The Loving Spy Me is the 10th British-American spy film 1977 in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the third to star Roger Moore as James Bond's fictitious secret agent. Barbara Bach and Curt JÃÆ'¼rgens played. The film was directed by Lewis Gilbert and his script was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum.
The film takes the title of Ian Fleming's novel The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth book in the James Bond series, although it does not contain novel plot elements. The plot involves a closed megalomaniac named Karl Stromberg, who plans to destroy the world and create a new civilization under the sea. Tim Bond with Russian agent, Anya Amasova, to stop Stromberg.
It was shot at locations in Egypt (Cairo and Luxor) and Italy (Costa Smeralda, Sardinia), with underwater scenes filmed in the Bahamas (Nassau), and a new soundstage built at Pinewood Studios for a large set depicting the interior of a supertanker. The Spy Who Loved Me was well received by the critics. The soundtrack composed by Marvin Hamlisch also met with success. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards in the middle of many other nominations and only in 1977 by Christopher Wood as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me .
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Plot
British and Soviet ballistic missiles mysteriously disappeared. James Bond - MI6 agent 007 - called to investigate. On the way to his briefing, Bond escaped an ambush by Soviet agents in Austria, killing their leader during a downhill skiing pursuit. Plans for a highly sophisticated submarine tracking system are being offered in Egypt. There, he meets Major Anya Amasova - KGB agent Triple X - his rival to restore the microfilm plan. They travel across Egypt together, meeting Jaws - a high assassin with sharp steel teeth - all the way. Bond and Amasova were reluctant to join after the ceasefire was approved by their respective British and Soviet bosses. They identified the person responsible for the theft as a shipping tycoon and scientist Karl Stromberg.
While traveling by train to the base of Stromberg in Sardinia, Bond keeps Amasova from Jaws, and their cool competition turns into affection. Posing as a marine biologist and his wife, they visited the base of Stromberg and discovered that he had launched a mysterious new supertanker, Liparus, nine months earlier. As they leave the base, an unknown henchman on a motorcycle featuring a rocket sidecar, Jaws in the car, and Naomi, Stromberg's assistant/pilot in attack helicopter, chases them, but Bond and Amasova runs under water when his car - a Lotus Esprit of Q Branch - converted to submarine. Jaws survived a car accident and Naomi was killed when Bond fired a sea missile from his car that destroyed his helicopter. When examining the underwater base of Stromberg Atlantis , the couple confirmed that he operated a stolen tracking system and found that Amasova's Stromberg minisubs vanished with the launch of a minefield. Bond knew that Lipot had never visited a known port or port. Amasova discovers that Bond killed her lover (as shown at the beginning of the movie), and she vows to kill Bond as soon as their mission is over.
Bond and Amasova boarded an American submarine to check on Liparus while capturing a submarine. Stromberg set out his plan: the simultaneous launch of nuclear missiles from British and Soviet submarines to destroy Moscow and New York City. This will trigger a global nuclear war, which Stromberg will survive in Atlantis, and then a new civilization will be established underwater. He went to Atlantis with Amasova. Bond escapes and frees the captured British, Russian, and American sailors and they fight the crew of <<> Liparus '. Bond reprogrammed the submarines to fire missiles at each other, saving Moscow and New York City. The winning submarine escaped from the sinking of Liparus on an American submarine.
Submarines are ordered to destroy Atlantis but Bond insists on saving Amasova first. He faced and killed Stromberg but once again met with Jaws, which he dropped into a shark tank. However, Jaws killed a shark and escaped. Bond and Amasova fled on the pod fleeing because of Atlantis drowning. Amasova took Bond's pistol and reminded her that she had sworn to kill her, but then decided not to and both hugs. The Royal Navy found a pod and two spies seen in an intimate hug through the port window, which made their superiors amazed on the ship.
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Cast
- Roger Moore as James Bond 007: An English MI6 agent assigned to investigate theft of two submarines.
- Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova/Triple X Agent: A Soviet KGB agent also investigates the theft. His attraction to Bond was cut off when he learned that he had killed his girlfriend. Bach was thrown just four days before the main photography began, and his audition expected only a role in the film, not one of the protagonists.
- Curd Jürgens (billed as "Curt Jurgens" in credit) as Karl Stromberg: The main villain, megalomaniac planning to spark World War III and destroy the world, then recreate new civilization underwater. JÃÆ'¼rgens casting is the advice of director Lewis Gilbert, who had worked with him before.
- Richard Kiel as the Jaws: Stromberg, which appears to be irreversible from a henchman, suffers from gigantism and has a set of metal teeth. He takes on the role of Bond next month, Moonraker .
