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Die Another Day is a 2002 spy film. It is the 20th film in the James Bond series, and the fourth and final to star Pierce Brosnan as MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond is betrayed after killing a rogue North Korean Colonel, and getting captured. Once released in a prisoner exchange, he must follow the clues in an effort to discover who the leak was, but uncovers that the person he is after is the same North Korean Colonel he supposedly killed. Bond is then betrayed by the same MI6 agent assigned to keep an eye on him, and must prevent a satellite from igniting a war between North and South Korea.
Die Another Day departs from the traditional Bond formula in a number of ways. The film's opening action sequence concludes with Bond being imprisoned and tortured for fourteen months by the North Korean People's Army. It is also the final Bond film to feature the original series' James Bond.(1962-2002)
The film elicited poor opinions across the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world. North Koreans were unhappy with its portrayal as a brutal, war-hungry state. 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 defense of their own homeland.
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.
Die Another Day was the first movie since Live and Let Die not to feature Desmond Llewelyn, who had died in a car crash on December 19th 1999 just days after the release of The World Is Not Enough. Instead, John Cleese 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), Q even states that he learned from his predecessor that he never jokes about his work, this line is a tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who made it clear to Bond that never joked about his work in 1964's Goldfinger.
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. Despite this however the film receives major criticism from many online polls, considering it the weakest movie in the franchise, reasons for this include the under-development of several characters, poorly executed CGI sequences and the direction of Lee Tamahori.
The title song for Die Another Day was written and sung by Madonna, who also had a small cameo in the movie as Verity, a leather-clad fencing instructor.Wikipedia |
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