# Talk:A View to a Kill

I am looking for a segment of the film A View to a Kill, that has Christopher Walken dancing in the Marriot Hotel. Can anyone help me???
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That's not A View to a Kill. I think you're thinking of the music video for Fatboy Slim's single Weapon of Choice. K1Bond007 02:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
You gotta admit, though, it would have made AVTAK a heck of a better movie it if had been a scene! ;-) 23skidoo 03:30, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
It couldn't get any worse ;) K1Bond007 03:40, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

I was the one who originally put in the trivia item about Living Daylights being written for Roger Moore. Although it may not be true I have seen this mentioned in a reference book on the Bond movies. Darned if I can remember which one -- possibly James Bond: The Legacy or perhaps even Benson's Bedside Companion. I think it was also mentioned during some behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of Living Daylights. 23skidoo 20:53, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Well I can tell you right now, it's false :) Moore retired in '85 and the first draft (there were 6 overall) of TLD is dated '86. Furthermore, the first draft of The Living Daylights was a "Bond Begins" treatment that saw Bond as a young lieutenant in the Royal Navy. This whole idea, inronically being talked about now for Casino Royale, was rejected by Broccoli who stated that the general audience didn't want to see Bond starting out; they wanted the older/professional James Bond that everyone knows and loves. The treatments that were along the lines of the finished script were written for a "generic" James Bond. LTK and GoldenEye were written for Dalton. K1Bond007 21:37, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Is this in the TLD article? It should be -- cool info. If I can track down the book that had the earlier information, I might put it back, if only to indicate that it has been debunked. I wish I could remember the book where I read that stuff about Moore. It was hardcover and it was a book on the Bond movies... methinks a trip to my public library is in my near future. 23skidoo 00:03, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I chose to remove the recent "Ready to retire"-related edits for several reasons. For one, there's no reason to place this at the very beginning of the article, plus the quotes included were not cited or sourced. The image uploaded (which appears to show Patrick Macnee and Roger Moore walking down a road but to be honest the image was so tiny I could barely recognize them) does not appear to meet the Fair Use criteria that Wikipedia is using for images. Obviously the content added hasn't been permanently deleted and can be recovered from the History, but if restored it needs to formatted properly and sourced. 23skidoo 21:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Looked to be a copyvio, too. Written by a newspaper - or with a newspaper tone. Maybe a fan site or something. I agree with removing it. I think if the information can be properly cited then it can be included somewhere - certainly not at the top though. K1Bond007 21:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
The photo also appears here http://www.swindonweb.com/guid/renault.htm - "the Bond movie A View to A Kill featuring Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee was filmed at the Renault Building in 1983".  also http://www.swindonweb.com/guid/connbond0.htm -- Beardo 05:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Moore didn't actually start filming till August 1984, but I guess that's beside the point. K1Bond007 05:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

On July 22nd as split tag  {{splitsection|A View to a Kill (soundtrack)}} was placed in this article.  Not a bad idea overall; if someone is willing to do the work, I’d support, but...  Lacking any discussion pro or con for over 40 days, the recommendation is considered to have failed due to lack of support/interest.  Skål - Williamborg (Bill) 04:59, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

In the scene where Stacey Sutton realizes Zion's plan, she is shown walking without panties on and only wearing shirts. The pubic hair is visible to the camera. It is the scene where Stacey says, "I have to stop Zion". Should we put this into the Trivia section? lol.  Reinn 06:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

No trivia. Come What May!  Vikrant Phadkay 13:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Walken being a fan of Shaw in From Russia With Love is uncited.
 Done  Vikrant Phadkay 15:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
The second half of the filming section is uncited.
 Done  Vikrant Phadkay 15:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Those who disagree with it being the worst Bond film is traced to unreliable fan sources.
 Done  Vikrant Phadkay 15:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Still, it's coming along okay. Maybe expand the lead and the article will be a fair GA. Alientraveller 14:28, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

