History Trivia / AViewToAKill

** 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). In addition, Moore was also horrified by the violence of the scene where Zorin brutally murdered the mine workers.

** According to Music/DuranDuran bassist John Taylor, the title song was written at a point where the band was falling apart. Due to their acrimony, Music/JohnBarry got frustrated working with them.

** Jon Taylor of Music/DuranDuran was also a fan. He approached Albert R. Broccoli at a party, and somewhat drunkenly asked "When are you going to get someone decent to do one of your theme songs?"

** Creator/RogerMoore considered this to be the worst film of his 12-year tenure as James Bond and a bit of an old shame. 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.

** According to John Taylor, the title song was written at a point where Music/DuranDuran were falling apart. Due to their acrimony, Music/JohnBarry got frustrated working with them.

** Averted by Stacey Sutton, who is described in the script to be in her early thirties, which matches Creator/TanyaRoberts, who was 30 years old at the time of this film's release.

-->I was hanging there and I was about to fall off the bridge on to some mattresses. It struck me as funny, that's all. It wasn't so much the character as [me] laughing at the situation.

—-->[[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John Kennedy]] said that he enjoyed reading [the Fleming books]. They were out suddenly in paperback. I, of course, read them. When the first Bond films came, they made an enormous impression on everybody. I was in high school, I guess when ''From Russia with Love'' came [out]. I admired [Shaw] so much anyway as an actor. In fact, I was part of a theatre company once that he was a star of.

-->[[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy John Kennedy]] said that he enjoyed reading [the Fleming books]. They were out suddenly in paperback. I, of course, read them. When the first Bond films came, they made an enormous impression on everybody. I was in high school, I guess when ''From Russia with Love'' came [out]. I admired [Shaw] so much anyway as an actor. In fact, I was part of a theatre company once that he was a star of.

* FakeNationality: Chinese-British David Yip as American Chuck Lee, British Willoughby Gray as German Doctor Carl Mortner, American Creator/ChristopherWalken as the German origins-Zorin, and Jamaican Creator/GraceJones as American May Day (who [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent doesn't even bother with an American accent]]).

** Creator/RogerMoore considered this to be the worst film of his 12-year tenure as James Bond 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.

* ImageSource: AgeGapRomance

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

* 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.

** Averted, as the entire second act was filmed on location in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. 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 UsefulNotes/{{California}}, was filmed at Amberley Working Museum in West Sussex, England.
** For the pre-credits scene, Iceland doubled for Siberia.

-->I was in ''[Hurly Burly]'' in New York. They sent me the script, it seemed like a good job. I knew there were lots of good reasons to do it. How many times does an actor get to be in a Bond film? That would be just fun to do that.

* CreatorCouple: Creator/GraceJones was dating Dolph Lundgren at the time. He was visiting her on set one day when an extra was missing, so Creator/JohnGlen asked him if he wanted to get a shot at it. Lundgren appears as a KGB agent during the confrontation between General Gogol and Max Zorin at the racetrack, standing several steps below Gogol.

* FakeRussian: The KGB agent Pola Ivanova is played by a Brit born in Nigeria, Fiona Fullerton. General Gogol, as usual, is played by German-born Walter Gotell. Swedish-born Creator/DolphLundgren (Grace Jones' boyfriend at the time) makes a cameo appearance as a KGB agent.

** Creator/RogerMoore considered ''A View to a Kill'' the worst film of his 12-year tenure as James Bond 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.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Two stunt parachutists, B.J. Worth and Don Caldvedt, were hired to do the jump from the Eiffel Tower. Sufficient footage was obtained from Worth's jump, so Caldvedt was told he would not be performing his own descent. A frustrated Caldvedt parachuted off the tower without authorisation and the production team subsequently removed him for jeopardising the continuation of filming in the city.

* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Two stunt parachutists, B.J. Worth and Don Caldvedt, were hired to do the jump from the Eiffel Tower. Sufficient footage was obtained from Worth's jump, so Caldvedt was told he would not be performing his own descent. Unhappy at not being able to perform the jump, Caldvedt parachuted off the tower without authorisation and was subsequently sacked by the production team for jeopardising the continuation of filming in the city.

* OneTakeWonder: The Eiffel Tower jump was done in one take. This annoyed the back-up stuntman so much that he made an unauthorized jump and subsequently got arrested.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Between the Music/DuranDuran theme song, Creator/TanyaRoberts' feathery bangs, and Creator/GraceJones 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]].)

-->It was a collaboration between my personal designer Azzedine Alaia and [costume designer] Emma Porteous. The film company liked my personal wardrobe. The look is something out of Creator/WaltDisney. May Day is a fantasy character. When I did my first make-up, I was afraid John [Glen] would think it was too strong, but he loved it and even said I should add more colour.

* 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 kind 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/ChristopherWalken was a lifelong 007 fan, having been impressed with Creator/RobertShaw in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' (which probably explains the hair).

** 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 Roberts was so difficult to work with, John Glen decided to leave it in.

* MarketBasedTitle: The French title, ''Dangereusement Vôtre'' (''Dangerously Yours'') was inspired by the CompletelyDifferentTitle of the Creator/RogerMoore series ''Series/ThePersuaders'', which was a smash hit in France back in the day. Said title was ''Amicalement Vôtre'' (''Friendly Yours''). ''A View to a Kill'' doesn't translate that well in French.

* 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 kind 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.