The World Is Not Enough
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Short description
James Bond is sent to protect Elektra, the daughter of a British oil magnate who was killed in a bombing at MI6 headquarters. Elektra has inherited her father's Caspian Sea oil fields, and the terrorist Renard, who is behind the killing, has his own plans for that fortune. Renard carries a bullet lodged in his brain that has left him unable to feel pain. Bond's investigation takes him to Azerbaijan, where he renews contact with the former KGB agent turned gangster Valentin Zukovsky, while a nuclear weapons expert, Christmas Jones, becomes involved in the case. The struggle over control of the region's oil supply builds toward a confrontation at sea.
The film is the third in which Pierce Brosnan plays Bond, and it was directed by Michael Apted, the thirteenth of the nineteen features he made. Sophie Marceau appears as Elektra, Robert Carlyle as Renard, Denise Richards as Christmas Jones, Robbie Coltrane as Zukovsky and Judi Dench as M. Bruce Feirstein wrote the screenplay, and Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson produced.
It was released in November 1999 and runs 128 minutes. Made for about 135 million dollars, it took roughly 362 million dollars worldwide, a strong return on its budget. Audiences rate it modestly: 6.4 out of 10 on IMDb from some 220,000 votes and 6.3 out of 10 on TMDB, with the critics' score of 5.9 from 148 reviews sitting close to both.
What's left behind the scenes
- This was the first film to use Dolby Digital EX 6.1 surround sound technology.
- This was the last film in which Desmond Llewelyn played the role of Q, a role he had played since 1963 (From Russia with Love). In this film, Q introduces Bond to his successor (actor John Cleese), whom Bond jokingly calls R (the next letter of the English alphabet). Llewelyn died in December 1999.
- Filming took place in the United Kingdom, Spain, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey.
- When it became known that filming would take place near the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI-6 tried to prevent it, but all objections were dismissed by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook (1946-2005) at the insistence of then-Member of Parliament Janet Anderson.
- Filming the scene where Pierce Brosnan's character grabs for the cables on the Millennium Dome required a great deal of effort from the stunt performers. To emphasize how much work it took to film, director Michael Apted specifically left in the film shots of the hero trying to grab the cables but missing.
- While underwater, Agent 007 adjusts his tie – this moment was not in the script; Pierce Brosnan came up with it himself.
- In the scene where Bond looks at those present through X-ray glasses, the actors were initially filmed in normal clothes, and then in transparent clothing, after which the images were combined.
- Denise Richards gladly played the role of Dr. Christmas Jones, believing her character was different from typical "Bond girls." The public disagreed, and Christmas Jones is often called the worst "Bond girl." This is the first film in the Bond series to win a Golden Raspberry Award for "Worst Supporting Actress," and Denise Richards won it.
- Even before filming began, the set-up of the filming location in Turkey had already almost finished. Once, an explosion occurred in Istanbul just when director Michael Apted was in the city, and after that, all scheduled filming in Istanbul was moved to other locations. None of the actors involved in the film ever made it to Istanbul. The scenes on the pier near the Elektra Palace were filmed at Pinewood Studios against green screens.
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