Evil Is Sexy: May Day is Zorin's main accomplice for most of the film and goes so far as to murder Bond's allies, taking pleasure in the process.This must have been discovered early on, since Grace Jones was given higher billing than Tanya Roberts and is the one who appears on most of the movie posters with Bond (Jones was also much more famous than Roberts). Evil Is Cool: Zorin and May Day are almost unanimously agreed to be the two best things about this movie, stealing the show from Bond and Stacy.Some fans even mourn May Day's death for believing she could have been a good recurring antagonist in the franchise. Ensemble Dark Horse: Zorin and May Day are two of the most popular villains in the franchise, to the extent that they were made playable characters in video games.Scenes like her apparently not listening to a zeppelin a few feet away from her and the fact that all the other Bond Girls in the movie are more interesting than her also don't help. Even though her background as a geologist allowed her to piece together Zorin's plan to destroy Silicon Valley with an earthquake, she is still unpopular due to her constant loud screams that would make Scream Queens envious, in addition to needing to be constantly rescued by Bond. Damsel Scrappy: Stacey Sutton is definitely not one of the more popular Bond Girls.Critic-Proof: As was a common occurrence with the Bond movies starring Roger Moore, A View To A Kill is one of the worst-reviewed entries in the series, but it still grossed a decent $152.4 million at the box office, making it one of the highest-grossing movies of 1985.Despite his civilized façade, Zorin makes his mark as a particularly vicious individual. When Bond sabotages his plot, Zorin attacks Bond and Sutton atop the Golden Gate Bridge with an axe. After placing explosives along the Hayward and San Andreas fault lines, Zorin floods the mines where the explosives were placed, proceeding to gun down any fleeing employees, despite their loyalty, driven by a combination of resource disposal and schadenfreude, and allows his mistress May Day to die in an explosion alongside his remaining employees. When James Bond and Stacey Sutton go to San Francisco city hall to investigate, Zorin kills a city official and a CIA Agent, framing Bond for the murders before setting the building on fire. Abandoning the KGB in order to pursue his scheme to submerge Silicon Valley and monopolize the global microchip supply, not caring that his plan will cost millions of lives, Zorin proceeds to involve his investors in his scheme, having a detractor ejected from his airship when the latter refuses to co-operate. Complete Monster: Maximilian "Max" Zorin, the former KGB operative in charge of Zorin Industries, presents himself as an affluent and fashionable individual, but is in truth a vicious, greedy psychopath who will do anything to further his own gains.It plays on the scenes where Bond makes love with May Day and Stacey Sutton in the latter case, it also plays in the couple's romantic scenes, showing a sensitivity rarely seen in the Roger Moore Era. " Wine with Stacey " is one of the most beautiful tracks in the franchise.Fans may recognise that the theme tune from On Her Majesty's Secret Service was adapted for use as the film's instrumental score. The soft instrumental version of the Duran Duran song by Barry is also melodic. John Barry's score also counts, especially the recurring action theme with its cheesy, yet awesome guitar riffs.Even the movie's strongest detractors will admit to the song being an undeniable highlight of the movie. Duran Duran's opening song made it to #1 on the Billboard charts.In that case, is it really Zorin's fault he's so evil? Or is is he really just the victim of mad science and bad genetics? At one point they mention Zorin was created by the Nazis as part of a "super soldier" program, which didn't really work as all the "super soldiers" ended up being psychopaths.In The BBC documentary Premium Bond, Mark Gatiss stated that the film is enjoyable if you see it not as a James Bond film, but a film about an elderly man convinced he's a secret agent.
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