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Skyfall (2012)
Directed by Sam Mendes
influenced by Licence to Kill (1989), A View to a Kill (1985), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), The Living Daylights (1987)
Themes
No, like some of the darkest and most interesting James Bond films (say, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service or Licence to Kill ), Skyfall is about the legendary super-spy’s personal life.
This tension of old vs new, tradition vs innovation, has kept Bond on his toes over the years, occasionally resulting in offerings that fail to strike a chord with mass cinemagoers (eg the violent Licence to Kill ) or give the series a shot in the arm ( GoldenEye 's clever winks to series tropes).
You might think that 6 actors and 50 years blows a hole in continuity anyway, but how much easier things seemed before the half-reboot, when Licence to Kill could make a direct reference to Tracy’s death in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and we could suspend our disbelief enough to imagine these movies as the ongoing adventures of the same man.
It’s been happening since Blofeld killed his wife in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” and later a drug dealer fed his friend Felix Leiter to sharks in “Licence to Kill.”
Tonally, the fundamental seriousness of the film places Skyfall at the other end of the Bond spectrum from the monkeyshines of some of the silliest Roger Moore entries, such as Moonraker and A View to A Kill.
Thomas Newman (Skyfall) and Michael Kamen (Licence to Kill) do respectable jobs as composers on their respective Bond films, but Barry does something that goes the extra mile.
Spectre (2015)
Directed by Sam Mendes
influenced by For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983)
Visuals Characters
The helicopter sequence reminded me a lot of the opening of For Your Eyes Only .
Picking up on the heels of Skyfall , which offed Judi Dench’s M and introduced a new generation of MI6 accomplices (Naomie Harris’ Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw’s Q, Ralph Fiennes’ M lite), Spectre opens with Bond in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead on a mission to kill an Italian terrorist, which leads to a dizzying helicopter scrum that makes the one in For Your Eyes Only look like a tickle fight.
Desde ahí Blofeld tuvo diversas interpretaciones, unas más ridículas que otras, desde las última películas (oficiales) de Connery como Bond, la extrañísima complacencia para el público japonés You Only Live Twice (1967) y la locura sin sentido de Diamonds are Forever (1971), en la única cinta interpretada por George Lazenby, On Her Majesty Secret Service (1969), en una extraña muerte caricaturesca a manos de un ya cuarentón Roger Moore en For Your Eyes Only (1981) y, finalmente, después de muchas disputas para los derechos de su imagen, en el peculiarmente burlón remake no oficial de Thunderball (fuera de las producciones Eon), Never Say Never Again (1983), en el que fue interpretado por el genial y mítico Max Von Sidow.
It's a mystery how the same British agent can be both clown-suit wearing kid entertainer (in Octopussy, 1983) and the stone killer that the amazing Daniel Craig plays in this critic- and fan-savaged hit of today.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
influenced by For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Visuals
This 007 allegiance is evident even before entering the theater, as one of the posters owes its design to the classic one for 1981's For Your Eyes Only.
From its poster, a gleeful pastiche of Moore-era Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only , to Colin Firth’s on screen preference for outlandish spy movies, it’s clear that Matthew Vaughn’s goal with Kingsman: The Secret Service is to have fun, the kind of fun we used to have in the pre-9/11, pre-post modern world, when it wasn’t necessary to temper fantasy with realism and a heightened reality was presented without apology.
No Time to Die (2021)
Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
influenced by A View to a Kill (1985), For Your Eyes Only (1981), The Living Daylights (1987)
Dialogue Characters Plot
The first American to direct a Bond film, he is a fan of the franchise dating to when he saw 1985’s Roger Moore-starring “A View to a Kill” in the theater.
Bond’s wife was murdered in that 1969 film’s shattering final scene, her name never mentioned again until 1981’s “For Your Eyes Only,” six movies later.
(Plus, it’s not every day you see a Bond film replicate Roger Moore’s finest moment from For Your Eyes Only .
As Bond, Craig drew from Fleming’s novels but also from the darker performances in earlier movies, resurfacing the tenderness in George Lazenby’s portrayal of Bond—similarly smitten and later grief-stricken—in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) and the fury in Timothy Dalton’s take on the character—similarly determined to avenge Felix Leiter—in 1987’s The Living Daylights .
This is a long way from 1987’s The Living Daylights which arrived in during the AIDS epidemic, where the response of Timothy Dalton’s Bond was to keep the number of his sexual partners below three.
Timothy Dalton only got two turns as the character, 1987’s The Living Daylights and 1989’s License to Kill , and while he was closer in tone to Fleming’s literary iteration of Bond, it’s clear his cutthroat take wasn’t what audiences wanted after over a decade of Moore’s suavely comedic incarnation.
The animated title sequence and theme song is actually the best 007 opening sequence since A View to a Kill.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
influenced by For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Plot
Ethan and Grace were handcuffed together like James Bond and Was Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies and they were chased whilst driving a small car which felt like a combination of For Your Eyes Only , The Bourne Identity , and The Italian Job .
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
influenced by A View to a Kill (1985), Octopussy (1983)
Characters Themes
The villain of the film, Julianne Moore as Poppy, is an equally enjoyable weirdo antagonist as Samuel L. Jackson’s Valentine, even though her ultimate plan of world annihilation is one of the most half-baked spy film scheme since Christopher Walken played Zorin in A View to a Kill.
And all in an atmosphere of adolescent smuttiness that would get one of the movies the title "Octopussy."
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
Directed by Brad Bird
influenced by Octopussy (1983)
Plot
The whole nuclear-apocalypse-now plot feels a tiny bit like a leftover from a Roger Moore-era Bond — there were one or two moments, particularly when the globe-trotting paused in India, that I worried I was watching “Octopussy” again.
Casino Royale (2006)
Directed by Martin Campbell
influenced by For Your Eyes Only (1981), The Living Daylights (1987), A View to a Kill (1985), Octopussy (1983)
Music
Certainly Roger Moore was a comparatively lightweight Bond with his seven appearances in the series: Live and Let Die (1973), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985).
That trend peaked in the 70s and 80s when Roger Moore took over the Bond role and the series became more and more over the top (the best of these being "For Your Eyes Only" and "The Spy Who Loved Me").
Suddenly, the days of a nude Sheena Easton crooning "For Your Eyes Only" or a bunch of robotic femme fatales parading around to the jerky electro-beat of Madonna's "Die Another Day" seem like the distant past.
Mr. Moore was succeeded, briefly, by Timothy Dalton in The Living Daylights (1987) and License to Kill (1989).
Disc one comes only with the movie, and disc two has two fairly typical featurettes, a Chris Cornell music video and a very enjoyable television special about the Bond Girls, hosted by The Living Daylights star Maryam D'Abo.
It’s a move that has always been a welcome one, resulting in excellent films such as “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, “For Your Eyes Only”, “The Living Daylights” and “Goldeneye”.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
influenced by A View to a Kill (1985)
Characters
…the self-awareness that Roger Moore exhibited in the wake of A View to a Kill (1985)…
This is never more apparent than with the cold open, which works to elaborate upon one of the greatest of all airplane stunts, originally seen in “The Living Daylights,” in which characters grapple and dangle from cargo netting.