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Octopussy

January 01, 1970

This article is about the James Bond film. For other uses, see Octopussy (disambiguation).
"Kamal Khan" redirects here. Not to be confused with Kamala Khan.
For other uses, see Kamal Khan (disambiguation).

Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by John Glen and the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson.

Octopussy
Theatrical release poster by Dan Goozee and Renato Casaro
Directed byJohn Glen
Screenplay by
Based onJames Bond
by Ian Fleming
Produced byAlbert R. Broccoli
Starring
CinematographyAlan Hume
Edited byPeter Davies
Henry Richardson
Music byJohn Barry
Production
companies
Distributed byMGM/UA Entertainment Co. (U.S.)
United International Pictures (International)
Release dates
  • 6 June 1983 (1983-06-06) (United Kingdom)
  • 10 June 1983 (1983-06-10) (United States)
Running time
131 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom[1]
United States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$27.5 million
Box office$187.5 million

The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights, although the film's plot is mostly original. It does, however, contain a scene adapted from the Fleming short story "The Property of a Lady" (included in 1967 and later editions of Octopussy and The Living Daylights). The events of the short story "Octopussy" form part of the title character's background and are recounted by her in the film.

In Octopussy, Bond is assigned the task of following a megalomaniacal Soviet general (Steven Berkoff) who is stealing jewellery and art objects from the Kremlin art repository. This leads Bond to a wealthy exiled Afghan prince, Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan), and his associate, Octopussy (Maud Adams), and the discovery of a plot to force disarmament in Western Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon.

Octopussy was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson; it was released four months before the non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. The film earned $187.5 million against its $27.5 million budget and received mixed reviews. Praise was directed towards the action sequences and locations, with the plot and humour being targeted for criticism; Adams's portrayal of the title character also drew polarised responses.

Plot edit

After an encounter with knife-throwing twin assassins Mischka and Grishka in East Berlin, mortally wounded British agent 009, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a counterfeit Fabergé egg, stumbles into the British ambassador's residence and dies. MI6 immediately suspects Soviet involvement and, after the genuine Fabergé egg is to be auctioned in London, sends James Bond to identify the seller.

At the auction, Bond swaps the fake egg for the real one and subsequently engages in a bidding war with an exiled Afghan prince named Kamal Khan, forcing Khan to pay £500,000 for the counterfeit. Bond follows Khan to his palace in India. Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon using Khan's loaded dice. Then Bond and his MI6 contact, Vijay, escape Khan's bodyguard Gobinda in a taxi chase through a marketplace. Later, Khan's associate Magda seduces Bond. Bond allows Magda to steal the real Fabergé egg, which is fitted with Q's listening and tracking device. Gobinda knocks Bond unconscious and takes him to Khan's palace. After Bond escapes, he listens in on the bug and discovers that Khan works with Orlov, a corrupt Soviet general seeking to defy his superiors and expand Soviet domination to Western Europe. Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Soviet treasures stolen from the Kremlin, replacing them with counterfeits while Khan has been smuggling the genuine objects into the West via Octopussy's circus troupe.

Bond infiltrates a floating palace in Udaipur and meets its owner, Octopussy, a wealthy businesswoman, smuggler and Khan's associate. She also leads the Octopus cult, of which Magda is a member. Octopussy has a personal connection with Bond: her father is the late Major Dexter-Smythe, whom Bond arrested for treason. Octopussy thanks Bond for allowing the Major to commit suicide rather than face trial, and invites Bond to be her guest. Khan's assassins break into the palace to kill Bond, but Bond and Octopussy thwart them. Bond learns from Q that the assassins have killed Vijay.

Orlov is planning to meet Khan at Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, where the circus is scheduled to perform, whilst back in Moscow, General Gogol begins to pursue Orlov when the counterfeit jewels are discovered. Travelling to East Germany, Bond infiltrates the circus and discovers that Orlov has replaced the jewels with a nuclear warhead, primed to explode during the circus performance at a United States Air Force base in West Germany. The explosion would cause Europe to seek unilateral disarmament in the belief that the bomb belonged to the US and was detonated at the airbase accidentally, which would, in turn, leave the unprotected borders open to a Soviet invasion.

Bond takes Orlov's car, drives it along the railway tracks and boards the moving circus train. Orlov gives chase, but is killed by border guards after he tries to rush a checkpoint. Bond kills Mischka and Grischka to avenge the murder of 009, and after falling from the train, hitch-hikes a lift from a passing motorist to reach the airbase, eventually stealing a car from a nearby town to complete his journey. Bond penetrates the base and disguises himself as a clown to evade the West German police. He convinces Octopussy that Khan has betrayed her, and realizing that she has been tricked, she assists Bond in deactivating the warhead.

Some time later, with the plan foiled, Khan has returned to his palace and prepares to flee. Bond and Octopussy also return separately to India. Bond arrives at Khan's palace just as Octopussy and her troops launch an assault on the grounds.

Octopussy attempts to kill Khan, but is captured by Gobinda. While Octopussy's team, led by Magda, overpowers Khan's guards, Khan and Gobinda abandon the palace, taking Octopussy as a hostage. As they attempt to escape in their airplane, Bond clings to the fuselage and disables an engine and the elevator panel. Struggling with Bond, Gobinda falls to his death from the plane's roof, and Bond and Octopussy jump off the plane onto a nearby cliff only seconds before the plane crashes into a mountain, killing Khan instantly. While the Minister of Defence and Gogol discuss the return of the stolen jewels to the Kremlin, Bond recuperates with Octopussy aboard her private galley in India.

