The most haunting ending to a James Bond film utterly spoiled by the film-makers: the shots from Blofeld's car came from the side (a drive-by), not the front, and the the damage to the front windshield was not sufficient for a bullet penetration. In fact, it looks more like a bad ding. It's still a powerful moment if that can be overlooked.
The reason people hated lazenby ( even the cast and crew) was because he shamelessly admitted he was portraying bond simply for the fame, fortune and woman it would bring him.
Lazenby was brill! But I guess being the first different Bond and being in the only love themed Bond movie, was quite a lot of pressure and just asking for bad criticism !>
I really like this film, and i didn't think Lazenby is bad i liked him in this. This scene though, is his best performance. You really get into the moment here, and the sadness he brings. It's fantastic!
@ThatDudeWithTheCap1 You're right, but in the books the gadgets don't exist. Q is in the books, but he takes care of real world weapons and supplies, not the type of gadgets you see in most of the films. The books are darker and more realistic. Even Bond is considerd a bad guy in the books. He's just as bad as the people he goes after He just works for the side that is good.
@wheelblack35 completely agree, i believe sean connery is obviously the ultimate bond, but they needed a new bond to spark a real love and to create a scene like that, sean couldnt of done that with his previous bond films done... shame george didnt do diamonds are forever, it atleast would of been slightly better than seans horrible return to bond...
The first time I saw this film - I was around 9 - I had to stop early since my dad wanted us to go somewhere and he was getting very stressed (no reason, I think). I figured there was maybe ten minutes to go - another action scene to tie up loose ends - and ejected the tape.
Fast forward a few years. Since I didn't get my ending last time, we rented this movie again. Watched it, reached the point where I left off and... it was this scene - the other car might even have been nearing. Bummer.
The thing that set this film apart from all the other classic Bond films is how it actually depicted James as a human being, rather than the action hero he usually is. Typically, though, being human just doesn't work for Bond; everyone he meets, and the very few people he falls in love with, are always in danger.
That was the first bond girl dies at the end and same as Vesper Lynd dies at the end of Casino Royale. James Bond has no happy kissing ending and the rest of the bond girls get kissed at the end all the time in 20 movies and this 2 movies of Bond girls dies in sad endings. ):
A much better way to end this scene would've been to fade to black right when 007 is cradling Tracy in his arms, crying and THEN show the credits. showing the credits like that sort of kills the scene
this end scene was really powerful and so sad always makes me cry every time The movie is so worth seeing. It's really good. It's different from all the other Bond movies. It has a more touching story for James. Plus Diana was fantastic to play Tracy. and the ending was one of the most tragic, most shocking ending I've ever watched. And it's one of those rare moments that the audience can actually sympathize with Bond
George Lazenby was really good as Bond he wasn't that bad he was brilliant in the end scene he's performance at the end was really powerful and moving and so sad he showed he's emotions that the audience could feel for him and his pain poor James i felt sad for him to lose his wife like that and i love this theme it is so beautiful and it always makes me cry every time This theme brings out the emotion of the movie between Bond and Tracy.
He really wasnt that bad and give him a break it happend to be his first big movie role ever and he happend to be a model before this so the way he moved and walked helped him for the role and he didnt do a bad job either i actaully believe had he gone on to do at least 2 bond films he would have become a better bond and ppl would have liked him alot more but u cannot deny the fact that this was a Great film and one of the best bonds of all.
@LukeMM95 - I actually recall watching this on TV once (can't remember which channel, I think TNT), and the main theme was actually omitted from the end credits, opting for complete silence save for the sound of the sea waves in the background instead. In my opinion the silence actually made for a much more emotional and poignant ending in my opinion.
or even Chuck Norris playing Bond, he would have been blind to the car anyway, that's the way Ian Fleming intended the story to be dumb ass. I'm so sick of people saying Connery is Christ almighty, he wouldn't have altered the plot no matter what, at most you'd get a different performance. It was set up to be tragic and change the flow, people get sick of him getting the girl every time, they made an actual movie this time rather than a dumb ritual.
i can just imagine what a proper revenge sequel would be like. diamonds are forever was a huge missed opportunity. lazenby shouldve stuck around for more films. i really liked his james bond. for first time acting it is very good acting.
