James Bond films Wikipedia pages

From Russia with Love (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search



From Russia with Love
The upper center of the poster reads "Meet James Bond, secret agent 007. His new incredible women ... His new incredible enemies ... His new incredible adventures ..." To the right is Bond holding a gun, to the left a montage of women, fights and an explosion. On the bottom of the poster are the credits.
British cinema poster for From Russia with Love, designed and illustrated by Renato Fratini and Eric Pulford

Directed by
Terence Young
Produced by
Harry Saltzman
Albert R. Broccoli
Screenplay by
Richard Maibaum
Story by
Johanna Harwood
(adaptation)
Based on
From Russia, with Love
 by Ian Fleming
Starring
Sean Connery
Pedro Armendáriz
Lotte Lenya
Robert Shaw
Bernard Lee
Daniela Bianchi
Music by
John Barry
Cinematography
Ted Moore
Edited by
Peter R. Hunt
Production
   company
Eon Productions
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date(s)
10 October 1963 (London, premiere)
11 October 1963 (United Kingdom)

Running time
115 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$2 million
Box office
$78.9 million
From Russia with Love is the second James Bond film made by Eon Productions and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No.
Following the success of Dr. No, United Artists approved a sequel and doubled the budget available for the producers. In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire and in Scotland. Production ran over budget and schedule, and had to rush to finish by its scheduled October 1963 release date. From Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success, taking over $78 million in worldwide box office receipts, more than its predecessor Dr. No.



Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Writing
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Music
4 Release and reception 4.1 Contemporary reviews
4.2 Reflective reviews
5 Video game adaptation
6 See also
7 Notes and references 7.1 Bibliography
8 Further reading
9 External links

Plot[edit]
SPECTRE's expert planner Kronsteen devises a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. No. The Spectre Number 1 puts ex-SMERSH operative and Number 3 Rosa Klebb in charge of the mission. Klebb recruits Donald "Red" Grant as an assassin, and Tatiana Romanova, a cipher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul, as an unwitting pawn, as Romanova thinks Klebb is still working for SMERSH.
In London, M tells Bond that Romanova has contacted their "Station 'T'" in Turkey, offering to defect with a Lektor, which MI6 and the CIA have been after for years; however, Romanova has stated she will only defect to Bond, whose photo she has allegedly found in a Soviet intelligence file. Bond then flies to Istanbul, where he meets station head Ali Kerim Bey. Bond is followed from the airport by the Russians and by Red Grant. Grant kills the Russian driver and Kerim Bey's office is bombed with a limpet mine in retaliation. The next day, Bond and Kerim Bey spy on the Soviet consulate, where Kerim Bey sees rival agent Krilencu. At night, Kerim Bey and Bond go to a rural gypsy settlement, which suffers an attack by Krilencu's men, who wound Kerim Bey and nearly kill Bond, who is saved by a hidden Red Grant. On the following night, Kerim Bey kills Krilencu with Bond's sniper rifle. When Bond returns to his hotel suite, he finds Romanova in bed waiting for him, with both of them unaware that they are being filmed by SPECTRE.
The next day, Romanova heads off for a pre-arranged rendezvous at Hagia Sophia. The bespectacled man who followed Bond to the airport tries to intercept Romanova's floor plan of the Soviet consulate, but is killed by Grant. Upon finding the body, Bond takes the floor plan, and brings it to Kerim Bey to plan their theft. After stealing the Lektor, Bond, Romanova, and Kerim Bey escape with the device on the Orient Express. On the train, Kerim Bey and a Soviet security officer named Benz are killed by Grant, who makes it appear as if they killed each other. At Zagreb, Grant leaves the train, kills agent Nash from Station Y and boards it again to meet Bond, pretending to be Nash. He drugs Romanova at dinner, then overcomes Bond. Grant taunts him, boasting that SPECTRE has been pitting the Soviets and the British against each other, and claims that Romanova thinks that "she's doing it all for mother Russia". Grant also mentions the film of Bond and Romanova at the hotel suite, saying that after both are killed, Grant will plant it in her handbag along with a forged blackmail letter so it looks like it was a murder-suicide. Bond tricks Grant into opening Bond's attaché case in the manner that detonates its tear gas booby trap in his face, allowing Bond to attack him. In the ensuing struggle, Bond eventually manages to stab Grant with the knife hidden in the attaché case and strangles Grant to death with his own garrotte. At dawn, Bond and Romanova leave the train, hijack Grant's getaway truck, destroy an enemy helicopter, and drive to a dock, eventually boarding a powerboat.
Number 1 is displeased, and summons Kronsteen and Klebb. He reminds them that SPECTRE does not tolerate failure, and brings in agent Morzeny to then execute Kronsteen with a poisoned spike in the toe of his shoe. Number 1 tells a frightened Klebb that she now has total control of the mission and has one last chance. Klebb sends Morzeny after Bond with a squadron of SPECTRE's boats. Morzeny nearly catches Bond, but the agent sets his pursuers' boats on fire with a signal flare. Bond and Romanova reach Venice and check into a hotel. Klebb, disguised as a maid, attempts to steal the Lektor. She attempts to kill Bond with both a gun and her poisoned toe-spike, but ends up being shot by Romanova. Riding in a gondola, Bond throws the film of him and Romanova into the water as they are rowed away.
Cast[edit]
Sean Connery as James Bond: Secret Intelligence Service Agent 007.
Daniela Bianchi as Tatiana Romanova (voiced by Barbara Jefford):[1] Soviet Embassy clerk and Bond's love interest. Fleming based Romanova on Christine Granville.[2]
Pedro Armendáriz as Ali Kerim Bey: British Intelligence Station Chief in Istanbul.
Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb: Main villain and ex-SMERSH Colonel, now Chief Operations Officer for SPECTRE.
Robert Shaw as Red Grant: Cunning SPECTRE assassin and one of the principal Bond enemies.
Bernard Lee as M: Chief of British Intelligence.
Walter Gotell as Morzeny: SPECTRE thug who trains personnel on SPECTRE Island.
Vladek Sheybal as Kronsteen: Chess grandmaster, and Chief Planning Officer for SPECTRE.
"?" (anonymous credit for Anthony Dawson (body) and Eric Pohlmann (voice)) as "Number 1" (Ernst Stavro Blofeld): Chief of SPECTRE and Bond's nemesis.
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary.
Desmond Llewelyn as Major Boothroyd: Head of 'Q' Section (British Intelligence gadgetry department).
Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench: Bond's semi-regular girlfriend.
Francis de Wolff as Vavra: Chief of a Gypsy tribe used for dirty work by Kerim Bey
George Pastell as the Orient Express train conductor.
Fred Haggerty as Krilencu: A Bulgarian assassin who works as a killer for the Soviets in The Balkans.
Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick as Vida and Zora, respectively: Two jealous Gypsy girls who are disputing the same man.
Nadja Regin as Kerim Bey's lonely girlfriend.
Production[edit]
Following the financial success of Dr. No, United Artists greenlit a second James Bond film. The studio doubled the budget offered to Eon Productions with $2 million, and also approved a bonus for Sean Connery, who would receive $100,000 along with his $54,000 salary.[3] As President John F. Kennedy had named Fleming's novel From Russia with Love among his ten favourite books of all time in Life magazine,[4] producers Broccoli and Saltzman chose this as the follow-up to Bond's cinematic debut in Dr. No. From Russia with Love was the last film President Kennedy saw at the White House on 20 November 1963 before going to Dallas.[5] Most of the crew from the first film returned, with major exceptions being production designer Ken Adam – who went to work on Dr. Strangelove and was replaced by Dr. No's art director Syd Cain, title designer Maurice Binder was replaced by Robert Brownjohn and stunt coordinator Bob Simmons was unavailable and was replaced by Peter Perkins[4] though Simmons performed stunts in the film.[6] John Barry replaced Monty Norman as composer of the soundtrack.
The film introduced several conventions which would become essential elements of the series: a pre-title sequence, the Blofeld character (referred in the film only as "Number 1"), a secret-weapon gadget for Bond, a helicopter sequence (repeated in every subsequent Bond film except The Man with the Golden Gun), a postscript action scene after the main climax, a theme song with lyrics, and the line "James Bond will return/be back" in the credits.
Writing[edit]
Ian Fleming's novel was a Cold War thriller; however, the producers named the crime syndicate SPECTRE instead of the Soviet undercover agency SMERSH so as to avoid controversial political overtones.[4] The SPECTRE training grounds were inspired by the film Spartacus.[7] The original screenwriter was Len Deighton, but he was replaced because of a lack of progress.[8] Thus two of Dr. No's writers, Johanna Harwood and Richard Maibaum, were returned for the second film in the series[4] Some sources state Harwood with being credited for "adaptation" mostly for her suggestions, which were carried over into Maibaum's script.[8] Harwood stated in an interview in a Cinema Retro that she had been a screenwriter of several of Harry Saltzman's projects; and her screenplay for From Russia with Love had followed Fleming's novel closely but left the series due to what she called Terence Young's constant rewriting of her screenplay with ideas that were not in the original Fleming work.[9] Maibaum kept on making rewrites as filming progressed. Red Grant was added to the Istanbul scenes just prior to the film crew's trip to Turkey – a change that brought more focus to the SPECTRE plot, as Grant started saving Bond's life there (a late change during shooting involved Grant killing the bespectacled spy at Hagia Sophia instead of Bond, who ends up just finding the man dead).[4] For the last quarter of the movie, Maibaum added two chase scenes, with a helicopter and speed-boats, and changed the location of Bond and Klebb's battle from Paris to Venice.[10]
Casting[edit]
Although uncredited, the actor who played Number 1 was Anthony Dawson, who had played Professor Dent in the previous Bond film, Dr. No. In the end credits, Blofeld is credited with a question mark. Blofeld's voice was provided by Viennese actor Eric Pohlmann.[4] Peter Burton was unavailable to return as Major Boothroyd, so Desmond Llewelyn, who was a fan of the Bond comic strip published in the Daily Express, accepted the part. However, screen credit for Llewelyn was omitted at the opening of the film and is reserved for the exit credits, where he is credited simply as 'Boothroyd'. Llewelyn's character is not referred to by this name in dialogue, but M does introduce him as being from Q Branch. Llewelyn remained as the character, better known as Q, in all but two of the series' films until his death in 1999.[11][12]
Many actresses were considered for the role of Tatiana, including Sylva Koscina, Virna Lisi, Annette Vadim, and Tania Mallet.[13] 1960 Miss Universe runner-up Daniela Bianchi was ultimately cast, supposedly Sean Connery's choice. Bianchi started taking English classes for the role, but the producers ultimately chose to dub her voice over.[14] The scene in which Bond finds Tatiana in his hotel bed was used for Daniela Bianchi's screen test, with Dawson standing in, this time, as Bond.[4] The scene later became the traditional screen test scene for prospective James Bond actors and Bond Girls.[15][16]
Katina Paxinou was originally considered for the role of Rosa Klebb, but was unavailable. Terence Young cast Lotte Lenya after hearing one of her musical recordings. Young wanted Kronsteen's portrayer to be "an actor with a remarkable face", so the minor character would be well remembered by audiences. This led to the casting of Vladek Sheybal, who Young also considered convincing as an intellectual.[7] Several women were tested for the roles of Vida and Zora, the two fighting gypsy girls, and after Aliza Gur and Martine Beswick were cast, they spent six weeks practising their fight choreography with stunt work arranger Peter Perkins.[17]
Pedro Armendáriz was recommended to Young by director John Ford to play Kerim Bey. After experiencing increasing discomfort on location in Istanbul, Armendáriz was diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Filming in Istanbul was terminated, the production moved to Britain, and Armendáriz's scenes were brought forward so that he could complete his scenes without delay. Though visibly in pain, he continued working as long as possible. When he could no longer work, he returned home, and took his own life.[4] Remaining shots after Armendáriz left London had a stunt double and Terence Young himself as stand-ins.[1]
Joe Robinson was a strong contender for the role of Red Grant but it was given to Robert Shaw.[18]
Filming[edit]
See also: List of James Bond vehicles, List of James Bond gadgets and James Bond locations
Most of the film was set in Istanbul, Turkey. Locations included the Basilica Cistern, Hagia Sophia, and the Sirkeci Station which also was used for the Belgrade and Zagreb railway stations. The MI6 office in London, SPECTRE Island, the Venice hotel and the interior scenes of the Orient Express were filmed at Pinewood Studios with some footage of the train. In the film, the train journey was set in Eastern Europe. The journey and the truck ride were shot in Argyll, Scotland and Switzerland. The end scenes for the film were shot in Venice.[4] However, to qualify for the British film funding of the time, at least 70% of the film had to have been filmed in Great Britain or the Commonwealth.[19] The gypsy camp was also to be filmed in an actual camp in Topkapi, but was actually shot in a replica of it in Pinewood.[14] The scene with rats (after the theft of the Lektor) was shot in Spain, as Britain did not allow filming with wild rats, and filming white rats painted in cocoa did not work.[20] Principal photography began on 1 April 1963,[4] and wrapped on 23 August.[21]
Director Terence Young's eye for realism was evident throughout production. For the opening chess match, Kronsteen wins the game with a re-enactment of Boris Spassky's victory over David Bronstein in 1960.[22] Production Designer Syd Cain built up the "chess pawn" motif in his $150,000 set for the brief sequence.[14] A noteworthy gadget featured was the attaché case issued by Q-Branch. It had a tear gas bomb that detonated if it was improperly opened, a folding AR-7 sniper rifle with twenty rounds of ammunition, a throwing knife, and 50 gold sovereigns. A boxer at Cambridge, Young choreographed the fight between Grant and Bond along with stunt co-ordinator Peter Perkins. The scene took three weeks to film and was violent enough to worry some on the production. Yet Robert Shaw and Connery did most of the stunts themselves.[1][4]
After the unexpected loss of Armendáriz, production proceeded, experiencing complications from rewriting by Richard Maibaum during filming. Editor Peter Hunt set about editing the film while key elements were still to be filmed, helping to restructure the opening scenes. Hunt and Young conceived of moving the training exercise on a Bond double to preface the main title, a signature feature that has been an enduring hallmark of every Bond film since. The briefing with Blofeld was rewritten, and back projection was used to re-film Lotte Lenya's lines.[4]
Behind schedule and over-budget, the production crew struggled to complete production in time for the already-announced premiere date that October. On 6 July 1963, while scouting locations in Argyll, Scotland for that day's filming of the climactic boat chase, Terence Young's helicopter crashed into the water with Art Director Michael White and a cameraman aboard. The craft sank into 40–50 feet (12–15 m) of water, but all escaped with minor injuries. Despite the calamity, Young was behind the camera for the full day's work. A few days later, Bianchi's driver fell asleep during the commute to a 6 am shoot and crashed the car; the actress' face was bruised, and Bianchi's scenes had to be delayed two weeks while these facial contusions healed.[4]
The helicopter and boat chase scenes were not in the original novel, but were added to create an action climax. The former was inspired by Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the latter by a previous Young/Broccoli/Maibaum collaboration, The Red Beret.[23] These two scenes would initially be shot in Istanbul, but were moved to Scotland; the speed-boats could not run fast enough due to the many waves in the sea,[24] and a rented boat filled with cameras ended up sinking in the Bosphorus.[14] A helicopter was also hard to obtain—the special effects crew were nearly arrested trying to get one at a local air base.[24][25] The helicopter chase was filmed with a radio controlled miniature helicopter.[14] The sounds of the boat chase were replaced in post-production since the boats were not loud enough,[26] and the explosion, shot in Pinewood, got out of control, burning Walter Gotell's eyelids,[24] and seriously injuring three stuntmen.[23]
Photographer David Hurn was commissioned by the producers of the James Bond films to shoot a series of stills with Sean Connery and the actresses of the film. When the theatrical property Walther PPK pistol did not arrive, Hurn volunteered the use of his own Walther LP-53 air pistol.[27] Though the photographs of the "James Bond is Back" posters of the US release airbrushed out the long barrel of the pistol, film poster artist Renato Fratini used the long-barrelled pistol for his drawings of Connery on the British posters.[28]
For the opening credits, Maurice Binder had disagreements with the producers and did not want to return.[29] Designer Robert Brownjohn stepped into his place, and projected the credits on female dancers, inspired by constructivist artist László Moholy-Nagy projecting light onto clouds in the 1920s.[30] Brownjohn's work started the tradition of scantily clad women on the Bond's title sequences.[31]
Music[edit]
See also: From Russia with Love (soundtrack)
From Russia with Love is the first Bond film in the series with John Barry as the primary soundtrack composer.[32] The theme song was composed by Lionel Bart of Oliver! fame and sung by Matt Monro,[33] although the title credit music is a lively instrumental version of the tune beginning with Barry's brief James Bond is Back then segueing into Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme". Monro's vocal version is later played during the film (as source music on a radio) and properly over the film's end titles.[33] Barry travelled with the crew to Turkey to try getting influences of the local music, but ended up using almost nothing, just local instruments such as finger cymbals to give an exotic feeling, since he thought the Turkish music had a comedic tone that did not fit in the "dramatic feeling" of the James Bond movies.[34]
In this film, Barry introduced the percussive theme "007"—action music that came to be considered the 'secondary James Bond Theme'. He composed it to have a lighter, enthusiastic and more adventurous theme, in order to relax the audiences.[34] The arrangement appears twice on the soundtrack album; the second version, entitled "007 Takes the Lektor", is the one used during the gunfight at the gypsy camp and also during Bond's theft of the Lektor decoding machine.[4][35] The completed film features a holdover from the Monty Norman-supervised Dr. No music; the post-rocket-launch music from Dr. No is played in From Russia with Love during the helicopter and speed-boat attacks.[35]
Release and reception[edit]
From Russia with Love premiered on 10 October 1963 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.[36] The following year, it was released in 16 countries worldwide, with the United States premiere on 8 April 1964, at New York's Astor Theatre.[37] Upon its first release, From Russia with Love doubled Dr. No's gross by earning $12.5 million ($95 million in 2014 dollars[38]) at the worldwide box office.[39] After reissue it grossed $78 million,[40] of which $24 million was from North America.[41] It was the most popular movie at the British box office in 1963.[42]
The film's cinematographer Ted Moore won the BAFTA award and the British Society of Cinematographers award for Best Cinematography.[43] At the 1965 Laurel Awards, Lotte Lenya stood third for Best Female Supporting Performance, and the film secured second place in the Action-Drama category. The film was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "From Russia with Love".[44]
Contemporary reviews[edit]
In comparing the film to its predecessor, Dr. No, Richard Roud, writing in The Guardian, said that From Russia with Love "didn't seem quite so lively, quite so fresh, or quite so rhythmically fast-moving."[45] He went on to say that "... the film is highly immoral in every imaginable way; it is neither uplifting, instructive nor life-enhancing. Neither is it great film-making. But it sure is fun."[45] Writing in The Observer, Penelope Gilliatt noted that "The way the credits are done has the same self-mocking flamboyance as everything else in the picture."[46] Gilliatt went on to say that the film manages "to keep up its own cracking pace, nearly all the way. The set-pieces are a stunning box of tricks".[46] The critic for The Times wrote of Bond that he is "the secret ideal of the congenital square, conventional in every particular ... except in morality, where he has the courage—and the physical equipment—to do without thinking what most of us feel we might be doing ..."[47] The critic thought that overall, "the nonsense is all very amiable and tongue-in-cheek and will no doubt make a fortune for its devisers".[47]
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times said: "Don't miss it! This is to say, don't miss it if you can still get the least bit of fun out of lurid adventure fiction and pseudo-realistic fantasy. For this mad melodramatization of a desperate adventure of Bond with sinister characters in Istanbul and on the Orient Express is fictional exaggeration on a grand scale and in a dashing style, thoroughly illogical and improbable, but with tongue blithely wedged in cheek."[48]
Time magazine called the film "fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed"[49] and commented extensively on the film's humour, saying "Director Young is a master of the form he ridicules, and in almost every episode he hands the audience shocks as well as yocks. But the yocks are more memorable. They result from slight but sly infractions of the thriller formula. A Russian agent, for instance, does not simply escape through a window; no, he escapes through a window in a brick wall painted with a colossal poster portrait of Anita Ekberg, and as he crawls out of the window, he seems to be crawling out of Anita's mouth. Or again, Bond does not simply train a telescope on the Russian consulate and hope he can read somebody's lips; no, he makes his way laboriously into a gallery beneath the joint, runs a submarine periscope up through the walls, and there, at close range, inspects two important Soviet secrets: the heroine's legs."[49]
Reflective reviews[edit]
From Russia with Love received generally positive reviews from critics; Rotten Tomatoes sampled 49 reviewers and judged 96% of the reviews to be positive.[50] Many online sites also commonly state From Russia with Love as the best Bond film of all time.[51]
In his 1986 book, Danny Peary described From Russia with Love as "an excellent, surprisingly tough and gritty James Bond film" which is "refreshingly free of the gimmickry that would characterise the later Bond films, and Connery and Bianchi play real people. We worry about them and hope their relationship will work out ... Shaw and Lotte Lenya are splendid villains. Both have exciting, well-choreographed fights with Connery. Actors play it straight, with excellent results."[52]
Film critic James Berardinelli cited this as his favourite Bond film, writing "Only From Russia with Love avoids slipping into the comic book realm of Goldfinger and its successors while giving us a sampling of the familiar Bond formula (action, gadgets, women, cars, etc.). From Russia with Love is effectively paced and plotted, features a gallery of detestable rogues (including the ultimate Bond villain, Blofeld), and offers countless thrills ".[53]
In June 2001, Neil Smith of BBC Films called it "a film that only gets better with age".[54] In 2004, Total Film magazine named it the ninth-greatest British film of all time, making it the only James Bond film to appear on the list.[55] In 2006, Jay Antani of Filmcritic praised the film's "impressive staging of action scenes",[56] while IGN listed it as second-best Bond film ever, behind only Goldfinger.[57] That same year, Entertainment Weekly put the film at ninth among Bond films, criticising the slow pace.[58] When the "James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set" was released in November 2007 by MGM, Norman Wilner of MSN chose From Russia with Love as the best Bond film.[59] Conversely, in his book about the Bond phenomenon, The Man With the Golden Touch, British author Sinclair McKay states "I know it is heresy to say so, and that some enthusiasts regard From Russia With Love as the Holy Grail of Bond, but let's be searingly honest- some of it is crashingly dull."[60]
The British Film Institute's screenonline guide called the film "one of the series' high points" and said it "had advantages not enjoyed by many later Bond films, notably an intelligent script that retained the substance of Ian Fleming's novel while toning down the overt Cold War politics (the Cuban Missile Crisis had only occurred the previous year)."[61] In 2008, Michael G. Wilson, the current co-producer of the series, stated "We always start out trying to make another From Russia with Love and end up with another Thunderball."[62] Sean Connery,[1] Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig also consider this their favourite Bond film.[63] Albert Broccoli listed it with Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me as one of his top three favourites,[64] explaining that he felt "it was with this film that the Bond style and formula were perfected".[65]
Video game adaptation[edit]
Main article: 007: From Russia with Love (video game)

A man in a suit holding a gun. It is snowing, and a factory is on the background. On the bottom corners icons indicating ammo and health of the player can be seen.