Cast edit

Other actors in smaller roles include Andy Bradford as MI6 agent 009, Dermot Crowley as Lieutenant Kamp, Orlov's nuclear weapons expert; Peter Porteous as Lenkin, the Kremlin art expert; Eva Rueber-Staier as Rublevitch, Gogol's secretary; Jeremy Bulloch as Smithers, Q's assistant; Richard LeParmentier as General Peterson's aide; and Gabor Vernon as Borchoi. Ingrid Pitt has an uncredited voice cameo as Octopussy's galley mistress.

Production edit

Writing edit

Despite financial problems at United Artists after the release of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, the studio greenlit another James Bond film to be produced and released in 1983. In May 1981, one month after the announcement, UA was purchased and merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[5] Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum, and George MacDonald Fraser were hired to write a film based on short stories from Ian Fleming's posthumous collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights.[6] Little of the plot of the short story "Octopussy" is used, however, with its events simply related by Bond as the family backstory for one of the main characters. The scene at Sotheby's is, though, adapted from the short story "The Property of a Lady" (included in 1967 and later editions of the collection), while Kamal Khan's reaction following the backgammon game is taken from Fleming's novel Moonraker.[7] After initially intending the film to be set in Japan, Fraser chose India as the setting because of his extensive research on the country for his novel Flashman.[6]

Fraser was hired to work on an early draft of the script and he proposed that the story be set in India, as the series had not yet visited said country.[8] The first draft was delivered shortly after the release of For Your Eyes Only,[7] whose writers Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum went on to rework the script. They discarded his idea for the opening sequence, featuring a motorbike chase set at the Isle of Man TT, but still retained moments that producer Albert R. Broccoli had first criticized, where Bond dressed as a gorilla and later, a clown.[8] The film was rewritten to focus on jewellery smuggling after a scandal in the Soviet Union involving General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev's son-in-law in which the Moscow State Circus was being used to smuggle jewellery.[5]

Casting edit

 
James Brolin's screen test as James Bond, with Vijay Amritraj

Following For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore had expressed a desire to retire from the role of James Bond. His original contract had been for three films (Live and Let Die in 1973, The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974 and The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977) which was fulfilled. Moore's following two films (Moonraker in 1979 and For Your Eyes Only in 1981) were negotiated on a film-by-film basis. Given his reluctance to return for Octopussy, the producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next Bond, with Timothy Dalton and Lewis Collins[5] being suggested as a replacement and screen tests carried out with Michael Billington, Oliver Tobias, and American actor James Brolin.[6] However, when rival Bond production Never Say Never Again was announced with former Bond Sean Connery playing Bond, the producers persuaded Moore to continue in the role as it was thought the established actor would fare better against Connery.[9] It has been reported that Brolin had actually been hired and was on the point of moving to London to begin work on Octopussy, while Broccoli refused to dispute Tobias's public statements that he was about to be cast as Bond.[10][6]

Sybil Danning was announced in Prevue magazine in 1982 as being Octopussy, but was never actually cast, later explaining that Albert R. Broccoli felt "her personality was too strong".[11] Faye Dunaway was deemed too expensive. Barbara Carrera said she turned down the role in order to appear as Fatima Blush in the competing Bond film Never Say Never Again. Octopussy casting director Jane Jenkins revealed that the Bond producers told her that they wanted a South Asian actress to play Octopussy, so she considered the only two Indians in predominantly white Hollywood, Persis Khambatta and Susie Coelho. Afterward, she auditioned white actresses, like Barbara Parkins and Kathleen Turner,[5] who she felt could pass for Indian. Finally, Broccoli announced to her that Octopussy would be portrayed by Swedish-born Maud Adams, who had been a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), and had been recently used by Eon to screen test the potential Bonds. To acknowledge the nationality, Adams had her hair darkened, and a few lines were added about how she was raised by an Indian family. A different plotline, with Adams's British father exposed as a traitor, was used instead.[12] The role of Magda went to another Swedish actress, Kristina Wayborn, who gained the attention of producers with her portrayal of Greta Garbo in the TV miniseries The Silent Lovers.[9] Pam Grier turned down an offer to play a Bond girl in the film.[13]

Octopussy is also the first film to feature Robert Brown as M, following the death of Bernard Lee in 1981. Brown was recommended by Moore, who had known him since both worked in the series Ivanhoe.[14] Brown had previously played Admiral Hargreaves in The Spy Who Loved Me, six years earlier.[15]

The first actor to be cast in the film was Vijay Amritraj, a popular Indian professional tennis player whom Broccoli met while watching The Championships in Wimbledon. His character of Bond's ally in India was also named Vijay and used a tennis racket as a weapon. For the villains, Broccoli brought in his friend Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan, while his daughter Barbara suggested Steven Berkoff for Orlov after having seen him perform his own play, Greek, in Los Angeles.[9]

