His last thought, as that fatal bullet pierced his heart, may have been:"I wish I'd never challenged Bond to a duel. Now, I'm going to Hell, because of it"!
Well in the 1970s soviet had their own video camers companies 😆 Its just not sold to the west due to sanctions and not wanting soviet product to be on market
I love Sean Connery, but i was born in 67. Rodger Moore, was my first introduction to James Bond, therefore, I hold a special place in my heart for him. If we think Bond became cartoonish with Rodger Moore, we should blame the screen writers and the film director, not the actor... Long live Bond!!!
Moore, especially from ''The Spy Who Loved Me'', was the right man at the right time (except the last film). Although he's very good in his first two films, director Lewis Gilbert said that still had the way Connery plays. 28.01- 29.06 th-cam.com/video/vQ5PC7m45_0/w-d-xo.html 5.29- 5.59 th-cam.com/video/9kbTlgF-YcY/w-d-xo.html
@@theyellowlightsaber3193 Pretty sure it's white, mate. Scaramanga has the blue shirt. The mannequin has the same trousers, shoes and shirt. All he needed was the tie and jacket. He clearly just put them on as fast as possible and replaced himself with the mannequin. He most likely threw/placed the mannequin behind one of the stands or something.
I agree, he felt just as dangerous as Bond, maybe even more so. His ego is what ended up doing him in. Not his lack of talent as an assassin. One of the best villians Bond ever went up against.
@@codyt821 his ego didn't kill him. He just wanted a fair fight. He was delusional though because Bond or his other victims had to fight in a place which was designed to deceive them and make them waste their bullets.
After loosing his gun 007 stops for a minute but you can see instead of going back he goes down (2:20). Think it's safe to presume he went after the gun and went back while Scaramanga was searching for him
Interesting fact: This movie did very well in Japan. So well, in fact, that it's the only Bond movie to be turned into a comic there. The artist really played up the horror aspect of the fun house scenes. It was a very scary manga.
very underrated film, Scaramanga was played brilliantly by Sir Christopher Lee and I liked the needle between the characters, you get the impression Bond really can't stand the guy because he's like the cat that got the cream
The utter look of disbelief in his last few seconds of life. Scaramanga was smart, efficient, and confident, but could never have foreseen the powers of quick change bond
@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 there are plenty of Bond girls who were that way, you act like that's a new concept for a Bond film lmao. Just because she was an airhead doesn't make it a bad Bond picture. It had some great action and a wonderfully played villain. I've always enjoyed it very much
I'm still asking myself how JB could change his position from down under (without gun) to his replica so quickly. Where he got his new gun (maybe from the replica?)? Where he could hide his replica so quickly? And even change his clothes... And these actions all within the short time when Scaramanga was behind the small wall and the cameras were still working. Interesting questions...
Correct, none of it makes any sense. Or how would Bond not be breathing much heavier or sweating by that point, given all he had been climbing and moving?
Bingo. They all brought something special to their respective performances. If they all played the character the same the Franchise would've gone stale years ago. Wish more people could understand that.
@@adamcade604 quantum of solace was dog sh*t. Rotten tomatoes doesn’t know anything, im sure crystal skull is also in the 60s or 70s. That film was a crime against humanity
This always reminds of playing Goldeneye and facing the wall so no one can cheat by looking at my screen. Then when they walk past me turning around quickly and shooting them in the back
I enjoyed the different interpretation he brought to the character, but he was about as far away from how Fleming wrote Bond as possible. Nowhere near as cold, and ruthless as the character was originally written. Still fun though
Fun Fact: Lee's mother, after divorcing his father, remarried Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming. Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, thus became late Lee's step-cousin.
The final scene makes no sense. When Scaramanga first looks at the Bond mannequin...the Left hand fingers are blown off. Then as he walks into view...it switches to actual Bond as the dummy. When did he have a chance to put on the outfit, dispose of the dummy and pose in exactly the same way in a matter of seconds with Scaramanga in the same room? And with Knick Knack on the cameras as well? It wouldn't have worked.
@Pesto Patagonia he's not an idiot ... a midget is a term for a small person, however it is offense . but back in the 60s and 70s it wasn't an offensive term to call someone who was of short hight
Kinda wish they would have gone in the direction of Scaramanga fighting bond on his own in an epic duel without the tricks and cameras of Nick Nack. In my opinion, the cheating makes Scaramanga look less of a real threat. Had they truly had a 1on1 duel with a one off run in by Nick Nack, I believe it would have been better. I also wouldnt have shied away from Scaramanga getting in some sort of gunshot on Bond which wounds him pretty badly but doesnt kill him. I still love this movie, it played a big part of my childhood.
