For Your Eyes Only

Trivia: Because of Carole Bouquet's sinus problems, the close-up underwater shots of Bond and Melina were shot in an entirely dry studio and not underwater. They were shot at a higher frame rate with wind machines. Derek Meddings, the special effects man, added the bubbles in afterwards.

Trivia: British model Caroline Cossey, who appeared as one of the women in the film, was revealed after the film to be a transsexual. She was born a man.

Trivia: Michael G. Wilson, producer of many of the Bond films and stepson of Cubby Broccoli, appears in a number of films in a cameo role. In "For Your Eyes Only", he plays a Greek priest in the scene when Bond meets with "Q" in a church.

Trivia: Sheena Easton, who sings the theme song, appears in the opening music sequence. This is the first time the title singer appeared in the opening of a Bond film.

Trivia: At the beginning of the film, Bond visits the grave of his wife. This is a two-part reference to the 1969 Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". First, Mrs. Bond (played by Diana Rigg) was killed in that movie, and second, the inscription on the gravestone is "We Have All the Time in the World" - the theme song for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", sung by Louis Armstrong.

Trivia: The parrot that is seen at the very end of "For Your Eyes Only" saying "Give us a kiss," to Mrs. Thatcher (actually Thatcher impersonator Janet Brown) later appeared in another Bond movie - 1987's "The Living Daylights". You can see him on the perch at the safe house in the latter movie.

Trivia: To enter the identigraph booth, Q enters a four-digit code. Those four digits were the first four notes to the chorus of "Nobody Does It Better", the theme to "The Spy Who Loved Me". Bond responds by entering the final three notes.

Trivia: Stuntman Paolo Rigon was killed during filming of the bobsled chase.

Trivia: The opening of the movie, with Bond visiting his wife's grave, was initially created as an introduction of a new Bond when it looked like Roger Moore would not be returning to the series. When he did join, the filmmakers decided to keep it in anyway.

Trivia: The amazed extra from the beach in The Spy Who Loved Me and the surprised guy in St. Mark's square in Moonraker gets another eyeful when Bond skis through his dinner.

Trivia: The location for the film's climax posed several problems for the crew. A Monastery, atop a column of rock near Kalambaka, in the Pindus mountain range, had been chosen for the villain's hideaway. Permission had originally been granted, but just before filming was due to commence, the monks staged a protest and refused filming. The locals were furious with this and the disagreement was eventually settled by the Greek Supreme Court - in the film-makers' favour. The mountain scenery did not suit Moore, and it quickly became apparent that he was afraid of heights. One of the film's major stunts - Bond's 100 foot from the mountain - was performed by Rick Sylvester, who had originally done the ski-jump off the mountain-top in the pre-credit sequence of "The Spy Who Loved Me". At only 5' 6", he was much shorter than Moore, for whom he was doubling .

Trivia: This is the first Bond film that does not feature Bernard Lee. He died before filming ended.

Trivia: Following the success of the movie, car manufacturer Citroen sold a limited edition of 300 of Melina's car, complete with 007 stickers and fake bullet holes.

Trivia: The voice of Blofeld in the pre-credits sequence was Robert Rietty, while the man in the chair was John Hollis. Neither were credited. Robert Rietty was also previously uncredited for dubbing the voice of Largo in 'Thunderball'.

Trivia: Emile Locque (Michael Gothard) doesn't have a single line of dialogue in the film.

Trivia: The scene where Bond and Melina are dragged through the water for the sharks to eat was actually taken from the Ian Fleming novel "Live and Let Die".

Trivia: Due to Roger Moore's great fear of heights, he had to take a small amount of Valium and drink a glass of beer before some of the scary mountain sequences.

Trivia: Carole Bouquet was originally offered the role of Dr. Holly Goodhead in "Moonraker", but was unavailable at the time as she was already signed to do another film, "That Obscure Object of Desire".

Trivia: Although Sir Roger Moore's own preference ran to a lighter-hearted interpretation of James Bond, he accepted that For Your Eyes Only needed to be a serious Bond movie. Moore, therefore, disliked the fact that the parrot revealed that the ATAC had been taken to St. Cyril's Monastery, as well as the final scene in which Max is mistaken for Bond during a telephone conversation with Margaret Thatcher, as he felt it did not fit the movie's more serious tone.

Plot hole: Bond makes a huge tactical error after diving to the St. Georges. He knows the Russians and their operatives are after the ATAC. The ATAC itself is expendable to Britain, since it has a self-destruct mechanism that, under proper procedure, would have been set off when the ship sank. So why is Bond trying to retrieve it? Because he disarms the self-destruct, he actually allows Kristatos to get his hands on it, forcing Bond to track it down again and, to stop the Russians from getting it, HE DESTROYS IT! So why doesn't Bond, instead of disarming the self-destruct, set a timed charge or toss a grenade in the room to destroy the ATAC while it's at the bottom of the sea? The answer is, of course, that if Bond destroys the ATAC before the bad guys can get at it, the movie's over. Even so, at the end, when Bond finally does destroy the ATAC, he tells Gogol it's "detente. You don't have it. I don't have it." Clever line, but it reinforces the fact that the British don't need it. They can build another one.

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James Bond: Forgive me father, for I have sinned.
Q: That's putting it mildly, 007.

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Question: Why does Bond go to Bibi to try and get information about Eric Kriegler? Couldn't he have simply contacted his own department to get a background check on him. After all, it's not like she would have had anything very informative (considering that she had previously stated that he never talks to girls).

Gavin Jackson

Chosen answer: Whether he talked to her or not, Bibi would have inside information simply by being around him so much. She would have overheard things that a background check wouldn't reveal, like planned criminal activity.

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