Caroline Munro as Naomi, Stromberg's personal pilot and a would-be assassin. Munro's casting was inspired by an advertisement campaign she had made. [5] Her voice was dubbed by an uncredited Barbara Jefford, who had previously dubbed Daniela Bianchi in From Russia with Love. [6] Since Ian Fleming permitted Eon to use only the name of his novel but not the actual plot, [9] Fleming's name was moved for the first time from above the film's title to above "James Bond 007". His name reverted to the traditional location for Moonraker, the last Eon Bond film based on a Fleming novel before 2006's Casino Royale. However, the credit style first used in The Spy Who Loved Me has been used on all Eon Bond films since For Your Eyes Only, including Casino Royale. Chancellor, Henry (2005). James Bond: The Man and His World. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-6815-2. THIS IS ALL TREATED AS IF IT IS JUST NORMAL. As if this is exactly the life of a pretty girl and basically all she can expect. I was practically projectile vomiting during this whole novel. Don't even get me started on how Fleming describes the abortion. RAGE RAGE RAGE

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken. It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that had made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

by Ian Fleming

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When Ian Fleming sold the film rights to the James Bond novels to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, he gave permission only 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, Eon Productions, for the first time, authorised a novelisation 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, was commissioned to write the book titled James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. After Gilbert was reinstated as director, he decided to bring in another writer, Christopher Wood. Gilbert also decided to fix what he felt the previous Roger Moore films were doing wrong, which was writing the Bond character too much the way Sean Connery played him, and instead portray Bond closer to the books–"very English, very smooth, good sense of humour". Broccoli asked Wood to create a villain with metal teeth, Jaws, inspired by a metal brace-wearing henchman named Sol "Horror" Horowitz, and his short bald accomplice Sandor inspired by Sluggsy Morant in Fleming's novel. [5] While an elegant solution, it is a somewhat problematic one. You’ve just exploded two nuclear bombs at either end of the Pacific Ocean. Surely there will be environmental ramifications? That’s the end of marine life as we know it. Vast ecosystems wiped out. Goodbye to any boats within a hundred mile radius. Hello tsunamis. And what if sea winds blow the radiation inland? Was cancelling the launch ever a viable option? Maybe the whole plan is just a massive two fingers to Stromberg. You like your oceans so much? Well now we’re gonna nuke ‘em. Twice. He later explained that he wrote The Spy Who Loved Me because of his dismay of learning that his books, written for adults, were being read by the young. He intended to write a cautionary tale.With a director finally secured, the next hurdle to be overcome was finishing the script, which had gone through several rewrites by numerous writers. Additionally, the initial villain of the film was Ernst Stavro Blofeld, however, Kevin McClory, who owned the film rights to Thunderball, forced an injunction on EON Productions, delaying the film further. The villain would later be changed from Blofeld to Karl Stromberg so that the injunction could be lifted. Christopher Wood was later brought in by Lewis Gilbert to complete the script. Although Fleming had requested no elements from his original book be used, the novel features a thug named Sol Horror who is described as having steel capped teeth. This character would be the basis for Jaws, although having steel capped teeth is where the similarity between Horror and Jaws ends. Stromberg is a triumph of stylings over substances. He achieves top marks on henchman, diabolical scheme and lair. However, while helpful, such details should be embellishments, not cornerstones. And Stromberg himself is deeply uninteresting. Take away Oddjob/Operation Grand Slam/the laser and Goldfinger is still a wonderful character and worthy adversary. Take away Atlantis/Jaws/nuke everybody underwater and Stromberg is nothing but a deluded, dirty old man. Music (The Spy Who Loved Me)". mi6-hq.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015 . Retrieved 29 August 2007.

Moore films can manage a great villain, a great heroine, occasionally neither but never both at once. Live And Let Die is probably the closest. So while Anya stands alongside Tracy and Pussy Galore, Stromberg is very much of the ‘C’ list. (In my arbitrary table: A = Goldfinger, Scaramanga, B = Largo, Le Chiffre, and onwards until F = Dominic Greene.)James Bond 007: Nightfire, a 2002 video game featuring the Liparus and Atlantis settings from this film, which also includes a submarine-car not unlike the Lotus Esprit. Live and Let Die (1973) • The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) • Moonraker (1979) • For Your Eyes Only (1981) • Octopussy (1983) • A View to a Kill (1985) ETA: And he leaves her! James Bond leaves her to wake up alone, in bed. I hate when people do this. Also, there's a dead body outside her window, the thug James killed last night. Just leaves her there to wake up in a cold bed with a dead body right outside after what was one of the worst nights she'd had in her short life. Real classy, James, you jerk.

I liked this one much more than Casino Royale. This is told from the perspective of a woman named Vivian, who manages to comment on Bond's "sweaty, naked chest" a couple of times while getting shot at. It was apparently worth the risk of getting shot just to have this view.So much sex is in this book, and very, very little of it is even resembling consensual. The whole first third of the book is called "Me" and gives us all the history on our heroine, Viv Michel (Vivienne). Fleming, instead of describing her likes, dislikes, hobbies, personality, friends etc. - decides to give us an in detail rundown of her entire sexual history. Null, Christopher. "The Spy Who Loved Me". FilmCritic. Archived from the original on 15 February 2010 . Retrieved 29 August 2007.