He has that voice in Star Wars Lord of the Rings and Charlie and the chocolate factory as well. Thats how i recognize him. However i could not say the same about Mark Hamills voice always sounds so different.
Right, you should research Sir Christopher Lee's background. He was an incredible man. He was a real life James Bond during WWII. He's also British Royalty and a direct descendent of Charles the Magnificent and arguably, but not by line of succession could be the true King of England. I think his family left royal service by technicality during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. He was also a relative of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He had a spooky and clandestine background.
@@VickStarkiller damn me too. I know him from Jinnah, Lord of the rings, Star Wars, Dracula and Frankenstein. Btw his best friend with whom he played in Frankenstein and Dracula was also in Star wars his name was Peter Cushing.
@@TheTallMan50 my parents had a cookout a while back, and the grilled mushrooms absolutely 100% stole the show, they were fucking amazing and absolutely none were leftover after the fact
@@technoturnovers7072 Here's a mushroom recipe me and my stupid friends invented (edit: I want to include that I am also stupid, if you want to invent something new, you need to dive into stupid). Champignon mushrooms. Take the leg off. Stuff it with blue mold cheese. Wrap in bacon. Preferably cook on open fire. But can be cooked on the pan with butter. Enjoy.
He was part of the SAS during WW2. Nothing that strange overall has he was never into being quiet. He even launched some singles and EPs(most of them of the heavy metal sort) over the years.
I met Chris Lee at a horror film convention and he said that when he played scaramanga that it was a dream come true an to face rodger instead of sean but he was good friends with all the bonds and even sent Christmas cards to them
@@nsasupporter7557 Roger Moore was even more known and popular in Europe before he landed the role of Bond and even then he was still very popular in England and countries but his Bond films became popular in the US as well and what he was known more for and his tv show The Saint in the 60s.
@@nsasupporter7557 what is your point? He never said anything about who was the better bond, it's just that - as i understand him - lee thougt that sean was going to play the part but instead rodger did. And that in the end it didn't matter since the two came along very well with another.
@@nsasupporter7557 but that is just no point, why would it? Lee was a grown, very intelligent man! And as far as i know was Moore a real charm to work with other than Connery who could be quite difficult. So just because some (or almost everybody) would say that sean was the better bond, rodger may just was the better potential friend.
@@akshaynatu1084 M says “Outraged”, I guess he means that Bond can be too much of a cultured twæt when he dines, and keeps insulting the chefs for Not Being Good Enough For What He’s Paying.
1:45 I love this moment as Scaramanga just casually picks up the golden gun components as if he's about to put them away. The way the following dialogue and cinematography makes you almost forget about them afterwards. Keeping Lees hands out of shot and the conversation so casual. Up until he pulls the fully assembled weapon on bond later. I love how you only then as an audience member realise holy shit he was (without even looking as he probably knows the ins and outs of his signature weapon better than his own house) assembling the thing under the freaking table all without breaking eye contact. It's some masterful acting and directing. Including the bit prior. It's brilliant how Scaramanga raises a glass to himself and bond (a normally kind gesture) and Bond just so codly and snarkily calls him full of shit. The expression on Lees face changing from admiration to stone cold anger is just fantastic. It's that moment that makes him want to bring the gun into play. Like "oh we're gonna be insulting are we? Fine then let's cut to the fucking chase". Not many people like this film and that's fine but it's scenes like these that I think set it above some other films in the series for me. And Moore and Lee's chemistry on screen is electric ❤
I always felt like Moore never got credit for his subtle wit and jabs. I like how he can change from flippant to dead serious and how much gravity he brings when he plays it serious. Both men REALLY are the best. At acting, that is.
This is the ONE Bond film you never walk past when it’s on. What other film has: Tabasco served on a silver platter. Two stunning Swedish women. The world’s greatest car stunt. Solar energy!! A blue bath robe dropping to the floor. A V8 doing a J turn. M at his rudest and most disgruntled. Flute playing that makes you want to learn playing the instrument. Britt Eklands bum & legs, and her blonde hair leaning over you. The coolest looking gadget that you never see actually working - SOLEX. Brazen car theft followed by smashing the thing up a central divider to overtake. A whole area renamed due to the mass tourism it created. Shortest ever Bond villain. And finally… Christopher Lee 🇬🇧
Sir Christopher Lee led a fascinating life. Not only for his hundreds of credits in movies but more importantly he fought in WW2 in the unit that later became the SAS. He spoke several languages fluently. French, Italian and Spanish to name a few. And he was the step-cousin of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. In fact, Lee was one of Flemings choices to play 007. There are many more facts about Sir Christopher Lee. He was a true legend.
Roger gave Bond a moral outrage at the atrocities the villains committed and the potential for innocent lives lost. Connery gave the impression his Bond didn't give a toss as long as there was a shag at the end.
@@normanby100 Yeah, Connery's Bond is probably the least empathetic and most textbook sociopathic of all the Bonds. Aside from his reaction to the death of Kerim Bey in FRWL and the moment of him shaking as he tells Domino about her brother's death in Thunderball, there aren't many moments of him showing much of any emotional vulnerability in his movies. For as much as I love Sean in the role, I do think this is one area where all his succeeding Bond actors have outdone him (even Lazenby).
@@Whoa802to be fair, looking at the films as an adult, Connery’s interpretation of Bond did care, but he was very laser-focused on the mission and had a sharp poker face. You really had to look very hard whenever he was angry that something terrible had happened to someone.
"There's a useful four letter word, and you're full of it..." What a classic. Only Bond would have the wit and British humor to put it that way. I love how Roger Moore can change is facial expression very quickly to go from humor to a very serious tone... almost menacing.
And I think what happens is when you see someone very old, and then you see footage of them from earlier, they look much younger in that footage. But if you only knew them when they were teenagers, and then you saw them in a scene like this, you would be like, wow they are so old, they are like dads.
