By popular demand...the camp aspects of DAF.
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I must warn you folks, that this is quite long...in fact, it took 3 pages of computer paper to write.
The Gunbarrel/James Bond theme(As heard during the hovercraft scene)/Wint and Kidd theme - some of the campiest bits of music in any Bond.
The way that Connery has his hands up in the pre-titles.
Wint and Kidd - They love each other so much, that they can finish each others sentences. Awww...
Mrs. Whistler - A teacher putting stolen diamonds in a hollow Bible. That heathen.
Tiffany Case - Just how many wigs did she have?
Peter Franks squealing like a girl during the elevator fight.
Bond's membership to the Playboy club.
Connery's non-matching hairpiece.
That tacky cremation music.
Shady Tree - "You dirty double crossing limey fink, those god d*mn diamonds are phonies!"
The cheesy casino music.
The fat guy next to Plenty at the casino - What was he thinking with that shirt and that tie?
Plenty O'Tool's name.
The gangster's in the hotel room - I must say...I liked the way they turned on the lamps on cue.
Connery's protruding gut makes its first and last appearance in a Bond movie.
The elephant at the slot machine.
When Bond slaps Tiffany. With a glove no less!
Dr. Metz - Am I the only one who thinks his accent is mildly funny?
Out dated slang - "Keep leaning on that tooter, Charlie, and you're gonna get a shot in the mouth!"
Just in general, how many agents named Hamilton are there?
The way that the "real" cat reacted to the "fake" cat. This is my territory, damnit!
Bert Saxby getting shot - Is it just me, or did he sound like a horse when he got shot? And just how did he know to kill Whyte?
Bambi and Thumper - I think Thumper actually said a Roger Moore-style pun when she said, "We're going to have a ball.", and knees him in the groin.
Willard Whyte - "Bert Saxby? Tell him he's fired!"
Blofeld in drag.
The faux YOLT ending.
The uniformed guards - At least they weren't color coded.
Tiffany Case changing into a bikini, on an oil rig.
Tiffany actually calling Blofeld by his first name.
Bond actually calling Tiffany a bitch.
Connery's legendary pastel pink tie.
The really horrible special effects.
Whew!
The Gunbarrel/James Bond theme(As heard during the hovercraft scene)/Wint and Kidd theme - some of the campiest bits of music in any Bond.
The way that Connery has his hands up in the pre-titles.
Wint and Kidd - They love each other so much, that they can finish each others sentences. Awww...
Mrs. Whistler - A teacher putting stolen diamonds in a hollow Bible. That heathen.
Tiffany Case - Just how many wigs did she have?
Peter Franks squealing like a girl during the elevator fight.
Bond's membership to the Playboy club.
Connery's non-matching hairpiece.
That tacky cremation music.
Shady Tree - "You dirty double crossing limey fink, those god d*mn diamonds are phonies!"
The cheesy casino music.
The fat guy next to Plenty at the casino - What was he thinking with that shirt and that tie?
Plenty O'Tool's name.
The gangster's in the hotel room - I must say...I liked the way they turned on the lamps on cue.
Connery's protruding gut makes its first and last appearance in a Bond movie.
The elephant at the slot machine.
When Bond slaps Tiffany. With a glove no less!
Dr. Metz - Am I the only one who thinks his accent is mildly funny?
Out dated slang - "Keep leaning on that tooter, Charlie, and you're gonna get a shot in the mouth!"
Just in general, how many agents named Hamilton are there?
The way that the "real" cat reacted to the "fake" cat. This is my territory, damnit!
Bert Saxby getting shot - Is it just me, or did he sound like a horse when he got shot? And just how did he know to kill Whyte?
Bambi and Thumper - I think Thumper actually said a Roger Moore-style pun when she said, "We're going to have a ball.", and knees him in the groin.
Willard Whyte - "Bert Saxby? Tell him he's fired!"
Blofeld in drag.
The faux YOLT ending.
The uniformed guards - At least they weren't color coded.
Tiffany Case changing into a bikini, on an oil rig.
Tiffany actually calling Blofeld by his first name.
Bond actually calling Tiffany a bitch.
Connery's legendary pastel pink tie.
The really horrible special effects.
Whew!
Comments
I don't go over every Bond with a fine-toothed comb. Its just something about YOLT and DAF that I really wanted to break down. I do enjoy them both. It took me about...20 minutes, but that was going back and forth watching LALD.
And no matter how camp DAF is, I still love it. I'd certainly much rather watch it than TMWTGG, or FYEO. At least it's fun.
@merseytart
Stupid wigged bimbo as the Bond girl
Plot is rubbish because its been done before (holding the world to ransom aka Thunderball)
Boring slapstick chases (through Vegas) and slapstick fights (Bambi and Thumper)
OK
Too much emphasis on comedy
Bond is too old
Only two Bond girls
One of the shorter films but it feels overlong
Ends in an unfunny joke
In the DVD commentary for that episode, Mark Gatiss says he would have liked Wint & Kidd to turn out to be like DAF - a pair of gay killers
@merseytart
And with Connery, he fails to give the impression of taking the role seriously. Also, his weight fluctuates, his eyebrows are too big, and he looks a little too old. On the plus side, the performance is as slick and witty as ever. Better than YOLT but not as good as he could do.