So he found the edge of the set. Climbed underneath, lost his gun went up and around, switched clothes with the dummy (which also had a loaded pistol) then held his pose until Count Saruman came out
I feel that a man as intelligent as Scaramanga would have been able to anticipate this bait-‘n-switch and thus would likely have regarded the ‘dummy’ far more suspiciously . . . At the 2:30 ~ mark you see his brain going into overdrive - _Where the f*ck did Bond get to??_ Bond was desperate so he’d have certainly tried anything, but that this actually worked is extraordinary.
How did Bond evade the cameras? How did he climb down so quietly? How did he change into the dummys clothing so quickly? Why was the replica gun loaded with bullets?
It is a bit of a suspension of disbelief that bond was able to change place with the mannequin that quickly without being seen. Personally though, i like to think a man like Bond that has been with so many women knows how to quickly get in and out of clothes without being seen.
@@runawayplane6166 I would just say that, by this point - esp given that the proverbial deck was pre-stacked in his favor, what with literal “home-field advantage”, not to mention Nick Nack monitoring the cameras and coordinating all the mirrors & other AV tricks - Scaramanga knows that he should’ve _already_ finished Bond. The fact that Bond is still breathing and hiding somewhere despite Scaramanga & Nick’s best efforts means that the tables have arguably already turned. Bond is a crafty, cold assassin with many years of experience, who always seems to have his own bag of tricks up his sleeve. I’d be scared too if I were in Scaramanga’s shoes. 🫣🤣
Scaramanga's last thought: Maybe that Bond replica was a bad investment...
I figured his last thought would have been "How did he get dressed so fast?"
His last thought, as that fatal bullet pierced his heart, may have been:"I wish I'd never challenged Bond to a duel. Now, I'm going to Hell, because of it"!
Rather giving it a loaded gun was the mistake.
@@ReaverLordTonusI always thought that, how many years has he had that wax work there with a loaded PPK in its hand?! 🤨
His last thought - shouldn't have given that Bond replica a loaded gun.
This Film gets grief but it's actually one of my favourites
I don't think people realize how expensive it was to have a bunch of security cameras in the 70s
At $1,000,000.00 a contract, he could afford to….
@@Anime_Lover_PHX_SAC_ABQ I'm not saying he couldn't, it's just that back then it was some high-tec shit that nowadays is taken for granted
I disagree with you! in the 70's almost every Soviet Union family had a video camera, just 99% of them didn't know it.
Well in the 1970s soviet had their own video camers companies 😆
Its just not sold to the west due to sanctions and not wanting soviet product to be on market
@@sixbells99 underrated comment! LMAO
Don’t let people like watchmojo put you down you’re a great Bond actor
Watchmojo and other WhatCulture never have a clue what they are talking about most the time.
I love Sean Connery,
but i was born in 67.
Rodger Moore, was my first introduction to James Bond, therefore, I hold a special place in my heart for him.
If we think Bond became cartoonish with Rodger Moore,
we should blame the screen writers and the film director,
not the actor...
Long live Bond!!!
Moore, especially from ''The Spy Who Loved Me'', was the right man at the right time (except the last film). Although he's very good in his first two films, director Lewis Gilbert said that still had the way Connery plays.
28.01- 29.06 th-cam.com/video/vQ5PC7m45_0/w-d-xo.html
5.29- 5.59 th-cam.com/video/9kbTlgF-YcY/w-d-xo.html
WatchMojo is strongly oppiniated. They're irrelevant
WatchMojo are a bunch of idiots, that usually have no real grasp of what they're talking about. Clickbait is the best way to describe them
Sir Roger Moore & Sir Sean Connery was great bond series actors...🙏🙏
The two best
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Definitely the best. The current bland blonde Bond is nothing but a copycat of Bourne.
Roger moore is the best Bond
I Agreet. Two of the best
I think posing as the manikin of himself was a stroke of genius.
Not really, where did he put the other mannakin and how did he change clothes without the cameras noticing any of it?
AHEM.....""""MANNEQUIN""" !!!
@@theyellowlightsaber3193 He practically already had the same suit on. Just needed the jacket
@@Lord-K-21 Er no, he had a powder blue shirt on, the mannikan was wearing a tuxedo
@@theyellowlightsaber3193 Pretty sure it's white, mate. Scaramanga has the blue shirt. The mannequin has the same trousers, shoes and shirt. All he needed was the tie and jacket. He clearly just put them on as fast as possible and replaced himself with the mannequin. He most likely threw/placed the mannequin behind one of the stands or something.
