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Live and Let Die is a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and the eighth movie in the EON Productions Bond franchise. This is the first movie to star Roger Moore as British Secret Service Agent, Commander James Bond. Loosely based on the book, the film was released in 1973 and was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman.1 Film plot summary
Several British agents monitoring the operations of Dr Kananga, the dictator of a small Caribbean island called San Monique, are murdered in mysterious circumstances. James Bond is sent to New York, where the last agent was killed and where Kananga is currently visiting the UN, to investigate. As soon as Bond arrives in New York, his driver is killed while taking him to meet Felix Leiter of the CIA. The driver's killer leads Bond to Mr Big, a gangsterGangsters are members of a professional crime organization, i. Famous examples of such organizations include the Mafia, Crips, Yakuza and Triad. Gangsters typically run their operations as a pseudo-business in that they do offer some product or service, a who runs a chain of restaurants throughout the US. It is during his confrontation with Mr Big that Bond first meets Solitaire, a beautiful tarotTarot Tar oh) is a system of symbolical images, which is used primarily for divinatory purposes. Also it is used as tool for reflection on one's personal life, as well as an aid to meditation. Tarot is normally embodied in a deck of 78 cards, similar to a expert who has the uncanny ability to see the future. Bond follows Kananga back to San Monique where he seduces Solitaire (it had been foretold in the cards), which, by "compelling to earthly love", takes away her power. It transpires that Kananga is producing massive amounts of heroinHeroin or diamorphine ( INN) (colloquially referred to as junk, babania, horse, brown, smack, black tar, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, etc is an alkaloid opioid. Heroin is the 3,6- diacetyl derivative of morphine (hence diacetylmorphine and is synthes and is protecting the poppyFor the video game character, see Poppy (video game character). cemetery, France. Poppies are often seen as a symbol of World War I A poppy is an annual, biennial, or perennial plant of the Family Papaveraceae, typically with showy flowers borne one per s fields through fear of voodooAlternate meaning: Voodoo (album For the military aircraft, see F-101 Voodoo. For the 3D graphics card, see 3dfx (the name of the manufacturer). The term Voodoo ( Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the and the occultFor other uses of this term, see occult (disambiguation). The word occult comes from Latin occultus (hidden), referring to the knowledge of the secret' or 'knowledge of the hidden' and often meaning 'knowledge of the supernatural', as opposed to 'knowledg. Through his alter ego, Mr Big (Kananga in disguise) he would distribute the heroin from his chain of Fillet Of Soul restaurants for free until the number of drug addicts doubles and his rival drug lords are put out of business, leaving Kananga with a monopoly.
In the closing scene of the film, the central voodoo character, Baron Samedi, is seen perched on the front of the speeding train in which Bond and Solitaire are travelling in, in his voodoo outfit and laughing mysteriously, despite having been killed by Bond during the film's climax.
2 Theme music
The film is notable for its title song, written by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney and performed by Paul and his group, Wings. McCartney reportedly composed and recorded the song unsolicited and then offered it to the producers. Taking a temporary hiatus from scoring Bond films, John Barry subsequently passed the baton over to McCartney's producer, George Martin.