Love this movie. Extremely pissed Bond didn't get ANY sort of vengeance until 12 years later, and that was done as the intro, not a film plot. The one other time any talk of Bond being married was in the beginning of License to Kill. I know Bond is a womanizer, but it's nice to see when the main character we love has SOME heart or vulnerability.....probably explains why I haven't really liked a Bond movie since Goldeneye....
I'm tired of hearing that Connery should have been in this movie. PLEASE! He was tired of the series after Thunderball (that's why YOLT and DAF sucked hairy balls).
I prefer Lazenby because he tried his best while Connery would surely just have gone through the motions.
@bealio721 I don't think YOLT sucked, but DAF, man. I can't defend that movie. That movie fucking sucked outside of the first few scenes of the pre-title sequence.
so much more character development in this one it's a shame that they didn't continue like this in the films right after. and if lazenby did a few more he could of been the best bond ever, a shame
Still one of my favorites. They reference this later on in The Spy Who Loved Me when XXX tells Bond his dossier and when she says "Wife killed in..." and he quickly gets serious, "you've made your point". He finally kills Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only, excellent dropping him into an incinerator! And in License to Kill when Felix's wife Della asks him if she did anything wrong tossing her garter to him. Felix tells her "he was married once but it was a long time ago". Thx bondfan!!
This movie has to be simply the best of the whole series, but Lazenby was a little too unsure of himself in the part. "This never would've happened to the other fellow..." was a huge mistake.
He seemed to anticipate Roger Moore's lighter touch, but Moore held on too long and was reducing Bond to a comic strip character, until Dalton signed on and made a dark brooding Bond, not light-hearted, but low budgeted, particularly Licensed to Kill.
dude its sad this didnt have a sequil i am like wtf when i saw this in thethers no sequil and it took like 15 or 14 other bond mvoies till there was a acutl james bond movie with a sequil and a awsome story
Except I can't picture the revenge version of Live and Let Die beginning with a pre-title sequence then cutting to a cheesy title song of "Live and Let Die" sung by Paul McCartney...I just can't.
You know...if you watch Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball before you watch On Her Majesty's Secret Service it's very hard to adjust to George Lazenby...Especially if you're a fan of Sean Connery's James Bond. But what's truly disappointing is the fact that OHMSS never got a true revenge sequel. The producers should've set aside their embarrassment and created a really good revenge story called Live and Let Die.
@JimmyBond00912 In Diamonds are Forever, Bond hunts down Blofeld (Or one of his clones at least) and kills him, the reason for that is Bond's enraged at Blofeld getting his revenge and lurks to kill Blofeld for it.
@JimmyBond00912 And it wasn't Blofeld who murdered his wife, it was actually his henchwoman Imra Bunt who fired the M16 rifle that killed Teresa. But we don't see Imra Bunt because her actress passed away a couple of days after this films original release, so we could say that:
a) she survived
b) she was killed by Bond during his man hunt for Blofeld.
@JimmyBond00912 True, that's quite sad. But he doesn't kill him in DaF, Blofeld survived but was badly injured, he's in a wheelchair in the For Your Eyes Only opening scene. There, Tracy was avenged once and for all, Moore's Bond dropped Blofeld down in an industrial chimney. (Blofeld isn't named, but who else can be evil, bald and love persian cats in a Bond movie...)
@JimmyBond00912 If you watch the Beginning of "For Your Eyes Only" James Bond (played that time by Roger Moore) gets revenge for Tracy's death in the pretitle sequence
Forty odd years later, and this is still powerfully emotional, something James Bond doesn't ever express.
jonbap426 1 month ago
The most haunting ending to a James Bond film utterly spoiled by the film-makers: the shots from Blofeld's car came from the side (a drive-by), not the front, and the the damage to the front windshield was not sufficient for a bullet penetration. In fact, it looks more like a bad ding. It's still a powerful moment if that can be overlooked.
pbanta62 1 month ago
The reason people hated lazenby ( even the cast and crew) was because he shamelessly admitted he was portraying bond simply for the fame, fortune and woman it would bring him.
bynarr123 2 months ago
Lazenby was brill! But I guess being the first different Bond and being in the only love themed Bond movie, was quite a lot of pressure and just asking for bad criticism !>
paulac2006 2 months ago
I really like this film, and i didn't think Lazenby is bad i liked him in this. This scene though, is his best performance. You really get into the moment here, and the sadness he brings. It's fantastic!
