DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER | Bond kills the fake Blofeld
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- On this day in 1971, shooting began on the DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER pre-credits sequence in which Bond (Sean Connery) kills the fake Blofeld (Charles Gray) in a mudbath. The mud was actually made from mashed potatoes. Production Designer Ken Adam said, “After 24 hours those mashed potatoes began to smell, and the smell became unbearable. The whole stage smelled of it.”
Ah, the old mouse-trap in the pocket trick. Works every time. Then dispose of Blofeld into the Creme Brulee.
It is actually mashed potatoes (not kidding), apparently they used the set for a whole day and the smell was unbearable after a while.
I can hardly imagine how much of mash potatoes had to be used.
the old jam filled mouse trap trick, works every time.
Bond carried a spud gun. @@olivercrazzolara8888
I wonder who the poor sod was who had to prepare the mash
The way he puts his hands in the air at 2:05 gets me everytime, he always looks chill
Sir Sean Connery, you'll be missed. There can be only one.
Didn’t he look kinda bored there?
@@TMX1138 whole movie he look kinda bored :) but I like it.
@@wojciechtrojanowski7178 But from what I’ve heard, he looked more bored in You Only Live Twice.
Good spot for anyone who is into meme-making
@@TMX1138 you can see him actually have fun, unlike you only live twice
I feel like the kills in the 70s and 80s movies were less violent but weirdly sadistic. Like, the good guy drowing people and boiling them alive in mud gives me weird vibes.
They could risk those things because CGI and tech was less realistic. Now imagine if Bond would boil someone alive.... even a Shark attack can't be properly made without people getting shook
Bond works for the original evil Empire, the British/Rothschild Empire. So not quite the good guy. The original Bond did have class though.
@@antonmoric1469 hahaha based
Notice he doesn’t get any mud on his suit jacket. Brilliant
Gotta remember this is the film that's directly after OHMSS, where Bond's wife is killed. Bond going after Blofeld here is a bit personal.
Bond killed FOUR Blofelds in this movie!
Ikr so cool!
@@Спайк1323 your right because we see him in for your eyes only ten years later
@Swiftus Maximus always someone who has to make it political.
And he came alive in For your eyes only. Bond was not complete without Blofeld.
"BLOFELD LIVES MATTER!"
One of the most confusing AND disturbing intros to a James Bond film ever as a kid. As an adult...it still confuses and disturbs me. Love it!
At the end of Her Majesty's Secret Service, which starred George Lazenby, James Bond gets married. As the newlyweds were going on their honeymoon, Blofeld attacks them in a drive by shooting, killing Bond's wife. The intro to the next movie, Diamonds Are Forever, is Bond going after Blofeld seeking revenge.
@@richardlangdon712 What makes no sense is that they never mentioned her in this movie. I heard it was rights issues or something.
@@DedricSilvaNah it was mentioned a few times in later Movies that Bond was married. In “For Your Eyes Only” Bond was visiting his wife’s grave
No confuses and disturbs, if we see it as a sequel of ''You Only Live Twice''.
@@richardlangdon712no it's not a sequel to the lazenby one, rather a continuation of YOLT, they never mention tracy in the movie because they wanted to avoid any connection to the previous film because it was seen as a disappointment. Thankfully they mentioned his marriage in later outings like TSWLM, FYEO and LtK
I like how when the first guard got his hand stuck in the mouse trap. The second one decided not to use his machine gun, but rather charge Bond in close combat.
If the guard use his machine gun, then he can kill the guard who his hand stuck in the mouse trap.
There would've been friendly fire.
None of that made sense
plus at least one of them was in the previous movie as Draco's henchman 🤣🤣😂😂
Lets pause for a moment to admire that guards' impressive sideburns.
same actor played one of the Joker's henchmen in 1989 Batman (the guy with the boombox when they descend upon vandalizing the Museum)
You know it's the 70s when the guy's dick has sideburns
That look is good enough to be a lead villan
He was also in OHMSS
Those sideburns were just about to retire as well, RIP
In the first ten minutes, Bond drowns TWO men in mud, tricks a guard with a mousetrap and assaults someone with an overhead lamp. You just know what sort of a ride you’re in for.
