James Bond beats the hockey baddies in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
…or end up like this:
Jeez…perhaps the most brutal death in all of the James Bond movies!
In For Your Eyes Only (1981), Bond and Q look up baddie Emile Locque’s information in Q Branch’s database and get a gist of his criminal history. Alongside that, they get poor grammar, some bizarre and unnecessary abbreviations and a misspelling (“biblography” – which I guess should be “bibliography” as it is spelled at the bottom, but Locque’s profile has nothing to do with books…).
I guess it can be chalked up to the primitive nature of computers at the time (1981), but the look on Q’s face right after they read the information may indicate that Q realizes it “hasn’t been perfected yet.” 🙂
Victor Tourjansky as Man with Bottle (Uncredited) in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Victor Tourjansky as Man with Bottle (Uncredited) in Moonraker (1979)
Victor Tourjansky as Man with Wine Glass (Uncredited) in For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Victor Tourjansky may have a more impressive cinematic resume as a member of film crews, but his short, humorous and memorable cameos in three straight James Bond movies are a great source of comic relief.
As seen in the above screenshots, Victor’s character made appearances in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979) and For Your Eyes Only (1981) as a man with an affinity for wine that gave a look of disbelief during a chase sequence through a public crowd.
Cheers, Victor! 🙂
Moore’s Bond at his most ruthless in For Your Eyes Only (1981).
I hear Max the Parrot’s stupid line in my sleep after watching For Your Eyes Only (1981). Why even have the bird in the movie? Was it *really* that important to have this kind of slapstick comic relief in a James Bond movie? Let alone animal slapstick comedy? It’s one of the questionable scenes in FYEO that puzzle me to this day alongside the “hockey” scene that holds its own in the eye-rolling department.
Sure – like all James Bond movies – FYEO has some good parts, but overall I’m not its biggest fan.
At the start of For Your Eyes Only (1981), we see James Bond (Roger Moore) visit the grave of his late wife, Teresa Bond:
The inscription reads:
TERESA BOND
1943 – 1969
Beloved wife of
JAMES BONDWe have all the
time in the World
Although I like the fact that they finally acknowledged the death of Bond’s wife, it’s puzzling that it took a full 12 years (an entire six Bond movies) since On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) when she was murdered, to do so. Surely such a traumatic death would have affected Bond greatly, and I’d say Diamonds Are Forever (1971) (the follow-up to OHMSS) is flawed at the outset for at least not referencing it while Bond traipse around Las Vegas.
Maybe they decided to put it on the backburner because it’s obviously a sad event, and nobody wants to be sad watching a James Bond movie (ahem, NTTD). Or maybe the death was such a big event in the series they decided to avoid acknowledging (or forgot?) it until a lot of time had passed…was this Bond’s first visit to the grave?
Kind of a missed opportunity in my eyes, regardless. They could’ve worked a graveside visit later into the movie (who wants to see Bond graveside visit in a movie’s opening sequence anyway? ahem, again, NTTD!) or weaved it into a joint revenge plot with Melina Havelock’s revenge of her parents’ death. All in all, I’m glad they made the reference to Tracy’s death but the method could’ve been better. And a pity it was rather forgotten after this scene until NTTD really.