Christopher Lee was fit as a fiddle until he had a fall in 2011. He looked very frail in every appearance after that. Crazy how something we can brush off in our younger years becomes life changing in old age.
Christopher Lee as Scaramanga is what Bond would be if he fell to the dark side. Christopher Lee as Saruman is what Gandalf would be if he fell to dark side. Christopher Lee as Count Dooku is what Kenobi would be if he fell to the dark side. Christopher Lee was just fantastic at portraying the dark version of heroes.
Man, Scaramanga is THE anti-Bond. The fact he beat Bond to it with the Golden Gun shows how dang deadly he is. If ONLY he took the opportunity and fired. I loved his infamously powerful weapon in Goldeneye 007. RIP Christopher Lee, as well as Roger Moore.
@LITTLE: the Golden-Gun is a combination of a cigarette-case, lighter, cufflink, and pen. (It might have some-other-stuff but I don't remember them right-now). When Scaramanga took his cigarette-case and pen and lighter he automatically-began reassembling them into his Golden Gun underneath the table while still-talking to Bond. Talking to Bond was a distraction. He does the same thing to Hi Fat, a Asian businessman who had [earlier in the movie] employed Scaramanga [to kill someone for him]. Hehe, Scaramanga even assembled the final-piece (ie. Screwing the pen into "where the barrel of the gun would go") in front of Hi Fat with Hi-Fat's face facing Scaramanga and Hi-Fat didn't even realize what he (ie. Scaramanga) was doing until he (ie. Scaramanga) pointed the gun at him. ua-cam.com/video/NoemQ3uz890/v-deo.html
Sorry... The second one... The first gun is the Gold PP7 (aka Golden Walther PPK). Seven bullets in sequence with one-hit K.O. vs one bullet with one-hit K.O and reload...
@@reoencarcelado5904 Yes I think you’re right about the components. The cigar(ette)-case is the maon handle. The lighter is the “upper” part of the gun (also the part where Scaramanga puts in his golden bullets one at a time). The pen is the barrel. The cufflink is the trigger. :)
@@a.n.9090 Yes, that one is superior, but I wasn't counting the Gold PP7 because that version is one Scaramanga never himself owned, film nor novel. But his line in 2:49 is ironically referencing that.
Scaramanga is my favorite Bond villain! He's 5 steps ahead of Bond the entire movie, leaving Bond in the dust... Scaramanga dismantled Bond at that table so effectively and also got his gun assembled before Bond could grab his own... Not to mention that earlier, when Bond thinks he has Scaramanga trapped, Scaramanga attaches wings to his car and flies away! That is something Bond would have done, but it's being done to him! Also the fact that Christopher Lee plays him is another added bonus
@@Horwellston First time I heard this line I playfully speculated that Goodnight was referring to the mushroom shaped rock, housing the solar panels which I'm sure Scaramanga had bragged about to her earlier, when he gave her a guided tour.
Roger may not have been the most physically imposing or outwardly intense actor to have played Bond, but he delivers all his icy, cold-blooded dialogue here perfectly. His performance as a whole in this film shows that he was perfectly capable at playing a harder-edged, more Fleming-esque Bond if given the chance, it just wasn't what audiences wanted at the time. It's fine if you don't like his portrayal, but don't blame him for supposedly turning Bond into a joke.
what is wrong with you people? half of all the actors in the UA-cam movie videos are already dead. this is no reason to turn comments into a graveyard. if you think otherwise, apply the math. every year, the percentage of dead actors increases. do you suggest that people should end up writing RIP in every comment?
Lunch, dinner, sometimes just a cup. Only one person dies at their own table. While someone's henchmen gets killed after a shot of Scotch and a shooting match. Ice tea with a mad man obsessed with the love of a rare resource. Nearly killed on the deck, only to kill the assailants, and overboard. A bottle nearly going to be used to bash someone with. Suspecting choice of wine to going with their fish. Invited over, with shark like creatures in a pool. Champagne in the day while meeting a CEO of the company broken into. Must I go on?
@@patprabha7860 He has a strong case for being the best for sure. He has lazy journalism (bla bla raised eyebrow, bla bla tongue in cheek) and his own self deprecation going against him though. But he nailed it for me. His more famous humorous scenes he absolutely nailed, but the dramatic stuff, he nailed that too!
@@pjosepha , this scene, of Moore’s Bond palpable dislike and disgust for Scaramanga, reminds me of his relationship with Zorin. He is repulsed. A joy to watch. And Scaramanga’s comments regarding the Queen’s hearty well-done and Bond’s pittance of a pension remind me of Trevelyan’s and Silva’s conversations with Bond. Villains who are like twisted versions of 007 are, to me, very interesting. Another example is Franz Sanchez.
And note the reaction shot! It's not easy to deliberately let your poker face slip, on cue. Too subtle, and it doesn't show; too grandiose, and it looks hammy. Lee absolutely nailed Scaramanga's reaction.
@@ToABrighterFuture , indeed! You’re right! Lee was, as usual, brilliant here. He let Scaramanga briefly show the anger which was brewing inside after Bond’s insult.
Scaramanga is so genial and charming until 2:03 He becomes deadly earnest and the intensity in his eyes is chilling. I'm sure he brought Roger Moore's game up considerably.
I had to watch this scene closely to see that within seconds, working under the table and all the while looking at Bond, Scaramanga assembled his personal items into his golden gun. We are talking about some serious and deadly skills, people. . .
His skills are actually supposedly better than Bond's and let's not forget that before the events of the movie he already killed another 00 Agent - 002.
I don't think anyone could have played Scaramanga better. He's a underrated villain in the series though, a lot of people didn't like the movie but it's one of my favourite's its certainly better than most of the crap they put out in recent years.
