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The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough film poster
James Bond
Pierce Brosnan
Also starring
Sophie MarceauRobert CarlyleDenise RichardsJudi Dench
Directed by
Michael Apted
Produced by
Barbara BroccoliMichael G. Wilson
Novel/Story by
Neal Purvis &Robert Wade
Screenplay
Neal Purvis &Robert Wadeand Bruce Feirstein
Cinematography by
Adrian Biddle
Music by
David Arnold
Main theme
The World Is Not Enough
Composer
David ArnoldDon Black
Performer
Garbage
Editing by
Jim Clark
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released
November 19, 1999
Running time
128 min.
Budget
$135,000,000
Worldwide gross
$362,000,000
Preceded by
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Followed by
Die Another Day (2002)
IMDb profile
The World Is Not Enough (released in 1999) is the nineteenth entry in the James Bond series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Michael Apted, with the original story and screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein.[1] It was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
The title The World Is Not Enough traces its origins to the English translation of the Latin phrase Orbis non sufficit, revealed in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service and its film adaptation to be the Bond family motto. In the film, Bond is assigned to kill Renard, a terrorist who plans to permanently disrupt petroleum shipments from the Caspian Sea by causing the meltdown of a nuclear submarine in the waters of Istanbul.
Although the film had a mixed critical reception, it earned over $361 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing James Bond film at that time.
Contents[hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Filming
3.2 Music
4 Release and reception
5 Adaptations
6 References
7 External links
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[edit] Plot
Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and close friend of M, is killed by a bomb attack inside MI6 Headquarters. The assassin was working under orders from Renard, a terrorist who survived an assassination attempt by 009, but was left with a bullet lodged in his brain. As the bullet eliminates his sense of pain and touch, Renard will continually gain strength until he inevitably dies. M assigns James Bond to protect King's daughter, Elektra; Renard previously abducted and held Elektra for ransom, and it is believed that he has once again targeted her. Elektra assumes control of her father's business at a pivotal time, overseeing construction of an oil pipeline that would travel through the Caucasus, from the Caspian Sea to Turkey.
Meanwhile, Bond discovers that her security guards are secretly affiliated to Renard and follows them to a former Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. There, Renard steals a quantity of weapons-grade plutonium. After Bond fails to intercept him, Renard leaves him to die in the booby-trapped missile silo. Bond escapes the ensuing explosion with American nuclear physicist Christmas Jones in tow. Meanwhile, Bond grows suspicious of Elektra, as Renard had said to him "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive," a comment that Elektra had made earlier in the film. When he returns to Elektra, she denies working with Renard.
Both return to the King pipeline, where they discover that Renard has planted a nuclear bomb inside one of its sections. The bomb is latched to a cleaning rig which is headed toward the pipeline's oil terminal. Bond and Jones enter the pipeline using a spare rig and chase it. Just as Jones attempts to defuse it, Bond realizes that only half of the plutonium has been used and tells her to leave the bomb to explode. Bond radios in and learns that M has been captured; he instantly surmises that Elektra has been working with Renard all along. Since the bomb explodes, Elektra assumes that Bond has died.
James Bond with Elektra King
It becomes clear that Elektra is only interested in acquiring the other half of the plutonium. Renard has hijacked a Russian Victor III class nuclear submarine; Elektra and Renard's plan is to introduce the remaining plutonium to the submarine's nuclear reactor, overloading it and causing a meltdown in the Bosporus at Istanbul, killing at least eight million people and contaminating the Bosporus for decades. The result would prevent shipment of Caspian Sea petroleum through any existing route for tankers through the Bosporus. The only viable alternative would be the King pipeline.
Bond teams up with Valentin Zukovsky to track down Renard and Elektra. One of Zukovsky's trusted henchmen, Bullion, plants a bomb in his operations room; Bond and Jones manage to escape severe injury, but are captured by Elektra. Bond is taken to King's hideout, placed in restraints, and tortured for King's pleasure. Jones is given to Renard as a parting gift and taken aboard the submarine. An injured Zukovsky arrives at Elektra's hideout and kills the traitorous Bullion. Storming into Elektra's room, Zukovsky demands to know where the hijacked submarine is, since his nephew is the captain.
