James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me

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Movie
German title James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me
Original title The Spy Who Loved Me
Logo the spy who loved me de.svg
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1977
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lewis Gilbert
script Christopher Wood ,
Richard Maibaum
production Albert R. Broccoli
music Marvin Hamlisch
theme song:
Nobody Does It Better sung by Carly Simon
camera Claude Renoir
cut John Glen
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun

Successor  →
James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Top Secret

James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me (Original title: The Spy Who Loved Me ) is the tenth film in the James Bond series, shot by Lewis Gilbert in 1976 and 1977. The film was released on July 7, 1977 World premiere in London and on August 26, 1977 premiere in Germany.

action

After the mysterious disappearance of a British nuclear submarine on the high seas, MI6 assigns James Bond to investigate the case. The Soviets , who lost a nuclear submarine in the same way, use their agent Major Anya Amasova (alias Triple X ).

After Bond shot the leader of the attackers in a chase on skis in Austria , he traveled to Cairo , where plans for a secret submarine tracking system were being offered on the black market . His college friend Sheikh Hosein brings Bond to track Aziz Fekkesh, but the agent as Fekkesh in the must watch Pyramids of Giza from the biter is killed, a giant killer with steel teeth. Here Bond meets Anya and competes with Max Kalba for the purchase of the plans that are in his possession on a microfilm. Before the deal is over, the walker reappears, kills Kalba and steals the microfilm. Bond and Anya take up the chase and can steal the film from him in a pharaonic temple. After Bond is incapacitated by Anya with narcotic gas, he meets her again with her boss, General Gogol, in the Egyptian branch of MI6. Here his superior M reveals to him that their two governments want to put them together to resolve the case. A trace in the plans on the microfilm leads to the shipowner and marine biologist Karl Stromberg, who owns a marine research laboratory near Sardinia .

On the way to Italy, Bond and Anya are attacked again by the walker on the train, but they can throw him off the train and spend a night together. Disguised as a marine researcher and his wife, they visit Stromberg in his underwater station Atlantis . He recognizes them as agents and orders his people to eliminate them. On the way back in the Lotus Esprit , which Bond received from Q, they are followed by the walker, but they can shake him off. While fleeing from Stromberg's assistant Naomi in the helicopter, the Lotus crashes into the sea, whereupon Bond transforms it into a submarine at the push of a button and shoots down Naomi's helicopter with a rocket. Underwater they examine Stromberg's station and discover that he is the mastermind behind the submarine hijackings. You are attacked by divers, but you can defend yourself and flee. Back at the hotel, Anya finds out that Bond had previously shot her lover while skiing in Austria and vows to kill Bond after completing the job.

The stolen submarines are inside Stromberg's super tanker Liparus , which Bond and Anya are chasing in Captain Carter's US submarine. Her submarine is also boarded by the Liparus and the crew captured. Stromberg's plan is to create a new civilization underwater. The stolen submarines are said to fire nuclear missiles at New York and Moscow in order to provoke a global nuclear war that will wipe out what he sees as a decadent civilization. With Anya as a prisoner, Stromberg sets off in the direction of his Atlantis station. Bond and the other U-boat crews can liberate and cause serious damage to the tanker with the aid after a heavy battle against Stromberg's troops by the warhead of a nuclear missile expanding and thus bridge the Liparus bursts open. He lets Carter transmit the other locations as new target coordinates to the already leaked submarines with Stromberg's crews on board, so that they destroy each other. With the remaining American submarine, the survivors leave the sinking Liparus .

Carter receives an order from the US government to torpedo Stromberg's Atlantis station . Bond, who wants to save Anya, gets Carter to hang out for an hour. With a jet ski developed by Q , he reaches the station, where he meets Stromberg and shoots him. He manages to throw the walker into Stromberg's shark tank when the deadline has passed and Carter has the station torpedoed. Shortly before Atlantis falls apart, he finds Anya and escapes with her in Stromberg's escape pod to the surface of the water, as does the walker who defeated the shark. Eventually Bond, using all his charm, is able to convince Anya not to kill him after all.

production

script

Ian Fleming was dissatisfied with his novel The Spy Who Loved Me and had determined that only the title should be used for a film, not parts of the plot.

