"playing a number of such title characters (e.g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond). The documentary included James Bond in dramatised scenes from ""Goldfinger""—notably featuring 007 being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam—and ""Diamonds Are Forever"". In 1991 a TV cartoon series ""James Bond Jr."" was produced with Corey Burton in the role of Bond's nephew, also called James Bond. In 1956 the novel ""Moonraker"" was adapted for broadcast on South African radio, with Bob Holness providing the voice of Bond. According to ""The Independent"", ""listeners across the Union thrilled to Bob's cultured tones as"
"designed a highly stylised main title sequence, a theme that has been repeated in the subsequent Eon-produced Bond films. Binder's budget for the title sequence was £2,000 (£ in ). The character James Bond was introduced towards, but not at, the beginning of the film in a ""now-famous nightclub sequence featuring Sylvia Trench"", to whom he makes his ""immortal introduction"". The introduction to the character in ""Le Cercle at Les Ambassadeurs"", an upmarket gambling club, is derived from Bond's introduction in the first novel, ""Casino Royale"", which Fleming had used because ""skill at gambling and knowledge of how to behave"
"Living Daylights"" had first appeared in ""The Sunday Times"" on 4 February 1962; ""The Property of a Lady"" was commissioned by Sotheby's for the 1963 edition of their journal, ""The Ivory Hammer""; whilst ""007 in New York"" first appeared in the ""New York Herald Tribune"" in October 1963. The two original stories, ""Octopussy"" and ""The Living Daylights"", were both adapted for publication in comic strip format in the ""Daily Express"" in 1966–1967. Elements from the stories have also been used in the Eon Productions Bond films. The first, ""Octopussy"", starring Roger Moore as James Bond, was released in 1983 as"
"press release identifying themselves as the brand in question, and subsequently gained popularity. A second version similar to the official video was made as a Budweiser commercial. The video's theme of Jay-Z being ""James Bond"" was later used in an advertisement by Budweiser. In it, Jay-Z competes in a holographic football video game against Hall of Fame coach Don Shula. This commercial is an homage to ""Never Say Never Again"" (an unauthorised James Bond film), where Bond went head-to-head against Maximillian Largo in a video game at the Casino Royale. The ad debuted during Super Bowl XLI Although no official"
"James Bond Theme The ""James Bond Theme"" is the main signature theme of the James Bond films and has featured in every Eon Productions Bond film since ""Dr. No"", released in 1962. The piece has been used as an accompanying fanfare to the gun barrel sequence in almost every James Bond film. The ""James Bond Theme"" has accompanied the opening titles twice, as part of the medley that opens ""Dr. No"" and then again in the opening credits of ""From Russia with Love"" (1963). It has been used as music over the end credits for ""Dr. No"", ""Thunderball"" (1965), ""On"
"James Bond"". The ""Leisure Suit"" part came from Al Lowe's statement to Sierra founder Ken Williams that the series' predecessor ""Softporn Adventure"" was so dated that it should be wearing a leisure suit. The rest of his look includes ""a Hawaiian shirt, a gold medallion, and a chest toupee because [Lowe] wanted him to be as out of it as possible."" Originally, Larry was a typical 16-colored sprite, although on box covers he was seen as a cartoon with huge triangular head and nose. Lowe said about Larry's nose: ""When we started, [Sierra artist] Mark Crowe gave me a choice:"
"announced the imminent opening of its first store in the United States, at 85 Mercer Street in New York’s SoHo district. In 1985 Nick Kamen starred in a celebrated Levi's advertisement, in which he removed his jeans in a launderette, to reveal a pair of white Sunspel boxer shorts. In 2006 Daniel Craig wore a Sunspel Riviera polo shirt in his first James Bond film, ""Casino Royale"". In 2016, the television football pundit Gary Lineker undertook to present the season-opening edition of ""Match of the Day"" in his underpants if Leicester City became Premier League Champions. He performed his promise"
"names, commenting, ""This Bond girl moniker was so good, they named the film after her!"" Octopussy Octopussy is a 1983 British spy film, the thirteenth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"", although the film's plot is original. It does, however, include a scene inspired by the Fleming short story ""The Property of a Lady"" (included in 1967 and later editions of ""Octopussy"