@Greg Elchert 😂😂 They’re a saving grace in this supernova of ham and cheese. Those two and Charles Gray are the only ones who know the movie they signed up for.
@@lewiskazinsky7334 This movie was such a lousy follow up to OHMSS.
@@lewiskazinsky7334 The first fake Blofeld was killed by a ton of curry. Gawd, this film is so bad it's good in places as nothing about it that reminds you how good Connery was as 007 in the sixties.
@Greg Elchert Not forgetting Bambi and Thumper, the only women to beat up Bond.
@@alucard624 The movie is a follow up of ''You Only Live Twice''.
I like how when sean says "welcome to hell" he almost laughs
He didn't even want to be there to be honest and only took the part for two reasons. One, his non Bond movies since vacating the part had been bombs at the time and the producers offered him 1.25 million (a record number then) which he used to setup the Scottish International Education Trust. He even looked out of shape too, especially compared to how he looked years later when he did Never Say Never Again.
@@alucard624 nobody cares bruh
Gotta remember this is the film that's directly after OHMSS, where Bond's wife is killed. Bond going after Blofeld here is a bit personal.
@@585_Phinfan
I do, I already knew everything they said but it’s still nice to remind yourself of the facts every now and then.
@ashleyj Every time I finish another speed run of Super Mario Galaxy 1, I always say “Welcome to hell Bowser” in my best Sean Connery accent. SMG1 is the best 3D Mario game hands down.
Blofeld: "Mr Bond, I have just murdered your beloved wife, Tracy"
Bond: "Time for your primordial porridge bath"
Underrated comment
Take a swim, Blofeld
The fake blofeld in the mud bath, the mud was actually mashed potatoes that made the set stink badly
2:51 That's an unusually sadistic comment for Bond to make! That and the deliberate placement of a mouse-trap in his pocket.
This was supposedly right after Tracy was murdered. Though I can't imagine Sean playing the love sick version of Bond in OHMSS, I can see him here be the vengeful one.
@@gutz1981 I see your point. Sean's Bond could definitely be brutal at times!
Doesn't everyone keep a primed mousetrap in their pocket...just in case of pickpockets etc
RIP Sir Sean Connery and Charles Gray. They don't make actors like that anymore.
True…they make better now!
@@westyraviz Says a fecking nobody.
they sure don't unfortunately
Bond always had that great ability to kill in style, not just kill, as in the new movies.
Rest in peace Sean Connery. A legend
And Charles Gray
Do you mean Roger Moore being the 3rd James Bond actor.
I can't Sean Connery is dead. best bond ever
The sideburns on the guard at 2:08, so very 1970s.
True lol
These sideburns remind me a little bit of Elvis Presley's sideburns.
Manly looks right there.
2:04 Me when the grocery store exit alarm goes off thinking I've stolen a can of peas or something.
Funny I know it was the fake Blofeld, but the way Bond killed him was so poetic. A lot of times Bond has been thrown into an easily escapable situation by Blofeld and other Spectre operatives. So he responds in kind. Giving them a taste of their own medicine. Only he makes sure they don't escape.
Yeah they pretty much are aware that the general audience isn’t gonna fall for Blofeld dying in the beginning and it’s obvious foreshadowing of how he’ll show up later.
It’s predictable but it’s fun even then I take it. Can’t take the franchise too seriously or else it gets boring hehe
@Shane It’s Karma for killing his wife in the last film. Oh wait, OHMSS don’t count.
I always wonder where from these mad scientists and psycho super villains recruit their staff? There seems to be endless supply of highly skilled professionals willing to sacrifice their lives, who are capable of operating secret space programs, performing advanced surgery and stuff like that.
money is a great motivator
It's mostly students from Yale University looking to advance among the ranks of the GOP.
