James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die
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| German title | James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die | ||
| Original title | Live and Let Die | ||
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| Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1973 | ||
| length | 121 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Guy Hamilton | ||
| script | Tom Mankiewicz | ||
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Albert R. Broccoli , Harry Saltzman |
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George Martin theme song : Linda and Paul McCartney |
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| camera | Ted Moore | ||
| cut |
Bert Bates , Raymond Poulton , John Shirley |
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James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die (original title Live and Let Die ) is the eighth film by Eon Productions Ltd. produced James Bond series. In the 1973 film, Roger Moore takes on the leading role of the secret agent for the first time. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming . The film opened in German cinemas on December 19, 1973.
action
After three British agents have died in New York , New Orleans and on the (fictional) Caribbean island of San Monique, James Bond is sent to the former location to clear up the background. Bond's driver is killed while driving to his American CIA colleague Felix Leiter . The killer leads him to the crime boss Mr. Big, where Bond has a connection with the Caribbean diplomat Dr. Kananga sees. At Big's headquarters, Bond not only meets his henchman Tee Hee, who is equipped with a prosthetic arm , but also the medium Solitaire, who reads both Big and Kananga the future from tarot cards . Bond escapes an attempted murder.
With the help of the somewhat nervous agent Rosie Carver, Bond goes to Kananga's homeland, San Monique, where his life is sought again. It turns out that Rosie is a traitor who was supposed to lure Bond into a trap. Rosie is murdered by her clients, and at the same time Bond discovers large fields of poppies that are guarded by the voodoo priest Baron Samedi and his black magic. Bond sneaks into Kananga's domicile and wins the favor and love of Solitaire with the help of a forged sheet of cards. After spending the night together, the two flee to the United States, pursued by Kananga's captors.
In New Orleans, however, both are kidnapped and brought to Big. Here it turns out that Big and Kananga are one and the same person. The plan is for Kananga to distribute several tons of the heroin produced on its island to all drug addicts free of charge through the Big-run restaurant chain "Fillet of Soul". This would double the number of addicts, and Kananga / Big would later have a monopoly on the drug market . Since Solitaire has lost its powers of vision due to the defloration by Bond, it is now useless for Kananga, who wants to have his medium and Bond eliminated.
Bond is abandoned on a crocodile farm in the bayou , but can escape the predicament by running over a few crocodile ridges and eliminating several of Kananga's henchmen in a boat hunt. He goes back to San Monique, where he saves Solitaire from an assassination attempt by Baron Samedis and at the same time destroys the poppy fields. Together, the couple advance into Kananga's underground base, where the latter stores the heroin ready for shipment. There is a fight with Kananga, who is killed by a compressed air cartridge .
In the end, Bond and Solitaire travel together on a train to Washington, DC and after eliminating Tee Hee who had crept in, enjoy the train's several-hour journey, on whose locomotive the laughing Baron Samedi can be seen in the final scene.
production
script
The script was written by Tom Mankiewicz . At Diamantenfieber he had revised an existing script, this time he was solely responsible for it. Thus, this is the second film of the Bond series after You Only Live Twice , in which Richard Maibaum not contributed to the screenplay. As usual with previous Bond films, Mankiewicz only took over the title, some characters and the basic plot of Ian Fleming's novel Live and Let Die .
title
The title Live and let die (German ' Live and let die') reverses the proverb Live and let live ( ' Live and let live ') into its opposite. It is the title of Ian Fleming's second James Bond novel.
In the film itself, the title appears as a line of text that a singer sings at the Fillet of Soul club in New Orleans.
occupation
James Bond
After Sean Connery, despite the great success of Diamond Fever, left no doubt that his return to the James Bond role was a one-off affair, the producers were faced with the task of finding a new leading actor for the second time since 1967.
Originally, it was hoped that he would play the role again and allegedly made him an offer worth 5.5 million US dollars. Screenwriter Mankiewicz also tried in vain to convince Connery to appear again as James Bond.
Ultimately, the search for a new James Bond actor began. Broccoli and Saltzman actually thought of hiring an army member rather than an actor for the role. They posted ads in military magazines looking for an actor. When the actors' union heard of this, they acted on Eon Productions and the plan was dropped.
The management at United Artists wanted a American actor for the role and Burt Reynolds , Robert Redford and Paul Newman were brought into the conversation. Even John Gavin , Simon Oates , John Ronane , Michael McStay and Michael Billington were considered.
However, producer Albert R. Broccoli insisted on a British actor to play the lead role, and in June 1972 only a few candidates remained, including Jeremy Brett , Michael Billington and Julian Glover , who would play Kristatos in On A Deadly Mission nine years later .
