James Bond 007 - Die Another Day

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Movie
German title James Bond 007 - Die Another Day
Original title Die Another Day
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Country of production UK , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 133 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
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Director Lee Tamahori
script Purvis & Wade
production Barbara Broccoli
Michael G. Wilson
music David Arnold
Madonna & Mirwais ( theme song )
camera David Tattersall
cut Andrew MacRitchie
Christian Wagner
occupation

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chronology

←  Predecessor
James Bond 007 - The world is not enough

Successor  →
James Bond 007: Casino Royale

James Bond 007 - Die Another Day (original title Die Another Day ) is the 20th part of the series from Eon Productions Ltd. produced the James Bond film series. In Pierce Brosnan's fourth and final appearance in the title role, the English super spy has to deal with a young industrialist who hides his North Korean connections behind media-effective productions. At Brosnan's side was the newly crowned Oscar winner Halle Berry . The film started in German cinemas on November 28, 2002 and was a great financial success, although it is often counted among the worst films in the series, mainly due to its exaggerated staging.

action

The MI6 -Agent James Bond is after North Korea sent because Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, the son of the influential General Moon, who studied in the West, is suspected of dirty business. Tan-Sun and the terrorist Zao illegally trade weapons for blood diamonds at a military base , which they hide in the demilitarized, mined zone between North and South Korea. Bond pretends to be the diamond dealer Van Bierk at the base , but Zao and Moon are told about Bond's true identity and mission by a traitor in the west. When General Moon, who is constantly checking his son, announces himself at the base, Tan-Sun orders the weapons to be removed and Bond to be killed. However, Bond detonates a bomb that he had hidden in the suitcase with diamonds. Zao's face is completely disfigured by the flying fragments in the explosion. Tao-Sun Moon leaves the base in a hovercraft , Bond also follows him with such a vehicle and drives through the minefield . Bond manages to take over the vehicle of his adversary and lets it fall down a waterfall together with Tan-Sun, whereupon it crashes against the cliffs. General Moon believes his son is dead, arrests Bond and detains him in a torture prison for fourteen months.

The appearance of Bond strengthens the hardliners in North Korea and weakens the moderate General Moon. He blames the West for the ruin of his son and considers Bond a spy who must have an ally in the West. Eventually, Bond will be exchanged for Zao, who was arrested overseas while trying to sabotage a China-South Korea summit and killing Chinese agents. During the brief encounter, Zao and Bond swear revenge on each other. Arriving in South Korea , Bond is drugged and taken to a British warship in Hong Kong harbor for MI6 investigation . His boss M withdraws his permission to kill and wants to deport him to the Falkland Islands . She resents him that Zao had to be released in order to be released. She also suspects that Bond has divulged secrets under the torture, because an American agent in North Korea has already been exposed and killed. To prevent it from revealing anything else, it was forced to replace it. Bond, on the other hand, believes this was the same traitor who exposed him. To restore his reputation, Bond flees in search of the traitor.

A tip from a Chinese secret agent leads Bond to Cuba , where he meets the American NSA agent Jinx and tracks down a dubious gene clinic. Jinx kills their boss and deposits a bomb, which destroys the clinic. Bond discovers the visually greatly changed Zao there, but cannot get hold of him in the chaos. But he secures diamonds that lead him to the millionaire and bon vivant Gustav Graves. Graves made a fortune with a diamond find in Iceland and is notable for the fact that he works 24 hours a day because he never sleeps. Bond meets Graves in a London fencing club , confronts him with the diamonds and engages with him in a match that threatens to become a duel to the life and death until Graves' secretary Miranda Frost finally stops the fight. Bond learns from Graves fencing teacher Verity that the former Olympic fencing champion Miranda is the protégé of Graves.

Graves invites Bond to his Icelandic ice palace where he wants to present his project Icarus, which will subsequently be the scene of a spectacular showdown. Bond meets M, who reactivates him, albeit unofficially, as Graves has great political influence. Bond is completing a virtual survival training course and has Q equip him with all kinds of gadgets, including a sports car that can be made invisible. He is accompanied by Miranda, who works as an agent for MI6 and was placed in the Graves area, but does not want to get anything out yet. To protect her camouflage, Bond should not be informed of her identity.

In Iceland, Bond discovers that Gustav Graves is really Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, who has also undergone a gene transplant in the Cuban clinic and has changed his identity. Graves / Moon plans to use the “Ikarus” satellite weapon to burn a swath from orbit into the minefield separating North and South Korea, thus enabling North Korea to invade the South and thus reunite. It also turns out that Miranda Frost is a double agent and has sided with Colonel Moon and Graves because he once made her Olympic champion. It was she who betrayed Bond in North Korea. Bond and Jinx fight first in the ice palace in Iceland against Zao and then in an Antonov An-124 - transport aircraft against Moon and his minions that they eventually defeat.