A number of writers were hired to work on a script, including Stirling Silliphant , John Landis , Ronald Hardy, Anthony Burgess, and Derek Marlowe. In the end it was Richard Maibaum again who developed a script that incorporated ideas from the other writers. His book was about a group of terrorists who want to create a new world order by removing Blofeld and taking over the SPECTER organization. This draft was rejected by Broccoli, who classified it as too political.

Director Lewis Gilbert suggested having the script revised by Christopher Wood, with whom he had previously worked for the 1977 film Royal Highness in Japan . Wood developed the final script from the existing material, for which he was named in the credits together with Richard Maibaum.

title

The title was taken from Ian Fleming's novel of the same name, but has nothing to do with the plot. He is also not mentioned in the film.

occupation

  • Roger Moore originally signed three Bond films, the third of which was The Spy Who Loved Me .
  • For the role of the Bond adversary Karl Stromberg, James Mason was initially considered because of his portrayal of Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . The role was then cast with Curd Jürgens, who is shown in the credits as "Curt Jurgens".
  • The role of Russian agent Major Amasova, played by Barbara Bach, was originally supposed to be played by Lois Chiles , who then played the role of Dr. in the following James Bond film Moonraker - Top Secret. Goodhead received.
  • In the credits, General Gogol portrayed by Walter Gotell is mostly reproduced with the first name “Anatol”; in this film (his first appearance), however, M addresses him as "Alexis". In the same scene, M is exceptionally called by Gogol by his first name "Miles".
  • Q, played again by Desmond Llewelyn, is also mentioned by name in this film (for the second time): When Bond and Major Amasova arrive in Sardinia, Amasova greets him with the words "Good morning, Major Boothroyd". Previously this was in James Bond chasing Dr. No the case. At that time, however, Q was still represented by Peter Burton and not addressed with "Q".
  • Broccoli originally wanted to cast Will Sampson for the role of the walker, but then decided on Richard Kiel, who had another appearance in this role in Moonraker .
  • The voice in the pyramid event was originally spoken by Charles Gray , who had already appeared in Man Only Lives twice (as Henderson) and in Diamond Fever (as Blofeld). In the German version, this part was dubbed by Manfred Schott .
  • A tourist played by Victor Tourjansky was introduced as a running gag, who usually looks at his alcoholic drink in disbelief when Bond shows up in an unusual way. He appears in this film on the beach, in Moonraker in St. Mark's Square and In Fatal Mission in a ski hut and believes that Bond's appearances are a result of his alcohol consumption. The character has not been used since Octopussy .

Title design

Maurice Binder was again responsible for the title design. The introductory scene flows seamlessly into the opening credits, in which James Bond himself can be seen for the third time in the series. In the scenes of the sequence, which are mainly shown in slow motion, without visible cuts, the silhouettes of various women can be seen in addition to Bond, performing gymnastics exercises on abstract weapon representations.

For the first time in the history of Bond films, author Ian Fleming was only credited with the character James Bond in the film titles, while his name appeared before the title of the film in previous films. So you used "Ian Fleming's James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me" in place of "Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me." This resulted from the fact that for the first time a completely independent screenplay was written for The Spy Who Loved Me , without it To adopt elements from Fleming's novel. This type of naming in the opening credits became the standard of the series from On Fatal Mission .

In the sequence at the beginning of the film that occurs in most James Bond films, in which Bond appears to be walking past the viewer from the right, but then shoots in the direction of the viewer and thus apparently into a gun barrel, the agent wears a tuxedo and bow tie for the first time.