In the end, it was decided to go with Roger Moore. Apparently Moore was already planning for Dr. No one of Ian Fleming's suggestions for the lead role, at Diamond Fever the British were probably seriously considered, but he was contractually bound to the television series Die 2 . He was still tied to this contract in 1972, but due to disappointing audience ratings, the series was canceled and Moore's contract was canceled. In August 1972 he accepted a contract for three James Bond films.
More roles
In the script, the role of Solitaire was described as an African American woman. Writer Tom Mankiewicz introduced himself to Diana Ross while writing , but then the producers decided to have a light-skinned actress play Solitaire. Then Catherine Deneuve was discussed as an actress, but it was decided that Gayle Hunnicutt was the first choice. However, she could not take on the role because of her pregnancy and Jane Seymour finally got the job after she had noticed Broccoli in the British television series The Onedin Line .
The role of CIA agent Rosie Carver was played by Gloria Hendry . She was described in the script as a woman with light skin.
Since Desmond Llewelyn was not available for this film, the 8th Bond film had to do without the armorer "Q".
Miss Moneypenny was played again by Lois Maxwell.
The wife of the regular M-actor Bernard Lee had died in a fire shortly before filming, so it was not clear whether he would be available for the filming. Roger Moore's good friend Kenneth More offered to replace him, but Lee made a brief appearance.
Felix Leiter re-appears in Live and Let Die and is played by David Hedison . He is the fifth actor to play the role of the CIA agent.
Clifton James first appeared in the role of Sheriff JW Pepper. In the next Bond, The Man with the Golden Gun , he reappeared in this role.
Filming
Filming began on October 13, 1972 and lasted until March 15, 1973.
Due to their tense relationship since 1967, the producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman shared the work on the Bond films among themselves. Harry Saltzman was primarily responsible for the production of Live and Let Die .
The second crew first recorded the scenes at the funeral service in New Orleans that were used in the opening sequence of the film. Live and Let Die was the second Bond film that did not feature the character of James Bond in the introductory sequence.
The first recording team around Roger Moore began filming the spectacular boat chase in a swampy creek near New Orleans. During this, Bond jumps with a motorboat over a headland and a car parked on her. With a distance of around 40 meters, this jump was in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest jump with a boat for several years , until it was surpassed in Haunted Amsterdam in 1988 .
In early November, Roger Moore developed kidney stones and the schedule had to be changed to accommodate the lead actor's temporary absence.
On November 29, 1972, the film team moved to Jamaica to record various scenes. Among other things, the film was shot on a crocodile farm in Jamaica. The owner of the facility, Ross Kananga, doubled Roger Moore in the scenes in which Bond runs over the crocodiles. He was injured in the foot by one of the animals. The director Guy Hamilton named the main villain of the film after the owner of the crocodile farm.
Scenes for the double-decker bus chase were filmed from December 7th , before the film crew went on vacation just before Christmas and reunited at Pinewood Studios in the New Year . Finally, the team flew to New York to film the scenes set in Harlem .
Locations
The film was shot in the following countries:
- Great Britain
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United States
- Idlewild Airport (now JFK International Airport ), New York
- Manhattan Bridge , New York
- Sullivan & Romwell Building, New York
- Harlem , New York
- Upper East Side on 2nd Avenue and 94th Street, New York
- Corner of 5th Avenue and 117th and 118th Streets, New York
- Louisiana Marshes
- Lakefort Airport, New Orleans (Louisiana)
- Fillet of Soul Restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana
- North of Phoenix, Louisiana
- Crawdad Bridge, Phoenix, Louisiana
- Treadway Estate, Louisiana
- Miller's Bridge, Slidell, Louisiana
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Jamaica
- Half Moon Bay Club, Montego Bay
- Saint James, Montego Bay
- Green Grotto Caves / Runway Caves, Montego Bay
- Lucea Highway, Montego Bay
- Gunpoint Wharf Docks, Montego Bay
- Jamaica Safari Village, Ocho Rios
- Hotel San Souci, Ocho Rios
- Between Tower Isle and Rio Nuevo Bay
Gadgets
- A wristwatch from the Rolex brand , Submariner model ref. 5513, with a strong magnet function and built-in circular saw.
- A compressed air cartridge for shark hunting.
- A brush with a Morse code radio.
- A bug detector.
- A radio in a car cigarette lighter.
- Tee Hee, Mr. Big's henchman , has a mechanical prosthetic arm.
Film music
For the first time in the Bond series, John Barry was not involved in the production. The soundtrack was created by the former producer of the Beatles , George Martin , composed.
The title track Live and Let Die was written by former Beatles bassist Paul McCartney and his wife Linda and performed by their band Paul McCartney and Wings . The single reached number 9 in the UK charts and number 2 in the US.
BJ Arnau sang a modified version of the theme song in the film during the nightclub scene.
Live and Let Die is the first James Bond theme song to be nominated for an Oscar for best movie song.