Filming edit

 
The 311 hangar at RAF Northolt used for filming the jet stunt scene

The filming of Octopussy began in West Berlin on 10 August 1982 with the scene in which Bond arrives at Checkpoint Charlie.[16] Other locations from the city included Spandau Prison, the Brandenburg Gate, and Potsdamer Platz.[6] Principal photography was done by Arthur Wooster and his second unit, who later filmed the knife-throwing scenes.[17] Filming in India began on 12 September 1982 in Udaipur, Rajasthan.[6] The Monsoon Palace served as the exterior of Kamal Khan's palace, while scenes set at Octopussy's palace were filmed at the Lake Palace and Jag Mandir, and Bond's hotel was the Shiv Niwas Palace.[9] In England RAF Northolt, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Oakley were the main locations.[18] The Karl-Marx-Stadt railways scenes were shot at the Nene Valley Railway in Peterborough, while studio work was performed at Pinewood Studios and the 007 Stage.[19] Parts of the film were also shot in Hurricane Mesa, Hurricane-LaVerkin Bridge, and New Harmony in Utah.[20] Most of the crew as well as Roger Moore had diet problems while shooting in India.[3]

 
The Monsoon Palace

The pre-title sequence has a scene where Bond flies a nimble homebuilt Bede BD-5J aircraft through an open hangar.[17] Hollywood stunt pilot and aerial co-ordinator J. W. "Corkey" Fornof, who piloted the aircraft at more than 150 miles per hour (240 km/h), has said, "Today, few directors would consider such a stunt. They'd just whip it up in a computer lab."[21] Having collapsible wings, the plane was shown hidden in a horse trailer; however, a dummy was used for this shot.[22] Filming inside the hangar was achieved by attaching the aircraft to an old Jaguar car with a steel pole, driving with the roof removed.[17] The second unit were able to add enough obstacles including people and objects inside the hangar to hide the car and the pole and make it look as though Moore was flying inside the base. For the explosion after the mini jet escapes, however, a miniature of the hangar was constructed and filmed up close. The exploding pieces of the hangar were in reality only four inches (10 cm) long.[9]

Much later in the film, Bond steals Orlov's Mercedes-Benz at a depot defended by antagonist soldiers; as he tries to escape, he drives over barrier spikes shredding the tyres and then manoeuvres the car's bare wheels onto the rails to pursue Octopussy's circus train. During filming, the car had intact tyres in one scene so as to avoid any mishap.[22]

 
Acrostar from Octopussy seen at a convention

Stunt coordinator Martin Grace suffered an injury while shooting the scene where Bond climbs down the train to catch Octopussy's attention.[23] During the second day of filming, Grace – who was Roger Moore's stunt double for the scene – carried on doing the scene longer than he should have, due to a miscommunication with the second unit director, and the train entered a section of the track which the team had not properly surveyed. Shortly afterwards, a concrete pole fractured Grace's left leg. The cyclist seen passing in the middle of a sword fight during the baby taxi chase sequence was in fact a bystander who passed through the shot, oblivious to the filming; his intrusion was captured by two cameras and left in the final film.[9] Cameraman Alan Hume's last scene was that of Octopussy's followers rowing. That day, little time was left and it was decided to film the sunset at the eleventh hour.[24]

The Fabergé egg in the film is based on a real one, made in 1897 and which was called the Coronation Egg. The egg in the film is listed in the auction catalogue as being "The Property of a Lady", which is the name of one of Ian Fleming's short stories released in more recent editions of the collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights.

In a bit of diegesis that "breaks the fourth wall", Vijay signals his affiliation to MI6 by playing the "James Bond Theme" on a recorder while Bond is disembarking from a boat in the harbour near the City Palace.[25] Like his fictional counterpart, the real Vijay had a distinct fear of snakes and found it difficult to hold the basket during filming.[9]

Music edit

Main article: Octopussy (soundtrack)

After being absent in For Your Eyes Only due to tax problems, John Barry returned to do his ninth Bond score.[26] Barry made frequent references to the "James Bond Theme" to reinforce Octopussy as the official Bond film, given that the motif could not be featured in Never Say Never Again, and opted to include only subtle references to the music of India, avoiding instruments such as the sitar for feeling that authentic music "didn't work dramatically". He also wrote opening theme "All Time High" with lyricist Tim Rice. "All Time High", sung by Rita Coolidge, is one of seven musical themes in the James Bond series whose song titles do not refer to the film's title. "All Time High" spent four weeks at number one on the United States' Adult Contemporary singles chart and reached number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100.[25]

The soundtrack album was released in 1985 by A&M Records; the compact disc version of this release was recalled due to a colour printing error which omitted the credits from the album cover, making it a rare collector's item. In 1997, the soundtrack was re-issued by Rykodisc, with the original soundtrack music and some film dialogue, on an Enhanced CD version. The 2003 release, by EMI, restored the original soundtrack music without dialogue.[27]