MillerMUCKERS 3 months ago
This scene is so sad. He finally settles for a woman and she gets killed. WTF?
onexero1 3 months ago
I think if Connery had have played 007 in this it would have been the ultimate Bond film.
theturtleguy76 3 months ago
that's not how you end a bond film... pretty weak
Shirishama1 4 months ago
just finished the book, really happy they kept the dialogue at the end the same. so sad.
pcjwss 4 months ago 2
This is a great ending to a great movie, but I've always felt that playing the James Bond theme during the credits kind of ruins the whole scene.
TheGuyThatsAwesome 4 months ago
Hold on, shouldn't Bond's DBS have had bulletproof glass, seeing as all Q-Branch cars have in the past.
ThatDudeWithTheCap1 5 months ago
@ThatDudeWithTheCap1 You're right, but in the books the gadgets don't exist. Q is in the books, but he takes care of real world weapons and supplies, not the type of gadgets you see in most of the films. The books are darker and more realistic. Even Bond is considerd a bad guy in the books. He's just as bad as the people he goes after He just works for the side that is good.
MillerMUCKERS 3 months ago
@ThatDudeWithTheCap1 He resigned. Can't really use work related property if you don't work there anymore.
marvelmax03191 2 months ago
@marvelmax03191:That and the possible fact that Blofeld used armour-piercing rounds in his machine gun.
Neville6000 2 months ago
Connery couldnt have done that scene
wheelblack35 5 months ago 11
@wheelblack35 completely agree, i believe sean connery is obviously the ultimate bond, but they needed a new bond to spark a real love and to create a scene like that, sean couldnt of done that with his previous bond films done... shame george didnt do diamonds are forever, it atleast would of been slightly better than seans horrible return to bond...
P0TT5Y147 4 weeks ago
I didnt like Lazenby
ojojo131 5 months ago
The first time I saw this film - I was around 9 - I had to stop early since my dad wanted us to go somewhere and he was getting very stressed (no reason, I think). I figured there was maybe ten minutes to go - another action scene to tie up loose ends - and ejected the tape.
Fast forward a few years. Since I didn't get my ending last time, we rented this movie again. Watched it, reached the point where I left off and... it was this scene - the other car might even have been nearing. Bummer.
Whitecroc 6 months ago
The thing that set this film apart from all the other classic Bond films is how it actually depicted James as a human being, rather than the action hero he usually is. Typically, though, being human just doesn't work for Bond; everyone he meets, and the very few people he falls in love with, are always in danger.
Scrummy64 6 months ago
That was the first bond girl dies at the end and same as Vesper Lynd dies at the end of Casino Royale. James Bond has no happy kissing ending and the rest of the bond girls get kissed at the end all the time in 20 movies and this 2 movies of Bond girls dies in sad endings. ):
getmario64 6 months ago
A much better way to end this scene would've been to fade to black right when 007 is cradling Tracy in his arms, crying and THEN show the credits. showing the credits like that sort of kills the scene
paradox2776 6 months ago
I watched this yesterday and I cried. I cried for Bond, he finally was going to get a happy ending, then this...
EIFanGirl 6 months ago
this end scene was really powerful and so sad always makes me cry every time The movie is so worth seeing. It's really good. It's different from all the other Bond movies. It has a more touching story for James. Plus Diana was fantastic to play Tracy. and the ending was one of the most tragic, most shocking ending I've ever watched. And it's one of those rare moments that the audience can actually sympathize with Bond
srlibra 6 months ago
George Lazenby was really good as Bond he wasn't that bad he was brilliant in the end scene he's performance at the end was really powerful and moving and so sad he showed he's emotions that the audience could feel for him and his pain poor James i felt sad for him to lose his wife like that and i love this theme it is so beautiful and it always makes me cry every time This theme brings out the emotion of the movie between Bond and Tracy.
srlibra 6 months ago
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srlibra 6 months ago
george lazenby is a pretty poor actor.
