For Your Eyes Only - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[nicholas]

In the dockyard shoot-out, Bond uses giant rolls of paper to kill some of Locque's henchmen. This appears to be a reference to the novel "Moonraker" where Hugo Drax and his men cause Bond's Bentley to crash by sending giant rolls of paper off of a flatbed truck as Bond is chasing them.

[ken]

Cassandra Harris was married to future James Bond Pierce Brosnan at the time. She died on December 28, 1991.

[kyle]

First credited appearance of MI6 Chief of Staff Bill Tanner (James Villiers). The character previously appeared (played by an uncredited Michael Goodliffe) in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). The character was resurrected as a regular in the Pierce Brosnan Bond movies, played by Michael Kitchen in GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999), and in the Daniel Craig Bond movies, played by Rory Kinnear in Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), and Spectre (2015).

[scarlett]

Director John Glen opted to use the local slopes and olive trees for the chase scene between Melina's Citroën 2CV and Gonzales' men driving Peugeot 504s. The scene was shot across twelve days.

[mathew]

Max the parrot makes a return appearance in The Living Daylights (1987). He's seen in the kitchen of the safe-house when Necros fights with the chef.

[willard]

Sir Roger Moore was not happy about the scene where he cold-bloodedly kills Locque by pushing his teetering car off of a cliff. Although Moore acknowledged that this was a Bond thing to do, he didn't feel that it was a Sir Roger Moore Bond thing to do. Michael G. Wilson also added that he and Richard Maibaum, along with John Glen, toyed with other ideas surrounding that scene, but ultimately everyone, even Moore, agreed to do the scene as originally written.

[nina]

Sir Roger Moore hated the final scene with Margaret Thatcher. He felt it didn't suit the serious tone of the rest of the film. He also didn't like getting a clue about the A.T.A.C. from a parrot. Moore thought it the type of silliness his Bond films were usually criticized for being.

[bernice]

The literal translations of some of this movie's foreign language titles include: Only For Your Eyes (France, Italy, and Spain); On A Deadly Mission (Germany); Agent 007: Strict Confidence (Denmark); From A Lethal Viewpoint (Sweden); Top Secret (Finland); 007 For Your Eyes Only (Brazil); Only (strictly) For Your Eyes (Norway); and 007 Only For Your Eyes (Portugal).

[carla]

According to screenwriter Michael G. Wilson, the ideas for stories could have come from anyone, as the outlines were worked out in a committee that could include producer Albert R. Broccoli, Richard Maibaum, Wilson, and stunt coordinators.

[tammy]

Victor Tourjansky: The Italian second unit director as Man with Glass in his last appearance after The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

[ray]

In this movie's conclusion, Bond uses his shoelaces to create a Prusik knot, attaching himself to his climbing rope so he can ascend a mountain. This technique, which is indeed possible to do with shoelaces, was invented by Austrian mountaineer Karl Prusik, and is common amongst climbers. The Prusik knot celebrated its 50th anniversary the year this movie was released, having first appeared in an Austrian mountaineering manual for rope ascending in 1931.

[javier]

In an original draft, Melina would have been 006's girlfriend, who would have been murdered early in the movie.

[kenneth]

Only Bond movie to date in the official franchise not to feature M. It was the first Bond movie not to feature Bernard Lee as M, who had played the role in the previous eleven movies in the franchise. Lee died of stomach cancer on January 16, 1981, after the filming of this movie had started, but before his scenes were shot. Although Bernard Lee was dying of stomach cancer, he did try to film at least one scene in the movie, but in the end, it was too much for him, and he had to bow out. He died not long afterward. As a result, Q's role in this movie was slightly expanded to fill the gap. As such, several scenes, originally intended to include M, were re-written with Q, (for example, the confessional scene). As a mark of respect, producer Albert R. Broccoli refused to re-cast the role, changing the script to say that M was on leave. Climax! (1954) season one, episode three, "Casino Royale" also did not feature M.

[norma]

When shooting the still for the movie's main poster, photographer Morgan Kane allegedly asked his model to put the swimsuit on backwards, as it hung too low over her legs. After the poster had been released, some newspaper editors felt that there was too much buttock shown in the poster. To show less skin, the swimsuit was extended, or shorts were added to the hips in the posters. The original poster caused outrage amongst various groups, causing Saskatchewan, to rate this movie "Special X", despite being rated PG or equivalent virtually everywhere else. That rating was later lowered. Apparently, the model's identity was not known for some time. More than one model alleged that she was the owner of the legs, but it was finally revealed they belonged to twenty-two-year-old New York City model Joyce Bartle.

[morris]

Carole Bouquet was dubbed. However, she dubbed herself in the French version.

[mathew]

The producers of this movie wanted Blondie to perform the title song. The band wrote a song titled "For Your Eyes Only", but decided to decline the offer when they discovered the producers wanted a recording of Bill Conti's song instead. It appeared on the 1982 album "The Hunter".Sheena Easton and Debbie Harry (former lead singer of Blondie) would both go on to appear in Body Bags (1993).

[kristen]

This movie saved United Artists from financial ruin. At the time of this movie's release, the studio was still reeling from Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980), a notorious $40 million bomb that was about to force United Artists to file for bankruptcy. When this movie took in a worldwide gross of $195 million, the studio was saved, and afterwards turned its focus toward blockbusters and less on personal movies.

[riley]

In the German dubbed version, the name "Lisl" is changed to "Lisa". This was probably done because "Lisl" or "Liesel", both nicknames of "Elisabeth", are only used in southern Germany and Austria, and even there, they have become slightly outdated. The character is supposed to be of Prussian heritage, therefore "Lisl" would probably have led to confusion, or even laughter, amongst German audiences.

[ruby]

The first line of the Ian Fleming short story read: "The most beautiful bird in Jamaica, and some say the most beautiful bird in the world, is the streamer-tail or doctor humming-bird." The last line read: "She fell in behind and followed him, and as she walked she pulled the tired bits of golden-rod out of her hair and undid a ribbon and let the pale gold hair fall down to her shoulders."