Release and reception edit

Octopussy was the first Bond film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had absorbed United Artists, the previous distributor of Eon Bond films. Octopussy premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 6 June 1983, with the Prince and Princess of Wales in attendance.[28] The film earned slightly less than For Your Eyes Only, but still grossed $187.5 million, with $67.8 million in the United States and Canada.[29] In the United Kingdom, the film grossed £8.3 million ($14.9 million).[30][31] Other large international grosses include $15.7 million in Germany, $15.1 million in Japan and $9.1 million in France.[31] The film also performed better than Never Say Never Again, the non-Eon Bond remake of Thunderball which was released a few months later and grossed $55 million in the United States and Canada.[32] At the 11th Saturn Awards, Maud Adams was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.[33] The film won the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing.[34] In Germany, it won the Golden Screen Award for selling over 3 million tickets.[35]

Contemporary reviews edit

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post felt Octopussy was "one of the snazziest, wittiest productions" of the film series, in which he praised John Glen's direction, Louis Jourdan's performance, and the screenplay.[36] Writing for The New York Times, Vincent Canby praised the film, but noted how "much of the story is incomprehensible".[37] Gene Siskel, reviewing for The Chicago Tribune, awarded the film three stars out of four, stating it is "surprisingly entertaining—surprising because in his previous five Bond appearances Roger Moore has always come off as a smug stiff. In Octopussy Moore relaxes a bit and, just as important, his role is subordinated to the film's many and extremely exciting action scenes. Octopussy has the most sustained excitement in a Bond film since You Only Live Twice." However, he felt that the character Octopussy was detrimental to the film and the action "blunts a script that is weak on characterization and long on male chauvinism".[38]

Variety felt the film's strong points were "the spectacular aerial stuntwork marking both the pre-credits teaser and extremely dangerous-looking climax. The rest of the action scenes are well-executed but suffer from a sense of deja vu, as in a speeding train that recalls Sean Connery's derring-do in The Great Train Robbery".[39] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times felt the film proved "to be business as usual, no better or worse than most of its predecessors. After all this time, it's amazing that the same old formula still plays: the gadgetry, gorgeous girls, travelogue locales and the shameless double-entendres—in this instance, octo-entendres."[40] Richard Corliss of Time magazine negatively reviewed Moore's performance, writing he has "degenerated [Bond] into a male model, and something of a genial anachronism."[41] Derek Malcolm of The Guardian wrote the film "doesn't treat itself seriously for a moment ...Bond has now become almost totally absurdist, a parody of a parody. The film effectively disarms criticism, except that one might wish for the public to flock to something other than the technically ambitious."[42]

Retrospective reviews edit

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 42% based on 50 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads: "Despite a couple of electrifying action sequences, Octopussy is a formulaic, anachronistic Bond outing."[43] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[44]

James Berardinelli said that the movie was long and confusing, and strongly criticised Steven Berkoff's performance, describing it as "offensively bad" and the worst performance of any Bond villain.[45] A particular point of contention are comedic scenes where Bond is dressed in a clown costume, a gorilla outfit and doing a Tarzan yell during a jungle chase.[46] As a result, it frequently ranks low in rankings of James Bond films, such as the ones by Entertainment Weekly,[47] MSN,[48] and IGN.[49] C. J. Henderson reviewed Octopussy in The Space Gamer magazine, writing "there isn't a moment in the movie when we worry for the slightest instant that anything could happen to suave ol' James. Predictably, it doesn't. To kill Bond would be to lose the most bankable genre character ever brought to the movies."[50]

By contrast, the elegance of the film locations in India, and the stunts on the aircraft and train were appreciated.[51] GQ writer David Williams said Octopussy was "one of the best 'Bad Films' of the franchise", praising the entertaining characters but finding the silliness and Moore's advanced age problematic.[52] Danny Peary wrote that Octopussy "has slow spots, little humour, and villains who aren't nearly of the calibre of Dr. No, Goldfinger, or Blofeld. Also, the filmmakers make the mistake of demeaning Bond by having him swing through the trees and emitting a Tarzan cry and having him hide in a gorilla suit and later disguise himself as a clown (who all the kids at the circus laugh at). It's as if they're trying to remind us that everything is tongue-in-cheek, but that makes little sense, for the film is much more serious than typical Bond outings – in fact, it recalls the tone of From Russia with Love."[53]

Character reviews edit

In 2006, Fandango ranked the character Octopussy as one of the top-10 Bond girls, and described her as "a powerful, impressive woman".[54] Entertainment Weekly, however, ranked her as the 10th-worst Bond girl in one list in 2006[55] but as the best "babe" of the Roger Moore James Bond films in another list in 2008.[56] A poll by Bond fans in 2008 elected Octopussy as the tenth-worst Bond Girl.[57] Yahoo! Movies included the character in a 2012 list of the best Bond girl names, commenting: "This Bond girl moniker was so good, they named the film after her!"[58]

Television edit

Octopussy premiered in North America on The ABC Sunday Night Movie on February 2, 1986. It placed third in its time period with a Nielsen Media Research household rating of 17.4, a 29% audience share, and approximately 25 million viewers. The movie started 18 minutes late due to an overrun earlier in the day of Wide World of Sports,[59] which may have negatively impacted its performance slightly (a key action sequence near the end of the film[60] did not air until after 11:30pm in the Eastern Time Zone).