In the final scene, Jinx and Bond can be seen in a bed next to Moon's diamonds.

Emergence

script

The writing duo Neal Purvis and Robert Wade were hired again for the script after The World Is Not Enough . They adopted elements such as the basic plan of Bond's opponent from the novel Moonraker in their script that were not used in the film of the same name . The name of the fencing club Blade was also taken from the novel by a London gentlemen's club. Due to a lot of adjustments, Bond-Girl Gala Brand was finally renamed Miranda Frost. When Lee Tamahori was hired to direct, he requested a few changes to the script, including a parasurfing scene and the finale being moved to an airplane. Some plot elements were already used in Diamond Fever ; Bond's opponent undergoes a medical facial change there as well and threatens the world with an orbital laser cannon powered by diamonds.

After License to Kill and Tomorrow Never Dies , this is the third James Bond film title without any reference to Bond inventor Ian Fleming, who died in 1964 . The phrase Die Another Day is taken from the poem The Day of Battle from AE Housman's collection, A Shropshire Lad . There, a soldier fleeing the battlefield is destined to “die another day” (“But since the man that runs away lives to die another day ”).

Cast and staff

role actor Voice actor
James Bond Pierce Brosnan Frank Glaubrecht
Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson Halle Berry Melanie Pukass
Gustav Graves Toby Stephens Tom Vogt
Miranda Frost Rosamund Pike Ranja Bonalana
M. Judi Dench Gisela Fritsch
Zao Rick Yune Johannes Berenz
Q John Cleese Thomas Danneberg
Miss Moneypenny Samantha Bond Anita Lochner
Damian Falco Michael Madsen Engelbert von Nordhausen
Colonel Tan-Sun Moon Will Yun Lee Norman Matt
General Moon Kenneth Tsang Gerhard Paul
Charles Robinson Colin Salmon Detlef Bierstedt
Raoul Emilio Echevarría Christian Rode
Mr. Kil Lawrence Makoare Tilo Schmitz
Verity Madonna Sabina Trooger

For the fourth and last time Pierce Brosnan plays the secret agent. He receives support from Oscar winner Halle Berry as NSA agent Jinx. Quartermaster Q is played for the first time after Desmond Llewelyn's death by Monty Python star John Cleese, who has already been introduced to The World Is Not Enough . The director engaged Lee Tamahori from New Zealand, whose debut The Last Warrior was at least controversial due to its explicit portrayal of violence in the marriage of a Māori couple. Before Lee Tamahori was hired to direct, Brett Ratner , Stuart Baird, and Stephen Hopkins were also considered.

Rosamund Pike was hired for the role of Miranda Frost just five days before filming began. The role is Pike's screen debut. Michael Madsen plays Jinx's supervisor in the NSA. He already acted in By Your Own Rules , directed by Lee Tamahori.

As potential Bond girls came Saffron Burrows , Salma Hayek and Sophie Ellis-Bextor into consideration. With them came test shots, in which the actor Colin Salmon played the role of James Bond. The daughter of seven-time James Bond actor Roger Moore , Deborah Moore , has a cameo appearance as a stewardess as does pop singer Madonna, who also interprets the theme song for the film.

Filming

The shooting took place between January 14, 2002 and July 27, 2002. As usual for the film series, elaborate stunts - but also extensive computer effects  - were implemented: For the opening sequence, Bond surfs on Maui ( Hawaii ), and in Iceland a wild ice chase was filmed on Europe's largest glacier. Other locations were South Korea , Norway , Cádiz (for scenes in Cuba ) and Great Britain .

A few days before filming for the film finale in the Antonov An-124 was due to begin, it was confiscated. When looking for a replacement aircraft, they struck gold in Ukraine and got an An-124 with the registration number UR 007 .

The Aston Martin V12 Vanquish , the first new Aston-Martin - Bond -Auto since 1987 in The Living Daylights with the V8 Saloon

The chase of Bonds Vanquish with Zao's Jaguar XKR used in the final film alone required three weeks of shooting time. The frozen Jökulsárlón ice lagoon, surrounded by towering glaciers near Höfn , Iceland, served as the backdrop . The very short river that connects the lake with the ocean was temporarily filled in to prevent the exchange of water between Jökulsárlón and the Atlantic. The purpose was to reduce the salinity in order to allow the lake surface to freeze. Both vehicles were significantly modified, so a V8 from Ford with the all-wheel drive of the Ford Explorer was installed in both the XKR and the Vanquish .

At the end of the shooting, Bond's performance was recorded with the fencing teacher played by Madonna. The Reform Club in Pall Mall , London served as the backdrop . For the fencing scene itself, which was shot 90% without stuntmen, Stevens, Pike and Brosnan received fencing lessons from Bob Anderson from January .

