For Your Eyes Only

Trivia: The producers, director John Glen and Sir Roger Moore all discussed whether Bond should kick the car with Locque inside, or whether he should just throw the dove lapel pin into the car, which would fall due to its weight. Eventually they decided it would be best for Bond to kick the car, although Moore was not happy about it, feeling it did not match his version of Bond.

Trivia: The film starts off with Bond visiting his wife's grave, a reference to On Her Majesty's Secret Service when Bond got married. He then gets attacked by Blofield who still has the neck injury from that film, also later in the film Bond escapes on skies using a Bobsleigh run, which was the climax at the end of OHMSS.

Trivia: Before production began, the filmmakers considered bringing back the Jaws character for a third time, but eventually the idea was rejected as they felt he would not fit the movie's more serious tone.

Trivia: Bill Conti replaced John Barry as the music composer for this film as Barry could not return to the UK, due to tax-related problems.

Trivia: After her parents have been killed by Hector Gonzales, Melina kneels by her side, cradling a shawl that she had bought for her mother before looking directly into the camera, with anger burning in her eyes. This sequence was originally planned to move into the title sequence. However, the producers decided that the pre-credits sequence needed to re-introduce James Bond first and that tying up the loose ends from On Her Majesty's Secret Service after the title sequence would risk taking the audience out of the plot of For Your Eyes Only.

Trivia: When Bond and Luigi meet Kristatos for the first time, we see Bibi ice-skating. Lynn-Holly Johnson, who plays the character, is actually a champion ice-skater in real life.

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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