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Octopussy is directed by John Glen and adapted to screenplay by George Macdonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. It stars Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jordan, Kabir Bedi, Steven Berkoff, Vijay Amritraj and Robert Brown. Music is scored by John Barry and cinematography by Alan Hume. Really the film should open with the identical twin knife-throwers murdering the doomed clown for his egg (new favourite sentence of these retrospectives! That’ll take some beating, too). The hunt is tense, creepy and thrillingly discombobulating. No Bond, no explanation – just a dark forest, two silent killers, a very unusual prey, all played out in virtual silence until John Barry starts doing his thing. Even then, no dialogue intrudes. Noise is minimal and efficient: the popped balloon, the thud of knife in wood, the strangled last cry of the clown. Obviously Google would explain all but it would be disingenuous to pretend I understood the plot of Octopussyin one viewing. Let’s be generous and say a certain coherency is sacrificed on the altar of fun. Well, you can’t make an omelette without….

more top secret Bond locations around Britain". The Telegraph. 29 October 2015. Archived from the original on 10 May 2018 . Retrieved 19 July 2023. McLusky, John; Gammidge, Henry; Hern, Anthony; Fleming, Ian; Horak, Yaroslav (2011). The James Bond Omnibus Vol.2. London: Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-84856-432-9.Casino Royale (2006) • Quantum of Solace (2008) • Skyfall (2012) • Spectre (2015) • No Time To Die (2021) Octopussy is a fine heroine but was villainy her true calling? The film allows us to flirt with the idea. Her initially unseen face, exotic pet and floating palace all point in the direction of Wrong ‘Un. But was a female mastermind a step too far? Apparently so. Imagine if Octopussy bore a grudge, not gratitude, over Bond’s treatment of Papa Octopus. And after the inevitable naked wrestling she went full Fiona Volpe on us. Now that really would have broken new ground – and pretty fertile ground too. Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (2001). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: the Unofficial James Bond Film Companion. Batsford Books. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2. Berkoff is suitably unhinged as Orlov – part power-mad fruit loop, part common thief. “Effectively a version of Putin,” says Field. Barbara Broccoli, daughter of Cubby and current Bond series producer, recommended Berkoff after seeing him perform his own play. Glen went to see Berkoff on stage, too. “He transformed himself into a mouse,” cries Glen. “He’s very clever… A very odd man.”

Vijay Amritraj as Vijay, Bond's MI6 ally in India. This was Armitaj's acting debut after gaining prominence as a tennis player. Octopussy": Bond has a relatively minor role in this initial story, the recounting of a British soldier's murder and theft as World Word II wound down, his profiteering of his crime, and his contentment at getting away with his crimes... until a British spy shows up at his estate in Jamaica, identifying himself as "Bond, James Bond." Not only is Bond there on official business, but the murdered German was a friend of his, a man who was kind to a young boy who needed a hand when he lost his parents. Still, Bond gives the officer, a Major Dexter Smythe, the opportunity to save face and take his own way out. The glimpse into Bond's past sheds some light on his sense of loyalty, as he's experienced kindness when he was at his lowest, and as a man he'll do that for others, be they the boss he respects, a colleague in need, or even a traitor who faces disgrace. The irony is that the mercy Bond allows Smythe was taught to him by the man Smythe murdered, the man Bond is there to avenge. Wilner, Norman. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008 . Retrieved 27 June 2009. In the third story, a clerk within MI-6 who has been sending information to the KGB is being paid off with a Faberge egg. M is fully well aware of what this clerk has been doing and has made sure over the last three years that they never pass on sensitive authentic information. Bond concludes that since the agent is selling the egg at a Sotheby's auction, the local resident director at the embassy will attend the auction and hunts him down. Rich, Joshua (13 November 2006). "Countdown: The 10 Worst Bond Girls". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 19 June 2022 . Retrieved 19 June 2022.a b "Estimated gross of the last five Bond films in 15 selected international territories". Screen International. 5 December 1997. p.22.