For Your Eyes Only
No one comes close to James Bond, 007.
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Country
Production
Budget
$28 000 000
Revenue
$54 812 802
Director
Actors
Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Julian Glover, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Cassandra Harris, Jill Bennett, Michael Gothard, John Wyman, Jack Hedley
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Albert R. Broccoli, Tom Pevsner, Michael G. Wilson
Operator
Alan Hume
Composer
Bill Conti
Artist
Audition
Maude Spector, Debbie McWilliams
Editing
John Grover
All team (26)
All team (26)
Short description
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming the final scenes high on a cliff proved particularly difficult for Roger Moore, who played Agent 007, due to his fear of heights. Moore later revealed that before filming the scenes on the sheer cliff, he took a Valium tablet (a tranquilizer with sedative, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and muscle-relaxant effects) and drank a glass of beer. Stuntman Rick Sylvester performed a significant portion of the stunts. In the relevant scenes, Moore hung from a cable just over a meter high, while Sylvester was at a height of over seven meters.
- One of the actresses, Tula, was a transgender woman who had fully transitioned.
- This film saved United Artists from bankruptcy. At the time of its release, the company was still trying to recover from the catastrophic failure of Michael Cimino's $40 million western 'Heaven's Gate' (1980) and was relentlessly approaching bankruptcy. The box office success of John Glen's thriller (which earned $195 million worldwide) was timely and shifted the focus of cinema as a whole from character-driven plots toward large-scale blockbusters.
- Stuntman Paolo Rijon died during the filming of a bobsleigh chase.
- During filming, the filmmakers encountered a serious problem. Two monks living in the monastery atop the cliff placed plastic sheets on the roof to prevent filming from continuing. They disapproved of the violence with which audiences associate James Bond. It is claimed 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 hearing of the Supreme Court of Greece was convened, which ruled that the monks had the right to modify only the interior surfaces of the monastery buildings, whereas the exterior surfaces were the property of the Greek people and the local administration. The filmmakers were ultimately allowed to conduct location shooting, including the scene of the character's fall, where stuntman Rick Sylvester stood in for Moore. The outdoor scenes were not filmed at the monastery (which is the Monastery of Saint Cyril in the film), but on a set on a nearby cliff. Interior scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios in sets designed by production designer Peter Lamont.
- 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.
- The only Bond film without the hero's boss, M, is due to the fact that 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- When the characters played by Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet (who played Melina) are towed by a boat on a cable, the camera operated at a speed of 72 to 84 frames per second, and the image was later played back at 24 frames per second. The bubbles in the close-up shots were added by dissolving effervescent tablets and overlaying the bubbles onto the negatives.
- 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.
- 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.
- Roger Moore considers this film to be the best in his Bond career.
- One of the actresses, Tula, was a trans woman who had fully transitioned.
- Flying a helicopter inside a massive warehouse was rightly considered too dangerous an undertaking, so the scene was filmed using a technique known as forced perspective (this technique uses an optical illusion to make an object appear farther, closer, larger, or smaller than it actually is, manipulating human visual perception). Staff working for special effects designer Derek Meddings constructed a scaled-down model of the warehouse and positioned the camera next to it, while filming a real helicopter with a stunt pilot at the controls; this made it appear to the viewer that a real helicopter was flying into a real warehouse. The interior shots were filmed on location, although a full-scale model of the helicopter was used there. When Agent 007 is outside the flying helicopter, stuntman Martin Grace was filmed instead of Roger Moore, while Moore performed the scenes inside the cockpit.
- 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.
- A more accurate translation of the title is “For Your Consideration.”
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