goldfinger (film)

 

  • [31] Both played crucial roles in the development of Goldfinger, with Simmons choreographing the fight sequence between Bond and Oddjob in the vault of Fort Knox, which was
    not just seen as one of the best Bond fights, but also “must stand as one of the great cinematic combats”[32] whilst Adam’s efforts on Goldfinger were “luxuriantly baroque”[33] and have resulted in the film being called “one of his finest
    pieces of work”.

  • [29] Hamilton immediately thought of giving the laser a place in the film’s story as Goldfinger’s weapon of choice.

  • Production Development[edit] While From Russia with Love was in production, Richard Maibaum began working on the script for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as the intended
    next film in the series, but with the release date set for September 1964 there was not enough time to prepare for location shooting in Switzerland and that adaptation was put on hold.

  • In the film, Bond notes it would take twelve days for Goldfinger to steal the gold, before the villain reveals he actually intends to irradiate it with the then topical concept
    of a Red Chinese atomic bomb.

  • [18] He had already appeared in the previous Bond film From Russia with Love and, with the exception of Live and Let Die, would continue to play Q in the next 16 Bond films.

  • [59] Barry described his work in Goldfinger as a favourite of his, saying it was “the first time I had complete control, writing the score and the song”.

  • The surname Solo was re-used by Ian Fleming when he was briefly involved in creating the character Napoleon Solo for the American TV series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which
    led to a threatened lawsuit by Bond producers Broccoli and Saltzman, forcing Fleming to back out of the series.

  • [8] Whilst the American censors did not interfere with the name in the film, they refused to allow the name “Pussy Galore” to appear on promotional materials and for the US
    market she was subsequently called “Miss Galore” or “Goldfinger’s personal pilot”.

  • [7] Although only a small part in the film, the image of her painted gold was renowned and Eaton appeared on the cover of Life magazine on 6 November 1964.

  • Many of the elements introduced in the film appeared in many of the later James Bond films, such as the extensive use of technology and gadgets by Bond, an extensive pre-credits
    sequence that stood largely alone from the main storyline, multiple foreign locales and tongue-in-cheek humor.

  • Hamilton, who had turned down directing Dr. No,[28] felt that he needed to make Bond less of a “superman” by making the villains seem more powerful.

  • [45] Effects[edit] See also: List of James Bond vehicles and List of James Bond gadgets Two Aston Martin DB5s were built for production, one of which had no gadgets.

  • Concerned about censors, the producers thought about changing the character’s name to “Kitty Galore”,[6] but they and Hamilton decided “if you were a ten-year old boy and
    knew what the name meant, you weren’t a ten-year old boy, you were a dirty little bitch.

  • [41] Just three weeks prior to the film’s release, Hamilton and a small team, which included Broccoli’s stepson and future producer Michael G. Wilson as assistant director,
    went for last-minute shoots in Kentucky.

  • Extra people were hired for post-production issues such as dubbing so the film could be finished in time.

  • [4] To promote the film, the two Aston Martin DB5s were showcased at the 1964 New York World’s Fair and it was dubbed “the most famous car in the world”;[71] consequently,
    sales of the car rose.

  • (While this is an entirely fictional cause of death, the iconic scene caused much of the public to accept it as a medical fact;[56] an urban legend circulated that the scene
    was inspired by a Swiss model who accidentally died the same way while preparing for a photo shoot.

  • [30] Goldfinger saw the return of two crew members who were not involved with From Russia with Love: Bob Simmons as stunt coordinator and production designer Ken Adam.

  • [5][70] Promotion[edit] 1964 Aston Martin DB5, produced by Corgi Toys as a tie-in to the film The film’s marketing campaign began as soon as filming started in Florida, with
    Eon allowing photographers to enter the set to take pictures of Shirley Eaton painted in gold.

  • [26] Terence Young, who directed the previous two films, chose to film The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders instead, after a pay dispute[3] that saw him denied a percentage
    of the film’s profits.

  • [4] Maibaum, however, based the pre-credit sequence on the opening scene of the novel, where Bond is waiting at Miami Airport contemplating his recent killing of a Latin American
    drug smuggler.