See also edit

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octopussy, this, article, about, james, bond, film, other, uses, disambiguation, kamal, khan, redirects, here, confused, with, kamala, khan, other, uses, kamal, khan, disambiguation, 1983, film, thirteenth, james, bond, series, produced, productions, sixth, st. This article is about the James Bond film For other uses see Octopussy disambiguation Kamal Khan redirects here Not to be confused with Kamala Khan For other uses see Kamal Khan disambiguation Octopussy is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions It is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the MI6 agent James Bond It was directed by John Glen and the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser Richard Maibaum and Michael G Wilson OctopussyTheatrical release poster by Dan Goozee and Renato CasaroDirected byJohn GlenScreenplay byGeorge MacDonald Fraser Richard Maibaum Michael G WilsonBased onJames Bondby Ian FlemingProduced byAlbert R BroccoliStarringRoger Moore Maud Adams Louis Jourdan Kristina Wayborn Kabir BediCinematographyAlan HumeEdited byPeter DaviesHenry RichardsonMusic byJohn BarryProductioncompaniesEon ProductionsUnited ArtistsDistributed byMGM UA Entertainment Co U S United International Pictures International Release dates6 June 1983 1983 06 06 United Kingdom 10 June 1983 1983 06 10 United States Running time131 minutesCountriesUnited Kingdom 1 United States 2 LanguageEnglishBudget 27 5 millionBox office 187 5 million The film s title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming s 1966 short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights although the film s plot is mostly original It does however contain a scene adapted from the Fleming short story The Property of a Lady included in 1967 and later editions of Octopussy and The Living Daylights The events of the short story Octopussy form part of the title character s background and are recounted by her in the film In Octopussy Bond is assigned the task of following a megalomaniacal Soviet general Steven Berkoff who is stealing jewellery and art objects from the Kremlin art repository This leads Bond to a wealthy exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan Louis Jourdan and his associate Octopussy Maud Adams and the discovery of a plot to force disarmament in Western Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon Octopussy was produced by Albert R Broccoli and Michael G Wilson it was released four months before the non Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again The film earned 187 5 million against its 27 5 million budget and received mixed reviews Praise was directed towards the action sequences and locations with the plot and humour being targeted for criticism Adams s portrayal of the title character also drew polarised responses Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3 1 Writing 3 2 Casting 3 3 Filming 3 4 Music 4 Release and reception 4 1 Contemporary reviews 4 2 Retrospective reviews 4 3 Character reviews 4 4 Television 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPlot editAfter an encounter with knife throwing twin assassins Mischka and Grishka in East Berlin mortally wounded British agent 009 dressed as a circus clown and carrying a counterfeit Faberge egg stumbles into the British ambassador s residence and dies MI6 immediately suspects Soviet involvement and after the genuine Faberge egg is to be auctioned in London sends James Bond to identify the seller At the auction Bond swaps the fake egg for the real one and subsequently engages in a bidding war with an exiled Afghan prince named Kamal Khan forcing Khan to pay 500 000 for the counterfeit Bond follows Khan to his palace in India Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon using Khan s loaded dice Then Bond and his MI6 contact Vijay escape Khan s bodyguard Gobinda in a taxi chase through a marketplace Later Khan s associate Magda seduces Bond Bond allows Magda to steal the real Faberge egg which is fitted with Q s listening and tracking device Gobinda knocks Bond unconscious and takes him to Khan s palace After Bond escapes he listens in on the bug and discovers that Khan works with Orlov a corrupt Soviet general seeking to defy his superiors and expand Soviet domination to Western Europe Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Soviet treasures stolen from the Kremlin replacing them with counterfeits while Khan has been smuggling the genuine objects into the West via Octopussy s circus troupe Bond infiltrates a floating palace in Udaipur and meets its owner Octopussy a wealthy businesswoman smuggler and Khan s associate She also leads the Octopus cult of which Magda is a member Octopussy has a personal connection with Bond her father is the late Major Dexter Smythe whom Bond arrested for treason Octopussy thanks Bond for allowing the Major to commit suicide rather than face trial and invites Bond to be her guest Khan s assassins break into the palace to kill Bond but Bond and Octopussy thwart them Bond learns from Q that the assassins have killed Vijay Orlov is planning to meet Khan at Karl Marx Stadt in East Germany where the circus is scheduled to perform whilst back in Moscow General Gogol begins to pursue Orlov when the counterfeit jewels are discovered Travelling to East Germany Bond infiltrates the circus and discovers that Orlov has replaced the jewels with a nuclear warhead primed to explode during the circus performance at a United States Air Force base in West Germany The explosion would cause Europe to seek unilateral disarmament in the belief that the bomb belonged to the US and was detonated at the airbase accidentally which would in turn leave the unprotected borders open to a Soviet invasion Bond takes Orlov s car drives it along the railway tracks and boards the moving circus train Orlov gives chase but is killed by border guards after he tries to rush a checkpoint Bond kills Mischka and Grischka to avenge the murder of 009 and after falling from the train hitch hikes a lift from a passing motorist to reach the airbase eventually stealing a car from a nearby town to complete his journey Bond penetrates the base and disguises himself as a clown to evade the West German police He convinces Octopussy that Khan has betrayed her and realizing that she has been tricked she assists Bond in deactivating the warhead Some time later with the plan