History Trivia / AViewToAKill

** The story also flows somewhat similiar to that of "Film/{{Live And Let Die}}" as it begins out with Bond sleeping with a member of an intelligence service, replacing the Italian agent with a member of [=MI6=]. Also, May Day has replaced Rosie as the black woman Bond sleeps.

** The story also flows somewhat similiar to that of "Film/{{LiveandLetDie}}" as it begins out with Bond sleeping with a member of an intelligence service, replacing the Italian agent with a member of MI6. Also, May Day has replaced Rosie as the black woman Bond sleeps.

* RecycledScript: The story is a lot like ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', replacing gold with microchips and Fort Knox with Silicon Valley. The part where Zorin illustrates his plan to his criminal investors with a miniature model in the middle of a boardroom table and having his dragon kill the investor who wants no part of it is a dead giveaway. The villains are even introduced the same way: cheating at a gambling pasttime.

** Manning Redwood, who played Zorin's chief geologist Bob Conley, showed up as General Miller 2 years earlier in ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''.

** ''007 And A View Of Death'' (or ''007 And The Look of Death'') (Finland)

** ''Dangerously Yours'' (Canada & France) [[note]]As a ShoutOut of sorts to the French title of Creator/RogerMoore's series ''Series/ThePersuaders'' (which was very Popular in France). Said title translates as ''Amicably Yours''.[[/note]]

** Creator/RogerMoore considered ''A View to a Kill'' to be the worst film of his 12-year tenure as James Bond. He felt he was too old for the role and should have left the franchise a few years earlier, being particularly uncomfortable acting with actresses with half of his age (Creator/TanyaRoberts was 28 years younger than him) and joking later "I was only about four-hundred years too old for the part". In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the mine workers.

** Creator/RogerMoore considered ''A View to a Kill'' to be the worst film of his 12-year tenure as James Bond. He felt he was too old for the role and should have left the franchise a few years earlier, being particularly uncomfortable acting with actresses with half of his age (Creator/TanyaRoberts was 28 years younger than him; he was considerably disturbed to learn he was older than her ''mother!'') and joking later "I was only about four-hundred years too old for the part". In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the mine workers.

** Creator/RogerMoore considered ''A View to a Kill'' to be the worst film of his 12-year tenure as James Bond. He felt he was too old for the role and should have left the franchise a few years earlier, being particularly uncomfortable acting with actresses with half of his age (Creator/TanyaRoberts was 28 years younger than him) and joking later "I was only about four-hundred years too old for the part". In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the mine workers.

** Manning Redwood, who played Zorin's chief geologist Bob Conley, showed up as General Miller 2 years earlier in ''Film//NeverSayNeverAgain''.

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/MaryStavin appeared in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' as one of Octopussy's girls and also in ''A View to a Kill'' as Kimberley Jones, a UsefulNotes/{{MI6}} agent.

* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/MaryStavin appeared in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' as one of Octopussy's girls and also in ''A View to a Kill'' as Kimberley Jones, a MI6 agent.

** Bond being bailed out of a Paris jail by M following his taxi chase of May Day. The scene shows Bond collecting his personal effects, including the wristwatch with garrote wire from ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', the ink pen filled with acid from ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', and a cigarette lighter that's a flame thrower.

* AbilityOverAppearance: Sir Godfrey Tibbett was originally a jockey. Creator/PatrickMacnee was considered too big for the part, so his character was changed to a horse trainer.