For Your Eyes Only (film)
For Your Eyes Only | |
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Directed by | John Glen |
Written by | |
Based on | "For Your Eyes Only" "Risico" by Ian Fleming |
Produced by | Albert R. Broccoli |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Alan Hume |
Edited by | John Grover |
Music by | Bill Conti |
Production company | |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom[1] United States[2] |
Language | English |
Budget | $28 million[3] |
Box office | $195.3 million |
For Your Eyes Only is a 1981
The twelfth film in the James Bond franchise produced by Eon Productions, For Your Eyes Only was written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, based on two Ian Fleming short stories "For Your Eyes Only" and "Risico". In the plot, Bond attempts to locate a missile command system while becoming tangled in a web of deception spun by rival Greek businessmen along with Melina Havelock, a woman seeking to avenge the murder of her parents. Some writing elements were inspired by the novels Live and Let Die, Goldfinger and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
After the science fiction-focused Moonraker, the producers wanted a return to the style of the early Bond films and the works of 007 creator Fleming. For Your Eyes Only followed a grittier, more realistic approach and a narrative theme of revenge and its consequences rather than the fantasy narrative of Moonraker. Filming locations included Greece, Italy and the United Kingdom, while underwater footage was shot in the Bahamas. Sheena Easton performed the title theme song.
For Your Eyes Only was released in the UK on 24 June 1981 and in the US two days later; it received a mixed to positive critical reception. The film's reputation has improved over time, with reviewers praising the more serious tone in comparison to previous entries in the series. The film was a financial success, generating $195.3 million worldwide. This was the final Bond film to be distributed solely by United Artists; the company was absorbed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soon after this film's release.
Plot
The British information gathering vessel St Georges, which holds the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), the system used by the Ministry of Defence to co-ordinate the
The head of the
While spying on Gonzales's
There, at the casino, Bond meets Kristatos and asks how to meet Columbo, not knowing that Columbo's men are secretly recording their conversation. After Columbo and his mistress, Countess Lisl von Schlaf, argue, Bond offers to escort her home with Kristatos's car and driver. The two then spend the night together. The next morning, Lisl and Bond are ambushed on the beach and Lisl is killed by Locque, who mows her down in a beach buggy before speeding away. Bond is captured by Columbo's men before Locque can kill him; Columbo then tells Bond that Locque was actually hired by Kristatos, who is working for the KGB to retrieve the ATAC. Bond accompanies Columbo and his crew on a raid on one of Kristatos's opium-processing warehouses in Albania, where Bond uncovers naval mines similar to the one that sank the St Georges, suggesting it was not an accident. After the base is destroyed, Bond chases Locque and kills him by shoving his car off a cliff while he is trapped inside.
Afterwards, Bond meets Melina, and they recover the ATAC from the wreckage of the St Georges, but Kristatos is waiting for them when they surface and he takes the ATAC. After the two escape an assassination attempt, they discover Kristatos's rendezvous point when Melina's parrot repeats the phrase "ATAC to St Cyril's". With the help of Columbo and his men, Bond and Melina break into St Cyril's, an abandoned mountaintop monastery. Bond scales the peak and dispatches Apostis, a henchman of Kristatos. As Columbo confronts Kristatos, Bond kills Kriegler.
Bond retrieves the ATAC system and stops Melina from killing Kristatos after he surrenders. Kristatos prepares to kill Bond with a hidden
Cast
- James Bond, MI6 agent 007, who is sent to retrieve a stolen "ATAC" system that could be misused for controlling British submarines.