 A still from the From Russia with Love video game.
In 2005, the From Russia with Love video game was developed by Electronic Arts and released on 1 November 2005 in North America. It follows the storyline of the book and film, albeit adding in new scenes, making it more action-oriented. One of the most significant changes to the story is the replacement of the organisation SPECTRE to OCTOPUS because the name SPECTRE constituted a long-running legal dispute over the film rights to Thunderball between United Artists/MGM and the late writer Kevin McClory. Most of the cast from the film returned in likeness. Connery not only allowed his 1960s likeness as Bond to be used, but the actor, in his 70s, also recorded the character's dialogue, marking a return to the role 22 years after he last played Bond in Never Say Never Again. Featuring a third-person multiplayer deathmatch mode, the game depicts several elements of later Bond films such as the Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger (1964) and the rocketbelt from Thunderball (1965).[66][67]
The game was penned by Bruce Feirstein who previously worked on the film scripts for GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and the 2004 video game, Everything or Nothing. Its soundtrack was composed by Christopher Lennertz and Vic Flick.[68]
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Outline of James Bond
Notes and references[edit]
Notes

References
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition DVD (Media notes). Terence Young. MGM Home Entertainment. 2006.
2.Jump up ^ FILMFAX Magazine October 2003 – January 2004
3.Jump up ^ Balio, Tino (1987). United Artists: the company that changed the film industry. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 260. ISBN 9780299230135.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Martine Beswick, Daniela Bianchi, Dana Broccoli, Syd Cain, Sean Connery, Peter Hunt, John Stears, Norman Wanstall (2000). Inside From Russia with Love (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment Inc. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
5.Jump up ^ "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1917–2007". The American Prospect. 17 September 2010. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
6.Jump up ^ Brosnan, John James Bond in the Cinema Tantivy Press; 2nd edition (1981)
7.^ Jump up to: a b Terence Young. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
8.^ Jump up to: a b McGilligan, Patrick (1986). Backstory: interviews with screenwriters of Hollywood's golden age. University of California Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-520-05689-3.
9.Jump up ^ Johanna Harwood Interview Movie Classics # 4 Solo Publishing 2012
10.Jump up ^ Chapman, James (2007). Licence to Thrill. London/New York City: Cinema and Society. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-9.
11.Jump up ^ Simpson, Paul (2002). The rough guide to James Bond. Rough Guides. p. 83. ISBN 9781843531425. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
12.Jump up ^ Inside Q's Lab (DVD). On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ultimate Edition, Disk 2: MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
13.Jump up ^ Inside From Russia with Love (DVD). MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc. 2000.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c d e From Russia with Love audio commentary, Ultimate Edition DVD
15.Jump up ^ Inside Octopussy (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
16.Jump up ^ Inside The Living Daylights (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
17.Jump up ^ Aliza Gur. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
18.Jump up ^ "Joe has eye of the Tiger". The Visitor. 10 August 2004.
19.Jump up ^ Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcu (1997). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
20.Jump up ^ Syd Cain. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
21.Jump up ^ Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcu (1997). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
22.Jump up ^ "The name is Spassky – Boris Spassky". ChessBase.com. 2 September 2004. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
23.^ Jump up to: a b John Cork. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
24.^ Jump up to: a b c Walter Gotell. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
25.Jump up ^ John Stears. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
26.Jump up ^ Norman Wanstall. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
27.Jump up ^ "Lot 250 Sale 9017 From Russia with Love, 1963"
28.Jump up ^ "Poster Galore". British Film Institute. 10 January 2007. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
29.Jump up ^ Starlog magazine Maurice Binder interview Part 1
30.Jump up ^ Robert Brownjohn Graphic Designer (1925–1970) 15 October 2005 to 26 February 2006, Design Museum Exhibition
31.Jump up ^ Jütting, Kerstin (2007). "Grow Up, 007!" – James Bond Over the Decades: Formula Vs. Innovation. GRIN Verlag. p. 13. ISBN 3-638-85372-1.
32.Jump up ^ ""From Russia with Love" (1963) at Soundtrack Incomplete". Loki Carbis. Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
33.^ Jump up to: a b "Listology: Rating the James Bond Theme Songs". Listology.com. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
34.^ Jump up to: a b John Barry. From Russia with Love audio commentary. From Russia with Love Ultimate Edition, Disc 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
35.^ Jump up to: a b The Music of James Bond (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
36.Jump up ^ "A Premium for Bond-Lovers:"From Russia with Love"". The Illustrated London News (London). 5 October 1963. p. 527.
37.Jump up ^ Sellers, Robert (1999). Sean Connery: a celebration. Robert Hale. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-7090-6125-0.
38.Jump up ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2014. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
39.Jump up ^ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978: The Company That Changed the Film Industry. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-299-23014-2. "The picture grossed twice as much as Dr. No, both foreign and domestic – $12.5 million worldwide"
40.Jump up ^ "From Russia with Love". The Numbers. Nash Information Service. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
41.Jump up ^ "From Russia, with Love (1964)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
42.Jump up ^ "Most Popular Films of 1963". The Times (London). 3 January 1964. p. 4.
43.Jump up ^ "Awards at Yahoo Movies". Retrieved 30 July 2007.
44.Jump up ^ "Awards won by From Russia with Love". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
45.^ Jump up to: a b Roud, Richard (11 October 1963). "New Films". The Guardian (London). p. 11.
46.^ Jump up to: a b Gilliatt, Penelope (13 October 1963). "Laughing it off with Bond: Films". The Observer (London). p. 27.
47.^ Jump up to: a b "Four Just Men Rolled into One". The Times (London). 10 October 1963. p. 17.
48.Jump up ^ Bosley Crowther (9 April 1964). "James Bond Travels the Orient Express". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 23 November 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2009.
49.^ Jump up to: a b "Once More Unto the Breach". Time. 10 April 1964. Retrieved 11 May 2009.
50.Jump up ^ "From Russia With Love (1963)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
51.Jump up ^ Zydel, Devin. "CBn Reviews 'From Russia With Love'". CBn. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
52.Jump up ^ Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic (Simon & Schuster, 1986) p.163
53.Jump up ^ Berardinelli, James. "Top 100 Runner Up: From Russia with Love". Reelviews. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
54.Jump up ^ "From Russia with Love (1963)". BBC. 19 June 2001. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
55.Jump up ^ "Get Carter tops British film poll". BBC News. 3 October 2004. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
56.Jump up ^ Antani, Jay. "From Russia with Love". Filmcritic.com. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
57.Jump up ^ "James Bond's Top 20". IGN. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
58.Jump up ^ Benjamin Svetkey, Joshua Rich (15 November 2006). "Ranking the Bond Films". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
59.Jump up ^ Norman Wilner. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
60.Jump up ^ McKay, Sinclair. The Man With the Golden Touch. Overlook Press: New York. 2008. Pg. 4
61.Jump up ^ Michael Brooke. "From Russia With Love (1963)". screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 11 May 2009.
62.Jump up ^ Nusair, David (1 November 2008). "From Russia With Love". AskMen. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
63.Jump up ^ Fischer, Paul (2008). "Broccoli and Wilson Rejuvenate Bond Franchise". FilmMonthly. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
64.Jump up ^ Posted by COLIN M JARMAN (27 June 2010). "IN MEMORY: Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli – The Mastermind behind the James Bond movies". Licensetoquote.com. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
65.Jump up ^ Chapman, James (2007). Licence to thrill: a cultural history of the James Bond films. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1-84511-515-5.
66.Jump up ^ "Interview with David Carson". GameSpy. 29 September 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
67.Jump up ^ Navarro, Alex (1 November 2005). "From Russia With Love Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 24 March 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
68.Jump up ^ Electronic Arts (1 November 2005). From Russia with Love.
Bibliography[edit]
Peary, Danny (1991). Cult Movie Stars. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-74924-8.
Rubin, Steven Jay (2003). The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia. New York: Contemporary Books. ISBN 978-0-07-141246-9.
Further reading[edit]
Erickson, Glenn (22 July 2006). "Jump Cut 3: The British Censorship of From Russia with Love from research by Gavin Salkeld". DVDTalk.com. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: From Russia with Love (film)
From Russia With Love at BFI Screenonline
From Russia with Love at the Internet Movie Database
From Russia with Love at AllMovie
From Russia with Love at Rotten Tomatoes
From Russia with Love at Box Office Mojo
From Russia With Love from MGM



[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond films






























































































Wikipedia book
Category
James Bond Portal





[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
The films of Terence Young

























































































[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films produced by Harry Saltzman












































































This is a good article. Click here for more information.
 



Categories: 1963 films
English-language films
1960s action films
1960s thriller films
British films
British spy films
Cold War espionage
Cold War spy films
Defection in fiction
Film scores by John Barry
Films directed by Terence Young
Films set in Istanbul
Films set in London
Films set in Venice
Films set in Yugoslavia
Films set on the Orient Express
Films shot in Argyll and Bute
Films shot in Berkshire
Films shot in Buckinghamshire
Films shot in Gwynedd
Films shot in Istanbul
Films shot in Madrid
Films shot in Switzerland
Films shot in Venice
From Russia with Love (film)
James Bond films
Pinewood Studios films
Rail transport films
United Artists films












Navigation menu




Create account
Log in




Article

Talk












Read

Edit

View history

























Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Shop

Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page

Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item
Cite this page

Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version

Languages
العربية
Català
Čeština
Cymraeg
Dansk
Deutsch
Eesti
Español
Euskara
Français
Հայերեն
हिन्दी
Hrvatski
Bahasa Indonesia
Italiano
עברית
ქართული
Lëtzebuergesch
Lietuvių
Magyar
Македонски
Nederlands
日本語
Norsk bokmål
Plattdüütsch
Polski
Português
Русский
Slovenčina
Српски / srpski
Suomi
Svenska
ไทย
Türkçe
Українська
中文
Edit links
This page was last modified on 16 August 2014 at 18:32.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Mobile view
Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki
   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love_(film)











Dr. No (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search



Dr. No
In the foreground, Bond wears a suit and is holding a gun; four female characters from the film are next to him.
British cinema poster for Dr. No, designed by David Chasman and illustrated by Mitchell Hooks

Directed by
Terence Young
Produced by
Harry Saltzman
Albert R. Broccoli
Screenplay by
Richard Maibaum
Johanna Harwood
Berkely Mather
Based on
Dr. No
 by Ian Fleming
Starring
Sean Connery
Ursula Andress
Joseph Wiseman
Jack Lord
John Kitzmiller
Music by
Monty Norman
Cinematography
Ted Moore
Edited by
Peter R. Hunt
Production
   company
Eon Productions
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date(s)
5 October 1962

Running time
109 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Budget
$1.1 million
Box office
$59.5 million
Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that would continue until 1975.
In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. Julius No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American manned space launch with a radio beam weapon. Although the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, Dr. No was not the first of Fleming's novels, Casino Royale being the debut for the character; however, the film makes a few references to threads from earlier books.
Dr. No was produced with a low budget and was a financial success. While critical reaction was mixed upon release, the film over time gained a reputation as one of the series' best instalments. The film was the first of a successful series of 23 Bond films. Dr. No also launched a genre of "secret agent" films that flourished in the 1960s. The film also spawned a spin-off comic book and soundtrack album as part of its promotion and marketing.
Many of the iconic aspects of a typical James Bond film were established in Dr. No: the film begins with an introduction to the character through the view of a gun barrel and a highly stylised main title sequence, both created by Maurice Binder. Production designer Ken Adam established an elaborate visual style that is one of the hallmarks of the Bond film series.



Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Writing
3.2 Casting 3.2.1 James Bond
3.2.2 Secondary cast
3.3 Filming
3.4 The introduction of James Bond
4 Soundtrack
5 Themes
6 Release and reception 6.1 Promotion
6.2 Critical response
6.3 Popular reaction
7 Comic book adaptation
8 Legacy 8.1 Global James Bond Day
9 See also
10 References
11 Bibliography
12 External links