Renard presents Elektra with weapons-grade plutonium.
Seeing the a naval hat on a nearby table, he realizes that his nephew is dead. Elektra shoots Zukovsky and continues to torture Bond. Before dying, Zukovsky shoots one of the bands holding Bond to the torture device. Bond escapes and chases Elektra through her house, pausing momentarily to free M. He catches up with Elektra, and tells her to tell Renard to call off the explosion and shoots her when she disobeys.
Bond reunites with Jones on board the submarine and sabotages its controls after a brief battle with Renard's men. He delivers a few blows to Renard but the latter does not feel them and gains the upper hand. However, Renard is impaled with a plutonium rod moments before the reactor room ignites. Bond and Jones swim out as the submarine explodes.
[edit] Cast
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond(007): British Secret Agent and protagonist
Sophie Marceau as Elektra King: An oil heiress who wants to make her mark on the world by sealing an oil trade route with a nuclear explosion.
Robert Carlyle as Renard: A Soviet terrorist, Elektra's kidnapper and her father's killer.
Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones: a nuclear physicist assisting Bond in his mission.[2] The name follows in the tradition of other Bond girls names that are double entendres.[3] Richards stated that she liked the role which was "brainy", "athletic", and had "depth of character, in contrast to Bond girls from previous decades."[4]
Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Zukovsky: a Russian mafia head who aides Bond in order to rescue his nephew from Renard's captivity.
Judi Dench as M: The strict head of MI6.
Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary
Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's "quartermaster" who supplies Bond with multi-purpose vehicles and gadgets useful for the latter's mission. It was Llewelyn's last appearance as Q before his death on December 20, 1999.[5]
John Cleese as R: Q's assistant
Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Giulietta da Vinci (Cigar Girl): An assassin working for Renard.
[edit] Production
Russian Hotel Class Submarine used in filming of The World Is Not Enough
The pre-title sequence lasts for about 14 minutes, the longest pre-title sequence in the Bond series to date. In the "making of" documentaries on the Ultimate Edition DVD release, director Michael Apted said that the scene was originally much longer than that. Actually, the pre-credits sequence was to have ended with Bond's leap from the window and descent to the ground, finishing as Bond rushes away from the area as police cars approach. Then, after the credits the sequence in MI6 headquarters would have been next with the boat scenes the next major action sequence. However, the pre-credits scenes were viewed as lackluster when compared to ones from previous 007 movies, so the credits were pushed back to after the boat sequence and thus the longest pre-titles sequence in the series was born. The Daily Telegraph claimed that the British Government prevented some filming in front of the actual MI6 Headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, citing a security risk. However, a Foreign Office spokesperson refuted the claims and expressed displeasure with the misleading article.[6]
Initially the film was to be released in 2000 and the title Bond 2000 was a rumored option. Other rumored titles included Death Waits for No Man, Fire and Ice, Pressure Point and Dangerously Yours.[7] The actual working title, as with all 007 movies was Bond 19 as it is always "Bond" followed by which number this Bond movie is.