- Melina Havelock, the daughter of marine archaeologists who are murdered while tracking down the ATAC's whereabouts. Bouquet had auditioned for the role of Holly Goodhead in Moonraker, but was unsuccessful.[4]
- Milos Columbo, Kristatos's enemy and former smuggling partner. He convinces Bond to side with him. Named after Gioacchino Colombo, the Ferrari engine designer, specifically Ferrari 125, which Fleming admired.[5] Topol suggested the pistachios as a trademark of the character, which are used in the warehouse assault scene to orient Columbo's men on where to shoot.[6]
- Aristotle Kristatos, a former war hero turned smuggler. Initially shown as an ally, later as the main villain, planning to expand his fortune by selling the ATAC to the KGB. Glover had been shortlisted as a possible Bond for Live and Let Die, eventually losing out to Moore.[4]
- Cassandra Harris as Lisl, The Countess Von Schlaf, Columbo's mistress. At the time of filming Harris was married to future Bond actor Pierce Brosnan, and the couple lunched with the film's producer Albert R. Broccoli during filming.[4]
- Michael Gothard as Emile Leopold Locque, a Belgian hired assassin known by his octagonal-rimmed glasses. He turns out to be an associate of Kristatos.
- Jill Bennett as Jacoba Brink, Bibi's skating coach.
- Jack Hedley as Sir Timothy Havelock, Melina's father and a marine archaeologist hired by the British Secret Service to secretly locate the wreck of St. Georges.
- General Anatoly Gogol, head of the KGB.
- James Villiers as Bill Tanner, MI6 Chief of Staff. The role of Tanner first appeared on film in The Man with the Golden Gun, although in an un-credited capacity. Villiers presumed he would play the role of M in subsequent films and was disappointed not to be asked; the producers thought him too young for the role and wanted an actor in his 70s.[9]
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q, the head of MI6's technical department.
- Luigi Ferrara, 007's MI6 contact in northern Italy.
- Sir Frederick Gray (credited as Minister of Defence), a politician in the British government. The role, along with Bill Tanner as Chief of Staff, was used to brief Bond in place of M, following the death of Bernard Lee.[10]
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.
- John Wyman as Erich Kriegler, an East German Olympic class biathlete. He is revealed to be Kristatos's second in-command and a KGB contact.
John Hollis plays the bald villain in wheelchair,[11] voiced by Peter Marinker.[12] The character appears in the pre-credits sequence and is both unnamed and uncredited. The character contains a number of characteristics of Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[11] but could not be identified as such because of the legal reasons surrounding the Thunderball controversy with Kevin McClory claiming sole rights to the Blofeld character, a claim disputed by Eon.[13] Bob Simmons, who previously portrayed Bond in the gun barrel sequences in the first three films and SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar in Thunderball, cameos as another villain as Gonzales's henchman who falls victim to Bond's exploding Lotus.[9] Victor Tourjansky, the assistant director, has his third cameo in the Bond films as a drinking tourist;[14] he is credited as part of the Ski Team for Stunts. Charles Dance appears as the right hand man to the character Erich Kriegler in the ski slope sequence. Janet Brown plays Margaret Thatcher, who appears in the closing scene alongside John Wells as Denis Thatcher.[15]
Production
We had gone as far as we could into space. We needed a change of some sort, back to the grass roots of Bond. We wanted to make the new film more of a thriller than a romp, without losing sight of what made Bond famous—its humour.
— John Glen[16]
The film was also a deliberate effort to bring the series more back to reality, following the success of Moonraker in 1979.
Writing
Before the project was postponed in favour of Moonraker, Tom Mankiewicz had written a storyline and Christopher Wood submitted a first draft in January 1978. However, their screenplay did not influence the final film.[17][18] Richard Maibaum was once again the scriptwriter for the story, assisted by Michael G. Wilson.[26] According to Wilson, the ideas from stories could have come from anyone as the outlines were worked out in committee that could include Broccoli, Maibaum, Wilson and stunt coordinators.[27] Much of the inspiration for the stories for the film came from two Ian Fleming short stories from the collection For Your Eyes Only: Risico and For Your Eyes Only.[28] Another set-piece from the novel of Live and Let Die—the keelhauling—which was unused in the film of the same name, was also inserted into the plot.[27] Other ideas from Fleming were also used in For Your Eyes Only, such as the Identigraph which comes from the novel Goldfinger, where it was originally called the "Identicast".[29] These elements from Fleming's stories were mixed with a Cold War story centred on the MacGuffin of the ATAC.[26] An initial treatment for this film was submitted by Ronald Hardy, an English novelist and screenwriter in 1979. Hardy's treatment included the involvement of a character named Julia Havelock whose parents were assassinated by a man named Gonzales.[30]
The pre-title sequence of For Your Eyes Only has been described as either "out-of place and disappointing"[26] or "roaringly enjoyable".[31] The scene was shot to introduce a potential new Bond to audiences, thus linking the new actor to elements from previous Bond films[27] (see casting, below).
