James Bond fans just learn what A View to a Kill means 40 years after release
The 1985 flick sees British secret agent James Bond thwarting Max Zorin's evil plans involving a microchip, retrieved from a deceased colleague in Russia.
Despite its popularity, the title A View to A Kill has left some fans scratching their heads, with one Reddit user querying: "Explain like I'm five: What does A View to A Kill mean? How does the grammar work? I could understand A View to Kill or A view to a Killing."
Cineworld reveals the film was initially titled From A View to A Kill, mirroring Ian Fleming's short story on which it is based. However, the word 'From' was dropped during production.
A statement from Cineworld explains: "The film adaptation owes little to its source other than the title; in the original story."
Despite receiving mixed reviews, A View To A Kill, another Roger Moore Bond film, managed to rake in a substantial profit.
With a budget of $30 million, the film grossed a whopping $152.4 million worldwide - demonstrating how Moore consistently kept Bond profitable amidst changing pop culture trends and various challenges.
The website adds: "To this day, A View To A Kill is regularly viewed as one of the weaker Bond movies by fans and critics.
"It was, perhaps, not the best note for Moore to go out on; it had been expected that he would retire following 1981's For Your Eyes Only, and his age is clearly an issue in A View To A Kill.
"Nevertheless, the end of Moore's tenure confirmed that he had successfully re-authored the role in the wake of Connery, no mean feat, and had kept the franchise lucrative throughout two of its most challenging decades."
Commenting on this, one Reddit user answered: "A View to A Kill is the fourteenth James Bond film. It's loosely based on From a View to A Kill, a Bond short story written by Ian Fleming.
"For some reason, they removed the 'from' from the title when they made the movie version, making the title less sensical."
So what does it actually mean? Another Redditor has their own theory that makes a lot of sense.
They added: "In hunting, a view is the moment you spot your target, a find is when you discover their trail/scent and start pursuing, and a check is when you lose that trail.
"There's an old British hunting song that goes 'From a find to a check, from a check to a view, from a view to a kill in the morning'.
"It's a reference to that, evoking the image of a hunter preparing to kill their target. (The movie's script is called 'From a View to A Kill.')".
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