James Bond 007 - The world is not enough
James Bond 007 - The World Is Not Enough (original title: The World Is Not Enough ) is the 19th film in the James Bond series, shot in 1999, and the third film with Pierce Brosnan in the lead role. James Bond is hired to protect the daughter of a millionaire. The background of the plot, the construction of an oil pipeline from Azerbaijan to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, actually has an equivalent: In 2005 the similarly running Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was actually completed. The film had a budget of $ 135 million and grossed $ 390 million worldwide. In Germany the film was released on December 9, 1999.
action
Sir Robert King, British industrialist and old friend of the secret service chief M , is murdered by a bomb right in the MI6 building . Bond pursues the alleged assassin with Q's latest development, an armed speedboat, across London, but without success: Above the Millennium Dome , she blows herself up with a hot air balloon and Bond suffers a serious shoulder injury.
Bond is then deployed to protect King's daughter Elektra, who is unwilling to trust MI6 again. She gives two reasons for this: on the one hand, MI6 failed to protect her father, and on the other hand, MI6 could not help her when she was kidnapped by the Russian terrorist Viktor Zokas, known as Renard, a few weeks before her father's death .
In Azerbaijan, where Elektra is continuing her father's work to build an oil pipeline, both are attacked by strangers on paragliding snowmobiles, but are able to save themselves in an avalanche with an inflatable ball. With the help of Valentin Zukovsky, Bond follows the trail of a group of researchers who are working on nuclear weapons in Kazakhstan and who are connected to Renard. After a night with Elektra, he learns that she wants to have freed herself from Renard's clutches by seduction.
Bond smuggles his way into the researchers and takes them to a mine, where an atomic bomb is to be loaded. There he meets the specialist Dr. Christmas Jones and finally Renard, who has unusual powers and is insensitive to pain. He wants to kill him, but has to surrender to the security personnel, who do not believe that Renard wants the bomb for himself. In conversation with him he learns a few things that lead him to suspect that Elektra suffers from Stockholm Syndrome and that he is making common cause with Renard. When it comes to escalation, Jones joins him and both are able to escape from the exploding mine after a firefight. However, the bomb and Renard are gone. Renard had previously removed a transponder that could be used to locate the bomb.
In the meantime, Elektra informs M that she feels threatened and asks her for help. M, who has no idea about Bond's experiences and insights, goes to Elektra to assist her. When Bond returns to Elektra, he confronts her with his assumption, but she can still talk her way out of it.
The pipeline now faces a threat: the atomic bomb is moving through the pipeline towards an oil terminal. While Bond and Dr. Jones defuse the bomb, they discover that half of the weapons- grade plutonium is missing. After removing the existing half, they detonate the bomb to keep Elektra safe. However, she takes M hostage and flees to Istanbul. When M from Elektra tries to find out the reason for the murder of Electra's father, Electra admits how much she hated her father. In her opinion, her grandfather built the oil empire and her father stole it from her mother. The kidnapping was a welcome opportunity to use Renard for their cause. M is taken to a fortress where she awaits her death.
Bond visits Zukovsky in his domicile and puts pressure on him, but is watched. This is how Elektra learns that he survived. When Renard's men attack him, Bond is able to save himself with his automatic car. He blackmailed Zukovsky for information about their cooperation, while Renard is supposed to use the stolen plutonium to cause a reactor accident in a nuclear submarine in the Bosporus , which would destroy Istanbul and radioactively contaminate the Bosporus for decades. This would make their pipeline the only functioning way in the region to transport crude oil.
M can activate the transponder with a converted alarm clock and this is how Bond finds out about Electra's whereabouts. She is already waiting for him and has him captured. She wants to kill him slowly with a garrote , explaining to him her reasons for her hatred and telling him that she has put the world at his feet. Bond replies: "The world is not enough".
Zukovskys, who switched sides, attacks Electra's domicile, but is fatally injured by her. At the last moment, he helps Bond to free himself. Elektra flees knowing that Bond would never shoot a defenseless woman, but when she orders Renard to strike, Bond kills her. Then he engages in a dramatic fight with Renard on the submarine, in which he can defuse the bomb with the rest of the plutonium and ultimately emerge victorious. He spends the following night with Dr. Jones on a house roof in Istanbul.
production
script
The script was written by Robert Wade, Neal Purvis and Bruce Feirstein. The kidnapping of M was already part of the plot of the official James Bond novel Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis . Director Michael Apted suggested that it be included in the film.
title
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The title of the film does not come from any of Ian Fleming's books or short stories , but refers to a quote from the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service . Bond learns there that his family's motto is "Orbis non sufficit", Latin for "The world is not enough". In the film, Elektra expresses to Bond that she could have laid the world at his feet, to which Bond replies with his family motto. The original quote is "Non sufficit orbis" and was the motto of King Felipe II of Spain (1527–1598). In fact, Ian Fleming simply adopted the historical motto of the Baronets (1658–1767) from the Bond of Peckham family, who carried the coat of arms shown opposite.
occupation
Q is played for the last time by Desmond Llewelyn, who died in a traffic accident shortly after the film premiered. In the film, he introduces his successor, who is played by John Cleese. Although this is not mentioned by name in the film, Bond spontaneously baptizes him with the name "R".