It's 10x better than most movies these days. The people and technology were less complex but they found something that was interesting and compelling. They were in touch with human reality.
The gist of the criticism is that there's not much that's done well outside of the main characters and that the story's too basic. But I think the simple story of James Bond and Fransisco Scaramanga hunting each other down works very well when the latter's one of the best Bond villains ever. It's enough to keep my attention regardless of whatever bad happens around it. The hero and villain just interact so brilliantly together.
"There's a useful four-letter word, and you're full of it. " Best line from Bond if there ever was one. He knew Scaramanga was full of shit even though he was was every much of a killer as he was. Scaramanga overextended himself look where it got him. He was a hunter who got hunted. What irony !
I love the fact that these two hitmen, one formerly a government hitman and obviously Bond still is a government hitman, have this small bit of diplomacy and respect for one another, even in talks of killing each other. It just shows that English class of elegance and professionalism they have towards their “trade” so to speak. I guess that just comes with years of doing it over and over it’s that numbing effect to it.
what's so great about roger moore is his ability to perfectly convey jocularity and dead seriousness/earnestness and also seamlessly go between them on demand. Because ultimately, he is on serious business, nothing small about saving the world. 🥰
These two are a classic case of " Game recognize game " . An expert will always notice another expert. Hector notice Archilles and told the council that evening " today I saw a man throw a spear like never before "
As a kid these films were spectacles, just pure blockbusters to enjoy, nothing comes close these days. 70s and early 80s were the pinnacle of film in my opinion.
That period definitely made a lot of movies that are now considered classics. The New Hollywood era at the beginning and the Star Wars era ending it as we went into the blockbusters of the 1980s.
Good to see that this banquet is actually enjoyed : so many films with these food sequences / dialogue between the antagonists seem to end with little or no nosh being consumed . Love that Bond although largely polite (but knowing he is at a disadvantage) is unwilling to accept S's glorification of either of them . (side note to ALL Bond villains : if you have the "ridiculously easy" option then go for it !! )
I feel like this is definitely one of the more underrated bond film in my mind. A lot of the Bond films present a character meant to be like, Bond's "equal," but Christopher Lee as Scaramanga is easily my favorite.
Daniel Craig should have to live a thousand lives just to aspire to imitate Roger Moore as Bond. That's what was charming about going to the cinema in the old times to watch a new Bond movie. An encounter with class, coolness, intrigue, luxury scenarios. Oh my God, I understand times have to change, but please, no so fast as before we get old our own world seems gone for ever...
Really great film which is so underrated. Love Sir Christopher Lee. It's one of the few bond films I love rewatching over and over again. Perfect? No. Enjoyable? Absolutely.
In Loving Memories Of Three James Bond Characters of 1. Sean Connery as James Bond 007 (1930 - 2020) 2. Roger Moore as James Bond 007 (1927 - 2017) 3. Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga (1922 - 2015)
Fun fact...... Lee's cousin was Ian Fleming, the writer of the Bond books. He has also been of stage,screen and tv productions which puts him in Guinness World records
This scene is so surreal. Even down to Bond commenting on the wine and saying 'slightly reminiscent of a '34 Mouton' and Scaramanga replying 'then I must add it to my cellar' whipping out a pen to write it down. Rather like two men in a London club discussing great vintages. But the best line is Bond's response to Scaramanga's toast about the two of them being 'the best' - 'there's a useful four letter word and you're full of it'. Classic and delivered by Moore with malevolent contempt!
I like how this scene is both utterly ridiculous and cool as hell at the same time. Christopher Lee and James Bond throw insults at each other with a woman in a bikini named Goodnight and a little person manservant called Nick Nack bringing everyone mushrooms and wine. Yet, it’s so damn cool
Fun fact: Christopher Lee (The person who plays Count Dooku. (Star wars.) Saruman (Lord of the rings.) And Scaramanga (The man with the golden gun)) Was a step cousin to Ian Fleming. Who wrote the James Bond books. And Christopher was the inspiration to Bond. So Lee is James Bond.
Both Lee and Moore offer masterful performances that are classy and revelatory of their worldliness and connoisseurship, eg. '34 Mouton . A joy to watch and emulate !
Way back in 2006 I believe, me and my family was on a vacation in Thailand and we paid a visit to the Island where they filmed those scenes and beaches. it was and organized trip with a Guide. The way they ended it was perfect. The bus would drop people off at their respective hotels, during the trip back with our hotel being the last stop, they played this movie on the monitors perfectly in sync with the travel time being 2hrs 5min. I was probably between the age of 12-14 at the time. And I watched the entire movie while literally the only ones who were awake was me, the drive.....would've been a disaster if he slept behind the wheel lolz.. and the guide.
I love Christopher Lee’s voice. Deep and booming, but also reserved and gentlemanly. Sarcastic and noble at the same time.
He has that voice in Star Wars Lord of the Rings and Charlie and the chocolate factory as well. Thats how i recognize him. However i could not say the same about Mark Hamills voice always sounds so different.
That is the biggest sin of the prequel trilogy. There wasn't enough Christopher Lee.
Roger's voice wasn't bad either
@@masterm537 a man of culture i see.
And always ready to spill the blood of the Saxon men.
Christopher Lee’s performance as Scaramanga is brilliant. You can tell he had fun with his role as a Bond villain.
Right, you should research Sir Christopher Lee's background. He was an incredible man. He was a real life James Bond during WWII. He's also British Royalty and a direct descendent of Charles the Magnificent and arguably, but not by line of succession could be the true King of England. I think his family left royal service by technicality during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. He was also a relative of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He had a spooky and clandestine background.
@@avrrojas84 they mentioned Christopher Lee’s time in the British Army in a lord of the rings dvd featurette.
@@lukedaley17 really! I will check it out! Thanks!
@@avrrojas84I also think he knew Sir Ian Fleming in real life.
