James Bond 007 - On a Deadly Mission
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| German title | James Bond 007 - On a Deadly Mission | ||
| Original title | For Your Eyes Only | ||
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| Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1981 | ||
| length | 127 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | John Glen | ||
| script |
Richard Maibaum , Michael G. Wilson |
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| production | Albert R. Broccoli | ||
| music |
Bill Conti theme song: Sheena Easton |
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| camera | Alan Hume | ||
| cut | John Grover | ||
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James Bond 007 - For Your Eyes Only (Original Title: For Your Eyes Only ) is the twelfth, from Eon Productions Ltd. produced James Bond film. Roger Moore acted in it for the first time under the direction of John Glen . The film opened in German cinemas on August 7, 1981. It is the first film in the series that was not based on a novel by original Bond writer Ian Fleming . Instead, the title and character of Melina were taken from one of his short stories . Other parts of the plot and the characters Columbo and Kristatos come from the short story Risico . The film title was announced in the credits of The Spy Who Loved Me , but was postponed due to the production of Moonraker - Top Secret .
Opening credits
James Bond visits the grave of his wife Tracy (Teresa Bond, according to the epitaph), who was murdered at the end of the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Irma Bunt, an assistant to Bond's arch-rival Blofeld . He lures Bond into a remote-controlled helicopter with a fake message in order to kill him in the air. However, Bond can gain control of the helicopter and in turn kills Blofeld, who steered the helicopter from the roof of a disused factory by forking his wheelchair onto a skid of the helicopter and dropping his opponent into a chimney.
Main storyline
Bond receives the order, a missing ATAC ( A utomatic T arge ting A ttack C ommunicator), a control computer for the start of nuclear missile track. The ATAC was last on board a ship of the British Navy , which sank in the Ionian Sea after colliding with a sea mine from World War II . Bond is supposed to forestall the Russians, represented by General Gogol, who are also likely to be interested in ATAC. The archaeologist Havelock had secretly searched for the ATAC on behalf of the British secret service , but he and his wife were murdered by the killer Hector Gonzalez. Only his daughter Melina survived and seeks revenge.
Bond goes to Gonzales' estate near Madrid to get a lead. Before 007 is discovered by his henchmen, he watches an unknown pay Gonzales. Surprisingly, Melina shoots the killer with a crossbow and enables Bond to escape together. This is followed by a chase through some Spanish villages in which Bond drives Melina's car, a yellow 2CV . The client of the killer is finally identified by Q as the Belgian gangster Locque using a personal database. The trail leads Bond to Cortina d'Ampezzo , where he meets the Greek shipowner Ari Kristatos through his contact person Ferrara, who promises to help them both. After several attacks and a chase with skis and motorbikes, Bond goes to Greece for further investigations .
From Kristatos, Bond learns that the well-known smuggler Columbo is allegedly behind the murder of Melina's parents. Over time, however, this proves to be misinformation, because the real villain is Kristatos himself. Columbo allies with Bond, and they sneak into Kristatos' camp in Albania , which is home to weapons and drugs. With the help of Columbos people, Bond can destroy it and also liquidate Locque, who works for Kristatos.
When Bond retrieves the computer from the sunken wreck with the help of Melina , Kristatos is already waiting for him to take the extremely valuable device away from him. In addition, the two unwelcome witnesses should disappear. The latter fails - Melina and Bond survive. Columbo, who knows Kristatos' hiding place in a former monastery in the mountains , supports Bond and Melina with his men to get the computer back. The monastery fortress, where Kristatos wants to hand over the computer to General Gogol of the KGB , is on a high rock, and Bond has to climb the mountain on a rock face, since the only access is a winch with a load basket that can only be operated from above . When he barely succeeds after obstacles, he can give the team access to the top and prevent the ATAC from being handed over to Gogol, who has landed in the meantime. Kristatos' henchmen are overpowered and the latter is killed by Columbo. Bond throws the ATAC computer into the depths, destroying it, which is positively received by Gogol, since neither the English nor the Russians now have the ATAC.
background
script
Although Moonraker had been a huge commercial success, the James Bond series would break new ground with In A Deadly Mission . Moonraker was a gimmick-laden spectacle and the reviews weren't too good.
Michael G. Wilson, who was promoted to executive producer at Moonraker and now considered Broccoli’s right-hand man, had greater influence on the film series. He felt that James Bond should again rely on his own strengths as a person and no longer be so dependent on technical gadgets.
