History Trivia / AViewToAKill

** ''Moving Target'' (Italy)

** ''007 In The Target Of The Assassins'' (Portugal and Brazil)

* AwesomeDearBoy: In a interview made during the production, when asked about the "personality, brains and acting talent" of Bond Girls, Creator/TanyaRoberts said that the James Bond scripts "don't give you that king of room to manoeuvre. People don't go to the Bond films to see characterisation. Why should they?". In the same interview, she also said that, despite this, she was a big fan of the franchise.

** Creator/RogerMoore made it no secret that he didn't get on with Creator/GraceJones.
-->If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything. So I will say nothing about Grace Jones.
** He and the crew also did not get along with Creator/TanyaRoberts due to her diva-like behavior. For example, when she and Bond have to steal a set of miner's overalls in order to infiltrate the BigBad's operation, Roberts refused to film the scene until she had a pair of custom-made overalls that flattered her figure. When Bond sees her and says "Pity you couldn't find one that fits", that was an ad-lib from Moore, lampshading the unlikelihood of there being many petite-framed women working in a mine. The dirty look she gave him was real, and the producers [[ThrowItIn kept the scene]] as a TakeThat to her entitled attitude.

* StarDerailingRole: Creator/TanyaRoberts spent the first half of the 80s as a sex symbol in TV series and movies like ''Series/CharliesAngels'', ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' and ''Film/{{Sheena}}''. She believed that ''A View to a Kill'' would be her last blockbuster and that she would win more serious roles after that. However, her performance as Stacey Sutton made this the first Bond movie to get nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward. That added with the negative reviews essentially drowned her cinematic career immediately. ''A View to a Kill'' ended up being the last successful film of her career, and the only remarkable job she had after that was in ''Series/That70sShow'', from 1998 until 2004. She retired from acting in 2005.

* StarDerailingRole: Creator/TanyaRoberts spent the first half of the 80s as a sex symbol in TV series and movies like ''Series/CharliesAngels'', ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' and ''Film/{{Sheena}}''. She believed that "A View to a Kill" would be her last blockbuster and that she would win more serious roles after that. However, her performance as Stacey Sutton made this the first Bond movie to get nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward. That added with the negative reviews essentially drowned her cinematic career immediately. "A View to a Kill" ended up being the last successful film of her career, and the only remarkable job she had after that was in ''Series/That70sShow'', from 1998 until 2004. She retired from acting in 2005.

* StarDerailingRole: Creator/TanyaRoberts spent the first half of the 80s as a sex symbol in TV series and movies like ''Series/CharliesAngels'', ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' and ''Film/{{Sheena}}''. She believed that "A View to a Kill" would be her last blockbuster and that she would win more serious roles after that. However, her performance as Stacey Sutton made this the first Bond movie to get nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward. That added with
the negative reviews essentially drowned her cinematic career immediately. "A View to a Kill" ended up being the last successful film of her career, and the only remarkable job she had after that was in ''Series/That70sShow'', from 1998 until 2004. She retired from acting in 2005.

* AwesomeDearBoy: In a interview made during the production, when asked about the "personality, brains and acting" talent of Bond Girls, Creator/TanyaRoberts said that the James Bond scripts "don't give you that king of room to manoeuvre. People don't go to the Bond films to see characterisation. Why should they?". In the same interview, she also said that, despite this, she was a big fan of the franchise.

* StarDerailingRole: Creator/TanyaRoberts spent the first half of the 80s as a sex symbol in TV series and movies like ''Series/CharliesAngels'', ''Film/TheBeastmaster'' and ''Film/{{Sheena}}''. But her performance as Stacey Sutton made this the first Bond movie to get nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward. The problems that the crew had to work with her and the negative reviews that her acting received essentially drowned her cinematic career immediately, and the only remarkable job she had after that was in ''Series/That70sShow'', in 1998.

** Averted, as the entire second act was filmed on location in San Francisco. The crew even got permission to do an on-location simulated burning of City Hall with gas jets. Stacey Sutton's house is the real life Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate in Oakland.
** Inversion: Zorin's 'Main Strike' mine, supposedly in California, was filmed at Amberley Working Museum in West Sussex, England.

** When Stacey comes out of the shack in Silicon Valley wearing a pair of coveralls, Bond comments "Pity you couldn't find one that fits" and Stacey gives him a dirty look. This scene was not in the script. Creator/RogerMoore ad-libbed the line and Creator/TanyaRoberts' reaction was genuine; because Creator/TanyaRoberts had refused to film the scene until the wardrobe department made her a pair of custom-fitted coveralls that would look flattering on her. And, because Creator/TanyaRoberts was so difficult to work with, the director decided to leave it in.

** Averted by Stacey Sutton, who is described in the script to be in her early thirties, which matches Creator/TanyaRoberts, who was thirty at the time of this film's release.