- Caroline Munro as Naomi: Stromberg's personal pilot and prospective assassin. Munro's check was inspired by the advertising campaign he created.
- Walter Gotell as General Gogol: The head of KGB and Anya boss. Gotell's debut in that role; He previously appeared as a Morzeny at From Russia with Love and took Gogol's role in the next five films.
- Bernard Lee as M: Chief MI6.
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q/Major Boothroyd: MI6's research and development head. He supplies Bond with unique vehicles and gadgets, especially the Lotus Esprit that turns into submarines.
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: Secretary M.
- Geoffrey Keen as Frederick Gray: British Defense Minister. Debut Keen Bond ; he appeared in a role in the next five films.
- Robert Brown as Vice Admiral Hargreaves: Flag Office, Royal Navy Submarine; Brown then plays M at Octopussy , A View to a Kill , The Living Daylights and License to Kill .
- George Baker as Captain Benson: An English naval officer stationed at Faslane Naval Base Royal Navy in Scotland. Baker previously appeared at At Her Majesty's Secret Service .
- Michael Billington as Sergei Barsov, Russian agent and beloved Anya Amasova.
- Vernon Dobtcheff as Max Kalba: Egyptian nightclub owners and black market makers who have microfilm and try to push Bond and Amasova to bid for it. Killed by Jaws.
- Nadim Sawalha as Fekkesh: Humans are on the stolen microfilm trail. Killed by Jaws.
- Olga Bisera as Felicca: Fekkesh's glamorous partner who was a victim of a trap for Bond.
- Edward de Souza as Shaykh Hosein: Cambridge-educated Sheikh of Cambridge and Bond's old friend.
- Shane Rimmer as Carter Commander: captain of the American submarine.
- Bryan Marshall as Talbot Commander: captured captive British submarine.
- Milton Reid as Sandor: Stromberg's accomplice.
- Sue Vanner as Girls Log Cabin: A beautiful Russian agent who sets the trap for 007 in pre-credit order.
- Eva Reuber-Staier as Rubelvitch: general secretary of Gogol.
- Marilyn Galsworthy as Stromberg's assistant: a malicious secretary who steals a microfilm tracking system. Stromberg gave him food for his shark. In the novelization of the film, his name is said to be Kate Chapman.
- Valerie Leon as a hotel receptionist.
Assistant director for Italian location, Victor Tourjansky, has a cameo as the man who drinks his wine when Bond's Lotus emerges from the beach. As a joke, he returned in similar appearances in two other Bond films taken in Italy, Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only.
Production
The Spy Who Loved Me is in many ways an important film for the Bond franchise, and has been plagued since conception by many problems. The first is the departure of Bond producer Harry Saltzman, who was forced to sell half of the 1975 Bond movie franchise for £ 20 million. Saltzman has branched into some dubious promising business and consequently struggled through a personal financial reversal unrelated to the Bonds. This is exacerbated by the twin personal tragedy of his wife's terminal cancer and many symptoms of clinical depression in him.
Another aspect that disrupts production is the difficulty in getting a director. The producer approached Steven Spielberg, who was in post-production Jaws , but eventually decided to oppose it. The first director attached to the film was Guy Hamilton, who directed all three previous Bond films and Goldfinger, but he left after being offered the chance to direct the 1978 Superman movie, even though Richard Donner took over the project. Eon Productions then switched to Lewis Gilbert, who had directed the previous Bond movie You Only Live Twice .
With a director finally succeeding, the next obstacle is completing the script, which has been through several revisions by many authors. The early villains of this film are Ernst Stavro Blofeld; But Kevin McClory, who owns the movie rights for Thunderball forcing the order on Eon Productions against the use of the Blofeld character, or his international criminal organization SPECTER, which delayed further film production. The criminal was later changed from Blofeld to Stromberg so that the order would not interfere with production. Christopher Wood was later taken by Lewis Gilbert to complete his script. Although Fleming has requested that no elements of the original book be used, the Jaws and Sandor movie characters are based on the novel characters of Sol Horror and Sluggsy Morant, respectively. Horror is described as having steel-covered teeth, while Sluggsy has a distinct bald head.
Because Ian Fleming allows Eon to only use his novel name instead of the actual novel, Fleming's name was moved for the first time from the top of the film's title to "James Bond 007". Her name is returned to the traditional location for Moonraker , the last Eon Bond film based on the Fleming novel before 2006 Casino Royale . However, the first credit style used in The Spy Who Loved Me has been used on all Eon Bond films since For Your Eyes Only , including Casino Royale >>.