The producers recognized that Christopher Wood's scripts “lacked energy and logic”. So the Bond veteran Richard Maibaum was brought back to write a script with Michael G. Wilson.
It took over the title and some characters from Fleming's short story For Your Eyes Only (dt. For you personally ) and some other people and plot elements from the short story Risico (dt. Risky business ). The scene in which Bond and the young woman are pulled by a boat through a shark-infested coral reef comes from the book Live and Let Die and was not used in the film of the same name.
The introductory sequence was written to introduce a potential new James Bond actor and to relate him to earlier elements of the series. Bond visits the grave of his wife, who was murdered on Her Majesty's Secret Service , and eventually fights a person who is apparently supposed to represent Blofeld. Due to the opaque legal situation regarding the character Blofeld, this name was not mentioned in the film or in the credits. At the time, the rights to Feuerball , which presumably included the rights to Blofeld and SPECTER, were with Kevin McClory .
title
On a Deadly Mission was the first James Bond film whose original title was taken from an Ian Fleming short story rather than a novel. The literal German translation of the title is “Nur für Deine Augen”, and during the filming some German newspapers reported that this would be the German title of the film. The title is translated as “Top Secret”, which was already used in the title for Moonraker - Top Secret .
Cast and staff
While Maibaum and Wilson were already working on the script, it was not yet clear whether Roger Moore would play the secret agent again. In July 1980 he announced at a press conference on the occasion of his film The Sea Wolves Are Coming that he would not play the role of James Bond again. So the search for potential new leading actors began. In September 1980, however, Roger Moore was convinced to take on the lead role in In Deadly Mission .
Carole Bouquet, who had already auditioned for the role of Holly Goodhead in Moonraker, was hired as the female lead in the role of Melina Havelock . Ornella Muti had previously turned down the role.
The Australian actress Cassandra Harris was hired for the supporting role of Countess Lisl von Schlaf. At a meal together during filming, she introduced the producer Albert R. Broccoli to her fiancé, an actor named Pierce Brosnan , who was still relatively unknown at the time .
The role of Bibi Dahl was played by former professional figure skater Lynn-Holly Johnson , who also worked as an actress since 1978.
Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn returned to their usual roles as Miss Moneypenny and Q, respectively. Bernard Lee was again scheduled as M, but he became seriously ill and could no longer play the role. However, his role was not newly cast, but the dialogue between the characters Q, the Secretary of Defense played by Geoffrey Keen and the Chief of Staff Bill Tanner, played by James Villiers, divided.
The role of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister , who at the end of the film tries to thank Bond by phone, was played by Janet Brown . Brown was the Iron Lady's most sought-after radio and television parodist in the Thatcher era .
John Glen was the first to direct the film, having been the film editor and director of the second team for the Bond series for a long time.
Julian Glover plays James Bond's opponent, Aristotle Kristatos. A year earlier (1980) he played General Maximilian Veers in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back .
Michael Gothard himself suggested the octagonal glasses for his role as Locque to make the character in the film more interesting.
Title sequence
As in almost all previous films, the title sequence was designed by Maurice Binder . For the first time, the interpreter of the theme song, Sheena Easton, can be seen on the screen during the title sequence.
Filming
Filming began on September 15, 1980 and ended on February 13, 1981. They were overshadowed by a serious accident. The scene was filmed in Cortina in which Bond flees on skis from men on motorbikes. On February 17, 1981, a racing sled was thrown off the track and the 23-year-old Italian stuntman Paolo Rigon, who was behind the wheel, was killed.
The 30-meter fall from the rock of the monastery was carried out by professional stuntman Rick Sylvester , who skied into a ravine in the opening sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me and then parachuted his fall. Roger Moore, on the other hand, was terrified of heights.
Locations and locations
The monastery island of Vlacherna and the “mouse island” Pondikonisi were locations for the film
Meteora Monastery of Agía Triáda, one of the filming locations
The bobsleigh run near Cortina in 2007
Downtown Cortina
Olympic Ice Stadium (Stadio Olimpico)
Olympic ski jump Trampolino Italia
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The opening sequence, in which Bond's old adversary Ernst Stavro Blofeld appears again, takes place near the Thames (Beckton Gas Works) in London . The ski scenes were created in Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites , u. a. on the Olympic ski jump and bobsled run ( Pista olimpica Eugenio Monti ). Further scenes were created in the village and in the Olympic ice stadium in Cortina . Otherwise almost all scenes were shot in Greece, on the Ionian island of Corfu and the rock climbing scene at the monasteries of Meteora .
