James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights
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| German title | James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights | ||
| Original title | The Living Daylights | ||
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| Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1987 | ||
| length | 130 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | John Glen | ||
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Richard Maibaum , Michael G. Wilson |
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Albert R. Broccoli , Michael G. Wilson |
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| music |
John Barry , theme song: a-ha |
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| camera | Alec Mills | ||
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Peter Davies , John Grover |
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James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights (original title: The Living Daylights ) is the 15th James Bond - movie . Bond is played by Timothy Dalton for the first time in this film . The film opened in German cinemas on August 13, 1987.
action
During an exercise on a military base on Gibraltar , James Bond and the two double-zero agents 002 and 004 are supposed to try to overcome a new British radar system . The soldiers there are supposed to only fire with paintball weapons. However, one of the agents and two soldiers are killed by an unknown person. Bond pursues the killer, but cannot catch him. One finds only the reference Smiert Schpionam ( Russian for death to the spies , as one learns later).
After this incident, Bond is ordered to Bratislava . There he and his colleague Saunders are supposed to help KGB General Georgi Koskov to escape across the Austrian-Czechoslovak border to the west. Koskov has chosen Bond as protection because, like MI6, he fears that a KGB sniper has been hired on him. He appears in the form of the young cellist Kara Milovy, but she cannot shoot Koskov because her Bond comes first. Contrary to his instructions, however, he does not kill her, but lets her feel "the breath of death" with a grazing shot, which causes his superiors to be displeased. As Bond later learns, she is Koskov's friend.
Koskov is first successfully brought by MI6 with the participation of Bond through an above-ground pipeline over the Czechoslovakian- Austrian border and then with a Harrier to England. Koskov reports to M and other members of the secret service that the new head of the KGB's espionage department, General Leonid Pushkin, has revived the old Smiert Spionam plan and also has a list of Western agents to be killed. The aim of the plan is to play the great powers off against each other and thus provoke a war. Koskov is apparently kidnapped and brought back from the facility of the British Secret Service, which is why MI6 suspects that he has fallen into the hands of the KGB and decides to have Pushkin killed. He is on his way to Tangier to see the arms dealer Brad Whitaker there, who has apparently embezzled money.
Bond takes on the job himself, but quickly discovers inconsistencies in Koskov's information during his investigation. First he brings Kara Milovy from the sphere of influence of the KGB to Vienna and gets closer to her there. Then he finds - with the help of Saunders - that Koskov is also working with Whitaker, albeit to buy opium with the KGB money . Since Koskov's plan to have Pushkin killed by Bond may no longer work, Whitaker plans to kill him himself. Bond asks Saunders to get passports for Kara, who is killed by Whitaker's assistants and, as with the death of 004 in Gibraltar, the note Smiert Spionam appears.
Bond and Kara go to Tangier, where Bond talks to Pushkin. Together they stage his death to lull Koskov into safety, which initially works. However, when Bond reveals the truth about Koskov and himself to Kara, they are captured by Koskov. Kara, who is still in love with Koskov, had already informed him and drugged Bond.
Bond and Kara, who has now recognized their mistake, are brought by Koskov to a Russian base in Afghanistan , from which they are able to flee. Bond also frees Kamran Shah, a deputy commander of the mujahideen . Together with Shah's men, he destroys the opium shipment and eventually returns to Tangier, where he kills Whitaker and Koskov is arrested by General Pushkin.
background
Development of the script
After it was determined that Roger Moore would not be available for another James Bond film, those responsible considered restarting the series. The new film was supposed to be about Bond's first assignment and show how he became the secret agent that all moviegoers knew from the previous films. Producer Albert R. Broccoli was skeptical of the idea, he wanted to stick to the familiar concept of the series. So Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson developed a script that is based on Ian Fleming's short story The Living Daylights for the first few minutes and then develops its own story. At the time of writing it was not yet clear which actor would play James Bond.
Even if a restart of the series was out of the question, the scriptwriters tried to use the change in leading actor to introduce a more down-to-earth and serious James Bonds than had been the case in the previous films with Roger Moore. Bond should have fewer technical gadgets available, he should crack less jokes and he was only given a Bond girl.
title
The film bears the same name in the English original as Ian Fleming's short story The Living Daylights . In the film, the title is used when Bond says of his shot at the cellist Kara: “ I must have scared the living daylights out of her ”, which means “ I scared her to death”. In the German dubbing, Bond speculates that the sniper “must have felt the breath of death”, which means that the German title can at least be seen as an approximation of the original title.
occupation
Title character
After Roger Moore announced that he would not make another Bond film following In the Face of Death (1985), the search for a successor began.
Allegedly the already well-known actor Mel Gibson was suggested for the lead role by United Artists , but rejected by Broccoli. Another option was New Zealand actor Sam Neill , who was the bookmaker's favorite and who had already screened. Michael G. Wilson stated that a wide variety of actors were screened, which ultimately left two serious candidates: Welshman Timothy Dalton and Irishman Pierce Brosnan .