[edit] Filming
Brosnan with his BMW Z8 in the film. The backdrop is intended to be Azerbaijan
The introduction to the film was set in Bilbao, Spain, and the Guggenheim Museum featured in the film. The later scene in the introduction was set in London, England, with the SIS Building and Millennium Dome on the river Thames. Eilean Donan castle in Scotland was used in the film by MI6 as a temporary headquarters. Locations then included Baku, Azerbaijan, the Kazakhstan Oil Rocks and Istanbul, Turkey, where the Maiden's Tower featured.[8]
The studio work for the film was shot as usual in Pinewood Studios including Albert R. Broccoli's 007 Stage. Bilbao, Spain was used briefly for the exterior of Swiss bank and flyover-bridge adjacent to the Guggenheim Museum. In London outdoor footage was shot of the SIS Building and Vauxhall Cross with several weeks filming the boat chase on River Thames eastwards towards the Millennium Dome, Greenwich. The canal footage of the chase where Bond soaks the parking attendant was filmed at Wapping and the boat stunts in Millwall Dock and under Glengall Bridge were filmed at the Isle of Dogs. Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, was used as the site of the King family estate on banks of Loch Lomond. Filming was then shot in Scotland at the Eilean Donan Castle to depict the exterior of MI6 temporary operations centre at "Castle Thane". The skiing chase sequence in Carpathian mountains was shot on the slopes of Chamonix, France.[8]
Much of the filming for Baku, Azerbaijan, in the film was shot at Halton House, RAF Halton, and the interior (and single exterior shot) of L'Or Noir casino in Baku. RAF Northolt was used to depict the airfield runway in Azerbaijan.[8]
The Q Boat stunt on the River Thames
The exterior of Kazakhstan nuclear facility was shot at the Bardenas Reales, in Navarre, Spain, and the exterior of oil refinery control centre in Swindon, United Kingdom. The exterior of oil pipeline was filmed in Cwm Dyli, Snowdonia, Wales, while the production teams shot the oil pipeline explosion in Hankley Common, Elstead, Surrey. Istanbul, Turkey, was indeed used in the film and Elektra King's Baku villa was actually in the city, also using the famous Maiden's Tower which was used as Renard's hideout in Turkey. The underwater submarine scenes were filmed in The Bahamas.[9]
[edit] Music
Main article: The World Is Not Enough (soundtrack)
The World Is Not Enough is the second Bond soundtrack composed by David Arnold, released in 1999.[10] Arnold broke tradition by not ending the film with a reprise of the opening theme or, as with the previous three films, a new song. Originally, Arnold intended to use the song "Only Myself to Blame" at the end of the film, however, Apted discorded and the song was replaced by a techno remix of "The James Bond Theme".[11] "Only Myself to Blame", written by Arnold & Don Black and sung by Scott Walker, is the nineteenth and final track on the album and its melody is the theme for the character Elektra King; it is heard in "Casino", "Elektra's Theme" and "I Never Miss".[11] Arnold added two new themes with this score, both of which are reused in the subsequent Die Another Day.
The title song, "The World Is Not Enough", was written by Arnold & Black and performed by Garbage. It was the fifth Bond title theme written by Black after "Thunderball",[12] "Diamonds Are Forever",[13] "The Man With The Golden Gun"[14] and Tomorrow Never Dies.[15] Garbage also contributed to the music heard during the chase sequence ("Ice Bandits"), which was released as the B-side to their single release of the theme song. IGN chose "The World Is Not Enough" as the ninth-best James Bond theme of all time.[16] The song also appeared in two "best of 1999" polls: #87 in 89X's "Top 89 Songs of 1999"[17] and #100 in Q101's "Top 101 of 1999".[18]
[edit] Release and reception
The World Is Not Enough premiered on November 18, 1999, in the USA and on November 26, 1999, in the UK.[19] At that time MGM signed a marketing partnership with MTV, primarily for American youths, who were assumed to have considered Bond as "an old-fashioned secret service agent". As a result MTV broadcast more than 100 hours of Bond-related programmes immediately after the film was released, most being presented by Denise Richards.[20]
The film grossed $361 million worldwide, with $126 million in the United States alone, becoming the highest grossing James Bond film of all time until the release of Die Another Day.[21] The opening weekend collections in USA were $35.5 million.[22] The film was also selected for the first round of nominations for the Academy Award for Best Special Effects but failed.[23] The film was nominated for a Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film Saturn Award, Pierce Brosnan won both the Empire Award and the Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Best Actor, and David Arnold won a BMI Film Music Award for his score. Denise Richards was chosen as "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 1999 Razzie Awards.[24]
