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James Bond is getting a good amount of love on FE right now. Here's my latest project of 007:
A VIEW TO A KILL
James Bond's fourteenth film is Roger Moore's seventh and final adventure as 007.
A View to a Kill introduces psychotic villain, Max Zorin, aided by menacing May Day. Zorin, like Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), wants to trigger a Californian earthquake. Where Gene Hackman plays Luthor intelligent in a reasonable kind of way, Christopher Walken gives Zorin a level of insanity that convinces us he could actually come up with the scheme - and see it through to its genocidal conclusion.
This edit cuts cheap laughs, gratuitous sex, gimmicks during the horse race, the firetruck chase, the shower, and Stacey's screaming. The springboard atop the Eiffel Tower is erased. The frame-skip when May Day gets in bed is smoother.
Runtime: 117 minutes (14 minutes cut).
The teaser poster:
Change list:
- Trim ski chase, replace Beach Boys w Barry score.
- Cut Bond inside minisub.
- Small trim Moneypenny at horse races.
- Trim Eiffel Tower chase: Bond no longer is such a bad shot, he does not get caught in ropes.
- Erase diving-board off Eiffel Tower.
- Trim cabbie.
- Cut fight with lab guards.
- Trim when Grace beds Bond to remove frame-jump.
- Trim horse race (no gimmicks, just straightforward bullying).
- Trim Russian spy in jacuzzi.
- Trim Stacey, and CIA, exposition in her house.
- Trim annoying Stacey in burning elevator.
- Trim firetruck chase.
- Trim Stacey screaming in tunnel, trim some violent deaths.
- Cut Q, robo-dog, shower. Now Stacey rests on Bond's shoulder straight to sunset on the bridge.
- Dub in Grace Jones "Storm" song over end credits.
- Post credits clip: Gogol offers medal in M's office.
Suggestions for a sub-title are welcome! Some ideas:
A VIEW TO A KILL
James Bond's fourteenth film is Roger Moore's seventh and final adventure as 007.
A View to a Kill introduces psychotic villain, Max Zorin, aided by menacing May Day. Zorin, like Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), wants to trigger a Californian earthquake. Where Gene Hackman plays Luthor intelligent in a reasonable kind of way, Christopher Walken gives Zorin a level of insanity that convinces us he could actually come up with the scheme - and see it through to its genocidal conclusion.
This edit cuts cheap laughs, gratuitous sex, gimmicks during the horse race, the firetruck chase, the shower, and Stacey's screaming. The springboard atop the Eiffel Tower is erased. The frame-skip when May Day gets in bed is smoother.
Runtime: 117 minutes (14 minutes cut).
The teaser poster:
Change list:
- Trim ski chase, replace Beach Boys w Barry score.
- Cut Bond inside minisub.
- Small trim Moneypenny at horse races.
- Trim Eiffel Tower chase: Bond no longer is such a bad shot, he does not get caught in ropes.
- Erase diving-board off Eiffel Tower.
- Trim cabbie.
- Cut fight with lab guards.
- Trim when Grace beds Bond to remove frame-jump.
- Trim horse race (no gimmicks, just straightforward bullying).
- Trim Russian spy in jacuzzi.
- Trim Stacey, and CIA, exposition in her house.
- Trim annoying Stacey in burning elevator.
- Trim firetruck chase.
- Trim Stacey screaming in tunnel, trim some violent deaths.
- Cut Q, robo-dog, shower. Now Stacey rests on Bond's shoulder straight to sunset on the bridge.
- Dub in Grace Jones "Storm" song over end credits.
- Post credits clip: Gogol offers medal in M's office.
- AVTAK - Moore's Final Chase .