foiled Khan has returned to his palace and prepares to flee Bond and Octopussy also return separately to India Bond arrives at Khan s palace just as Octopussy and her troops launch an assault on the grounds Octopussy attempts to kill Khan but is captured by Gobinda While Octopussy s team led by Magda overpowers Khan s guards Khan and Gobinda abandon the palace taking Octopussy as a hostage As they attempt to escape in their airplane Bond clings to the fuselage and disables an engine and the elevator panel Struggling with Bond Gobinda falls to his death from the plane s roof and Bond and Octopussy jump off the plane onto a nearby cliff only seconds before the plane crashes into a mountain killing Khan instantly While the Minister of Defence and Gogol discuss the return of the stolen jewels to the Kremlin Bond recuperates with Octopussy aboard her private galley in India Cast editRoger Moore as James Bond MI6 agent 007 Maud Adams as Octopussy a jewel smuggler and wealthy businesswoman Adams previously played a different character in The Man With the Golden Gun Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan an exiled Afghan prince Kristina Wayborn as Magda trusted subordinate and henchwoman to Octopussy and Khan Kabir Bedi as Gobinda Khan s powerful bodyguard Steven Berkoff as General Orlov a renegade Soviet general who works with Khan to bomb a US airbase and destabilise NATO Vijay Amritraj as Vijay Bond s MI6 ally in India This was Armitaj s acting debut after gaining prominence as a tennis player David Meyer and Anthony Meyer as Mischka and Grischka credited as Twin One and Twin Two Orlov s knife throwing henchmen who are performers in Octopussy s circus Douglas Wilmer as Jim Fanning antiquities expert who accompanies Bond at the Faberge auction Robert Brown as M head of the British Secret Service and Bond s superior Walter Gotell as General Anatoly Gogol director of the KGB Desmond Llewelyn as Q MI6 s gadget designer Llewelyn was disappointed that he was unable to travel to India since his scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios 3 Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny M s secretary Geoffrey Keen as British Minister of Defence Frederick Gray credited as Minister of Defence Albert Moses as Sadruddin head of MI6 station in India assigned to assist Bond Bruce Boa as U S Air Force General Peterson the American base commander in West Germany Michaela Clavell as Penelope Smallbone Moneypenny s assistant Paul Hardwick as the Soviet Chairman who presides over meeting between Orlov and Gogol Hardwick was cast due to his resemblance to Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev but Brezhnev died during production in November 1982 making his presence an anachronism 4 This was Hardwick s final film role who himself died in October 1983 four months after the film s release Other actors in smaller roles include Andy Bradford as MI6 agent 009 Dermot Crowley as Lieutenant Kamp Orlov s nuclear weapons expert Peter Porteous as Lenkin the Kremlin art expert Eva Rueber Staier as Rublevitch Gogol s secretary Jeremy Bulloch as Smithers Q s assistant Richard LeParmentier as General Peterson s aide and Gabor Vernon as Borchoi Ingrid Pitt has an uncredited voice cameo as Octopussy s galley mistress Production editWriting edit Despite financial problems at United Artists after the release of Michael Cimino s Heaven s Gate the studio greenlit another James Bond film to be produced and released in 1983 In May 1981 one month after the announcement UA was purchased and merged into Metro Goldwyn Mayer 5 Michael G Wilson Richard Maibaum and George MacDonald Fraser were hired to write a film based on short stories from Ian Fleming s posthumous collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights 6 Little of the plot of the short story Octopussy is used however with its events simply related by Bond as the family backstory for one of the main characters The scene at Sotheby s is though adapted from the short story The Property of a Lady included in 1967 and later editions of the collection while Kamal Khan s reaction following the backgammon game is taken from Fleming s novel Moonraker 7 After initially intending the film to be set in Japan Fraser chose India as the setting because of his extensive research on the country for his novel Flashman 6 Fraser was hired to work on an early draft of the script and he proposed that the story be set in India as the series had not yet visited said country 8 The first draft was delivered shortly after the release of For Your Eyes Only 7 whose writers Michael G Wilson and Richard Maibaum went on to rework the script They discarded his idea for the opening sequence featuring a motorbike chase set at the Isle of Man TT but still retained moments that producer Albert R Broccoli had first criticized where Bond dressed as a gorilla and later a clown 8 The film was rewritten to focus on jewellery smuggling after a scandal in the Soviet Union involving General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev s son in law in which the Moscow State Circus was being used to smuggle jewellery 5 Casting edit nbsp James Brolin s screen test as James Bond with Vijay Amritraj Following For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore had expressed a desire to retire from the role of James Bond His original contract had been for three films Live and Let Die in 1973 The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974 and The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977 which was fulfilled Moore s following two films Moonraker in 1979 and For Your Eyes Only in 1981 were negotiated on a film by film basis Given his reluctance to return for Octopussy the producers engaged in a semi public quest for the next Bond with Timothy Dalton and Lewis Collins 5 being suggested as a replacement and screen tests carried out with Michael Billington Oliver Tobias and American actor James Brolin 6 However when rival Bond production Never Say Never Again was announced with former Bond Sean Connery playing Bond the producers persuaded Moore to continue in the role as it was thought the established actor would fare better against Connery 9 It has been reported that Brolin had actually been hired and was on the point of moving to London to begin work on Octopussy while Broccoli refused to dispute Tobias s public statements that he was about to be cast as Bond 10 6 Sybil Danning was