One of the most shrewd and dangerous villains Bond has faced in my opinion.
I agree, he felt just as dangerous as Bond, maybe even more so. His ego is what ended up doing him in. Not his lack of talent as an assassin. One of the best villians Bond ever went up against.
@@codyt821 his ego didn't kill him. He just wanted a fair fight. He was delusional though because Bond or his other victims had to fight in a place which was designed to deceive them and make them waste their bullets.
He is the most dangerous villain.
@@LITTLE1994 I'd say Trevelyan is since he knows Bond in and out. Bond was unable to fully deceive Trevelyan like he did Scaramanga.
Scaramanga: I want to fight like gentlemen.
Also Scaramanga: *hires Nick Nack to be a screen-looker decades before GoldenEye basically invented it*
WTF the dummy's gun had live bullets. Scaramanga is a perfectionist.
After loosing his gun 007 stops for a minute but you can see instead of going back he goes down (2:20). Think it's safe to presume he went after the gun and went back while Scaramanga was searching for him
@@ricardoabreu4997 But magically got a sport coat in the process? I never did like that “fake the dummy” out at the end.
He probably went down to get the gun, but the sound of it falling and clanking against the rails is what alerted Scaramanga to head to that room.
So they’re not just dummies, but legit death traps.
Oh, and not to mention the Bond Wax Figure also had a fully loaded real Walter PPK.
To me this is the best finale to a Bond movie ever
This was the best of the Moore Bond movies.. Lee was à worthy antagonist.His real life story is like a movie too . Worth a look.
Interesting fact: This movie did very well in Japan. So well, in fact, that it's the only Bond movie to be turned into a comic there. The artist really played up the horror aspect of the fun house scenes.
It was a very scary manga.
i see what you did there, but now i don't know if there was indeed a manga or not
i know they did american comics of bond, th-cam.com/video/siHG4u9NZBM/w-d-xo.html but didnt know they did manga lol
@@ps123fan It was a setup for a pun. As far as I'm aware, there is no manga.
Goddamn it, not bad not bad at all
In Japan James Bond is actually pretty popular!
The Man with the Golden Gun is a very underrated movie, it's so much fun 👍👍👍
very underrated film, Scaramanga was played brilliantly by Sir Christopher Lee and I liked the needle between the characters, you get the impression Bond really can't stand the guy because he's like the cat that got the cream
Yeah unusual to have a villain who’s almost Bond’s equal.
One of the best movies. I still stream to watch. Was watching last night
Best scene of the film.
Bond: “… and that is how Scaramanga ended up with four nipples. The last one was inverted by my bullet.”
"Tit for tat"
The utter look of disbelief in his last few seconds of life. Scaramanga was smart, efficient, and confident, but could never have foreseen the powers of quick change bond
Sailor Moon James
An excellent film and one of my favourites
I find it to be one of the weaker movies, as the Bond Girl was a complete Air/Vacuum Head
@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 there are plenty of Bond girls who were that way, you act like that's a new concept for a Bond film lmao. Just because she was an airhead doesn't make it a bad Bond picture. It had some great action and a wonderfully played villain. I've always enjoyed it very much
I'm still asking myself how JB could change his position from down under (without gun) to his replica so quickly. Where he got his new gun (maybe from the replica?)? Where he could hide his replica so quickly? And even change his clothes... And these actions all within the short time when Scaramanga was behind the small wall and the cameras were still working. Interesting questions...
Correct, none of it makes any sense. Or how would Bond not be breathing much heavier or sweating by that point, given all he had been climbing and moving?
Would've been much simpler if Scaramanga walked past the mannequin, noticed the gun was missing, then got blasted with it a split second later.
The short answer: It's a movie.
Massive missed opportunity here. They should have filmed from Scaramanga’s point of view when Bond fired to recreate the gun barrel intro.
Interesting idea. But you then wouldn’t have had Lee’s shocked reaction, after being shot.
The sound effects from the gunshots are different here than the VHS copy
5.1 sound remix. Gunshot sound effects are often swapped out for more modern iterations.
Simon Templar vs. Dracula 😇🧛♂️
Rest In Power, Sir Roger Moore.
And Christopher Lee too. He was a real badass in real life
And Sir Christopher Lee!