Lostprophetzzz 6 months ago
He really wasnt that bad and give him a break it happend to be his first big movie role ever and he happend to be a model before this so the way he moved and walked helped him for the role and he didnt do a bad job either i actaully believe had he gone on to do at least 2 bond films he would have become a better bond and ppl would have liked him alot more but u cannot deny the fact that this was a Great film and one of the best bonds of all.
charlieiscool1000 6 months ago
The saddest ending to a Bond flick and it's ruined seconds after this clip by the main theme roaring over the credits :(
LukeMM95 7 months ago
@LukeMM95 - I actually recall watching this on TV once (can't remember which channel, I think TNT), and the main theme was actually omitted from the end credits, opting for complete silence save for the sound of the sea waves in the background instead. In my opinion the silence actually made for a much more emotional and poignant ending in my opinion.
lllDevilbytheDeedlll 6 months ago
@lllDevilbytheDeedlll Definetly, I would much prefer that way of ending the film ;)
LukeMM95 5 months ago
É lindo e triste ao mesmo tempo
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RonaldoPassos1988 7 months ago
I like how half the people on The Avengers ended up in Bond films.
Ramubay 7 months ago
or even Chuck Norris playing Bond, he would have been blind to the car anyway, that's the way Ian Fleming intended the story to be dumb ass. I'm so sick of people saying Connery is Christ almighty, he wouldn't have altered the plot no matter what, at most you'd get a different performance. It was set up to be tragic and change the flow, people get sick of him getting the girl every time, they made an actual movie this time rather than a dumb ritual.
Xeoncodeman2 8 months ago 2
@candyjoe123 It doesn't matter if it were Sean Connery or the great c
Xeoncodeman2 8 months ago
The most powerful ending of all the Bond films...sad scene.
Gustavflyer 8 months ago 3
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CapiCart 9 months ago
Just saw this for the first time, so sad.
Phoenix117UK 9 months ago
so sad :( probably the only bond film that i will never ever watch again after this day haha
szewei85 9 months ago
i can just imagine what a proper revenge sequel would be like. diamonds are forever was a huge missed opportunity. lazenby shouldve stuck around for more films. i really liked his james bond. for first time acting it is very good acting.
goldwaterproductions 10 months ago
Lazenby earned every cent of his pay for this last scene
finlaymania 11 months ago 4
the one and only crying scen in the bond scene!! so" good"
a090006 11 months ago
I like this scene, its a good homage to Muriel Wright, you bad bad man Fleming.
blazerafe 11 months ago
Love this movie. Extremely pissed Bond didn't get ANY sort of vengeance until 12 years later, and that was done as the intro, not a film plot. The one other time any talk of Bond being married was in the beginning of License to Kill. I know Bond is a womanizer, but it's nice to see when the main character we love has SOME heart or vulnerability.....probably explains why I haven't really liked a Bond movie since Goldeneye....
Kefkadet 11 months ago 3
@Kefkadet they also referenced his marriage in the spy who loved me
goldwaterproductions 10 months ago
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he should have cried a little more...
ar2014 1 year ago
It's a shame that this wasn't a lead-in to the next movie.
xtremespeed128 1 year ago 3
@xtremespeed128 If Lazenby had stayed on, it was Hunt's plan to use this as the intro for the next film.
boomshanka 1 year ago
Sean Connery would never have been blind to a car approaching them, didn't like the ending.
candyjoe123 1 year ago
I'm tired of hearing that Connery should have been in this movie. PLEASE! He was tired of the series after Thunderball (that's why YOLT and DAF sucked hairy balls).
I prefer Lazenby because he tried his best while Connery would surely just have gone through the motions.
bealio721 1 year ago
@bealio721 I don't think YOLT sucked, but DAF, man. I can't defend that movie. That movie fucking sucked outside of the first few scenes of the pre-title sequence.
dynasta34 9 months ago
so much more character development in this one it's a shame that they didn't continue like this in the films right after. and if lazenby did a few more he could of been the best bond ever, a shame
Newmie13 1 year ago
Still one of my favorites. They reference this later on in The Spy Who Loved Me when XXX tells Bond his dossier and when she says "Wife killed in..." and he quickly gets serious, "you've made your point". He finally kills Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only, excellent dropping him into an incinerator! And in License to Kill when Felix's wife Della asks him if she did anything wrong tossing her garter to him. Felix tells her "he was married once but it was a long time ago". Thx bondfan!!
Romulan007 1 year ago 5
this film was better than any connery bond film
videomaster54321 1 year ago
The ending is heartbreaking but it's the greatest ending out of every Bond film next to Casino Royale.