announced in Prevue magazine in 1982 as being Octopussy but was never actually cast later explaining that Albert R Broccoli felt her personality was too strong 11 Faye Dunaway was deemed too expensive Barbara Carrera said she turned down the role in order to appear as Fatima Blush in the competing Bond film Never Say Never Again Octopussy casting director Jane Jenkins revealed that the Bond producers told her that they wanted a South Asian actress to play Octopussy so she considered the only two Indians in predominantly white Hollywood Persis Khambatta and Susie Coelho Afterward she auditioned white actresses like Barbara Parkins and Kathleen Turner 5 who she felt could pass for Indian Finally Broccoli announced to her that Octopussy would be portrayed by Swedish born Maud Adams who had been a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 and had been recently used by Eon to screen test the potential Bonds To acknowledge the nationality Adams had her hair darkened and a few lines were added about how she was raised by an Indian family A different plotline with Adams s British father exposed as a traitor was used instead 12 The role of Magda went to another Swedish actress Kristina Wayborn who gained the attention of producers with her portrayal of Greta Garbo in the TV miniseries The Silent Lovers 9 Pam Grier turned down an offer to play a Bond girl in the film 13 Octopussy is also the first film to feature Robert Brown as M following the death of Bernard Lee in 1981 Brown was recommended by Moore who had known him since both worked in the series Ivanhoe 14 Brown had previously played Admiral Hargreaves in The Spy Who Loved Me six years earlier 15 The first actor to be cast in the film was Vijay Amritraj a popular Indian professional tennis player whom Broccoli met while watching The Championships in Wimbledon His character of Bond s ally in India was also named Vijay and used a tennis racket as a weapon For the villains Broccoli brought in his friend Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan while his daughter Barbara suggested Steven Berkoff for Orlov after having seen him perform his own play Greek in Los Angeles 9 Filming edit nbsp The 311 hangar at RAF Northolt used for filming the jet stunt scene The filming of Octopussy began in West Berlin on 10 August 1982 with the scene in which Bond arrives at Checkpoint Charlie 16 Other locations from the city included Spandau Prison the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz 6 Principal photography was done by Arthur Wooster and his second unit who later filmed the knife throwing scenes 17 Filming in India began on 12 September 1982 in Udaipur Rajasthan 6 The Monsoon Palace served as the exterior of Kamal Khan s palace while scenes set at Octopussy s palace were filmed at the Lake Palace and Jag Mandir and Bond s hotel was the Shiv Niwas Palace 9 In England RAF Northolt RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Oakley were the main locations 18 The Karl Marx Stadt railways scenes were shot at the Nene Valley Railway in Peterborough while studio work was performed at Pinewood Studios and the 007 Stage 19 Parts of the film were also shot in Hurricane Mesa Hurricane LaVerkin Bridge and New Harmony in Utah 20 Most of the crew as well as Roger Moore had diet problems while shooting in India 3 nbsp The Monsoon Palace The pre title sequence has a scene where Bond flies a nimble homebuilt Bede BD 5J aircraft through an open hangar 17 Hollywood stunt pilot and aerial co ordinator J W Corkey Fornof who piloted the aircraft at more than 150 miles per hour 240 km h has said Today few directors would consider such a stunt They d just whip it up in a computer lab 21 Having collapsible wings the plane was shown hidden in a horse trailer however a dummy was used for this shot 22 Filming inside the hangar was achieved by attaching the aircraft to an old Jaguar car with a steel pole driving with the roof removed 17 The second unit were able to add enough obstacles including people and objects inside the hangar to hide the car and the pole and make it look as though Moore was flying inside the base For the explosion after the mini jet escapes however a miniature of the hangar was constructed and filmed up close The exploding pieces of the hangar were in reality only four inches 10 cm long 9 Much later in the film Bond steals Orlov s Mercedes Benz at a depot defended by antagonist soldiers as he tries to escape he drives over barrier spikes shredding the tyres and then manoeuvres the car s bare wheels onto the rails to pursue Octopussy s circus train During filming the car had intact tyres in one scene so as to avoid any mishap 22 nbsp Acrostar from Octopussy seen at a convention Stunt coordinator Martin Grace suffered an injury while shooting the scene where Bond climbs down the train to catch Octopussy s attention 23 During the second day of filming Grace who was Roger Moore s stunt double for the scene carried on doing the scene longer than he should have due to a miscommunication with the second unit director and the train entered a section of the track which the team had not properly surveyed Shortly afterwards a concrete pole fractured Grace s left leg The cyclist seen passing in the middle of a sword fight during the baby taxi chase sequence was in fact a bystander who passed through the shot oblivious to the filming his intrusion was captured by two cameras and left in the final film 9 Cameraman Alan Hume s last scene was that of Octopussy s followers rowing That day little time was left and it was decided to film the sunset at the eleventh hour 24 The Faberge egg in the film is based on a real one made in 1897 and which was called the Coronation Egg The egg in the film is listed in the auction catalogue as being The Property of a Lady which is the name of one of Ian Fleming s short stories released in more recent editions of the collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights In a bit of diegesis that breaks the fourth wall Vijay signals his affiliation to MI6 by playing the James Bond Theme on a recorder while Bond is disembarking from a boat in the harbour near the City Palace 25 Like his fictional counterpart the real Vijay had a distinct fear of snakes and found it difficult to hold the basket during filming 9 Music edit Main article Octopussy soundtrack After being absent in For Your Eyes Only due to tax problems John Barry returned to do his