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For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Timing: 2:8 (128 min)

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For Your Eyes Only (1981) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

English

3:50

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Pусский

2:00

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This is the only Bond film without the hero’s boss – M. Bernard Lee, who played him, died of cancer, and the filmmakers decided not to hire a new actor until the next installment.
Roger Moore considers this film to be the best in his Bond career.
At the beginning of the film, 007 dispatches a villain clearly resembling Blofeld from SPECTRE, but his character’s name is not mentioned, as the studio no longer held the rights to the image of the bald megalomaniac at that time.
Stuntman Paolo Rijon died during the filming of a bobsleigh chase.
One of the actresses, Tula, was a transgender woman who had fully transitioned.
The underwater scenes were filmed in a dry room equipped with a large wind machine, then the film was reversed in slow motion and bubbles were added.
A more accurate translation of the title is "For Personal Use".
Filming the final scenes high on the cliff proved particularly difficult for Roger Moore, the performer of the role of agent 007, due to his fear of heights. Moore later recounted that before filming the scenes on the sheer cliff, he would take a Valium tablet (a tranquilizer with sedative, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and muscle relaxant effects) and drink a glass of beer. Stuntman Rick Sylvester performed a significant portion of the stunts. In the corresponding scenes, Moore was suspended on a cable at a height of just over a meter, while Sylvester was at a height of over seven meters.
When Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet (who played Melina) were towed on a rope behind a boat, the camera operated at speeds of 72 to 84 frames per second, and the image was then reproduced at 24 frames per second. Bubbles in the close-up scenes were added by dissolving effervescent tablets and superimposing bubbles onto the image on the negatives.
During filming, the filmmakers faced a serious problem. Two monks lived in a monastery on top of a cliff, and they placed plastic sheets on the roof to prevent filming from continuing. They disliked the violence associated with James Bond in the audience's perception. It is claimed that Roger Moore once told the monks that he himself had once been a saint (a reference to the 1962-1969 series "The Saint," in which Moore played the lead role). A special session of the Greek Supreme Court was convened, which ruled that the monks had the right to alter only the interior surfaces of the monastery, while the exterior surfaces were the property of the Greek people and the local administration. Filmmakers were eventually allowed to shoot on location, including the scene of a character falling, in which Rick Sylvester was used as a stunt double for Moore. Outdoor scenes were not filmed at the monastery (which is depicted as the Monastery of St. Cyril in the film), but on a nearby cliffside set. Interior scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios in sets designed by art director Peter Lamont.
This film saved United Artists from bankruptcy. At the time of its release, the studio was still trying to recover from the disastrous failure of Michael Cimino's $40 million western "Heaven's Gate" (1980), rapidly approaching bankruptcy. The box office success of John Glen's thriller (the film grossed $195 million worldwide) was timely and shifted the focus of cinema as a whole from character-driven plots towards large-scale blockbusters.
The helicopter flight inside the huge warehouse was deemed too dangerous an undertaking, and the scene was filmed using so-called forced perspective (this technique uses optical illusion to make an object appear farther, closer, larger, or smaller than it actually is; it manipulates human visual perception). The team of special effects designer Derek Meddings built a reduced-scale model of the warehouse, and the camera was positioned next to it, while a real helicopter with a stunt pilot at the controls was filmed, giving the impression that the real helicopter was flying into the real warehouse. Shots inside the building were filmed on location, although a full-size model of the helicopter was used there. When agent 007 is outside the flying helicopter, stuntman Martin Grace was filmed instead of Roger Moore, and Moore acted in the scenes inside the helicopter cabin.
A more accurate translation of the title is “For Your Consideration.”
During filming, the filmmakers faced a serious problem. Two monks lived in a monastery on top of a cliff, and they placed plastic sheeting on the roof to prevent filming from continuing. They disliked the violence associated with James Bond by audiences. It is said that Roger Moore once told the monks that he himself had once been a saint (a reference to the 1962-1969 series “The Saint,” in which Moore played the lead role). A special session of the Greek Supreme Court was convened, which ruled that the monks were only entitled to alter the interior surfaces of the monastery buildings, while the exterior surfaces were the property of the Greek people and the local administration. The filmmakers were eventually allowed to shoot on location, including the scene of a character falling, in which Rick Sylvester stood in for Moore in the stunt. The outdoor filming did not take place at the monastery (which is depicted as the Monastery of St. Cyril in the film), but on a set on a nearby cliff. Interior filming was done at Pinewood Studios soundstages in sets designed by production designer Peter Lamont.

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