Trivia
(For Your Eyes Only)
Playboy, a magazine with a long history intertwined with Bond's
[they published Fleming's short story The Hildebrand Rarity in
March 1960 and Bond was seen reading a copy in On Her Majesty's
Secret Service [1969]] joined in with the casting, after a fashion.
Late in 1980, they ran a competition offering a lucky reader the
chance to be a Bond girl. The winner, Robbin Young, does appear
in For Your Eyes Only, but blink and you might miss her - she
plays the young woman who serves Bond in the flower shop.
One of the girls seen lounging by the poolside was played by
Tula [real name Caroline Cossey], a former hostess on the TV show
3-2-1. The press had a field day when, after the film was released,
Tula revealed that she had in fact been born Barry Cossey and
had undergone gender switching surgery when he was 17.
The poster caused a minor flurry of interest. It featured a shot
of Bond framed between a pair of bare female legs. There was intense
press interest for a while as to who the legs belonged to and
a number of models came forward claiming that it was them. The
dispute was settled when photographer Morgan Kane revealed that
the legs belonged to 22-year-old New Yorker Joyce Bartle.
The opening scene clearly features Blofeld, even though legal
problems prevented the production from actually naming him as
such. The original script included a line of dialogue which had
to be cut to prevent any legal hassles: 'Blofeld' was to have
told Bond over the helicopter's intercom "I thought we should
celebrate the tenth anniversary of our last meeting," neatly
tying the film in to Diamonds Are Forever [1971]. The whole pre-title
sequence is a less-than-subtle pop at Kevin McClory, the man who
owned the rights to use the character of Blofeld and his organisation
SPECTRE. The man in the wheelchair is never actually named, but
it's obviously meant to be Blofeld, and killing him off even before
the film gets under way was simply Broccoli's way of saying that
the success of 007 did not depend on him.
During the helicopter sequence in the teaser, the pilot, who
is supposed to be dead. can be seen quite clearly flying the aircraft
on a couple of occassions.
When Bond is in Melina's Citroen being chased by Gonzalez's thugs,
he forces one of the pursuing cars off the road and it slides
down an embankment on its roof. Just before it falls onto its
roof, it tumbles down the embankment and in the background, for
a split second, a camera crew is clearly visible.
Moonraker [1979], the previous entry in the series, had been
so incredibly expensive that this time round the producers opted
for a no-frills approach that resulted in a more serious film.
Moore had originally announced that he was reluctant to play
Bond again, but was lured back at the last moment for an as yet
undisclosed sum. The opening scene of Bond visiting his wife's
grave was written in to help viewers adapt to any potential new
Bond.
Listen to the musical sequence made by Q as he taps a code into
the identigraph booth - it plays the first four notes of the chorus
from Nobody Does It Better, the title song from an earlier Bond
film, The Spy Who Loved Me [1977]. Bond completes the sequence
by keying in three more numbers that also play the last three
notes of the chorus.
During Bond's assault on Kristatos' warehouse with Colombo's
men, day and night change back and forth alarming quickly.
Bond and Melina first meet in a house in the mountains outside
Madrid, and there are a number of young women clearly seen sunbathing
beside a swimming pool in bikinis. Yet nearby, farmers are harvesting
olives, which traditionally takes place in the period from December
to January. During this time, the temperature in the Madrid area
is typically no more than 5 degrees Celsius! Which is all academic
anyway as in fact there are no olive trees in the mountains around
Madrid...
When Bond is given figs by a street trader, he says "Parakalo,"
which is Greek for "you're welcome, instead of saying the
more correct "Efcharisto," meaning "thank you."
