19th part of the indestructible saga of the (mis) adventures of Agent 007, played for the 3rd time by Pierce Brosnan, “The World is Not Enough” finds the origin of its title in a rather unusual anecdote … And very James Bondesque!
With a Swiss cuckoo regularity, the France 3 channel continues its broadcasts of James Bond films from the Pierce Brosnan period on September 17, with Le Monde is not enough, the 19th opus in the saga of the (mis) adventures of agent 007, this time – orchestrated by veteran Michael Apted.
Released in 1999, the film notably saw Sophie Marceau join the list of French women playing the role of a James Bond girl, but especially here the villain of service, in the guise of Elektra King, extremely rich heiress of an oil magnate. assassinated in the very compound of the headquarters of the British secret services, MI: 6.
Here is the trailer of the film, as a reminder …
We had already mentioned in a previous article the origin of the title of the previous part of the saga, Tomorrow never dies, which as such means absolutely nothing; also underlining this propensity to put titles bigger than life which taroded then the production of the time.
The World is Not Enough does not completely escape this state of affairs; at least on paper. Because there is a real subtlety this time around. In the film, Elektra King tells Bond: “I could have offered you the world”. To which he replies: “the world is not enough! ”“ That’s stupid! ” loose Elektra King. And 007 to retort: “it is a family motto”.
The title is indeed the translation of a Latin motto: Orbis not sufficit, which was that of Sir Thomas Bond, a venerable 17th century ancestor of James. The anecdote is also revealed in the film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, during an expertise of this ancestor’s coat of arms. This expression would also have been engraved according to legend as an epitaph on the tomb of Alexander the Great, although the said tomb has never been found: “A tomb is enough now, for the one for whom the world was not enough “.