Die Another Day is the only Bond film to date to feature the title sequence in the plot. The viewer witnesses Bond's extensive torture , accompanied by imprisonment in North Korea for several months. However, the images are alienated in a manner typical of Bond and underlaid with Madonna's title song of the same name in order to remain identifiable as a characteristic Bond title sequence.

While Pierce Brosnan's James Bond last drove a BMW , the Bond car here had long been from Aston Martin ; it was a V12 Vanquish . The brand already presented the first known vehicle for the film character in Goldfinger . In this film, the car is equipped with adaptive camouflage (takes on the color of the surroundings but is visible in the infrared range), rocket, machine gun and grenade armament as well as ejection seats. The other agent equipment in the film consists of a watch with a remote detonator for explosives and a watch with a laser, as well as a ring that can break bulletproof glass with high tones, and a surfboard with a secret compartment for Walther P99 , C4 explosives and a GPS knife .

The amount of product placement in this film was exceptional: 20 companies paid a total of $ 70 million to place their brands in the film. Bond and Jinx escape a burning Antonov in an MD-600N NOTAR helicopter, which is brought to free fall and finally comes under control ten meters above the ground. Zao escapes from Cuba in an MD Explorer . For sponsor Philips , a scene in which Bond removes his beard with an electric razor was filmed with several regional product variants. Therefore, the film received in the press often nicknamed "Buy Another Day" ( English , Buy Another Day ').

Panoramic view of the geodesic domes of the Eden Project in Cornwall, another location

post-production

The theme song Die Another Day , released October 19, 2002, was sung by Madonna . The text was written by her and Mirwais Ahmadzaï . He reached in the UK charts number one and eighth in the US charts Square The Song of The Clash - London Calling , the final approach to London , while not on the soundtrack, but probably in some DVD and Blu-ray Disc of the film as an extra (Special trailer) included.

The soundtrack was written by David Arnold , who also composed for the two previous films. It was first released in 2002 by WEA Records on an enhanced CD ; In addition to the music track, the CD also contained a multimedia part for CD-ROM drives with Madonna's music video, screensaver and access to the film's official website. The German version had a second cover with a German title, but in the font of the Der-Morgen-dies-nie logo.

List of titles from the original edition

  1. Die Another Day (Main Title Song) (04:38) sung by Madonna
  2. James Bond Theme (Bond vs. Oakenfold) (04:06) interpreted by Paul Oakenfold
  3. On The Beach (02:51)
  4. Hovercraft Chase (03:50)
  5. Some Kind Of Hero (04:32)
  6. Welcome To Cuba (02:08)
  7. Jinx Jordan (01:29)
  8. Jinx & James (02:04)
  9. A Touch Of Frost (01:52)
  10. Icarus (01:24)
  11. Laser Fight (04:36)
  12. Whiteout (04:55)
  13. Iced Inc. (3:09 am)
  14. Antonov (11:52)
  15. Going Down Together (04:06)

Thomas Danneberg , who can be heard as Q in the film, also wrote the dubbed script and directed the dubbing on behalf of Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke . In addition to the voice actors for Bond, M, Q, Robinson and Moneypenny, who are already known from the previous parts, Halle Berry's role was cast with Melanie Pukaß , the daughter of M speaker Gisela Fritsch . The German standard voice Sabina Trooger was also chosen as the spokesperson for Madonna . She spoke already in the Bond film A View to a Death Grace Jones as May Day. But Gerhard Paul also has Bond experience; he lent his voice to David Calder as Sir Robert King in the previous The World Is Not Enough .

publication

English logo

The premiere took place on November 18, 2002 in a Royal Albert Hall  filled with 3000 people - including Elizabeth II . At the same time, the 40th anniversary of the James Bond film series was celebrated in the presence of all former Bond actors ( George Lazenby , Roger Moore , Timothy Dalton ) with the exception of Sean Connery .

Die Another Day was the most expensive James Bond film to date with a production cost of 142 million dollars , but at the same time it also had the highest grossing results to date: it was seen by more than 5 million cinema-goers in Germany alone and overplayed worldwide $ 430 million. The global inflation-adjusted box office total in 2011 was 544 million US dollars, which was the eleventh best result of a Bond film at the time.

The first DVD version came out in 2003. Die Another Day was the last James Bond film to be released on VHS. In addition to the standard version, there is a special edition in a slipcase with a reversible cover in the style of the already published special edition series of Bond films. It was launched as a Blu-ray Disc in the Gold Sleeve series in 2008. The most recent edition to date was published for the 50th anniversary.

The film ran for the first time on German free TV on December 4, 2005 at 8:15 pm on RTL.

reception

Contemporary rating

"Exciting action spectacle staged in exciting pictures with humorous, sometimes suggestive dialogues and good actors, which revives the charm of the early Bond films."