Plot[edit]
John Strangways, the British Intelligence (SIS) Station Chief in Jamaica, is ambushed and killed, and his body taken by a trio of assassins known as the "Three Blind Mice". In response, British agent James Bond—also known as 007—is summoned to the office of his superior, M. Bond is briefed to investigate Strangways' disappearance and to determine whether it is related to his cooperation with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on a case involving the disruption of rocket launches from Cape Canaveral by radio jamming.
Upon his arrival at Kingston Airport, a female photographer tries to take Bond's picture and he is shadowed from the airport by two men. He is picked up by a chauffeur, whom Bond determines to be an enemy agent. Bond instructs him to leave the main road and, after a brief fight, Bond starts to interrogate the driver, who then kills himself with a cyanide-laced cigarette.
During his investigation in Strangways' house Bond sees a photograph of a boatman with Strangways. Bond locates the boatman, named Quarrel, but finds him to be uncooperative. Bond also recognises Quarrel to have been the driver of the car that followed him from the airport. Bond follows Quarrel and manages to overpower both him and a friend when the fight is interrupted by the second man who followed Bond from the airport: he reveals himself to be CIA agent Felix Leiter and explains that not only are the two agents on the same mission but also that Quarrel is helping Leiter. The CIA has traced the mysterious radio jamming of American rockets to the vicinity of Jamaica, but aerial photography cannot determine the exact location of its origin. Quarrel reveals that he has been guiding Strangways around the nearby islands to collect mineral samples. He also talks about the reclusive Dr. No, who owns the island of Crab Key, on which there is a bauxite mine: the island and mine are rigorously protected against trespassers by an armed security force and radar.
During a search of Strangways' house, Bond found a receipt, signed by Professor R. J. Dent, concerning rock samples. Bond meets with Dent who says he assayed the samples for Strangways and determined them to be ordinary rocks. This visit makes Dent wary and he takes a boat to Crab Key where Dr. No expresses displeasure at Dent's visiting Crab Key in daylight and his failure to kill Bond, ordering him to try again, this time with a tarantula. Bond survives and after a final attempt on his life, sets a trap for Dent, whom he captures, interrogates and then kills.
Having detected radioactive traces in Quarrel's boat, where Strangways' mineral samples had been, Bond convinces a reluctant Quarrel to take him to Crab Key. There Bond meets the beautiful Honey Ryder, dressed only in a white bikini, who is collecting shells. At first she is suspicious of Bond but soon decides to help him, leading them all inland to an open swamp. After nightfall they are attacked by the legendary "dragon" of Crab Key which turns out to be a flame-throwing armoured tractor. In the resulting gun battle, Quarrel is incinerated by the flame-thrower whilst Bond and Ryder are taken prisoner. Bond and Ryder are decontaminated and taken to quarters before being drugged.
Upon waking they are escorted to dine with Dr. No. He reveals that he is a member of SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) and plans to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam. After dinner Ryder is taken away and Bond is beaten by the guards.
Bond is imprisoned in a holding cell but manages to escape through a vent. Disguised as a worker, Bond finds his way to the control centre, a multi-level room full of high-tech instrumentation with an atomic reactor set into the floor, overseen by Dr. No from a command console. Bond overloads the nuclear reactor just as the American rocket is about to take off. Hand-to-hand combat ensues between Bond and Dr. No; the scientist is pushed into the reactor's cooling vat, in which he boils to death. Bond finds Ryder and the two escape in a boat just as the entire lair explodes.
Cast[edit]
Sean Connery as James Bond: A British MI6 agent, codename 007.
Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder (spoken voice by Nikki van der Zyl[1] and singing voice by Diana Coupland[2]): A local shell diver, making a living by selling Jamaican seashells to dealers in Miami.
Joseph Wiseman as Dr. Julius No: Main antagonist and a reclusive member of SPECTRE.
Jack Lord as Felix Leiter: A CIA operative sent to liaise with James Bond while he is in Kingston.
Bernard Lee as M: The head of the British Secret Service.
Anthony Dawson as Professor R.J. Dent: A geologist with a practice in Kingston, who also secretly works for Doctor No.
John Kitzmiller as Quarrel: A Cayman Islander who was employed by John Strangways to secretly go to Crab Key to collect rock samples; he also worked with Felix Leiter before Bond's arrival.
Zena Marshall as Miss Taro: The secretary to Mr. Pleydell-Smith at Government House in Kingston. She is actually a double agent working for Dr. No.
Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench (spoken voice by Nikki van der Zyl):[1] Trench first meets Bond from across a Chemin de Fer table at the London club Le Cercle.
Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: The secretary to M.
Peter Burton as Major Boothroyd: The head of Q-Branch, Boothroyd is brought in by M to replace Bond's Beretta M 1934 with a Walther PPK. This was Burton's only appearance as Q.
Timothy Moxon (uncredited) as John Strangways (voiced by Robert Rietty):[1] Strangways is the head of the Kingston station for the British Secret Service, murdered by Dr. No's henchmen, the 'Three Blind Mice'.
Reginald Carter as Mr. Jones: A henchman of Dr. No who was sent to pick up 007 at the Palisadoes Airport.
Yvonne Shima as Sister Lily: A Prison Warden working at Dr. No's lair.
Michel Mok as Sister Rose: Also working at Dr. No's lair.
Marguerite LeWars as Annabelle Chung: One of Dr. No's operatives who trails Bond. Unnamed in the film, she is credited simply as 'Photographer'
Dolores Keator as Mary: Strangways P.A. also murdered by the 'Three Blind Mice'
Production[edit]
When Harry Saltzman gained the rights for the James Bond book, he initially did not go through with the project. Instead, Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli wanted the rights to the Bond books and attempted to buy them from Saltzman. Saltzman did not want to sell the rights to Broccoli and instead they formed a partnership to make the James Bond films. A number of Hollywood film studios did not want to fund the films, finding them "too British" or "too blatantly sexual".[3] Eventually the two received authorisation from United Artists to produce Dr. No, to be released in 1962. Saltzman and Broccoli created two companies: Danjaq, which was to hold the rights to the films, and Eon Productions, which was to produce them.[4] The partnership between Broccoli and Saltzman lasted until 1975, when tensions during the filming of The Man with the Golden Gun led to an acrimonious split and Saltzman sold his shares of Danjaq to United Artists.[5]
Initially Broccoli and Saltzman had wanted to produce Thunderball as the first film, but there was an ongoing legal dispute between the screenplay's co-author, Kevin McClory and Ian Fleming. As a result Broccoli and Saltzman chose Dr. No:[6] the timing was apposite, with claims that American rocket testing at Cape Canaveral had problems with rockets going astray.[7]
The producers offered Dr. No to Guy Green, Guy Hamilton, Val Guest[8] and Ken Hughes to direct, but all of them turned it down. They finally signed Terence Young who had a long background with Broccoli's Warwick Films as the director. Broccoli and Saltzman felt that Young would be able make a real impression of James Bond and transfer the essence of the character from book to film. Young imposed many stylistic choices for the character which continued throughout the film series.[4] Young also decided to inject much humour, as he considered that "a lot of things in this film, the sex and violence and so on, if played straight, a) would be objectionable, and b) we're never gonna go past along the censors; but the moment you take the mickey out, put the tongue out in the cheek, it seems to disarm."[9]
The producers asked United Artists for financing, but the studio would only put up $1 million. Later, the UK arm of United Artists provided an extra $100,000 to create the climax where Dr. No's base explodes.[10] As a result of the low budget, only one sound editor was hired (normally there are two, for sound effects and dialogue),[11] and many pieces of scenery were made in cheaper ways, with M's office featuring cardboard paintings and a door covered in a leather-like plastic, the room where Dent meets Dr. No costing only £745 to build,[12] and the aquarium in Dr. No's base being magnified stock footage of goldfish.[13] Furthermore, when art director Syd Cain found out his name was not in the credits, Broccoli gave him a golden pen to compensate, saying that he did not want to spend money making the credits again.[14]
Writing[edit]
Broccoli had originally hired Richard Maibaum and his friend Wolf Mankowitz to write Dr. No's screenplay, partly because of Mankowitz's help in brokering the deal between Broccoli and Saltzman.[15] An initial draft of the screenplay was rejected because the scriptwriters had made the villain, Dr. No, a monkey.[16][17] Mankowitz left the movie, and Maibaum then undertook a second version, more closely in line with the novel. Mankowitz eventually had his name removed from the credits after viewing early rushes, as he feared it would be a disaster.[4] Johanna Harwood and thriller writer Berkely Mather then worked on Maibaum's script,.[18] Terence Young described Harwood as a script doctor who helped put elements more in tune with a British character.[10] Harwood stated in an interview in a Cinema Retro special on the making of the film that she had been a screenwriter of several of Harry Saltzman's projects; and claimed both her screenplays for Dr. No and her screenplay for From Russia with Love had followed Fleming's novels closely.[19]
During the series' fifty-year history only a few of the films have remained substantially true to their source material; Dr. No has many similarities to the novel and follows its basic plot, but there are a few notable omissions. Major elements from the novel that are missing from the film include Bond's fight with a giant squid, and the escape from Dr. No's complex using the dragon-disguised swamp buggy. Elements of the novel that were significantly changed for the film include the use of a (non-venomous) tarantula spider instead of a centipede; Dr. No's secret complex being disguised as a bauxite mine instead of a guano quarry; Dr. No's plot to disrupt NASA space launches from Cape Canaveral using a radio beam instead of disrupting US missile testing on Turks Island; the method of Dr. No's death by drowning in reactor coolant rather than a burial under a chute of guano, and the introduction of SPECTRE, an organisation absent from the book.[17] Components absent from the novel but added to the film include the introduction of the Bond character in a gambling casino, the introduction of Bond's semi-regular girlfriend Sylvia Trench, a fight scene with an enemy chauffeur, a fight scene to introduce Quarrel, the seduction of Miss Taro, Bond's recurring CIA ally Felix Leiter, Dr. No's partner in crime Professor Dent and Bond's controversial cold-blooded killing of this character.[17]
Sometimes episodes in the novel retained in the film's altered narrative introduce elements of absurdity into the plot. Bond's "escape" from his cell via the air shaft, for instance, originally conceived as a ruse of Dr. No's to test Bond's skill and endurance, becomes an authentic break-out in the film. Features carried over from the novel's obstacle course, however, such as the torrent of water and scalding surface, have no logical justification in the script. Such incongruities would recur in subsequent Bond films.[17]
Casting[edit]
James Bond[edit]
While producers Broccoli and Saltzman originally sought Cary Grant for the role, they discarded the idea as Grant would be committed to only one feature film, and the producers decided to go after someone who could be part of a series.[4] Richard Johnson has claimed to have been the first choice of the director, but he turned it down because he already had a contract with MGM and was intending to leave.[20] Another actor purported to have been considered for the role was Patrick McGoohan on the strength of his portrayal of spy John Drake in the television series Danger Man: McGoohan turned down the role.[21] Another potential Bond included David Niven, who would later play the character in the 1967 satire Casino Royale.[22]
There are several apocryphal stories as to whom Ian Fleming personally wanted. Reportedly, Fleming favoured actor Richard Todd.[23] In his autobiography When the Snow Melts, Cubby Broccoli said Roger Moore had been considered, but had been thought "too young, perhaps a shade too pretty."[24] In his autobiography, My Word Is My Bond, Moore says he was never approached to play the role of Bond until 1973, for Live and Let Die.[25] Moore appeared as Simon Templar on the television series The Saint, airing in the United Kingdom for the first time on 4 October 1962, only one day before the premiere of Dr. No.[26]
Ultimately, the producers turned to 30-year-old Sean Connery for five films.[4] It is often reported that Connery won the role through a contest set up to "find James Bond". While this is untrue, the contest itself did exist, and six finalists were chosen and screen tested by Broccoli, Saltzman, and Fleming. The winner of the contest was a 28 year-old model named Peter Anthony, who, according to Broccoli, had a Gregory Peck quality, but proved unable to cope with the role.[27] When Connery was invited to meet Broccoli and Saltzman he appeared scruffy and in unpressed clothes, but Connery "put on an act and it paid off" as he acted in the meeting with a macho, devil-may-care attitude.[28] When he left both Saltzman and Broccoli watched him through the window as he went to his car, both agreeing that he was the right man for Bond.[29] After Connery was chosen, Terence Young took the actor to his tailor and hairdresser,[30] and introduced him to the high life, restaurants, casinos and women of London. In the words of Bond writer Raymond Benson, Young educated the actor "in the ways of being dapper, witty, and above all, cool".[31]
Secondary cast[edit]
For the first Bond girl Honey Ryder, Julie Christie was considered, but discarded as the producers felt she was not voluptuous enough.[32] Just two weeks before filming began, Ursula Andress was chosen to play Honey after the producers saw a picture of her taken by Andress' then-husband John Derek. To appear more convincing as a Jamaican, Andress had a tan painted on her and ultimately had her voice dubbed over due to her heavy Swiss German accent.[4] For Bond's antagonist Dr. Julius No, Ian Fleming wanted his friend Noël Coward, and he answered the invitation with "No! No! No!"[33] Fleming considered that his step-cousin, Christopher Lee, would be good for the role of Dr. No, although by the time Fleming told the producers, they had already chosen Joseph Wiseman for the part.[34] Harry Saltzman picked Wiseman because of his performance in the 1951 film Detective Story,[35] and the actor had special make-up applied to evoke No's Chinese heritage.[4]
The role as the first Felix Leiter was given to Jack Lord. This is Bond and Leiter's first time meeting each other on film and Leiter does not appear in the novel. Leiter returns for many of Bond's future adventures and in the 2006 reboot of the film series, Casino Royale, Leiter and Bond are seen meeting one another again for the first time. This was Lord's only appearance as Leiter, as he asked for more money and a better billing to return as Leiter in Goldfinger and was subsequently replaced.[36]
The cast also included a number of actors who were to become stalwarts of the future films, including Bernard Lee, who played Bond's superior M for another ten films, and Lois Maxwell, who played M's secretary Moneypenny in fourteen instalments of the series.[37] Lee was chosen because of being a "prototypical father figure",[38] and Maxwell after Fleming thought she was the perfect fit for his description of the character.[39] Maxwell was initially offered a choice between the roles of Moneypenny or Sylvia Trench and opted for Moneypenny as she thought the Trench role, which included appearing in immodest dress, was too sexual.[40][41] Eunice Gayson was cast as Sylvia Trench and it was planned that she would be a recurring girlfriend for Bond throughout six films,[30] although she appeared only in Dr. No and From Russia with Love. She had been given the part by director Terence Young, who had worked with her in Zarak and invited Gayson saying "You always bring me luck in my films",[42] although she was also cast due to her voluptuous figure.[43] One role which was not given to a future regular was that of Major Boothroyd, the head of Q-Branch, which was given to Peter Burton. Burton was unavailable for the subsequent film, From Russia with Love, and the role was taken by Desmond Llewelyn.[44]
Anthony Dawson, who played Professor Dent, met director Terence Young when he was working as a stage actor in London, but by the time of the film's shooting Dawson was working as a pilot and crop duster in Jamaica.[10] Dawson also portrayed Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of SPECTRE, in From Russia with Love and Thunderball, although his face was never seen and his voice was dubbed by Eric Pohlmann.[45][46] Zena Marshall, who played Miss Taro, was mostly attracted by the humorous elements of the script,[47] and described her role as "this attractive little siren, and at the same time I was the spy, a bad woman",[48] who Young asked to play "not as Chinese, but a Mid-Atlantic woman who men dream about but is not real".[49] The role of Taro was previously rejected by Marguerite LeWars, the Miss Jamaica 1961 who worked at the Kingston airport, as it required being "wrapped in a towel, lying in a bed, kissing a strange man". LeWars appeared as a photographer hired by Dr. No instead.[43]
Filming[edit]
Dr. No is set in London, England, Kingston, Jamaica and Crab Key, a fictional island off Jamaica.[50] Filming began on location in Jamaica on 16 January 1962. The primary scenes there were the exterior shots of Crab Key and Kingston, where an uncredited Syd Cain acted as art director and also designed the Dragon Tank.[51] They shot a few yards from Fleming's Goldeneye estate, and the author would regularly visit the filming with friends.[52] Location filming was largely in Oracabessa, with additional scenes on the Palisadoes strip and Port Royal in St Andrew.[53] On 21 February, production left Jamaica with footage still unfilmed due to a change of weather.[10] Five days later, filming began at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England with sets designed by Ken Adam, which included Dr. No's base, the ventilation duct and the interior of the British Secret Service headquarters. The studio would later be used on the majority of later Bond films.[4] Adam's initial budget for the entire film was just £14,500 (£269,903 in 2014 [54]), but the producers were convinced to give him an extra £6,000 out of their own finances. After 58 days of filming, principal photography wrapped on 30 March 1962.[55]
The scene where a tarantula walks over Bond was initially shot by pinning a bed to the wall and placing Sean Connery over it, with a protective glass between him and the spider. Director Young did not like the final results, so the scenes were interlaced with new footage featuring the tarantula over stuntman Bob Simmons.[10] Simmons, who was uncredited for the film, described the scene as the most frightening stunt he had ever performed.[56] The book features a scene where Honey is tortured by being tied to the ground along with crabs, but since the crabs were sent frozen from the Caribbean, they did not move much during filming, so the scene was altered to have Honey slowly drowning.[4] Simmons also served as the film's fight choreographer, employing a rough fighting style. The noted violence of Dr. No, which also included Bond shooting Dent in cold blood, caused producers to make adaptations in order to get an "A" rating – allowing minors to enter accompanied by an adult – from the British Board of Film Classification.[57]
When he is about to have dinner with Dr. No, Bond is amazed to see Goya's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington. The painting had been stolen from the National Gallery by a 60 year-old amateur thief in London just before filming began.[58] Ken Adam had contacted the National Gallery in London to obtain a slide of the picture, painting the copy over the course of the weekend, prior to filming commencing on the Monday.[13]
Editor Peter R. Hunt used an innovative editing technique, with extensive use of quick cuts, and employing fast motion and exaggerated sound effects on the action scenes.[59] Hunt said his intention was to "move fast and push it along the whole time, while giving it a certain style",[60] and added that the fast pacing would help audiences not notice any writing problems.[10] As title artist Maurice Binder was creating the credits, he had an idea for the introduction that would appear in all subsequent Bond films, the James Bond gun barrel sequence. It was filmed in sepia by putting a pinhole camera inside an actual .38 calibre gun barrel, with Bob Simmons playing Bond.[4] Binder also designed a highly stylised main title sequence, a theme that has been repeated in the subsequent Eon-produced Bond films.[61] Binder's budget for the title sequence was £2,000 (£37,228 in 2014[54]).[62]
The introduction of James Bond[edit]



File:Bond, James Bond.ogg
Play media


 A seminal moment in cinema. Sean Connery introduces James Bond to the film world with his trademark statement, "Bond, James Bond."
The character James Bond was introduced towards, but not at, the beginning of the film in a "now-famous nightclub sequence featuring Sylvia Trench",[63] to whom he makes his "immortal introduction".[41] The introduction to the character in Le Cercle at Les Ambassadeurs, an upmarket gambling club, is derived from Bond's introduction in the first novel, Casino Royale,[64] which Fleming had used because "skill at gambling and knowledge of how to behave in a casino were seen ... as attributes of a gentleman".[65] After losing a hand of Chemin de Fer to Bond, Trench asks his name. There is the "most important gesture [in] ... the way he lights his cigarette before giving her the satisfaction of an answer. 'Bond, James Bond'."[66] Once Connery says his line, Monty Norman's Bond theme plays "and creates an indelible link between music and character."[67] In the short scene introducing Bond, there are portrayed "qualities of strength, action, reaction, violence – and this elegant, slightly brutal gambler with the quizzical sneer we see before us who answers a woman when he's good and ready."[66] Raymond Benson, author of the continuation Bond novels, has stated that as the music fades up on the scene, "we have ourselves a piece of classic cinema".[68]
Following the release of Dr. No, the quote "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture: writers Cork and Scivally said of the introduction in Dr. No that the "signature introduction would become the most famous and loved film line ever".[69] In 2001 it was voted as the "best-loved one-liner in cinema" by British cinema goers.[70] In 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series.[71]
Soundtrack[edit]
Main article: Dr. No (soundtrack)
Monty Norman was invited to write the soundtrack because Broccoli liked his work on the 1961 theatre production Belle, a musical about murderer Hawley Harvey Crippen.[72] Norman was busy with musicals, and only accepted to do the music for Dr. No after Saltzman allowed him to travel along with the crew to Jamaica.[73] The most famous composition in the soundtrack is the "James Bond Theme", which is heard in the gunbarrel sequence and in a calypso medley over the title credits, and was written by Norman based on a previous composition of his. John Barry, who would later go on to compose the music for eleven Bond films, arranged the Bond theme, but was uncredited—except for the credit of his orchestra playing the final piece. It has occasionally been suggested that Barry, not Norman, composed the "James Bond Theme". This argument has been the subject of two court cases, the most recent in 2001, which found in favour of Norman.[74] The theme, as written by Norman and arranged by Barry, was described by another Bond film composer, David Arnold, as "bebop-swing vibe coupled with that vicious, dark, distorted electric guitar, definitely an instrument of rock 'n' roll ... it represented everything about the character you would want: It was cocky, swaggering, confident, dark, dangerous, suggestive, sexy, unstoppable. And he did it in two minutes."[75]
The music for the opening scene is a calypso version of the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice", with new lyrics to reflect the intentions of the three assassins hired by Dr. No.[72] Other notable songs in the film are the song "Jump Up",[76] played in the background, and the traditional Jamaican calypso "Under the Mango Tree", famously sung by Diana Coupland (then Norman's wife), the singing voice of Honey Ryder, as she walked out of the ocean on Crab Key.[72] Byron Lee & the Dragonaires appeared in the film and performed some of the music on the later soundtrack album.[76] Lee and other Jamaican musicians who appear in soundtrack, including Ernest Ranglin and Carlos Malcolm, were introduced to Norman by Chris Blackwell, the owner of then-small label Island Records who worked in the film as a location scout.[73][77] The original soundtrack album was released by United Artists Records in 1963 as well as several cover versions of "The James Bond Theme" on Columbia Records.[78] A single of the "James Bond Theme" entered the UK Singles Chart in 1962, reaching a peak position of number thirteen during an eleven-week spell in the charts.[79] Ranglin, who had acted as arranger on several tracks, and Malcolm sued Eon for unpaid fees, both settling out of court;[77] Malcolm and his band performed a year later at the film's premiere in Kingston.[77]
Themes[edit]
Dr. No introduced the many recurring themes and features associated with the suave and sophisticated secret agent: the distinctive "James Bond Theme", the gun barrel sequence, his initial mission briefing with M, "Bond girls", the criminal organisation SPECTRE, narrow escapes, Bond's luck and skill, his signature Walther PPK and the licence to kill, over-ambitious villains, henchmen and allies. Many characteristics of the following Bond films were introduced in Dr. No, ranging from Bond's introduction as "Bond, James Bond" (although he seems to be mimicking Sylvia Trench who introduces herself first as "Trench. Sylvia Trench"), to his taste for vodka martinis "shaken, not stirred", love interests, and weaponry.[4]
Dr. No also establishes the oft-repeated association (in this case, Project Mercury) between the Bond series and the US manned space programme—which would be repeated with Project Gemini in You Only Live Twice, Project Apollo in Diamonds Are Forever, and the space shuttle in Moonraker (not to mention several outer space sequences involving fictional satellite programmes in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Die Another Day).[80]
Release and reception[edit]
Promotion[edit]
As soon as late 1961, United Artists started a marketing campaign to make James Bond a well-known name in North America. Newspapers received a box set of Bond's books, as well as a booklet detailing the Bond character and a picture of Ursula Andress.[81] Eon and United Artists made licensing deals revolving around the character's tastes, having merchandising tie-ins with drink, tobacco, men's clothing and car companies. The campaign also focused on Ian Fleming's name due to the minor success of the books.[82] After Dr. No had a successful run in Europe, Sean Connery and Terence Young did a cross-country tour in March 1963, which featured screening previews for the film and press conferences. It culminated in a well-publicised premiere in Kingston, where most of the film is set.[81][82] Some of the campaign emphasised the sex appeal of the film, with the poster artwork, by Mitchell Hooks, depicting Sean Connery and four scantily clad women.[43] The campaign also included the 007 logo designed by Joseph Caroff with a pistol as part of the seven.[83]
Dr. No had its worldwide premiere at the London Pavilion, on 5 October 1962, expanding to the rest of the United Kingdom three days later.[84] The North American premiere on 8 May 1963 was more low-profile, with 450 cinemas in Midwest and Southwest regions.[85] On 29 May it opened in both Los Angeles and New York City – in the former as a double-bill with The Young and the Brave[84] and the latter in United Artists' "Premiere Showcase" treatment, screening in 84 screens across the city to avoid the costly Broadway cinemas.[81]
Critical response[edit]
Upon release, Dr. No received a mixed critical reception. Time called Bond a "blithering bounder" and "a great big hairy marshmallow" who "almost always manages to seem slightly silly".[86] Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic said that he felt the film "never decides whether it is suspense or suspense-spoof." He also did not like Connery, or the Fleming novels.[87] The Vatican condemned Dr. No because of Bond's cruelty and the sexual content, whilst the Kremlin said that Bond was the personification of capitalist evil – both controversies helped increase public awareness of the film and greater cinema attendance.[88] However Leonard Mosely in The Daily Express said that "Dr No is fun all the way, and even the sex is harmless",[89] whilst Penelope Gilliatt in The Observer said it was "full of submerged self-parody".[90] The Guardian's critic called Dr. No "crisp and well-tailored" and "a neat and gripping thriller."[91]
In the years that followed its release it became more popular. Writing in 1986, Danny Peary described Dr. No as a "cleverly conceived adaption of Ian Fleming's enjoyable spy thriller ... Picture has sex, violence, wit, terrific action sequences, and colorful atmosphere ... Connery, Andress and Wiseman all give memorable performances. There's a slow stretch in the middle and Dr. No could use a decent henchman, but otherwise the film works marvelously." Describing Dr. No as "a different type of film", Peary notes that "Looking back, one can understand why it caused so much excitement."[92]
The 2005 American Film Institute's '100 Years' series also recognised the character of James Bond himself in the film as the third greatest film hero.[93] He was also placed at number eleven on a similar list by Empire.[94] Premiere also listed Bond as the fifth greatest movie character of all time.[95]
Popular reaction[edit]
In the United Kingdom, playing in 168 cinemas, Dr. No grossed $840,000 in just two weeks and wound up being the fifth most popular movie of the year there.[96] The box office results in mainland Europe were also positive.[81] The film ended up grossing $6 million, making it a financial success compared to its $1 million budget.[81][82] The original North American gross rental was $2 million, increasing to $6 million after its first reissue in 1965, as a double feature with From Russia with Love. The following reissue was in 1966 paired with Goldfinger, to compensate the fact that the next Bond movie would only come out in the following year.[97] The total gross of Dr. No ended up being $59.6 million worldwide,[98] IGN listed it as sixth-best Bond film ever,[99] Entertainment Weekly put it at seventh among Bond films,[100] and Norman Wilner of MSN as twelfth best.[101] All the rankings considered the film modest, but effective, with Connery's charisma overcoming flaws of the plot and the low budget. Dr. No currently has a 98% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[102] President John F. Kennedy was a fan of Ian Fleming's novels[103] and requested a private showing of Dr. No in the White House.[7]
In 2003, the scene of Andress emerging from the water in a bikini topped Channel 4's list of one hundred sexiest scenes of film history.[104] The bikini was sold in 2001 at an auction for $61,500.[105] Entertainment Weekly and IGN ranked her first in a top ten "Bond babes" list.[106][107]
Comic book adaptation[edit]
Main article: Dr. No (comics)
Around the time of Dr. No's release in October 1962, a comic book adaptation of the screenplay, written by Norman J. Nodel, was published in the United Kingdom as part of the Classics Illustrated anthology series. It was later reprinted in the United States by DC Comics as part of its Showcase anthology series, in January 1963. This was the first American comic book appearance of James Bond and is noteworthy for being a relatively rare example of a British comic being reprinted in a fairly high-profile American comic. It was also one of the earliest comics to be censored on racial grounds (some skin tones and dialogue were changed for the American market).[108]
Legacy[edit]