"given to Bond by Q, it was also a Geiger counter in the plot. ""Thunderball"" was the third James Bond score composed by John Barry, after ""From Russia with Love"" and ""Goldfinger"". The original title song was entitled ""Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang"", taken from an Italian journalist who in 1962 dubbed agent 007 as Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. The title theme was written by Barry and Leslie Bricusse; the song was originally recorded by Shirley Bassey, and later rerecorded by Dionne Warwick, whose version was not released until the 1990s. The song was removed from the title credits"
"movies, some of which are also printed in Kael's ""5001 Nights at the Movies"". In her note on the title which begins the book, Kael asserts that these words are ""perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this."" The title itself is a reference to the character of James Bond, who was often referred to as ""Mr Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang"" in international markets; the original theme song for the 1965 Bond film"
"one sacrifices in width and breadth one gains in depth. He decided that he enjoyed doing caricature the most, and took out ads featuring his caricature work in trade directories such as ""Showcase"" and ""Black Book"" (against the advice of publishers who insisted that depictions of children and products would be more marketable). These advertisements yielded his first notable advertising illustration, a full-page ad in the ""New York Times"" for ""On TV"", a satellite service presenting the 1979 James Bond film ""Moonraker"". By this time, Viviano was already working for many titles published by ""Scholastic Magazines"" (most notably ""Dynamite"" and"
"to launch a Bond themed promotional campaign complete with an actual car outfitted like the one in the book (but using smoke instead of tear gas). Some key plot elements in ""Licence Renewed"" may have had some influence on subsequent Bond films; most notably Anton Murik's plot of a nuclear disaster with the aid of an infamous terrorist which was the basis of ""The World Is Not Enough"". Other key elements from ""Renewed"" that appeared in future Bond films were Anton's cheating at horse racing, which Max Zorin did in ""A View to a Kill"", and the obsession with weapons,"
"titled ""Ian Fleming's Solo"" and later shortened to ""Solo"". However, in February 1964 a law firm representing James Bond movie producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli demanded an end to the use of Fleming's name in connection with the series and an end to use of the name and character ""Solo"", ""Napoleon Solo"" and ""Mr. Solo"". At that time filming was underway for the Bond movie ""Goldfinger"", in which Martin Benson was playing a supporting character named ""Mr. Solo"". The claim was the name ""Solo"" had been sold to them by Fleming, and Fleming could not again use it."
"was offered the role of James Bond, but the publicity improved ""Remington Steele""s ratings and it was renewed, requiring Brosnan to contractually return to the show, this caused Eon Productions to have to look elsewhere for the new 007. The producers instead hired Timothy Dalton for ""The Living Daylights"" (1987), and ""Licence to Kill"" (1989). While Brosnan was reluctant to discuss losing the Bond role, in part because Dalton was a friend, he appeared in Diet Coke commercials portraying what the ""Los Angeles Times"" described as ""a dashing Bond-like character"", and NBC advertised ""Noble House"" with Brosnan dressed in a"
"childhoods. In forming the early Bond character, Higson created the origins of some of Bond's character traits, including his love of cars and fine wine. Adaptations of Bond started early in Fleming's writings, with CBS paying him $1,000 ($ in dollars) to adapt his first novel, ""Casino Royale"", into a one-hour television adventure; this was broadcast on 21 October 1954. The Bond character, played by Barry Nelson, was changed to ""Card Sense"" Jimmy Bond, an American agent working for ""Combined Intelligence"". In 1957 the ""Daily Express"" newspaper adapted Fleming's stories into comic strip format. In order to help the artists,"
"played throughout the film as a substitute for the ""James Bond Theme"". A new recording of the classic theme, titled ""The Name's Bond…James Bond"", only plays during the end credits to signal the beginning of the character's new arc as the 21st century version of James Bond. Although that is the first time the theme is played in its entirety, the first bars of the song (the chord progression) appeared as a slow background music in seven moments throughout the movie: after Bond's conversation with M (during his flight), after winning the Aston Martin, when he makes his first appearance"