The sequence begins with Bond laying flowers at the grave of his wife
Maibaum later said "We tried to return to the earlier films with For Your Eyes Only but we didn't have Sean to make it real. And I was very disappointed with the way the love story was handled. The whole idea was that the great lover James Bond can't get to first base with this woman because she was so obsessed with avenging her parents' death. Nothing was ever done with it. It was as if the director didn't feel there was a love story there at all."[33]
Casting
Roger Moore had originally signed a three-film contract with Eon Productions, which covered his first three appearances (Live and Let Die in 1973, The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974 and The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977). Subsequent to this, the actor negotiated contracts on a film-by-film basis starting with Moonraker in 1979.[27] Uncertainty surrounding his involvement in For Your Eyes Only, considering his age, led to other actors being considered to take over, including Lewis Collins, known in the UK for his portrayal of Bodie in The Professionals;[34] Ian Ogilvy, known for his role as Simon Templar in Return of the Saint (played by Moore in the original series);[35] Michael Billington, who previously appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me as Agent XXX's ill-fated lover Sergei Barzov, (Billington's screen test for For Your Eyes Only was one of the five occasions he auditioned for the role of Bond)[36] and Michael Jayston, who had appeared as the eponymous spy in the British TV series of Quiller[27] (Jayston eventually played Bond in a BBC Radio production of You Only Live Twice in 1985).[27] Timothy Dalton was strongly considered but Dalton declined, as he disliked the direction the series was taking at the time.[35][37][38][39][40] Also Dalton did not think the producers were seriously looking for a new 007,[37] and explained his idea of Bond was different.[41] When Moore discovered that Broccoli was screen-testing actors without his knowledge, he announced in the Daily Mail that he would not return to play Bond.[42] However, the producer convinced him to return just two weeks later.[43]
Bernard Lee died of cancer on 16 January 1981, after filming began on For Your Eyes Only, but before he could film his scenes as M, the head of MI6, as he had done in the previous eleven films of the series. Out of respect, no new actor was hired to assume the role as Broccoli refused to have the character recast and, instead, the script was re-written so that the character is said to be on leave, letting Chief of Staff Bill Tanner take over the role as acting head of MI6 and briefing Bond alongside the Minister of Defence.[44] This is only the second time M has been omitted from a Bond production, the first being the 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale. Ironically, the original "For Your Eyes Only" short story dealt with Bond being given a personal mission by M, one of the few times in the Fleming canon that 007 did his superior a direct favour.
