Bond pits himself against Zorin in a steeplechase in the Forest of Chantilly, while Sir Godfrey ( Patrick Macnee, the original John Steed from sixties TV classic The Avengers) gets garotted in a carwash in the city of Chantilly itself. The racecourse here is the spectacular Piste d’Avilly, Chantilly Racecourse. For entertainment purposes only, I do not claim ownership or rights of this production.
The chateau also appears in Valmont, Milos Forman’s version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The theme tune to 007, A View to a Kill, performed by Duran Duran. It’s a 30-minute walk from Chantilly-Gouvieux station, reached from the Gare du Nord. The dazzling chateau, open to the public, is set among gardens and lakes to the west of the town of Chantilly. Zorin’s estate is the 18th century (he says it’s 16th century, but that’s a Bond villain for you) Chateau Chantilly, twenty miles north of Paris on the N16 in the Picardy region.
#A view to a kill movie
Aubergine, who’s killed by a butterfly in the Restaurant Jules Verne, the pricey eaterie on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower.Īfter Zorin’s henchwoman, May Day ( Grace Jones), makes a spectacular leap from the Tower, there’s a car chase culminating in Bond’s leap into the Seine pleasure boat from the Pont Alexandre III (a wonderfully over-the-top confection also used in the 1956 Anastasia, with Ingrid Bergman, John Huston’s 1952 Toulouse Lautrec biopic Moulin Rouge and John Frankenheimer’s Ronin). Released May 24th, 1985, 'A View to a Kill' stars Roger Moore, Grace Jones, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts The PG movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 11 min, and received a user score of 62 (out. In Paris, Bond meets up with the unlikely French ‘tec M. May Day later avenges both Jenny and Pam by helping Bond to foil Zorin's scheme at the cost of her life.A View To A Kill location: Bond leaps into the boat: Pont Alexandre III, Paris | Photograph: Wikimedia / Moonik This betrayal caused May Day to turn to Bond for help, even mourning for the loss of Jenny after noticing her corpse floating on the water. Their attempts to outrun the waters prove futile, and they both drown. While the carnage ensues, the film cuts to Jenny and Pan Ho, who are about to be washed away by the oncoming floodwaters. After being directed another way by May Day with Pan Ho, Zorin decides to flood the fault before the personnel are evacuated, despite Bob Conley's protests. Then after Bond and Stacey Sutton are discovered, she chases them with May Day and Pan Ho. After that, she assists in positioning the detonator Zorin intends to use to create a double earthquake, which would be utilized to annihilate Silicon Valley. In the Main Strike mine sequence, Jenny is patrolling the grounds and hands Scarpine the tool which leads to her demise: the dynamite (disguised as a coffee thermos) to flood the fault. After this, we see her walking out of the office with the canisters and then in the car looking at the destruction she's caused.
Howe, Flex appears in the doorway with petrol canisters and begins to douse the carpeting so the building can be set aflame. In San Francisco City Hall, when Zorin has murdered chief geologist W.G. When General Gogol and his bodyguards Klotkoff and Venz confront Zorin, his henchmen, including Flex, May Day, Scarpine, and Pan Ho outgun them, forcing them to leave. She next is seen while Bond is being disposed of in the Rolls-Royce. Later in the film, when Tibbett is going to get his car washed at the local BP garage so he can telephone M about 007's discoveries, Flex and Pan Ho provide a distraction by pretending to have engine trouble while Tibbett gets the car washed so May Day can murder him. She then escorts Bond and his chauffeur Sir Godfrey Tibbett up to Bond's quarters.įlex is next seen at the reception party at the chateau conversing with Pan Ho and other guests. Language(3/5): There are 3 uses of st and gmn, 2 uses of hell and oh my Lrd, and 1 use of puy, oh my G and damn. She is first seen walking down the stairs to greet James Bond (under the guise of James St. A View to a Kill is a 1985 Bond film directed by John Glen and starring Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Grace Jones and Tanya Roberts. Jenny Flex is one of the henchwomen working alongside May Day (the other is Pan Ho).
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