Script
Brokoli commissioned several authors to work on the script, including Stirling Silliphant, John Landis, Ronald Hardy, Anthony Burgess and Derek Marlowe. In his second volume of autobiography, Burgess claims to have worked on the initial treatment for the film. British television producer Gerry Anderson also stated that he provides film maintenance (although originally planned to be Moonraker ) very similar to what ended as The Spy Who Loved Me .
Finally, Richard Maibaum provides the scenario, and at first he tries to incorporate the ideas of all other authors into his script. Maibaum's original script features an international terrorist alliance that attacked the SPECTRE headquarters and toppled Blofeld, before attempting to destroy the world to make way for the New World Order. However, this is suspended.
After Gilbert was restored as a director, he decided to bring another author, Christopher Wood. Gilbert also resolved to correct what he felt of previously incorrect films of Roger Moore, who wrote too many Bond characters as Sean Connery did, and instead described Bond closer to the book - "very English speaking, very subtle, good sense of humor". Broccoli asks Wood to create a villain with iron teeth, Jaws, who is inspired by a man wearing an armor named Horror in Fleming's novel.
Broccoli approves Wood's proposed change, but before he can start working, there are more legal complications. In the years since Thunderball , Kevin McClory has founded two film companies and is trying to make a new Bond film that works with Sean Connery and novelist Len Deighton. McClory got wind of Broccoli's plan to use SPECTER, the organization that was first created by Fleming while working with McClory and Jack Whittingham on the first attempt to film Thunderball, back before it even was a novel, in the late 1950s. McClory threatened to sue Broccoli for alleged copyright infringement, claiming that he had the sole right to include SPECTER and his agent in all films. Not wanting to extend an existing legal dispute that could delay the production of The Spy Who Loved Me, Broccoli asks Wood to remove all references to Blofeld and SPECTER from the script.
In this film, Stromberg's scheme to destroy civilization by capturing Soviet and British nuclear submarines and making them firing intercontinental ballistic missiles in two major cities is actually a recycling plot of the previous Bond Gilbert movie, You Only Live Twice , which involves stealing a space capsule to start a war between the Soviets and the Americans. The similarity is evident in climax; the two films involved an attack on a heavily fortified enemy who had taken refuge behind a steel window.
The scheme in which criminals want to destroy mankind to create a new race or a new civilization is also used in Moonraker , the next film after The Spy Who Loved Me . In Moonraker , criminals Hugo Drax has an obsession with starting another human civilization on Earth, using a specially selected "superior human specimen" based on space. The film Moonraker is also written by Christopher Wood.
Tom Mankiewicz, who worked on three previous Bond films, claimed he was called to perform extensive rewriting of the manuscript. Mankiewicz says he does not accept credit, because Broccoli is limited to non-UK numbers in key positions he can use on film to get Eady Levy's help.
Filming
Tom Mankiewicz claims that Catherine Deneuve wants to play the female lead and is willing to cut her normal rate from $ 400,000 per image to $ 250,000, but Broccoli will not pay over $ 80,000.
The film is taken at Pinewood Studios in London, Porto Cervo in Sardinia (Cala Hotel in Volpe), Egypt (Karnak, Ibn Tulun Mosque, Gayer-Anderson Museum, Abu Simbel Temple), Malta, Scotland, Hayling Island UK, Okinawa, Switzerland, and Mount Asgard on Baffin Island in the northern region of northwestern Canada (now located in Nunavut).
Since there is no studio big enough for Stromberg's supertanker interior, and set designer Ken Adam does not want to repeat what he has done with the SPECTRE volcano base on You Only Live Twice - "workable but ultimately wasteful "- construction began in March 1976 from a new sound stage at Pinewood, Stage 007, at a cost of $ 1.8 million.To complete this stage, Eon also pays to build a water tank capable of storing approximately 1,200,000 gallons (5,500,000 liter) The soundstage was so large that the cinematographer Claude Renoir found himself unable to effectively illuminate it because of his worsening vision, and so Stanley Kubrick visited production, in secret, to advise on how to stage the stage.For the exterior, while Shell was willing to lend a tanker abandoned to production, high insurance and safety risks led to it being replaced by a miniature built by t im Derek Meddings and shot in the Bahamas. The Stromberg shark tank is also filmed in the Bahamas, using live sharks in the saltwater pool. Adam decided to experiment with a curved shape for the scenery, as he felt that all previous devices were "too linear". This is indicated by Atlantis , which is a dome and curved surface outside, and many objects curved in Stromberg's office inside. For Gogol's offices, Adam wanted an open space to distinguish M's closed headquarters, and drew inspiration from Sergei Eisenstein to perform a Russian "crypt-like" set.