The film was released in DVD and VHS on May 16, 2000, and sold over 5 million copies.[25] The initial DVD included the featurette "Secrets of 007", which cuts into making of material during the movie; the documentary "The Making of The World Is Not Enough"; a commentary track by director Michael Apted, and other by production designer Peter Lamont, second unit director Vic Armstrong, and composer David Arnold; a trailer for the video game and the Garbage music video.[26] The Ultimate Edition released in 2006 had as additional extras a 2000 documentary named "Bond Cocktail", a featurette on shooting the Q Boat scenes, Pierce Brosnan in a press conference in Hong Kong, deleted scenes, and a tribute to Desmond Llewelyn.[27]
Reception was mixed; Rotten Tomatoes listed The World Is Not Enough with a 53% "rotten" rating, [28] while Metacritic gave the film a score of 59 out of 100.[29] Critic Roger Ebert said the film was a "splendid comic thriller, exciting and graceful, endlessly inventive", and gave it three and a half stars out of four.[30] Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on the other hand, disliked the film, calling it "dated and confused".[31]
Negative criticism was drawn at the execution of the plot and action scenes which were considered excessive.[32] Richards was criticised as not being credible in the role of a nuclear scientist.[33][34] Her outfit comprising a tank top and shorts also met a similar reaction.[35] She was ranked as the worst Bond girl of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2008.[36] Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the third worst Bond movie, above A View to a Kill and Licence to Kill,[37] while IGN chose it as the fifth worst.[38]
[edit] Adaptations
Main articles: The World Is Not Enough (novel) and The World Is Not Enough (video game)
The World Is Not Enough was adapted by then-current Bond novelist Raymond Benson from the screenplay. It was Benson's fourth James Bond novel and followed the story closely, except in some details, such as Elektra singing quietly before death and Bond still carrying his Walther PPK instead of the newer P99. The novel also gave the assassin a name: Giulietta da Vinci, and retained a scene between her and Renard that was cut from theatrical release.
In 2001, the film was adapted into a first-person shooter game of the same name by Electronic Arts for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. The World Is Not Enough would ultimately become the last James Bond game to appear on either console. The Nintendo 64 version was developed by Eurocom and the PlayStation version was developed by Black Ops, who had previously developed the Tomorrow Never Dies game and would later go on in 2002 to develop the Bond game Nightfire. Versions of The World Is Not Enough for the PC and the PlayStation 2 were planned for release in 2000, but cancelled.[39] These aforementioned versions would have used id Tech 3. This game marks the fifth appearance of Pierce Brosnan, the game included his likeness but not his voice.
[edit] References
Simpson, Paul (2002-11-07). The Rough Guide to James Bond. London: Rough Guides. ISBN 1-84353-142-9.
^ Simpson, p 26
^ Parker, Barry R. (2005). Death Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts & Supercars: The Fantastic Physics of Film's Most Celebrated Secret Agent. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-080188248-7.
^ LaSalle, Mick. "More Than 'Enough'", San Francisco Chronicle, 1999-11-19. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
^ Thomas, Rebecca. "One girl is not enough", BBC NEWS, 1999-11-19. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
^ "Desmond Llewelyn, Actor In Bond Films, Dies at 85", New York Times, 1999-12-20. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
^ Bond is backed... by the government. Guardian Unlimited (1999-04-27). Retrieved on 2007-12-29.
^ TWINE & The Rumoured Titles (2001-06-26). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
^ a b c Filming locations for The World Is Not Enough (1999). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
^ (1999). The Making of The World Is Not Enough [DVD]. Danjaq. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
^ "The World Is Not Enough" OST review. All Music Guide. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
^ a b David Arnold official website. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
^ (2003-02-25). Thunderball [Audio CD]. EMI. Retrieved on 2007-11-27. UPN: 7-2435-80589-2-5.
^ (2003-02-11). Diamonds Are Forever [Audio CD]. EMI. Retrieved on 2007-11-27. UPN: 7-2435-41420-2-4.
^ (2003-02-25). The Man With The Golden Gun [Audio CD]. EMI. Retrieved on 2007-11-27. UPN: 7-2435-41424-2-0.
^ (1997-11-25). Tomorrow Never Dies [Audio CD]. A&M Records. Retrieved on 2007-11-27. UPN: 7-3145-40830-2-7.
^ Spence D. (2006-11-17). Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs. IGN. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.
^ 89X's "Top 89 Songs of 1999. Rocklists.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
^ Q101's "Top 101 of 1999. Rocklists.com. Retrieved on 2007-03-02.
