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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1651378" data-attributes="member: 1015">My favorite bond theme songs are..."From Russia With Love""Goldfinger""You Only Live Twice""The Spy Who Loved Me""For Your Eyes Only""All Time High" from Octopussy"A View to a Kill"Surprisingly, I didn't care much for the "Live and Let Die" theme song.  It just felt out of place in a Bond film.But anyways, since I don't like leaving things unfinished, here is more Bond trivia...Moonraker <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The character of Jaws (introduced in The Spy Who Loved Me) was so popular with Bond fans that they started a letter-writing campaign to bring him back which resulted in him returning for Moonraker.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hugo Drax was modeled after Adolph Hitler, and his plan called for a master race to repopulate the earth after he eliminated the existing population.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For Your Eyes Only was proposed to follow The Spy Who Loved Me, but the huge popularity of Star Wars made the producers decide to create Moonraker as a Bond space adventure.</li> </ul>For Your Eyes Only <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Roger Moore was terrified of heights, and barely made it through the St. Cyrils scenes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The security code to the room containing cue's identograph is the theme song from The Spy Who Loved Me.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Roger Moore was originally not going to appear in this movie.  The scene where Bond visits Tracy's grave was meant to ease a new Bond into the role.</li> </ul>Octopussy <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When Octopussy tells the story of Bond's background with her father, she summarizes the entire plot of Ian Fleming's short story Octopussy.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sean Connery praised the action sequences in this film.</li> </ul>A View to a Kill <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Grace Jones was cast in the film because of her popularity with children at the time.  The producers wanted to broaden Bond's audiance.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cristopher Walkin (who played Max Zorin) had been a Bond fan ever since he saw From Russia With Love at the age of 15.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the original script, Tanya Roberts' character was to wear the loose, baggy coveralls worn by the rest of the miners, but Roberts refused because she didn't like the way she looked in them, and she locked herself in her trailer until the director got her some custom-made coveralls.  There is a scene in the movie where Bond looks at her coveralls and remarks "Lucky you could find one that fit" followed by Roberts shooting him a dirty look.  Roger Moore ad-libbed this line, and it made it into the final cut because by that point the cast and crew were sick and tired of Roberts' prima-donna attitude.</li> </ul>The Living Daylights <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In the opening scenes, agents 002 and 004 were played by actors who resembled Sean Connery and Roger Moore.  The producers wanted to keep the audiance guessing who the new Bond would be.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">During the filming of the final scene, the Moroccan airfield (which was supposed to be in Afghanistan) was left open to civilian flights.</li> </ul>Licence to Kill <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Felix Leiter being attacked by sharks was actually in the novel Live and Let Die.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When he arrives in Isthmus City, Bond refers to Pam Bouvier as Ms. Kennedy.  This is a reference to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, whose husband (John F. Kennedy) was a big fan of the novel From Russia With Love.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The scene where Bond resigns from MI6 was filmed at Hemmingway House in Key West, Florida.  When Bond is asked to relinquish his gun, he says "I guess it's a farewell to arms." a reference to Hemmingway's novel.</li> </ul>Goldeneye <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">At the time, Bond's bungee jump off the dam was the longest in history.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Goldeneye was the name of Ian Fleming's estate in Jamica where he lived the last years of his life.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pierce Brosnan was supposed to be Bond in 1987, but could not accept the role because of his contract with Remington Steel.</li> </ul>Tomorrow Never Dies <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The original title of the movie was Tomorrow Never Lies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Teri Hatcher agreed to appear in this movie to fulfill her husband's lifelong dream of being married to a Bond girl, and she was three months pregnant when she filmed her scenes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The script was not finished at the beginning of filming.</li> </ul>The World Is Not Enough <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The title of this movie comes from a scene in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.  We learn that its Bond's family motto.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There is a painting of Bernard Lee (the old M) in the background of Scottish MI6 headquarters.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Desmond Llewelyn, who played Q throughout the Bond series, died exactly one month after the film's release in the United States.</li> </ul>Die Another Day <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This film was released during the 40th anniversary of the Bond franchise in 2002.  Dr. No came out in 1962, and Die Another Day was the 20th Bond movie.  This averages out to one Bond film released every two years for the previous four decades.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To honor the 40th anniversary of Bond, this movie contains references to all 19 of the previous Bond films.  A couple of the more obvious references are Halle Berry's character stepping out of the ocean wearing a bikini, a belt, and a diving knife (a Dr. No reference), and the background of Q's workshop containing gadgets from previous bond films.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">While in Cuba, 007 picks up the book Birds of the West Indies by James Bond.  This book is where Ian Fleming originally picked up the name for Bond.  Later in the movie, Bond introduces himself as an ornithologist.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The British Airways flight attendant who serves Bond his vodka martini is played by Roger Moore's daughter.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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