And she’s even close with Zorin’s other female assassins, breaking down over their deaths in the third act and determining to avenge them. ![]() As snarling, super-strong, and mostly silent May Day, she’s magnetic, all glam and violence. Thankfully, Grace Jones is in this movie. As my father pointed out, Stacey’s lines are mostly limited to the following: “James!”, “Help me!”, and “James, help me!”. Tanya Roberts is breathtakingly beautiful, like a Brigitte Bardot for the early eighties (albeit with less bite), but it’s very hard to buy her wide-eyed breathiness as a geologist who has been battling Zorin her entire adult life. My friend Natalya keeps warning me about Denise Richards’ turn as a nuclear physicist named Christmas Jones in the Brosnan-era The World is Not Enough, but I think she should have warned me about Stacey Stutton in the same breath. It’s up to Bond to get to the bottom of Zorin’s plan and save-well, if not the world, definitely a sizable chunk of California. It seems like chump change for MI6, but when Zorin’s right-hand woman May Day tries to kill him and succeeds in killing a French contact, Bond knows Zorin is up to something… something that involves paying off one Stacey Stutton to the tune of five million dollars. While Max Zorin of Zorin Industries is supposedly the perfect capitalist, Bond investigates him and discovers that Zorin is doping horses. Bring it on.Ī View To a Kill opens with MI6 discovering that one of their contractors is selling their tech to the Soviets. It was the one I was destined to love, for just as Meyerian werewolves imprint upon their soulmates in utero, I, too, imprinted upon the eighties at a tender age. It was the one from the mid-eighties, when the whole eighties aesthetic had stabilized and hadn’t soured yet. It was the one where Roger Moore’s age had become laughably apparent. It saturated the Nintendo 64 years like a glorious vodka martini-scented halo.) It was the one with Christopher Walken and Grace Jones. (I may not have seen the film, but even I remember the majesty of the video game. ![]() A View To a Kill is the first Bond movie I remember learning about outside of Goldeneye.
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