Judi Dench is playing M for the third time and is actively involved and personally involved in an assignment for the first time.
Denise Richards was trained as a nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones busy.
MGM reportedly suggested Sharon Stone for the role of Elektra King, but the role was given to Sophie Marceau.
Maria Grazia Cucinotta, who can be seen as "Cigar Girl", originally auditioned for the role of Elektra King.
Valentin Zukowsky, played by Robbie Coltrane, appears for the second (and last) time after GoldenEye in a Bond film.
Also in this film, producer Michael G. Wilson has a short guest appearance - this time as a visitor to Zukovsky's casino.
The character Renard was originally supposed to be played by the singer Meat Loaf , who however refused.
The role of the Bull is by Goldie played, musician and founder of the drum-and-bass - Labels metalheadz Records .
The German actor Claude-Oliver Rudolph plays Colonel Akakievich.
The role of Gabor was offered to New Zealand rugby player Jonah Lomu , but he turned it down.
Title design
Daniel Kleinman , who had already taken on this task for the two previous films, was responsible for the title design .
This time the title sequence is determined by the subject of oil, which also plays an important role in the film. The obligatory female bodies are either made of oil or are covered by oil. Kleinman also takes advantage of the rainbow effect that oil forms on water. As with GoldenEye and Tomorrow never dies , the name of the film is typographically shown in the title opening as it is shown on the film's logo.
As a special feature, “James Bond will return”, which is usually faded in at the end of the credits, appears for the first time at the beginning of the credits.
Filming
The shooting took place from January 11, 1999 to June 25, 1999. For the first time since 1987 filming took place at Pinewood Studios .
In February 1999 the film team moved to Spain. In Bilbao, two days of shooting for the introduction of the film took place in the streets around the Guggenheim Museum there . The Spanish countryside was also used to shoot scenes showing Bond in Azerbaijan in a BMW Z8 on his way to a meeting with Elektra King. In northern Spain, in the semi-desert Bardenas Reales, the exterior shots of the decommissioned nuclear facility were made.
This was followed by recordings in Scotland, England and Wales. Sir Robert King's funeral, set in Scotland, was recorded at Stowe Park in Buckinghamshire . The interior shots for both Zukovsky's casino and Elektra King's residence were shot in the Luton Hoo mansion in Bedfordshire .
The Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland served as a backdrop to the secret headquarters of the MI6. Scenes for Highlander - There Can Only Be One have been filmed here. Bernard Lee , the first and longtime actor of the M, can be seen in a scene in the headquarters on a portrait painting.
At the beginning of the film there is a boat chase on the Thames, for which 35 boats were used and six weeks of shooting time, beginning in March 1999, were required. There were also over two months to prepare for the stunts at a secret location in Hampshire. Not least because of these action scenes, the introductory sequence was 14 minutes long, the longest in a Bond film to date.
At Pinewood Studios u. a. the scenes around Zukovsky's caviar factory took place.
The second film team went to the French Alps to record the scenes of the ski chase near Chamonix-Mont-Blanc . Around the same time, a small film team was shooting the outdoors on the outskirts of Baku , where Bond is driving in his car through a landscape dominated by oil pumps. At the Yanar Dağ near Baku, Renard can be seen for the first time, demonstrating his callousness by taking the heated stones in his hand.
Eventually a film team went to Istanbul to shoot some of the film scenes on location. However, there were no recordings with actors in Istanbul and the Maiden's Tower , on and in which parts of the finale play, was recreated in Pinewood Studios.
The underwater sequences of the finale, for which a miniature submarine was recreated, were created in the Bahamas . The submarine is a Soviet or Russian model of the 671RTM project .
Locations
- Küçüksu Palace , Maiden's Tower in Istanbul, Turkey
- Bilbao , Spain; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- Millennium Dome , Royal Victoria Dock , Tobacco Dock in London, England
- Chamonix , France (ski pursuit)
- Eilean Donan Castle , Scotland (Scottish Headquarters MI6)
- The Azerbaijani oil rig landscape Neft Daşları was recreated for the studio, as the explosions in the film did not allow recordings to be made in the original location.