In 1991, the title song of the group was Guns n 'Roses for their album Use Your Illusion I gecovert . Even Fergie , Geri Halliwell and Chrissie Hynde released cover versions of the song.
The soundtrack was first released on LP by United Artists Records in 1973 . It reached number 17 in the US album charts . In 1988, EMI released its first CD. In 2003 a revised version was released by Capitol Records . The Extended Version contains longer pieces of music from the original soundtrack, which have been shortened due to the limited capacity of the LP.
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synchronization
Ultra Film Synchron, Munich
| role | actor | German voice actors |
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| James Bond | Roger Moore | Niels Clausnitzer |
| Kananga / Big | Yaphet Kotto | Herbert Weicker |
| Solitaire | Jane Seymour | Dagmar Heller |
| Sheriff Pepper | Clifton James | Benno Hoffmann |
| Tee hee | Julius W. Harris | Gernot Duda |
| Felix Head | David Hedison | Reinhard Glemnitz |
| Rosie | Gloria Hendry | Heidi Treutler |
| M. | Bernard Lee | Curt Ackermann |
| Moneypenny | Lois Maxwell | Helga Trümper |
| Adam | Tommy Lane | Hartmut Becker |
| Charlie | Joie Chitwood | Willi Roebke |
| Miss Caruso | Madeline Smith | Uschi Wolff |
| taxi driver | Arnold Williams | Horst Sachtleben |
premiere
Live and Let Die was published in the United States on June 27, 1973. The film premiered on July 4 or 5, 1973 in London's Odeon Leicester Square. The film opened in German cinemas on December 19, 1973.
The film ran for the first time on German television on December 6, 1987 at 8:15 p.m. on ARD.
Aftermath
Financial success
The film was a financial success, but fell short of the earnings of its predecessor Diamond Fever . The 20.1 million moviegoers in the US were also significantly fewer than for the Bond films of the 1960s. In 2012, Stern magazine reported global box office earnings of $ 825 million, adjusted for inflation, placing the film in third place out of 23 Bond films. The number of visitors in Germany is given as 5 or 6 million, depending on the sources, which corresponds to 6th place out of 23 Bond films.
Contemporary criticism
The criticism at the time the film was released was muted.
Roger Ebert stated that Roger Moore “has the superficial qualities for the job: the agility, the questioningly raised eyebrows, the calmness under fire and in bed.” Moore would not come close to Connery's legacy, however, and the film “has no Bond- Villain at the level of a gold finger, Dr. No and oddjobs. "
The New York Times rated the main cast as "not that impressive". Roger Moore is "a handsome, charming, somewhat phlegmatic James Bond", Jane Seymor "too submissive" and Yaphet Kotto can "just not represent evil". However, the film has “a fine sense of speed and rhythm” and is “particularly well filmed and edited”.
Der Spiegel criticized that " Live and Let Die seems like a tired follow-up to the great pop parodies of previous Bond films." Roger Moore has "neither Sean Connery's acting talents nor his playful sarcasm in dealing with enemies and women."
Hans C. Blumenberg wrote in Die Zeit that the “incredibly brilliant technical gags [...] seem to come straight from comics. [...] Hamilton sells its branded product Bond '73 as virtuoso and germ-free as [...] Persil. "The constantly" uninvolved "Moore fits" perfectly into Hamilton's colorful nonsense. The plot [...] passes him by. "Blumenberg criticized the German dubbing in particular, as" [d] he quiet joke of many dialogues "has been lost from the original.
In the Lexicon of International Films , the film was rated as a “technically complex cinema adventure that relies more on effective tricks than logic; the staging style, exaggerated to the point of unrealistic, makes it easier to accept the basic racist tendency of the original and some brutality. "
Later evaluation
Live and let die ushered in a new Bond era, in which Roger Moore was to play the secret agent six more times after his debut. Moore played the role with more self-irony and humor than his predecessors. The producers wanted to deliberately differentiate themselves from the former Connery-Bond by depicting this new bond, so Bond never orders a “vodka martini - shaken not stirred,” he drinks bourbon whiskey . Bond was given his assignment in his private apartment. He smokes cigars instead of cigarettes and does not wear a hat during the "pistol barrel opening sequence". However, in the later films with Roger Moore, many old features were reintroduced and some new ones dropped.
Raymond Benson calls the film in his 1984 standard work The James Bond Bedside Companion a "mediocre" film that was made during a troubled time in the Bond series. Only after three more films did the producers return to the original style of the Bond films of the 1960s with In tödlicher Mission .
Between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with Life and Let Die reaching number 11 out of 22 films. In 2012, the Bond films were rated by the readers of 007 Magazine , with Life and Let Die taking 12th out of 24 places. In a 2012 list published by Rolling Stone , Live and Let Die ranked 11th out of 24 James Bond films. In the 2012 special issue published 50 years James Bond of the star is rated the film 4 out of 5 stars ( "good").