Producer Albert R. Broccoli had an early eye on Pierce Brosnan, whom he met in 1981 while filming On Deadly Mission , in which Brosnan's then-wife Cassandra Harris played a minor role. As Broccoli's interest in Brosnan came to the public, the TV series was Remington Steele on the NBC renewed for a season. Brosnan had to fulfill his contract and was not available for the Bond film.
Ultimately, on August 6, 1986, it was announced that Timothy Dalton would become the new James Bond. He was a candidate for the role back in 1968 for On Her Majesty's Secret Service .
More figures
Maryam d'Abo landed the role of Bond girl Kara Milovy after she was originally hired as Pierce Brosnan's partner for his screen tests. Since they were convinced of her talent, she was offered the role in the film. At the time, everyone involved assumed that Brosnan would also be her partner in the film.
Walter Gotell has his seventh and final appearance in the James Bond series, including six times as the Russian general Anatol Gogol (in With Love from Moscow he played Morzeny). The last stone was there for Geoffrey Keen, who played six times the distinguished British Defense Minister Sir Frederic Gray.
For agents 004 and 002 appearing in the opening sequence, the actors Frederick Warder and Glyn Baker were hired because they had a certain resemblance to the ex-bonds Roger Moore and George Lazenby . This trick was intended to leave the viewer in the dark for the first few minutes of the film about who would be the new actor in James Bond.
In The Living Daylights appeared for the first time since 1973 and Let Die again the character of the CIA agent Felix Leiter. John Terry was hired for the role and it was his only appearance on the Bond series.
Desmond Llewelyn played Q again, the role that has not been played by any other actor since Greetings from Moscow . Robert Brown also played Bond's superior M.
Lois Maxwell , led by Dr. No until In the Face of Death had played Miss Moneypenny in fourteen consecutive films, left the series with Roger Moore. British actress Caroline Bliss, 25 at the time of filming, was hired in her place.
Filming
Filming of The Living Daylights began on September 29, 1986 at Pinewood Studios, England and continued in Morocco, Gibraltar and Austria. The first few minutes of The Living Daylights are like the short story of the same name by Ian Fleming, which appeared in the first issue of the London Sunday Times magazine in February 1962. Bond is supposed to liquidate a sniper who then turns out to be a beautiful cellist played by Maryam d'Abo.
Filming in Vienna
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Part of this Bond film was set in Vienna , and since there had been problems with the filming permits for Bratislava in the run-up to the shooting , the scenes played there were also shot in Vienna. Director John Glen, who worked on the team for the film The Third Man at the age of 17 , took care of the scene at the Vienna Ferris wheel as a tribute to this film . The then mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk , had already offered his support with the filming in advance: should it be necessary, the team could "also blow up the subway", he said with a wink.
The introduction of the characters of the Czechoslovak cellist and the defector take place in the plot around the Bratislava Opera, the shooting uses the Vienna Volksoper for the exterior shots , which is easily recognizable due to its corner facade, the interior shots took place in the Vienna Sofiensaal . A scene with the escape by journey through a gas pipeline from Bratislava to Vienna comes to an end in a gasometer on the Slovak-Austrian border, where Georgi Koskov gets into a Harrier whiz and takes off through the opening roof of the gasometer. The interior recordings for the opera in Vienna took place in the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn .
The Vienna Prater (where Bond and Kara take a romantic ride on the Ferris wheel) also served as the central location for the classic The Third Man (1949) with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten . The Austrian actor Hanno Pöschl has a brief appearance here as an overseer at the Ferris wheel.
Prominent guests
During the filming at Pinewood Studios, the then British Crown Prince couple Charles and Diana were guests for one day . The rocket shown in the first Q scene (original quote Q: " We are developing this for the Americans - it's called a boom box. ") Was fired behind the scenes by Prince Charles. With the consent of her husband, Lady Di was allowed to smash a bottle made of harmless sugar glass on his head - as expected, the picture dominated the press the next day. The reactions were very different. Incidentally, the suggestion for this came from Jeroen Krabbé. Charles also visited the set of Bond's 25th No Time To Die , which re-used the Aston Martin from The Living Daylights .
Locations
- Wiener Gasometer , Wiener Volksoper , Wiener Prater , Sofiensäle , Vienna , Austria
- London , England
- Weissensee , Carinthia , Austria
- Gibraltar
- Morocco
- Pinewood Studios
Gadgets
- Aston Martin V8 Vantage with various gadgets. A laser (analogous to the tire slitter from the film Goldfinger ) is used to saw off a Czechoslovak police car, as well as two rockets that are controlled via a head-up display , spikes on the tires, a rocket drive, extendable runners on the sides and a self destruct button.