** Averted by Stacey Sutton, who is described in the script to be in her early thirties, which matches Creator/TanyaRoberts,, who was thirty.
** James Bond is supposed to be between 35 and 40 years in the novels and most of the movies. Roger Moore was 57 years old at the time of this film.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Music/DavidBowie turned down the role of Zorin, which explains the presence of Creator/GraceJones (the directors wanted to bring in a pop singer to attract young people to the film); ultimately, he chose ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' instead. Bowie later explained that he thought the script was too "terrible" and "workmanlike" to spend much time working on and he told them so. He also said his directness wasn't received very well by them.
** The role was also offered to Music/{{Sting}} and Creator/RutgerHauer.
** The producers wanted to bring back Creator/BarbaraBach as Major Anya Amasova from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. After Bach declined, the part was changed into Pola Ivanova.
** Creator/MaryamDabo screen-tested for the role of Pola Ivanova, but was rejected for being too young for the part. She would be the main Bond girl as Kara Milovy in the next Bond film ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''.
** Creator/BoDerek was considered for the role of Stacey Sutton.
** Felix Leiter was originally going to be Bond's contact in San Francisco. However, owing to Chinatown being such a prominent part of the city, Chuck Lee was created instead.
** Creator/GeorgeMacDonaldFraser, who co-wrote ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', was asked to write this film, but he declined.
** This was Creator/LoisMaxwell's final appearance as Miss Moneypenny. Apparently, after she was told that she would be retiring from the role, she thought that she could become the M character as a promotion. However, at the time producer Albert R. Broccoli believed that audiences would not accept James Bond being given orders by a woman. Maxwell also suggested that Moneypenny be killed off.
** Zorin's scheme originally involved redirecting Haley's Comet. This was scrapped for being too ridiculous.
** Originally, Bond was to have used the electronic snooping device created by Q to break into Zorin's pumping station. When the device is threatened by guard dogs, it sprays them, skunk-like, with a noxious liquid, and then gets stuck in a tunnel. Q later berates Bond for deserting "a fellow agent in the field."

** Creator/RogerMoore considered ''A View to a Kill'' the worst film of his era and a bit of an OldShame for the rest of his life. He admitted that 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). In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the workers of the mine.

** Creator/RogerMoore considered ''A View to a Kill'' the worst film of his era and a bit of an OldShame. He admitted that 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). In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the workers of the mine.

** For the rest of his life, Creator/RogerMoore considered ''A View to a Kill'' the worst film of his era. He admitted that 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). In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the workers of the mine.

* OldShame: The least favorite film from his tenure, Creator/RogerMoore regretted making this movie for many reasons. Besides realizing he was too old to be Bond, he was appalled with the scene where the mine is destroyed as Zorin guns down the surviving workers.

** Creator/RogerMoore has never made a point of hiding that he considers this the worst movie of his era. He admits that 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). In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the workers of the mine.

* FakeRussian: The KGB agent Pola Ivanova is played by a Brit born in Nigeria, Fiona Fullerton.

** Creator/RogerMoore had been hostile to this movie from Day One thanks to having become too old to play Bond convincingly by the time they started shooting.

** Stacey getting fired.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When May Day screams during the mine sequence when sparks fly around her, her screams are for real. Grace Jones didn't know that sparks would go off from the electric cables around her as a special effect for the scene.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/RogerMoore made it no secret that he didn't get on with Creator/GraceJones.

* StarDerailingRole: Creator/TanyaRoberts' performance in the film made this the first Bond movie to get nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward. The inability to work with her and her poor acting essentially drowned her cinematic career immediately, though she got ''Series/That70sShow'' in 1998.

** When Stacey comes out of the shack in Silicon Valley wearing a pair of coveralls, Bond comments "Pity you couldn't find one that fits" and Stacey gives him a dirty look. This scene was not in the script. Creator/RogerMoore ad-libbed the line and Creator/TanyaRoberts' reaction was genuine; because Tanya Roberts had refused to film the scene until the wardrobe department made her a pair of custom-fitted coveralls that would look flattering on her. And, because Tanya Roberts was so difficult to work with, the director decided to leave it in.
** In the scene where May Day disrobes before sleeping with Bond, Grace Jones wore a diseased-looking strap-on dildo into the scene just to mess with Moore. His reaction is genuine.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Between the Music/DuranDuran theme song, Tanya Roberts' feathery bangs, and Grace Jones playing a major villain, this is by far the most 80's Bond film released in the decade. (There's also Silicon Valley being the main target screaming out "hey, it's the computer age!" and, for the nerds, [[http://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=102&c=19 Stacey's Apple IIc]].)

** Maryam d'Abo screen-tested for the role of Pola Ivanova, but was rejected for being too young for the part. She would be the main Bond girl as Kara Milovy in the next Bond film ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''.

** He and the crew also did not get along with Tanya Roberts due to her diva-like behavior. For example, when she and Bond have to steal a set of miner's overalls in order to infiltrate the BigBad's operation, Roberts refused to film the scene until she had a pair of custom-made overalls that flattered her figure. When Bond sees her and says "Pity you couldn't find one that fits", that was an ad-lib from Moore, lampshading the unlikelihood of there being many petite-framed women working in a mine. The dirty look she gave him was real, and the producers [[ThrowItIn kept the scene]] as a TakeThat to her entitled attitude.

* StarDerailingRole: Tanya Roberts's performance in the film made this the first Bond movie to get nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward. The inability to work with her and her poor acting essentially drowned her cinematic career immediately, though she got ''Series/That70sShow'' in 1998.

** When Stacey comes out of the shack in Silicon Valley wearing a pair of coveralls, Bond comments "Pity you couldn't find one that fits" and Stacey gives him a dirty look. This scene was not in the script. Creator/RogerMoore ad-libbed the line and Tanya Roberts' reaction was genuine; because Tanya Roberts had refused to film the scene until the wardrobe department made her a pair of custom-fitted coveralls that would look flattering on her. And, because Tanya Roberts was so difficult to work with, the director decided to leave it in.

** ''Murder In The Eyes (Hebrew/Israel)

** ''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 ''Friendly Yours''.[[/note]]

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

** ''Dangerously Yours'' (Canada & France)