For Your Eyes Only
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Short description
For Your Eyes Only finds James Bond on a hunt for a British encryption device lost when a spy ship sinks in the Ionian Sea. The equipment, which controls missile launch instructions, could be turned against the West if it reaches Soviet hands. Bond's path crosses that of Melina Havelock, whose parents were killed while searching for the wreck, and her desire for revenge draws her into the operation. Their search leads through Greece and beyond, toward a Greek businessman named Kristatos and a smuggler called Columbo, while Soviet agents pursue the same prize.
Roger Moore plays Bond for the fifth time, with Carole Bouquet as Melina, Topol as Columbo and Julian Glover as Kristatos. John Glen directed, working from a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. The film opened in June 1981 and was the first of five Bond entries Glen directed in sequence.
Made for about 28 million dollars, it returned roughly 195 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.7 out of 10 from around 116,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.6 from a much smaller base of about 2,200. A critics' rating of 6.4 from 55 reviews sits close to the audience scores, so critical and popular reactions were broadly similar.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming the final scenes high on the cliff proved particularly difficult for Roger Moore, the performer of the role of agent 007, due to his fear of heights. Moore later recounted that before filming the scenes on the sheer cliff, he would take a Valium tablet (a tranquilizer with sedative, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxant effects) and drink a glass of beer. Stuntman Rick Sylvester performed a significant portion of the stunts. In the corresponding scenes, Moore was suspended on a cable at a height of just over a meter, while Sylvester was at a height of over seven meters.
- This film saved United Artists from bankruptcy. At the time of its release, the studio was still trying to recover from the disastrous failure of Michael Cimino's $40 million western "Heaven's Gate" (1980), rapidly approaching bankruptcy. The box office success of John Glen's thriller (the film grossed $195 million worldwide) was timely and shifted the focus of cinema as a whole from character-driven plots towards large-scale blockbusters.
- Stuntman Paolo Rijon died during the filming of a bobsleigh chase.
- During filming, the filmmakers faced a serious problem. Two monks lived in a monastery on top of a cliff, and they placed plastic sheeting on the roof to prevent filming from continuing. They disliked the violence associated with James Bond by audiences. It is said that Roger Moore once told the monks that he himself had once been a saint (a reference to the 1962-1969 series “The Saint,” in which Moore played the lead role). A special session of the Greek Supreme Court was convened, which ruled that the monks were only entitled to alter the interior surfaces of the monastery buildings, while the exterior surfaces were the property of the Greek people and the local administration. The filmmakers were eventually allowed to shoot on location, including the scene of a character falling, in which Rick Sylvester stood in for Moore in the stunt. The outdoor filming did not take place at the monastery (which is depicted as the Monastery of St. Cyril in the film), but on a set on a nearby cliff. Interior filming was done at Pinewood Studios soundstages in sets designed by production designer Peter Lamont.
- This is the only Bond film without the hero’s boss – M. Bernard Lee, who played him, died of cancer, and the filmmakers decided not to hire a new actor until the next installment.
- At the beginning of the film, 007 dispatches a villain clearly resembling Blofeld from SPECTRE, but his character’s name is not mentioned, as the studio no longer held the rights to the image of the bald megalomaniac at that time.
- When Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet (who played Melina) were towed on a rope behind a boat, the camera operated at speeds of 72 to 84 frames per second, and the image was then reproduced at 24 frames per second. Bubbles in the close-up scenes were added by dissolving effervescent tablets and superimposing bubbles onto the image on the negatives.
- The underwater scenes were filmed in a dry room equipped with a large wind machine, then the film was reversed in slow motion and bubbles were added.
- One of the actresses, Tula, was a transgender woman who had fully transitioned.
- The helicopter flight inside the huge warehouse was deemed too dangerous an undertaking, and the scene was filmed using so-called forced perspective (this technique uses optical illusion to make an object appear farther, closer, larger, or smaller than it actually is; it manipulates human visual perception). The team of special effects designer Derek Meddings built a reduced-scale model of the warehouse, and the camera was positioned next to it, while a real helicopter with a stunt pilot at the controls was filmed, giving the impression that the real helicopter was flying into the real warehouse. Shots inside the building were filmed on location, although a full-size model of the helicopter was used there. When agent 007 is outside the flying helicopter, stuntman Martin Grace was filmed instead of Roger Moore, and Moore acted in the scenes inside the helicopter cabin.
- Roger Moore considers this film to be the best in his Bond career.
- A more accurate translation of the title is “For Your Consideration.”
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