- Key finder with integrated gas trigger and bomb as well as universal key .
- A gadget developed for the Americans is presented in the Q laboratory. This device, called a “ Ghetto Blaster ”, is disguised as a radio recorder and houses a rocket launcher.
- In addition, a bench is presented, which can be turned and thus make a person disappear inside.
- In Bratislava, Bond uses a Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle . This rifle is a semi-automatic precision rifle designed by Carl Walther GmbH. According to Earl J. Sheehan, President of the American subsidiary of Walther, only 176 were produced of this rifle.
- The plane that brought Bond and Kara Milovy to Afghanistan and that later crashed into the mountain is a Lockheed C-130 Hercules .
- An Audi 200 C3 plays a role several times in the film . In Bratislava it serves Bond as an escape vehicle, in Tangier Bond pursues General Pushkin's Mercedes with an Audi 200 Avant. An Audi 200 can be seen in the background on the forecourt of the Hotel Palais Schwarzenberg in Vienna.
Soundtrack
The title song The Living Daylights was sung by the Norwegian pop group a-ha . The video for the single was partly shot in Pinewood Studios, in what was then the largest film studio in the world , where the interior set for Stromberg's tanker from The Spy Who Loved Me was made.
The Pet Shop Boys were originally supposed to produce the theme song. However, they withdrew when they heard that they were only allowed to compose the title and not the complete soundtrack, on which the Pretenders finally also with the two pieces "If there Was a Man" (in the credits) and "Where Has Everybody Gone" ? ”(The song in Necros Walkman) were involved.
The Living Daylights was the third soundtrack to be released on CD. In 1998 the Australian record company RykoDisc brought out a new edition with bonus tracks and an opening booklet with a poster. The new edition of Capitol Records (2003) was exactly the same CD, the front and back of which were adapted to the Remastered Collection. The content was the same as with RykoDisc. In this new edition, the CD was, alongside Octopussy and In tödlicher Mission, one of three James Bond soundtracks that (almost) adopted the content of RykoDisc reissues. The English trailer for CD-ROM drives has been removed due to the change in the CD storage method at Capitol.
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Extended Version (1998/2003)
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synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by Cine Adaption GmbH in Munich. The dialogue book was written by Pierre Peters-Arnolds and the dialogue was directed by Michael Brennicke . Jeroen Krabbé, the actor of Georgi Koskov, can be heard both in the English original and in the German dubbing of his role.
| role | actor | German voice actors |
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| James Bond | Timothy Dalton | Lutz Riedel |
| Kara | Maryam d'Abo | Katharina Lopinski |
| Koskov | Jeroen Krabbe | Jeroen Krabbe |
| Whitaker | Joe Don Baker | Horst Naumann |
| Pushkin | John Rhys-Davies | Wolfgang Hess |
| Kamran Shah | Art Malik | Ekkehardt Belle |
| Necros | Andreas Wisniewski | Andreas Wisniewski |
| Saunders | Thomas Wheatley | Manfred Seipold |
| Q | Desmond Llewelyn | Manfred Schmidt |
| M. | Robert Brown | Wolf Ackva |
| Sir Frederick Gray | Geoffrey Keen | Paul Bürks |
| Gogol | Walter Gotell | Herbert Weicker |
| Miss Moneypenny | Caroline Bliss | Dagmar Heller |
| Felix Head | John Terry | Michael Brennicke |
publication
The film premiered on June 29, 1987 at Odeon Leicester Square in London. The film opened in theaters in Great Britain on July 10, 1987, in the USA on July 31, 1987. In German cinemas it opened on August 13, 1987.
Aftermath
Timothy Dalton took over the Bond role in 1987 and was supposed to "provide a counterpoint to the slapstick of the Moore era [...], closer to the novel by Ian Fleming." Timothy Dalton was controversial with the audience from the start, and ultimately he returned to The Living Daylights back once more for License to Kill before giving up the role.
Financial success
As it had been throughout the 1980s, the number of viewers declined. 14.2 million cinema tickets were sold in the USA, the lowest number since The Man with the Golden Gun . In Germany, the film had 3.1 million viewers, also the fewest since 1974 and about 300,000 fewer than the previous film In the Face of Death .
Contemporary criticism
The contemporary reviews for The Living Daylights varied. Raymond Benson called the film in his 1987 reissued standard work The James Bond Bedside Companion the “best James Bond film since the sixties”, the Washington Post even called the “best Bond of all time.” The British magazine Starburst called it Film as “if not the best Bond, then definitely at the top” and Timothy Dalton as “as damn good as James Bond”.
For Roger Ebert, on the other hand, The Living Daylight had its place "somewhere on the lower rungs of the Bond ladder." The Guardian's criticism was also more restrained, the film was described as a "sensible debut" that lacks a bit of humor. Dalton has neither "the natural authority of a Connery, nor the natural charm of a bog." The Evening Standard called John Glen a "lax" director and also commented negatively about Timothy Dalton in the lead role.