LiquidSolidRaiden 1 year ago
Bad Q, BAD Q!!! No bulletproof windshield!!
tommyt1971 1 year ago 5
Don't you just love a happy ending?!
morval99 1 year ago
We have all the time in the world.
anonymusbob101 1 year ago 2
Total bullshit, killing Bonds wife is a fucking joke.
Nightslasher 1 year ago
@Nightslasher Uh, with dozens of villains gunning for him, ESPECIALLY Blofeld himself, this ISN'T plausible??
tommyt1971 1 year ago
This movie has to be simply the best of the whole series, but Lazenby was a little too unsure of himself in the part. "This never would've happened to the other fellow..." was a huge mistake.
He seemed to anticipate Roger Moore's lighter touch, but Moore held on too long and was reducing Bond to a comic strip character, until Dalton signed on and made a dark brooding Bond, not light-hearted, but low budgeted, particularly Licensed to Kill.
ysbaddaden2003 1 year ago 5
@ysbaddaden2003 His line about the other fella wasn't his choice
Slacktoo 1 year ago
why didnt Q just give him a bullet proof car
Thehjw 1 year ago
dude its sad this didnt have a sequil i am like wtf when i saw this in thethers no sequil and it took like 15 or 14 other bond mvoies till there was a acutl james bond movie with a sequil and a awsome story
delta2ish 1 year ago
Except I can't picture the revenge version of Live and Let Die beginning with a pre-title sequence then cutting to a cheesy title song of "Live and Let Die" sung by Paul McCartney...I just can't.
JimmyBond00912 2 years ago
You know...if you watch Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball before you watch On Her Majesty's Secret Service it's very hard to adjust to George Lazenby...Especially if you're a fan of Sean Connery's James Bond. But what's truly disappointing is the fact that OHMSS never got a true revenge sequel. The producers should've set aside their embarrassment and created a really good revenge story called Live and Let Die.
JimmyBond00912 2 years ago 15
@JimmyBond00912 In Diamonds are Forever, Bond hunts down Blofeld (Or one of his clones at least) and kills him, the reason for that is Bond's enraged at Blofeld getting his revenge and lurks to kill Blofeld for it.
tannerrox99 1 year ago
@tannerrox99
But after that scene, for the most part Bond doesn't treat Blofeld like he's the man who murdered his wife.
JimmyBond00912 1 year ago
@JimmyBond00912 And it wasn't Blofeld who murdered his wife, it was actually his henchwoman Imra Bunt who fired the M16 rifle that killed Teresa. But we don't see Imra Bunt because her actress passed away a couple of days after this films original release, so we could say that:
a) she survived
b) she was killed by Bond during his man hunt for Blofeld.
tannerrox99 1 year ago 3
@tannerrox99 I pick B
SuperWolsey 1 year ago
@JimmyBond00912 True, that's quite sad. But he doesn't kill him in DaF, Blofeld survived but was badly injured, he's in a wheelchair in the For Your Eyes Only opening scene. There, Tracy was avenged once and for all, Moore's Bond dropped Blofeld down in an industrial chimney. (Blofeld isn't named, but who else can be evil, bald and love persian cats in a Bond movie...)
deusirae76 1 year ago 2
@JimmyBond00912 I agree, but atleast Roger Moore got revenge in For Your Eyes Only, but I guess that wasn't enough.
LiquidSolidRaiden 1 year ago
@JimmyBond00912 If you watch the Beginning of "For Your Eyes Only" James Bond (played that time by Roger Moore) gets revenge for Tracy's death in the pretitle sequence
/watch?v=DAkfs9Bxxrw&feature=player_embedded
xxJoeDog93xx 1 year ago
@JimmyBond00912 He did get revenge....
CrookedMasterMind22 9 months ago
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GCXtremeBoomboxUnit 7 months ago
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GCXtremeBoomboxUnit 7 months ago
you gotta go sometime....
morval99 2 years ago
I actually liked this movie, but the ending was so sad......
Lickthecloth 2 years ago 20
You missed the James Bond theme at the very end...how naughty!!
A great film and George was'nt half bad as 007!
TRUMPER007 2 years ago
Oh Jesus, I hate this film to be honest :(. And this ending was so sad...
It even had the song 'Hurt' By Johnny Cash playing at the end of it aswell in a 007 sad scenes video on you tube. Well done anyway.
MegaGuitarhero1994 2 years ago