The main unit began its work in August 1976 in Sardinia. Don McLaughlan, then head of public relations at Lotus Cars, heard that Eon was shopping for a new Bond car. He drove the Lotus Esprit prototype with all the attached Lotus brands, and parked outside of Eon's office in Pinewood's studio; when looking at the car, Eon asks Lotus to borrow both prototypes for the filming. The early filming of the car chase resulted in a disappointing sequence of actions. While moving the car between the buds, the Lotus Roger Becker test driver was impressed with his car's handling and during filming in Sardinia, Becker became a stunt driver.
Sizzle motorcycle missiles are used in a chase sequence built by film staff at Pinewood and use the Kawasaki Z900 standard and custom-made sidecar outfits. The sidecar is made big enough so the stuntman can lie inside. It has two 10 inch scooter wheels on each side, a Suzuki 185 engine and a loose projectile piloted through a small solid rubber wheel on the front. A very wet perspex nose allows sufficient visibility stuntman to steer the device while completely hidden from view. The pin type lock holds the sidecar in place until it is operated by the pilot via a solenoid switch. The order involving the clothes was accelerated because the weight of the sidecar made the clothes very difficult to control.
In October, the second unit traveled to Nassau to film an underwater circuit. To make the car into a submarine, seven different models are used, one for each step of the transformation. One model is a fully mobile submarine equipped with a machine built by Perry Submarines based in Miami. The car seen entering the sea is an artificial shell, pushed from the dock by a compressed air cannon. During the model sequence, a visible air bubble emerges from the vehicle created by the Alka-Seltzer tablet.
In September, production was transferred to Egypt. While the Great Sphinx of Giza was shot at the scene, the lighting problem caused the pyramid to be replaced by a miniature. While construction of the Liparus set went on, the second unit led by John Glen left for Mount Asgard, where in July 1976 they staged a pre-credit sequence of films. The veteran marriage film Willy Bogner captured the action, staged by stuntman Rick Sylvester, who earned $ 30,000 for the action. This action cost $ 500,000 - the single most expensive action movie of the time. Additional scenes for pre-credit sequences were filmed in the Bernina Range in the Swiss Alps.
The production team returned briefly to England to shoot at the Faslane submarine base before leaving for Spain, Portugal and the Bay of Biscay where the exterior of the supertanker was filmed. On December 5, 1976, with major photography completed, the 007 Stage was officially opened by former Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Music
The theme song "Nobody Does It Better" was composed by Marvin Hamlisch, written by Carole Bayer Sager, and performed by Carly Simon. It was the first theme song in a series titled different from the name of the movie, although the title is in the lyrics. It was nominated for Best Song but lost to "You Light Up My Life".
The song was immediately successful and featured in many films, including Mr. & amp; Mrs Smith (2005), Little Black Book , Lost in Translation , and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) ). In 2004, it was honored by the American Film Institute as the 67th largest song as part of their 100 Years Series.
The film's soundtrack was composed by Marvin Hamlisch, who filled in for veteran John Barry, who could not work in the UK for tax reasons. The soundtrack, compared to other Bond movies at the time, was more disco-oriented and included the new song "The James Bond Theme" titled "Bond 77"; some classical music works are also included in the score. For example, while feeding a ludicrous secretary for sharks, Stromberg plays Bach's "Air on the G String", famous for accompanying disappointing characters in Hamlet's cigar commercial. He then plays the opening strings section of the second movement, Andante, from Piano Concerto no. 21 Mozart when his hideaway Atlantis rose from the sea. This score also includes two popular music films by Maurice Jarre. The Doctor Zhivago Themes, which are played in the Anya music box during the pre-credit sequence, and the themes of Lawrence of Arabia , which appear as background music during the desert sequence.
Release and acceptance
The Spy Who Loved Me opened with Royal Premiere attended Princess Anne at Odeon Leicester Square in London on July 7, 1977. It earned $ 185.4 million worldwide, with $ 46 million in the United States alone. On August 25, 2006, the film was re-released in Empire Leicester Square Cinema for one week. It was again featured at Empire Leicester Square April 20, 2008 when Director Lewis Gilbert attended the first digital film screenings.