As brilliant as Christopher Lee was, I still think Jack Palance would have been better.
“I like a girl in a bikini, no concealed weapons”
Man, what a line.
He’d be surprised.
Skaramanga is a fool. A girl in a bikini is the weapon.
Well said sir!! Well said!!
why? There is only one place a woman could hide a concealed weapon...bikini or not.
@@erepsekahs i think the place you're thinking of technically is the weapon lol
“You disappoint me”
He loves that line in movies lol
It's funny you say this cause I immediately thought of him taunting Obi-Wan with that same line.
@@VickStarkiller literally my first thought too😂
@@VickStarkiller damn me too. I know him from Jinnah, Lord of the rings, Star Wars, Dracula and Frankenstein. Btw his best friend with whom he played in Frankenstein and Dracula was also in Star wars his name was Peter Cushing.
007 you disappoint me. Q holds you in such high regards
@@AzguardMike Surely You Can Dot Better
"I accept...as soon as I finish this delicious lunch that Nick Nack has prepared for us."
James Bond always has his priorities straight.
To be fair, that actually does look like a fantastic lunch. If someone challenged me to a duel to the death, I would have said the same thing.
He knew that he’d been had.
Well seeing as they'll be engaging in a duel, let the amazingly fine lunch be as a last meal.
bond did it to talk his way out of not being instantly shot
Yes, lunch. Not dinner (as in the caption)
I love how Bond casually goes back to his lunch after accepting a deathmatch.
Never go out hungry.
It's the fried mushrooms delectably prepared by a Frenchman. Who could resist?
@@TheTallMan50 my parents had a cookout a while back, and the grilled mushrooms absolutely 100% stole the show, they were fucking amazing and absolutely none were leftover after the fact
@@technoturnovers7072 See what I mean?
@@technoturnovers7072 Here's a mushroom recipe me and my stupid friends invented (edit: I want to include that I am also stupid, if you want to invent something new, you need to dive into stupid). Champignon mushrooms. Take the leg off. Stuff it with blue mold cheese. Wrap in bacon. Preferably cook on open fire. But can be cooked on the pan with butter. Enjoy.
Sir Christopher Lee : a true gentleman with distinction and class .
I didnt know it was really him!!
Perhaps the best villain ever
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
He was part of the SAS during WW2. Nothing that strange overall has he was never into being quiet. He even launched some singles and EPs(most of them of the heavy metal sort) over the years.
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I like the way Bond puts off the duel until after lunch. Never duel on an empty stomach, as my mum used to keep telling me!
I met Chris Lee at a horror film convention and he said that when he played scaramanga that it was a dream come true an to face rodger instead of sean but he was good friends with all the bonds and even sent Christmas cards to them
I find that hard to believe since everybody (generally) thinks Sean Connery was the best Bond. Moore didn’t become an icon like Connery did either
@@nsasupporter7557 Roger Moore was even more known and popular in Europe before he landed the role of Bond and even then he was still very popular in England and countries but his Bond films became popular in the US as well and what he was known more for and his tv show The Saint in the 60s.
@@nsasupporter7557 what is your point? He never said anything about who was the better bond, it's just that - as i understand him - lee thougt that sean was going to play the part but instead rodger did. And that in the end it didn't matter since the two came along very well with another.
@@zitronenfalte my point is it’s just weird hearing someone say that it’s more of a dream come true to meet Roger Moore over Sean Connery
@@nsasupporter7557 but that is just no point, why would it? Lee was a grown, very intelligent man! And as far as i know was Moore a real charm to work with other than Connery who could be quite difficult. So just because some (or almost everybody) would say that sean was the better bond, rodger may just was the better potential friend.
Bond: "Who would want to kill me?"
M: "Jealous husbands...outraged chefs...humiliated tailors...the list is endless."
Yep, at the start of the movie.
@@akshaynatu1084 M says “Outraged”, I guess he means that Bond can be too much of a cultured twæt when he dines, and keeps insulting the chefs for Not Being Good Enough For What He’s Paying.
"James Bond does not drive a Ford, sir." - Lee Iacocca
"That's because he's a degenerate." - Henry Ford II
Why tailors would be humiliated ..?
@@MrHzi Bond presumably excoriated them when he had measurements taken and they produced ill-fitting affairs at subsequent fittings.
1:45 I love this moment as Scaramanga just casually picks up the golden gun components as if he's about to put them away. The way the following dialogue and cinematography makes you almost forget about them afterwards. Keeping Lees hands out of shot and the conversation so casual. Up until he pulls the fully assembled weapon on bond later. I love how you only then as an audience member realise holy shit he was (without even looking as he probably knows the ins and outs of his signature weapon better than his own house) assembling the thing under the freaking table all without breaking eye contact. It's some masterful acting and directing.
Including the bit prior. It's brilliant how Scaramanga raises a glass to himself and bond (a normally kind gesture) and Bond just so codly and snarkily calls him full of shit. The expression on Lees face changing from admiration to stone cold anger is just fantastic. It's that moment that makes him want to bring the gun into play. Like "oh we're gonna be insulting are we? Fine then let's cut to the fucking chase".
Not many people like this film and that's fine but it's scenes like these that I think set it above some other films in the series for me. And Moore and Lee's chemistry on screen is electric ❤
I always felt like Moore never got credit for his subtle wit and jabs. I like how he can change from flippant to dead serious and how much gravity he brings when he plays it serious. Both men REALLY are the best. At acting, that is.
I always thought it funny that he secretly assembles the gun under the table but its a glass table 😂 I guess Bond couldn't see from there
This is the ONE Bond film you never walk past when it’s on. What other film has:
Tabasco served on a silver platter.
Two stunning Swedish women.
The world’s greatest car stunt.
Solar energy!!
A blue bath robe dropping to the floor.
A V8 doing a J turn.
M at his rudest and most disgruntled.