^ Bond 19: More than enough. BBC NEWS (1999-11-19). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
^ Selling a super spy. BBC NEWS (1999-11-19). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
^ James Bond movies. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
^ The World Is Not Enough. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
^ TWINE Could Be Up For An Oscar. Commanderbond.net (2000-01-04). Retrieved on 2007-10-01.
^ Awards for The World Is Not Enough. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-12-25.
^ MGM Celebrates One Year Of Profits. StudioBriefing, IMDb (2000-07-27). Retrieved on 2007-12-25.
^ The World Is Not Enough DVD review. TimeForDVD.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
^ The World Is Not Enough DVD & Soundtrack. UGO. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
^ The World Is Not Enough. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
^ The World Is Not Enough. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2007-12-26.
^ Ebert, Roger. The World is Not Enough. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved on 2007-12-17.
^ Gillespie, Eleanor Ringel. The World Is Not Enough. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
^ Matt Venendaal (2006-05-16). The World Is Not Enough (DVD) review. IGN. Retrieved on 2007-12-25.
^ Lisanti, Tom & Paul, Louis (2002), Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, ISBN 978-078641194-8
^ Howe, Desson, 1999-11-19, 'World': Bond without end, Washington Post.
^ Herincx, Gareth. "Bond 19: More than enough", BBC NEWS, 1999-11-19.
^ Rich, Joshua (2008-01-08). "James Bond Babes: Best and Worst". Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
^ Norman Wilner. Rating the Spy Game. MSN. Retrieved on 2007-12-25.
^ James Bond's Top 20. IGN (2006-11-17). Retrieved on 2007-12-25.
^ The World Is Not Enough preview (PS2). IGN. Retrieved on 2007-12-17.
For other uses, see The World Is Not Enough (disambiguation).
The World Is Not Enough
The World Is Not Enough film poster
James Bond
Pierce Brosnan
Also starring
Sophie MarceauRobert CarlyleDenise RichardsJudi Dench
Directed by
Michael Apted
Produced by
Barbara BroccoliMichael G. Wilson
Novel/Story by
Neal Purvis &Robert Wade
Screenplay
Neal Purvis &Robert Wadeand Bruce Feirstein
Cinematography by
Adrian Biddle
Music by
David Arnold
Main theme
The World Is Not Enough
Composer
David ArnoldDon Black
Performer
Garbage
Editing by
Jim Clark
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released
November 19, 1999
Running time
128 min.
Budget
$135,000,000
Worldwide gross
$362,000,000
Preceded by
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Followed by
Die Another Day (2002)
IMDb profile
The World Is Not Enough (released in 1999) is the nineteenth entry in the James Bond series, and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Michael Apted, with the original story and screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Bruce Feirstein.[1] It was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
The title The World Is Not Enough traces its origins to the English translation of the Latin phrase Orbis non sufficit, revealed in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service and its film adaptation to be the Bond family motto. In the film, Bond is assigned to kill Renard, a terrorist who plans to permanently disrupt petroleum shipments from the Caspian Sea by causing the meltdown of a nuclear submarine in the waters of Istanbul.
Although the film had a mixed critical reception, it earned over $361 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing James Bond film at that time.
Contents[hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Filming
3.2 Music
4 Release and reception
5 Adaptations
6 References
7 External links
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[edit] Plot
Sir Robert King, a British oil tycoon and close friend of M, is killed by a bomb attack inside MI6 Headquarters. The assassin was working under orders from Renard, a terrorist who survived an assassination attempt by 009, but was left with a bullet lodged in his brain. As the bullet eliminates his sense of pain and touch, Renard will continually gain strength until he inevitably dies. M assigns James Bond to protect King's daughter, Elektra; Renard previously abducted and held Elektra for ransom, and it is believed that he has once again targeted her. Elektra assumes control of her father's business at a pivotal time, overseeing construction of an oil pipeline that would travel through the Caucasus, from the Caspian Sea to Turkey.