Chaim Topol was cast following a suggestion by Broccoli's wife Dana, while Julian Glover joined the cast as the producers felt he was stylish—Glover was even considered to play Bond at some point, but Michael G. Wilson stated that "when we first thought of him he was too young, and by the time of For Your Eyes Only he was too old".[20]
Italian actress Ornella Muti was considered for the movie, but she turned down the lead role (later given to Carole Bouquet) because her costume designer, Wayne Finkelman, was not hired by the production.[45] Carole Bouquet was a suggestion of United Artists publicist Jerry Juroe, and after Glen and Broccoli saw her in That Obscure Object of Desire, they went to Rome to invite Bouquet for the role of Melina.[46]
Filming
Production of For Your Eyes Only began on 2 September 1980 in the
In October filming moved to other Greek locations, including Meteora and the Achilleion.[54] In November, the main unit moved to England, which included interior work in Pinewood, while the second unit shot underwater scenes in the Bahamas. On 1 January 1981, production moved to Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, where filming wrapped in February.[20] Since it was not snowing in Cortina d'Ampezzo by the time of filming, the producers had to pay for trucks to bring snow from nearby mountains, which was then dumped in the city's streets.[55]
Many of the underwater scenes, especially involving close-ups of Bond and Melina, were faked on a dry soundstage. A combination of lighting effects, slow-motion photography, wind and bubbles added in post-production, gave the illusion of the actors being underwater.[24] Actress Carole Bouquet reportedly had a pre-existing health condition that prevented her from performing underwater stunt work.[20] Aquatic scenes were done by a team led by Al Giddings, who had previously worked on The Deep, and filmed in either Pinewood's tank on the 007 Stage or an underwater set built in the Bahamas. Production designer Peter Lamont and his team developed two working props for the submarine Neptune, as well as a mock-up with a fake bottom.[56]
Roger Moore was reluctant to film the scene of Bond kicking a car, with Locque inside, over the edge of a cliff, saying that it "was Bond-like, but not Roger Moore Bond-like."[20] Michael G. Wilson later said that Moore had to be persuaded to be more ruthless than he felt comfortable.[4] Wilson also added that he and Richard Maibaum, along with John Glen, toyed with other ideas surrounding that scene, but ultimately everyone, even Moore, agreed to do the scene as originally written.[20]
For the Meteora shoots, a Greek bishop was paid to allow filming in the monasteries, but the uninformed
Roger Moore said he had a great fear of heights, and to do the climbing in Greece, he resorted to moderate drinking to calm his nerves.
Bond cameraman and professional skier Willy Bogner Jr. was promoted to director of a second unit involving ski footage.[55] Bogner designed the ski chase on the bobsleigh track of Cortina d'Ampezzo hoping to surpass his work in both On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me.[20] To allow better filming, Bogner developed both a system where he was attached to a bobsleigh, allowing to film the vehicle or behind it,[57] and a set of skis that allowed him to ski forwards and backwards to get the best shots.[24] In February 1981, on the final day of filming the bobsleigh chase, one of the stuntmen driving a sleigh, 23-year-old Paolo Rigon, was killed when he became trapped under the bob. The incident, which took place a week after the FIBT World Championships 1981 where USA-1 bobsled driver James Morgan was killed in a crash during the four-man sled competition, resulted in the shortening of the track for future FIBT events.[9]
The pre-credits sequence used the churchyard of the
Music
The score of For Your Eyes Only was written by Bill Conti, who retained some John Barry-influenced brass elements in the score, but also added elements of dance and funk music.[61] While one reviewer observed that "Bill Conti's score is a constant source of annoyance",[62] another claimed that "In the end, For Your Eyes Only stands as one of the best James Bond film scores of the 1980s."[61]
The title song, written by Conti and Michael Leeson, was sung by Sheena Easton, who was the only title song artist to appear on screen in a Bond film,[29] as designer Maurice Binder liked Easton's appearance and decided to add her to the opening credits.[63] The producers of the film hired Debbie Harry to sing Conti and Leeson's song, but she quit when the producers refused to allow her band Blondie to write and perform an original song for the film.[64] Blondie's rejected song, titled "For Your Eyes Only," can be found on their 1982 album, The Hunter.[65]
Release and reception
For Your Eyes Only was premiered at the
For Your Eyes Only had its North American premiere in Canada and the US on Friday 26 June, at approximately 1,100 cinemas.[67]
The film grossed $54.8 million in the US and Canada[70] (equivalent to $101.5 million at 2011 ticket prices[71] or $184 million in 2023 dollars,[72] adjusted for general inflation), and $195.3 million worldwide,[73] becoming the second highest grossing Bond film after its predecessor, Moonraker.[70] This was the last James Bond film to be solely released by United Artists, as by this time its owner, Transamerica Corporation, finalized the sale of the company to MGM. Following the MGM and United Artists merger, later runs including future entries were released under "MGM/UA Distribution Co".