Filming

  • The shooting took place from August 31, 1976 to January 26, 1977.
  • During the filming, the "Hall 007" was created, the largest film hall in the world at the time, into which a replica of a nuclear submarine (almost on a 1: 1 scale) fit. A few years later it burned down. It had cost $ 2.5 million for a total production cost of $ 13 million.
  • Regarding the lighting in the tanker scenes, the director Stanley Kubrick had his hands in the game - without the film and production team knowing anything about it - by advising Ken Adam , who was responsible for the buildings, on questions of lighting. The skiing sequences were created under the proven supervision of Willy Bogner junior , the underwater shots were in the hands of Lamar Boren .
Mount Asgard , where the jump for the opening scene of the film was shot
  • The ski jump with the opening parachute was filmed in July 1976 on Mount Asgard in Canada, a table mountain with more than 1000 m high vertical rock walls. During the stunt there were complications when stuntman Rick Sylvester's parachute did not open in time - the producers were delighted, however, as this extended the spectacular free fall phase. The scene, which was recorded with four cameras, including a helicopter camera, and which is still considered one of the most spectacular stunts in the Bond series, cost the production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to Sylvester in an interview, 500,000 US dollars (and was thus "the most expensive stunt in film history"), of which 30,000 US dollars flowed directly as a fee on New Year's Eve. At the same time, Sylvester set a new world record in base jumping with his jump from a height of 3300 feet, almost 1100 meters .

Locations

The pillars in Karnak in which James Bond and Anja follow the walker
Gayer Anderson Museum in Cairo

The film was shot in the following countries:

Gadgets

Lotus Esprit
James Bond's wet bike

A Lotus Esprit is available as a vehicle for Bond this time . The Q-Branch also provides a dismountable personal watercraft Wetbike (prototype from Spirit Marine), a small microfilm reader housed in a glasses case , a watch with a built-in Telex receiver (Seiko Model 0674) and a ski pole that can be fired .

Major Amasova also uses gadgets , including a radio set in a music box that plays the theme of the film Doctor Zhivago (in the Soviet Union, the novel was not officially released until 1988), and a narcotic drug hidden in cigarettes. The film also shows a tray running on a magnetic track with which restaurant guests can be beheaded, as well as a water pipe that can also be used as a firearm .

Film music

In The Spy Who Loved Me and was avoided by the Bond films in the from current practice, correspond to the song and movie titles. Nevertheless, the film title can be found in the lyrics. Carole Bayer Sager wrote Nobody Does It Better , Marvin Hamlisch composed the music; the song was nominated for an Oscar and was a huge hit for singer Carly Simon .

In the scene where Bond and Amasova break down their cars after fleeing the walker, the music theme is played by Lawrence of Arabia .

When Stromberg kills several people in a shark tank, he hears Bach's air .

The soundtrack itself is inspired by the music of the Bee Gees , of whom Hamlisch was a fan at the time. This can be heard most strongly in the piece Bond '77 , which is used in the legendary ski chase and other action sequences and is based on the Bee Gees disco classic You Should Be Dancing .

The soundtrack was first released on LP in 1977 by United Artists Records . In the 1980s, the first CD pressing was released by EMI. After the 40th James Bond anniversary, a new, revised version was released by Capitol Records in 2003. Since the master tapes of some tracks are considered lost, the soundtrack only comes up with the original title summary. In the UK there was a double hull version of the LP.

Original edition
  1. Nobody Does It Better (Main Title Song) (03:22) sung by Carly Simon
  2. Bond 77 (James Bond Theme) (04:22)
  3. Ride To Atlantis (03:30)
  4. Mojave Club (02:14)
  5. Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental Version) (04:47)
  6. Anya (03:22)
  7. The Tanker (04:25)
  8. The Pyramids (01:36)
  9. Eastern Lights (03:26)
  10. Conclusion (01:33)
  11. Nobody Does It Better (End Titles) (03:25) sung by Carly Simon

synchronization

The synchronization was again carried out by Ultra Film Synchron in Munich. Niels Clausnitzer wrote the dialogue book. Curd Jürgens, who spoke many languages, also dubbed himself in the French version.

