Editing Diamonds Are Forever (film) (section)

===Filming===
[[File:Sean Connery as James Bond (1971).jpg|230px|thumb|Sean Connery during filming in Amsterdam, 31 July 1971]]
[[File:Las Vegas Hilton.jpg|230px|thumb|The Las Vegas Hilton (now [[Westgate Las Vegas]]) doubled as The Whyte House]]
Filming began on 5 April 1971, with the South African scenes actually shot in the desert near Las Vegas.<ref name="inside" /> The scene was originally written to include Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd killing Dr. Tynan by forcing a scorpion down his mouth, but it was rewritten in order to be approved by British censors.{{sfn|Field|Chowdbury|2015|p=219}} The film was shot primarily in the United States, with locations including the [[Los Angeles International Airport]],<ref>{{cite episode |title=Los Angeles |series=Postcard Destinations |network=Voyager Channel |location=Mumbai |airdate=7 January 2008 |minutes=8}}</ref> [[Universal City Studios]] and eight hotels of Las Vegas.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Exotic Locations: Diamonds Are Forever Ultimate Edition, Disc 2 |publisher=MGM Home Entertainment |medium=DVD |asin=B00004VUHC}}</ref> Besides [[Pinewood Studios]] in Buckinghamshire, other places in England were [[Dover]] and [[Southampton]]. The climactic oil rig sequence was shot off the shore of [[Oceanside, California]]. Other filming locations included [[Antibes|Cap D'Antibes]] in France for the opening scenes, [[Amsterdam]] and [[Frankfurt Airport]].<ref name="locations">{{cite AV media |title=Exotic Locations: Diamonds Are Forever Ultimate Edition, Disc 2 |medium=NTSC, Widescreen, Closed-captioned |asin=B000LY2L1Q}}</ref>

Filming in Las Vegas took place mostly in hotels owned by Howard Hughes, for he was a friend of Cubby Broccoli's.<ref name="booklet" /> Getting the streets empty to shoot was achieved through the collaboration of Hughes, the Las Vegas police, and the shopkeepers' association.<ref name="hamilton">{{cite AV media|title=Commentary track: Diamonds Are Forever Ultimate Edition, Region 4|people=[[Guy Hamilton]]|publisher=MGM Home Entertainment|medium=DVD}}</ref> The [[Las Vegas Hilton]] doubled for the Whyte House, and since the owner of the [[Circus Circus Las Vegas|Circus Circus]] was a Bond fan, he allowed the Circus to be used on film and even made a cameo.<ref name="cork" /><ref name="hamilton" /> The cinematographers said filming in Las Vegas at night had an advantage: no additional illumination was required due to the high number of neon lights.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Peter Lamont]] |title=Commentary track: Diamonds Are Forever Ultimate Edition, Region 4 |medium=DVD |publisher=MGM Home Entertainment}}</ref> Sean Connery made the most of his time on location in Las Vegas. "I didn't get any sleep at all. We shot every night, I caught all the shows and played golf all day. On the weekend I collapsed – boy, did I collapse. Like a skull with legs." He also played the slot machines, and once delayed a scene because he was collecting his winnings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/history_press_daf_sean_connery_las_vegas_interview.php3 |title=Rare interview with Sean Connery on the set of Diamonds Are Forever in Las Vegas |website=[[MI6-HQ.com]] |access-date=30 March 2011 |archive-date=14 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314010104/http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/history_press_daf_sean_connery_las_vegas_interview.php3 |url-status=live }}</ref> While shooting in Las Vegas, Connery dated his co-stars Lana Wood and Jill St. John.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=9956|title=Bond girl Lana Wood talks about Sean Connery affair|website=MI6-HQ.COM|access-date=31 October 2020|archive-date=3 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603034549/https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=9956|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Jill St. John and Lana Wood.jpg|thumb|Jill St. John and Lana Wood during filming]]
The home of [[Kirk Douglas]] was used for the scene in Tiffany's house, while the [[Elrod House]] in [[Palm Springs, California|Palm Springs]], designed by [[John Lautner]], became Willard Whyte's house.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hgtv.com/decorating/diamonds-are-forever/index.html |title=Decorating: Diamonds are Forever |publisher=[[HGTV]] |access-date=15 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625022615/http://www.hgtv.com/decorating/diamonds-are-forever/index.html |archive-date=25 June 2010}}</ref> The exterior shots of the Slumber Mortuary were of the Palm Mortuary in [[Henderson, Nevada]]. The interiors were a set constructed at Pinewood Studios, where Ken Adam imitated the real building's [[lozenge (shape)|lozenge]]-shaped stained glass window in its chapel. The Garden of Remembrance scene was shot at Palm Downtown Cemetery, Las Vegas.  During location filming, Ken Adam visited several funeral homes in the Las Vegas area, and the inspiration behind the gaudy design of the Slumber Mortuary, for example the use of tasteless [[Art Nouveau]] furniture and [[Tiffany lamp]]s, came from these experiences.<ref name="locations" /> Production wrapped with the crematorium sequence, on 13 August 1971.<ref name="cork" />

