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Bond (Roger Moore) destroys a LATAM secret missile & radar base. Bond is actually captured while trying to plant a bomb. He escapes and uses a small fold-able jet, that he smuggled near the base in a horse carriage. He then brings a SAM missile fired at him to the base and uses the SAM to destroy the entire facility. Octopussy sends Kamal Khan to acquire Fabergé's egg with the aim of making it the last attraction in his circus but is unaware that General Orlov replaced the object with a counterfeit containing a miniature neutron bomb. The corrupt military planned to detonate the device during a circus performance in Belgrade in the hope of destabilizing NATO (he intends to "prove" that the bomb is American, which would help him to convince his superiors to invade Europe). As in the film, Bond is brought in to investigate the Russians' intentions with the Egg and the rest of the mission reflects the events of the feature film. The Living Daylights theme song sung by A-Ha. It wasn't released as a single in the US due to some in-fighting between the band and the producers. It could've prevented them from being a one hit wonder over here. However, they were HUGE in Europe, so I don't think they were too bugged about Take on Me being their only hit stateside. Dexter Smythe is a retired intelligence agent drinking himself near to death in Jamaica. Note irony in that Ian Fleming was doing the same. When Smythe gets a visit from James Bond, he sort of knows it is trouble, as Major Smythe has been keeping a big secret since the end of WWII.

a b Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.156–163. ISBN 978-019-986330-3. Malcolm, Derek (9 June 1983). "A spy for all seasons". The Guardian. p.15. Archived from the original on 4 July 2023 . Retrieved 3 July 2023– via Newspapers.com. From the heart of Bollywood comes Kabir Bedi’s Gobinda, Khan’s towering sentinel. Not just a bodyguard, Gobinda is a looming storm, his loyalty to Khan fierce and unwavering. It’s this very loyalty that finds him clambering onto a plane’s fuselage, on a mission to end Bond. But alas, every storm eventually breaks. Moore also submits a very good performance, arguably his strongest. Easy to treat him as a joke but the man really can act. Sometimes through eyebrows alone. Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by John Glen and the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson.

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Amongst these casting chronicles, a hat-tip must be given to Robert Brown’s portrayal of M. His authority, suggested by Rpger Moore who’d shared screen space with Brown during their Ivanhoe days, saw him gracefully shift from the naval brass of Admiral Hargreaves in cast of The Spy Who Loved Me to MI6’s top brass.

El último libro de James Bond escrito por Ian Fleming, publicado tras su muerte y que reúne tres cuentos cortos de Bond. No puedo evitar sentir pena por saber que ya no tendré más capítulos de 007 escritos por su autor original. Y es que, pese a sus clichés machistas e incluso racistas en algunas de sus novelas, escritos en una sociedad con menos corrección política como la de ahora, Fleming tenía una manera de escribir que enganchaba. Y, sobre todo, que supo reinventarse novela tras novela, con planteamientos diferentes, con el foco de la atención cambiando de un lado a otro, y mostrando todas las caras de un personaje que sufre y evoluciona, igual que el estilo de su creador. Fiegel, Eddi (2012). John Barry: A Sixties Theme: From James Bond to Midnight Cowboy. Faber & Faber. p.207. ISBN 978-0571299119. In Octopussy, Bond is assigned the task of following a megalomaniacal Soviet general ( Steven Berkoff) who is stealing jewellery and art objects from the Kremlin art repository. This leads Bond to a wealthy exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan ( Louis Jourdan), and his associate, Octopussy ( Maud Adams), and the discovery of a plot to force disarmament in Western Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon. But it wasn’t only Never Say Never Again that bothered Cubby. Fraser, writing in his memoir, recalled a tense moment when Moore was offered a cameo in a non-related thriller. “I think [Cubby] felt it would somehow tarnish the Bond image,” wrote Fraser. “Roger listened politely, and then said gently: ‘But Cubby, I’ve got to keep the cars filled up.’” Fleming originally titled "The Living Daylights" as "Trigger Finger", [17] although when it first appeared, in The Sunday Times colour supplement of 4 February 1962, [18] it was under the title of "Berlin Escape". [10] It was also published in the June 1962 issue of the American magazine Argosy under the same name. [19] For The Sunday Times, Fleming had commissioned Graham Sutherland to undertake the artwork to accompany the piece, at a cost of 100 guineas, [20] although the artwork was not used in the published edition. [18]Fleming, Ian; Gammidge, Henry; McLusky, John (1988). Octopussy. London: Titan Books. ISBN 1-85286-040-5. more top secret Bond locations around Britain". The Telegraph. 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 10 May 2018 . Retrieved 19 July 2023.