It is because of [Ken Adam] that people believe criminal masterminds operate from the insides of dormant volcanoes and travel between their sumptuously decorated lairs on chrome-plated monorails. It's his fault that we think gold bars are stacked in vast cathedral-tall warehouses and that secret agents escape capture by using jetpacks or ejector seats.
Johnny Dee, writing in The Guardian (2005).[13]
Dr. No was the first of 23 James Bond films produced by Eon, which have grossed just over $5 billion in box office returns alone,[109] making the series one of the highest-grossing ever. It is estimated that since Dr. No, a quarter of the world's population have seen at least one Bond film.[7] Dr. No also launched a successful genre of "secret agent" films that flourished in the 1960s.[110] The UK Film Distributors' Association have stated that the importance of Dr. No to the British film industry cannot be overstated, as it, and the subsequent Bond series of films, "form the backbone of the industry".[111]
Dr. No – and the Bond films in general – also inspired television output, with the NBC series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,[112] which was described as the "first network television imitation" of Bond.[113] The style of the Bond films, largely derived from production designer Ken Adam, is one of the hallmarks of the Bond film series,[13] and the effect of his work on Dr. No's lair can be seen in another film he worked on, Dr. Strangelove.[114]
As the first film in the Bond series, a number of the elements of Dr. No were contributors to subsequent films, including Monty Norman's Bond theme and Maurice Binder's gun barrel sequence, variants of which all appeared in subsequent Bond films. These conventions were also lampooned in spoof films, such as the Austin Powers series.[115] The first spoof films happened relatively soon after Dr. No, with the 1964 film Carry On Spying showing the villain Dr. Crow being overcome by agents who included Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey) and Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor).[116]
A further legacy saw the sales of Fleming's books rise sharply after the release of Dr. No and the subsequent Bond films. In the seven months after Dr. No was released, 1.5 million copies of the novel were sold.[117] Worldwide sales of all the Bond books rose throughout the sixties as Dr. No and the subsequent films – From Russia with Love and Goldfinger – were released: in 1961 500,000 books had been sold, which rose to six million in 1964 and seven million in 1965. Between the years 1962 to 1967, a total of nearly 22.8 million Bond novels were sold.[118]
The film had an impact on ladies' fashion, with the bikini worn by Ursula Andress proving to be a huge hit: "not only sent sales of two-piece swimwear skyrocketing, it also made Andress an international celebrity".[119] Andress herself acknowledged that the "bikini made me into a success. As a result of starring in Dr No as the first Bond girl I was given the freedom to take my pick of future roles and to become financially independent".[120] It has been claimed that the use of the swimwear in Dr. No led to "the biggest impact on the history of the bikini".[119]
Global James Bond Day[edit]
On 5 October 2012, fifty years after the release of the film, Eon Productions celebrated "Global James Day", a series of events around the world.[121] Events included a film festival of showings of the James Bond films, a documentary of the series, an online auction for charity and further events at the Museum of Modern Art and the Toronto International Film Festival.[122] A concert of various James Bond music was held in Los Angeles in conjunction with the New York event.[123] The day also saw the release of "Skyfall", the theme song of the 2012 James Bond film of the same name; the song was released at 0:07 BST.[124]
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c "Dr. No (1962) – Cast". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
2.Jump up ^ "Actress Diana Coupland dies at 74". BBC News. 10 November 2006. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
3.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 13.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Inside Dr. No Documentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment. 1999.
5.Jump up ^ Parkinson, David (Jan 2011). "Broccoli, Albert Romolo (1909–1996)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63151. Retrieved 1 December 2012. (subscription required)
6.Jump up ^ Cork & Scivally 2002, p. 29.
7.^ Jump up to: a b c Dodds, Klaus (2005). "Screening Geopolitics: James Bond and the Early Cold War films (1962–1967)". Geopolitics 10 (2): 266–289. doi:10.1080/14650040590946584.
8.Jump up ^ Rigby, Jonathan. "Interview with Val Guest". NFT Interviews. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
9.Jump up ^ Young, Terence (1999). Audio commentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment.
10.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Audio commentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment. 1999.
11.Jump up ^ Wanstall, Norman (1999). Audio commentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment.
12.Jump up ^ Adam, Ken (1999). Audio commentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment.
13.^ Jump up to: a b c d Dee, Johnny (17 September 2005). "Licensed to drill". The Guardian (London).
14.Jump up ^ Cain, Syd (1999). Audio commentary (DVD). From Russia With Love (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment.
15.Jump up ^ Broccoli 1998, p. 158.
16.Jump up ^ Broccoli 1998, p. 159.
17.^ Jump up to: a b c d Smith 2002, p. 19.
18.Jump up ^ McGilligan 1986, p. 286.
19.Jump up ^ Johanna Harwood Interview Movie Classics # 4 Solo Publishing 2012
20.Jump up ^ "Richard Johnson Interview". Cinema Retro. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
21.Jump up ^ Barker, Dennis (14 January 2009). "Obituary: Patrick McGoohan". The Guardian (London).
22.Jump up ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 202.
23.Jump up ^ "Richard Todd, Obituary". The Daily Telegraph (London). 4 December 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
24.Jump up ^ Broccoli 1998, p. 165.
25.Jump up ^ Moore 2008, p. 173.
26.Jump up ^ Clark, Anthony. "Saint, The (1962–69)". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
27.Jump up ^ Cork & Scivally 2002, p. 31.
28.Jump up ^ Bray 2010, p. 73.
29.Jump up ^ Bray 2010, p. 74.
30.^ Jump up to: a b Gayson, Eunice (1999). Audio commentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment.
31.Jump up ^ Benson, Raymond. Can the Cinematic Bond Ever Be the Literary Bond?. p. 7.. In Yeffeth 2006.
32.Jump up ^ Lisanti & Paul 2002, p. 36.
33.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 16.
34.Jump up ^ "The Total Film Interview – Christopher Lee". Total Film. 1 May 2005. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
35.Jump up ^ "Joseph Wiseman: Actor of stage and screen who played the title role in the 1962 James Bond movie 'Dr. No'". The Independent (London). 27 October 2009.
36.Jump up ^ Goldberg, Lee (March 1983). "The Richard Maibaum Interview". Starlog (68): 26.
37.Jump up ^ Caplen 2010, p. 75.
38.Jump up ^ Cork & Scivally 2002, p. 38.
39.Jump up ^ Rubin 2002, p. 272.
40.Jump up ^ Smith 2002, p. 15.
41.^ Jump up to: a b Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 15.
42.Jump up ^ Cork & d'Abo 2003, p. 21.
43.^ Jump up to: a b c Caplen 2010, p. 76.
44.Jump up ^ Simpson 2002, p. 83.
45.Jump up ^ Smith 2002, p. 30.
46.Jump up ^ "Thunderball (1965)". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
47.Jump up ^ "Zena Marshall: actress in Dr No". The Times (London). 18 July 2009.
48.Jump up ^ Caplen 2010, p. 85.
49.Jump up ^ Marshall, Zena (1999). Audio commentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment.
50.Jump up ^ Cork & Scivally 2002, p. 305.
51.Jump up ^ Cain 2005.
52.Jump up ^ Nathan, Ian (October 2008). "Unseen Bond". Empire: 97.
53.Jump up ^ Campbell, Howard (17 June 2012). "James Bond marathon begins with JA". The Jamaica Observer (Kingston).
54.^ Jump up to: a b UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2014), "What Were the British Earnings and Prices Then? (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
55.Jump up ^ Rubin 1981, p. 21.
56.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 17.
57.Jump up ^ "Dr. No rated A by the BBFC". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
58.Jump up ^ "Greatest heists in art history". BBC News. 23 August 2004.
59.Jump up ^ Hunt, Peter R. (1999). Goldfinger audio commentary. Goldfinger (Ultimate Edition, 2006), Disk 1: MGM Home Entertainment.
60.Jump up ^ Interview with Peter R. Hunt (2). Retrovision. 1997. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009.
61.Jump up ^ Cork & Scivally 2002, p. 46.
62.Jump up ^ Kirkham, Pat (December 1995). "Dots and sickles". Sight and Sound (London) 5 (12): 10.
63.Jump up ^ Barnes & Hearn 2001, p. 11.
64.Jump up ^ Chapman 2007, p. 58.
65.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 7.
66.^ Jump up to: a b Comentale, Watt & Willman 2005, p. 45.
67.Jump up ^ Lindner 2009, p. 142.
68.Jump up ^ Benson 1988, p. 170.
69.Jump up ^ Cork & Scivally 2002, p. 6.
70.Jump up ^ "James Bond tops motto poll". BBC News. 11 June 2001.
71.Jump up ^ "100 Years Series: "Movie Quotes"". AFI 100 Years Series. American Film Industry. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
72.^ Jump up to: a b c "The James Bond Theme History". Monty Norman official website. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
73.^ Jump up to: a b Norman, Monty. Audio commentary (DVD). Dr. No (Ultimate Edition, 2006): MGM Home Entertainment.
74.Jump up ^ "Bond theme writer wins damages". BBC News. 19 March 2001.
75.Jump up ^ Burlingame, Jon (3 November 2008). "Bond scores establish superspy template". Daily Variety.
76.^ Jump up to: a b Smith 2002, p. 17.
77.^ Jump up to: a b c Burlingame 2012, p. 10.
78.Jump up ^ "Music – Dr No". Mi6-HQ.com. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
79.Jump up ^ "John Barry Seven". Official UK Charts Archive. The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
80.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 94, 122–126 (online copy, p. 94, at Google Books).
81.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Balio 1987, pp. 259–260.
82.^ Jump up to: a b c Lindner 2009, pp. 120–121.
83.Jump up ^ "Selling Bond". Cinefantastique 37 (9): 126. Winter 2006. Archived from the original on 2005-04-10.
84.^ Jump up to: a b Tesche 2002, p. 425.
85.Jump up ^ Chapman 2007, p. 253.
86.Jump up ^ "Cinema: Hairy Marshmallow". Time. 31 May 1963.
87.Jump up ^ Anez, Nicholas (1 September 1992). "James Bond". Films in Review 43 (9): 310.
88.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer & Worrall 1998, p. 21.
89.Jump up ^ Moseley, Leonard (5 October 1962). "James Bond flirts with death". Daily Express (London). p. 4.
90.Jump up ^ Gilliatt, Penelope (7 October 1962). "Getting a laugh out of Bond". The Observer (London). p. 27.
91.Jump up ^ "James Bond v Dr. No". The Guardian (London). 8 October 1962. p. 17.
92.Jump up ^ Peary 1986, p. 127.
93.Jump up ^ "100 years series: 100 heroes and villains". AFI 100 Years Series. American Film Industry. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
94.Jump up ^ "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters: 11. James Bond". Empire. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
95.Jump up ^ "100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time". Premiere Magazine. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
96.Jump up ^ "Money-Making Films of 1962". The Times (London). 4 January 1964. p. 4.
97.Jump up ^ Balio 1987, pp. 262–265.
98.Jump up ^ "Dr No". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
99.Jump up ^ "James Bond's Top 20 (9–6)". James Bond's Top 20. IGN. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
100.Jump up ^ Svetkey, Benjamin; Rich, Joshua (1 December 2006). "Ranking the Bond Films". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
101.Jump up ^ Wilner, Norman. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
102.Jump up ^ "Dr. No". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
103.Jump up ^ "John F. Kennedy Miscellaneous Information". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Archived from the original on 21 February 2001. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
104.Jump up ^ "Andress scene voted 'most sexy'". BBC News. 30 November 2003.
105.Jump up ^ Westcott, Kathryn (5 June 2006). "The bikini: Not a brief affair". BBC News.
106.Jump up ^ "Countdown! The 10 best Bond girls". Entertainment Weekly. 24 November 2006. Retrieved 24 February 2008.
107.Jump up ^ Zdyrko, Dave. "Top 10 Bond Babes". IGN. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
108.Jump up ^ Evanier, Mark (3 December 2006). "Secrets Behind the Comics". NewsFromme.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2007.
109.Jump up ^ "Box Office History for James Bond Movies". Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
110.Jump up ^ Smith 2002, p. 21.
111.Jump up ^ "British film classics: Dr No". BBC News. 21 February 2003.
112.Jump up ^ Grigg, Richard (November 2007). "Vanquishing Evil without the Help of God: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and a World Come of Age". Journal of Communication & Religion 30 (2): 308–339.
113.Jump up ^ Worland, Rick (Winter 1994). "The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and TV espionage in the 1960s". Journal of Popular Film & Television 21 (4): 150–162. doi:10.1080/01956051.1994.9943983.
114.Jump up ^ Stillman, Grant B. (Winter 2008). "Two of the MADdest scientists: where Strangelove Meets Dr. No; or, unexpected roots for Kubrick's cold war classic". Film History 20 (4): 487–500. doi:10.2979/FIL.2008.20.4.487. ISSN 0892-2160.
115.Jump up ^ Gleiberman, Owen (9 May 1997). "A wild and crazy spy". Entertainment Weekly (378): 56. ISSN 1049-0434.
116.Jump up ^ Angelini, Sergio. "Carry on Spying (1964)". Screenonline. British Film Institute. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
117.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 96 (online copy, p. 96, at Google Books).
118.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 97 (online copy, p. 97, at Google Books).
119.^ Jump up to: a b Pedersen 2004, p. 69.
120.Jump up ^ Bennett, Will (12 January 2001). "Former Bond girl to sell Dr No bikini". The Daily Telegraph (London).
121.Jump up ^ "Eon Announces a Global James Bond Day on October 5th This Year". First Showing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
122.Jump up ^ "Global James Bond Day to celebrate 007's 50th anniversary". The Daily Telegraph.
123.Jump up ^ "Global James Bond Day: The world celebrates 007". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
124.Jump up ^ "Skyfall Official Theme Song News: Release To Coincide With Bond's 50th Anniversary". Eon Productions. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
Bibliography[edit]
Balio, Tino (1987). United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-11440-4.
Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2.
Benson, Raymond (1988). The James Bond Bedside Companion. London: Boxtree Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85283-233-9.
Black, Jeremy (2005). The politics of James Bond: from Fleming's novel to the big screen. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
Bray, Christopher (2010). Sean Connery; The measure of a Man. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-23807-1.
Broccoli, Albert R (1998). When the Snow Melts. London: Boxtree. ISBN 978-0-7522-1162-6.
Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-3.
Cain, Syd (2005). Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of Syd Cain. London: Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 978-1-905287-03-1.
Caplen, Robert (2010). Shaken & Stirred: The Feminism of James Bond. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4535-1282-1.
Chapman, James (2007). Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. London/New York City: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-515-9.
Comentale, Edward P; Watt, Stephen; Willman, Skip (2005). Ian Fleming & James Bond: the cultural politics of 007. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21743-1.
Cork, John; Scivally, Bruce (2002). James Bond: The Legacy. London: Boxtree. ISBN 978-0-7522-6498-1.
Cork, John; d'Abo, Maryam (2003). Bond girls are forever: the women of James Bond. London: Boxtree. ISBN 978-0-7522-1550-1.
Lindner, Christoph (2009). The James Bond phenomenon: a critical reader. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6541-5.
Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis (2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962–1973. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-1194-8.
Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Yours Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
McGilligan, Patrick (1986). Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-05689-3.
Moore, Roger (2008). My Word is My Bond. London: Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 978-1-84317-318-2.
Peary, Danny (1986). Guide for the Film Fanatic. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-61081-4.
Pedersen, Stephanie (2004). Bra: a thousand years of style, support and seduction. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-2067-9.
Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1998). The Essential Bond. London: Boxtree. ISBN 978-0-7522-2477-0.
Rubin, Steven Jay (1981). The James Bond films: a behind the scenes history. Westport, Conn: Arlington House. ISBN 978-0-87000-523-7.
Rubin, Steven Jay (2002). The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw-Hill Contemporary. ISBN 978-0-07-141246-9.
Simpson, Paul (2002). The rough guide to James Bond. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84353-142-5.
Smith, Jim (2002). Bond Films. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-0709-4.
Tesche, Siegfried (2002). Das grosse James-Bond-Buch (in German). Berlin: Henschel Verlag. ISBN 978-3-89487-440-7.
Yeffeth, Glenn, ed. (2006). James Bond in the 21st century: why we still need 007. Dallas, Texas: BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1-933771-02-1.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: Dr. No (film)
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dr. No.
Dr. No at BFI Screenonline
Dr. No at Box Office Mojo
Dr. No at the Internet Movie Database
Dr. No at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer



[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond films






























































































Wikipedia book
Category
James Bond Portal





[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
The films of Terence Young

























































































[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films produced by Harry Saltzman












































































This is a good article. Click here for more information.
 



Categories: 1962 films
1960s action films
1960s thriller films
British films
Dr. No (film)
English-language films
Films about terrorism
Films directed by Terence Young
Films set in Jamaica
Films set in London
Films set on beaches
Films set on islands
Films shot in Jamaica
James Bond films
Pinewood Studios films
Terrorism in fiction
United Artists films













Navigation menu




Create account
Log in




Article

Talk












Read

Edit

View history

























Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Shop

Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page

Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item
Cite this page

Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version

Languages
العربية
Azərbaycanca
Български
Català
Čeština
Cymraeg
Dansk
Deutsch
Eesti
Español
Esperanto
Euskara
فارسی
Français
Galego
한국어
Հայերեն
हिन्दी
Hrvatski
Bahasa Indonesia
Íslenska
Italiano
עברית
Basa Jawa
ქართული
Latina
Latviešu
Lëtzebuergesch
Lietuvių
Magyar
Македонски
मराठी
مصرى
မြန်မာဘာသာ
Nederlands
日本語
Norsk bokmål
Norsk nynorsk
Plattdüütsch
Polski
Português
Română
Русский
Simple English
Slovenčina
Српски / srpski
Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
Suomi
Svenska
తెలుగు
ไทย
Türkçe
Українська
中文
Edit links
This page was last modified on 22 August 2014 at 20:17.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Mobile view
Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki
    
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(film)











Die Another Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

For other uses, see Die Another Day (disambiguation).

Die Another Day
Die another Day - UK cinema poster.jpg
British cinema poster for Die Another Day, designed by Intralink Film Graphic Design

Directed by
Lee Tamahori
Produced by
Michael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli

Written by
Neal Purvis
Robert Wade

Based on
James Bond
 by Ian Fleming
Starring
Pierce Brosnan
Halle Berry
Toby Stephens
Rosamund Pike
Rick Yune
John Cleese
Judi Dench

Music by
David Arnold
Cinematography
David Tattersall
Edited by
Christian Wagner
Production
   company
Eon Productions
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
20th Century Fox (UK)
Release date(s)
20 November 2002 (UK)

Running time
133 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$142 million
Box office
$431,971,116
Die Another Day (2002) is the twentieth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and last film to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film follows Bond as he leads a mission to North Korea, during which he is betrayed and, after seemingly killing a rogue North Korean colonel, is captured and imprisoned. More than a year later Bond is released as part of a prisoner exchange. Surmising that someone within the British government betrayed him, he attempts to earn redemption by tracking down his betrayer and killing a North Korean agent he believes was involved in his torture.
Die Another Day, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and directed by Lee Tamahori, marks the James Bond franchise's 40th anniversary. The series began in 1962 with Sean Connery starring as Bond in Dr. No. Die Another Day includes references to each of the preceding films.[1]
The film received mixed reviews. Some critics praised the work of Lee Tamahori, while others criticised the film's heavy use of computer-generated imagery, which they found unconvincing and a distraction from the film's plot. Nevertheless, Die Another Day was the highest-grossing James Bond film up to that time if inflation is not taken into account.



Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Filming
3.2 Music
4 Marketing tie-ins
5 Release and reception
6 Novelization
7 Cancelled spin-off
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Plot[edit]
James Bond infiltrates a North Korean military base, where Colonel Tan-Sun Moon is illegally trading weapons for African conflict diamonds. After Moon's assistant Zao discovers that Bond is a British agent, the colonel attempts to kill Bond and a hovercraft chase ensues, which ends with Moon's apparent death. Bond survives, but is captured by North Korean soldiers and imprisoned by the Colonel's father, General Moon.
After 14 months of captivity and torture, Bond is traded for Zao in a prisoner exchange. He is sedated and taken to meet M, who informs him that his status as a 00 Agent is suspended due to her belief that he may have leaked information under duress. Bond is convinced that he has been set up by a double agent in the British government and decides to avenge his betrayal. After escaping from the custody of MI6, he travels to Hong Kong, where he learns from a Chinese agent that Zao is in Cuba.