ninth Bond score 26 Barry made frequent references to the James Bond Theme to reinforce Octopussy as the official Bond film given that the motif could not be featured in Never Say Never Again and opted to include only subtle references to the music of India avoiding instruments such as the sitar for feeling that authentic music didn t work dramatically He also wrote opening theme All Time High with lyricist Tim Rice All Time High sung by Rita Coolidge is one of seven musical themes in the James Bond series whose song titles do not refer to the film s title All Time High spent four weeks at number one on the United States Adult Contemporary singles chart and reached number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 25 The soundtrack album was released in 1985 by A amp M Records the compact disc version of this release was recalled due to a colour printing error which omitted the credits from the album cover making it a rare collector s item In 1997 the soundtrack was re issued by Rykodisc with the original soundtrack music and some film dialogue on an Enhanced CD version The 2003 release by EMI restored the original soundtrack music without dialogue 27 Release and reception editOctopussy was the first Bond film released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer which had absorbed United Artists the previous distributor of Eon Bond films Octopussy premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 6 June 1983 with the Prince and Princess of Wales in attendance 28 The film earned slightly less than For Your Eyes Only but still grossed 187 5 million with 67 8 million in the United States and Canada 29 In the United Kingdom the film grossed 8 3 million 14 9 million 30 31 Other large international grosses include 15 7 million in Germany 15 1 million in Japan and 9 1 million in France 31 The film also performed better than Never Say Never Again the non Eon Bond remake of Thunderball which was released a few months later and grossed 55 million in the United States and Canada 32 At the 11th Saturn Awards Maud Adams was nominated for Best Supporting Actress 33 The film won the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing 34 In Germany it won the Golden Screen Award for selling over 3 million tickets 35 Contemporary reviews edit Gary Arnold of The Washington Post felt Octopussy was one of the snazziest wittiest productions of the film series in which he praised John Glen s direction Louis Jourdan s performance and the screenplay 36 Writing for The New York Times Vincent Canby praised the film but noted how much of the story is incomprehensible 37 Gene Siskel reviewing for The Chicago Tribune awarded the film three stars out of four stating it is surprisingly entertaining surprising because in his previous five Bond appearances Roger Moore has always come off as a smug stiff In Octopussy Moore relaxes a bit and just as important his role is subordinated to the film s many and extremely exciting action scenes Octopussy has the most sustained excitement in a Bond film since You Only Live Twice However he felt that the character Octopussy was detrimental to the film and the action blunts a script that is weak on characterization and long on male chauvinism 38 Variety felt the film s strong points were the spectacular aerial stuntwork marking both the pre credits teaser and extremely dangerous looking climax The rest of the action scenes are well executed but suffer from a sense of deja vu as in a speeding train that recalls Sean Connery s derring do in The Great Train Robbery 39 Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times felt the film proved to be business as usual no better or worse than most of its predecessors After all this time it s amazing that the same old formula still plays the gadgetry gorgeous girls travelogue locales and the shameless double entendres in this instance octo entendres 40 Richard Corliss of Time magazine negatively reviewed Moore s performance writing he has degenerated Bond into a male model and something of a genial anachronism 41 Derek Malcolm of The Guardian wrote the film doesn t treat itself seriously for a moment Bond has now become almost totally absurdist a parody of a parody The film effectively disarms criticism except that one might wish for the public to flock to something other than the technically ambitious 42 Retrospective reviews edit On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 42 based on 50 reviews The website s critical consensus reads Despite a couple of electrifying action sequences Octopussy is a formulaic anachronistic Bond outing 43 Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100 based on 14 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 44 James Berardinelli said that the movie was long and confusing and strongly criticised Steven Berkoff s performance describing it as offensively bad and the worst performance of any Bond villain 45 A particular point of contention are comedic scenes where Bond is dressed in a clown costume a gorilla outfit and doing a Tarzan yell during a jungle chase 46 As a result it frequently ranks low in rankings of James Bond films such as the ones by Entertainment Weekly 47 MSN 48 and IGN 49 C J Henderson reviewed Octopussy in The Space Gamer magazine writing there isn t a moment in the movie when we worry for the slightest instant that anything could happen to suave ol James Predictably it doesn t To kill Bond would be to lose the most bankable genre character ever brought to the movies 50 By contrast the elegance of the film locations in India and the stunts on the aircraft and train were appreciated 51 GQ writer David Williams said Octopussy was one of the best Bad Films of the franchise praising the entertaining characters but finding the silliness and Moore s advanced age problematic 52 Danny Peary wrote that Octopussy has slow spots little humour and villains who aren t nearly of the calibre of Dr No Goldfinger or Blofeld Also the filmmakers make the mistake of demeaning Bond by having him swing through the trees and emitting a Tarzan cry and having him hide in a gorilla suit and later disguise himself as a clown who all the kids at the circus laugh at It s as if they re trying to remind us that everything is tongue in cheek but that makes little sense for the film is much more serious than typical Bond outings in fact it recalls the tone of 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