role actor German voice actors
James Bond Roger Moore Niels Clausnitzer
Anya Barbara Bach Dagmar Heller
Stromberg Curd Juergens Curd Juergens
Naomi Caroline Munro Rose-Marie Kirstein
Gogol Walter Gotell Herbert Weicker
Sir Gray Geoffrey Keen Alois Maria Giani
M. Bernard Lee Wolf Ackva
Benson George Baker Alexander Allerson
Borzov Michael Billington Eberhard Mondry
Felicca Olga Bisera Helga Trümper
Q Desmond Llewelyn Leo Bardischewski
Sheikh Hosein Edward de Souza Horst Naumann
Max Kalba Vernon Dobtcheff Horst Sachtleben
Moneypenny Lois Maxwell Emely Reuer
Liparus captain Sydney Tafler Bruno W. Pantel
Capt. Carter Shane Rimmer Horst Niendorf
Capt. Talbot Bryan Marshall Norbert Gastell
Girl in snow hut Sue Vanner Eva Kinsky
Pyramid voice Charles Gray Manfred Schott

premiere

The world premiere took place on July 7, 1977 at the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square , London, in the presence of Princess Anne .

In the United States, the film opened in cinemas on July 13, 1977, and in German cinemas on August 25, 1977.

Aftermath

Financial success

The film was a huge commercial success. With a budget of an estimated $ 14 million, it grossed about $ 185 million worldwide, with nearly 47 million in the United States alone.

According to data from 2011, the magazine Stern gives an inflation-adjusted US $ 693 million as global box office income, which places the film in 5th place out of 23. The number of visitors in Germany is given as 7.6 million, which corresponds to the second most visitors to a Bond film in Germany.

Contemporary criticism

The time was enthusiastic about "[s] brilliantly filmed by Willi Bogner [s] opening credits" and the work of designer Ken Adam, but criticized the performance of the actors. Jürgens “lacks the drive”, Barbara Bach has “the charm of a clothes doll” and Roger Moore “tries hard.” All in all, the film looks “like a high-tech puppet theater, like a comic strip for screen-injured people”. Plot, dialogues and acting [...] are irrelevant ”.

The New York Times wrote that the film was moving at a “usable pace”, but ultimately appeared “half an hour too long” because the film's “lavishly produced” climax had long been “old hat.” Barbara Bach's character worked "A bit stupid, even for Bond standards." Leading actor Roger Moore appears "indifferent" and sometimes even "bored" in the Bond role.

Later evaluation

In retrospect, the film is considered one of the better contributions to the James Bond franchise and is often cited as the best Bond film starring Roger Moore. The spectacular parachute jump in the opening sequence is considered one of the highlights of the film series, while the character of the walker is considered one of its most famous villains.

Raymond Benson wrote in his 1984 standard work The James Bond Bedside Companion that the screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me was "without a doubt the best Bond screenplay of the 70s."

Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked James Bond films in 2006, nearly 30 years after the film was released, in which The Spy Who Loved Me ranked 10th out of 21 films. The opening scene and the figure of the walker were positively highlighted.

In 2009, German James Bond expert Siegfried Tesche named the film 8th in a list of the ten best James Bond films of all time. He liked the "original chase with the Lotus Esprit and the walker."

Five years later, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with The Spy Who Loved Me coming in sixth.

In 2012, the Bond films were rated by the readers of 007 Magazine . The Spy Who Loved Me came 8th out of 24 places. In a likewise 2012 published list of Rolling Stone takes the spy who loved me Place 8 of 24 James Bond films one. In the 2012 Stern special issue 50 Years James Bond , the film is rated 3 out of 5 stars (“solid”). That same year, The Spy Who Loved Me was named the fifth best Bond film by Time Out magazine .

Awards

The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1978 in the categories Best Art Direction-Set Decoration , Best Music, Original Score and Best Music, Original Song .

In 1978 Roger Moore was also nominated for a Saturn Award in the Best Actor category.

In the same year the film was awarded the Golden Screen .

Adaptations

literature

In 1977 the novel version of The Spy Who Loved Me was published under the title James Bond and His Greatest Case . The plot based on the script was no longer similar to Ian Fleming 's novel of the same name and was therefore published in the original as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me .

computer game

The software company Domark published a computer game for the film in 1990 . Similar to the game License to Kill , published in 1989, the player takes control from a bird's eye view or in crosshair mode.

The computer game 007: Nightfire , published in 2002, also contains elements from The Spy Who Loved Me .

radio play

The label Europa released the revised 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 .

Publications

The film ran for the first time on German free TV on December 17, 1989 at 8:15 p.m. on ARD.