Meanwhile, Bond discovers that her security guards are secretly affiliated to Renard and follows them to a former Russian ICBM base in Kazakhstan. There, Renard steals a quantity of weapons-grade plutonium. After Bond fails to intercept him, Renard leaves him to die in the booby-trapped missile silo. Bond escapes the ensuing explosion with American nuclear physicist Christmas Jones in tow. Meanwhile, Bond grows suspicious of Elektra, as Renard had said to him "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive," a comment that Elektra had made earlier in the film. When he returns to Elektra, she denies working with Renard.
Both return to the King pipeline, where they discover that Renard has planted a nuclear bomb inside one of its sections. The bomb is latched to a cleaning rig which is headed toward the pipeline's oil terminal. Bond and Jones enter the pipeline using a spare rig and chase it. Just as Jones attempts to defuse it, Bond realizes that only half of the plutonium has been used and tells her to leave the bomb to explode. Bond radios in and learns that M has been captured; he instantly surmises that Elektra has been working with Renard all along. Since the bomb explodes, Elektra assumes that Bond has died.
James Bond with Elektra King
It becomes clear that Elektra is only interested in acquiring the other half of the plutonium. Renard has hijacked a Russian Victor III class nuclear submarine; Elektra and Renard's plan is to introduce the remaining plutonium to the submarine's nuclear reactor, overloading it and causing a meltdown in the Bosporus at Istanbul, killing at least eight million people and contaminating the Bosporus for decades. The result would prevent shipment of Caspian Sea petroleum through any existing route for tankers through the Bosporus. The only viable alternative would be the King pipeline.
Bond teams up with Valentin Zukovsky to track down Renard and Elektra. One of Zukovsky's trusted henchmen, Bullion, plants a bomb in his operations room; Bond and Jones manage to escape severe injury, but are captured by Elektra. Bond is taken to King's hideout, placed in restraints, and tortured for King's pleasure. Jones is given to Renard as a parting gift and taken aboard the submarine. An injured Zukovsky arrives at Elektra's hideout and kills the traitorous Bullion. Storming into Elektra's room, Zukovsky demands to know where the hijacked submarine is, since his nephew is the captain.
Renard presents Elektra with weapons-grade plutonium.
Seeing the a naval hat on a nearby table, he realizes that his nephew is dead. Elektra shoots Zukovsky and continues to torture Bond. Before dying, Zukovsky shoots one of the bands holding Bond to the torture device. Bond escapes and chases Elektra through her house, pausing momentarily to free M. He catches up with Elektra, and tells her to tell Renard to call off the explosion and shoots her when she disobeys.
Bond reunites with Jones on board the submarine and sabotages its controls after a brief battle with Renard's men. He delivers a few blows to Renard but the latter does not feel them and gains the upper hand. However, Renard is impaled with a plutonium rod moments before the reactor room ignites. Bond and Jones swim out as the submarine explodes.
[edit] Cast
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond(007): British Secret Agent and protagonist
Sophie Marceau as Elektra King: An oil heiress who wants to make her mark on the world by sealing an oil trade route with a nuclear explosion.
Robert Carlyle as Renard: A Soviet terrorist, Elektra's kidnapper and her father's killer.
Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones: a nuclear physicist assisting Bond in his mission.[2] The name follows in the tradition of other Bond girls names that are double entendres.[3] Richards stated that she liked the role which was "brainy", "athletic", and had "depth of character, in contrast to Bond girls from previous decades."[4]
Robbie Coltrane as Valentin Zukovsky: a Russian mafia head who aides Bond in order to rescue his nephew from Renard's captivity.
Judi Dench as M: The strict head of MI6.
Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary
Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's "quartermaster" who supplies Bond with multi-purpose vehicles and gadgets useful for the latter's mission. It was Llewelyn's last appearance as Q before his death on December 20, 1999.[5]
John Cleese as R: Q's assistant
Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Giulietta da Vinci (Cigar Girl): An assassin working for Renard.
