Quick collection of notes on possibly one of the most under-rated Bond films -
Octopussy.
(Even
Homer Simpson thought it was great enough to see it twice)
A significant
GoldenEye item from this movie was of course the
Throwing Knife...
[JAMES
BOND 007 MOVIE FILE]
| OCTOPUSSY
[film] |
1983 [Bond
#13]  BACKGROUND
"The
movie earns high marks with a teriffic scene in which a British agent [009], disguised
as a circus clown, is stalked by assassins."
-The
Best of Bond... James Bond Movie Soundtrack
"...
Roger Moore portrays the immortal action hero... [Agent 007] investigates the
murder of a fellow agent [009] who was clutching a priceless Fabergé Egg
at the time of his death."
-2007 DVD Release
"Octopussy
is actually lightly based on two of Ian Flemming's short stories.
One,
The Property of a Lady concerns the sale of a Fabergé Egg while in
the other, Octopussy, Bond uncovers the corruption of Maj. Smythe who is
mentioned briefly in the film as Octopussy's father.
Like most of the Bond
films by this time, Octopussy takes little more from Flemming than a few ideas,
some characters and a title."
-The
Official James Bond 007 Movie Book
by Sally
Hibbin
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BRIEFING
 [Fabergé
Egg]
"These priceless and rare antiques are jewelled eggs made
by Carl Fabergé in
1987 [as a gift] for the Russian royal family..."
A realistic
fake turns up in the dead hands of Agent 009 (who was working undercover as a
circus clown) in East Germany."
-The
Official James Bond 007 Movie Book
by Sally
Hibbin
"Octopussy's
traveling circus is being used as a cover for a plot to explode an atomic bomb
at a U.S. airforce base - the first step in a plan for a Soviet invasion of Western
Europe.
Starring
Maud Adams in the title role and Robert Brown as the new M...
Notably,
the movie's provocative title - Octopussy - is never uttered in the lyrics
to the theme song (the only Bond movie in which this ocurs).
The title
tune is instead called 'All Time High' performed by Rita Coolidge."
-The
Best of Bond... James Bond Movie Soundtrack
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CAST
| James
Bond | ROGER
MOORE | | Octopussy |
MAUD
ADAMS | | Kamal
Khan | LOUIS
JORDAN | | Magda |
KRISTINA
WAYBORN | | Gobinda |
KABIR
BEDI | | General
Orlov | STEVEN
BERKOFF | | Vijay |
VIJAY
AMRITRAJ | | M |
ROBERT
BROWN | | General
Gogol | WALTER
GOTELL | | Q |
DESMOND
LLEWELYN | | Minister
of Defence | GEOFFREY
KEEN | | Sadruddin |
ALBERT
MOSS | | Miss
Moneypenny | LOIS
MAXWELL |
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| THROWING
KNIFE [weapon] |
Throwing
Knives in GoldenEye 007 (Bunker 2) circa 1995.
James Bond has experience
with Throwing Knives, after infiltrating Octopussy's Circus (1983).
A pair
of professional knife-throwers dazzle audiences with their amazing skills. The
deadly duo also moonlight as assassins.
After taking a knife to the arm,
Agent 009 was able to Karate chop one of the assassins in the back.
While
attempting to escape, 009 was hit in the back with a throwing knife. Fatally wounded,
the Agent arrived at the British Embassy, collapsing down dead. Rolling out of
his dead hands, is the clue that kickstarts
James Bond's mission.
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| MISS
MAGDA |
BACKGROUND
 "Kamal's
beautiful accomplice Magda is played by blonde-haired Swedish actress Kristina
Wayborn. She seduces Bond (never a difficult task) in order to recover the real
Fabergé Egg..."
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| OCTOPUSSY
[character] |
BACKGROUND
 "Maud
Adams becomes the only leading female player to appear in two Bond movies when
she returns as Octopussy.
(Her previous role was as Andrea Anders,
Scaramanga's girlfriend in The Man With The Golden Gun.
With her
bevy of specially trained acrobatic women, Octopussy is the brains behind the
jewel-smuggling operation...".
-The Official
James Bond 007 Movie Book
by Sally Hibbin
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