Diamonds Are Forever
Contents:
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- TROMBATA IN CAMPAGNA: 14 STORIE DI SESSO COLORATO (Italian Edition)?
- FOCUS OF THE WEEK: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER.
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From Russia with Love Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: James Bond Jill St. Tiffany Case Charles Gray Plenty O'Toole Jimmy Dean Willard Whyte Bruce Cabot Shady Tree Lois Maxwell Edit Storyline James Bond's mission is to find out who has been smuggling diamonds, which are not re-appearing.
Edit Did You Know? Goofs Since the diamond cartel is careful to identify Peter Franks with fingerprints, it is odd that they didn't take the additional precaution of having a photograph of his face.
Diamonds Are Forever is a James Bond spy film and the seventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to. Diamonds Are Forever is the fourth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the.
Quotes [ first lines ] James Bond: I shan't ask you politely next time. The R was one of four new categories of film classifications to come into effect: The so-called 'R day' being 15th November with Australian adults finally able to watch cinema movies with the classification "R for Restricted Exhibition".
I think it may be my favourite. And yet Connery clearly does not want to be there. He shuffles through the motions like some ageing heavyweight showboater, flirting with disaster, his toupee slipping. When Bond is not fighting for his life and banging his elbows inside a cramped Amsterdam elevator , he's being kicked to hell by a pair of self-regarding girl acrobats in the Nevada desert. He's knackered, out of shape, halfway through the exit door. Legend has it that the very last scene Connery actually filmed was the one at the crematorium, in which Bond is knocked senseless, dropped inside a coffin and pushed towards the flames.
But the genius intentional or otherwise of Diamonds Are Forever is in the way it takes its lead from Connery's bruised, jaundiced performance. The later Roger Moore missions Octopussy, A View to a Kill made the mistake of variously disguising or compensating for Bond's advancing decrepitude and wound up looking ludicrous. Diamonds, by contrast, matches the star's tone and tempo quite beautifully.
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Fittingly, the plot seems to drift in and out, like ground-fog or the frequency of a long-distance radio broadcast. Bond is on the trail of diamond smugglers and the trail leads him first to obligatory Bond girl Tiffany Case Jill St John , who keeps changing her hair colour, and thence to the upper-crust Blofeld Charles Gray , who plans to hold the planet to ransom and auction nuclear supremacy to the highest bidder.
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The film comes into its own during its extended middle portion, played out amid the casinos, circuses and funeral parlours of Las Vegas. This is an upside-down, hall-of-mirrors landscape in which an elderly hoodlum is booked to perform a standup show at 6pm and where a pair of dubious gay killers skip hand-in-hand through the desert beyond town I like to see this as 's touching concession to the Stonewall era.
Much of the action, meantime, pivots around the invisible figure of Willard Whyte, a thinly-veiled Howard Hughes, gone to ground in the penthouse suite of the palatial "Whyte House" and apparently running business from a bank of phones while sitting on the toilet — much as Lyndon Johnson is reputed to have done. After returning to London—where Tiffany moves into Bond's flat—Bond flies to Freetown in Sierra Leone, and then to the next diamond rendezvous. With the collapse of the rest of the pipeline, Jack Spang who turns out to be ABC shuts down his diamond-smuggling pipeline by killing its participants.
Spang himself is killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter. By mid the author Ian Fleming had published two novels— Casino Royale and Live and Let Die —and had a third, Moonraker , being edited and prepared for production. According to Henry Chancellor, "the speed and comfort of it impressed Ian, and he shamelessly appropriated this car" for the book. I never correct anything and I never go back to see what I have written By following my formula, you write 2, words a day.
My favourite Bond film: Diamonds Are Forever
I baked a fresh cake in Jamaica this year which I think has finally exhausted my inventiveness as it contains every single method of escape and every variety of suspenseful action that I had omitted from my previous books—in fact everything except the kitchen sink, and if you can think up a good plot involving kitchen sinks, please send it along speedily. He returned to London with the completed page typescript in March that year; [15] he had earlier settled on a title, which he based on an advertisement slogan "A Diamond is Forever" in the American edition of Vogue.