  • In the novel, Goldfinger uses a circular saw to try to kill Bond, but the filmmakers changed it to a laser to make the film feel fresher.

  • [4] The scene where the DB5 crashes was filmed twice, with the second take being used in the film.

  • • Directed by : Guy Hamilton ; Screenplay by: Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn; Based on: Goldfinger, by Ian Fleming; Produced by: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli; Starring:
    Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallet, Harold Sakata; Cinematography: Ted Moore; Edited by: Peter R. Hunt; Music by: John Barry; Production company: Eon Productions; Distributed by: United Artists; Release dates:
    17 September 1964 (London, premiere), 18 September 1964 (United Kingdom), 22 December 1964 (United States); Running time: 110 minutes; Countries: United Kingdom[1], United States[2]; Language: English; Budget: $3 million; Box office: $125
    million Plot After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, MI6 agent James Bond vacations in Miami Beach.

  • [4] United Artists even had irate letters from people wondering “how could a British film unit be allowed inside Fort Knox?

  • “[7] In fact, the set was deemed so realistic that Pinewood Studios had to post a 24-hour guard to keep the gold bar props from being stolen.

  • [15] Music Since the release date for the film had been pre-determined and filming had finished close to that date, John Barry scored some sequences to rough, non-final versions
    of the sequences.

  • After he suffered a back injury when filming the scene where Oddjob knocks Bond unconscious in Miami, the dispute was settled: Eon and Connery agreed to a deal where the actor
    would receive 5% of the gross of each Bond film he starred in.

  • [52] (Although the title song, sung by Matt Monro, in From Russia with Love was introduced in a few phrases on Bond’s first appearance, a full rendition on the soundtrack
    only commenced for the final scene on the waters at Venice and through the following end titles.)

  • Like the score, the arrangement makes heavy use of brass, meeting well Miss Bassey’s signature belting, and incorporates the Bond theme from Dr. No.

  • [39] The end of the chase, when Bond’s Aston Martin crashes into a wall because of the mirror, as well as the chase immediately preceding it, were filmed on the road at the
    rear of Pinewood Studios Sound Stages A and E and the Prop Store.

  • He initially complains that New York and West Coast mafiosi were also participating, and is the first one to remind Goldfinger that he was specifically promised $1 million.

  • [4] The filmmakers had no clue as to what the interior of the depository looked like, so Ken Adam’s imagination provided the idea of gold stacked upon gold behind iron bars.

  • [53] Opening sequence[edit] The opening credit sequence was designed by graphic artist Robert Brownjohn, featuring clips of all James Bond films thus far projected on Margaret
    Nolan’s body.

  • • Bill Nagy as Mr Billy Midnight: The gangster whose contributions Goldfinger says helped smuggle the nerve gas across the Canadian border.

  • [4] Hamilton called Sakata an “absolutely charming man”, and found that “he had a very unique way of moving, [so] in creating Oddjob I used all of Harold’s own characteristics”.

  • • Martin Benson as Mr Solo: The lone gangster who refuses to take part in Operation Grand Slam and is later killed by Oddjob.

  • In the script, the car was armed only with a smoke screen, but every crew member began suggesting gadgets to install in it: Hamilton conceived the revolving license plate
    because he had been getting many parking tickets, while his stepson suggested the ejector seat (which he saw on television).

  • The promotion also included an image of gold-painted Eaton on the cover of Life.

  • [50] Lasers did not exist in 1959 when the book was written, nor did high-power industrial lasers at the time the film was made, making them a novelty.

  • Another element which was original was the atomic device, for which Hamilton requested the special effects crew get inventive instead of realistic.

  • Shirley Bassey established the opening title tradition giving her distinguished style to “Goldfinger”, and would sing the theme songs for two future Bond films, Diamonds are
    Forever and Moonraker.

  • Sakata, however, kept holding onto the hat with determination, despite his pain, until the director called “Cut!

  • Adam later told UK daily newspaper The Guardian: “No one was allowed in Fort Knox but because [producer] Cubby Broccoli had some good connections and the Kennedys loved Ian
    Fleming’s books I was allowed to fly over it once.

  • Goldfinger was the first Bond film to win an Oscar (for Best Sound Editing) and opened to largely favorable critical reception.

