MI6-The Living Daylights(1987)

Living on the edge.
It's the only way he lives. The new James Bond... living on the edge.


After Bond helps Russian officer Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabb) make a daring defection to the West, the intelligence community is shocked when Koskov is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond leaps into action, following a trail that leads to the gorgeous Kara (Maryam d'Abo), who plays Bond as easily as she plays her Stradivari cello. As they unravel a complex weapons scheme with global implications, they are forced into hair-raising chases, a riveting jailbreak, and an epic battle in the Afghanistan desert with tanks, airplanes, and a legion of freedom fighters on horseback.

Featuring high-tech gadgetry including Bond's sleek Aston-Martin automobile (outfitted with high-powered lasers and a rocket engine), it's a slam-bang action extravaganza with unbelievable stunts, ingenious plot twists, and sensuous encounters of overwhelming passion. Also features Joe Don Baker in a pre-Jack Wade role as the arms dealer Brad Whitaker!

Trivia

The casting of Frederick Warder and Glyn Baker as 004 and 002 at the beginning of the movie was intentional. One bears a resemblence to Roger Moore, the other is a near-lookalike for George Lazenby. The writers wanted to toy with the audience's
expectations of which of the 00 agents was Bond.

The umbrellas that James Bond's jeep smashes through during the opening sequence have the initials "JB" printed on them.

Timothy Dalton's first appearance as James Bond. Pierce Brosnan was the hot favorite to replace Roger Moore but was ruled out because of his contractual obligations to "Remington Steele" (1982). Other actors considered included Sam Neill and Finlay Light.

In the opening scene at Gibraltar, real military installations were used. These included a Ministry of Defence road not open to the public. The machine gun nest on the airstrip was not authentic.

The jogger who strangled the milkman with a walkman cable was listening to Shirley Bassey singing the theme song from Goldfinger.



Theme Song

performed by A-Ha
Hey driver, where we're going
I swear my nerves are showing
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people...I'm the one they blame
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
Save the darkness, let it never fade away
In the living daylights.

All right, hold on tighter now
It's down, down to the wire
Set your hopes way too high
The living's in the way we die
Comes the morning and the headlights fade in rain
Hundred thousand changes...everything's the same
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
Save the darkness, let it never fade away
In the living daylights.

Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people...I'm the one they frame
In the living daylights.

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