VHS

The film was first released on VHS by MGM Home Entertainment in the 1980s . In Germany this was done by Warner Home Video . The last version was released in 1996 due to a uniform design, but it differed significantly from the English version.

DVD

The first German DVD version of the "Special Edition" from 2000/2001 differs in terms of synchronization compared to the television and cinema version. The additional sarcastic comments like “Out of order” and “Ahai” (a combination of ahoy and shark as a biter falls into the shark tank) are missing. In the original English version, James Bond says nothing in these scenes. The DVD of the "Ultimate Edition" from 2009 contains these sentences again.

Trivia

Originally, The Spy Who Loved Me was to be followed by the film In a fatal mission , which was announced in the credits ("James Bond will return in" For your eyes only ""). Given the success of the Star Wars films, however, these plans were changed and with Moonraker as a successor, a thematic reference to space was also made.

The song MfG - With kind regards from the Fantastischen Vier begins with a sentence from this film, which appears in the evening lecture at the Pyramids of Giza and tells of the "drama of a culture".

In December 2017, a vehicle called Stromberg , the name of James Bond's opponent, was added to the computer game Grand Theft Auto Online , which is modeled on the Lotus Esprit from the film. As in the film, the vehicle can drive underwater and fire missiles.

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: The Spy Who Loved Me  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2005 (PDF; test number: 49 288 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Production Notes - The Spy Who Loved Me. In: mi6-hq.com. Retrieved May 28, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Matthew Newton: The Spy Who Loved Me. In: mjnewton.demon.co.uk. Retrieved May 30, 2013 .
  5. ^ Trivia - The Spy Who Loved Me. Mi6-hq.com, accessed on May 29, 2013 (English).
  6. ↑ Full cast and crew for James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me. In: IMDb . Retrieved May 29, 2013 .
  7. ↑ The Spy Who Loved Me , RC2-DVD, at 51'26 ".
  8. ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond . 2nd Edition. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 130 .
  9. ↑ Ben Radatz: James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design. In: artofthetitle.com , December 18, 2012 (English).
  10. ↑ a b Box office / business for James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me. IMDb , accessed May 28, 2013 .
  11. ^ Siegfried Tescher: The great James Bond atlas. Wissen Media, Gütersloh, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07305-9 , p. 72/73
  12. ↑ Bond filming in Switzerland (1977) Swiss television archive
  13. ↑ A quantum of what? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 4, 2008.
  14. ↑ German synchronous files
  15. ↑ Release Info. In: IMDb . Retrieved May 28, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Box office results worldwide In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 , pp. 72–73.
  17. ↑ Fritz I. Raddatz: The Spy Who Loved Me . The new James Bond. In: The time . No. 37 , September 9, 1977 ( online ).
  18. ↑ Janet Maslin: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). 'Spy Who Loved' A Bit Long on Bond. In: New York Times . July 28, 1977, accessed May 28, 2013 .
  19. ↑ a b c The best and worst James Bond movies: a ranked list on timeout.com , accessed on March 8, 2013.
  20. ↑ a b c James Bond's Best and Worst: Peter Travers Ranks All 24 Movies at rollingstone.com (English), accessed December 22, 2012
  21. ↑ a b 007 MAGAZINE readers vote On Her Majesty's Secret Service as greatest ever Bond film! at: 007magazine.co.uk , accessed December 26, 2012.
  22. ↑ a b Best Bond Film Results. In: mi6-hq.com , October 3, 2012 (English).
  23. ↑ a b Direct hit and gunfire: all Bond missions in maneuver criticism In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 50 years of James Bond , pp. 64–71.
  24. ↑ Kevin P. Sullivan: Bond-a-Thond # 10: 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977). In: MTV Movies Blog. MTV , August 17, 2012, accessed May 30, 2013 .
  25. ↑ a b Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films on ew.com (English), accessed on December 26, 2012.
  26. ^ Raymond Benson: The James Bond Bedside Companion (Kindle Edition), Crossroad Press, 2012.
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. ↑ The Spy Who Loved Me. James Bond radio plays. In: jamesbondfilme.de. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
  29. ↑ YEAR 1980 - 2000. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
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