 Bond and Jinx meet in Cuba
In Havana Bond meets NSA agent Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson and follows her to a gene therapy clinic, where patients can have their appearances altered through DNA restructuring. Bond locates Zao inside the clinic and attempts to kill him, but Zao escapes. He leaves behind a pendant in which Bond finds a cache of diamonds, identified as conflict diamonds, but bearing the crest of the company owned by British billionaire Gustav Graves.
At Blades Club in London Bond meets Graves, along with his assistant Miranda Frost, who is also an undercover MI6 agent. After a fencing exercise, Bond is invited by Graves to Iceland for a scientific demonstration. Shortly afterwards, M restores Bond's Double-0 status and offers assistance in the investigation.
At his ice palace in Iceland Graves unveils a new orbital mirror satellite, "Icarus", which is able to focus solar energy on a small area and provide year-round sunshine for crop development. During the night, Jinx infiltrates Graves' command centre, but is captured by Zao. Bond rescues her and later discovers that Colonel Moon is still alive. Moon has used the gene therapy technology to change his appearance, assuming the identity of Gustav Graves.
Bond confronts Graves, but Frost arrives to reveal herself as the traitor who betrayed Bond in North Korea, forcing 007 to escape from Graves' facility. Bond then returns in his Aston Martin Vanquish to rescue Jinx, who has been captured once again. Zao pursues him in his own vehicle, both cars driving inside the rapidly melting ice palace. Bond kills Zao by shooting an ice chandelier onto him, and then revives Jinx after she has drowned.
Bond and Jinx pursue Graves and Frost to the Korean peninsula and stow away on Graves' cargo plane. Graves reveals his true identity to his father, and the purpose of the Icarus satellite: to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarized Zone with concentrated sunlight, allowing North Korean troops to invade South Korea and reunite the countries by force. Horrified, General Moon tries to stop the plan, but he is murdered by his own son.
007 attempts to shoot Graves but he is prevented by one of the soldiers on board. In their struggle, a gunshot pierces the fuselage, causing the plane to descend rapidly. Bond engages Graves in a fist fight, and Jinx attempts to regain control of the plane. Frost attacks Jinx, forcing her to defend herself in a sword duel. After the plane passes through the Icarus beam and is further damaged, Jinx kills Frost. Graves attempts to escape by parachute, but Bond opens the parachute, causing Graves to be pulled out of the plane and into one of its engines, killing him and disabling the Icarus beam. Bond and Jinx then escape from the disintegrating plane in a helicopter from the cargo hold, carrying away Graves' stash of diamonds in the process.
Cast[edit]
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond 007, an MI6 agent.
Halle Berry as Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson, an NSA agent. In discussing her character, Berry said "She's fashion-forward, very sexy and takes fashion risks, and I love her for that."[2] According to an ITV news poll, Jinx was voted the fourth toughest girl on screen of all time.[3]
Toby Stephens as Gustav Graves, a British entrepreneur.
Rosamund Pike as Miranda Frost, undercover MI6 agent and double agent.
Rick Yune as Zao, a North Korean terrorist, formerly working for Moon.
Judi Dench as M, the head of MI6.
Will Yun Lee as Colonel Moon, a rogue North Korean army colonel.
Kenneth Tsang as General Moon, Colonel Moon's father.
John Cleese as Q, MI6's quartermaster and armourer.
Colin Salmon as Charles Robinson, one of M's ranking MI6 staff.
Ho Yi as the Hotel manager and Chinese special agent Mr. Chang. In early drafts of the script, it was Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) who aided Bond in Hong Kong, but the idea fell through and Chang was created to replace her.[4]
Rachel Grant as Peaceful Fountains of Desire, a Chinese agent working for Mr. Chang, undercover as a masseuse.
Emilio Echevarría as Raoul, the manager of a Havana cigar factory, and a British sleeper.
Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
Michael Gorevoy as Vladimir Popov, Gustav Graves' personal scientist
Lawrence Makoare as Mr. Kil, one of Gustav Graves' henchmen.
David Decio as Mr. Kil's personal assistant.
Michael Madsen as Damian Falco, Jinx's superior in the NSA.
Joaquin Martinez as an elderly cigar factory worker
Production[edit]
Filming[edit]



 The opening sequence was shot with surfers at Peʻahi, or Jaws, off the north coast of Maui in December 2001
Principal photography of Die Another Day began on 11 January 2002 at Pinewood studios.[5] The film was shot primarily in the United Kingdom, Iceland, and Cádiz, Spain. Other locations included Pinewood Studios' 007 Stage and Maui, Hawaii, in December 2001. Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, and Darrick Doerner performed the pre-title surfing scene at the surf break known as Jaws in Peʻahi, Maui,[6] while the shore shots were taken near Cádiz and Newquay, Cornwall. Scenes inside Graves' diamond mine were also filmed in Cornwall, at the Eden Project. The scenes involving the Cuban locations of Havana and the fictional Isla Los Organos were filmed at La Caleta, Spain.[7]
The scenes featuring Berry in a bikini were shot in Cádiz. The location was reportedly cold and windy, and footage has been released of Berry wrapped in thick towels between takes to avoid catching a chill.[8] Berry was injured during filming when debris from a smoke grenade flew into her eye. The debris was removed in a 30-minute operation.[9]
Gadgets and other props from every previous Bond film and stored in Eon Productions' archives appear in Q's warehouse in the London Underground. Examples include the jetpack in Thunderball and Rosa Klebb's poison-tipped shoe in From Russia with Love.[10] Q mentions that the watch he issues Bond is "your 20th, I believe", a reference to Die Another Day being the 20th Eon-produced Bond film.[11] In London, the Reform Club was used to shoot several places in the film, including the lobby at the Blades Club, MI6 Headquarters, Buckingham Palace, Green Park, and Westminster. Svalbard, Norway and Jökulsárlón, Iceland were used for the car chase on the ice with additional scenes filmed at Jostedalsbreen National Park, Norway and RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire;[7] Manston Airport in Ramsgate was used for the scenes involving the Antonov cargo plane scenes.[12] The scene in which Bond surfs the wave created by Icarus when Graves was attempting to kill Bond was shot on the blue screen. The waves, along with all the glaciers in the scene are computer-generated.



Jökulsárlón, Iceland
The hangar interior of the "US Air Base in South Korea", shown crowded with Chinook helicopters, was filmed at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, UK, as were the helicopter interior shots during the Switchblade sequence. These latter scenes, though portrayed in the air, were actually filmed entirely on the ground with the sky background being added in post-production using blue screen techniques. Although the base is portrayed in the film as a U.S. base, all the aircraft and personnel in the scene are British in real life. In the film, Switchblades (one-person gliders resembling fighter jets in shape) are flown by Bond and Jinx to stealthily enter North Korea. The Switchblade was based on a workable model called "PHASST" (Programmable High Altitude Single Soldier Transport). Kinetic Aerospace Inc.'s lead designer, Jack McCornack was impressed by director Lee Tamahori's way of conducting the Switchblade scene and commented, "It's brief, but realistic. The good guys get in unobserved, thanks to a fast cruise, good glide performance, and minimal radar signature. It's a wonderful promotion for the PHASST."[13] Additionally, Graves' plane was a 20-foot-wide (6.1 m) model controlled by a computer. When creating the scene in which the plane flew through the Icarus beam, engineers cut the aircraft away piece by piece in order to give the appearance that it was burning and falling apart.
Music[edit]
Main article: Die Another Day (soundtrack)
The soundtrack was composed by David Arnold and released on Warner Bros. Records.[14] He again made use of electronic rhythm elements in his score, and included two of the new themes created for The World Is Not Enough. The first, originally used as Renard's theme, is heard during the mammoth "Antonov" cue on the recording, and is written for piano. The second new theme, used in the "Christmas in Turkey" track of The World Is Not Enough, is reused in the "Going Down Together" track.
The title song for Die Another Day was written and performed by Madonna, who also had a cameo in the film as Verity, a fencing instructor. This is the first Bond title sequence to directly reflect the film's plot since Dr. No; all the other previous Bond titles are stand-alone set pieces. The concept of the title sequence is to represent Bond trying to survive 14 months of torture at the hands of the North Koreans. Critics' opinions of the song were sharply divided—it was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song and the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording,[15] but also for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song of 2002 (while Madonna herself won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for her cameo). In a MORI poll for the Channel 4 programme "James Bond's Greatest Hits", the song was voted 9th out of 22, and also came in as an "overwhelming number one" favourite among those under the age of 24.[16]
Marketing tie-ins[edit]
MGM and Eon Productions granted Mattel the license to sell a line of Barbie dolls based around the franchise. Mattel announced that the Bond Barbies will be at her "stylish best", clad in evening dress and red shawl. Lindy Hemming created the dress, which is slashed to the thigh to reveal a telephone strapped to Barbie's leg. The doll was sold in a gift set, with Barbie's boyfriend Ken posing as Bond in a tuxedo designed by the Italian fashion house Brioni.[17]
Revlon also collaborated with the makers of Die Another Day to create a cosmetics line based around the character Jinx. The limited edition 007 Colour Collection was launched on 7 November 2002 to coincide with the film's release. The product names were loaded with puns and innuendo, with shades and textures ranging from the "warm" to "cool and frosted".[18]
Carrera, a slot car manufacturer, sold a 1:45 scale slot car set based on the film which included an Aston Martin Vanquish and a Jaguar XKR as well as track. Corgi, a British toy car manufacturer, released 1:30 scale replicas of the Vanquish and Jaguar XKR.
Release and reception[edit]
Die Another Day had its world premiere on 18 November 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were guests of honour, making it the second Bond film premiere to be attended by the Queen, the first one being You Only Live Twice in 1967.[19] The Royal Albert Hall had a make-over for the screening and had been transformed into an ice palace. Proceeds from the première, about £500,000, were donated to the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund of which the Queen is patron.[20] On the first day, ticket sales reached £1.2 million.[21] Die Another Day was the highest grossing James Bond film until the release of Casino Royale. It earned $432 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest grossing film of 2002.
Die Another Day became a controversial subject in eastern Asia. The North Korean government disliked the portrayal of their state as brutal and war-hungry. The South Koreans boycotted 145 theatres where it was released on 31 December 2002, as they were offended by the scene in which an American officer issues orders to the South Korean army in the defence of their homeland, and by a lovemaking scene near a statue of the Buddha. The Jogye Buddhist Order issued a statement that the film was "disrespectful to our religion and does not reflect our values and ethics". The Washington Post reported growing resentment in the nation towards the United States. An official of the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism said that Die Another Day was "the wrong film at the wrong time."[22]
The amount of product placement in the film was a point of criticism, specifically from various news outlets such as the BBC, Time and Reuters who all used the pun "Buy Another Day". Reportedly 20 companies, paying $70 million, had their products featured in the film, a record at the time,[23] although USA Today reported that number to be as high as $100 million.[24] By choice, the number of companies involved in product placement was dropped to eight for the next Bond film Casino Royale in 2006.[24]
Rotten Tomatoes listed Die Another Day with a 57% rating.[25] Metacritic gave the film a 56 out of 100 rating, representing "Mixed or average reviews."[26] Michael Dequina of Film Threat praised the film as the best of the series to star Pierce Brosnan and "the most satisfying installment of the franchise in recent memory."[26] Larry Carroll of CountingDown.com praised Lee Tamahori for having "magnificently balanced the film so that it keeps true to the Bond legend, makes reference to the classic films that preceded it, but also injects a new zest to it all."[27] Entertainment Weekly magazine also gave a positive reaction, saying that Tamahori, "a true filmmaker", has re-established the series' pop sensuality.[28] Dana Stevens of The New York Times called the film the best of the James Bond series since The Spy Who Loved Me.[26] Kyle Bell of Movie Freaks 365 stated in his review that the "first half of Die Another Day is classic Bond", but that "Things start to go downhill when the ice palace gets introduced."[29]
However, Die Another Day was strongly criticised by some reviewers who felt that the film relied too heavily on gadgets and special effects, with the plot being neglected. James Berardinelli of Reelviews.net said, "This is a train wreck of an action film – a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed James Bond into the mindless xXx mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs." Of the action sequences, he said, "Die Another Day is an exercise in loud explosions and excruciatingly bad special effects. The CGI work in this movie is an order of magnitude worse than anything I have seen in a major motion picture. Coupled with lousy production design, Die Another Day looks like it was done on the cheap.[30] Gary Brown of the Houston Community Newspapers also described the weak point of the film as "the seemingly non-stop action sequences and loud explosions that appear to take center stage while the Bond character is almost relegated to second string."[31] Roger Moore remarked, "I thought it just went too far – and that’s from me, the first Bond in space! Invisible cars and dodgy CGI footage? Please!"[32]
Novelization[edit]
Die Another Day was written into a novel by the then-current official James Bond writer, Raymond Benson, based on the screenplay by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. Fan reaction to it was above average.[33] After its publication Benson retired as the official James Bond novelist and a new series featuring the secret agent's adventures as a teenager, by Charlie Higson was launched in 2005. As the novelization was published after Benson's final original 007 novel, The Man with the Red Tattoo, it was the final literary work featuring Bond as originally conceived by Ian Fleming until the publication of Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks in 2008 to mark the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth.[34]
Cancelled spin-off[edit]
Speculation arose in 2003 of a spin-off film concentrating on Jinx, which was scheduled for a November/December 2004 release. It was originally reported that MGM was keen to set up a film series and to be a "winter olympics" alternative to 'James Bond,'. As early as the late 1990s, MGM had originally considered developing a spin-off film based on Michelle Yeoh's character, Wai Lin, in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies. However, despite much speculation of an imminent movie, on October 26, 2003, Variety reported that MGM had completely pulled the plug on this project, to the dismay of Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson of Eon Entertainment, who were reported to be "clearly furious" about the decision.[35] MGM were keen to move on with the next film instead.
See also[edit]
Invisibility in fiction
Outline of James Bond



Walther PPK.svgJames Bond portal
 Video-x-generic.svgFilm portal
 Flag of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom portal
 Blue iPod Nano.jpg2000s portal
 

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "20 things you never knew about... James Bond". Virgin Media. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
2.Jump up ^ "Halle's big year". Ebony,. Nov 2002. "Of her character, Berry said: She's the next step in the evolution of women in the Bond movies. She's more modern and not the classic villain. She also said that Jinx is fashionable. She's fashion-forward, very sexy and takes fashion risks, and I love her for that."
3.Jump up ^ www.mi6.co.uk, Retrieved on March 28, 2008
4.Jump up ^ James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond
5.Jump up ^ Davies, Hugh (12 January 2002). "Brosnan meets the two-faced Bond villain". London: The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
6.Jump up ^ Timothy Hurley (18 November 2002). "Maui's monster surf break getting bigger by the day". Honolulu Advertiser. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
7.^ Jump up to: a b "Die Another Day filming locations". Retrieved 20 September 2007.
8.Jump up ^ Die Another Day (DVD). 2002.
9.Jump up ^ Hugh Davies (10 April 2002). "Halle Berry hurt in blast during Bond film scene". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 8 March 2012.
10.Jump up ^ Lee Tamahori, Michael G. Wilson. Die Another Day Audio commentary 1. Die Another Day.
11.Jump up ^ Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike. Die Another Day Audio commentary 2. Die Another Day.
12.Jump up ^ Kent Film Office. "Kent Film Office Die Another Day Film Focus".
13.Jump up ^ "Bond Flies PHASST" (Press release). Kinetic Aerospace. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
14.Jump up ^ "Die Another Day at Soundtracknet". Retrieved 20 September 2007.
15.Jump up ^ "Die Another Day at CD Universe". Retrieved 20 September 2007.
16.Jump up ^ Geoffrey Palmer (Narrator) (2006). James Bond's Greatest Hits (Television). UK: North One Television.
17.Jump up ^ "New Bond girl is a real doll". The Daily Telegraph (London). Archived from the original on 13 November 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
18.Jump up ^ "Discover your inner Bond girl with bullet-shaped mascaras and 007 blushes". The Daily Telegraph (London). 3 September 2002. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
19.Jump up ^ Goodway, Nick (18 November 2006). "Daniel Craig makes his 007 debut at premiere of Casino Royale". Daily Mail (London). Retrieved 19 September 2007.
20.Jump up ^ "Stars come out to support the cinema & television benevolent fund’s 60th royal film performance". Archived from the original on 15 August 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2009.
21.Jump up ^ "Die Another Day explodes at the box office". BBC News. 22 November 2002. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
22.Jump up ^ "Both sides of the DMZ irked by James Bond". Northwest Asian Weekly. Archived from the original on 16 November 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
23.Jump up ^ "New Bond film "a giant advert"". BBC News. 18 November 2002. Retrieved 23 March 2006.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Howard, Theresa (24 July 2006). "Bond reunites with Smirnoff". USA Today. Retrieved 24 July 2006.
25.Jump up ^ "Die Another Day at Rotten Tomatoes". Retrieved 19 September 2007.
26.^ Jump up to: a b c "Die Another Day at Metacritic". Retrieved 5 March 2012.
27.Jump up ^ "Review: Die Another Day". Retrieved 19 September 2007.
28.Jump up ^ "Die another Day at EW.com". Entertainment Weekly. 2 December 2002. Retrieved 19 September 2007.
29.Jump up ^ "Die Another Day Review". Retrieved 2 April 2009.
30.Jump up ^ "Review: Die Another Day". Retrieved 21 September 2007.
31.Jump up ^ "Not a good Day at the office for James Bond". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
32.Jump up ^ Roger Moore (4 October 2008). "Bye bye to Ian Fleming's James Bond?". The Times (London). Retrieved 5 October 2008.
33.Jump up ^ "Novelized Die Another Day". Commanderbond.net. 11 November 2002. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
34.Jump up ^ "Faulks pens new James Bond novel". BBC News. 11 July 2007. Retrieved 22 September 2007.
35.Jump up ^ Movies.yahoo.com at the Wayback Machine (archived December 6, 2003), Retrieved on 28 March 2008
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: Die Another Day
 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Die Another Day.
Die Another Day at the Internet Movie Database
Die Another Day at AllMovie
Die Another Day at Rotten Tomatoes
Die Another Day at Box Office Mojo



[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Die Another Day







































[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond films






























































































Wikipedia book
Category
James Bond Portal





[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films directed by Lee Tamahori
















This is a good article. Click here for more information.

 



Categories: 2002 films
English-language films
2000s action thriller films
2002 novels
British films
Die Another Day
Films about terrorism
Films directed by Lee Tamahori
Films set in Cuba
Films set in Hong Kong
Films set in Iceland
Films set in London
Films set in North Korea
Films set in South Korea
Films shot in England
Films shot in Hawaii
Films shot in Iceland
Films shot in multiple formats
Films shot in Norway
Films shot in Spain
Films using computer-generated imagery
Invisibility in fiction
James Bond books
James Bond films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Pinewood Studios films
Sequel films
Terrorism in fiction
North Korea in fiction













Navigation menu




Create account
Log in




Article

Talk












Read

Edit

View history

























Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Shop

Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page

Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item
Cite this page

Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version

Languages
العربية
Català
Čeština
Cymraeg
Dansk
Deutsch
Eesti
Español
Esperanto
Euskara
فارسی
Français
한국어
Հայերեն
हिन्दी
Hrvatski
Bahasa Indonesia
Italiano
עברית
ქართული
Lietuvių
Magyar
Македонски
Nederlands
日本語
Norsk bokmål
Polski
Português
Русский
Simple English
Slovenčina
Српски / srpski
Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
Suomi
Svenska
ไทย
Türkçe
Українська
##中文
Edit links
This page was last modified on 26 August 2014 at 07:01.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Mobile view
Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki
   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day












The World Is Not Enough
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

This article is about the 1999 film. For other uses, see The World Is Not Enough (disambiguation).

The World Is Not Enough
Poster shows a circle with Bond flanked by two women at the centre. Globs of fire and action shots from the film are below. The film's name is at the bottom.
British cinema poster for The World Is Not Enough, designed by Brian Bysouth

Directed by
Michael Apted
Produced by
Michael G. Wilson
Barbara Broccoli
Screenplay by
Neal Purvis
 Robert Wade
Bruce Feirstein
Story by
Neal Purvis
 Robert Wade
Based on
James Bond
 by Ian Fleming
Starring
Pierce Brosnan
Sophie Marceau
Robert Carlyle
Denise Richards
Robbie Coltrane
Judi Dench
Music by
David Arnold
Cinematography
Adrian Biddle, BSC
Edited by
Jim Clark
Production
   company
Eon Productions
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
United International Pictures (UK)
Release date(s)
8 November 1999 (Los Angeles, premiere)
26 November 1999 (United Kingdom)

Running time
128 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$135 million
Box office
$361,832,400

Yacht with the label "The World Is Not Enough 007".

 Yacht used in the opening boat chase, on display at boot Düsseldorf in spring 2000.
The World Is Not Enough (1999) is the nineteenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Michael Apted, with the original story and screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein.[1] It was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The title is taken from a line in the 1963 novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
The film's plot revolves around the assassination of billionaire Sir Robert King by the terrorist Renard, and Bond's subsequent assignment to protect King's daughter Elektra, who had previously been held for ransom by Renard. During his assignment, Bond unravels a scheme to increase petroleum prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul.
Filming locations included Spain, France, Azerbaijan, Turkey and the UK, with interiors shot at Pinewood Studios. Despite mixed critical reception, The World Is Not Enough earned $361,832,400 worldwide. It was also the first Eon-produced Bond film to be officially released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer instead of United Artists, the original distributor.



Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Filming
3.2 Music
4 Release and reception
5 Adaptations
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
MI6 agent James Bond meets a Swiss banker to retrieve money for Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and friend of M. Bond tells the banker that King was buying a report stolen from an MI6 agent who was killed for it, and wants to know who killed him. The banker threatens Bond, but Bond overpowers him. The banker is killed by his assistant before he can reveal the assassin's name. Bond escapes with the money.
Back in London, Sir Robert is killed by the booby-trapped money inside MI6. Bond gives chase to the assassin – the assistant again – on a boat on the Thames to the Millennium Dome, where the assassin attempts to escape via hot air balloon. Bond offers her protection, but she refuses. She detonates the balloon, killing herself.
Bond traces the recovered money to Renard, a KGB agent-turned-terrorist. Following an earlier attempt on his life by MI6, Renard was left with a bullet in his brain which is gradually destroying his senses, making him immune to pain. M assigns Bond to protect King's daughter, Elektra; Renard previously abducted and held her for ransom, and MI6 believes that he is targeting her a second time. Bond flies to Azerbaijan, where Elektra is overseeing the construction of an oil pipeline. During a tour of the pipeline's proposed route in the mountains, Bond and Elektra are attacked by a hit squad in armed, paraglider-equipped snowmobiles.
Afterwards Bond visits Valentin Zukovsky at a casino to acquire information about Elektra's attackers; he discovers that Elektra's head of security, Davidov, is secretly in league with Renard. Bond kills Davidov and boards a plane bound for a Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. There, Bond, posing as a Russian nuclear scientist, meets American nuclear physicist Christmas Jones and enters the silo. Inside, Renard removes the GPS locator card and weapons-grade plutonium from a bomb. Before Bond can kill him, Jones blows his cover. Renard steals the bomb and flees, leaving everyone to die in the booby-trapped missile silo. Bond and Jones escape the exploding silo with the locator card.
Back in Azerbaijan, Bond discloses to M that Elektra may not be as innocent as she seems, and hands her the locator card as proof of the theft: an alarm sounds, revealing that the stolen bomb from Kazakhstan is attached to an inspection rig heading towards the oil terminal. Bond and Jones enter the pipeline to deactivate the bomb, and Jones discovers that half of the plutonium is missing. They both jump clear of the rig and a large section of the pipe is destroyed. Bond and Jones are presumed killed. Back at the command centre, Elektra reveals that she killed her father as revenge for using her as bait for Renard. She abducts M, whom she resents for advising her father not to pay the ransom money.
Bond accosts Zukovsky at his caviar factory in the Caspian Sea – which is then attacked by Elektra's helicopters. Later, Zukovsky reveals his arrangement with Elektra was in exchange for the use of a submarine, currently being captained by Zukovsky's nephew, Nikolai. The group goes to Istanbul, where Jones realises that if Renard were to insert the stolen plutonium into the submarine's nuclear reactor, the resulting nuclear explosion would destroy Istanbul, sabotaging the Russians' oil pipeline in the Bosphorus. Elektra's pipeline is planned to go around Istanbul, dramatically increasing the value of her own oil. Bond then gets a signal from the locator card from the Maiden's Tower – just before Zukovsky's underling, Bullion blows up the command centre. Zukovsky is knocked unconscious, and Bond and Jones are captured by Elektra's henchmen. Jones is taken aboard the submarine, which was seized by Renard's men. Bond is taken to the tower, where Elektra tortures him with a garrote. Zukovsky and his men seize the tower, but Zukovsky is shot by Elektra. The dying Zukovsky uses his cane gun to free Bond. Bond frees M and kills Elektra.
Bond dives after the submarine, boards it and frees Jones. Following a fight, the submarine starts to dive, and hits the bottom of the Bosphorus, causing its hull to rupture. Bond catches up with Renard and fights and kills him. Bond and Jones escape from the submarine, leaving the flooded reactor to detonate safely underwater.
Cast[edit]
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, 007.
Denise Richards as Christmas Jones, a nuclear physicist assisting Bond in his mission.[2] Richards stated that she liked the role because it was "brainy", "athletic", and had "depth of character, in contrast to Bond girls from previous decades".[3]
Robert Carlyle as Renard, a former KGB agent turned terrorist who is impervious to pain due to a bullet lodged in his brain which is slowly killing off his senses.
Sophie Marceau as Elektra King, an oil heiress who wants to make her mark on the world by sealing an oil trade route with a nuclear explosion. She is Renard's lover, and also briefly Bond's.
Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Zukovsky: A former Russian mafia boss and Baku casino owner. He aids Bond in order to rescue his nephew from Renard's captivity.
Judi Dench as M: The head of MI6.
Colin Salmon as Charles Robinson: The Chief of Staff of MI6
Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's "quartermaster" who supplies Bond with multi-purpose vehicles and gadgets useful for the latter's mission. The film would be Llewelyn's final performance as Q. Although the actor was not officially retiring from the role, the Q character was training his eventual replacement in this film. Llewelyn was killed in a car accident shortly after the film's premiere.
John Cleese as R: Q's assistant and successor. The character is never formally introduced as "R" – This was simply an observation on Bond's part: "If you're Q....does that make him R?"
Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary
Serena Scott Thomas as Dr. Molly Warmflash: An MI6 physician who gives 007 "A clean bill of health."
John Seru as Gabor: Elektra King's bodyguard who is seen accompanying King wherever she travels.
Ulrich Thomsen as Sasha Davidov: Elektra King's head of security in Azerbaijan.
Goldie as Bullion: Valentin Zukovsky's gold-toothed bodyguard.
Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Giulietta da Vinci, credited in the film as "Cigar Girl": An experienced assassin working for Renard.
David Calder as Sir Robert King: Elektra's father and an oil tycoon who is later killed by his daughter.
Production[edit]
Joe Dante and then Peter Jackson were offered the opportunity to direct the film. Barbara Broccoli enjoyed Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, and a screening of The Frighteners was arranged for her. She disliked the latter film, however, and showed no further interest in Jackson. Jackson, a lifelong Bond fan, remarked that as Eon tended to go for less famous directors, he would likely not get another chance to direct a Bond film after The Lord of the Rings.[4]

Frontal view of a small submarine in a dockyard.

Russian Victor III Class Submarine used in filming.
The pre-title sequence lasts for about 14 minutes, the longest pre-title sequence in the Bond series to date. In the "making of" documentaries on the Ultimate Edition DVD release, director Michael Apted said that the scene was originally much longer than that. Originally, the pre-credits sequence was to have ended with Bond's leap from the window and descent to the ground, finishing as Bond rushes away from the area as police cars approach. Then, after the credits the sequence in MI6 headquarters would have been next, with the boat scenes the next major action sequence. However, the pre-credits scenes were viewed as lacklustre when compared to ones from previous 007 films, so the credits were pushed back to after the boat sequence and thus the longest pre-titles sequence in the series was born. The Daily Telegraph claimed that the British Government prevented some filming in front of the actual MI6 Headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, citing a security risk. However, a Foreign Office spokesperson rejected the claims and expressed displeasure with the article.[5]
Initially the film was to be released in 2000, rumoured to be titled Bond 2000. Other rumoured titles included Death Waits for No Man, Fire and Ice, Pressure Point and Dangerously Yours.[6] The title The World Is Not Enough is an English translation of the Latin phrase Orbis non-sufficit, which in real life was the motto of Sir Thomas Bond. In the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service and its film adaptation, this is revealed to be the Bond family motto. The phrase originates from the epitaph of Alexander the Great.[7]
Writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade were hired after their work in Plunkett & Macleane.[8] Dana Stevens did an uncredited rewrite before Bruce Feirstein, who worked in the previous two films, took over the script.[9]
Filming[edit]

Bond in a grey suit, leaning against a roadster with oil rigs in the background.

 Brosnan with the BMW Z8 that is used in the film. The backdrop is intended to be Azerbaijan.
The pre-title sequence begins in Bilbao, Spain, featuring the Guggenheim Museum. After the opening scene, the film moves to London, showcasing the SIS Building and the Millennium Dome on the Thames. Following the title sequence, Eilean Donan castle in Scotland is used by MI6 as a location headquarters. Other locations include Baku, Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan Oil Rocks and Istanbul, Turkey, where Maiden's Tower is shown.[10]
The studio work for the film was shot as usual in Pinewood Studios, including Albert R. Broccoli's 007 Stage. Bilbao, Spain was used briefly for the exterior of the Swiss bank and flyover-bridge adjacent to the Guggenheim Museum. In London outdoor footage was shot of the SIS Building and Vauxhall Cross with several weeks filming the boat chase on the River Thames eastwards towards the Millennium Dome, Greenwich.[11] The canal footage of the chase where Bond soaks the parking wardens was filmed at Wapping and the boat stunts in Millwall Dock and under Glengall Bridge were filmed at the Isle of Dogs. Chatham Dockyard was also used for part of the boat chase.[12] Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, was used as the site of the King family estate on the banks of Loch Lomond. Filming continued in Scotland at the Eilean Donan Castle to depict the exterior of MI6 temporary operations centre at "Castle Thane". The skiing chase sequence in the Caucasus was shot on the slopes of Chamonix, France.[10] Filming of the scene was delayed by an avalanche, but the crew wasted no time by helping the rescue operation.[13]

Missile-like object shoots from platform in the water. Buildings on shore are close by.

 The Q Boat stunt on the River Thames.
The interior (and single exterior shot) of L'Or Noir casino in Baku, Azerbaijan, was shot at Halton House, the Officer's Mess of RAF Halton, and RAF Northolt was used to depict the airfield runway in Azerbaijan.[10] Zukovsky's quay-side caviar factory was shot entirely at the outdoor water tank at Pinewood.
The exterior of Kazakhstan nuclear facility was shot at the Bardenas Reales, in Navarre, Spain, and the exterior of oil refinery control centre at the Motorola building in Groundwell, Swindon.[14] The exterior of oil pipeline was filmed in Cwm Dyli, Snowdonia, Wales, while the production teams shot the oil pipeline explosion in Hankley Common, Elstead, Surrey. Istanbul, Turkey, was indeed used in the film and Elektra King's Baku villa was actually in the city, also using the famous Maiden's Tower which was used as Renard's hideout in Turkey. The underwater submarine scenes were filmed in The Bahamas.[15]
The BMW Z8 driven by Bond in the film was the final part of a three-film product placement deal with BMW (which began with the Z3 in GoldenEye and continued with the 750iL in Tomorrow Never Dies) but, due to filming preceding release of the Z8 by a few months, several working mock-ups and models were manufactured for filming purposes.
Music[edit]
Main article: The World Is Not Enough (soundtrack)
The soundtrack to The World Is Not Enough is the second Bond soundtrack to be composed by David Arnold.[16] Arnold broke tradition by not ending the film with a reprise of the opening theme or, as with the previous three films, a new song. Originally, Arnold intended to use the song "Only Myself to Blame" at the end of the film; however, Apted discarded this and the song was replaced by a remix of the "James Bond Theme".[17] "Only Myself to Blame", written by Arnold and Don Black and sung by Scott Walker, is the nineteenth and final track on the album and its melody is Elektra King's theme. The theme is heard in "Casino", "Elektra's Theme" and "I Never Miss".[17] Arnold added two new themes to the final score, both of which are reused in the following film, Die Another Day.
The title song, "The World Is Not Enough", was written by David Arnold with Don Black and performed by Garbage. It is the fifth Bond theme co-written by Black, preceded by "Thunderball",[18] "Diamonds Are Forever",[19] "The Man with the Golden Gun",[20] and "Tomorrow Never Dies".[21] Garbage also contributed to the music heard during the chase sequence ("Ice Bandits"), which was released as the B-side to their single release of the theme song. IGN chose "The World Is Not Enough" as the ninth-best James Bond theme of all time.[22] In 2012 Grantland ranked the song as the second-best Bond song of all-time, behind only "Goldfinger."[23] The song also appeared in two "best of 1999" polls: #87 in 89X's "Top 89 Songs of 1999"[24] and No. 100 in Q101's "Top 101 of 1999".[25]
Release and reception[edit]
The World Is Not Enough premiered on 19 November 1999 in the USA and on 26 November 1999 in the UK.[26] At that time MGM signed a marketing partnership with MTV, primarily for American youths, who were assumed to have considered Bond as "an old-fashioned secret service agent". As a result MTV broadcast more than 100 hours of Bond-related programmes immediately after the film was released, most being presented by Denise Richards.[27]
The film opened at the top of the North American box office with $35.5 million. Its final worldwide gross was $361 million worldwide, with $126 million in the United States alone.[28] It became the highest grossing James Bond film of all time until the release of Die Another Day.[29] The film was also selected for the first round of nominations for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects but failed.[30] The film was nominated for a Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film Saturn Award, Pierce Brosnan won both the Empire Award and the Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Best Actor, and David Arnold won a BMI Film Music Award for his score. The film became the first in the Bond series to win a Golden Raspberry when Denise Richards was chosen as "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 1999 Razzie Awards. Richards and Brosnan were also nominated for "Worst Screen Couple".[31]
The initial release of the DVD includes the featurette "Secrets of 007", which cuts into "making of" material during the film; the documentary "The Making of The World Is Not Enough"; two commentary tracks—one by director Michael Apted, and the other by production designer Peter Lamont, second unit director Vic Armstrong, and composer David Arnold; a trailer for the video game, and the Garbage music video.[32] The Ultimate Edition released in 2006 had as additional extras a 2000 documentary named "Bond Cocktail", a featurette on shooting the Q Boat scenes, Pierce Brosnan in a press conference in Hong Kong, deleted scenes, and a tribute to Desmond Llewelyn.[33]
Reception was mixed. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert said the film was a "splendid comic thriller, exciting and graceful, endlessly inventive", and gave it three-and-a-half stars out of four.[34] On the other hand, Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution disliked the film, calling it "dated and confused".[35] Rotten Tomatoes gave The World Is Not Enough a 51% rating,[36] and Metacritic gave the film a score of 59 out of 100.[37] Negative criticism was focused on the execution of the plot, and the action scenes were considered excessive.[38] Entertainment Weekly picked it as the worst Bond film of all time, saying it had a plot "so convoluted even Pierce Brosnan has admitted to being mystified".[39] Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the third worst film, above A View to a Kill and Licence to Kill,[40] while IGN chose it as the fifth worst.[41]
Richards was criticised as not being credible in the role of a nuclear scientist.[42][43] Her outfit comprising a tank top and shorts also met a similar reaction.[44] She was ranked as one of the worst Bond girls of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2008.[45]
Adaptations[edit]
Main articles: The World Is Not Enough (novel) and The World Is Not Enough (video game)
The film was adapted into a trading card series which was released by Inkworks. Bond novelist Raymond Benson wrote his adaptation of The World Is Not Enough from the film's screenplay. It was Benson's fourth Bond novel and followed the story closely, but with some details changed. For instance, Elektra sings quietly before her death and Bond still carries his Walther PPK instead of the newer P99. The novel also gave the cigar girl/assassin the name Giulietta da Vinci and retained a scene between her and Renard that was cut from the film (this scene was also retained in the card series).
In 2000, the film was adapted by Electronic Arts to create a first-person shooter of the same name for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. The Nintendo 64 version was developed by Eurocom and the PlayStation version was developed by Black Ops.[46] Versions of The World Is Not Enough for the PC and the PlayStation 2 were planned for release in 2000, but both were cancelled.[47] These versions would have used the id Tech 3 game engine. Although this game marks Pierce Brosnan's fifth appearance in a Bond video game, the game includes only his likeness; the character is voiced by someone else.
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
Simpson, Paul (7 November 2002). The Rough Guide to James Bond. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-84353-142-9.
1.Jump up ^ Simpson, p 26
2.Jump up ^ Parker, Barry R. (2005). Death Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts & Supercars: The Fantastic Physics of Film's Most Celebrated Secret Agent. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8248-7.
3.Jump up ^ Thomas, Rebecca (19 November 1999). "One girl is not enough". BBC News. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
4.Jump up ^ Brian Sibley (2006). Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey. London: Harpercollins. pp. 397–8. ISBN 0-00-717558-2.
5.Jump up ^ "Bond is backed... by the government". The Guardian. 27 April 1999. Retrieved 29 December 2007.
6.Jump up ^ "TWINE & The Rumoured Titles". 26 June 2001. Archived from the original on 17 January 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2007.
7.Jump up ^ Famous Epitaphs – Unusual Epitaphs and Tombstones – Famous Eulogies – Great Eulogies – Free Eulogy Samples
8.Jump up ^ Priggé, Steven. Movie moguls speak: interviews with top film producers (p.27)
9.Jump up ^ Dye, Kerry Douglas (15 November 1999). "His Word is Bond: An Interview With 007 Screenwriter Bruce Feirstein". LeisureSuit.net. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2007.
10.^ Jump up to: a b c "Filming locations for The World Is Not Enough (1999)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
11.Jump up ^ "British Waterways' Film Map: Canals and rivers on screen". Waterscape.com. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
12.Jump up ^ Kent Film Office. "Kent Film Office The World Is Not Enough Film Focus".
13.Jump up ^ Ian Nathan (October 2008). "Unseen Bond". Empire. p. 105.
14.Jump up ^ "Motorola building". SwindonWeb. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
15.Jump up ^ The Making of The World Is Not Enough (DVD). Danjaq. 1999.
16.Jump up ^ ""The World Is Not Enough" OST review". Allmusic. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
17.^ Jump up to: a b "David Arnold official website". Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
18.Jump up ^ Thunderball (Audio CD). EMI. 25 February 2003. UPN: 7-2435-80589-2-5.
19.Jump up ^ Diamonds Are Forever (Audio CD). EMI. 11 February 2003. UPN: 7-2435-41420-2-4.
20.Jump up ^ The Man with the Golden Gun (Audio CD). EMI. 25 February 2003. UPN: 7-2435-41424-2-0.
21.Jump up ^ Tomorrow Never Dies (Audio CD). A&M Records. 25 November 1997. UPN: 7-3145-40830-2-7.
22.Jump up ^ Spence D. (17 November 2006). "Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs". IGN. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
23.Jump up ^ What’s the Greatest Bond Song of All Time? «
24.Jump up ^ "89X's "Top 89 Songs of 1999". Rocklists.com. Retrieved 2 March 2007.
25.Jump up ^ "Q101's "Top 101 of 1999". Rocklists.com. Retrieved 2 March 2007.
26.Jump up ^ "Bond 19: More than enough". BBC News. 19 November 1999. Retrieved 1 October 2007.
27.Jump up ^ "Selling a super spy". BBC News. 19 November 1999. Retrieved 1 October 2007.
28.Jump up ^ "The World Is Not Enough". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
29.Jump up ^ "James Bond movies". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
30.Jump up ^ "TWINE Could Be Up for an Oscar". Commanderbond.net. 4 January 2000. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2007.
31.Jump up ^ "Awards for The World Is Not Enough". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
32.Jump up ^ "The World Is Not Enough DVD review". TimeForDVD.com. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
33.Jump up ^ "The World Is Not Enough DVD & Soundtrack". UGO. Archived from the original on 21 November 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
34.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger. "The World is Not Enough". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
35.Jump up ^ Gillespie, Eleanor Ringel. "The World Is Not Enough". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on 12 February 2006. Retrieved 16 January 2008.
36.Jump up ^ "The World Is Not Enough". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
37.Jump up ^ "The World Is Not Enough". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 December 2007.
38.Jump up ^ Matt Venendaal (16 May 2006). "The World Is Not Enough (DVD) review". IGN. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
39.Jump up ^ Benjamin Svetkey, Joshua Rich (15 November 2006). "Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
40.Jump up ^ Norman Wilner. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
41.Jump up ^ "James Bond's Top 20". IGN. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
42.Jump up ^ Lisanti, Tom; Paul, Louis (2002). Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-1194-8.
43.Jump up ^ Howe, Desson, 19 November 1999, 'World': Bond without end, Washington Post.
44.Jump up ^ Herincx, Gareth (19 November 1999). "Bond 19: More than enough". BBC News.
45.Jump up ^ Rich, Joshua (8 January 2008). "James Bond Babes: Best and Worst". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
46.Jump up ^ Black Ops had previously adapted Tomorrow Never Dies for the PlayStation and would go on to develop Nightfire in 2002.
47.Jump up ^ "The World Is Not Enough preview (PS2)". IGN. Retrieved 17 December 2007.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough at the Internet Movie Database
The World Is Not Enough at AllMovie
The World Is Not Enough at Rotten Tomatoes
The World Is Not Enough at Box Office Mojo
MGM's official The World is Not Enough website



[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
The World Is Not Enough





































[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond films






























































































Wikipedia book
Category
James Bond Portal





[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Works directed by Michael Apted



























































































This is a good article. Click here for more information.

 



Categories: 1999 films
English-language films
The World Is Not Enough
1990s action thriller films
1999 novels
British films
Films about nuclear war and weapons
Films about terrorism
Films directed by Michael Apted
Films set in Azerbaijan
Films set in Istanbul
Films set in Kazakhstan
Films set in London
Films set in Scotland
Films set in Spain
Films shot in Azerbaijan
Films shot in England
Films shot in Istanbul
Films shot in Spain
James Bond films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Pinewood Studios films
Sequel films
Terrorism in fiction












Navigation menu




Create account
Log in




Article

Talk












Read

Edit

View history

























Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Shop

Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page

Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item
Cite this page

Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version

Languages
العربية
Azərbaycanca
Català
Čeština
Cymraeg
Dansk
Deutsch
Español
Euskara
فارسی
Français
Հայերեն
हिन्दी
Hrvatski
Bahasa Indonesia
Italiano
עברית
ქართული
Lietuvių
Magyar
Nederlands
日本語
Norsk bokmål
Polski
Português
Русский
Српски / srpski
Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
Suomi
Svenska
ไทย
Türkçe
Українська
Tiếng Việt
##中文
Edit links
This page was last modified on 23 July 2014 at 07:38.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Mobile view
Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki
   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Not_Enough














GoldenEye
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

This article is about the 1995 James Bond film. For other uses, see Goldeneye (disambiguation).
"006" redirects here. For other uses, see 006 (disambiguation).

