"A View to a Kill" is a true remake of "Goldfinger." Let's start with the villain and his scheme
The villain, Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), is a true and exact copy of Auric Goldfinger
He owns a stud farm, and wins horse races by cheating... He is the European outsider who plans to wipe out a massive American resource, thus increasing the value of his own stockpiled wealth
His lust for power are greater than his loyalty to a lover
Disco diva Grace Jones took the role of May Day, Zorin's natural born killer May Day's leap off the top of the Eiffel Tower is a fine moment in best Bond tradition This statuesque Jamaican womanwith sharp-cut hair to enhance her profileis cast as a horse-taming, Kickboxing American who, according to Q, 'must take a lot of vitamins.' Nevertheless, at the film's climax, she retained a few shreds of humanity
The film opens on an icy Siberian shore, where Bond recovers a microchip from the body of 003, driving back a party of Russian militiamen in his flight back to a British submarine disguised as an ice floe and controlled by blonde compatriot Kimberley Jones (Mary Stavin). The location chosen is both arresting and well-photographed enough to distinguish itself
Bond is alerted to Zorin's intentions while investigating how the Russians have managed to duplicate a secret microchip resistant to damage caused by the magnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion The technology has been leaked to the KGB following Zorin's purchase of the research company that developed the chip
Tanya Robertswho had joined the cast of television detective series Charlie's Ange1s in 1980is cast for the role of Stacey Sutton, the beautiful blond geologist and heiress who results a vital assistance to 007 in unraveling the details of Zorin's scheme to detonate a bomb in one of his mines and create a cataclysmic earthquake
"A View to a Kill" represents the farewell of Lois Maxwell who appeared as Miss Moneypenny for over 20 years of loyal secretarial service, and a unique claim to have featured in every Bond film The motion picture also concludes Roger Moore's activities for over a decade in Bond adventures In all his Bond's movies, Moore was a likable hero who softened the menace saving the world seven times with charm, intelligence, and great dialog However action sequences lost their deadly flavor and took on a madcap flavor In battles with characters such as J. W. Pepper, Nick Nack, Jaws, and May Day, it was hard to keep too straight a faceand Bond didn't
Disco diva Grace Jones took the role of May Day, Zorin's natural born killer May Day's leap off the top of the Eiffel Tower is a fine moment in best Bond tradition This statuesque Jamaican womanwith sharp-cut hair to enhance her profileis cast as a horse-taming, Kickboxing American who, according to Q, 'must take a lot of vitamins.' Nevertheless, at the film's climax, she retained a few shreds of humanity
The film opens on an icy Siberian shore, where Bond recovers a microchip from the body of 003, driving back a party of Russian militiamen in his flight back to a British submarine disguised as an ice floe and controlled by blonde compatriot Kimberley Jones (Mary Stavin). The location chosen is both arresting and well-photographed enough to distinguish itself
Bond is alerted to Zorin's intentions while investigating how the Russians have managed to duplicate a secret microchip resistant to damage caused by the magnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion The technology has been leaked to the KGB following Zorin's purchase of the research company that developed the chip
Tanya Robertswho had joined the cast of television detective series Charlie's Ange1s in 1980is cast for the role of Stacey Sutton, the beautiful blond geologist and heiress who results a vital assistance to 007 in unraveling the details of Zorin's scheme to detonate a bomb in one of his mines and create a cataclysmic earthquake
"A View to a Kill" represents the farewell of Lois Maxwell who appeared as Miss Moneypenny for over 20 years of loyal secretarial service, and a unique claim to have featured in every Bond film The motion picture also concludes Roger Moore's activities for over a decade in Bond adventures In all his Bond's movies, Moore was a likable hero who softened the menace saving the world seven times with charm, intelligence, and great dialog However action sequences lost their deadly flavor and took on a madcap flavor In battles with characters such as J. W. Pepper, Nick Nack, Jaws, and May Day, it was hard to keep too straight a faceand Bond didn't