The scenes on the research ship of the Havelocks were taken in the Bay of Kalami on the east coast of Corfu, about two kilometers as the crow flies from Albania .
In the capital of Corfu (Greek Kerkyra ) the following sights were used as a backdrop:
- the monastery of Vlacherna at the so-called Mouse Island
- the market scenes of the old town
- the esplanade
- the Old Venetian Fortress
- a small harbor with a boathouse at the foot of this fortress (Kristatos drug warehouse)
- Tunnels, stairs and walls of the fortress (backdrop for the chase, at the end of which Bond takes out the killer Emile Locque hired by Kristatos in his Mercedes-Benz S-Class )
The casino at that time and the portico of the Achilleion (castle of Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sissi") and later of the German Emperor Wilhelm II ) was also a location for the film. Bond and Kristatos' dinner was filmed on the garden terrace of the Achilleion. Further back in this garden (by the statue of the heroic Achilles ) is the terrace with a view of the Ionian Sea, where Bond is talking to Melina in another scene at a romantic sunset.
The villa of the killer Hector Gonzalez, who shot Melina's parents, allegedly located near Madrid is called Villa Sylva and is actually also in Corfu, above the Vlacherna monastery, right next to the former Hilton Hotel. The subsequent chase with the yellow duck was u. a. filmed in the mountain village of Pagi in northwest Corfu. The beach buggy scene in which Emile Locque runs over Columbo's lover Lisa took place in the sand dunes next to Lake Korission on the southwest coast of Corfu.
Since it wasn't snowing in Cortina D'Ampezzo during filming, the production team had to use trucks to fetch snow from the nearby mountains, which was then distributed in the streets of the town for the shoot.
Gadgets
- Roger Moore drives a Citroën 2CV (duck) on a chase . A little later, Citroën launched a special series of the 2CV in yellow, which has "bullet holes" glued on the side, the bonnet and the rear and the "007" lettering on the sides. This sticker set could be obtained from Citroën until the 1990s.
- The Bond car is again the Lotus Esprit Turbo (see The Spy Who Loved Me ). A white specimen destroys itself after a short use when a villain looking for Bond smashes in the side window, although a triangular sticker indicates an "anti-theft device". Later in the film, Bond drives a red Lotus Esprit Turbo.
- An identification computer (“Identigraph”) from Q helps Bond find the origin of suspects.
- Bond used, as will be seen at the end of the film, a wrist watch of the brand Seiko with which it from MI6 via satellite phone can be called.
Film music
The German version of the title song is called In Dein Augen and was sung by Sollie Nero.
Deborah Harry also recorded a theme song, but it was rejected and later released on her band Blondie's studio album The Hunter .
The soundtrack was first released on LP in 1981 by Liberty Records after the music division of United Artists (as a result of the sale of United Artists to MGM ) was given up. In 1990 the first rare CD pressing came on the market. RykoDisc released a new version with a bonus track in 2000, which Capitol Records only released with an adapted supplement after the 40th James Bond anniversary in 2003.
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synchronization
Dialogue book: Cine Adaption, Munich
| role | actor | German voice actor |
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| James Bond | Roger Moore | Niels Clausnitzer |
| Melina Havelock | Carole bouquet | Angelika Bender |
| Milos Columbo | Topol | Wolfgang Hess |
| Bibi Dahl | Lynn-Holly Johnson | Simone Brahmann |
| Aristotle Kristatos | Julian Glover | Horst Naumann |
| Emile Leopold Locque | Michael Gothard | Without words |
| Lisl | Cassandra Harris | Helga Trümper |
| Jacoba Brink | Jill Bennett | Karin Kernke |
| Erich Kriegler | John Wyman | Bernd Stephan |
| Sir Timothy Havelock | Jack Hedley | Hartmut Reck |
| Miss Moneypenny | Lois Maxwell | Emely Reuer |
| Q | Desmond Llewelyn | Manfred Schmidt |
| Sir Frederick Gray | Geoffrey Keen | Wolf Akva |
| General Gogol | Walter Gotell | Walter Reichelt |
| Bill Tanner | James Villiers | Klaus Guth |
| Claus | Charles Dance | Without words |
| Hector Gonzales | Stefan Kalipha | Gerd Rigauer |
| Prime minister | Janet Brown | Marianne Wischmann |
| Wheelchair villain (Blofeld) | John Hollis | Herbert Weicker |
When Bond and the alleged "Countess Lisa" were chattered, the German dubbed version escaped a remark in the Berlin dialect ("ausjejlitten"), to which she, when asked if she was from Berlin, replied that she came from near Berlin , namely from Wroclaw. In the original English version, Bond asks "Manchester?" ; she replies "Close. Liverpool" .
