
Connery: " Is that who it was ? Well it just proves no-ones indestructable"
When did Bond seem indestructable before this comment ,straight after his most 'vulnerable' scenes at the end of OHMSS...
DAF has a lot to answer for in the change of direction in Bond after OHMSS and seems to be the pivoting point for me.
What do you think ?
"You cant just kill James Bond and sit around waiting for the cops to arrive,we've gotta get these diamonds outa here and fast !!"
It seems to me this moment in DAF set the scene for the comedy Bond BEFORE Sir Roger came along,showing the 'Playboy membership ' card etc...
Connery: " Is that who it was ? Well it just proves no-ones indestructable"
When did Bond seem indestructable before this comment ,straight after his most 'vulnerable' scenes at the end of OHMSS...
DAF has a lot to answer for in the change of direction in Bond after OHMSS and seems to be the pivoting point for me.
What do you think ?
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and there are few movies changing Bond.DAF was interesting movie and Bond was "killed" in YOLT too
This would be one of my favourite scenes in the whole series. Sean's deadpan delivery beautifully contrasts St. John's infectious excitability and nicely tempers the violence of the just concluded elevator fight, fire extinguisher fight.
It's a nice wink wink to the audience, that have shared in Bond's exploits over the past decade.
I'm sure Hef appreciated the plug and probably later harassed both St. John and Lana Wood to do a photo spread.
Bond filmmaking at it finest IMO.
Rog could have pulled off this scene as well, but not so much the preceding fight , so the net effect is that the scene works exceptionally well for Sean, coming off such an intense fight.
My thoughts exactly - he's meant to be a secret agent and yet old Mankeiwicz seems to think some gangster's moll would know who he was! And Bond a member of the Playboy Club, laughable.
And again in TMWTGG Bond says 'And there aren't many who haven't heard of Bond. British Secret Service. Licence to Kill' WTF! I think it is for those reasons I have trouble with these films.
I've always loved the scene. I had never thought it through this way, but that's exactly the feeling. I also like how it shows Bond quick spy skills in doing a spur of the moment seemless identity switch and pulling it off.
Also I lol'd at Connery's line later in the same movie when he's pretending to be Saxby: 'I'm just not comfortable taking on someone as TOUGH AS JAMES BOND'. Don't flatter yourself James! :D
People go on about 'this never happened to the other fella' breaking the 4th wall - well this doesnt just break it, it drives a JCB straight through it. Just another nail in DAFs shambolic coffin.
Hahahaha, that bothered me also, because unless Bond was just flattering himself there for kicks, then that's even more evidence that every criminal on the face of the planet knows who he is!
Well we know Q would have! Hahaha.
Nah, you guys just need to lighten up a bit. As timmer says above, "It's a nice wink wink to the audience, that have shared in Bond's exploits over the past decade". The key there is the legacy of Bond. In 1971, Bond had been the biggest movie series in the world for the past 10 years, so the series (and the character) would be self-aware for the time. DAF pays tribute to this legacy. That scene is no more than a good little laugh for the audience.
I get your point and it is a fair comment but I've never liked the wink to the camera stuff. Fair play for when this happens in a striaght up comedy but for me, Bond is not and never should be a comedy and these cheesy moments are just too cringe-worthy for me. Don't get me wrong, I feel that humourous moments are expected and appreciated in Bond movies as light relief but I prefer the humour to be witty and clever not cheesy and lame.
"Actually captain I'm with the British secret service. My name is Bond...James Bond."
"Is he?"
"Are you?"
"Yes."
"And I'm Dick Tracy, and you're still under-arrest."
A thorn in AVTAK's side.
For me, these examples are (as @TheWizardOfIce correctly states) far worse than the "This never happened to the other fella" line in OHMSS which always seems to receive the heaviest degree of negative feedback from fans (I always thought it related to a Cindarella link when I was a kid!)
Agreed!! - No surprise that the two Eon Bond movies I least like are DAF & AVTAK
I think theres a case for the defence in this instance that isnt there in the DAF or TMWTGG ones.
Could it not just be that the Sheriffs 'Dick Tracy' comment is in response to 'I'm with the British Secret Service' rather than 'Bond. James Bond.'?
He has never heard of Bond but is merely pointing out how ludicrous he thinks 'I work for the British Secret Service' is as a defence.
Still a crap exchange though and if you axe the entire Sheriff and Keystone cops fire truck chase scenes I would love AVTAK a whole lot more.
I must admit when I first saw the film, I thought the sheriff was referring to the 'British Secret Service' comment. But pretty dire anyhow.
Cop: 'Tell it to the Judge, beeyotch.' (Cuffs)
That was always my take on it. I actually like that scene. It works differently than the DAF scene. The AVTAK scene doesn't really break the 4th wall the way DAF does.
...or perhaps there WAS a subtle inside joke by the film-makers, as if to say, "You're British Secret Service??? You're way too old for the part and you should have hung it up after FYEO!"
'Secret Agents' are the good guys, but they don't always have time to deal with the authorities- for example, in CR at the Airport, Bond was damn lucky they just apprehended him and didn't blow him away-- and even a deleted scene from AVTAK shows that Bond was arrested after the Paris car chase.
Thats the way i see it as well,it wasnt really a tongue in cheek situation so i have no rpibs with this scene the way i do with DAF.
But that was the 70's I guess.