Flute playing that makes you want to learn playing the instrument.
Britt Eklands bum & legs, and her blonde hair leaning over you.
The coolest looking gadget that you never see actually working - SOLEX.
Brazen car theft followed by smashing the thing up a central divider to overtake.
A whole area renamed due to the mass tourism it created.
Shortest ever Bond villain.
And finally… Christopher Lee 🇬🇧
Sir Christopher Lee led a fascinating life. Not only for his hundreds of credits in movies but more importantly he fought in WW2 in the unit that later became the SAS.
He spoke several languages fluently. French, Italian and Spanish to name a few. And he was the step-cousin of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. In fact, Lee was one of Flemings choices to play 007.
There are many more facts about Sir Christopher Lee. He was a true legend.
Fleming wanted Lee to portray Dr. No, not Bond.
It's indeed nice to know that he was his step-cousin. I read that a few years ago somewhere but I didn't remember it.
His war record appears to be mostly made up and has been largely discredited since his death.
Don't forget the metal band he sang for.
That's why he deserves to be the man with the golden gun!
Each Bond actor has his strengths, Rogers was coolness beyond belief, strikingly handsome and incredibly polite, even when threatening to kill you!
That's why he was my favorite..
Roger gave Bond a moral outrage at the atrocities the villains committed and the potential for innocent lives lost. Connery gave the impression his Bond didn't give a toss as long as there was a shag at the end.
@@normanby100 Yeah, Connery's Bond is probably the least empathetic and most textbook sociopathic of all the Bonds. Aside from his reaction to the death of Kerim Bey in FRWL and the moment of him shaking as he tells Domino about her brother's death in Thunderball, there aren't many moments of him showing much of any emotional vulnerability in his movies. For as much as I love Sean in the role, I do think this is one area where all his succeeding Bond actors have outdone him (even Lazenby).
@@Whoa802to be fair, looking at the films as an adult, Connery’s interpretation of Bond did care, but he was very laser-focused on the mission and had a sharp poker face. You really had to look very hard whenever he was angry that something terrible had happened to someone.
Must be a cultural thing. I look at Moore's Bond character as wimpy and pretentious.
"There's a useful four letter word, and you're full of it..." What a classic. Only Bond would have the wit and British humor to put it that way. I love how Roger Moore can change is facial expression very quickly to go from humor to a very serious tone... almost menacing.
Timothy Dalton uses a similar retort in The Living Daylights to the villain: "we have an old saying too, Jorgi... and you're full of it."
It also shows how the bad guy's "we're not so different, you and I" speech was already a cliche all the way back in 1974.
Even though both Moore and Lee were well into maturity at the time, it's striking how young they looked in this scene compared to their last years.
It's that dastardly 50 marker; ageing goes into overdrive.
@@doug6500 Really? I am 48. Is everything going to fall apart in just over a year?
And I think what happens is when you see someone very old, and then you see footage of them from earlier, they look much younger in that footage. But if you only knew them when they were teenagers, and then you saw them in a scene like this, you would be like, wow they are so old, they are like dads.
@@SparkTheGenius More or less, yeah.
Christopher Lee was fit as a fiddle until he had a fall in 2011. He looked very frail in every appearance after that. Crazy how something we can brush off in our younger years becomes life changing in old age.
Christopher Lee as Scaramanga is what Bond would be if he fell to the dark side.
Christopher Lee as Saruman is what Gandalf would be if he fell to dark side.
Christopher Lee as Count Dooku is what Kenobi would be if he fell to the dark side.
Christopher Lee was just fantastic at portraying the dark version of heroes.
Christopher Lee as Ansem the Wise is what everyone *will* be because he effectively *created* the dark side. ;P
@@UltimaKeyMaster
And Ansem redeemed and for once became a good guy
"It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the words but by our skills with the guns".
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This quote is from Count Dooku, not Scaramanga.
But the fun fact is Christopher Lee played both of them.
scalimanger: I only need one bullet
007: good, twice the pride, double the fall
*gunshot*
scalimanger: i think not, Mr Bond
Man, Scaramanga is THE anti-Bond. The fact he beat Bond to it with the Golden Gun shows how dang deadly he is. If ONLY he took the opportunity and fired. I loved his infamously powerful weapon in Goldeneye 007.
RIP Christopher Lee, as well as Roger Moore.
@LITTLE:
the Golden-Gun is a combination of a cigarette-case, lighter, cufflink, and pen. (It might have some-other-stuff but I don't remember them right-now).
When Scaramanga took his cigarette-case and pen and lighter he automatically-began reassembling them into his Golden Gun underneath the table while still-talking to Bond. Talking to Bond was a distraction.
He does the same thing to Hi Fat, a Asian businessman who had [earlier in the movie] employed Scaramanga [to kill someone for him].
Hehe, Scaramanga even assembled the final-piece (ie. Screwing the pen into "where the barrel of the gun would go") in front of Hi Fat with Hi-Fat's face facing Scaramanga and Hi-Fat didn't even realize what he (ie. Scaramanga) was doing until he (ie. Scaramanga) pointed the gun at him.
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Sorry... The second one... The first gun is the Gold PP7 (aka Golden Walther PPK). Seven bullets in sequence with one-hit K.O. vs one bullet with one-hit K.O and reload...
@@reoencarcelado5904 Yes I think you’re right about the components. The cigar(ette)-case is the maon handle. The lighter is the “upper” part of the gun (also the part where Scaramanga puts in his golden bullets one at a time). The pen is the barrel. The cufflink is the trigger. :)
@@a.n.9090 Yes, that one is superior, but I wasn't counting the Gold PP7 because that version is one Scaramanga never himself owned, film nor novel.
But his line in 2:49 is ironically referencing that.