I always imagined a bureau where all villains hire their henchmen, from the Joker to Doofenschmirtz.
They get their staff the same way Trump gets followers.
Same way anyone else hires, only they use shell companies and aliases to do it. And people stay in these job for the same reason anyone else does, because it pays the bills.
I think the guy in the mud bath did an incredible stunt just lying in there. Always loved the Sean Connery Bond films
That was all CGI
Also an added bonus, the mud was Cadbury Smash mashed potato mix, which smells terrible when in leftover stage, so that gagging from the stunt man was likely a sound of disgust!
@@wolfshanze5980 are you joking?
@@ughugh351 there was no CGI in the sixties...
@@wolfshanze5980 and also not in the 70s... thats why I'm asking If "That was all CGI" is a joke...
Connery aged terribly between YOLT and Diamonds yet looked WAY better than he did in both over 20 years later. Quite a journey
Agree, I have always thought he aged weirdly.^^*
@@00Kuja00 Agree too. His face looked puffier and the graying at the temples and thick sideburns made him look much older than in YOLT
Sean Connery aged a lot between YOLT and this one.
He had to change ethnicity and back.
and he didn't age good imho. As long as he's been (and still is) a beautiful Man with whiteish colors and beard (he looks fantastic in Entrapment) he looked "young" till Thunderball, you can already see something in YOLT and he definitely look "old" in DAF. Same for Roger, as long as he looked beautiful and great in his first four movies, he started to look old since FYEO, and he looked very old in AVTAK (given that he wasn't young in 1985, I mean that these changes did happen in a few years).
@@toivonencresto I have to agree that Sean looked better like 10-13 years later in Never Say Never Again than he did in this one. FYEO should have been Roger's last as he could just get away with it then. Sean did not look as young as he did come this film and yes, the signs were there come YOLT. Funny though, he was still 2 years younger than Roger when he took over the role. Yet Sean looked better than Roger when he got into his 50s. Age is funny that way.
gutz1981 Yes, and just to tell the truth... he looked (great) but way older than his real 32 year old in Dr. No
I used to not like his look in this one but I gotta say he just looks more buff in this movie. He aged well.
I love how they cut to Blofeld's cat at the end and, more specifically, its collar.
No it's a cat.
@@StevoDesign Yeah?
Interestingly, if Lazenby had stayed on as James Bond, they considered starting Diamonds with the ending of OHMSS. In that case, I wonder if they would have cut to the bullet hole in Bond's windshield for the credits sequence.
@@TraustiGeir you said it is collar.
@@StevoDesign Happy now? Welcome back, BTW.
What a missed opportunity on 007's part. A bit of haggling would surely earn him delicatessen in stainless steel.
Underrated comment sir
Well he had to fly.
on of my favorite bond movies
"Making mud pies, 007?"
Yeah.
Makin' a fake blofeld pie.
R.I.P Sean Connery gone but not forgotten 😢
“Making Mud Pies, 007?”😂
1:48 that grin kills me everytime i watch this
lol
Its so good hahaha
Diamonds are forever
They are all I need to please me
They can stimulate and tease me
They won't leave in the night
I've no fear that they might desert me
Diamonds are forever
Hold one up and then caress it
Touch it, stroke it and undress it
I can see every part
Nothing hides in the heart to hurt me
I don't need love
For what good will love do me?
Diamonds never lie to me
For when love's gone
They'll luster on
Diamonds are forever
Sparkling round my little finger
Unlike men, the diamonds linger
Men are mere mortals who
Are not worth going to your grave for
I don't need love
For what good will love do me?
Diamonds never lie to me
For when love's gone
They'll luster on
Diamonds are forever, forever, forever
Diamonds are forever, forever, forever
Forever and ever
This is basically an Austin Powers movie.
Who Dat Ninja So much more
Austin Powers basically took the Bond cliches and heavily enlarged + exaggerated them
Same with Moonraker
michael myers was just an idea his father was kicking around in his head when this movie was made...
