<P> Roger Moore was reluctant to film the scene of Bond kicking a car, with Locque inside, over the edge of a cliff, saying that it "was Bond - like, but not Roger Moore Bond - like ." Michael G. Wilson later said that Moore had to be persuaded to be more ruthless than he felt comfortable . Wilson also added that he and Richard Maibaum, along with John Glen, toyed with other ideas surrounding that scene, but ultimately everyone, even Moore, agreed to do the scene as originally written . </P> <P> For the Meteora shoots, a Greek bishop was paid to allow filming in the monasteries, but the uninformed Eastern Orthodox monks were mostly critical of production rolling in their installations . After a trial in the Greek Supreme Court, it was decided that the monks' only property were the interiors--the exteriors and surrounding landscapes were from the local government . In protest, the monks remained shut inside the monasteries during the shooting, and tried to sabotage production as much as possible, hanging their washing out of their windows and covering the principal monastery with plastic bunting and flags to spoil the shots, and placing oil drums to prevent the film crew from landing helicopters . The production team solved the problem with back lighting, matte paintings, and building both a similar scenographic monastery on a nearby unoccupied rock, and a monastery set in Pinewood . </P> <P> Roger Moore said he had a great fear of heights, and to do the climbing in Greece, he resorted to moderate drinking to calm his nerves . Later in that same sequence, Rick Sylvester, a stuntman who had previously performed the pre-credits ski jump in The Spy Who Loved Me, undertook the stunt of Bond falling off the side of the cliff . The stunt was dangerous, since the sudden rope jerk at the bottom could be fatal . Special effects supervisor Derek Meddings developed a system that would dampen the stop, but Sylvester recalled that his nerves nearly got the better of him: "From where we were (shooting), you could see the local cemetery; and the box (to stop my fall) looked like a casket . You didn't need to be an English major to connect the dots ." The stunt went off without a problem . </P> <P> Bond veteran cameraman and professional skier Willy Bogner, Jr. was promoted to director of a second unit involving ski footage . Bogner designed the ski chase on the bobsleigh track of Cortina d'Ampezzo hoping to surpass his work in both On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Spy Who Loved Me . To allow better filming, Bogner developed both a system where he was attached to a bobsleigh, allowing to film the vehicle or behind it, and a set of skis that allowed him to ski forwards and backwards to get the best shots . In February 1981, on the final day of filming the bobsleigh chase, one of the stuntmen driving a sleigh, 23 - year - old Paolo Rigon, was killed when he became trapped under the bob . </P>

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