"James Bond movie ""Die Another Day"", ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966), ""The Man Who Haunted Himself"" (1970), Lindsay Anderson's ""O Lucky Man!"" (1973), ""The Avengers"" (1998), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (2002), ""Quantum of Solace"" (2008) and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (2009). It has also been used as the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel in the film adaptation of Stephen King's short story ""1408."" In the 1982 BBC television adaptation of ""Smiley's People"", based on the Cold War spy thriller by John le Carré, the titular character visits the Reform Club at the start of the third episode, spending an extended period of time in the"
"on the charts, which may partly be attributed to Bassey's failure to promote the single, given the last minute decision and the way in which it was quickly recorded to meet the schedule. As with ""We Have All the Time in the World"" back in 1969, Hal David wrote the lyrics. Paul Williams's original lyrics were discarded. Finally in 2005, Bassey sang the song for the first time outside James Bond on stage as part of a medley of her three Bond title songs. An instrumental strings version of the title theme was used in 2007 tourism commercials for the"
"Street, Westminster, is named after Bond. However, he may be best known today as the supposed ancestor of the fictional spy James Bond. His family motto """"Orbis non sufficit"""" is shown as Bond's family motto in the film ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", and also became the title for the Bond film ""The World Is Not Enough"". This motto was used previously by Philip II of Spain. A medal struck in 1583 bore the inscriptions """" (""Philip II, King of Spain and the New World"") and """" (""The world is not enough""). Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Bond"
"""Bond ... James Bond"", became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture: writers Cork and Scivally said of the introduction in ""Dr. No"" that the ""signature introduction would become the most famous and loved film line ever"". In 2001, it was voted as the ""best-loved one-liner in cinema"" by British cinema goers, and in 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series. The 2005 American Film Institute's '100 Years' series recognised the character of James Bond himself as the third"
"the opening sequence for the 1964 film ""Goldfinger"" shows clips from Bond films projected onto the gold-painted silhouette of actress Margaret Nolan: the titles have been described by Bond scholars Smith and Lavington as ""Gorgeous, iconic, seminal."" The concept for the titles came from designer Robert Brownjohn, who worked on ""From Russia with Love"" and ""Goldfinger"", before he fell out with producer Harry Saltzman and left the series. In creating the titles, Brownjohn was inspired by seeing light projecting on people's bodies as they got up and left a cinema; he was also influenced by constructivist artist László Moholy-Nagy projecting"
"included ""Death Waits for No Man"", ""Fire and Ice"", ""Pressure Point"" and ""Dangerously Yours"". The title ""The World Is Not Enough"" is an English translation of the Latin phrase ""Orbis non sufficit"", which in real life was the motto of Sir Thomas Bond. In the novel ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" and its film adaptation, this is revealed to be the Bond family motto.The phrase originates from the epitaph of Alexander the Great. The pre-title sequence begins in Bilbao, Spain, featuring the Guggenheim Museum. After the opening scene, the film moves to London, showcasing the SIS Building and the Millennium"
"instruction was honoured by the AFI as the 90th most-memorable cinema quotation. In order to distance his version of Bond from Sean Connery's, Roger Moore did not order a martini. The martini was present in the first Ian Fleming novel, ""Casino Royale"", where Bond eventually named it ""The Vesper"", after Vesper Lynd. The same recipe was then used for the 2006 film of the novel, with the martini ordered by Daniel Craig's Bond. Motifs in the James Bond film series The ""James Bond"" series of films contain a number of repeating, distinctive motifs which date from the series' inception with"
"fêted and socially connected designers from New York, Brownjohn fitted into the Swinging London scene effortlessly. He initially worked at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before leaving the firm to join McCann Erickson in 1962. It was in this year that Donna left Brownjohn, taking daughter Eliza, and moved to Ibiza. Brownjohn's career began to shift to working primarily with moving images. In 1963, the producers of the James Bond films approached Brownjohn after disagreements with film title designer Maurice Binder. Harry Saltzman asked Brownjohn to design the title sequence for the second James Bond film, ""From Russia with"