premiere
The premiere of In A Deadly Mission took place on June 24, 1981 at Odeon Leicester Square in London in the presence of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and Princess Margaret . Former Bond producer Harry Saltzman , who was invited by Albert R. Broccoli, and future Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, who accompanied his then-wife Cassandra Harris , also attended the premiere .
Relation to the novels
- The scene in which Bond and Melina are supposed to be killed by killing them with the motor yacht actually comes from the novel Live and Let Die , but for its filming and all subsequent Bond adventures, the implementation of this scene was far too time-consuming. Only in Your Eyes found John Glen and implement his stunt team a way to the scene.
- The murder of Melina Havelock Hector Gonzales as revenge for the murder of their parents is the short story for you personally (English. For your Eyes only ) by Ian Fleming removed in 1960.
- The Täuschmanöver of Kristatos to Columbo's short story risk transactions (engl. Risico ) included.
Aftermath
Financial success
In Fatal Mission was created with a budget of approximately 28 million US dollars.
The film was a commercial success that grossed approximately 195 million US dollars worldwide, making it second on the list of the world's most successful films of 1981. In 2012, Stern magazine reported global box office earnings of $ 486 million, adjusted for inflation, placing the film in 15th place out of 23 Bond films. The number of visitors in Germany is given as 4.8 million, which corresponds to place 11.
In the USA, depending on the sources, only between 19.8 million and 22.4 million cinema tickets were sold, at least 3 million less than for Moonraker .
Contemporary criticism
The reviews when the film came out were mostly cautiously positive.
Roger Ebert called the film a "sovereign James Bond thriller, well-crafted," but complained that "the film is too mundane." Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times that On a Deadly Mission is "skilled entertainment," albeit "Overall, not the best of the series." When it came out , Variety called the film "one of the most unreservedly entertaining of the twelve previous Bond films." Time wrote that producer Broccoli has now had Dr. No "remade his own film eleven times", whereby Moore is "only the best-oiled cog in the mechanism of this self-propelled".
Later evaluation
In retrospect, In fatal Mission is mostly rated positively.
Raymond Benson wrote in his 1984 standard work The James Bond Bedside Companion that the producers had returned to the original style of the Bond films of the 1960s with In Deadly Mission .
The authors of the book, published in 1987, write the background story for 25 years of Bond , the film returns "to the realism of the series."
Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked the James Bond films in 2006, with In Fatal Mission coming 11th out of 21 films and being praised as "Roger Moore's most serious appearance as Bond".
In 2009 the German James Bond expert Siegfried Tesche named the film 6th in a list of the ten best James Bond films of all time. He liked “Willy Bogner's skiing skills and a duck hunt a bright yellow Citroen 2CV. "
Between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with In fatal Mission reaching number 10 out of 22 films. In 2012, the Bond films were also rated by the readers of 007 Magazine . In Fatal Mission took 10th out of 24 places. In a list also published in 2012 by Rolling Stone , In Fatal Mission takes 12th place out of 24 James Bond films. Here the film as "only partially successful attempt" is called to be "closer to reality with the Bond films." Again in the 2012 published special issue 50 years James Bond of the star is rated the film 3 out of 5 stars ( "solid") . The stunts are praised.
Awards
Golden canvas 1982
- 3 million viewers in 18 months
Oscar 1982
- Nomination in the “ Best Song ” category for Bill Conti and Michael Leeson
Golden Globe Award 1982
- Nomination in the category “ Best Film Song ” for Bill Conti and Michael Leeson
Adaptations
Comic
Marvel Comics published a comic book written by Larry Hama in two editions. The first issue appeared in October 1981, the second a month later.
radio play
The label Europa released the revised German soundtrack of the film as a radio play on music cassette. The narrator that does not exist in the film is spoken by Norbert Langer .
literature
- Ian Fleming: In the Face of Death . 1st edition. Scherz Verlag, Bern; Munich; Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-502-51457-7 .
publication
The film opened in German cinemas on August 6, 1981 and was released in 1982 as a loan version and from 1984 as a purchase cassette by Warner Bros. in Germany. Warner held the rights until the late 1990s and then gave them to 20th Century Fox . The first DVD version was released as part of the Special Edition in 2000. The Blu-Ray version followed in 2012 for the 50th anniversary of the series.