Roger moore and sean Connery 😍🤩❤❤❤
Bond. James Bond. A legend.
3:30
Me: James, what happened? Where is Scaramanga?
James Bond: He's having a gold fever.
He didn't have a heart of gold.
He lost his weight in gold.
Brilliant! Roger Moore is always cool gentle fresh style hero!
I don't have a favorite Bond actor. I'll just say all the Bond actors were great in their eras.
Bingo. They all brought something special to their respective performances. If they all played the character the same the Franchise would've gone stale years ago. Wish more people could understand that.
So true
Exactly
I love this film. It's panned but critics don't know jack. So much entertainment in it.
I like this and Moonraker the best out of Moore's films. Both panned by critics lol
Good film but it got let down by some stupid scenes featuring Hip & JW Pepper and that stupid karate scene.
@@CursoryMercenary I ❤️ J W Peppa !!!
@@HRHooChickenand quantum of solace and diamonds ate forever are on 60s on rotten tomatoes, let that sink in
@@adamcade604 quantum of solace was dog sh*t. Rotten tomatoes doesn’t know anything, im sure crystal skull is also in the 60s or 70s. That film was a crime against humanity
This always reminds of playing Goldeneye and facing the wall so no one can cheat by looking at my screen. Then when they walk past me turning around quickly and shooting them in the back
which you of course cheated by looking at their screen
If every player is equally spying on each other, spying is no longer cheating. Turnabout is fair play
I believe t his was the smartest trick Moore ever did in the Bond franchise
one of the best scenes in 007 bond.
The moment at 0:45 when it's revealed that the Moo7re we've been watching is just a reflection is brilliant!
Sean connry and Roger Moore this best action in the world
I remember as a kid watching that bit where he’s Pretending to be the mannequin was nuts.
I love Sir Roger, playing the part, he was so Bond!!!!!💂🤡👍LOL
I enjoyed the different interpretation he brought to the character, but he was about as far away from how Fleming wrote Bond as possible. Nowhere near as cold, and ruthless as the character was originally written. Still fun though
@@codyt821
I'll take charming and witty over cold and ruthless any day.
Fun Fact:
Lee's mother, after divorcing his father, remarried Harcourt George St-Croix Rose, a banker and uncle of Ian Fleming. Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, thus became late Lee's step-cousin.
Bond was no dummy, which Scaramanga soon came to realize.
Christopher Lee was a brilliant actor & personally knew Ian Fleming.
They has a family connection
2:00 The man with every gadgets in the world, didn't have a proper holster :)
The final scene makes no sense. When Scaramanga first looks at the Bond mannequin...the Left hand fingers are blown off. Then as he walks into view...it switches to actual Bond as the dummy. When did he have a chance to put on the outfit, dispose of the dummy and pose in exactly the same way in a matter of seconds with Scaramanga in the same room? And with Knick Knack on the cameras as well? It wouldn't have worked.
Sean Connery & Pierce Brosnan the best 007
Always liked this standoff.
One of the greats of the Bond dynasty...
"I have never killed a midget before, but there can always be a first time"
@Pesto Patagonia he's not an idiot ... a midget is a term for a small person, however it is offense . but back in the 60s and 70s it wasn't an offensive term to call someone who was of short hight
@@michaelhawkins7389 I might be wrong about this, but aren’t dwarves also part of folklore?
@@eduardomagana3858 yes in fairy tales ,
@Pesto Patagonia Controlling words, controlling minds.
@Pesto Patagonia
Height challenged is the proper term.
Dude i like this movie so much, idc what anyone says. Mainly becauze if this fight between them is badass 👍🏽
Absolutely brilliant 👏 👏
Roger Moore was so damn cool.
I Love You Roger Moore James Bond 007
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Saruman The White
Little fella commited suicide. I still love James Bond in 2021.
Tattoo never really left the island.
Just got a new job with Mr. Roarke.
I think this is one of the only Bond films where James *doesn't* say something witty when taking out the main villain.
His actions speaks most louder. Beating the boss on his ABSOLUTE home turf, and all.
Left unsaid of course is the fact that the Bond Dummy had a fully loaded and functional Walter PPK.
Kinda wish they would have gone in the direction of Scaramanga fighting bond on his own in an epic duel without the tricks and cameras of Nick Nack. In my opinion, the cheating makes Scaramanga look less of a real threat. Had they truly had a 1on1 duel with a one off run in by Nick Nack, I believe it would have been better. I also wouldnt have shied away from Scaramanga getting in some sort of gunshot on Bond which wounds him pretty badly but doesnt kill him. I still love this movie, it played a big part of my childhood.