"as they ""form the backbone of the industry"". Television also saw the effect of Bond films, with the NBC series ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."", which was described as the ""first network television imitation"" of Bond, largely because Fleming provided advice and ideas on the development of the series, even giving the main character the name Napoleon Solo. Other 1960s television series inspired by Bond include ""I Spy"", and ""Get Smart"". A British cultural icon, by 2012, James Bond had become such a symbol of the United Kingdom that the character, played by Craig, appeared in the opening ceremony of the"
"the gun barrel sequence in the opening titles. A commercial for """" parodied the gun-barrel by replacing Bond with a man who resembled Valentin Zukovsky; he was shot at with a machine-gun before diving off-screen. It was used in a commercial for the video game """" asking, ""Do you have what it takes to be Bond?"", and showing people trying to repeat the shot, but spoiling the try. ""Nightfire"" and """" each use a version similar to the Pierce Brosnan films. ""From Russia with Love"" uses the Bob Simmons gun barrel from the film of the same name. In the"
"from Bond. As he asks for the caller's identity, Bond shoots him in the leg, then introduces himself: ""The name's Bond... James Bond."" ""Casino Royale"" includes a cameo by British entrepreneur Richard Branson (seen being frisked at Miami International Airport). The cameo was cut out of the in-flight versions shown on British Airways' in-flight entertainment systems, and the Virgin Atlantic aircraft Branson supplied had its tail fin (bearing the company logo) obscured. ""Casino Royale"" had been produced as a 1954 television episode and a 1967 satirical film. Eon Productions gained the rights to ""Casino Royale"" in 1999 after Sony Pictures"
"the James Bond title themes ""A View to a Kill"", ""The Living Daylights"", ""Licence to Kill"", ""GoldenEye"", ""Tomorrow Never Dies"", ""Die Another Day"" and ""Another Way to Die"" each feature their own variation of the gun barrel sequence. Because the gun barrel sequence is copyrighted by Eon, the non-Eon Bond film ""Never Say Never Again"", released by rival Warner Bros., instead employed a frame filled with 007's, with the camera zooming into the one in the middle of the screen. The sequence is commonly used in James Bond video games and their marketing. ""GoldenEye 007"" for the Nintendo 64 uses"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"made outside the control of Danjaq, the first was the 1967 film ""Casino Royale"", with David Niven as Bond; the second was the 1983 film ""Never Say Never Again"", a remake of ""Thunderball"". ""Never Say Never Again"" was the result of a legal dispute involving Kevin McClory, one of the credited co-writers of the story used for the novel ""Thunderball"", who was awarded the film rights to the novel in a 1963 settlement with Ian Fleming. On 13 July 2009 Danjaq applied under s.69(1)(b) of the Companies Act 2006 for a change of name of James Bond Ltd, which had"
"Motifs in the James Bond film series The ""James Bond"" series of films contain a number of repeating, distinctive motifs which date from the series' inception with ""Dr. No"" in 1962. The series consists of twenty four films produced by Eon Productions featuring the James Bond character, a fictional British Secret Service agent. The most recent instalment is the 2015 film ""Spectre"", which was released in UK cinemas on 26 October 2015. There have also been two independently made features, the satirical ""Casino Royale"", released in 1967, and the 1983 film ""Never Say Never Again"". Whilst each element has not"
"we can't even tell you the title."" On November 10, 2008, The Weinstein Company announced that it would be re-launching the U.S. ad campaign for the film, with the main focus being a new poster that featured Rogen and Banks in a meadow with animals rendered in the style of children's animated cartoons. However, the new poster also took a jab at the controversy surrounding the image of the second poster—namely the controversy surrounding the use of the word ""porno"" in an image so seemingly kid-friendly—by including the statement ""A poster for everyone who finds our movie title hard to"
"the time, Moby's highest-peaking single on the chart. The song features two samples of dialogue from the Bond films: Pierce Brosnan saying ""Bond, James Bond"" as heard in ""GoldenEye"", and the conversation between Bond and Auric Goldfinger in ""Goldfinger"": ""Do you expect me to talk?"" / ""No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."" James Bond Theme The ""James Bond Theme"" is the main signature theme of the James Bond films and has featured in every Eon Productions Bond film since ""Dr. No"", released in 1962. The piece has been used as an accompanying fanfare to the gun barrel sequence"