Executive Eon Charles Juroe said that at the screening attended by Charles, Prince of Wales, during the Union Jack-parachute scene "I've never seen a reaction in the cinema since there was that night.You can not help it.You can not help but stand up.Even the Prince Charles stood up. "It was Roger Moore's favorite Bond movie, and many reviewers regard it as the best installment for starring actors. Christopher Null praises gadgets, especially Lotus Esprit cars. James Berardinelli of Reelviews said the film was "suave and sophisticated," and Barbara Bach proved to be the ideal Bond girl - "interesting, smart, sexy, and dangerous". Brian Webster stated that the special effects are "good for the 1979 film [sic]", and Marvin Hamlisch's music, "memorable". Danny Peary describes The Spy Who Loved Me as "amazing... Just once, big budgets are not wasted." Interestingly, while the set and gimmick are the most spectacular to date, Bond and other characters are scaled down ( there is minimal slapstick humor) so they are more realistic than in other Roger Moore movies... Moore gives his best performance in the series... [Bond and Anya Amasova] are an interesting couple, equivalent in everything Film is a real treat - a piece of work that is played with good, smart, sexy, visually impressive, produced with luxury, a very powerful mix of spy romance and war-mission movies. "Janet Maslin of The New York Times considers the film as a formula and "half an hour too long, thanks to the compulsory shooting,...... but the most boring sequence here" but praised Moore's Appearance and the movie "sharing self-mockery", which he found refreshing.
The Times placed Jaws and Stromberg as the sixth and seventh best Bond (each) in the series in 2008, and also named Esprit as the second best car in the series (behind Aston Martin DB5).
Marvin Hamlisch was nominated for awards such as Academy Award for Best Songs, Original Musical Score, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Grammy Award for Best Score for Motion Movie and BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Music Movie ("Nobody Does It Better ") in 1978. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Ken Adam, Peter Lamont and Hugh Scaife) and BAFTA for Best Production Design/Art Direction
The end of the credit states "James Bond Will Go Back In For Your Eyes Only ", but follow the success of Star Wars , originally planned Just For Your Eyes Only i> fall in favor of the Moonraker themed space for the next movie. Most critics accept this film positively: Rotten Tomatoes takes 47 reviewers and judges 79% of the positive reviews.
Novelization
When Ian Fleming sold his movie rights to James Bond's novel to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, he gave permission only for the title of The Spy Who Loved Me to be used. Since the screenplay for the film has nothing to do with Fleming's original novel, Eon Productions, for the first time, endorsed a novelization based on the manuscript. It will also be the first regular Bond novel published since Colonel Sun nearly a decade before. Christopher Wood, who co-wrote the screenplay, was assigned to write a book called James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me .
Novelizations and scenarios, though both written by Wood, are somewhat different. In his novel, SMERSH is still active and after James Bond. Their role begins in pre-titles. After Fekkish's mysterious death, SMERSH reappeared, this time capturing and torturing Bond for the existence of a microfilm that defended the plan for a submarine tracking system (Bond escaped after killing two interrogators). The emergence of SMERSH conflict with a number of Bond stories, including the film The Living Daylights (1987), in which the character states that SMERSH has been dead for over 20 years. This is also different from the last half of Fleming's Bond novel in which SMERSH is said to have been dismissed. SMERSH members of the novelization include Amasova and her boyfriend Sergei Borzov and Colonel General Niktin, the character of the Fleming novel From Russia, with Love who has since been head of SMERSH. In the book, Jaws remains attached to the magnets that Bond dips into the tank, as opposed to the film in which Bond releases Jaws into the water.
Sales of props
The Lotus Esprit, also known as Wet Nellie, capable of transforming from car to submarine in the film, was purchased for £ 616,000 at an auction in London in October 2013 by Elon Musk, who plans to rebuild the vehicle and try to make the fictional dual- purpose into a real dual-purpose car (underwater and on land).
See also
- 007: Nightfire , a 2002 video game featuring the settings of Liparus and Atlantis of the film, which also includes ships diving -car is no different from Lotus Esprit.
- "Our Man Bashir", 1995 episode of the Star Trek television series: Deep Space Nine is largely based on this movie.
- James Bond Outline
- Rinspeed sQuba, a movie-inspired submersible car.
- Wet Nellie - a submarine made exclusively for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me , in the form of a Lotus Esprit S1 sports car.
References
Further reading
- Wood, Christopher (2006). James Bond, The Spy I Loved . Twenty First Century Publishers. ISBN: 1-904433-53-7.
External links
- Official MGM Sites My Likely Spy
- The Spy Who Loved Me in IMDb
- The Spy Who Loved Me in the TCM Film Database
- The Spy Who Loved Me at AllMovie
- The Spy Who Loved Me in Box Office Mojo
- The Spy Who Loved Me at Rotten Tomatoes
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