Bullshit
1:48 the way his smile widens like that almost makes him look like a Gmod machinima character.
Yeah, it looks so edited :D
little did Bond know: the cat was the real Blofeld, all along!!
Hahaha! It would certainly explain “Blofeld” changing appearance so often.
And meanwhile, hiding in plain site, and protected by it’s henchmen, the cat remains a constant presence!
Alternate Title:Bond covering a dude with dried mustard,rat traps a guard,practicing archery at a bad time,bonks a bad guy in the head,(sound effect sounds cartoonish),and sends the bad guy to bubbly hot chocolate.
That gun would've never worked anyway.
It might have, actually. Revolvers are very simple mechanisms, and the mud was quite thin and fine. The ammunition might have gotten wet, but lots of ammo can still fire in that condition.
The mud was thin and fine? Did we watch the same clip?
It was a cocked revolver, not a semi-auto so it would have fired at least one shot. Probably wouldn't have cycled to the next round though.
Why did that guy take his gun into the mud bath anyway?
@@BrokenCurtain and his clothes too
People hate this movie I think it's fantastic cheesy fun! I showed this movie to my wife and she was just confused throughout the whole thing. Haha so outlandish this bond movie I love it.
That's why it's my favorite!
R.I.P. Sean Connery.
I mean nothing with Connery (disinterested or otherwise) can be that bad right?
Apart from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen of course, but we don’t talk about that one.
Sean Connery sadly passed away in his sleep yesterday. R.I.P.
hilarious
I don't care what anyone says, this film is a fun self parody of Bond.
Except it wasn’t meant to be 🤣
I think it was more of a 'non-fun' self-parody Bond film.
@@felixsulla7853 Haha, agreed.
@@Reuben_95 I disagree. Throughout the film, one does get the feeling that Bond is being parodied here. Secondly, this one was just about fun even though I wish the story construction was tighter.
@@ricardocantoral7672 it comes off as fun but also embarrassing and too comic . Sean also looked bored, old and out of shape which doesn't help at all to be fair.
2:29 thats some nice editing, dude already knockedout before he hit him
I don't remember this movie being so cheesy. It hasn't aged well.
It's a terrible movie all around IMO. Makes even the worst of the Roger Moore Bond films watchable by comparison.
@@alucard624 there is no worst Roger Moore Bond Film except maybe a view to a kill
The guy that played Blofeld also appeared in you only live twice but different role😂😂👌
And now bond & Blofeld are brother's.
That was pretty silly
@@TheOneVoxel still nowhere near as silly as Blofield dressing up as a woman to kidnap an incompetent agent.
So stupid
If I remembered correctly, Daniel Craig once said something like "Austin Power ruined James Bond and the reason why current Bond movies has to take themselves way too seriously is because it's impossible to make a gags" well... Spectre plot twist just copied Austin Power Goldmember.
It's sad to see the grand daddy of spy movies like James Bond has to copied "Bond parody" that's making fun of everything that defined James Bond movies.
Bruce Snow lol yeah that’s a weird scene and offered no explanation
Connery looked like a Grandpa in this even though he was just 41 at the time
🤣🤣
Success caught up with him
When he was fighting Bambi and Thumper he definitely seemed overmatched, and his ultimate triumph a little unconvincing.
Does anyone notice that Both Donald Pleasence & Charles Gray both worn the same suits in wardrobe???
Donald Pleasances face is on the first waxwork dummy at the start of the video.
Does anyone really care?
That psychotic smile at 2:42 lol
I imagine Blofeld took the body of Dikko Henderson, from You Only Live Twice, to have a different look in order to disappear from the revenge of Bond.
Ah, finally an explanation for this! It bugged me ... forever. 😏
"Making mud pies 007?"
"Actually, my name is Klaus Hergesheimer"
Here to check radiation shields
He survived this, left that life, and lived out his years teaching the Time Warp in his criminology classes. 😁
_LET'S DO THE BLO-FELD AGAIN!_
Always watch out for the cat.