You have a good case, I do feel Connery's performance was just as good as his Bond heyday. Not taking it seriously sometimes appeals to me, that is an argument people use against Moore as well. I agree about John's role. It could have been really something, but for what this movie was, it was very fitting.:)
Geez, am I a Bond freak or what? it is trivial, I know.:)
First, the entire Bond/Claus Hergenshimer(sp), Dr. Metz exchange:
Metz: Who are you?! What you doing here?!
Bond/Claus: Uh, I'm Claus Hergenshimer. G Section. I'm here to check radiation shields. And you are?
Metz: Professor Doctor Metz! Our shields are fine!
Bond/Claus: It won't take me a minute. Now, Metz. How do you spell?
Metz: M, e.....Would you please leave, you irritating man?!
Bond/Claus: Now, that's no reason to belittle the little people! G Section may not be as important to the operation as yours is, but we have our orders!
Metz (After phone rings): Out, out!
Metz (After finished talking to Willard Whyte): Now would you please get out of here!
Bond/Claus: Sure. I've seen everything I need to see!
This dialogue always makes me laugh! That, and of course Metz's reaction when the real Claus Hergenshimer shows up!
I also liked this exchange when Bond first meets the real Claus Hergenshimer:
Claus (After giving Bond one of his safety shields): You can never be too careful!
Bond: Right. I feel much safer with this on!
I find this hilarious as well! As a Civil Engineer, I used to work as an inspector who used a nuclear density machine that measured the compaction density of freshly placed asphalt on roadways. I always had to wear a safety badge even though the amount of radiation released during each reading amounts to far less than a tooth x-ray! Even if the machine were to get run over, I don't know how my safety badge would have protected me from the radiation, other than it would have shown how much radiation leaked out of the machine. But it certainly wouldn't make me any safer!
Anyway, sorry for the long winded post! But if I think of any other camp moments in DAF, I'll be sure to post them.
The line: "The president I can get you to see."
Mortal Slumber. Everything about the character.
"I got a brudda!", "Small world"
Oh I love DAF, but not as a Bond film. I just love DAF because (rather like TMWTGG IMHO) it has a faded grandeur about it. It is decadent and luxurious, it is camp and comedic. It is a movie of its time.
As a Bond film, it's comparatively poor. But what it lacks in earnestness, it makes up for in sheer cartoon-based filmic abandon. Connery was over the hill at the time (that he subsequently came back from over the hill was great - although not as Bond), overweight and bored. Jill St John was woefully miscast (not even any good at the more comedic side of Ms Case) and the story was hackneyed at best. However, what there is does make for a very enjoyable tongue in cheek romp a la later Roger Moore films ...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
-- The wonderfully incompetent CIA, led by Norman Burton's wonderfully incompetent Felix. I love when the whole CIA contingent leaves -- "OK, let's hit that tunnel" -- while Bond and Whyte figure out what to do.
-- The fact that Blofeld actually puts a model Baja oil rig in Whyte's map of his empire.
-- Zambora, from "Nairobi, South Africa."
-- The whole water gun scene in Circus Circus.
-- Bond actually talking to a rat.
-- Bond twice commenting on his own invincibility, first when posing as Franks with Tiffany, then when posing as Saxby on the phone with Blofeld.
-- Whyte referring to Blofeld as "your friend with the cat."
-- Blofeld's gratuitous dissing of Kansas.
-- And my all-time favorite...Bond hugging himself in a brilliant effort to not have Franks notice him.
I could go on all day...
A harvest orange Triumph Stag
A hovercraft ... when he could have flown to Schipol in comfort!
Blofeld calls his escape pod a 'bathosub' ... numpty
Wouldn't stuff such as 'Blofeld putting his oil rig on Whyte's corporate map' just be a plot blooper? What makes stuff like that campy?
I can't believe that AMC had the audacity to cut this scene out! They did show Bond with the rat, but they cut all the dialogue out! Some people have no shame!
Talking to the rat's the best part.
Funny how Metz starts to spell his name!:))
Quoting TGO
Connery's non-matching hairpiece.
Connery's protruding gut makes its first and last appearance in a Bond movie.
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He still looks GOOD to me. this is the exact
film that was my first Connery experience, and
I fell HARD.
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Quoting TGO
The elephant at the slot machine.
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I lived in Vegas when this was filmed, and we
went to Circus Circus every weekend- and that
elephant did that EVERY DAY, on it's way
to perform.
But who could forget the glaring error of the car going through the narrow alleyway on one set of wheels and coming back out on the other side?
Uhm, that's a long story and I don't have the time to post it now. But you can call me...
I don't think that all Bond fans hate DAF for the campy aspects; some happen to find it somewhat endearing
I suppose it's the same case with DAF, too; if there's one positive aspect that stands out in the film, it's the dialogue. With DAF, if you want to actually enjoy the film you have to overlook the sketchy plot (Couldn't Blofeld find something less expensive than diamond to stick in his satellite?). I happen to find that DAF's campiness does help redeem the less appealing aspects of the film to a certain degree.
That does not count. It is the kind of stuff people wore in 1971.
The majority of Bond films are campy; it is what the series was intended to be. Why complain about one Bond film being campy when 19 of them are that way?