 Done  Vikrant Phadkay 15:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

This article states that the film was a commercial success, but the soundtrack article states that it "underperformed commercially" (the movie itself, not the soundtrack). Which is correct? Cerdic 01:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Soundtrack said it wrong. The film did better than its two predecessors and all films before Moonraker.  Vikrant Phadkay 17:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing that up. Cerdic 18:09, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

For the casting section, are the mentions of David Bowie and Sting included in the last reference. Even if they are it would be best to cite them multiple times because to me that seemed unbelievable. Also need to cite the quote.
 Done
The Max Zorin photo needs correct fair use rationales and may need to be removed from some other articles.
 Done
Besides those it looks good. T Rex | talk 05:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the problems. Keep up the good work. T Rex | talk 03:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

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Any reason why Mary Stavin isn't mentioned as being the Bond girl inn the teaser?  I ask wondering if the consensus is to leave the teaser girl out of the articles.  For some of the movies, she's not included while others do list them.  --172.72.47.40 (talk) 17:58, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Who was that drunken man in the crowd? Why did he get so much focus on? Was he some famous person or a member of the filming group?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.190.161.115 (talk) 13:00, 9 September 2016 (UTC) 

You mean the guy who nearly drops his bottle when Bond is coming down with Sutton?  IMO he's just there to heighten the suspense. He's not listed anywhere that I can find - IMDB, Allmovie, Rotten Tomatoes, etc.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:27, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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Looking into this a bit.  It appears that the alleged copyright violation passage which begins "Airship Industries managed" was added to the article in April 2007, but did not appear on IMDB until sometime between July 2015 and April 2016 (based on WayBack Machine review), indicating that Wikipedia content was added to IMDB.  Looking through the Earwig Diff for article version 123837576 (diff against https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/trivia), this appears to be the only significant content alignment for the earliest version of the article requested to be redacted.
Another offending passage contains the phrase "was machine-gunning".  Using WikiBlame, tracked down insertion of the passage in September 2007.  However, the passage does not appear in a November 2010 version of the page, again suggesting the passage came from Wikipedia and not the other way around.  Based on this, I'm going to revert the @Mdaniels5757: edit removing content, will remove the copyvio hatnote, and will not redact the article's history. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:44, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

These are not mentioned in the opening credits and are placed here for filmography purposes:

Jean Rougerie fr as French private detective Achille Aubergine.
Daniel Benzali as W. G. Howe, a city official working at San Francisco City Hall.
Bogdan Kominowski as Klotkoff, one of General Gogol's KGB agents who is killed while infiltrating Zorin's oil rig.
Mary Stavin as Kimberley Jones, a British agent who assists Bond in the pre-credit sequence.
Dominique Risbourg as Butterfly Act Compere
Carole Ashby as Whistling Girl
Anthony Chin as Taiwanese Tycoon
Lucien Jerome as Paris Taxi Driver
Joe Flood as U.S. Police Captain
Gerard Buhr as Auctioneer
Dolph Lundgren as Venz, in an early, minor role as Venz, one of General Gogol's KGB agents.
Tony Sibbald as Mine Foreman
Bill Ackridge as O'Rourke
Ron Tarr as Guard I
Taylor McAuley as Guard II
Peter Ensor as Tycoon
Seva Novgorodtsev as Helicopter Pilot

"Unfortunately, the filmmakers – who ruined villain Jaws by making him a nice guy in Moonraker – make the mistake of switching May Day at the end from Bond's nemesis to his accomplice, depriving us of a slam-bang fight to the finish between the two (I suppose gentleman Bond isn't allowed to kill women, even a monster like May Day) ... [The film] lacks the flamboyance of earlier Bond films, and has a terrible slapstick chase sequence in San Francisco, but overall it's fast-paced, fairly enjoyable, and a worthy entry in the series."
Reads like a movie gossip column and not an encyclopedia, plus the information isn't all that interesting anyways.  I'd delete the whole passage, but I'm just a random drive-by and my issue is primarily with readability.  It looks like a quote and if someone else wants to keep it in the Article, it should be actually quoted, and presented and attributed as a quote.72.180.111.79 (talk) 06:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

That's a direct quote of a critic's review. DonQuixote (talk) 14:52, 7 August 2025 (UTC)