Berkoff is suitably unhinged as Orlov – part power-mad fruit loop, part common thief. “Effectively a version of Putin,” says Field. Barbara Broccoli, daughter of Cubby and current Bond series producer, recommended Berkoff after seeing him perform his own play. Glen went to see Berkoff on stage, too. “He transformed himself into a mouse,” cries Glen. “He’s very clever… A very odd man.” Bond tries to stop the train with the bomb on board from leaving the Soviet base. He confronts Orlov, but is interrupted by Russian soldiers. Orlov and Bond both race to catch the train, with Bond unknowingly taking the General's car with the jewellery. Orlov lets his soldiers pursue Bond's car, which drives with its wheel rims on the rails after the tires have been punctured. Just after 007 has managed to jump onto the train, the car crashes into a river, where it is soon found by General Gogol. James Bond: Yes. Smythe, after a brilliant military career, was seconded to our secret service. His mission was to recover a cache of Chinese gold seized in North Korea. Both he and his native guide disappeared. The gold was never found.Octopussy is also the first film to feature Robert Brown as M, following the death of Bernard Lee in 1981. Brown was recommended by Moore, who had known him since both worked in the series Ivanhoe. [14] Brown had previously played Admiral Hargreaves in The Spy Who Loved Me, six years earlier. [15]

In 1959, Fleming was commissioned by The Sunday Times to write a series of articles based on world cities, material for which later was collected into a book entitled Thrilling Cities; while travelling through New York for material, Fleming wrote "007 in New York" from Bond's point of view. [23] "007 in New York" was originally titled "Reflections in a Carey Cadillac" [11] and it contains a recipe for scrambled eggs, which came from May Maxwell, [11] the housekeeper to friend Ivar Bryce, who gave her name to Bond's own housekeeper, May. [14] The story was first published in the New York Herald Tribune in October 1963 as "Agent 007 in New York", but was subsequently renamed as "007 in New York" for the 1964 US editions of Thrilling Cities. [24] Release and reception [ edit ] a b c d Field, Matthew (2015). Some kind of hero: 007: the remarkable story of the James Bond films. Ajay Chowdhury. Stroud, Gloucestershire. ISBN 978-0-7509-6421-0. OCLC 930556527. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) After being absent in For Your Eyes Only due to tax problems, John Barry returned to do his ninth Bond score. [26] Barry made frequent references to the "James Bond Theme" to reinforce Octopussy as the official Bond film, given that the motif could not be featured in Never Say Never Again, and opted to include only subtle references to the music of India, avoiding instruments such as the sitar for feeling that authentic music "didn't work dramatically". He also wrote opening theme " All Time High" with lyricist Tim Rice. "All Time High", sung by Rita Coolidge, is one of seven musical themes in the James Bond series whose song titles do not refer to the film's title. "All Time High" spent four weeks at number one on the United States' Adult Contemporary singles chart and reached number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. [25]I had watched Octopussy before reading the stories. But, the movie adaptation contains elements of this and The Property of a Lady and has built up on then. Octopussy has been condensed into a dialogue in the movie and while The Property of the Lady became a scene. David Williams (16 February 2015). "Why Octopussy is the best (and possibly worst) James Bond film". GQ. Archived from the original on 27 July 2017 . Retrieved 13 August 2017. Worst Bit: Bond’s Tarzan yell while swinging from a vine. Both cringe and tactically stupid. Now they know your position. Nice work, James. Many of the locals, including the mercenaries, seem to respect and even fear Octopussy, not wanting to interfere with her or having intention to get on her island. Svetkey, Benjamin; Rich, Joshua (1 December 2006). "Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 19 June 2022 . Retrieved 19 June 2022.