In Her Majesty's Secret Service

At the moment I'm looking on my bookshelf and seeing my James Bond-collection on VHS which I got when I moved to Karlstad. Of course not the whole collection, it begins with Goldfinger, jumps to some of the Roger Moore movies, both Timothy Dalton movies and all Pierce Brosnan movies (the last one being a DVD but still). Particular fun is the way all movies before Pierce Brosnan had Swedish titles. The translation can nowadays be very funny to note upon. If we begin with Dr No, in swedish it was James Bond med rätt att döda, in english James Bond with a license to Kill. Anyone notice that the title is awfully similar to the second Timothy Dalton movie? Hindsight is a bitch isn't. It gets better. For Your Eyes Only with Roger More, became Ur Dödlig Synvinkel, or translated as View To A Kill, the same name as the last Roger Moore movie. What did we name that one? Levande Måltavla or in english, Living Daylights. That's right, the first Dalton movie. As that title was taken, they made it into Mission Ice cold or something like that. And finally License to Kill, what did we call that one? Tid För Hämnd, or in english Time for Revenge or if there is some catchy phrase for that, you get the idea. After that they decided just to copy the english titles.

So why am I discussing James Bond? Well, as one of the co-hosts of Melodifestivalen is Dolph Lundgren whose first movie experience was in A View to a Kill as a KGB-agent. And also, the first music number of last weeks show was Duran Durans A View to a Kill. Not as good, I missed the plucking of the guitar in the original. And if, for some reason they gonna do another Bond-song, I hope it would be Living Daylights with a-ha. Who cares if they are norwegians, it's one of the best Bond-songs. Speaking of norwegians, they gonna show who "sabotaged" the first show. My bet is one the viewers, worst show ever. Of course I have a habit of saying that every year. Anyway, if we are gonna be serious I hope for the sake of consistency (in a show that has nothing to do with earlier years) that it is Lasse Berghagen, like 2 years ago (or at least I think it was 2 years ago).