James Bond 007, A View to a Kill. Declassification of the 14th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• ski and snowboard chase down mountain pursued by skiers, snowmobiles and helicopter

Title Song/Credits

• "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran
• naked women dancing with glow in the dark body makeup, pistols and outfits and silhouetted women and men skiing acrobatically

Villains

• Max Zorin, former KGB trainee, high-IQ but psychotic offspring of steroid testing and head of Zorin Industries who plans to trigger a massive earthquake in Silicon Valley to control the microchip market (Christopher Walken)
• May Day, Zorin's assassin (Grace Jones)
• Scarpine, Zorin's bodyguard with scar on cheek (Patrick Bauchau)
• Jenny Flex, Zorin's assassin (Alison Doody)
• Bob Conley, in charge of Zorin's oil interests and chief supervisor of Project Main Strike (Manning Redwood)
• Dr. Carl Mortner, Zorin's horse doctor (Willoughby Gray)

Girls

• Stacey Sutton, State Geologist and heiress to Sutton Oil which was victim of a takeover by Zorin (Tanya Roberts)
• Pola Ivanova, Russian agent (Fiona Fullerton)
• Kimberley Jones, Bond's assistant in Siberia (Mary Stavin)

Gadgets

• submarine camouflaged as chunk of floating ice
• building trailer that conceals an inflatable blimp
• remote-controlled robotic surveillance machine
• microchips impervious to magnetic pulse damage
• remote-controlled surgically implanted time-delay steroid-release microchip
• remote-controlled steeplechase jumps that get higher and harder
• stairway with rotating steps and trap door that chutes occupant from blimp
• scale diorama replica of Silicon Valley that rises up through center of debriefing room table
• ring camera
• computer identification system with camera behind wall mirror
• microchip tracker
• electronic credit card window lock picker
• polarizing sunglasses that see through tinted glass
• check imprint copier
• electric razor bug detector

Chases

• ski and snowboard chase down mountain pursued by skiers, snowmobiles and helicopter
• foot chase up stairs and across beams of Eiffel Tower, ending with May Day jumping and parachuting off of Eiffel Tower
• parachutist chased by car through city streets of Paris, with car jumping onto roof of bus, being decapitated by a down gate and losing its rear half when side-impacted by another car
• horse chase around steeplechase course with remote-controlled jumps that get higher and harder, with chase continuing off course through the woods
• fire engine ladder truck chased by police cars through streets of San Francisco, with Bond dangling from and swinging from side to side on unlocked ladder, ending with fire truck jumping across draw bridge that has just begun to open

Binds

• after jumping from a snowmobile about to explode and down to nothing but a piece of the snowmobile ski, uses broken snowmobile ski as a snowboard down the mountain and across a small body of water, which he makes it across but pursuing skiers do not
• shot at by man in helicopter, fires flare from ground in through side door of helicopter, causing it to spin out of control and explode into the side of an iceberg
• knocked unconscious, put in the back seat of a car and pushed into a lake, comes to, opens door and uses air from tire valve stem to breathe underwater until Zorin is convinced he is dead
• inspecting one of Zorin's underwater intake pipes when it is turned on full blast, removes Scuba tank and throws it at fan to disable it, then swims out to safety
• with three gunmen breaking and entering Stacey's house, uses her shotgun loaded with rock salt and fist fighting to chase them off
• trapped in an inflamed elevator, exits through ceiling door just before cables snap and elevator plummets to the ground, then climbs burning shaft to exit through doors of floor above
• about to be arrested by police for Howe's murder, opens water valve on fire engine to spray policemen and drives off in fire engine
• with bomb about to explode mine and cause an earthquake, teams with May Day, whom Zorin betrayed and left to die in the mine, to raise the bomb from the base of the mine and onto a railcar to be transported out of the mine just before detonation
• with Stacey swiped by Zorin from ground into blimp, jumps onto mooring rope
• dangling from blimp mooring rope over San Francisco Bay and being flown into the Golden Gate Bridge, swings around and grabs suspension cables and ties blimp to bridge
• being attacked by Zorin with an axe atop the suspension cables of the Golden Gate Bridge, performs some fancy footwork to knock Zorin off his feet, then to pin axe head to cable and kick handle from Zorin's hands and then knock Zorin off of the cable to his death below
• with Dr. Mortner about to throw lit dynamite at him, uses axe to cut blimp free, knock Mortner and dynamite into the blimp and cause the dynamite to explode the blimp

One-liners

• "Don't you think it's a little over the top for the office," to Miss Moneypenny when she comes from M's office wearing an elegant pink dress
• "There's a fly in his soup," when asked by the waiter what happened after Aubergine is killed by a butterfly cast like a fishing fly
• "On a mission, I am expected to sacrifice myself," to Tibbett after seeing Stacey for the first time and suggesting she'd "bear closer inspection"
• "Quite a let down," to Tibbett after discovering hidden elevator in the stables
• "Don't worry, it's all wrapped up," to Tibbett after fighting guards and putting them on crate-binding conveyer belt to be bound
• "I see you're a woman of very few words," after May Day quickly disrobes in response to his advances
• "A little restless, but I got off eventually," when asked by Zorin if he slept well after his night with May Day
• "Well, it's not mutual," to Zorin's "You amuse me, Mr. Bond"
• "Feels even better from where I'm sitting - would you like it harder?" to Pola's "Ah, that feels wonderful" as he gives her a shoulder rub in a hot tub
• "I think I should be able to find that," when Stacey tells him the phone connecting box is outside her bedroom window
• "Well, then why don't you enlighten me, Zorin" to Zorin's "Alive and well, I see, and still bungling in the dark" when Zorin catches him and Stacey looking through the files at City Hall
• "Brilliant, I'm almost speechless with admiration," after Zorin shoots Howe and brags about his improvisational genius
• "That should keep them on the wrong track," after turning fire truck sharply between two passing cable cars that then block the pursuers
• "There's never a cab when you want one," to Stacey atop the Golden Gate Bridge suspension cables after the mayhem is over

Locations

• Iceland
• Switzerland
• Paris, France
• San Francisco, United States
• England

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