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For Your Eyes Only’s 30th anniversary: 007 returns to earth
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Posted on 06/25/2011 2:36:24 PM PDT by Perdogg

The James Bond film series ended the 1970s with one of its most extravagent entries, Moonraker, where James Bond went into outer space. For the first Bond film of a new decade, producer Albert R. Broccoli opted to bring the gentleman agent back down to earth in For Your Eyes Only.

Moonraker hadn’t used much of Ian Fleming. For Your Eyes Only would tap the plots of two Fleming short stories, For Your Eyes Only and Risico. Both had been published in the same 1960 collection of short stories by Fleming. Broccoli brought back screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who hadn’t been involved with Moonraker, to write the new movie. Broccoli collaborated with Broccoli’s stepson Michael G. Wilson on the script.

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KEYWORDS: 007; bond; bondjamesbond; rogermoore; topol
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1 posted on 06/25/2011 2:36:25 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: GSP.FAN; Young Werther; Guenevere; SJSAMPLE; Larry Lucido; fieldmarshaldj; Clemenza; Impy; ...

The last Flemingist Bond movie released 06/26/81


2 posted on 06/25/2011 2:39:30 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Perdogg

I liked the title song to the movie sung my Sheena Easton.


3 posted on 06/25/2011 2:42:14 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: Perdogg
And one of the best Bond title songs ever...

Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only

4 posted on 06/25/2011 2:42:14 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Perdogg

It was entertaining and a lot better than some James Bond films.


5 posted on 06/25/2011 2:48:34 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: Perdogg

“Flemingist Bond”

Gesundheit!


6 posted on 06/25/2011 2:51:12 PM PDT by vladimir998 (When anti-Catholics can't win they simply violate the rules of the forum)
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To: Nowhere Man

Bill Conti wrote the soundtrack and it was one of the best of the series. Definitely a product of its time, but very tight and in tune with the story.


7 posted on 06/25/2011 2:54:52 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Perdogg
Moore at his meanest:


8 posted on 06/25/2011 2:57:04 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Perdogg

FYEO - best of the Roger Moore Bonds in my book.


9 posted on 06/25/2011 2:57:12 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Perdogg

Summer 1981. This was the first Bond film I saw in the theater with my father, I was about 7. I remember how utterly shocking the scene was to my young eyes where the Havelocks were brutally assassinated. Dumping Blofeld down the smokestack was a bit silly, though.

Bill Conti held his own with a decent score that worked (though it was far afield from something John Barry would’ve done). I got used to hearing various clips from the score for years as it was rehashed for segments to the Conti scored “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous.”

In hindsight, Moore probably should’ve made this one his last when he was still somewhat believable (at 54) in the role. This one at least redeemed him from the embarrassingly half-baked “Moonraker.”


10 posted on 06/25/2011 3:00:09 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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Wonder why they took the headrests out? Odd.


11 posted on 06/25/2011 3:02:33 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: buccaneer81

One might say that scene was more the way Connery would’ve done it. No more Mr. Nice Guy there for Rog. Too bad they couldn’t have had him do it this way instead for all those prior silly ‘70s entries.


12 posted on 06/25/2011 3:03:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Perdogg
Of all the Bonds, this one had the best scenery. And who could forget Lynn-Holly Johnson as Bibi Dahl?


13 posted on 06/25/2011 3:05:33 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Bill Conti’s wife wrote the lyrics to “Make it Last All Night” the song that was played when Bond approached the pool.
14 posted on 06/25/2011 3:07:32 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: RegulatorCountry
Wonder why they took the headrests out? Odd.

Must have had some issues with camera angles or the like. No other reason I can imagine.

15 posted on 06/25/2011 3:10:45 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
One might say that scene was more the way Connery would’ve done it. No more Mr. Nice Guy there for Rog.

I saw him in an interview once and that point was raised. Moore said he didn't like the harder edge.

16 posted on 06/25/2011 3:13:00 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Perdogg

So she came up with that title, LOL!


17 posted on 06/25/2011 3:13:18 PM PDT by cmsgop ( I spent most of my childhood terrified that The Rhythm was going to get me.)
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To: buccaneer81

Old Bond movies are usually very good on the details, and very car oriented. It just seems sloppy.


18 posted on 06/25/2011 3:14:33 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: abb

She was cute, if a bit flaky. Carole Bouquet was much hotter, though. Hard to believe they were only a year apart in age. Bouquet was far more mature. Word to the wise, don’t look up any recent pics of Miss Johnson, you’ll be sorry.


19 posted on 06/25/2011 3:14:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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Top 10 Bond girl...
20 posted on 06/25/2011 3:51:50 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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