Scaramanga is my favorite Bond villain! He's 5 steps ahead of Bond the entire movie, leaving Bond in the dust... Scaramanga dismantled Bond at that table so effectively and also got his gun assembled before Bond could grab his own... Not to mention that earlier, when Bond thinks he has Scaramanga trapped, Scaramanga attaches wings to his car and flies away! That is something Bond would have done, but it's being done to him! Also the fact that Christopher Lee plays him is another added bonus
A very under appreciated scene. Lots of great dialogue here.
Not bad acting either.
Good timing and some genuine chemistry between the actors.
@@Marvin-dg8vj are y’all smoking crack
@@nickh2935 hehehe. They were eating some mushrooms themselves. Yes yes. Let's get back to this lovely lunch which has been prepared for us. Gripping.
I always hated that strange bit where James says he noticed the mushrooms; he hardly looks at them.
@@Horwellston First time I heard this line I playfully speculated that Goodnight was referring to the mushroom shaped rock, housing the solar panels which I'm sure Scaramanga had bragged about to her earlier, when he gave her a guided tour.
My, the dinner conversation took a bad turn after the mushrooms were served.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
Flower for fire power, a star or a leaf to make you fly.
Happens all the time when Bond and the Bond Villain have dinner.
lol, goes to show what mushrooms can do
That's vegetarians for you. Too uptight.
Classic stuff! Christopher Lee was so suave and charismatic.
Roger may not have been the most physically imposing or outwardly intense actor to have played Bond, but he delivers all his icy, cold-blooded dialogue here perfectly. His performance as a whole in this film shows that he was perfectly capable at playing a harder-edged, more Fleming-esque Bond if given the chance, it just wasn't what audiences wanted at the time. It's fine if you don't like his portrayal, but don't blame him for supposedly turning Bond into a joke.
Case in point: _For Your Eyes Only,_ which had a much more down-to-earth plot and began with Moore's Bond dropping Blofeld from a helicopter.
The way Christopher Lee's eyes light up when Bond accepted the duel is delicious. RIP legends.
what is wrong with you people? half of all the actors in the UA-cam movie videos are already dead. this is no reason to turn comments into a graveyard. if you think otherwise, apply the math. every year, the percentage of dead actors increases. do you suggest that people should end up writing RIP in every comment?
Not as delicious as those fried mushrooms knick knack has prepared.
Well Spotted Andre
@@williamblake7386Yes. Anyway, RIP legends.
I miss dinner scenes in Bond movies.
This is lunch
Every time Bond has dinner (or lunch) with a villain, he always disappoints his host in some way
@@markiveson-cursedhorrorman6716 You'd think he'd have learned by now.
Lunch, dinner, sometimes just a cup. Only one person dies at their own table. While someone's henchmen gets killed after a shot of Scotch and a shooting match. Ice tea with a mad man obsessed with the love of a rare resource. Nearly killed on the deck, only to kill the assailants, and overboard. A bottle nearly going to be used to bash someone with. Suspecting choice of wine to going with their fish. Invited over, with shark like creatures in a pool. Champagne in the day while meeting a CEO of the company broken into. Must I go on?
One of the best moments of Roger's bond.
I 100% agree
I wish they stayed with this version of Moore's Bond, a little edgy and serious.
@@panzerriff He had his moments after this though, like with Locque, Orlov and Zorin.
Roger Moore was by far the best all around Bond’s character
@@patprabha7860 He has a strong case for being the best for sure. He has lazy journalism (bla bla raised eyebrow, bla bla tongue in cheek) and his own self deprecation going against him though. But he nailed it for me. His more famous humorous scenes he absolutely nailed, but the dramatic stuff, he nailed that too!
Christopher Lee was a brilliant actor. He layered Scaramanga much like he imbued many layers to Count Dooku
You spelt Dracula wrong.
@@ivorbiggun710
He meant Dooku (Star Wars)
“I doubt if you qualify on that score.”
Oooooh, burn!
Dark bond. Roger Moore still being Sean Connery bond. I like it😂😂😂
@@pjosepha , this scene, of Moore’s Bond palpable dislike and disgust for Scaramanga, reminds me of his relationship with Zorin. He is repulsed. A joy to watch. And Scaramanga’s comments regarding the Queen’s hearty well-done and Bond’s pittance of a pension remind me of Trevelyan’s and Silva’s conversations with Bond. Villains who are like twisted versions of 007 are, to me, very interesting. Another example is Franz Sanchez.
@@JWBabaYaga Bond secretly admired Sanchez, to the point he wore the same outfit as him at the end of TWINE and again in NTTD
And note the reaction shot!
It's not easy to deliberately let your poker face slip, on cue. Too subtle, and it doesn't show; too grandiose, and it looks hammy.
Lee absolutely nailed Scaramanga's reaction.
@@ToABrighterFuture , indeed! You’re right! Lee was, as usual, brilliant here. He let Scaramanga briefly show the anger which was brewing inside after Bond’s insult.
Scaramanga is so genial and charming until 2:03
He becomes deadly earnest and the intensity in his eyes is chilling.
I'm sure he brought Roger Moore's game up considerably.
He is the star of this film.
hi good morning
1:45 Scaramanga was smart enough to start assembling his golden gun when Bond's mood changed. He saw the writing on the wall and knew it was go time.
I had to watch this scene closely to see that within seconds, working under the table and all the while looking at Bond, Scaramanga assembled his personal items into his golden gun.
We are talking about some serious and deadly skills, people. . .
As usual the special effects team .
S great because you don't even think about it until he pulls the gun
His skills are actually supposedly better than Bond's and let's not forget that before the events of the movie he already killed another 00 Agent - 002.
Legends that are gone.
I don't think anyone could have played Scaramanga better. He's a underrated villain in the series though, a lot of people didn't like the movie but it's one of my favourite's its certainly better than most of the crap they put out in recent years.
It's 10x better than most movies these days. The people and technology were less complex but they found something that was interesting and compelling. They were in touch with human reality.