GoldenEye
GoldenEye - UK cinema poster.jpg
British cinema poster for GoldenEye, by Terry O'Neill, Keith Hamshere and George Whitear

Directed by
Martin Campbell
Produced by
Michael G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli

Screenplay by
Michael France Jeffrey Caine
Kevin Wade
Bruce Feirstein

Story by
Michael France
Based on
James Bond
 by Ian Fleming
Starring
Pierce Brosnan Sean Bean
Izabella Scorupco
Famke Janssen
Joe Don Baker

Music by
Éric Serra Bono and The Edge

Cinematography
Phil Méheux
Edited by
Terry Rawlings
Production
   company
Eon Productions
Distributed by
MGM/UA Distribution Company
United International Pictures (UK)
Release date(s)
13 November 1995 (Los Angeles, premiere)
24 November 1995 (United Kingdom)

Running time
130 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$58 million
Box office
$352,194,034
GoldenEye (1995) is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 officer James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming.[1] The story was conceived and written by Michael France, with later collaboration by other writers. In the film, Bond fights to prevent an arms syndicate from using the GoldenEye satellite weapon against London in order to cause a global financial meltdown.
GoldenEye was released in 1995 after a six-year hiatus in the series caused by legal disputes, during which Timothy Dalton resigned from the role of James Bond and was replaced by Pierce Brosnan. M was also recast, with actress Judi Dench becoming the first woman to portray the character, replacing Robert Brown. GoldenEye was the first Bond film made after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, which provided a background for the plot.
The film accumulated a worldwide gross of US$350.7 million, considerably better than Dalton's films, without taking inflation into account.[2] Some critics viewed the film as a modernisation of the series, and felt Brosnan was a definite improvement over his predecessor.[3][4][5] The film also received award nominations for "Best Achievement in Special Effects" and "Best Sound" from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.[6]
The name "GoldenEye" pays homage to James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming. While working for British Naval Intelligence as a lieutenant commander, Ian Fleming liaised with the American OSS to monitor developments in Spain after the Spanish Civil War in an operation codenamed Operation Goldeneye. Fleming used the name of his operation for his estate in Oracabessa, Jamaica.



Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 Prelude
3.2 Pre-production and writing
3.3 Filming
3.4 Effects
3.5 Product placement
3.6 Music
4 Release and reception 4.1 Reviews
4.2 Awards
5 Appearances in other media
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1986 MI6 officers James Bond—agent 007—and Alec Trevelyan—agent 006—infiltrate an illicit Soviet chemical weapons facility at Arkhangelsk and plant explosive charges. Trevelyan is apparently shot and killed by Colonel Arkady Ourumov, but Bond steals an aeroplane and flees from the facility as it explodes.
Nine years later Bond arrives in Monte Carlo to follow Xenia Onatopp, a suspected member of the Janus crime syndicate, who has formed a suspicious relationship with a Royal Canadian Navy admiral. She murders the admiral to allow Janus to steal his identity. The next day they steal a prototype Eurocopter Tiger helicopter that can withstand an electromagnetic pulse. They fly it to a bunker in Severnaya, where they massacre the staff and steal the control disk for the dual GoldenEye satellite weapons. They program one of the GoldenEye satellites to destroy the complex with an electromagnetic pulse, and escape with programmer Boris Grishenko. Natalya Simonova, the lone survivor, contacts Boris and arranges to meet him in St. Petersburg, where he betrays her to Janus.
In London, M assigns Bond to investigate the attack. Bond flies to St. Petersburg to meet CIA officer Jack Wade. He suggests Bond meet Valentin Zukovsky, a Russian Mafia head and business rival of Janus. After Bond gives him a tip on a potential heist, Zukovsky arranges a meeting between Bond and Janus. Onatopp is sent to meet Bond at his hotel and attempts to kill him, but he overpowers her and she takes him to Janus. Bond meets Janus who reveals himself as Alec Trevelyan, who had faked his death but was badly scarred from the explosion at Arkhangelsk. A descendant of the Cossack clans who collaborated with the Nazi forces in World War II, Trevelyan had vowed revenge against Britain for their involvement in his parents' deaths. Just as Bond is about to shoot Trevelyan, Bond is shot with a tranquiliser dart, knocking him out.
Bond awakens tied up with Simonova in the Tiger helicopter programmed to self-destruct, from which the two escape. They are immediately arrested by the Russian police and are brought to the military archives, where the Russian Minister of Defence Dimitri Mishkin interrogates them. As Simonova reveals the existence of a second satellite and Ourumov's involvement in the massacre at Severnaya, Ourumov bursts into the room and kills Mishkin. As Ourumov calls for his guards, Bond escapes into the archives with Simonova, where a firefight ensues. Simonova is captured and is dragged into a car by Ourumov. Bond steals a T-55 tank and pursues Ourumov through St. Petersburg to Janus' armoured train, where he kills Ourumov as Trevelyan escapes and locks Bond in the train with Simonova. As the train's self-destruct countdown begins, Bond cuts through the floor with his laser watch while Simonova locates Grishenko's satellite dish in Cuba. The two escape just before the train explodes.
Bond and Simonova, now lovers, meet Jack Wade and trade Bond's car for Wade's aeroplane. While flying over a Cuban jungle in search of the satellite dish controlling the satellite, Bond and Simonova are shot down. As they stumble out of the wreckage, Onatopp rappels down from a helicopter and attacks Bond. After a struggle, Bond shoots down the helicopter, which snares Onatopp and crushes her to death. Bond and Simonova then watch a lake being drained of water, uncovering the satellite dish. They infiltrate the control station, where Bond is captured. Trevelyan reveals his plan to rob the Bank of England before erasing all of its financial records with the remaining GoldenEye, concealing the theft and destroying Britain's economy.
Meanwhile, Simonova programs the satellite to initiate atmospheric re-entry and destroy itself. As Trevelyan captures Simonova and orders Grishenko to save the satellite, Bond triggers an explosion with his pen grenade and escapes to the antenna cradle. Bond sabotages the antenna by jamming the gears, preventing Grishenko from regaining control of the satellite, before turning and fighting Trevelyan. The two end up on the antenna platform, 500 feet above the dish. Bond kicks Trevelyan off the side of the platform, but reflexively grabs him by the foot. After a brief and personal exchange, Bond lets go of Trevelyan and he falls to the bottom of the radio dish. The cradle blows up and kills Trevelyan and Grishenko. Meanwhile, Simonova commandeers a helicopter and flees with Bond, and the couple is then rescued by Wade and a team of Marines.
Cast[edit]
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond (007): An MI6 officer assigned to stop the Janus crime syndicate from acquiring "GoldenEye," a clandestine satellite weapon designed and launched by the Soviets during the Cold War.
Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan (006) / Janus: Initially another 00 officer and Bond's friend, he fakes his death at Arkhangelsk and then establishes the Janus crime syndicate in the following nine years.
Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova: The only survivor and eyewitness of the attack of GoldenEye on its own control centre at Severnaya. A skilled programmer, she helps Bond in his mission.
Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp: A Georgian lust murderer and Trevelyan's henchwoman. A sadist, she enjoys torturing her enemies between her thighs.
Joe Don Baker as Jack Wade: A veteran CIA officer on the same mission as Bond.
Judi Dench as M: The head of MI6.
Gottfried John as General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov: Commander of Russia's Space Division, secretly an agent of Janus who nefariously misuses his authority and position for helping Janus gain access to the GoldenEye.
Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky: A Russian gangster and ex-KGB officer through whom Bond arranges a meeting with Janus (Trevelyan).
Alan Cumming as Boris Grishenko: A computer programmer at Severnaya secretly affiliated to Janus.
Tchéky Karyo as Russian Defence Minister Dmitri Mishkin
Desmond Llewelyn as Q: The head of Q Branch (research and development division of the British Secret Service). Llewelyn was the only actor to reprise a role from a previous Bond film.
Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary. Samantha Bond made her first of four appearances as Moneypenny.
Minnie Driver as Irina: A Russian nightclub singer and mistress of Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky.
Serena Gordon as Caroline, MI6 psychologist evaluator, whom Bond seduces.
Billy J. Mitchell as Admiral Chuck Farrel of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has a sexual liaison with Xenia Onatopp.
Production[edit]
Prelude[edit]
Pre-production work for the third James Bond film starring Timothy Dalton, fulfilling his three-film contract, began in May 1990. A poster for the then-upcoming movie was even featured on the Carlton Hotel during the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. On August, The Sunday Times reported that producer Albert R. Broccoli had parted company with writer Richard Maibaum, who had worked on the scripts of all but three Bond films so far, and director John Glen, responsible for the previous five installments of the series. Broccoli listed among the possible directors John Landis, Ted Kotcheff, and John Byrum.[7] Broccoli's stepson Michael G. Wilson contributed a script, and Wiseguy co-producer Alfonse Ruggiero Jr. was hired to rewrite. [8] Production was set to start in 1990 in Hong Kong for a release in late 1991.[9]
Dalton would declare in a 2010 interview that the script was ready and "we were talking directors" before the project entered development hell caused by legal problems between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, parent company of the series' distributor United Artists, and Broccoli's Danjaq, owners of the Bond film rights.[10] In 1990, as MGM/UA was purchased by French-Italian broadcasting group Pathé, Pathé CEO Giancarlo Parretti intended to sell off the distribution rights of the studio's catalog so he could collect advance payments to finance the buyout. This included international broadcasting rights to the 007 library at cut-rate prices, leading Danjaq to sue,[11] allegating the licensing violated the Bond distribution agreements the company made with United Artists in 1962, while negating Danjaq a share of the profits.[12] The lawsuits were only settled in 1992, and during these litigation delays, Dalton's deal with Danjaq expired in 1990.[13]
Pre-production and writing[edit]
On May 1993, MGM announced a seventeenth James Bond film was back in the works, to be based on a screenplay by Michael France.[14] With Broccoli's health deteriorating (he died seven months after the release of GoldenEye), his daughter Barbara Broccoli described him as taking "a bit of a back seat" in film's production.[15] Barbara and Michael G. Wilson took the lead roles in production while Albert Broccoli oversaw the production of GoldenEye as a consulting producer, credited as "presenter".[16][17]
In an interview in 1993, Dalton said that Michael France was writing the screenplay, due to be completed in January or February 1994.[18] Despite France's screenplay being completed by that January, in April 1994 Dalton officially resigned from the role.[19][20]
After Michael France delivered the original screenplay, Jeffrey Caine was brought in to rewrite it.[21] Caine kept many of France's ideas but added the prologue prior to the credits. Kevin Wade polished the script and Bruce Feirstein added the finishing touches.[22] In the film, the writing credit was shared by Caine and Feirstein, while France was credited with only the story, an arrangement he felt was unfair, particularly as he believed the additions made were not an improvement on his original version.[23] Wade did not receive an official credit, but was acknowledged in the naming of Jack Wade, the CIA character he created.
To replace Dalton, the producers cast Pierce Brosnan, who had been prevented from succeeding Roger Moore in 1986 because of his contract to star in the Remington Steele television series. Before negotiating with Brosnan, Mel Gibson and Liam Neeson passed on the role. The actor's relatively low $1.2 million salary also allowed the producers to spend properly the $60 million budget lent by MGM.[24] Judi Dench was cast as M, making GoldenEye the first film of the series featuring a female M. The decision is widely believed to be inspired by Stella Rimington becoming head of MI5 in 1992.[25][26] John Woo was approached as the director, and turned down the opportunity, but said he was honoured by the offer.[27] The producers then chose New Zealander Martin Campbell as the director. Brosnan later described Campbell as "warrior-like in his take on the piece" and that "there was a huge passion there on both our parts".[28]
While the story was not based on a work by Ian Fleming, the title GoldenEye traces its origins to the name of Fleming's Jamaican estate where he wrote the Bond novels.[29] Fleming gave a number of origins for the name of his estate, including Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye[30] and Operation Goldeneye, a contingency plan Fleming himself developed during World War II in case of a Nazi invasion through Spain.[31][32]
Although only six years since the release of Licence to Kill, world politics had changed dramatically in the interim. With GoldenEye the first James Bond film to be produced since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cold War era which Bond was known to inhabit was brought to an end, and therefore it was doubtful whether the character was still relevant in the modern world.[33] Much of the film industry felt that it would be "futile" for the Bond series to make a comeback, and that it was best left as "an icon of the past".[34] The producers even thought of new concepts for the series, such as a period piece set in the 1960s, a female 007, or a Black James Bond. Ultimately, they chose to return to the basics of the series, not following the sensitive and caring Bond of the Dalton films or the political correctness that started to permeate the decade.[24] However, when released, the film was viewed as a successful revitalisation, and it effectively adapted the series for the 1990s.[4] One of GoldenEye's innovations was the casting of a female M. In the film, the new M quickly establishes her authority, remarking that Bond is a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" and a "relic of the Cold War". This is an early indication that Bond is portrayed as far less tempestuous than Timothy Dalton's Bond from 1989.[35]
Filming[edit]
Principal photography for the film began on 16 January 1995 and continued until 6 June.[36] The producers were unable to film at Pinewood Studios, the usual location for Bond films, because it had been reserved for First Knight.[37] Instead, an old Rolls-Royce factory at the Leavesden Aerodrome in Hertfordshire was converted into a new studio.[38] The producers later said Pinewood would have been too small.[15]
The bungee jump was filmed at the Contra Dam (also known as the Verzasca or Locarno Dam)[39] in Ticino, Switzerland. The film's casino scenes and the Tiger helicopter's demonstration were shot in Monte Carlo. Reference footage for the tank chase was shot on location in St. Petersburg and matched to the studio at Leavesden. The climactic scenes on the satellite dish were shot at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.[40] The actual MI6 headquarters were used for external views of M's office.[41] Some of the scenes in St. Petersburg were actually shot in London – the Epsom Downs Racecourse doubled as the airport – to reduce expenses and security concerns, as the second unit sent to Russia required bodyguards.[42]
The French Navy provided full use of the frigate FS La Fayette and their newest helicopter, the Eurocopter Tiger to the film's production team. The French government also allowed the use of Navy logos as part of the promotional campaign for the film. However, the producers had a dispute with the French Ministry of Defence over Brosnan's opposition to French nuclear weapons testing and his involvement with Greenpeace; as a result, the French premiere of the film was cancelled.[43]
The sequences involving the armoured train were filmed on the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough in the UK. The train was composed of a British Rail Class 20 diesel-electric locomotive and a pair of BR Mk 2 coaches, all three heavily disguised to resemble a Soviet armoured train.[44][45]
Effects[edit]



GoldenEye's opening title sequence featured a woman destroying the hammer and sickle.
GoldenEye was the last film of special effects supervisor Derek Meddings, to whom the film was dedicated. Meddings' major contribution was miniatures.[46] It was also the first Bond film to use computer generated imagery. Among the model effects are most external shots of Severnaya, the scene where Janus' train crashes into the tank, and the lake which hides the satellite dish, since the producers could not find a round lake in Puerto Rico. The climax in the satellite dish used scenes in Arecibo, a model built by Meddings' team and scenes shot with stuntmen in England.[42]
Stunt car coordinator Rémy Julienne described the car chase between the Aston Martin DB5 and the Ferrari F355 as between "a perfectly shaped, old and vulnerable vehicle and a racecar." The stunt had to be meticulously planned as the cars are vastly different. Nails had to be attached to the F355 tyres to make it skid, and during one take of the sliding vehicles, both cars collided.[47] The largest stunt sequence in the film was the tank chase, which took around six weeks to film, partly on location in St. Petersburg and partly at Leavesden.[48] A Russian T-54/55 tank, on loan from the East England Military Museum, was modified with the addition of fake explosive reactive armour panels.[36] In order to avoid destroying the pavement on the city streets of St. Petersburg, the steel off-road tracks of the T-54/55 were replaced with the rubber-shoed tracks from a British Chieftain tank.[42] The T55 Tank used in the film is now on permanent display at Old Buckenham Airport where the East England Military Museum is based.[49]
For the confrontation between Bond and Trevelyan inside the antenna cradle, director Campbell decided to take inspiration from Bond's fight with Red Grant in From Russia with Love. Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bean did all the stunts themselves, except for one take where one is thrown against the wall. Brosnan injured his hand while filming the extending ladder sequence, making producers delay his scenes and film the ones in Severnaya earlier.[42]
The opening 220 m (720 ft) bungee jump at Archangel, shot at the Verzasca Dam in Switzerland and performed by Wayne Michaels, was voted the best movie stunt of all time in a 2002 Sky Movies poll, and set a record for the highest bungee jump off a fixed structure.[50][51] The ending of the pre-credits sequence with Bond jumping after the aeroplane features Jacques 'Zoo' Malnuit riding the motorcycle to the edge and jumping, and B.J. Worth diving after the plane – which was a working aircraft, with Worth adding that part of the difficulty of the stunt was the kerosene flying on his face.[52]
The fall of communism in Russia is the main focus of the opening titles, designed by Daniel Kleinman (who took over from Maurice Binder after his death in 1991). They show the collapse and destruction of several structures associated with the Soviet Union, such as the red star, statues of Communist leaders and the hammer and sickle. In an interview, Kleinman said they were meant to be "a kind of story telling sequence" showing that "what was happening in Communist countries was Communism was falling down".[53] According to producer Michael G. Wilson, some Communist parties protested against "Socialist symbols being destroyed not by governments, but by bikini-clad women", especially the Communist Party of India, which threatened to boycott the film.[42]
Product placement[edit]
Further information: List of James Bond vehicles, List of James Bond gadgets and List of James Bond firearms
GoldenEye was the first film bound by BMW's three picture deal,[54] so the producers were offered BMW's latest roadster, the BMW Z3. It was featured in the film months before its release, and a limited edition "007 model" sold out within a day of being available to order. As part of the car's marketing strategy, several Z3's were used to drive journalists from a complimentary meal at the Rainbow Room restaurant to GoldenEye's premiere at Radio City Music Hall.[55]
For the film, a convertible Z3 is equipped with the usual Q refinements, including a self-destruct feature and Stinger missiles behind the headlights. The Z3 does not have much screen time and none of the gadgets are used, which Martin Campbell attributed to the deal with BMW coming in the last stages of production.[42] The Z3's appearance in GoldenEye is thought to be the most successful promotion through product placement in 1995.[56] Ten years later, The Hollywood Reporter listed it as one of the most successful product placements in recent years. The article quoted Mary Lou Galician, head of media analysis and criticism at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, as saying that the news coverage of Bond's switch from Aston Martin to BMW "generated hundreds of millions of dollars of media exposure for the movie and all of its marketing partners."[57]
In addition, all computers in the film were provided by IBM, and in some scenes (such as the pen grenade scene towards the end), the OS/2 Warp splash screen can be seen on computer monitors.
A modified Omega Seamaster Quartz Professional watch features as a major plot device several times in the film. It is shown to contain a remote detonator and a laser. This was the first time James Bond was shown to be wearing a watch by Omega, and the character has since worn Omega watches in every subsequent production.[58][59]
Music[edit]
Main article: GoldenEye (soundtrack)
The theme song, "GoldenEye", was written by Bono and The Edge, and was performed by Tina Turner.[60] As the producers did not collaborate with Bono or The Edge, the film score did not incorporate any of the theme song's melodies, as was the case in previous James Bond films.[61] Swedish group Ace of Base had also written a proposed theme song, but label Arista Records pulled the band out of the project fearing the negative impact in case the film flopped. The song was then re-written as their single "The Juvenile".[62]
The soundtrack to GoldenEye was composed and performed by Éric Serra. Prolific Bond composer John Barry said that despite an offer by Barbara Broccoli, he turned it down.[63] Serra's score has been heavily criticised: Richard von Busack, in Metro, wrote that it was "more appropriate for a ride on an elevator than a ride on a roller coaster",[64] and Filmtracks said Serra "failed completely in his attempt to tie Goldeneye to the franchise's past."[65] The end credits song, Serra's "The Experience of Love", was based on a short cue Serra had originally written for Luc Besson's Léon one year earlier.
Later, John Altman provided the music for the tank chase in St. Petersburg. Serra's original track for that sequence can still be found on the soundtrack as "A Pleasant Drive in St. Petersburg".[66] Serra composed and performed a number of synthesiser tracks, including the version of the James Bond Theme that plays during the gun barrel sequence,[67] while John Altman and David Arch provided the more traditional symphonic music.[68]
Release and reception[edit]
GoldenEye premiered on 13 November 1995, at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and went on general release in the USA on 17 November 1995.[69] The UK premiere, attended by Prince Charles, followed on 22 November at the Odeon Leicester Square, with general release two days later.[70] Brosnan boycotted the French premiere to support Greenpeace's protest against the French nuclear testing program, causing the premiere to be abrogated.[71]
The film earned over $26 million during its opening across 2,667 cinemas in the USA. Its worldwide sales were around the equivalent of $350 million.[72] It had the fourth highest worldwide gross of all films in 1995[73] and was the most successful Bond film since Moonraker, taking inflation into account.[2]
GoldenEye was edited in order to be guaranteed a PG-13 rating from the MPAA and a 12 rating from the BBFC. The cuts included the visible bullet impact to Trevelyan's head when he is shot in the prologue, several additional deaths during the sequence in which Onatopp guns down the workers at the Severnaya station, more explicit footage and violent behaviour in the Admiral's death, extra footage of Onatopp's death, and Bond giving her a rabbit punch in the car.[38] In 2006, the film was re-mastered and re-edited for the James Bond Ultimate Edition DVD in which the BBFC cuts were restored, causing the rating to be changed to 15. However, the original MPAA edits still remain.[74]
Reviews[edit]
The critical reception of the film was mostly positive. Film review collection website Rotten Tomatoes holds it at an 82% approval rating,[75] while a similar site, Metacritic, holds it at 65%.[76] In the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film 3 stars out of 4, and said Brosnan's Bond was "somehow more sensitive, more vulnerable, more psychologically complete" than the previous ones, also commenting on Bond's "loss of innocence" since previous films.[77] James Berardinelli described Brosnan as "a decided improvement over his immediate predecessor" with a "flair for wit to go along with his natural charm", but added that "fully one-quarter of Goldeneye is momentum-killing padding."[78]
Several reviewers lauded M's appraisal of Bond as a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur",[4][79][80] with Todd McCarthy in Variety saying GoldenEye "breathes fresh creative and commercial life" into the series.[4] John Puccio of DVD Town said that GoldenEye was "an eye and ear-pleasing, action-packed entry in the Bond series" and that the film gave Bond "a bit of humanity, too".[81] Ian Nathan of Empire said that GoldenEye "revamps that indomitable British spirit" and that the Die Hard movies "don't even come close to 007". Tom Sonne of the Sunday Times considered GoldenEye the best Bond film since The Spy Who Loved Me. Jose Arroyo of Sight & Sound considered the greatest success of the film was in modernising the series.[82]
GoldenEye was also ranked high in Bond-related lists. IGN chose it as the fifth-best movie,[83] while Entertainment Weekly ranked it eighth,[84] and Norman Wilner of MSN as ninth.[85] ET also voted Xenia Onatopp as the sixth-most memorable Bond Girl,[86] while IGN ranked Natalya as seventh in a similar list.[87]
However, the film received several negative reviews. Richard Schickel of Time wrote that after "a third of a century's hard use", Bond's conventions survived on "wobbly knees",[88] while in Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman thought the series had "entered a near-terminal state of exhaustion."[89] Dragan Antulov said that GoldenEye had a predictable series of scenes,[90] and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said that the film was "a middle-aged entity anxious to appear trendy at all costs".[91] David Eimer of Premiere wrote that "the trademark humour is in short supply" and that "Goldeneye isn't classic Bond by any stretch of the imagination."[82] Madeleine Williams said that "there are plenty of stunts and explosions to take your mind off the plot."[92]
Awards[edit]
GoldenEye was nominated for two BAFTAs, Best Sound and Special Effects.[6] Éric Serra won a BMI Film Award for the soundtrack and the film also earned nominations for Best Action Film and Actor at the Saturn Awards and Best Fight Scene at the MTV Movie Awards.[93][94][95]
Appearances in other media[edit]
See also: GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game), GoldenEye: Rogue Agent and GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)
GoldenEye was the second and final Bond film to be adapted to a novel by novelist John Gardner. The book closely follows the film's storyline, but Gardner added a violent sequence prior to the opening bungee jump in which Bond kills a group of Russian guards, a change that the video game GoldenEye 007 retained.[96]
In late 1995, Topps Comics began publishing a three-issue comic book adaptation of GoldenEye. The script was adapted by Don McGregor with art by Rick Magyar. The first issue carried a January 1996 cover date.[97] For unknown reasons, Topps cancelled the entire adaptation after the first issue had been published, and to date the adaptation has never been released in its entirety.[98]
The film was the basis for GoldenEye 007, a video game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rare (known at the time as Rareware) and published by Nintendo.[99][100] The game was praised by critics and in January 2000, readers of the British video game magazine Computer and Video Games listed GoldenEye 007 in first place in a list of "the hundred greatest video games".[101] In Edge's 10th anniversary issue in 2003, the game was included as one of their top ten shooters of all time.[102] It is based upon the film, but many of the missions were extended or modified.[103]
GoldenEye 007 was modified into a racing game intended to be released for the Virtual Boy console. However, the game was cancelled before release.[104] In 2004, Electronic Arts released GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, the first game of the James Bond series in which the player does not take on the role of Bond. Instead, the protagonist is an aspiring Double-0 agent Jonathan Hunter, known by his codename "GoldenEye" recruited by a villain of the Bond universe, Auric Goldfinger.[105] Except for the appearance of Xenia Onatopp, the game was unrelated to the film, and was released to mediocre reviews.[106][107][108] It was excoriated by several critics including Eric Qualls for using the name "GoldenEye" as an attempt to ride on the success of Rare's game.[109][110]
Nintendo announced a remake of the original GoldenEye 007 game at their E3 press conference on 15 June 2010. The game is a modernised retelling of the original movie's story, with Daniel Craig playing the role of Bond. Bruce Feirstein returned to write a modernized version of the script, while Nicole Scherzinger covered Tina Turner's theme song. The game was developed by Eurocom and published by Activision for the Wii and Nintendo DS and was released in November 2010. Both Wii and DS versions bear little to no resemblance to the locations and weapons of the original N64 release. In 2011 the game was ported to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 under the name GoldenEye 007: Reloaded.[111]
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Portal icon Film portal
Portal icon 1990s portal
Electromagnetic pulse in fiction and popular culture
Outline of James Bond