- Film Service No. 24 of November 19, 2002

“The stunts are faster and more spectacular than ever, but here too the makers sometimes want too much. Much is simply too much over the top. Of course, logic doesn't play a role in a Bond film, but the scene of 007 surfing on the roof of a car would have been better avoided. This is not only inadequately solved in terms of trick technology, it also looks extremely ridiculous. The same applies to the aircraft sequence, which defies all physical laws, or the outrageous super mega laser satellites […]. However, the rest of the action is technically perfect - whether chases by airboat, car or helicopter. [...] The story, which is of course only a hook for the restless action, offers little that is spectacular. With the exception of a small surprise, everything works according to the familiar pattern. […] Lee Tamahori tried to find the lowest common denominator of the audience's taste and put one action scene after the next. The only problem is that 'Die Another Day' seems a bit soulless, only offers visual values, has no real substance. But everything is at a high level. "

- Filmstarts.de

“The […] film […] offers a lot of irony, is spectacular, fast-paced, breathtakingly equipped and is not stingy with exorbitant pictures in glossy format. And yet the 20th James Bond adventure remains too unimaginative in the details, the plot and action sometimes seem excessive and exaggerated, the overly dominant special effects have technical flaws in places. "

- zelluloid.de

“Even the New Zealander Lee Tamahori [...] was unable to find anything new in the agent magic. The typical story was enriched with a lot of action, shooting and explosions, which come to the viewer in such quick episodes that the viewer cannot even think about how idiotic the whole story actually is. A big plus: this time Bond gets a charming sidekick with the American NSA agent Jinx [...]. "

“'Die Another Day' succeeds in reprocessing the tried and tested ingredients of world politics, luxury, exoticism and eroticism in such a way that they captivate the viewer [...]. […] When it comes to action, the producers of 007 have regained their air sovereignty over competitors like “Triple X” with “Die Another Day” […]. On the other hand: The action sequences and special effects have never been as exaggerated as this time. When Bond plunges into the Arctic Ocean with a huge cliff and continues to surf there comfortably on the roof of his ice car, the comic strip line has been reached. If the agent is not to become a Superman, even a figure of joke, then this must be the end. "

- FAZ

“Recommended”
“High-tech, crazy stunts and fine irony”
“Fun: 0/3; Action: 3/3; Erotic: 0/3; Voltage: 2/3; Claim: 0/3 "

- TV Movie 24/05 (on the occasion of the free TV premiere )

In 2003 the film was nominated for the Saturn Award in five categories, including Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film . Composer David Arnold received the BMI Film Music Award . Actress Rosamund Pike received the Empire Award for Best Newcomer . Madonna received in 2003 for their two-minute cameo appearance in the film the ridiculous price Razzie as worst supporting actress .

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “valuable”.

Comparison with other bond films

In retrospect, Die Another Day is often viewed as one of the worst films in the James Bond franchise, as evidenced by the ratings and placements in numerous rankings over the past few years.

In 2006, Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked James Bond films, in which Die Any Other Day was 13th out of 21 films and the plot was described as "totally incomprehensible". In the same year, the editorial team of the multimedia portal IGN chose the “bloated self-parody” on the 19th and penultimate place within the film series.

Between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fansite MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with Die on another day also doing badly and only finishing 20th out of 22 films.

In 2012, the Bond films were also rated by the readers of 007 Magazine , with Die Another Day taking penultimate place. Only the parody Casino Royale from 1967 did worse . In a list also published in 2012 by Rolling Stone , Die Another Day takes a good tenth place among 24 James Bond films and is referred to as "the best of the Bond films with Pierce Brosnan". That same year, Time Out magazine named Die Another Day as the worst of the 22 Bond films. In the special issue 50 Years of James Bond by Stern , published in the same year, the film was rated three out of five stars (“solid”). However, one attests to him a certain "hyperbole" and describes in particular the invisible car and the kitesurf sequence as "embarrassing."

Remarks

  • Die Another Day is a double anniversary: ​​on the one hand it is the 20th film, on the other hand, since the premiere of the first film in 007, Dr. No exactly 40 years have passed. On the occasion of the 20th film, there are some homages to old films in the series. The gadgets from earlier Bond films that can be seen in Q's warehouse, such as the knife shoe from love greetings from Moscow or the Acrojet from fireball, are striking . When Q hands over a new watch to Bond, he describes it as the twentieth. The laser beams that threaten Jinx in Gustav Grave's alleged diamond mine are reminiscent of Goldfinger . In the first James Bond film, Ursula Andress emerged from the sea in a cream-colored cotton bikini and with a diving knife. In connection with this scene, Halle Berry emerged from the sea under the gaze of James Bond in a Dr. No bikini .
  • In the scene on the beach in Havana, James Bond reads a book by his namesake and ornithologist James Bond , who later pretends to be him.

Additional information

literature

Web links

supporting documents

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