Arts
The Michigan Daily Tuesday, July 7, 1981 page 11
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Bond returns in 'For Your Eyes Only'
y J.T. SCANLAN other movie series. In this Age of the beginning, Bond places some flowers on he turns out to be one of the good guys,
es Bond. Sequel, it is the James Bond movie'that the grave of Theresa Bond, his former and thus the movie becomes something
ly two decades of movies has best withstood the test of time. The wife. Bond aficionados, of course, of a who-dun-it mystery for a while.
ent 007, the name itself is expectations of the audience are set. In delight in identifying the episode in As Bond movies go, For Your Eyes
define the man. His fact, they are so firmly set, and so which Bond was married, and mere Only is a B- effort. At times, the movie
are well-known: he drives detailed, that the James Bond movie novices are at least tastefully informed seems hastily concocted, as if the
ves beautiful women, and appears to be conceived by Hollywood of Bond's past. filmmakers had their eyes on the
:a martinis "shaken not as a sub-genre of cinema. Certainly ANOTHER INNOVATION in For lucrative proceeds guaranteed by a
e faces death roughly a every new episode can be said to be an Your Eyes Only is an unbelievable summer release. The opening scene,
per film and at least once action-packed spy thriller and good en- display of stunts. Bond has been on skis for example, has absolutely nothing to
orld from nuclear destruc- tertainment. But the real success of a many times before, but the skiing scene do with the plot. But the essential
mly seconds to spare. All Bond movie depends on how well our in this episode is by far the most ex- elements of the Bond movie are
aking a sweat. He is the keen expectations are fulfilled. citing. Overall, though, there are too present: the action takes place in exotic
erican conception of Cool. THE FILMMAKERS obviously had many stunts, too much action this time locations, the scantily clad women are
I is the sort of man who many of the basic expectations in mind around, too many chase scenes. Bond equally intriguing, and Bond drives a
oy. when casting For Your Eyes Only, the doesn't even have time to order his Lotus.
IS British, which sufficien- latest installment. Bond is once again martini. Although this film is a mediocre
shes him from the merely played by Roger Moore, who will There is a new sort of villain in this production, men of all ages will
rican. He speaks with a satisfy some people, but will seem like episode too, but this innovation is also somehow relate to the hero, if only in
t, drives on the right side, an impostor to those fans reared on less than successful. In most Bond their silly moments. As one viewer put
a three world superpowers Sean Connery. Moore is getting rather movies, the chief antagonist is a mad- it: "The young watch Bond to learn how
g China). Behind his flashy old, and in some scenes appears a bit man with just enough intelligence to to do it. The old, to see if they've done it
nodern secret agent he is too broad in the beam for the role But k now how to almost singlehandedly right."
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also an English Gentleman.
The world he inhabits is also distin-
ctly not American. The action of a
typical James Bond film - and there is
always lots of it - occurs not in the
pseudo-fashionable places of the
American imagination - such as
Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and other
places the Love Boat visits - but rather
in European retreats or on "exotic"
islands. It is there that most of the Bond
Women reside. And they are not.
American either. The writers and
directors avoid the Cheryl Tiegs look,
preferring to offer Swedish, German,
French, Chinese, Polynesian, Haitian,
or even Russian women. Though they
are all beautiful, they are somehow dif-
ferent from the common lot of Southern
California beauties. Indeed, for
Americans, the world of James Bond is
largely inaccessible. It is, a world
elsewhere.
r A characterization of such detail
could not be ventured about too many
he has played the part many times, and
has all the "moves" down pat.
Desmond Llewelyn returns as Q, the
man of technology, who amusingly
complains of Bond's cavalier use of his
delicate gadgets. Q has a new toy this
time, the "identigraph," which he has
quite a time figuring out - resulting in
some delightful comedy. And as we
have come to expect, Bond's leading
lady is a mere stick figure, played by a
lousy actress, Carole Bouquet. But this
is as it should be, for a strong actress
would undercut the campy lines that
Bond sometimes utters ridiculously
with his ever-present smirk. One
sometimes wonders how, say, Jane
Fonda would handle the role of leading
lady in a Bond film.
But For Your Eyes Only is innovative
in at least a few ways, one of which
seems to work well. Throughout this
film there are casual references to
earlier episodes - a trick few movie
series have mastered. In the very
destroy the world. In For Your Eyes
Only, however, the audience does not TONIGHT
really know who the chief bad guy is for t J A,
at least an hour and a half. A number of
choices are offered. The most engaging
is a Greek smuggler - played THE CULT "E '
heautifully by Topol - whose supreme 516 E. Liberty 9
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