So he found the edge of the set. Climbed underneath, lost his gun went up and around, switched clothes with the dummy (which also had a loaded pistol) then held his pose until Count Saruman came out
The ending makes absolutely zero logical sense, but it’s a great way to finish off Scaramanga!
A professional would never stand in the centre of an unfamiliar room, like Bond did at the start of this clip...
I feel that a man as intelligent as Scaramanga would have been able to anticipate this bait-‘n-switch and thus would likely have regarded the ‘dummy’ far more suspiciously . . . At the 2:30 ~ mark you see his brain going into overdrive - _Where the f*ck did Bond get to??_ Bond was desperate so he’d have certainly tried anything, but that this actually worked is extraordinary.
Extraordinary - or simply ridiculously unrealistic ?? 😁🤣
so who won ?
He's Ian Fleming's cousin
Moral of the whole movie: still like a statue
When he fell into the river while filming Roger Moore said he saw a dead body under the water... terrifying
Was it real ? I mean behind the scenes ?
@@Indians-dl3to it was real the mortuary disposed of bodies in the river.. go read his autobiography thank me later
@@Thatguy55595 Whose biography ?
@@Indians-dl3to Roger Moore
@@Thatguy55595 Is it on TH-cam ?
How did Bond evade the cameras? How did he climb down so quietly? How did he change into the dummys clothing so quickly? Why was the replica gun loaded with bullets?
Bond James
I dont think Scaramanga was that bad compared to other villains
Scaramanga is one of the best villains
He was a gentleman and a good sport!
My very Idol Sir Roger Moore
why would you go to your arch enemies house and not have more bullets than 7-8 rounds.
0:06 metal slug laugh
Unfair. Bond used exploits to get outside the map.
Roger Moore No 1 Movie Live And Let Die
James Bond The Man With The Golden Gun 1974 2024 50 Th Anniversary
LOVE YOU 007
Just as well that Walther from the mannequin had a clip in it.
It is a bit of a suspension of disbelief that bond was able to change place with the mannequin that quickly without being seen.
Personally though, i like to think a man like Bond that has been with so many women knows how to quickly get in and out of clothes without being seen.
In the movies today bad guys require like 10 bullets before they die! And a bunch of gun fu on top of that in a battle to the death.
The book is great
stranger things are happening each year in the gold standard
Scaramanga didn't have a mano-a-mano though, he cheated. He already knew the map while Bond was still in fog of war.
I LIKE JAMES BOND 007
Don't miss tomorrow on abc
Nothing like the book
60s-like tricky psychedelic effects
At :44 WTF why the hammer not in battery? I'm disappointed
the man with the golden balls.
The only ending to a Bond villian that is also hinted in all bond intros where Bond is in the crosshairs and gets the kill shot
Shame they didn’t tint the opening gunbarrel gold, that was such a missed opportunity…
I don't hate this film, its OK.
I always ask why Bond didn't souvenier Scaramanga's gun.
At least he could in some games, specifically GoldenEye.
"Fights"
I Love You Roger Moore James Bond My Sweetheart Darling Michael 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋
After this movie one of the producers Harry Saltzman did end up in bankrrupcy.
Plot armor!
This Bond is feckless. And the barrel of ScaryManga’s pistola is a bit droopy. Can’t keep it up for Bond.
Scarymanga??? Wtf
So the gun in the Mannequin was real and loaded (007 loses in the dark the original gun and it is clear that there is no time to search it)
Twice the pride, double the fall
Good shot 0️⃣0️⃣7️⃣
Grande capo, grande uomo
2:47 Why does he look so scared?
He knew who he was up against.
@@hyacinthlynch843 He didn’t seem to bothered at the start of the duel?
@@runawayplane6166 I would just say that, by this point - esp given that the proverbial deck was pre-stacked in his favor, what with literal “home-field advantage”, not to mention Nick Nack monitoring the cameras and coordinating all the mirrors & other AV tricks - Scaramanga knows that he should’ve _already_ finished Bond.
The fact that Bond is still breathing and hiding somewhere despite Scaramanga & Nick’s best efforts means that the tables have arguably already turned.
Bond is a crafty, cold assassin with many years of experience, who always seems to have his own bag of tricks up his sleeve. I’d be scared too if I were in Scaramanga’s shoes. 🫣🤣
He proved rather a live mannequin.
JAMES BOND
Yes good job you know who the character is. 🙄