The film ran for the first time on German free TV on May 19, 1991 on ARD.
Web links
- James Bond 007 - For Your Eyes Only in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- James Bond 007 - For Your Eyes Only at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- James Bond 007 - For Your Eyes Only at Metacritic (English)
- James Bond 007 - Deadly Mission in the online movie database
- James Bond 007 - On a deadly mission in the German dubbing file
- Sound carrier with film music
- Comparison of the cut versions Kabel 1 Afternoon - FSK 12 by James Bond 007 - On a fatal mission at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for James Bond 007 - On a Deadly Mission . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 52 461 V / DVD).
- ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 155.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Production Notes - For Your Eyes Only at mi6-hq.com (English), accessed on December 2, 2012
- ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 171.
- ^ Kocian, Erich: The James Bond Films, Heyne Munich, 1982, 7th edition, ISBN 3-453-86044-6 , p. 276.
- ↑ Casting call: Ornella Muti. In: mi6-hq.com. February 9, 2014, accessed February 16, 2014 .
- ^ Roger Moore: My Word is My Bond. Michael O'Mara Publications, London 2008, p. 300.
- ↑ Glen, John: For My Eyes Only . Potomac Books, 2000, p. 113.
- ↑ James Bond Title Sequences at: mi6-hq.com (English), accessed December 27, 2012.
- ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 175.
- ^ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , pp. 158–170.
- ↑ http://www.welt.de/kultur/kino/article110582540/Unterwegs-in-toedlicher-Mission.html
- ↑ Bond in Cortina . MGM home entertainment.
- ↑ http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Sollie+Nero&titel=In+deinen+Augen&cat=s
- ↑ Trivia - For Your Eyes Only on mi6-hq.com (English), accessed December 2, 2012
- ↑ James Bond 007 - On a fatal mission in the German dubbing index
- ^ Roger Moore: My Word is My Bond . HarperCollins, 2009, chapter 11.
- ↑ For Your Eyes Only Premiere at: mi6-hq.com (English), accessed December 27, 2012
- ↑ a b c Box office / business for James Bond 007 - On a fatal mission . In: imdb.de , accessed on March 12, 2013.
- ↑ WorldwideBoxoffice (in millions of US dollars). In: worldwideboxoffice.com. Retrieved April 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Box office results worldwide . In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 , pp. 72–73.
- ^ Roger Ebert : For Your Eyes Only. In: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/ . January 1, 1981, accessed on March 12, 2013 (English): “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY is a competent James Bond thriller, well-crafted, a respectable product from the 007 production line. [...] The whole movie is too routine. "
- ↑ Vincent Canby: Bond in 'For Your Eyes Only' . In: Movie Review , The New York Times , June 26, 1981. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ^ A b Time Tunnel: Review Rewind . On: mi6-hq.com (English). Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ Benson, Raymond: The James Bond Bedside Companion (Kindle edition), Crossroad Press, 2012.
- ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 233.
- ↑ Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films on ew.com (English), accessed on December 26, 2012.
- ↑ The 10 best James Bond films of all time ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from: ten.de , accessed on December 27, 2012.
- ↑ Best Bond Film Results. from: mi6-hq.com , accessed December 26, 2012.
- ↑ 007 MAGAZINE readers vote On Her Majesty's Secret Service as greatest ever Bond film! at: 007magazine.co.uk , accessed December 26, 2012.
- ↑ James Bond's Best and Worst: Peter Travers Ranks All 24 Movies at rollingstone.com (English), accessed December 22, 2012
- ↑ A direct hit and a blowout: all Bond missions in maneuver criticism In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 50 years of James Bond , pp. 64–71.
- ↑ On a deadly mission . On: filmecho.de . Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ^ Awards for 1982 - Oscar . On: imdb.com (English). Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ^ Awards for 1982 - Golden Globe . On: imdb.com (English). Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ Comic - For Your Eyes Only magazine ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . At: bondpix.com (English). Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ Comic - For Your Eyes Only # 2 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . At: bondpix.com (English). Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ On a deadly mission. James Bond radio plays. In: jamesbondfilme.de. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
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- ↑ YEAR 1980 - 2000. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