Today it's all about gimmicks- they work out the most ridiculous stunts and then hand it over to the pixel guys to complete it.
I totally agree. We haven't had a decent villain since Max Zorin.
@@lordtherapeutics I disagree. Sanchez was amazing, as was Trevelyan, Le Chiffre & Silva were great after that.
@CursoryMercenary agreed all fantastic !
'Then I must add it to my cellar' - such a subtle flex about who he thinks will survive this meeting
This scene is just so iconic, I love everything about it
For some reason this scene always sticks out to me, I was about 5ish years old when I saw it and thought Scaramanga was one scary dude lol
0:45 - The man had a gold iPhone back in the 70's. He was indeed ahead of its time.
It's a cigarette pouch.
@@Cafearmuire Case. A pouch would be fabric.
Both Lee and Moore have deep voices and both speak with perfect clarity. What a contrast with today's actors who mumble their lines.
Well to be fair sometimes that's do to the sound mix as well .
No one speaks better than Sylvester Stallone... perfect voice, pitch and clarity
This film gets pretty slated by some fans yet, as a friend once said, it can't be bad if everyone remembers everything about it.
Back when the villains and henchmen were still good. Even the minor characters helped carry this one to be memorable.
The gist of the criticism is that there's not much that's done well outside of the main characters and that the story's too basic. But I think the simple story of James Bond and Fransisco Scaramanga hunting each other down works very well when the latter's one of the best Bond villains ever. It's enough to keep my attention regardless of whatever bad happens around it. The hero and villain just interact so brilliantly together.
My favorite Moore Bond
Scaramanga had the coolest house.
My first impressions also. He must have had visitors every other day judging by the wine storage frame.
@@terrythekittieful That short person committed suicide in 1993. 😟😟😟
Until Goodnight raised the temperature slightly 😀
Agreed.
Amazing house.
“I like a girl in a bikini, no concealed weapons.”
Yeah & as an added bonus, some eye candy! XD
You can’t kill someone on a empty stomach!
Bond is a very sensible man 👍
6 bullets to your one?
I only need one.
Epic line
Very epic. Scaramanga is badass.
I'll always remember his sardonic comment.
"What do they teach in that school? Ballet dancing?"
Morning beach walk. Breakfast with the kids, Sunday lunch and Man with the Golden Gun. That's my Father's day sorted.
"There's a useful four-letter word, and you're full of it. " Best line from Bond if there ever was one. He knew Scaramanga was full of shit even though he was was every much of a killer as he was. Scaramanga overextended himself look where it got him. He was a hunter who got hunted. What irony !
Dalton's Bond also said the same thing to Koskov in the airplane: "We have an old saying too, and you're full of it!".
its a line i use in discussions
Christopher Lee still looks like Count Dracula...missing his fangs😂😂😂.
"There is a useful four letter word and you're full of it." Now that's smooth
Two masterful actors !!! Brilliant performances !!!
"There's a useful four letter word. And you're full of it." Pure, unadulterated class👏👏
I love the fact that these two hitmen, one formerly a government hitman and obviously Bond still is a government hitman, have this small bit of diplomacy and respect for one another, even in talks of killing each other. It just shows that English class of elegance and professionalism they have towards their “trade” so to speak. I guess that just comes with years of doing it over and over it’s that numbing effect to it.
Scaramanga seemed to have rather more respect for Bond than the other way round I feel. Bond shat on his parade several times in that scene.
One of the most iconic Bond scenes of all time!
what's so great about roger moore is his ability to perfectly convey jocularity and dead seriousness/earnestness and also seamlessly go between them on demand. Because ultimately, he is on serious business, nothing small about saving the world. 🥰
Best ever 007 movie. 👋 👍
These clever and cool conversations are actually the best part of 007.
Sir Christopher Lee….awesome villain played by an awesome actor!
These two are a classic case of " Game recognize game " . An expert will always notice another expert. Hector notice Archilles and told the council that evening " today I saw a man throw a spear like never before "
1:42 Master Kenobi, you disappoint me
1:43
"Your sword.. I mean, gun.. please."
This was a great Bond Film
May not be the best Bond film, but definitely one of the best villains
As a kid these films were spectacles, just pure blockbusters to enjoy, nothing comes close these days. 70s and early 80s were the pinnacle of film in my opinion.
Not just early 80s, the whole 80s were the pinnacle of film
I don't think the 80's were that good. At least not better than earlier decades.
That period definitely made a lot of movies that are now considered classics. The New Hollywood era at the beginning and the Star Wars era ending it as we went into the blockbusters of the 1980s.
"There's a useful four letter word, and you're full of it." Ooh, snap.
Scaramanga doesn't need an army of henchmen. He's got confidence and skills.
But Bond was clever and just as deadly.
Well with a gun that kills instantly, skills he acquired over the years, what reason would he need an army of his own?
Sir Christopher Lee looks undeniably handsome in his young era...and obviously charming in his old time 👍🏻👍🏻😊.
Perhaps, but he could have certainly benefitted from the services of a good orthodontist.
3:19 Bond accepts a duel to the death and then calmly goes back to eating his lunch 😅😎
I know, love that bit!
The gentleman way lol
can't duel to the death on an empty stomach
GAWD BLESS the Brits! Such style and charm! Had a British girlfriend and even when she cursed at me, it was classy and sexy.
007 Style One Min your Challenging your Adversary with a Pistol Aimed in your Direction & the Next Eating Nick-Nack's Mushroom Oriented Lunch.
I love all of the 70s interiors and furniture in this film!
Christopher Lee preformed his own stunts at age 79 in Star Wars.