Awards
- Nomination in the “Best Song” category for Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
- Grammy in the category "Best Arrangement with Vocal Accompaniment" for Live And Let Die by Paul McCartney and the Wings (arranger: George Martin)
Golden canvas 1974
- 3 million moviegoers in 18 months
Evening Standard British Film Award 1975
- Winner in the "Best Film" category
Adaptations
computer game
The software company Elite released the film-based computer game Live and Let Die for u. a. C64, Atari ST, Spectrum and Amiga.
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 .
Audio film
The German-language audio film version for television broadcasts was produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk in 2002 . The speaker is Christian Baumann .
literature
- Ian Fleming: Live and Let Die . Heyne - ISBN 3-453-87036-0 .
- Roger Moore: Roger Moore as James Bond - Roger Moore's Own Account of Filming LIVE AND LET DIE , Macmillan, 1973, ISBN 0-330-23653-9
Web links
- James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die at Metacritic (English)
- James Bond 007 in the online movie database
- James Bond 007 - Live and let die in the German dubbing file
- MGM's official live-and-let- die website
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Release Certificate for James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2005 (PDF; test number: 45 830 V / DVD).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Production Notes - Live And Let Die at mi6-hq.com (English), accessed on December 11, 2012
- ↑ a b c Live and let die at mjnewton.demon.co.uk , accessed December 12, 2012
- ↑ a b c d Trivia - Live And Let Die on mi6-hq.com (English), accessed on December 11, 2012
- ↑ a b James Bond cast on einestages.spiegel.de , accessed on December 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e Benson, Raymond: The James Bond Bedside Companion (Kindle Edition), Crossroad Press, 2012.
- ↑ Roger Moore on mi6-hq.com (English), accessed December 12, 2012
- ↑ a b c Casting Call: Gayle Hunnicutt. In: mi6-hq.com. December 28, 2013, accessed January 2, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Newsgroup on imdb.de . Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- ^ Kocian, Erich: Die James Bond Films, Heyne Munich, 1982, 7th edition, ISBN 3-453-86044-6 , p. 160.
- ^ Roger Moore: Bond On Bond - The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of Bond Movies , O'Mara Publications, 2012, ISBN 1-84317-861-3 .
- ^ Siegfried Tesche; The great James Bond atlas. Wisse Media Verla, Gütersloh / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07305-9 .
- ↑ a b c d Music - Live And Let Die on mi6-hq.com (English), accessed December 12, 2012
- ↑ 'Skyfall' Soundtrack: Highest-Charting Bond Album in 27 Years. On: billboard.com (English). Retrieved March 22, 2013.
- ↑ German synchronous files
- ↑ a b start dates on imdb.de , accessed on December 12, 2012
- ↑ YEAR 1980–2000. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Box office results worldwide In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 , pp. 72–73.
- ↑ Live and Let Die . In: Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ↑ The Screen: 'Live and Let Die' Opens: The Latest James Bond Fights Heroin Ring. In: The New York Times . June 28, 1973, accessed on March 12, 2013 (English): “The names above Mr. James's do not seem so impressive. Roger Moore is a handsome, suave, somewhat phlegmatic James Bond […] Jane Seymour is beautiful enough, but too submissive even for this scale of fantasy. Yaphet Kotto (Dr. Kananha), a most agreeable actor, simply does not project evil. [...] 'Live and Let Die' has been especially well photographed and edited "
- ↑ Bad blacks. In: Der Spiegel No. 40/1973. October 1, 1973, accessed on March 12, 2013 : “'Live and let die' seems like a tired follow-up to the great pop parodies of previous Bond films. [...] Because Roger Moore - known in Germany for the cheeky gibberish of the crime series 'Die Zwei' - has neither Sean Connery's acting talents nor his playful sarcasm in dealing with enemies and women "
- ↑ Hans C. Blumenberg : The white giant is going around. In: The time . September 21, 1973, accessed on March 12, 2013 : “Hamilton sells its Bond '73 branded product as virtuously and germ-free as the Henkel advertisers the last, the best Persil. […] Roger Moore, who always looks so uninvolved as if he were a batch in a Sommerset Maugham story, fits perfectly into Hamilton's colorful nonsense. The plot, which is ultimately nothing more than an arbitrary occasion for an episode of Salto Mortales, bypasses him. He's the clown in this circus, and in the German dubbing even a particularly bland one. The quiet joke of many dialogues, which in the original helps to bridge the dead time between two tightrope acts, has been lost. "
- ↑ Live and let die. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Live and let die. James Bond radio plays. In: jamesbondfilme.de. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
- ↑ James Bond 007 - Live and let die in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.