Gadgets
- a pair of glasses that serve as a remote ignition for a bomb (first scene in the office in Bilbao, Spain)
- the service truck: a BMW Z8 , equipped with titanium - armor loud -, missiles and alarm display R - six beverage holders. The vehicle can be controlled remotely using the key .
- a racing boat , armed with GPS provided
- a jacket with an inflatable protective cover for two people
- an X-ray - glasses , the weapons makes under the clothing of persons visible
- a credit card with a built-in lock pick
- a wristwatch with mini winch and torch
Film music
The score was again composed by David Arnold.
The title track The World Is Not Enough was composed by David Arnold, written by Don Black and performed by the band Garbage . There is also a music video for this title track in which singer Shirley Manson is portrayed as a killer robot, unrelated to the film. In the German charts the song reached number 38, in the United Kingdom number 11; in the United States the single could not be placed.
For the credits the song was Only Myself to Blame by Scott Walker provided, but it was a remix of the James Bond Theme given preference. So while Scott Walker's song was not in the final film, it was included on the soundtrack.
The soundtrack first appeared in 1999 on Radioactive / MCA Records on a so-called Enhanced CD , which also included the US trailer. The German version had an additional cover with the alternative black poster and German title.
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synchronization
Dialogue book: Thomas Danneberg
| role | actor | German voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| James Bond | Pierce Brosnan | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Elektra King | Sophie Marceau | Judith Brandt |
| Renard | Robert Carlyle | Martin Keßler |
| Dr. Christmas Jones | Denise Richards | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues |
| Valentin Zukovsky | Robbie Coltrane | Jürgen Kluckert |
| M. | Judi Dench | Gisela Fritsch |
| Q | Desmond Llewelyn | Manfred Schmidt |
| R. | John Cleese | Thomas Danneberg |
| Cigar girl | Maria Grazia Cucinotta | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Miss Moneypenny | Samantha Bond | Anita Lochner |
| Bill Tanner | Michael Kitchen | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Charles Robinson | Colin Salmon | Detlef Bierstedt |
| Bull | Goldie | Jörg Hengstler |
| Sir King | David Calder | Gerhard Paul |
| Dr. Molly Warmflash | Serena Scott Thomas | Cornelia Meinhardt |
| Davidov | Ulrich Thomsen | Jan Spitzer |
| Gabor | John Seru | Thomas Petruo |
| Colonel Akakievich | Claude-Oliver Rudolph | Claude-Oliver Rudolph |
| Lachaise | Patrick Malahide | Klaus Jepsen |
| Captain Nikoli | Justus von Dohnányi | Justus von Dohnányi |
premiere
The world premiere of the film took place on November 8, 1999 at Mann's Village Theater in Westwood near Los Angeles before it officially opened on November 19, 1999 in the USA. Pierce Brosnan with his wife Keely Shaye Smith, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Denise Richards, Desmond Llewelyn, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Serena Scott Thomas and Michael Apted were present at the premiere.
In the UK, the premiere took place on November 22nd, and the film was released four days later. The film was shown in Germany from December 9, 1999.
Aftermath
Financial success
The World Is Not Enough was a financial success and narrowly surpassed its predecessors in terms of box-office income . Tomorrow Never Dies and GoldenEye .
The film had a budget of approximately $ 135 million. In the United States, he grossed approximately $ 127 million, including over $ 35 million on the opening weekend. In Germany the film had 5.1 million viewers, the fifth best result of a Bond film in Germany. Worldwide, he grossed nearly $ 352 million.
In 2012, global box office income adjusted for inflation was reported to be US $ 492 million, 14th out of 23 Bond films.
Contemporary criticism
At the time of its premiere, the film received mixed reviews.
Roger Ebert rated the film very positively, it was "a wonderfully funny thriller, exciting and graceful, endlessly original" and Pierce Brosnan "the best with the exception of Sean Connery."
The Variety, on the other hand, wrote on November 15, 1999, “ The world is not enough , and neither is this new entry to the James Bond series.” The plot was found to be “stupid” and “overloaded,” but noted that that "Brosnan [...] feels noticeably more comfortable in the role with every film".
The film service criticized the film and wrote that it was a "[b] lasse, stuck in the conventions of the series, in which the eye-catching and cleverly crafted action sequences come to the fore. Only in the interplay of the bad guys and in the new role of the Q-Assistant does the film set some accents. "
Later evaluation
In retrospect, the film is often viewed as a below-average contribution to the James Bond series, which is also proven by the placements in numerous rankings in recent years.
In 2006, Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked The World Is Not Enough as the worst of all Bond films of the time. In the same year, IGN multimedia website staff rated the Bond films and voted The World Is Not Enough as the fifth worst.