[edit] Production
Russian Hotel Class Submarine used in filming of The World Is Not Enough
The pre-title sequence lasts for about 14 minutes, the longest pre-title sequence in the Bond series to date. In the "making of" documentaries on the Ultimate Edition DVD release, director Michael Apted said that the scene was originally much longer than that. Actually, the pre-credits sequence was to have ended with Bond's leap from the window and descent to the ground, finishing as Bond rushes away from the area as police cars approach. Then, after the credits the sequence in MI6 headquarters would have been next with the boat scenes the next major action sequence. However, the pre-credits scenes were viewed as lackluster when compared to ones from previous 007 movies, so the credits were pushed back to after the boat sequence and thus the longest pre-titles sequence in the series was born. The Daily Telegraph claimed that the British Government prevented some filming in front of the actual MI6 Headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, citing a security risk. However, a Foreign Office spokesperson refuted the claims and expressed displeasure with the misleading article.[6]
Initially the film was to be released in 2000 and the title Bond 2000 was a rumored option. Other rumored titles included Death Waits for No Man, Fire and Ice, Pressure Point and Dangerously Yours.[7] The actual working title, as with all 007 movies was Bond 19 as it is always "Bond" followed by which number this Bond movie is.
[edit] Filming
Brosnan with his BMW Z8 in the film. The backdrop is intended to be Azerbaijan
The introduction to the film was set in Bilbao, Spain, and the Guggenheim Museum featured in the film. The later scene in the introduction was set in London, England, with the SIS Building and Millennium Dome on the river Thames. Eilean Donan castle in Scotland was used in the film by MI6 as a temporary headquarters. Locations then included Baku, Azerbaijan, the Kazakhstan Oil Rocks and Istanbul, Turkey, where the Maiden's Tower featured.[8]
The studio work for the film was shot as usual in Pinewood Studios including Albert R. Broccoli's 007 Stage. Bilbao, Spain was used briefly for the exterior of Swiss bank and flyover-bridge adjacent to the Guggenheim Museum. In London outdoor footage was shot of the SIS Building and Vauxhall Cross with several weeks filming the boat chase on River Thames eastwards towards the Millennium Dome, Greenwich. The canal footage of the chase where Bond soaks the parking attendant was filmed at Wapping and the boat stunts in Millwall Dock and under Glengall Bridge were filmed at the Isle of Dogs. Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, was used as the site of the King family estate on banks of Loch Lomond. Filming was then shot in Scotland at the Eilean Donan Castle to depict the exterior of MI6 temporary operations centre at "Castle Thane". The skiing chase sequence in Carpathian mountains was shot on the slopes of Chamonix, France.[8]
Much of the filming for Baku, Azerbaijan, in the film was shot at Halton House, RAF Halton, and the interior (and single exterior shot) of L'Or Noir casino in Baku. RAF Northolt was used to depict the airfield runway in Azerbaijan.[8]
The Q Boat stunt on the River Thames
The exterior of Kazakhstan nuclear facility was shot at the Bardenas Reales, in Navarre, Spain, and the exterior of oil refinery control centre in Swindon, United Kingdom. The exterior of oil pipeline was filmed in Cwm Dyli, Snowdonia, Wales, while the production teams shot the oil pipeline explosion in Hankley Common, Elstead, Surrey. Istanbul, Turkey, was indeed used in the film and Elektra King's Baku villa was actually in the city, also using the famous Maiden's Tower which was used as Renard's hideout in Turkey. The underwater submarine scenes were filmed in The Bahamas.[9]
[edit] Music
Main article: The World Is Not Enough (soundtrack)
The World Is Not Enough is the second Bond soundtrack composed by David Arnold, released in 1999.[10] Arnold broke tradition by not ending the film with a reprise of the opening theme or, as with the previous three films, a new song. Originally, Arnold intended to use the song "Only Myself to Blame" at the end of the film, however, Apted discorded and the song was replaced by a techno remix of "The James Bond Theme".[11] "Only Myself to Blame", written by Arnold & Don Black and sung by Scott Walker, is the nineteenth and final track on the album and its melody is the theme for the character Elektra King; it is heard in "Casino", "Elektra's Theme" and "I Never Miss".[11] Arnold added two new themes with this score, both of which are reused in the subsequent Die Another Day.
