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Most likely because Star Wars was the most successful movie of all time, the year this film released. So they decided to capitalise on the world's re-kindled love of space fantasy and do Moonraker before For Your Eyes Only.

Following the disappearance of two Russian and British submarines, both equipped with nuclear warheads, British Secret Service head M (Bernard Lee) and KGB General Anatol Gogol (Walter Gotell) agree to work together in "a new era of Anglo-Soviet cooperation." Consequently, MI6 agent James Bond (Roger Moore) and KGB agent Major Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) are sent together to Sardinia in an attempt to pursue a lead that links reclusive shipping magnate Karl Stromberg (Curd Jürgens) with a microfilm containing designs for the submarine tracking system that may have been used to abduct the missing subs, that is, if they can avoid the bite of Stomberg's assassin Jaws (Richard Kiel), a 7-foot towering Goliath with steel teeth.

It only takes the name of the Ian Fleming novel. The plot is entirely different.

The Spy Who Loved Me doesn't have a title song. The song that plays over the opening credits is "Nobody Does it Better", performed by Carly Simon. The song does have one line that includes the title of the film.

Bond starts out in Austria, where he is just finishing another mission. After a brief meeting with M in England, he is then sent to Egypt in order to obtain the plans to a highly-advanced submarine tracking system that is being marketed to the highest bidder. There he meets Anya Amasova who is on a similar mission to obtain the plans for the Soviets. When the plans lead them to a rich shipping tycoon Karl Stromberg, who lives in an underwater "city" that he calls Atlantis, Bond and Anya are ordered by their respective superiors to go together to Sardinia to get the plans from Stromberg.

Sardinia is an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy and south of Corsica (which is governed by France).

Yes. As M and Gogol, are about to enter a room, M says to Gogol "After you, Alexis," and Gogol replies, "After you, Miles." Assuming the two leaders know each other familiarly and aren't using made up names, it would appear that M's first name is Miles.

According to Fleming, the original head of British Secret Service was addressed by one of his two initials, which initial carried over to future heads. For his fiction Ian Fleming merely adopted the other initial, ''M", which may or may not correspond to the current chief's name.

According to producer Michael G. Wilson on the documentary "Inside The Spy Who Loved Me", Stromberg wants to destroy mankind for polluting the oceans. An earlier version of the script had Stromberg targeting the submarine SLBMs at the world's oil fields. However, an early version of "Never Say Never Again" due to be produced around this time involved Blofeld threatening to destroy New York unless humanity stops polluting the oceans and the producer Kevin McClory sued Eon for plagiarism. Consequently, all references to pollution were removed from the script.

He uses the detonator for the warhead which is what is termed a "shaped charge", conventional explosive configured in such a way that it focuses its' blast in one direction. This is used to trigger the nuclear explosion of the radioactive material but by itself will easily cut through steel.

The original novel is a completely different story. It tells the story of a troubled woman named Vivienne Michel who is in danger of being murdered by gangsters, one of whom inspired the character of Jaws. She is eventually rescued by Bond (who doesn't appear until Chapter 10).

Including The Spy Who Loved Me, Moore made seven movies in which he played James Bond: Vivre et laisser mourir (1973), L'homme au pistolet d'or (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), Rien que pour vos yeux (1981), Octopussy (1983), and Dangereusement vôtre (1985).