@killwill83 full of the joys of life ain't ya fella
@killwill83 Sounds like the only one offended is you, getting all defensive over your comment lol
Good to see that this banquet is actually enjoyed : so many films with these food sequences / dialogue between the antagonists seem to end with little or no nosh being consumed . Love that Bond although largely polite (but knowing he is at a disadvantage) is unwilling to accept S's glorification of either of them . (side note to ALL Bond villains : if you have the "ridiculously easy" option then go for it !! )
Great scene. Makes me want to watch the whole film again. Thanks for the upload.
The fried mushroom looks terribly interesting.
'You disappoint me', classic Lee lol
Roger moore had such a great voice
Scaramanga and Nick Nack loved good food. Fried mushrooms with mayonnaise were Scaramanga's favorite dish.
I could stay here forever...
What do you think her time was like on the island
I feel like this is definitely one of the more underrated bond film in my mind. A lot of the Bond films present a character meant to be like, Bond's "equal," but Christopher Lee as Scaramanga is easily my favorite.
Daniel Craig should have to live a thousand lives just to aspire to imitate Roger Moore as Bond. That's what was charming about going to the cinema in the old times to watch a new Bond movie. An encounter with class, coolness, intrigue, luxury scenarios. Oh my God, I understand times have to change, but please, no so fast as before we get old our own world seems gone for ever...
I couldn’t agree more
“Having fun in the sun, goodnight?” 😊
This is one of the best scenes of Roger Moore's Bond❤ Great memories ❤❤❤
Roger Moore’s Bond was definitely one of or possibly the best Bond films to date
Really great film which is so underrated. Love Sir Christopher Lee. It's one of the few bond films I love rewatching over and over again. Perfect? No. Enjoyable? Absolutely.
Watching this reminds me of playing N64's Goldeneye in multiplayer mode with "Man With The Golden Gun" setting on. Happy days, indeed...
Yeah, Goldeneye and Perfect Dark are fun times with the mighty weapon. Lol
Britt Ekland, a bit overdressed. I understand why Peter Sellers was crazy for her.
Rather scrawny.
Miss Goodnight is the dessert !!! I guess...😍😛😛😛😝😝
In Loving Memories Of Three James Bond Characters of
1. Sean Connery as James Bond 007 (1930 - 2020)
2. Roger Moore as James Bond 007 (1927 - 2017)
3. Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga (1922 - 2015)
You forgot Desmond Llewelyn as Q and Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny.
4. Sadly, Nick Nack is gone also.
Hervé Villechaize
One cant help but start to feel old, when more and more of your favorite actors are dead :'-(
Did you forgot a few „Sir‘s“ before the names?
Sean Connery was the youngest? 😳
Roger's Bond seemed like a British version of Paul Newman, the oddly perfect blend of mischief and maturity.
Fun fact......
Lee's cousin was Ian Fleming, the writer of the Bond books.
He has also been of stage,screen and tv productions which puts him in Guinness World records
This scene is so surreal. Even down to Bond commenting on the wine and saying 'slightly reminiscent of a '34 Mouton' and Scaramanga replying 'then I must add it to my cellar' whipping out a pen to write it down. Rather like two men in a London club discussing great vintages. But the best line is Bond's response to Scaramanga's toast about the two of them being 'the best' - 'there's a useful four letter word and you're full of it'. Classic and delivered by Moore with malevolent contempt!
The writers skill only enhanced great actors. Bravo !
I like how this scene is both utterly ridiculous and cool as hell at the same time. Christopher Lee and James Bond throw insults at each other with a woman in a bikini named Goodnight and a little person manservant called Nick Nack bringing everyone mushrooms and wine. Yet, it’s so damn cool
Pure James Bond
Scaramanga has got to be the GOAT Bond villain for me. And not just (but definitely partially) because Christopher Lee is such a legend
The fact that the kitchen is scaled down for Nick Nack is a nice detail, and it took a few viewings of the film for me to finely catch it.
I watched all of James Bond movies in the early years with my parents I miss those days
I love Christopher Lee. Superb in this!
Fun fact: Christopher Lee (The person who plays Count Dooku. (Star wars.) Saruman (Lord of the rings.) And Scaramanga (The man with the golden gun)) Was a step cousin to Ian Fleming. Who wrote the James Bond books. And Christopher was the inspiration to Bond. So Lee is James Bond.
Fleming actually wanted Lee to play James Bond at one point.
Both Lee and Moore offer masterful performances that are classy and revelatory of their worldliness and connoisseurship, eg. '34 Mouton .
A joy to watch and emulate !
That smile on Scaramanga face was priceless
Christopher Lee made for such a perfect Bond Villain. Charming, good-looking, but always with that air of menace.
He was definitely one of the highlights of the film that was one of lowest grossing Bond films and one of least successful Bond films.
'Red' Grant (Shaw) in FRWL
Britt Ekland miss sweden at the time was one fine woman from the north!😘
"...as soon as I finish this delicious lunch Nick Nack has prepared for us."
That is so Roger. The silence during that lunch would be deafening.
The top man vs the top being!!!!
Fun Fact: Scaramanga draws his gun faster than Bond. Count dooku attacks first just before Anakin could have sliced him 28 years later
Way back in 2006 I believe, me and my family was on a vacation in Thailand and we paid a visit to the Island where they filmed those scenes and beaches.
it was and organized trip with a Guide. The way they ended it was perfect. The bus would drop people off at their respective hotels, during the trip back with our hotel being the last stop,
they played this movie on the monitors perfectly in sync with the travel time being 2hrs 5min. I was probably between the age of 12-14 at the time. And I watched the entire movie while literally the only ones who were awake was
me,
the drive.....would've been a disaster if he slept behind the wheel lolz..
and the guide.
The way sexy Goodnight answers Bond at like 0:53 shows how furious she is at being kidnapped!
I'm just wondering, what it meant, i have not seen the movie in 20 years. Just wondering, was she happy or sad. Looked like she was enjoying herself
"little bit overdressed?" Hahahhaha :-) lol