James Bond in film of the funding for the Bond films, fell into financial difficulties following the box office failure of "Heaven's Gate" (1980), bringing uncertainty to the future of the funding. The situation was resolved in May 1981, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired United Artists. Following "For Your Eyes Only", Roger Moore had expressed a desire to stop playing James Bond. His original contract had been for three films, a requirement fulfilled with "The Spy Who Loved Me". Subsequent films had been negotiated on a film-by-film basis. The producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next actor to play Bond, which would be for
Motifs in the James Bond film series took delight in embarrassing interviewers by repeatedly mentioning her character's name. Other double entendre names included Holly Goodhead from "Moonraker", Mary Goodnight and Chew Mee from "The Man with the Golden Gun", Honey Ryder from "Dr. No", Plenty O'Toole from "Diamonds Are Forever", Xenia Onatopp from "GoldenEye", and Christmas Jones from "The World Is Not Enough". One of the elements used throughout the Bond series is humour, particularly 'one-liners', delivered by Bond, either when killing an enemy, or at the end of the film when with a woman. The humour was present in the first film in the series, "Dr.