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Sir Roger Moore, having given us the suave secret agent in For Your Eyes Only, seemed poised to hang up his Walther PPK. His hesitant tango with the character led to what could only be described as a media frenzy, with the likes of Timothy Dalton and Lewis Collins sliding into the list of potential Bonds. Then there’s Lois Maxwell, our beloved Miss Moneypenny, who never fails to sprinkle her own brand of charm. Yet, in a delicious twist, when the camera settles on an enchanting woman, it’s not actually Moneypenny, but her new assistant, Penelope Smallbone, brought to life by Michaela Clavell. Octopussy has some similarities to Pussy Galore, both in her name, and also being the leader of an all female criminal gang disguised as a kind of circus.

Thomas, Kevin (10 June 1983). " 'Octopussy' Fulfills The 007 Formula". Los Angeles Times. Part IV, pp. 9, 15. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Questions With Sybil Danning". Battle Royale With Cheese. 7 May 2012. Archived from the original on 15 May 2018 . Retrieved 7 May 2017. Earlier in Khan's palace and later in Octopussy's palace, Bond finds out that Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Soviet treasures, replacing them with replicas while Khan has been smuggling the real versions into the West via Octopussy's circus troupe. Orlov is planning to meet Khan at Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in East Germany, where the circus is scheduled to perform.

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Corliss, Richard (27 June 1983). "Cinema: The Bond Wagon Crawls Along". Time. Archived from the original on 4 July 2023 . Retrieved 3 July 2023. In the first story, Bond is investigating an an irregularity involving Major Dexter Smythe, who lives in Jamaica and toys with a local octopus, he calls “Pussy”. 15 years earlier, at the end of the war, Smythe was a member of a unit gathering up stray Nazis. Bond has arrived to ask him what he recalls about one particular event. Bond is acting as a cop or someone in internal affairs in this story. He is not a spy. No cliché is left unmolested. The streets swell with snake charmers, sword swallowers, fire eaters, fakirs on nail beds, and multi-coloured saris bursting out. Bond makes a quip about curry and everyone winces.

Steven Berkoff as General Orlov, a renegade Soviet general who works with Khan to bomb a US airbase.In summary, the Octopussy ensemble is an alchemical concoction of stars, daredevils, and acrobats. Despite initial stumbles with casting its hero, the end result is a cadre of luminous talents, each pouring their essence into a Bond movie that’s as kaleidoscopic and silly as it is unforgettable. This covers the Faberge egg auction scene, though the reason Bond is there is a little different. He's trying to flush out a KGB agent, the boss of a double agent they know of in MI6 whom they've been feeding info to for three years. She is a useful tool, but they'd love to get rid of the boss, and the auction would give them a chance to discover his identity. The book also has some illustrations which use dots to create profiles of weapons, cars among others. I liked the designs. The Living Daylights": My favorite of the three stories finds Bond in Berlin with a sniper rifle, tasked with eliminating a KGB assassin sent to kill a double agent trying to escape to the west. As he awaits the moment of truth, Bond tries to come to terms with a mission where he's expected to kill in cold blood -- something he finds distasteful. He attempts to take joy in life, which usually comes easy to him, but the dark cloud of his looming murder hangs over him, and he can't shake it... until he sees a pretty girl with a cello. Bond falls in love with her -- well, not really, but he is intoxicated. Likely, he is clinging to the promise of happiness, of the greatest pleasure in life, in the face of his rendezvous with death. When he discovers that the beautiful cellist is the assassin, he makes a split-second decision that may surprise anyone who hasn't seen the movie. Why Bond doesn't kill her is likely a mix of different factors. First, his well-established weakness is women and his drive to protect them. But more than that, the cellist was Bond's tether to life, the assurance that he was more than just a killer, and now he's being asked to kill her, and effectively kill the last shred of humanity in himself as he does. So Bond flips everyone the bird and spares both her life and his own soul, settling for scaring the living daylights out of her. a b Fraser, George MacDonald (2019). "Shooting Script 8 – You Want to Put Bond in a Gorilla Suit?". The Light's on at Signpost. HarperCollins. pp.234–46. ISBN 978-0008337285.

The book originally contained two stories, " Octopussy" and " The Living Daylights", with subsequent editions also including " The Property of a Lady" and then " 007 in New York". The stories were first published in different publications, with "Octopussy" first serialised in the Daily Express in October 1965. "The 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; while "007 in New York" first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in October 1963.Bond meets Vijay and Sadruddin (Albert Moses), head of MI6 station in India, assigned to assist Bond. They tell him that the octopus tattoo on Magda is from Octopussy. Seiko G757 Sports 100 watch containing a radio directional finder and liquid crystal television watch top secret Bond locations around Britain". The Telegraph. 28 October 2015. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017 . Retrieved 19 July 2023.

Following For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore had expressed a desire to retire from the role of James Bond. His original contract had been for three films ( Live and Let Die in 1973, The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974 and The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977) which was fulfilled. Moore's following two films ( Moonraker in 1979 and For Your Eyes Only in 1981) were negotiated on a film-by-film basis. Given his reluctance to return for Octopussy, the producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next Bond, with Timothy Dalton and Lewis Collins [5] being suggested as a replacement and screen tests carried out with Michael Billington, Oliver Tobias, and American actor James Brolin. [6] However, when rival Bond production Never Say Never Again was announced, the producers persuaded Moore to continue in the role as it was thought the established actor would fare better against former Bond Sean Connery. [9] It has been reported that Brolin had actually been hired and was on the point of moving to London to begin work on Octopussy, while Broccoli refused to dispute Tobias's public statements that he was about to be cast as Bond. [10] [6]

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The pre-title sequence was originally to take place in Moonraker (along with the concept of twin knife-throwing assassins) over the Angel Falls, but this was shelved after the river-bed dried up.