Five years later, between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with The World Is Not Enough reaching number 16 out of 22 films.
In 2012, the Bond films were also rated by the readers of 007 Magazine , The World Is Not Enough also ranked 16th out of 24 on this list. In a likewise 2012 published list of Rolling Stone assumes the world is not enough , a low 20th place among 24 James Bond films. In the 2012 special issue published 50 years James Bond of the star is nevertheless rated the film 3 out of 5 stars ( "solid"), but is criticized "some confused story."
Adaptations
literature
In 1999, a Raymond Benson novel based on the script was published, which accurately reproduced the plot of the film with the exception of details.
computer game
In 2000 Electronic Arts published the first person shooter Die Welt ist nicht Enough , which adheres closely to the plot of the film and also contains footage from it.
radio play
The Karussell label released the revised German soundtrack of the film as a radio play on double music cassette and double CD. Michael Harck speaks the narrator that does not exist in the film .
Others
Inkworks released a trading card game about The World Is Not Enough .
Publications
The film was released in December 2000 on VHS and DVD . The DVD marked the beginning of the James Bond 007 Special Edition on DVD. The 2000/2001 Special Edition was the first release of the James Bond films on DVD. In 2006 the film was re-released as part of the James Bond Ultimate Edition with many extras and has been available on Blu-ray Disc since 2007 . The current DVD / Blu-Ray version has been available since October 2012 and, apart from two audio commentaries with the director and other members of the film staff, no longer includes any special extras.
The film ran for the first time on German free TV on September 8, 2002 at 8:15 pm on Pro7.
Awards
- 2000: Denise Richards won a Golden Raspberry for worst supporting actress
- 2000: Golden screen (awarded to more than 3 million viewers within 1½ years in Germany)
- 2000: Blockbuster Entertainment Award (in the action area ; won: Pierce Brosnan as best male actor, nominated: Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards as best actress)
- 2000: BMI Awards ( David Arnold , best film music )
- The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
Web links
- James Bond 007 - The World Is Not Enough in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- James Bond 007 - The World Is Not Enough at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- James Bond 007 - The World Is Not Enough at Metacritic (English)
- James Bond 007 - The world is not enough in the online movie database
- James Bond 007 - The world is not enough in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for James Bond 007 - The World Is Not Enough . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2005 (PDF; test number: 83 472 V / DVD).
- ↑ In: Brendecke, Arndt (2007): Non sufficit orbis. Concepts of Spanish world domination in the 16th century. In: History in Science and Education : GWU, Vol. 58, No. 4: pp. 236-25; LMU Munich.
- ↑ See in the English Wikipedia Sir Thomas Bond .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Trivia - The World Is Not Enough . On: mi6-hq.com (English). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b c budget and box office results . In: imdb.de . Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Location Guide - The World Is Not Enough. In: mi6-hq.com. Retrieved August 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Filming locations for James Bond 007 - The world is not enough. On: imdb.com (English). Retrieved April 2, 2013.
- ↑ a b The World Is Not Enough . On: mjnewton.demon.co.uk (English). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ^ The World Is Not Enough film locations
- ↑ Garbage - single chart tracking. ( Memento from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) On: musicline.de . Retrieved March 21, 2013.
- ↑ German synchronous files
- ↑ a b Los Angeles Premiere Photos . On: mi6-hq.com (English). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b Launch Dates for James Bond 007 - The World Is Not Enough . On imdb.de . Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b Box office results worldwide In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 , pp. 72–73.
- ^ A b Roger Ebert : The World Is Not Enough. In: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com . November 19, 1999, accessed on January 6, 2013 (English): "" The World Is Not Enough "is a splendid comic thriller, exciting and graceful, endlessly inventive. [...] Pierce Brosnan. The best except for Sean Connery. "
- ^ Time Tunnel: Review Rewind . On: mi6-hq.com (English). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ James Bond 007 - The world is not enough . In: Filmdienst No. 25 of December 7, 1999. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
- ↑ Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films . On: ew.com (English). Retrieved December 26, 2012.
- ↑ James Bond's Top 20 - Ranking 007's films from worst to best. On: ign.com (English). Retrieved December 26, 2012.
- ↑ Best Bond Film Results . On: mi6-hq.com (English). Retrieved December 26, 2012.
- ↑ 007 MAGAZINE readers vote On Her Majesty's Secret Service as greatest ever Bond film! On: 007magazine.co.uk (English). Retrieved 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.
- ↑ The world is not enough. James Bond radio plays. In: jamesbondfilme.de. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
- ↑ YEAR 2002. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Golden Raspberry (Razzie Award) 1999
- ↑ Awards and honors of the James Bond films ( Memento of June 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ James Bond 007 - The World Is Not Enough on fbw-filmbeval.com