The Paper's reporter Wang Yi
"We are very sad to learn of the death of Dame Diana Rigg. She is a legend on stage and a film and television actress loved by the majority of Bond film fans. In the movie "The Queen's Secret Envoy", she plays Tracy di Vicenzo, the only woman to marry Bond. In this sad moment, our love and thoughts are with her family and friends. On September 10, the family producer of the 007 series of films, Michael M. Brothers and sisters Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli jointly posted a tribute on the 007 official website. The famous British actress Diana Rigg died of cancer on the same day at the age of 82.
Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg is also the second "Bond Girl" to die in 2020. At the beginning of the year, British actress Honor Blackman passed away at the age of 94, playing a tough and sexy female pilot in the 1963 film Goldfinger. Speaking of which, the sexy "Bang Girl" is an "essential element" established at the beginning of the creation of 007 movies, although it has always been criticized by feminism, the discourse volume in the "Bang Girl" film after the new century is gradually balanced with the male protagonist, and even in the 25th 007 movie "No Time to Die", which will be released in November this year, the number of 007 has been "taken away" by a black woman... But Tracy, played by Diana, is always a special being — as the producers say, she is the only woman in the series of films that has spanned more than half a century and has been married to Bond and officially married.
After the news of Diana Rigg's death, the male lead of "The Queen's Secret Envoy" and the second James Bond actor, Australian actor George Razambe, posted a tribute, "I am sad to hear the news of Diana's death. As the bride in the movie, I wept over her death. Now, hearing the news of Mrs. Diana's death, I wept for her again. "As we all know, 007's professional status as a spy does not allow him to maintain a long-term intimate relationship, let alone start a family. And his own playboy image, as defined by the German scholar Werner Grave in his book James Bond: Agents of the Zeitgeist, "except for the 'monogamy' in one film (1971'The Eternal Diamond)," he has multiple sexual encounters in each Bond film besides the heroine," and the list goes on and on.
"Queen's Secret Envoy" opening 007 hero saves the United States
Before Daniel Craig took over the "murder license" in 2006, the first and only time Bond on the screen was really emotional and voluntarily promised a woman was in "The Queen's Secret Envoy". He specially customized a wedding ring from a jewelry store on Bond Street, a special wedding ring with the slogan "We have all the time in the World. Each letter is shaped in an allogeneic shape and is crafted from white/yellow gold. In the movie, shortly after the bride puts it on, a couple driving an adorned garland Aston Martin DBS embarks on a honeymoon trip, not wanting to encounter a sneak attack from the old enemy, the devil's party boss, Blofield. Tracy's eyebrows bounced in her heart, and she passed away, and Bond kissed the ring on his beloved wife's hand lightly, saying the confession that broke his liver and intestines, "Don't worry, you see, we still have a lifetime to stay together..."
Prop wedding ring in The Queen's Secret Envoy
“We have all the time in the World.” This line later appeared as the epitaph of Mrs. James Bond and appeared at the beginning of the 1983 movie "The Octopus Woman": Bond, played by Roger Moore, walked into the cemetery with a rose in his hand and stopped in front of a simple stone tablet... In fact, despite Mrs. Bond's obedience, the significance of her marriage to 007 seems to be only to prove the fate of the latter," destined to go it alone. But in the Bond movie later, the deceased wife Tracy is indeed a pain that the playboy can't touch.
In the 1971 movie "Eternal Diamond", the "ancestor" Sean Connery played 007, and the opening scene was immersed in the pain of his beloved wife's death, and he ignored the instructions of the headquarters and hunted down the culprit Clofield all over the world. In the 1977 film "Under the Sea", Roger Moore played Bond, played by Barbara Bezzi, and the Soviet major played by Barbara Bezzi, bid information at a tavern in Cairo, drinking and laughing. The two competed to expose each other's privacy and "black history", Bond at first flirted with a smile, but when the other party said that he had countless girlfriends, married once, and his wife was killed..." He immediately smiled and said, "I am quite sensitive to some things." ”
George Razambe on the set of The Queen's Secret Envoy
As the only actor in history to play James Bond only once, George Razambe's statement this time is really heartfelt. It should be known that as one of the disciples of Bruce Lee in the past, George's reputation at that time can only be described by the word "bad". At that time, due to The outright resignation of Sean Connery, producer Albert Brockley had to audition for 007 worldwide, and it is said that more than 400 actors came to audition at that time! In the end, the rare george Razambe sparrow screen was selected, and "The Queen's Secret Envoy" was officially launched on October 21, 1968, and most of the scenes were filmed in the Swiss Alps and other places. Under Sean's fame, any successor will withstand huge pressure of public opinion, and George is indeed not emotionally intelligent, except for the occasional confrontation with the media who visited the class at that time, and finally ended up in the "no friend" situation in the crew. After the filming was completed, he simply turned his face and scattered one shot and two scattered.