References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The James Bond Films – 1994–2002". BBC News. 10 November 2002. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Box Office History for James Bond Movies". The Numbers. Nash Information Service. Retrieved 18 October 2007.
3.Jump up ^ James Kendrick. "GoldenEye". Qnetwork. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d Todd McCarthy (15 November 1995). "GoldenEye". Variety. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
5.Jump up ^ Christopher Null. "GoldenEye". Filmcritic.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
6.^ Jump up to: a b "Film Nominations 1995". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
7.Jump up ^ "Hollywood mogul puts $US200m price on James Bond's head; Albert "Cubby" Broccoli". The Sunday Times. 12 August 1990.
8.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye – The Road To Production". Mi6-HQ.com. 23 June 2003. Retrieved 4 January 2007.
9.Jump up ^ "Bond 17 – History". Mi6-HQ.com- The Home of James Bond. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
10.Jump up ^ Blauvelt, Christian (November 1, 2010). "Timothy Dalton talks 'Chuck,' 'The Tourist,' and, of course, Bond". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
11.Jump up ^ "007 Producer Fires Legal Salvo At MGM". Variety. February 17, 1991.
12.Jump up ^ "A summary of Southern California-related business litigation developments during the past week.". Los Angeles Times. October 15, 1990.
13.Jump up ^ Cox, Dan (April 12, 1994). "Dalton bails out as Bond". Variety.
14.Jump up ^ Ayscough, Suzan (May 13, 1993). "Bond set for 0017th". Variety.
15.^ Jump up to: a b Richard Ashton (1995). "Richard Ashton Interview Michael G. Wilson". Her Majesty's Secret Servant. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
16.Jump up ^ "Familia Broccoli". Archivo 007. Archived from the original on 22 May 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
17.Jump up ^ "James Bond 007 – Goldeneye". 007.info. 13 November 1995. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
18.Jump up ^ "Interview with Dalton". Daily Mail. 6 August 1993.
19.Jump up ^ Michael G. Wilson, Martin Campbell, Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn (1999). The Making of 'GoldenEye': A Video Journal (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment.
20.Jump up ^ "Biography: Timothy Dalton". IanFleming.org. Archived from the original on 13 December 2002. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
21.Jump up ^ Nick Birren (30 September 2005). "The Spirit of the Story: The Constant Gardener's Jeffrey Caine". CreativeScreenwriting (Inside Information Group Ltd.). Archived from the original on 5 September 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
22.Jump up ^ Kerry Douglas Dye (15 November 1999). "His Word is Bond: An Interview With 007 Screenwriter Bruce Feirstein". LeisureSuit.net. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
23.Jump up ^ Reg Seeton and Dayna Van Buskirk. "Screenwriting Punishment with Michael France". IGN. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Svetkey, Benjamin (November 17, 1995). "The Spy Who Came Back From The Cold". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
25.Jump up ^ Jay MacDonald. "Her majesty's not-so-secret service". BookPage. Archived from the original on 26 August 2006. Retrieved 14 November 2006.
26.Jump up ^ Nigel Morris (30 April 2002). "Woman tipped to head MI5 in footsteps of Stella Rimington". Independent, The (London). Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2006.
27.Jump up ^ Heard, Christopher (1999). "8". Ten Thousand Bullets: The Cinematic Journey of John Woo. Doubleday Canada Limited. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0-385-25731-7.
28.Jump up ^ Richard Jobson (18 March 2003). "'My heavens, I haven't been found out yet'". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 11 December 2006.
29.Jump up ^ "Two profiles: Ian Fleming & Boris Johnson". Fortnightly Tenerife News. 11 May 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
30.Jump up ^ Pearson, John (1966). The Life of Ian Fleming. Vintage/Ebury. p. 137. ISBN 0-224-61136-4.
31.Jump up ^ "The Real James Bond". Channel 4. Retrieved 19 November 2006.
32.Jump up ^ Andrew Lycett (5 November 2006). "Adultery, Cambridge spies, a Jamaican idyll – Ian Fleming's biographer Andrew Lycett traces the origins of James Bond". The Times (London). Retrieved 19 November 2006.
33.Jump up ^ Edward P. Comentale; Stephen Watt; Skip Willman (2005). Ian Fleming and James Bond. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34523-3. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
34.Jump up ^ Lee Pfeiffer; Worrall, Dave (2003) [1998]. "GoldenEye". The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007. Boxtree. p. 169. ISBN 0-7522-1562-0.
35.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye". Notcoming.com. Retrieved 28 April 2007.
36.^ Jump up to: a b Garth Pearce (31 October 1995). The Making of GoldenEye. Boxtree. ISBN 978-1-85283-484-5.
37.Jump up ^ The film studio: film production in the global economy
38.^ Jump up to: a b Peter Aston, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Campbell (26 December 1995). GoldenEye: The Secret Files (TV Documentary). Carlton Television.
39.Jump up ^ "007's bungee jump tops best movie stunt poll". BreakingNews.ie. 17 November 2002. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
40.Jump up ^ Michael G. Wilson, Andrew Ackland-Snow, Peter Lamont, Chris Corbould (17 July 2006). Location Scouting with Peter Lamont: GoldenEye (TV Documentary). Cloverland Productions.
41.Jump up ^ Lee Pfeiffer; Worrall, Dave (2003) [1998]. "GoldenEye". The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007. Boxtree. p. 171. ISBN 0-7522-1562-0.
42.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Martin Campbell, Michael G. Wilson. GoldenEye audio commentary. MGM Home Entertainment.
43.Jump up ^ Lang, Kirsty (3 December 1995). "Bond drops a bomb". The Sunday Times.
44.Jump up ^ Lee Pfeiffer; Worrall, Dave (2003) [1998]. "GoldenEye". The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007. Boxtree. p. 176. ISBN 0-7522-1562-0.
45.Jump up ^ Andrew Wright (4 May 2006). "Licensed to Thrill". Historic James Bond Diesel Locomotive to star in evocative branch line weekend. Swanage Railway. Retrieved 23 June 2007.
46.Jump up ^ Making It Small in Pictures: Derek Meddings. MGM Home Entertainment.
47.Jump up ^ Driven to Bond: Remy Julienne. MGM Home Entertainment.
48.Jump up ^ "Interview – Steve Street (Part 1)". MI6-HQ.com. 26 August 2003. Retrieved 11 December 2006.
49.Jump up ^ Diss Express Article on the permanent display of the Goldeneye T55 Tank, 20 October 2013
50.Jump up ^ "Amazing Bond stunt wins top award". CBBC Newsround. 17 November 2002. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
51.Jump up ^ "007's bungee jump tops best movie stunt poll". Breaking News. 17 November 2002.
52.Jump up ^ Double-O Stuntmen. The Man with the Golden Gun Ultimate Edition, Disk 2: MGM Home Entertainment.
53.Jump up ^ "Opening Sequence W/ Daniel Kleinman". Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Archived from the original on 4 February 2006. Retrieved 18 January 2007.
54.Jump up ^ Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Martin Campbell, Chris Corbould, Pierce Brosnan, Famke Janssen, Izabella Scorupco, Peter Lamont (1994). GoldenEye: Building a Better Bond (Cinema Teaser). MGM Home Entertainment.
55.Jump up ^ Lee Pfeiffer; Worrall, Dave (2003) [1998]. "GoldenEye". The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007. Boxtree. p. 177. ISBN 0-7522-1562-0.
56.Jump up ^ Lance Kinney; Barry Sapolsky (1994). Product Placement. University of Alabama, Florida State University
57.Jump up ^ "A look at some of the biggest hits in film and TV product placement". The Hollywood Reporter. 28 April 2005. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 12 November 2007.
58.Jump up ^ Review of the "Bond" Omega Seamaster Professional Model 2531.80.00 | THE SEAMASTER REFERENCE PAGE
59.Jump up ^ "Ambassadors: James Bond", Omega SA, 29 March 2004 (Retrieved 21 February 2007).
60.Jump up ^ "Tina Turner performs theme song to new James Bond movie, 'GoldenEye.'". Jet. 20 November 1995. Retrieved 20 November 2006.
61.Jump up ^ Lee Pfeiffer; Worrall, Dave (2003) [1998]. "GoldenEye". The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007. Boxtree. p. 175. ISBN 0-7522-1562-0.
62.Jump up ^ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford University Press. pp. 264–5. ISBN 978-0-19-986330-3.
63.Jump up ^ Robert Hoshowsky (November 1996). "John Barry The Gstaad Memorandum". Film Score. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
64.Jump up ^ Richard von Busack (22 November 1995). "Bond for Glory". Metro. Retrieved 19 November 2006.
65.Jump up ^ "Filmtracks Editorial Review". filmtracks.com. Retrieved 19 November 2006.
66.Jump up ^ GoldenEye (Audio CD). London: Virgin Records. 1995. Event occurs at 26 minutes.
67.Jump up ^ GoldenEye (Audio CD). London: EMI Capitol. 25 February 2003.
68.Jump up ^ EMI proudly presents: GoldenEye (Media notes). EMI Capitol. 2003. 72435-41423-2-1.
69.Jump up ^ World Premiere of GoldenEye at Radio City Music Hall - 24 October 1995 /PR Newswire UK/
70.Jump up ^ UK: Prince Charles and Pierce Brosnan attend Royal Premiere of 'Goldeneye'
71.Jump up ^ "Pierce Brosnan boycotts French premiere of GoldenEye to support Greenpeace protests". PRNewswire. 12 January 1995. Retrieved 16 November 2006.
72.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 November 2006.
73.Jump up ^ "1995 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 24 November 2006.
74.Jump up ^ GoldenEye: James Bond Ultimate Edition Region 2 (PAL, Widescreen) (DVD). Mgm Home Ent. 17 July 2006. ASIN: B000FIF5KC.
75.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye (1995)". rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 16 November 2006.
76.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye". metacritic.com. Retrieved 24 November 2006.
77.Jump up ^ Roger Ebert (17 November 1995). "GoldenEye". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 16 November 2006.
78.Jump up ^ James Berardinelli (1995). "GoldenEye". reelviews.net. Retrieved 16 November 2006.
79.Jump up ^ Hal Hinson (17 November 1995). "14-Karat 'GoldenEye': A Polished New Bond". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
80.Jump up ^ Peter Stack (17 November 1995). "New Bond More Action Than Style". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
81.Jump up ^ John J. Puccio. "DVD review of GoldenEye". DVD Town. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2007.
82.^ Jump up to: a b "GoldenEye – Premiere & Press". MI6-HQ.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2008.
83.Jump up ^ "James Bond's Top 20". IGN. 17 November 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
84.Jump up ^ Benjamin Svetkey, Joshua Rich (15 November 2006). "Ranking the Bond Films". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
85.Jump up ^ Norman Wilner. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2008.
86.Jump up ^ "The 10 Best Bond Girls". Entertainment Weekly. 30 March 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
87.Jump up ^ "Top 10 Bond Babes". IGN. 15 November 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
88.Jump up ^ Richard Schickel (27 November 1995). "Shaky, Not Stirring". Time. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
89.Jump up ^ Owen Gleiberman (18 November 1995). "GoldenEye". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 18 November 2006.
90.Jump up ^ Dragan Antulov (2002). "Retrospective: GoldenEye (1995)". Retrospective. Retrieved 28 April 2007.
91.Jump up ^ Kenneth Turan (17 November 1995). "GoldenEye – Movie Review". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2007.
92.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye film review". Cinematter.com. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
93.Jump up ^ "Awards for Eric Serra". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
94.Jump up ^ MTV Movie Awards. Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Studios. 13 June 1996.
95.Jump up ^ "Awards and nominations for GoldenEye (1995)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
96.Jump up ^ Goldeneye 007 Official Player's Guide. Nintendo Power. 1997. ASIN: B000B66WKA.
97.Jump up ^ Don McGregor (January 1996) [1995]. James Bond 007: GoldenEye. Artwork by Rick Magyar and Claude St. Aubin; Cover art by Brian Stelfreeze. New York City: Topps Comics. Direct Sales 61114 00257.
98.Jump up ^ John Cox (19 May 2005). "When Bond Battled Dinosaurs". commanderbond.net. Archived from the original on 8 October 2007. Retrieved 10 November 2006.
99.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye 007 Reviews". gamerankings.com. Retrieved 29 November 2006.
100.Jump up ^ "Microsoft Acquires Video Game Powerhouse Rare Ltd". Microsoft. 24 September 2002. Archived from the original on 29 October 2006. Retrieved 13 May 2006.
101.Jump up ^ "100 Greatest Games of All Time". Computer and Video Games (218): 53–67. January 2000.
102.Jump up ^ "Ten Top Tens: Shooters". Edge (128): 73. October 2003.
103.Jump up ^ Martin Hollis (2 September 2004). "The Making of GoldenEye 007". Zoonami. Retrieved 13 May 2006.
104.Jump up ^ "The Lost GoldenEye Videogame". MI6-HQ.com. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
105.Jump up ^ Kaizen Media Group (November 2004). Golden Eye: Rogue Agent (Prima Official Game Guide). Roseville, California: Prima Games. ISBN 0-7615-4633-2.
106.Jump up ^ "Reviews of GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for PS2". Metacritic. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
107.Jump up ^ "GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for GameCube". Metacritic. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
108.Jump up ^ "Reviews of GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for Xbox". Metacritic. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
109.Jump up ^ Eric Qualls. "GoldenEye: Rogue Agent". About.com: Xbox Games. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
110.Jump up ^ Benjamin Turner. "GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (PS2)". GameSpy. Retrieved 21 January 2007.
111.Jump up ^ Keith Stewart (17 June 2010). "E3 2010: GoldenEye first look". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 24 June 2010.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has quotations related to: GoldenEye
GoldenEye at the Internet Movie Database
GoldenEye at AllMovie
GoldenEye at Rotten Tomatoes
GoldenEye at Box Office Mojo
MGM's official GoldenEye website



[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
James Bond films






























































































Wikipedia book
Category
James Bond Portal





[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films directed by Martin Campbell


























This is a good article. Click here for more information.
 



Categories: 1995 films
English-language films
1990s action thriller films
British films
Films about computing
Films about organized crime in Russia
Films about terrorism
Films directed by Martin Campbell
Films set in 1986
Films set in 1995
Films set in Cuba
Films set in London
Films set in Monaco
Films set in Russia
Films set in Saint Petersburg
Films set in the Soviet Union
Films shot in England
Films shot in France
Films shot in London
Films shot in Monaco
Films shot in Puerto Rico
Films shot in Russia
Films shot in Switzerland
GoldenEye
James Bond films
Sequel films
Terrorism in fiction
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
United Artists films















Navigation menu




Create account
Log in




Article

Talk












Read

Edit

View history

























Main page
Contents
Featured content
Current events
Random article
Donate to Wikipedia
Wikimedia Shop

Interaction
Help
About Wikipedia
Community portal
Recent changes
Contact page

Tools
What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Wikidata item
Cite this page

Print/export
Create a book
Download as PDF
Printable version

Languages
العربية
Български
Català
Čeština
Cymraeg
Dansk
Deutsch
Eesti
Español
Esperanto
Euskara
فارسی
Français
Հայերեն
हिन्दी
Hrvatski
Bahasa Indonesia
Italiano
עברית
ქართული
Lietuvių
Magyar
Македонски
Nederlands
日本語
Norsk bokmål
Occitan
Polski
Português
Română
Русский
Simple English
Српски / srpski
Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски
Suomi
Svenska
ไทย
Türkçe
Українська
中文
Edit links
This page was last modified on 21 August 2014 at 23:14.
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
Privacy policy
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Contact Wikipedia
Developers
Mobile view
Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki
   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye