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Octopussy occurs as short story by Ian Fleming and the title of the thirteenth James Bond film made by EON Productions. A film is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the British Secret Service professional, Commander James Attach. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, it was released in 1983, the same year as the release of the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again by screenwriter and Thunderball film-rights owner Kevin McClory.
A film is loosely depending upon a Fleming short stories "Octopussy" and "The Property of a Lady", both of which were published in the collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
Plot summary
While the British agent stumbles into the British Embassy around West Berlin, fatally wounded, sustaining the fake Fabergé egg, MI6 immediately suspect Soviet involvement, especially since the real worthful egg has turned higher at auction in London. James Attach is sent to locate retired world health organization a marketer is & after how come 009 was murdered because of the fake egg. Whenever an exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, clearly has to buy a egg at any price in a period of the auction, Attach follows him back to his palace in India to find retired how come.
Kamal Khan is working for rebel Soviet General Orlov, who is supplying Khan sustaining really invaluable Soviet treasures, replacing the children within state deposit using replication. Kamal Khan is successively smuggling the children into the west sustaining support from either the mysterious Octopussy, a fantastically moneyed woman world health organization sleep within a swimming palace in India, surrounded by women world health organization come members of her "Octopus" cult, each recognized by the tattooed blue-ringed octopus on their bottom. Octopussy is to a higher degree a contrabandist, all the same, & has numerous legitimate businesses, including transport, hotels, carnivals & circuses - the latter existence utilized as an idealistic front for smuggling jewellery. Following, several of her female companions & guards come extremely trained gymnasts. Attach is led to Octopussy & confronts her, just to locate retired that she feels indebted to him for allowing her father, the British Major, commit suicide rather than face the shame of the court martial when Bond was sent fallowing him for smuggling & murder a select few years prior to. By owning Octopussy today an ally, Kamal Khan manages to separate a pair yearn plenty to pursue his very project - to replenish a jewelry canister existence smuggled by Octopussy's circus with a nuclear bomb. A warhead is primed to go off in the period of the performance at the US Air Force base in West Germany. When a explosion might look rather an accident, Europe would insist on nuclear disarming & so leave american Europe defencelessly against an attack from either Orlov's Soviet forces.
Cast & characters
James Bond - Roger Moore
M - Robert Brown
Miss Moneypenny - Lois Maxwell
Q - Desmond Llewelyn
Octopussy - Maud Adams
Kamal Khan - Louis Jourdan
Magda - Kristina Wayborn
Gobinda - Kabir Bedi
General Orlov - Steven Berkoff
Vijay - Vijay Amritraj
Mischka (Knife-throwing Twin 1) - David Meyer
Grischka (Knife-throwing Twin Both) - Anthony Meyer
General Gogol - Walter Gotell
Rubelvitch (Gogol's Helper) - Eva Rueber-Staier
Smithers - Jeremy Bulloch
Crew
Directed By: John Glen
Executive Producer: Michael G. Wilson
Produced By: Albert R. Broccoli
Screenplay By: George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson
Music Composed By: John Barry
Production Project By: Peter Lamont
Soundtrack
A soundtrack was composed by seasoned John Barry. A opening theme, "All Time High" was sung by Rita Coolidge and is one of only 2 In bondage themes that doesn't information a motion picture's title. A more is the theme to ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''.
Track listing
All Period High
Bond Look Alike
009 Gets a Knife & Gorbinda Attacks
That's The Little Octopussy
Arrival at a Island of Octopussy
Bond at a Monsoon Palace
Bond Meets Octopussy
Yo Yo Fight & Demise of Vijay
The Chase Attach Theme
The Palace Fight
All Instance High
The Chase Bomb Theme
The Palace Fight
All Period High by Rita Coolidge
Vehicles & gadgets
Acrostar Jet — Utilized in the opening sequence of the film. A wings of this plane stack higher vertically patch non within utilise. When you took this mission, Attach hid the plane inside a horse trailer. Due to the little gasoline tank, Attach was forced to land at the filling station to replenish.
Alfa-Romeo GTV6 — Stolen from either the German woman utilizing the call box, allowing for Attach to produce it to the Octopssy's circus eventually to warn a NATO General present there of the Soviet plot. So a hottest 'inexpensive' sportscar inside Europe, & a virtually all popular Alfa Romeo sports coupe ever mass produced.
Alligator Boat — Attach sneaks onto Octopussy's island by camping the masked boat that looks rather an alligator.
Pen — Given to Attach by Q-Branch, this pen contains acid that potty burn across any metal.
Watch — A second gift from either Q-Branch, this view branded by Seiko comes with the beacon that leads Attach to the Fabergé egg. the model utilized in the picture is the Seiko G757-5020 (typically mistaken for the G757-5000, which experienced a rubber strap instead of the metal of these clearly seen in the flick).
Locations
Film locations
London, England
East Berlin, Germany — Checkpoint Charlie
West Berlin, Germany
Feldstadt, Germany
Moscow, Russia
Udaipur, India
Shooting locations
Pinewood Studios
India
Germany
United States
England
Trivia
Movie critics were beginning to comment in Roger Moore's age, when he was 54 years old at a instance of motion-picture photography, & several felt he was as well old to play James Attach. He originally announced that he would retire, however returned a single final period within 1985's A View to a Kill.
The title comes from either an Ian Fleming short story within which Attach blocks in wartime matters by owning nothing to launder with British Intelligence. A film makes directly information to the cases in the story by revealing that Octopussy's father was a villain of the short story.
At a prevent of a film, a credits announce that the next Attach film title when From either the Watch to the Defeat. This was late changed to A View to a Kill right before cinematography began.
This is the 2nd Enslaved moving picture to feature Maud Adams. A producers were reluctant to feature her over again because her former character was flushed in The Man with the Golden Gun.
This is likewise a number one picture to feature Robert Red when M. These are unknown when to whether 'last is supposed to exist when swimming a equivalent character as Bernard Lee (Sir Miles Messervy) or the different of these (even the promoted Admiral Hargreaves from either The Spy Who Loved Me), as a films did non establish until GoldenEye that 'M' is a title, something which Ian Fleming left ambiguous in the novels.
The pre-title sequence was originally to happen within Moonraker (along with a concept of twin knife-throwing assassins) above a Angel Falls, but this was shelved when a flow of any stream-river bottom dried higher.
Vijay Amritraj was a agent tennis streaming video player inside realistic. the moving picture makes a takeoff of this fact by getting Vijay fend off Kamal's henchmen by using the lawn tennis racquet, when a circumferent town follow the conflict prefer a tennis match by repeatedly turning their heads left so perfect. At one point Vijay's character besides jokes that he plays the little lawn tennis.
Comic book adaptation
The magazine format comic book adaptation of Octopussy was produced in 1983 by Marvel Comics. A adaptation was written by Steve Moore and illustrated by Paul Neary.
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