The "Bond Girl" in "The Queen's Secret Envoy" may be the most popular in the series, but it is in this episode that Bond has a relationship
It is precisely this disaster, coupled with the fact that the box office performance after the release of "The Queen's Secret Envoy" is indeed unsatisfactory, which has long made people ignore or even denigrate this movie. But to break down public opinion, two points need to be distinguished: first, people are not very satisfied with this movie, the Bond actor, but the appearance of Diana Rigg is still generally recognized; secondly, as the timeline lengthens, there are many people who want to "overturn the case" for the movie and George Razambe. As far as the reporter's own interview experience is concerned, although Daniel Craig did not explicitly comment on "The Queen's Secret Envoy", Martin Campbell (the director of "GoldenEye" and "Casino Royale" two 007 films) clearly disagreed with George's performance that year - but he also had to admit that Daniel Craig was a affectionate model, and he went to the end of the world several times for the sake of women's "naked words", which was only observed by the plot of "Queen's Secret Envoy".
From the history of the film to the fable, on the one hand, the shaping of the character image is more and more comprehensive is the trend of the times, on the other hand, in the past 007 movies, Bond rarely had "crying scenes", Craig changed the previous setting, not only for his own woman Vespa, but also for the leader Mrs. M, and even because of the same big boss Brofield brothers and crying ... In 2015, when the crew of "Ghost Party" came to China to promote, the author threw this question to Craig, and he was very satisfied. In such detail, george still set a precedent in "The Queen's Secret Envoy" - it should be noted that as the 007 film enters the road of serialization, the audience, especially the loyal fans, has long been dissatisfied with the kind of performance that only cares about the playful "walking the kidney", and if there is a "walking heart", the first breakthrough in the inner drama is George Razambi in "The Queen's Secret Envoy". It's just that the post-war baby boomer audience in Europe and the United States, optimistic and optimistic, only wanted to find pleasure from the theater at that time, too lazy to think about too much meaning.
The set photo of "The Queen's Secret Envoy" is also the only time in the 007 movie that Bond is wearing a morning dress and his wife in a wedding dress
For 007 fans, it is indisputable that the movie "The Queen's Secret Envoy" and its novel text have been underestimated in history. The film not only contributed to "We have all the time in the World. The love sentence, also because of bond's heraldry, reveals the inheritance of the 007 family, as well as the family emblem style and family motto, "The World Is Not Enough." This proverb later became the title of the last Bond film of the 20th century, and in the 2012 Bond film "Skyfall", directed by Sam Mendes and the most acclaimed Bond film of the new century, there is still a continuation of this vein on the plot line, and finally completed the closed loop of the mystery of Bond's origin in "Ghost Party".
After the death of Diana Rigg, overseas commemorations of her will indeed first mention the British drama "The Avengers" in the 1960s. Diana, like Ona Blackman, first played the heroine Emma Peel in the red play before receiving an invitation from the 007 crew. It is also worth mentioning that in this play, the British star Patrick Macnee plays the male protagonist John Steed, who wears a bowler hat and an umbrella at all times. In 1977, after Patrick starred in the thriller spy movie "Seawolf" with Roger Moore, Gregory Parker and other stars, in 1985, Roger Moore's last Bond movie "Thunder Kill", the two once again joined forces to play the MI6 agent partner. "The Avengers" is famous, but it is also the British drama "Saint" in the 60s of the last century , Roger Moore starred, once translated into the name of "Detective Simon" into the mainland TV broadcast, "The Avengers" is ultimately a chinese audience side, is a young and beautiful Diana film in a black leather coat, the image of the strong hand is mostly later learned in the make-up class.
Stills from Game of Thrones, "Queen of Thorns"
When the post-90s and post-00s generations are relishing the American drama "Game of Thrones", how many people can recognize that the "Queen of Thorns" in a black robe is Mrs. Bond at that time? Or one of her veteran fans summed it up, "From Emma Peel in Avengers to Olonna Tyrell in Game of Thrones... For most of us, she was the one who made James Bond fall in love and marry her, Mrs. James Bond. ”
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