  • [51] The model jet used for wide shots of Goldfinger’s Lockheed JetStar was painted differently on the right side to be used as the presidential plane that crashes at the
    film’s end.

  • [18][4][5] Three places near the studio were used: Black Park for the car chase involving Bond’s Aston Martin and Goldfinger’s henchmen inside the factory complex, RAF Northolt
    for the American airports[37] and Stoke Park Club for the golf club scene.

  • “Before [Goldfinger], gadgets were not really a part of Bond’s world,” Hamilton remarked.

  • The track features a young Jimmy Page, who was doing many sessions at the time.

  • [37] After five days in the US,[38] production returned to England.

  • Connery never travelled to Florida to film because he was shooting Marnie[5] elsewhere in the United States.

  • [4] Goldfinger was chosen with the North American cinema market in mind, as the previous films had concentrated on the Caribbean and Europe.

  • Hamilton told Llewelyn to inject humour into the character, thus beginning the friendly antagonism between Q and Bond that became a hallmark of the series.

  • A set of glass doors to the cinema was accidentally broken and the premiere was shown ten minutes late because of the confusion.

  • Its design was inspired by seeing light projecting on people’s bodies as they got up and left a cinema.

  • On the DVD audio commentary, director Hamilton states that other than Linder, who played Felix Leiter, none of the main actors in the Miami sequence were actually there.

  • The first take, in which the car drives through the fake wall,[48] can be seen in the trailer.

  • [22][23] With the court case between Kevin McClory and Fleming surrounding Thunderball still in the High Court, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman turned to Goldfinger
    as the third Bond film.

  • Nolan also appeared as the gold-covered body in advertisements for the film[6] and in the opening title sequence as the golden silhouette, described as “Gorgeous, iconic,
    seminal”.

  • [24] Goldfinger had what was then considered a large budget of $3 million (US$26 million in 2021 dollars[25]), the equivalent of the budgets of Dr. No and From Russia with
    Love combined, and was the first Bond film classified as a box-office blockbuster.

  • Goldfinger was heralded as the film in the franchise where James Bond “comes into focus”.

  • [47] A gadget near the lights that would drop sharp nails was replaced with an oil dispenser because the producers thought the original could be easily copied by viewers.

  • [60] The musical tracks, in keeping with the film’s theme of gold and metal, make heavy use of brass, and also metallic chimes.

  • [8] The film’s success also led to licensed tie-in clothing, dress shoes, action figures, board games, jigsaw puzzles, lunch boxes, toys, record albums, trading cards and
    slot cars.

  • Goldfinger has a yellow-painted Rolls-Royce with number plate “AU 1” (Au being the chemical symbol for gold), and also sports yellow or golden items or clothing in every film
    scene, including a golden pistol, when disguised as a colonel.

  • “[72] The reviewer from The Times said “All the devices are infinitely sophisticated, and so is the film: the tradition of self-mockery continues, though at times it over-reaches
    itself”, also saying that “It is the mixture as before, only more so: it is superb hokum.

  • [37] Ian Fleming visited the set of Goldfinger in April 1964; he died a few months later in August 1964, shortly before the film’s release.

  • Maibaum fixed the novel’s heavily criticised plot hole, where Goldfinger actually attempts to empty Fort Knox.

  • Robert Brownjohn, who designed the opening credits, was responsible for the posters for the advertising campaign, which also used actress Margaret Nolan.

  • The mobsters ridicule Goldfinger’s scheme, particularly a Mr. Solo who demands to be paid immediately and leaves before the others are gassed to death by Goldfinger.

  • “[73] Connery’s acting efforts were overlooked by this reviewer, who did say: “There is some excellent bit-part playing by Mr. Bernard Lee and Mr. Harold Sakata: Mr. Gert
    Fröbe is astonishingly well cast in the difficult part of Goldfinger.

  • It gave me the chance to show the biggest gold repository in the world as I imagined it, with gold going up to heaven.

  • [note 1] As Goldfinger denies an intent to steal it, Bond deduces from the presence of Mr. Ling that Goldfinger has been offered a dirty bomb by the Chinese government, to
    detonate inside the vault to irradiate the gold for decades.

 

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