The title song, "The World Is Not Enough", was written by Arnold & Black and performed by Garbage. It was the fifth Bond title theme written by Black after "Thunderball",[12] "Diamonds Are Forever",[13] "The Man With The Golden Gun"[14] and Tomorrow Never Dies.[15] Garbage also contributed to the music heard during the chase sequence ("Ice Bandits"), which was released as the B-side to their single release of the theme song. IGN chose "The World Is Not Enough" as the ninth-best James Bond theme of all time.[16] The song also appeared in two "best of 1999" polls: #87 in 89X's "Top 89 Songs of 1999"[17] and #100 in Q101's "Top 101 of 1999".[18]
[edit] Release and reception
The World Is Not Enough premiered on November 18, 1999, in the USA and on November 26, 1999, in the UK.[19] At that time MGM signed a marketing partnership with MTV, primarily for American youths, who were assumed to have considered Bond as "an old-fashioned secret service agent". As a result MTV broadcast more than 100 hours of Bond-related programmes immediately after the film was released, most being presented by Denise Richards.[20]
The film grossed $361 million worldwide, with $126 million in the United States alone, becoming the highest grossing James Bond film of all time until the release of Die Another Day.[21] The opening weekend collections in USA were $35.5 million.[22] The film was also selected for the first round of nominations for the Academy Award for Best Special Effects but failed.[23] The film was nominated for a Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film Saturn Award, Pierce Brosnan won both the Empire Award and the Blockbuster Entertainment Award as Best Actor, and David Arnold won a BMI Film Music Award for his score. Denise Richards was chosen as "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 1999 Razzie Awards.[24]
The film was released in DVD and VHS on May 16, 2000, and sold over 5 million copies.[25] The initial DVD included the featurette "Secrets of 007", which cuts into making of material during the movie; the documentary "The Making of The World Is Not Enough"; a commentary track by director Michael Apted, and other by production designer Peter Lamont, second unit director Vic Armstrong, and composer David Arnold; a trailer for the video game and the Garbage music video.[26] The Ultimate Edition released in 2006 had as additional extras a 2000 documentary named "Bond Cocktail", a featurette on shooting the Q Boat scenes, Pierce Brosnan in a press conference in Hong Kong, deleted scenes, and a tribute to Desmond Llewelyn.[27]
Reception was mixed; Rotten Tomatoes listed The World Is Not Enough with a 53% "rotten" rating, [28] while Metacritic gave the film a score of 59 out of 100.[29] Critic Roger Ebert said the film was a "splendid comic thriller, exciting and graceful, endlessly inventive", and gave it three and a half stars out of four.[30] Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on the other hand, disliked the film, calling it "dated and confused".[31]
Negative criticism was drawn at the execution of the plot and action scenes which were considered excessive.[32] Richards was criticised as not being credible in the role of a nuclear scientist.[33][34] Her outfit comprising a tank top and shorts also met a similar reaction.[35] She was ranked as the worst Bond girl of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2008.[36] Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the third worst Bond movie, above A View to a Kill and Licence to Kill,[37] while IGN chose it as the fifth worst.[38]
[edit] Adaptations
Main articles: The World Is Not Enough (novel) and The World Is Not Enough (video game)
The World Is Not Enough was adapted by then-current Bond novelist Raymond Benson from the screenplay. It was Benson's fourth James Bond novel and followed the story closely, except in some details, such as Elektra singing quietly before death and Bond still carrying his Walther PPK instead of the newer P99. The novel also gave the assassin a name: Giulietta da Vinci, and retained a scene between her and Renard that was cut from theatrical release.
In 2001, the film was adapted into a first-person shooter game of the same name by Electronic Arts for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. The World Is Not Enough would ultimately become the last James Bond game to appear on either console. The Nintendo 64 version was developed by Eurocom and the PlayStation version was developed by Black Ops, who had previously developed the Tomorrow Never Dies game and would later go on in 2002 to develop the Bond game Nightfire. Versions of The World Is Not Enough for the PC and the PlayStation 2 were planned for release in 2000, but cancelled.[39] These aforementioned versions would have used id Tech 3. This game marks the fifth appearance of Pierce Brosnan, the game included his likeness but not his voice.
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