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On the end credits of OCTOPUSSY it says James Bond will return in FROM A VIEW TO A KILL. Yet the film came out as A VIEW TO A KILL. Anyone know why the dropping of the FROM?

The scene in question where Zorin and Mayday share the line..."What a view...!!!" "...To a Kill!!! takes place in the blimp overlooking Golden Gate Bridge IIRC. It's the only reference to the title in the entire film. Presumably the title change was to accommodate that line? Has anyone else any ideas?

Maybe they just decided it sounded better

Nah..."FROM" A VIEW TO A KILL sounds much much better!

imdb gave From a view to a kill as the working title, guess they changed it only a bit than

I had the impression it was called A View to Kill until recently, so not much difference for me

you don't seem to be on top of things

I am! Really!
A View to Kill sounds nicer and has a cooler meaning

cooler meaning?

you get a view to kill it's great!

your logic doesn't compute

to me it does

of course, and only you


but I guess the real question has been answered here

closing...... closed

soon evy, soon... you little mod-wannabe

I don't wanna be a mod, I just wanna close off topic threads here

meaning all of them

no you wouldn't

well, I'd merge some

don't do that

but it will more easy to find

but all our seperated offtopic talks!

ok... attempt to get ontopic again:

any other titles that got changed?

I don't know of any

FYI fact: There was struggle to keep the title Octopussy because there was a legal issue that the movie couldn't use any plot in Fleming's novels, so the only thing kept from Fleming's original novel for the movie was the name. The story is original. Not a title name per se, but an interesting fact nonetheless.

see, that's what I'm getting at Thanks RA

that's interesting

And Octopussy is the only Bond where the main actress Maud Adams (aka Octopussy) played another major role in The Man With The Golden Gun, whom gets killed by Scarmanga. She plays his girlfriend. She is the only actress ever to be in two Bond films.

Yeah...Maud was the only "main" actress to appear in two Bond films but Martine Beswick also played predominant roles in two Bond films...

FRWL...

And THUNDERBALL...

Hmm. I never claimed to know everything. I'm just a big fan of the Bond films. Thanks for the 411. I didn't know that.

what about Judy Dench? M in the Pierce movies, she returned every damn movie already

or

Sylvia Trench in Dr No and From Russia With Love? Though in both she didn't had a lot to do

No problem! Here's one that may pique your interest...Eva Reuber Steair(sp?) played the same character in THREE Bond films...another in joke as far as I can ascertain...as General Gogol's secretary...

I know...dumb blondes...they all look the same...

well, as Gogol's assistant... that's saying the same about Moneypenny

You're losing the plot AGAIN, Y!

I've been a bit slow lately, but if you mean that they look better: agree D

Okay. But what I was referring to was Maud Adams (being more renown) playing two MAJOR roles to be remembered in two different Bond films. Not secondary actors w/ small parts. And yes, there are no small parts just small actors. Maud Adams is truly superior than the rest.

Well, about recurring female characters, I found these about Sylvia Trench:

Sylvia Trench

In our first ever sight of James Bond, he was flirting with Sylvia Trench. In 'Dr No', they play against each other at chemin de fer. Bond is called away to headquarters, but not before they've arranged a date.
When we first see Bond in 'From Russia With Love', he's relaxing by a riverside with her in his arms. Though she complains that she hasn't seen him for six months, he leaves again when Miss Moneypenny calls from the Office.
Nevertheless, she does have the distinction of being the only romantic involvement of Bond's to have been in more than one film.

And a pic:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~prospero/images/sylvia.jpg

(note the part where it says "she does have the distinction of being the only romantic involvement of Bond's to have been in more than one film"

mmm....I have no 100% ideal answer, but what was the book called?

Wasn't the credits at the end of Dr No "james bond will return in Goldfinger?"

Discos - confused as ever about the history

what book?

my mistake lol

well, technically, M had a fairly big part in The World Is Not Enough

yeah i must agree there, me and my dad was discussing it after we seen it, perhaps that it was a female part that she demanded a bigger role after being giving such a short part in Goldeneye & Tomorrow never dies

M in the previous bond films was simply the dude who gave orders, but Judi Dench is a somewhat friend to Bond's as it would show on Die another day

fairly, but the previous M did hold a deep respect for Bond, I mean, when he didn't accept the decisions he got a leave for 2 weeks and such

I really like Judi Dench as M, because she clearly cares about Bond, even though she is kind of strict sometimes Much better than that guy they used to have

And of course, because she is a woman, shows we can handle secret agencies too

don't overdo it evy, they only survive cause they have bond

indeed, very strict, if you see GE (having no trouble sending him to his death)
that "guy" (Lee) had the trouble of never being actively involved in a movie (besides a trip or two)

I'm sure there HAVE to be some female agents who'd beat up Bond there

well, that's the way M should be, strict and tuff

only in Russia, evy, only in russia

no, somewhere else too

yeah, NSA... Jinx was soooooo good

she was cry
and if you dare to say otherwise, I'll turn JB violent

boxing

you the baretta and I the PPK?
she seriously is bad

well baretta is a gun, what is PPK?
yeah, she's bad and I like her

Walter PPK Evy! the gun this guy named BOND uses

Really? That's nice to know Well, I'll have uzis then... at least I know how they look like

than I'll take the golden gun... one shot is more than enough

for whom?

to shoot you... sorry, those are the rules sweetiepie...hmmm... pie *drools*

no, you are gonna get shoot erm... apple pie?

not with this golden bullet chickenwing