 An advertisement inspired the famous opening skiing sequence. It was  for Canadian Club Whisky and featured Rick Sylvester (qv) jumping  off Asgard in Greenland. The ad had actually been staged elsewhere  and had really been performed off the El Capitain Peak, Yosemite  Valley, California. The ad read: "If you Space Ski Mount  Asgard...before you hit the ground, hit the silk!". Sylvester  performed the stunt for the film which famously ended with a  parachute of the Union Jack opening. This opening sequence was  recently parodied in _Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)_ (qv)  and was imitated with the air balloon in _Octopussy (1983)_ (qv) and  paid homage to in the Gustav Graves parachute drop in  _Die Another Day (2002)_ (qv). Sylvester also did the Meteora  mountain fall in _For Your Eyes Only (1981)_ (qv).