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Colonel Moon : How do you propose to kill me know, Mr. Bond? It's pathetic! You British still believe you have the right to police the world. But, you will not live to see the day, all Korea is ruled by the North. James Bond : Then you and I have something in common. Colonel Moon : Mr Van Bierk. [Picks up Tankbuster]
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Moon/Graves is a conceited, violent, ill-tempered and an manipulative figure who, as Gustav Graves, puts on an façade of philanthropic affability. Through-out the story, Graves displays violent and short-tempered tendencies, with him being introduced by vigorously punching and kicking a punching bag that has his anger management therapist inside, w...
Colonel Tan-Sun Moon
Born the son General Moon, Tan-Sun Moon was a Colonel (Sangchwa) in the North Korean People's Army. In the hope that a Western education would help bridge the gap between East and West, General Moon sent his son to study at Oxford and Harvard. It was an experience which would prove formative on the young Moon, providing him with the contacts which he would later use, including Miranda Frost, who was on also on the Harvard fencing team. He was able to bring Frost to his side by arranging her t...
Sir Gustav Graves
Unknown to the rest of the world - including his own father - Moon survives the incident and flees to Cuba, where he undergoes DNA replacement therapy (provided by Dr. Alvarez) to alter his appearance to make him appear to be of European descent. Emerging from the therapy, he completed his transformation and adopted the name Gustav Graves. Gustav Graves was seen as a sophisticated, sarcastic, rude and arrogant business man. This seems to be an askew view of how Bond was often viewed by his en...
Fighting Bond at the club
Brought on Graves' trace through blood diamonds he found with Zao, Bond - unaware of Graves' true identity - travels to London, where he witnesses Graves arriving at the Buckingham Palace by parachute before he is knighted by the Queen. Later that day, Bond visits the fencing academy where Graves is training and manages to persuade the fight trainer Verityto arrange a match with Graves. When being introduced to Graves, the villain asks whether they have met before, to which Bond responds by s...
Order of Kim Il-SungOrder of the National Flag (First Class)Order of Freedom and Independence (First Class)Commemorative Order "5th March"Gustav Graves also appears in 007 Legends in the Die Another Day mission. He has the likeness of is and voiced by Toby Stephens, but no reference is made to his past as Colonel Moon, implying that he was born Gustav Graves. The only exception to this theory is that a bust of Colonel Moon's head can be seen on Graves's cargo plane. Although he is sh...
Writing
While an original character, the character of Gustav Graves incorporates a number of elements from Ian Fleming's original novel Moonraker. In that novel, a Nazi adopts a new identity and becomes a popular British multi-millionaire. He then donates millions to create a "Moonraker" missile which is supposed to be for Britain's protection but is actually meant to destroy London. In addition, the club called Blades, a fencing club in this film, was featured as a gentleman's club in Moonraker. The...
Tributes
Gustav Graves' character has many nods to previous villains from EON-Bond films. These include; 1. An unusual feature of this villain is that Graves appears to be younger than James Bond. In general, Bond villains are roughly the same age or considerably older than Bond (with Max Zorin in A View to a Kill and Elektra King in The World Is Not Enoughnotable exceptions). 2. Graves was similar to Kananga, who also used a dual identity 30 years earlier. The main difference was that Kananga's perso...
He is the second Bond villain (after Jacques Bouvar) to be portrayed by two different actors in the same film.Korean Colonel Moon becoming the Caucasian Gustav Graves might be a inside joke based on the Unmade 17th Bond film, as in the two major scripts originally meant for the movie, the ethnicity of the...Both Graves' deaths were caused by being sucked into fans; his first involving a hovercraft's thrust fan and the second being pulled into a jet engine's fan blades.He is one of the few Bond villains to have committed patricide.Die Another Day is a 2002 spy film and the twentieth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. ... Will Yun Lee as Colonel Tan-Sun Moon, ...
In "Die Another Day," Will Yun Lee plays Colonel Moon, a North Korean officer involved in diamond smuggling. The film's memorable hovercraft chase scene show...
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Jun 15, 2023 · Gustav Graves is the main Bond villain in the 2002 film, Die Another Day, and is played by Korean-American actor, Will Yun Lee, in the role of Colonel Moon, and British actor, Toby Stephens, after becoming Graves. The character finds his place in Raymond Benson’s corresponding novel adaptation and is revamped for Activision’s 2012 James ...
Actors Will Yun Lee as Colonel Moon [a nod to the title character of COLONEL SUN (1968) by Kingsley Amis], and Rick Yune as Zao joined the production for the opening sequence. ABOVE: (top inset) Will Yun Lee, Rick Yune and Pierce Brosnan on location in Aldershot for the filming of the pre-credit sequence overseen by stunt co-ordinator Vic Armstrong.
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Mar 4, 2020 · 1 of 9 Die Another Day (2002) Will Yun Lee’s first studio movie. The Korean-American, then 30, was in the middle of an acting class when he received a call to read for renegade North Korean ...