The real power behind the scenes.
Blofeld is a front.
Imagine dying by drowning and burning in a giant vat of Campbells Cream of Mushroom Soup
This is why you never reach into a man's pockets without his permission.
Never rub another man's rhubarb...
@@wolfshanze5980 I made you, you made me first.
When I was a super tiny kid this scene scared the ever living shit out of me. Loads of drowning, multiple stabbings and rushing to turn up the heat to make being tied up head first in boiling clay EVEN MORE PAINFUL and horrifying.
Then of course later, just when youve got your sanity back he assfucks a waiter so much he explodes into flames.
If you think that's scary watch Danger Zone volcano in New York
I found it gross and silly as a kid.
In the first 5 seconds, you can see the waxworks changing from Donald Pleasance to Charles Gray.
Nice to see this ended on a happy note - a kitty wearing bling bling.
I remember this as a big movie but the acting, script, staging look pretty “tv movie” now.
Awesome job!!👏👏👏👏👏💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰👍👍👍👍😃😃😃
I wonder why that looked so familiar. It's my sunday morning after a heavy night out with tapas and beer.
When Connery pulls the head out of the mud and washes it off at 1:30, that sure looks like Christopher Lee.
Guy just casually has a gun in the mud bath.
*DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER*
_Action, Adventure, Thriller_
_14 December 1971_
🏴 🇬🇧 Sir *Thomas Sean Connery* _(Thomas Connery)_ -
25 Aug. 1930 - 31 Oct. 2020 - age: *41*
🏴 🇬🇧 *Charles Gray* _(Donald Marshall Gray)_ -
28 Aug. 1928 - 7 Mar. 2000 - age: *43*
2:42 James Bond: "Welcome to hell, Blofeld" as I say! Because nothing satisfies me more than dastardly villains getting their just deserts!
just *'desserts'*
❤❤
When I was a kid, I always thought the Mud was Peanut butter. I found out when I was a teen, it was mashed potatoes mixed with cocoa.
Yummy
Blofeld: *lunges at Bond, stops moving*
Bond: *gently lowers giant dental light onto Blofeld's back who, again, isn't moving at all*
Blofeld: *lies motionless allowing Bond to strap him to the table*
Absolute cinema.
Let somoeone explain me why Blofeld's
unconscious body after lamp hit turned it's position to be perfectly fit for BONDage?
"Picked up Throwing Knives" @
haha and it makes the sound too when you pick up the Throwing Knives in Goldeneye 64 @2:19
1:48
That's a Joker-sized smile. He looks like he has a popsicle stick sideways in his mouth.
I keep thinking of peanut butter and coffee cream every time I look at those two mud tubs.
1:14 Split pea soup?
2:11 A mouse trap?
2:53 Melted cheese?
Imagine dying in a mudbath of boiling mashed potatoes
Charles Gray was brilliant as Sherlock Holmes’ brother Mycroft in the Grenada productions of Conan Doyle’s classic.
and your point is??????????????
Unfortunately he was miscast as Blofeld. the role didn't suit him!
He was Henderson in "You Only Live Twice". Got killed.
Agreed, he was an excellent choice.
@@philiplavery9521 I disagree. The script didn't fit Charles Gray.
I saw this in the movie theater with my father when I was ten years old in 1971. It was my first Bond movie. So much more fun than the muscle bound macho BS of American action stars.
Underrated Bond
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER💎😍
Connery is cold in killing than all the bonds yet with a smiling face
007 is an expert knife thrower, the henchman who took those knives was also in OHMSS
Scalpels do not weigh very much. Best penetration would be a blade 10 or 11 or more. A big one- like a 26, could kill you.
The old mousetrap in the vest pocket trick, classic
Agent 86 would be proud
I love it when he says "Now that's a lot of curry."
