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Die Another Day departs from the traditional Bond formula in a number of manners. The film's opening action sequence concludes with Bond being imprisoned and tortured for fourteen months by the North Korean People's Army.
The film elicited poor opinions across the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world, with the North unhappy with its portrayal as a brutal, war-hungry state, while many South Koreans were offended by a romantic scene conducted in a Buddhist temple and a scene where an American officer issues orders to the South Korean army in the defence of their own homeland.[3]
The amount of product placement was also a point of criticism, specifically from various news outlets such as the BBC, Time and Reuters who all used the pun "Buy Another Day". Reportedly 20 companies paying $70 million had their products featured in the film, a record at the time, [4] although USA Today reported that number to be as high as $100 million. [5] By choice the number of companies involved in product placement was dwindled to only eight for the next Bond film Casino Royale in 2006. [6] Due to one product tie-in there are two versions of Die Another Day. In the United States, one scene has Bond shaving with a Norelco Spectra shaver and in some prints outside the U.S. Bond uses a Philishave Sensotec shaver.
Despite these criticisms Die Another Day was, until the release of Casino Royale, the highest grossing James Bond film without adjusting for inflation. It took in $160,942,139 in the United States and $432 million in sales worldwide.
Although the basic plot and the title do not derive from any James Bond novel, this is the first film since 1989's Licence to Kill to include notable elements from the Bond books, In particular, the North Korean villain, Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, has a similar name to that of Colonel Sun, the villain in Kingsley Amis' Bond novel of the same name.
A number of elements from Fleming's original novel Moonraker are also included. In that novel, a Nazi adopts a new identity and becomes a popular British multi-millionaire. He then donates millions to create a "Moonraker" missile which is supposed to be for Britain's protection but is actually meant to destroy London. The parallels between that plot and Die Another Day's plot are apparent. In addition, the club called Blades, a fencing club in this film, was featured as a card club in Moonraker. The character of Miranda Frost was originally named Gala Brand, the same name as the Bond girl in the original Moonraker novel.
Die Another Day was the first movie since Live and Let Die not to feature Desmond Llewelyn, who had died in 1999 just after the release of The World Is Not Enough. John Cleese, formerly of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, took over the role of Q. It is, however, clear that he is playing a different character (who had been introduced as Q's assistant "R" in The World Is Not Enough). |
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