The promotional cinema poster for the film featured a woman holding a crossbow; she was photographed from behind, and her outfit left the bottom half of her buttocks exposed. The effect was achieved by having the model wear a pair of bikini bottoms backwards, so that the part seen on her backside is the front of the suit.[74] The poster caused some furor—largely in the US—with The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times considering the poster so unsuitable they edited out everything above the knee,[75] whilst The Pittsburgh Press editors painted a pair of shorts over the legs.[76] There was significant speculation as to the identity of the model before photographer Morgan Kane identified her as Joyce Bartle.[75]
A number of items of merchandising were issued to coincide with the film, including a 007 digital watch and a copy of Melina's Citroën 2CV by Corgi Toys.[74] Citroën itself produced a special "007" edition of the 2CV, which even had decorative bullet holes on the door.[77] Marvel Comics also did a comic book adaptation (see section below).[74]
Television
For Your Eyes Only had its US television premiere during The ABC Sunday Night Movie on November 13, 1983.[78] It delivered a 16.3 household rating, a 26% audience share, and nearly 25 million viewers in Nielsen Media Research results, and finished as the 37th ranked program of the week. It was the first James Bond movie premiere on ABC to finish in third place in its time period instead of in second or first place since the two night premiere of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in February 1976; however, it also ran against stiff competition including the network premiere of Airplane! on NBC (18.9 rating, 29 share) and the first part of the highly rated CBS miniseries Chiefs (25.1 rating, 36 share).[79] A For Your Eyes Only repeat on January 27 1985 had stronger results, with a 19.4 rating and 28 share.[80]
Contemporary reviews
Derek Malcolm in The Guardian disliked the film, saying it was "too long ... and pretty boring between the stunts", although he admitted that the stunts were of a high quality.[81] According to Malcolm, Bond "inhabits a fantasy-land of more or less bloodless violence, groinless sex and naivety masked as superior sophistication", with Moore playing him as if in a "nicely lubricated daze".[81] Although Malcolm tipped the film for international box office success, he observed that he "can't quite see why the series has lasted so long and so strong in people's affections."[81] Writing in The Observer, Philip French commented that "not for the first time the pre-credits sequence is the best thing about the film."[82] French was dismissive of Moore's Bond, saying that Bond was "impersonated by Moore" and referred to Moore's advancing years.[82]
David Robinson, writing in The Times bemoaned the fact that the "dramatic bits between the set pieces don't count for much." Like other critics at the time his praise was more directed towards the stunt crews; they were "better than ever in this one."[83] The film critic for the magazine Time Out was brief and pithy: "no plot and poor dialogue, and Moore really is old enough to be the uncle of those girls."[84]
For the US press, Gary Arnold in The Washington Post thought the film was "undeniably easy on the eyes", and further added "maybe too easy to prevent the mind from wandering and the lids from drooping."[85] Arnold was also critical of the large set pieces, calling them "more ponderous than sensational" and that there was "no equivalent of the classic action highlights that can be recalled readily from From Russia with Love or You Only Live Twice or The Spy Who Loved Me or Moonraker. This is a Bond waiting for something inspired to push it over the top."[85] The New York Times critic Vincent Canby said that "For Your Eyes Only is not the best of the series by a long shot" although he did say that the film is "slick entertainment" with a tone that is "consistently comic even when the material is not."[86]
Jack Kroll in Newsweek dismissed the film, saying it was "an anthology of action episodes held together by the thinnest of plot lines", although he did concede that these set pieces are "terrific in their exhilaratingly absurd energy."[87] For Time magazine, Richard Corliss concentrated on the stunts, saying the team "have devised some splendid optional features for For Your Eyes Only" whilst also commenting on Roger Moore, saying that his "mannequin good looks and waxed-fruit insouciance" show him to be "the best-oiled cog in this perpetual motion machine."[88] Jay Scott of The Globe and Mail included it on his list of the year's worst films,[89] calling it "repellant"[90] and "ambitiously bad".[89]