Blofeld, who has now taken up cloning and cross-dressing, is played here by Charles Gray. Butler, William Vivian Frank Olegario as Man in Fez. Bill Hutchinson as Moon Crater Controller. The Authorized Biography of Diamonds are Forever is a largely derivative affair, but it's still pretty entertaining nonetheless, thanks to great stunts, witty dialogue, and the presence of Sean Connery.
Although Fleming provides no dates within his novels, John Griswold and Henry Chancellor—both of whom have written books on behalf of Ian Fleming Publications —have identified different timelines based on events and situations within the novel series as a whole. Chancellor put the events of Diamonds Are Forever in ; Griswold is more precise, and considers the story to have taken place in July and August Fleming had previously travelled to the US on the RMS Queen Elizabeth ; the experience provided background information for the final four chapters of the novel.
As with several others of his works, Fleming appropriated the names of people he knew for the story's characters.
Arran, an advocate of the relaxation of the British laws relating to homosexuality, heard about the use of his name before publication and complained to Fleming about it, but was ignored and the name was retained for the novel. The writer Jonathan Kellerman 's introduction to the edition of Diamonds Are Forever describes Bond as a "surprisingly Fleming's Bond makes mistakes and pays for them.
He feels pain and regret. This growth arises through Bond's burgeoning relationship with the book's main female character, Tiffany Case. He falls in love; the first time he has done so since Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. According to Benson, Tiffany is portrayed as tough, but lonely and insecure, and "is Fleming's first fully developed female character. No —has been "damaged The effect of the trauma has led to Tiffany working for the villain, which allows Bond to complete his mission, and align her to a more honest lifestyle.
The literary analyst LeRoy L. Panek observes that Diamonds Are Forever along with Goldfinger and The Man with the Golden Gun have gangsters as antagonists rather than as spies; [31] the novel is the only one in the Bond canon without a connection to the Cold War. Diamonds Are Forever opens with a passage in which a scorpion hunts and eats its prey, and is subsequently killed by one of the diamond couriers.
Eco sees this "cleverly presented" beginning as similar to the opening of a film, remarking that "Fleming abounds in such passages of high technical skill". The story is robust and complex. Fleming used well-known brand names and everyday details to produce a sense of realism, [13] [41] which Amis called "the Fleming effect".
Benson analyses Fleming's writing style and identifies what he describes as the "Fleming Sweep": According to Benson the main theme of Diamonds Are Forever is expressed in the title, with the permanency of the gemstones held in contrast to other aspects of the story, particularly love and life. But so are diamonds", [28] and Benson sees the gems as a metaphor for death and Bond as the "messenger of death". The journalist and author Christopher Hitchens observes that "the central paradox of the classic Bond stories is that, although superficially devoted to the Anglo-American war against communism, they are full of contempt and resentment for America and Americans"; [47] Benson sees that Diamonds Are Forever contains examples of Fleming's feelings of superiority towards American culture, including his description of the sleaziness of Las Vegas.
The cultural historian Jeremy Black points to the theme of international travel in Diamonds Are Forever , which was still a novelty to most people in Britain at the time. No had Jamaica, Diamonds Are Forever had multiple locations and two villains and there was "no megalomaniac fervour, no weird self-obsession, at the dark centre of the plot".
According to Fleming's biographer, Andrew Lycett , after the novel was completed, Fleming added four extra chapters "almost as an afterthought", detailing the events on the Queen Elizabeth. They subtract one from the other. No for the cinema, and in when Diamonds Are Forever was produced for the big screen. Julian Symons , reviewing Diamonds Are Forever in The Times Literary Supplement , thought that Fleming had some enviable qualities as a writer, including "a fine eye for places For Symons, the novel was Fleming's "weakest book, a heavily padded story about diamond smuggling", where "the exciting passages are few".
Milward Kennedy of The Manchester Guardian , thought that Fleming was "determined to be as tough as Chandler, if a little less lifelike", [64] while Maurice Richardson , in The Observer , considered Bond "one of the most cunningly synthesised heroes in crime-fiction". Fleming writes a journalistic style, neat, clean, spare and never pretentious". Fleming's handling of American and Americans is well above the British average", [68] although he felt that "the narrative is loose-jointed and weakly resolved", while Bond resolves his assignments "more by muscles and luck than by any sign of operative intelligence".