Later evaluation
In retrospect, The Living Daylights are rated very differently. The judgments in 2012 range from "favorite Bond movie" to "really, really, really bad."
In 2006, Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked the James Bond films in which The Living Daylight only came 17th out of 21.
In 2009, German James Bond expert Siegfried Tesche named the film 9th in a list of the ten best James Bond films of all time.
Between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, and The Living Daylights came in 8th.
In 2012, the Bond films were rated by the readers of 007 Magazine . The touch of death took 7th out of 24 places. In a list also published in 2012 by Rolling Stone , The Living Daylight takes only the 22nd and penultimate place. In the special issue 50 Years of James Bond published by Stern in 2012, the film was rated 2 out of 5 stars (“weak”). Critics Tim Robey and Brad Brevet named it one of the five best Bond films in the same year.
publication
The film was released on VHS by Warner Bros. in Germany from 1987/88. Warner held this right until the late 1990s, when it was given to 20th Century Fox Entertainment. The film was released several times on DVD , a. a. as Special Edition and Ultimate Edition . The first edition of the Special Edition was only a short time available in stores after there were problems with the copyright: Sam Neill - one of the Bond candidates - did not agree that demo recordings with him as part of the documentation Inside The Living Daylights were shown and subsequently demanded an appropriate fee. However, after there was no agreement, the DVD had to be withdrawn from the market. However, an agreement seems to have been reached later, because in November 2003 the DVD was released again with the relevant documentation. The DVDs of the first edition were at times traded at a multiple of the original retail price.
There is also a deleted scene on the DVD. Bond's escape from the Moroccan policemen after he “killed” General Pushkin is a little longer and includes Bond grabbing a carpet, throwing it onto several power lines and then over the Persian as if on a “magic carpet” Lines slides.
The Living Daylights was also released as a Blu-ray Disc from 2012.
The film ran for the first time on German free TV on May 22, 1994 on ARD.
computer game
Domark developed a computer game for the film for the C64 . The versions for Amiga and Atari ST have already been advertised, but did not get beyond their development stage.
Awards (selection)
- In 1988 the film received a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film .
- Composer John Barry received the BMI Film Music Award .
- In Germany the film received the golden screen .
- The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.
Web links
- James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights at Metacritic (English)
- James Bond 007 in the online movie database
- MGM's official James Bond website
- Christofer Jost: The Living Daylights . In: Song Lexicon . Retrieved March 11, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 58 280 V).
- ↑ a b c d e Production Notes - The Living Daylights at mi6-hq.com (English), accessed on November 25, 2012
- ↑ a b c d e Documentation Inside The Living Daylights on the DVD purchase James Bond 007 - The Touch of Death (Ultimate Edition), MGM, 2007
- ↑ a b The men that almost played Bond at uk.movies.yahoo.com , accessed November 5, 2012
- ↑ a b James Bond cast on einestages.spiegel.de , accessed on November 5, 2012
- ^ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , pp. 211-213.
- ↑ https://www.007.com/hrh-the-prince-of-wales-visits-bond-25-sets/
- ↑ German synchronous files
- ↑ Start dates for James Bond 007 - The Touch of Death on: imdb.de , accessed on January 4, 2013.
- ↑ Six actors had the “license to kill” ( memento from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) news.de, September 27, 2012.
- ↑ The Celebrity Birthdays of March 21, 2011: Timothy Dalton ( Memento of March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: news.de . Retrieved February 20, 2013.
- ↑ Benson, Raymond: The James Bond Bedside Companion (Kindle edition), Crossroad Press, 2012.
- ^ 'The Living Daylights' (PG) . On: washingtonpost.com (July 31, 1987). Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ↑ a b c The Living Daylights - The Premiere & Press . On: mi6-hq.com (June 29, 2012). Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ^ The Living Daylights . On: suntimes.com (July 31, 1987). Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ^ My favorite Bond film: The Living Daylights . guardian.co.uk. October 5, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ↑ 'The Living Daylights' Is My Favorite James Bond Movie . hollywood.com. November 6, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ↑ Ranking Bond: # 22 - The Living Daylights (1987) . blusmovieblog.com. October 18, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ↑ Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films on ew.com (English), accessed on December 26, 2012.
- ↑ The 10 best James Bond films of all time ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at: 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.
- ↑ James Bond: The best Bond films . telegraph.co.uk. October 26, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ↑ Best and Worst of the James Bond Movies . On: ropeofsilicon.com (English). Retrieved March 8, 2013.
- ↑ http://007homevideo.com/vtape_de_postcert.html ( 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.
- ↑ YEAR 1980 - 2000. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
- ↑ James Bond 007 - The Living Daylights on fbw-filmbeval.com
