Talk:Diamonds Are Forever (film)

message: Do split the article, I think it benifets because when I click Diamonds Are Forever (or any Bond film) It normally starts up the top and the picture is novel and the film is halfway down.  {Broncopaul 10:04, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split the article

message: In the opening credits right when Guy Hamilton's directing credit comes up a naked women stands with a diamond in her naval but you can clearly see her right nipple although it is sort of obscured by the lighting. Didn't Cubby Broccoli say that there would never be any naughty bits shown in a James Bond movie? sorry if this doesn't quite meet standards but this is my very first post to wikipedia so please be forgiving.
:Take a close look at the woman's torso in the opening precredits when her bikini top is removed.  Look at Lana Wood being thrown out of the window into the swimming pool, while wearing see-through underwear. Very brief scenes of nudity are permitted.  They showed the bare backside of the body double getting into bed in "From Russia With Love (film)". Also please sign name in the future with 4 ~. 204.80.61.110 18:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The scene when Case and Bond are slaying on the aquarium bed in the penthouse of The Whyte House, Jill's left nipple can be seen very, very briefly when the camera angle changes and the characters change their positions. Case is lying on her back as Bond comes up over to kiss her. 12.192.184.60 (talk) 17:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nipple Showing 

message: Where did the trivia section go?!?!?!?--Carpe Diem 02:10, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the trivia? 

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I have reviewed the article, and it's overall pretty good. I have concerns, which have put this GA on hold. The intro isn't worded very clearly, try starting with Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 action adventure film. Next, the plot has grammar problems. (He fights and throw Blofeld into a pool of superheated mud.)? Fix these problems and leave a note on my talk page when you're finished, then it'll be a GA! Limetolime (talk) 17:40, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has been fixed and is now a GA. Congratulations to all who contributed!Limetolime (talk) 00:23, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What's a "GA?"  Upsmiler (talk) 14:42, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A "Good Article" - those articles deemed to have reached a sufficiently high standard: please see Good Articles for further information. -  SchroCat (^ • @) 17:49, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA review 

message: The release and reception section appears to mainly consist of summaries from recent online reviews, but has been written as if they were current at the time of the film's release. Unless anyone has information on reviews at the time then this needs to be changed. Not Josh (talk) 12:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This is a common problem for Wikipedia film articles. Web sites like Rotten Tomatoes or Chris Null's Filmcritic.com are used in the "Reception" section as if they were the critics that reviewed the movies when they were released, even when these movies were released decades before these websites were created. I don't think these newer reviews are appropriate. A movie is made for the audience at the time it is made. A movie might be dated by our standards, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a good movie when it was released. Here are a few reviews from 1971 that I have found. I will try to incorporate them into the article when I have more time, but anyone else is welcome to do so before then:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19710101/REVIEWS/101010306/1023
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877586,00.html
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/diamonds_are_forever/articles/1723811/diamonds_are_forever_doesnt_carry_the_same_quality_or_flair_as_its_many_predecessors Mmyers1976 (talk) 18:24, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release and Reception 

message: I've changed the section of the article that says Plenty O'Toole was killed by Wint and Kidd. The whole point of her death is that she was killed when mistaken for Tiffany Case, as part of the ongoing murders of people connected with the diamond-smuggling pipeline. Mr Kidd, if not Mr Wint, already knew Tiffany Case by sight (from travelling on the same aeroplane from the Netherlands to Los Angeles) so they can't have been the killers. It must have been either some other goons of Blofeld's, or even Bond himself - the primary result of Plenty's death is to convince Tiffany to join Bond, so he had most to gain. Opera hat (talk) 17:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: H'm - it seems it was Wint and Kidd after all, and they were bamboozled by a wig. Hardly plausible - but then I suppose there are more unlikely aspects of the plot! Opera hat (talk) 18:36, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plenty O'Toole's death 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Plenty O'Toole.jpg

message: "After a fight, Bond kills Blofeld by throwing him into a pool of superheated mud"
not so, he later also in For Your Eyes Only  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.104.143.228 (talk) 04:06, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't confirmed in For Your Eyes Only. They lost the rights to mention him and couldn't actually say who it was then, its only speculation on there. Even though it is obvious. Charlr6 (talk) 01:48, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blofeld not died 

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message: With the Bond 50 Blu-Ray release, all of the movies were reclassified (well re-checked to be to the BBFCs modern standards) and Diamonds Are Forever was re-rated up from a PG to a 12.
This website, which is dedicated to Bond (sure some of you reading it might have heard of it as well) mentions it in the article. But is it worth mentioning do any of you think?
Here is the link - 
Charlr6 (talk) 19:15, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this worth mentioning? 

message: Roger Moore has cited this as his favourite James Bond film - I don't know why either, I think it's dreadful! From Russia With Love in its "Reception" section states that numerous other Bond actors said that FRWL was their favourite Bond, so perhaps this deserves a mention in here?  --Andrew 15:49, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roger Moore's favourite Bond film 

message: The Adventures of Blinky Bill also has an episode named Diamonds Are Forever, though it doesn't share the plot with this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.186.6.124 (talk) 21:19, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural references

message: the first sentence of the Plot section reads: "James Bond—Agent 007—pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld out of revenge for the death of his wife, hunting down SPECTRE operatives across the world."
But there is nothing in the film's dialog to support this alleged motivation. Tracy is never mentioned, let alone her death or the marriage, nor any events from the Lazenby film. Any connection is in the mind of the viewer, not inherent in the film.
On the other hand, the very first shot is of a Japanese room with paper walls, just as seen in You Only Live Twice, where we last saw ConneryBond and Blofeld prior to the intervening Lazenby film.
This is a point much debated by Bond fans. The filmmakers seem to have decided OHMSS was a mistake and were desperate to go back to what worked for them before. Thus erasing everything that happened in the Lazenby film and returning us to the end of the last Connery film. There is visual evidence within the film (the japenese room) that Connery is continuing the pursuit of Blofeld directly following his escape from the volcano, but none that the events from OHMSS even happened.
I suggest that sentence simply state that Bond is pursuing Blofeld by hunting SPECTRE agents etc, without assigning any extra motive.
J Edward Malone (talk) 22:11, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  sequel to OHMSS? or YOLT? 

message: This doesn't make sense, and there's no good citation here. It would make sense if we're talking about Goldfinger, but not for Diamonds are Forever.
24.16.209.4 (talk) 20:26, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singing about a penis? 

message: According to our article on the original Diamonds Are Forever novel, Fleming's research for the book inspired him to write the non-fiction work, The Diamond Smugglers. In the Bond novel, the smuggling is out of Sierra Leone, but the real-life story in the later book involves smuggling from South Africa. During the 50s and 60s there were failed attempts to adapt Diamond Smugglers as a film. It's interesting to note that the smuggling location featured in the Bond film is once again South Africa. Is it know whether or not the writers took this inspiration from Fleming's Smugglers book? 70.73.90.119 (talk) 22:07, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: The Diamond Smugglers

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thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 

message: "The pool was steeped in a way that made the block move deeper with each take."  Steeped?  Sloped is the correct term.SamXT (talk) 17:45, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad English in the Filming section