James Bond lebt am Rande, um einen bösen Waffenhändler davon abzuhalten, einen weiteren Weltkrieg zu beginnen. Bond durchquert alle sieben Kontinente, um den bösen Whitaker und General Kosko... Alles lesenJames Bond lebt am Rande, um einen bösen Waffenhändler davon abzuhalten, einen weiteren Weltkrieg zu beginnen. Bond durchquert alle sieben Kontinente, um den bösen Whitaker und General Koskov zu stoppen.James Bond lebt am Rande, um einen bösen Waffenhändler davon abzuhalten, einen weiteren Weltkrieg zu beginnen. Bond durchquert alle sieben Kontinente, um den bösen Whitaker und General Koskov zu stoppen.
- Auszeichnungen
- 3 Gewinne & 7 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Linda
- (as Kell Tyler)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesTimothy Dalton was originally considered for the role of James Bond in the late 1960s, after Sir Sean Connery left the role, following Man lebt nur zweimal (1967). Dalton was screentested by Albert R. Broccoli for Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (1969), but he turned down the part, as he thought he was too young. He was also considered for Diamantenfieber (1971), but turned it down again, still feeling he was too young. He was considered again for the role in In tödlicher Mission (1981), when for a while, it was unclear whether Sir Roger Moore would return. However, Dalton declined at that time, as there was no script (or even first draft). Dalton was offered the role again in 1983 for Octopussy (1983), and yet again in 1985 for Im Angesicht des Todes (1985), but had to decline the role both times due to previous commitments.
- PatzerTo lose the KGB agent following Kara, Bond has her openly go into the phone booth with her cello case so the agent would know it was her. But this plan only alerts the agent to her and gives them, according to Bond, "about ten minutes, if we're lucky." He should have had her conceal herself completely behind the trolley car as she walked from the building straight to Bond's car so that the KGB agent would have never become aware of her, thereby giving them potentially hours to escape.
- Zitate
James Bond: Cheer up, Saunders. The operation's a success. And officially, its still yours.
Saunders: I have no intention of leaving it at that, 007! I'm reporting to M that you deliberately missed. Your orders were to kill that sniper!
James Bond: *Stuff* my orders! I only kill professionals. That girl didn't know one end of her rifle from the other. Go ahead. Tell M what you want. If he fires me, I'll thank him for it. Whoever she was, it must have scared the living daylights out of her.
- Crazy CreditsWhen A-HA is credited as the performers of the opening theme song in the opening credits, their band name is given in the actual "A-HA logo font." This is the only time this has been done in the series.
- VerbindungenFeatured in 25 Years of James Bond (1987)
The action scenes in "The Living Daylights" are all great. I can't think of one which I disliked, and the special effects might be the in the series up to this point. The plot here is actually intriguing, and neither too convoluted or too thin, and keeps you interested from start to finish. The screenplay is terrific, the best in a Bond film since "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Maryam d'Abo makes for a wonderful Bond girl in Kara Milovy, one of the smartest and most likable of all of Bond's 'love' interests. I really like Caroline Bliss' Moneypenny as well. How fresh and exciting this is when compared to the previous entry.
I'm honestly hard pressed to find any serious flaws with "The Living Daylights". Some have said that it takes itself too seriously, but I never felt that it did. Sure, it was much more straight-faced than most Bond films, but a film is only taking itself too seriously when it becomes thoroughly ridiculous while maintaining a 'serious' superficial look. I never thought that "The Living Daylights" did this. It, and the follow-up Dalton film "License to Kill" were both relative financial disappointments, mostly because audiences didn't care for Dalton's hard-edged Bond or the fact that the film had actual characters other than Bond, actual real-world stakes, and no silly villains. Then again, "The Living Daylights" did extremely well in comparison to most films that year, and it earned much more than "A View to a Kill" did, so perhaps it is only the lesser "Licence to Kill" that was a disappointment.
How can you go wrong with a movie this well-shot and well-acted, this well-scripted, and so well-scored by John Barry, which would sadly be his last score for the series? A terrific Bond film with a harder edge than most, and one of the few in the series that remains faithful to the spirit of Fleming's novels. A contender for my favorite Bond film and among my favorite action films overall.
9/10
- ametaphysicalshark
- 22. März 2008
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsländer
- Sprachen
- Auch bekannt als
- 007: Su nombre es peligro
- Drehorte
- Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar(opening sequence)
- Produktionsfirma
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Box Office
- Budget
- 40.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 51.185.897 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 11.051.284 $
- 2. Aug. 1987
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 51.220.890 $
- Laufzeit2 Stunden 10 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.39 : 1