[[File:Moonbuggy from Diamonds Are Forever.jpg|thumb|Moon Buggy from ''Diamonds Are Forever'']]
Since the car chase in Las Vegas would have many car crashes, the filmmakers had a [[product placement]] arrangement with [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] to use their vehicles. Ford's only demand was that Sean Connery had to drive the [[Ford Mustang Mach 1#First generation Mustang Facelift (1971–1973)|1971 Mustang Mach 1]] which serves as Tiffany Case's car.<ref name="hamilton" /> A Mustang was used in ''Goldfinger'' and ''Thunderball'', while a [[Mercury Cougar]] was used in ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', and "Bond girls" drove each one. The moon buggy was inspired by the [[Lunar rover|NASA lunar rover]], but with additions such as flailing arms since the producers did not find the design "outrageous" enough. Built by custom car fabricator [[Dean Jeffries]] on a rear-engined Corvair chassis, it was capable of road speeds. The [[fibreglass]] tires had to be replaced during the chase sequence because the heat and irregular desert soil ruined them.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Ken Adam]] |title=Commentary track: Diamonds Are Forever Ultimate Edition, Region 4 |medium=DVD |publisher=MGM Home Entertainment}}</ref>

Hamilton had the idea of making a fight scene inside a lift, which was choreographed and performed by Sean Connery and stuntman [[Joe Robinson (actor)|Joe Robinson]].<ref>{{cite AV media |section=Double-O Stuntmen |title=The Man with the Golden Gun Ultimate Edition |at=Disk 2 |publisher=MGM Home Entertainment}}</ref> During a car chase scene, where the police are chasing Bond in a small parking lot, the Mustang was to jump a small ramp over several cars. The stunt driver they had hired could not perform this and wrecked two or three cars in the process. The stunt team had only one automobile left so they called [[Bill Hickman]], who drove for hours to the location, jumped into the Mustang, and did the stunt in one take.<ref name=tcm>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/235282 |title=Diamonds Are Forever |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=25 January 2011}}</ref> A [[Continuity (fiction)|continuity mistake]] during the same car chase made it into the film's final cut: when Bond drives the Mustang on two wheels through a narrow alley, the car enters the alley on its right side tires and exits driving on its left side.<ref name="inside" />

While filming the scene of finding Plenty O'Toole drowned in Tiffany's swimming pool, [[Lana Wood]] actually had her feet loosely tied to a cement block on the bottom. Film crew members held a rope across the pool for her, with which she could lift her face out of the water to breathe between takes. The floor of the pool was sloped and the block would move deeper with each take. Eventually, Wood was submerged but was noticed by onlookers and rescued. Wood, a certified diver, took some water but remained calm during the ordeal, although she later said there had been some "very uncomfortable moments and quite some struggling until they pulled me out."<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Lana Wood]] |title=Commentary track: Diamonds Are Forever Ultimate Edition, Region 4 |medium=DVD |publisher=MGM Home Entertainment}}</ref>