French filmmaker Robert Bresson admired the film: "It filled me with wonder because of its cinematographic writing ... if I could have seen it twice in a row and again the next day, I would have done."[91][92] Elsewhere Bresson said he also loved the film's ski chase.[93]
Retrospective reviews
Opinion on For Your Eyes Only has improved with the passing of time, though some reviews are still mixed to positive: as of March 2023[update], the film holds a 69% 'fresh' rating from Rotten Tomatoes,[94] being ranked eleventh among the 24 Bond films.[95] Ian Nathan of Empire gives the film only two of a possible five stars, observing that the film "still ranks as one of the most forgettable Bonds on record."[96] In 2006, IGN chose For Your Eyes Only as the sixth-best Bond film, claiming it is "a good old-fashioned espionage tale",[97] a placement shared by Norman Wilner of MSN, who considered it "the one Moore film that seems to reach back to Connery's heyday",[98] and Entertainment Weekly chose it as the tenth best in 2008, saying it was a "return to low-tech, low-key Bond [with] ... some of the best stunts since the early days".[99] In October 2008 Time Out re-issued a review of For Your Eyes Only and observed that the film is "admirable in intent" but that it "feels a little spare", largely because the plot has been "divested of the bells and whistles that hallmark the franchise".[62]
James Berardinelli wrote that the film was "a solid adventure, although it could have been better",[100] while Danny Peary thought "There are exciting moments, but most of it is standard Bond fare," going on to describe For Your Eyes Only as "an attempt to mix spectacle with [the] tough, believable storylines of early Bond films ... [it] is enjoyable while you're watching it. Afterward, it's one of the most forgettable of the Bond series."[101] Raymond Benson, the author of nine Bond novels, thought For Your Eyes Only was Roger Moore's best Bond film.[102]
Although Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly ranks Carole Bouquet playing Melina as the "worst babe" of the seven Roger Moore James Bond films,[103] his colleague, Joshua Rich disagreed, putting her tenth in the overall 10 Best Bond Girls listing from the 21 films released up to that point.[104] Entertainment Weekly also ranked Lynn-Holly Johnson as Bibi Dahl as ninth on their list of the 10 worst Bond girls from the 21 films that had been released.[105] After 20 films had been released, IGN ranked Bouquet as fifth in their 'top 10 Bond Babes' list,[106] and The Times thought she was sixth on their list of the Top 10 most fashionable Bond girls after 21 films had been released.[107]
Accolades
Award | Category | Recipients | Result |
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Academy Awards[108] | Best Original Song | "For Your Eyes Only" Music by Bill Conti; Lyrics by Mick Leeson |
Nominated |
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Albert R. Broccoli | Honored | |
ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards | Most Performed Feature Film Standards | "For Your Eyes Only" Music by Bill Conti; Lyrics by Mick Leeson |
Won |
Golden Globe Awards[109] | Best Original Song | Nominated | |
Golden Screen Awards | Won | ||
Satellite Awards[110] | Best Classic DVD Release | The James Bond DVD Collection (Volumes: 2 and 3) | Nominated |
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Supporting Actress | Lynn-Holly Johnson | Nominated |
Writers Guild of America Awards[111][112] | Best Comedy – Adapted from Another Medium | Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson | Nominated |
In 2004 the American Film Institute nominated the song "For Your Eyes Only" from the film for AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs.[113]
Adaptations
As part of the merchandising of For Your Eyes Only,
It was the second film in the series to have a comic book tie-in, following a Dr. No comic in 1962. Marvel Comics would go on to publish an Octopussy comic book adaptation in 1983.
See also
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External links
- For Your Eyes Only at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer site
- For Your Eyes Only at IMDb
- For Your Eyes Only at the TCM Movie Database
- For Your Eyes Only at AllMovie
- For Your Eyes Only at Box Office Mojo