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Missing image SpyWhoLovedMeNew.jpg 2003 Penguin Books paperback edition The Spy Who Loved Me is a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming first published in 1962. It is also the tenth James Bond film and the third to star Roger Moore as Commander James Bond, British Secret Service agent 007. The Spy Who Loved Me was made by Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions and was released in 1977. It was the first official Bond film to not be produced by Harry Saltzman who had previously sold his shares of EON Productions to United Artists in 1975. Fleming was never happy with the plot of the book and so only gave permission for the title to be used. Consequently the film tells a very different story, and was subsequently novelised by Christopher Wood. As such, it is considered the first wholly original Bond film and was the first Bond film to have a novelization.
The novelMissing image SpyWhoLovedMeNovel.jpg 1967 Pan Books paperback edition. The most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, it was banned in some countries and was not released in a paperback edition in Britain until several years after Fleming's death (Fleming had, in fact, requested that no paperback ever be published of the text). As a result, for British readers who never purchased the 1962 hardcover edition, The Spy Who Loved Me, not The Man with the Golden Gun, was their final Fleming James Bond novel. In the United States, a condensed version of the novel was published in the men's magazine, Stag under the title, "Motel Nymph". The Spy Who Loved Me is a clear departure from previous Bond novels by Ian Fleming, in that Bond is not the central character. In order to maintain the fiction of the book's central character, Vivienne Michel (and, some critics suggest, distance himself from a book with which he was unsatisfied), Fleming gave "Michel" co-author credit and later claimed that the manuscript had been mailed to him from a mysterious source. The Spy Who Loved Me is also the only Bond book or short story to be written in the first person. Plot summaryThe central character and narrator of The Spy Who Loved Me is "Vivienne Michel," a young British woman who ends up running a cheap motel in the Adirondack Mountains to pay for a trip through America. The first section of the novel deals with her sheltered yet unhappy past; the second with the danger she encounters in the motel, and the third with her rescue by a mysterious stranger (Bond on his way back from a mission).
Comic strip adaptationFleming's original novel was adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the British Daily Express newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from December 18, 1967 to October 3, 1968. The adaptation was written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak. It was the last Ian Fleming work to be adapted as a comic strip, although the comic strip took great liberties with Fleming's novel, substituting a S.P.E.C.T.R.E.-related storyline involving Bond for the novel's autobiographical chapters involving Vivienne; the actual adaptation of the novel doesn't begin until the 2/3 point of the strip. The strip was reprinted by Titan Books in the early 1990s and again in 2004. The filmPlot summary
The film is best known for the introduction of Jaws, a giant and indestructible assassin with steel teeth (played by Richard Kiel) who is the only henchman of James Bond villains privileged to appear in more than one film. He later appeared in Moonraker. Although Ian Fleming had requested that no elements of his novel be used, the book does include a steel-toothed villain, but no one as outlandish as Jaws. A submarine from the Royal Navy and a submarine from the Soviet fleet are stolen by the villain, Karl Stromberg in an attempt to launch their nuclear weapons at targets around the globe. In this adventure, James Bond teams up with Major Anya Amasova or Agent Triple X from the Soviet Union to find out what happened and prevent a possible World War III. The film was a hit in both the U.S. and abroad. It grossed over $185 million USD worldwide on a production budget of $14 million USD. Due to the success of this movie, subsequent to its release, Barbara Bach posed nude for the men's magazine Playboy. Cast & characters
Robert Brown also has a smaller role in The Spy Who Loved Me as Admiral Hargreaves. Brown would go on to replace Bernard Lee as M in Octopussy. It has never been established as to whether Brown was supposed to be still playing Lee's character, a promoted Hargreaves, or someone else. Walter Gotell makes his first appearance as General Gogol of the KGB. Gogol would appear in all future Roger Moore Bond films and would make his final appearance in Timothy Dalton's The Living Daylights. While this was his first appearance as Gogol, this is Gotell's second appearance in a James Bond film. His first was in From Russia With Love where he played the villain Morzeny. Crew
SoundtrackMissing image 007TSWLMsoundtrack.jpg Original The Spy Who Loved Me soundtrack cover The title song was performed by Carly Simon and unlike most opening songs for James Bond is not titled the same as the movie. However, the phrase "the spy who loved me" is in the lyrics. The song was titled "Nobody Does it Better" and became a hit that is still popular today. The soundtrack to the movie was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. Track listing
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NovelizationMissing image SpyWhoLovedMeMovieNovel.jpg British paperback edition. When Ian Fleming sold the film rights to the James Bond novles to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, he only gave permission for the title The Spy Who Loved Me to be used. Since the screenplay for the film had nothing to do with Fleming's original novel, Glidrose Publications, for the first time, authorized that a novelization be written based upon the script. This would also be the first regular Bond novel published since Colonel Sun nearly a decade earlier. Christopher Wood, who co-authored the screenplay with Richard Maibaum, was commissioned to write the book, which was given the title James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. Wood would later adapt the screenplay for the next Bond film, Moonraker.
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