2:19 Blofeld giving orders to kill Bond instead of taking the knife himself and stab Bond in the back. Instead of doing this he wait´s his turn :D. Villians are portrayed so "dumb" :D
The man can't fight because he has no conflict material lol
Whilst he was standing right behind him in the line of fire !
the snake in the toilet after I eat taco bell: 1:01
2:02
**has a top-of-the-line Armalite firearm trained right at Bond**
2:12
**Decides to use it as a club instead**
Something charming about the old A1 series.
Ahh the old mousetrap in the pocket gag. Works everytime.
I love the era of secret villain lairs
'Carry On Diamonds Are Forever' - a great film.
One my favorite Bond movies although Blofeld was kinda getting annoying with those fake creations of himself and then disguising himself as a woman it's still a badass Bond outing!!!
1:55 (Fake) Blofeld: Such a pity, I was dying to see how the operation turned out.
Bond: Sure thing, Ernst.
RIP Sean Connery :(
The reason why blofeld was making clones was so that he would confuse bond not knowing which one is the real Ernst Stavro Blofeld, since blofeld killed bond’s wife in the last film.
Sort of. They kind of gloss over OHMSS because it wasn’t popular at the time, that was part of the rationale behind getting Connery back, to distance themselves from Lazenby and his film in general.
Fantastic!
felt sad for the cat
why? The cat should have went with him?
I know. No matter what kind of asshole their human was with the rest of the world, the kitty still loves him.
People forget that this movie follows 'On Her Majesties Secret Service'. At the end of that movie Blofeld kills Bond's wife Tracy, whom he has just married. Bond is out to kill Blofeld as revenge, and thus seeks any and all means to do so, and achieves it in this movie.
🤣🤣
No... actually he didn't achieve it in this movie.
Go rewatch the opening of *For Your Eyes Only*
☀️☀️
I will never understand the distaste for this film. I love Connery, Charles Gray, the story, the soundtrack, and the action. I understand that coming from Majesty's makes it hard to compare but for me it's a nice transition.
My head cannon is Bond spent his "Holiday" tracking down Blofield here which turns out to be a decoy. I believe every Blofield in the film is in fact a decoy. FYEO shows the real him still injured and that’s when Bond truly gets his revenge for Tracey
I do wish Laznby came back (Though Connery still did great for me) and I wish there was some more gun action in the film but as it stands, I still love the film very much.
No nostalgia attached for me either as I had already seen Casino Royale, Skyfall, Brosnan's first three, and all of Connery's films at the time. With all that competition and comparison I still love it.
It’s just a (jump to the left) good time
A jump to the left. Charles Gray was a superb arch upper-class villain or narrator!
Rip Sir Sean Connery 1930-2020
Henderson ? I mean Blofeld?
Whack! “I’m glad you got it right.”
also how was the mud pool in 2:54 made? i planned to make something like that myself. can someone please explain
Even watching this as a teenager some thirty years ago, I remember thinking this movie was pretty shoddy. One thing I never understood : why exactly is that dude taking a mud bath ?
They are creating a double of Blofeld and Bond killed him before the operation could be completed.
@@scottknode898 Yes I get that... but why a mud bath !? Wouldn't it be more effective to, you know, give the guy an anaesthetic and wheel him into surgery ?
It looked like he couldn't breathe anyway, and dying because he had more clay poured over him?!
Because, early 70s bond...enough said
It's magic face changing clay, like from batman with clayface
I remember seeing this in theatres, thinking Blofeld actually died in the mudbath and thinking “That was easy!”
Good evening, 007.
Connery best bond ever!!!
Amazing work Sean Connery!! By the way how do you do it?😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Trebek outlived Connery by just a week. It was like the Celebrity Jeopardy host was holding on to see his own Blofeld die.
What did he have against connery?
There was a series of _Saturday Night Live_ sketches built around _Celebrity Jeopardy!_ where, in this fictional context, Trebek had to deal with exaggeratedly foolish celebrities who couldn't get any of the questions right. These sketches eventually depicted Sean Connery as his dedicated arch-enemy, who'd go out of his way to mess with him.
Best Opening Scene in any Bond Movie.