It was supposed to be his third “Bond” film, but lead actor Sean Connery already had no desire for this secret agent, he had already rejected several screenplay versions. He thought the best husband of her majesty was a sexist, with which he was right, and was annoyed by the eternal sayings of the Martini drinker.
Fortunately, the Scots were persuaded again (and then a few more times). “Goldfinger”, who celebrated its premiere on September 17, 1964 in London, is the best of the 25-official-films about the double zero for many.
“Goldfinger” was Reinster Pop
The rather factual, melancholic style of the predecessor film “From Russia with Love” (1963) offered a classic spy story. “Goldfinger”, on the other hand, was Reinster Pop, and even two years before the awakening of the UK through the swinging sixties. Bond even took the Fab Four on the shovel when he compares the effect of alcohol with the effect of her music: “My Dear Girl, there are some things that just aren’t done, search as drinking dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees fahrenheit. That’s just as bad as listening to the Beatles Without Earmuffs. ”Perhaps reads as an old -fashioned manner to participate in the zeitgeist comment, but at that time it was just an expression of attention from the most famous agent in the world.
Everything shone in gold, or at least in yellow, like the tense face Gert Fröbes, who embodied Bond’s opponent Goldfinger. The first modern James Bond was born with this film; One whose gadgets and exaggerations towards the parody received almost as much narrative attention as the obligatory world threat of the villain.
Easher seat button
With Bonds company car, the Aston Martin, the British created the coolest car at the time. This vehicle had machine guns in addition to the headlights, a bulletproof rear wall, and, madness, a red button on the gear shift, with which a cut seat was activated and the passenger could thus be unlocked. The audience in the 1960s was amazed. The bond gadgets arrived: the Daniel nozzle drive of the Mi-6, weapon handicraft “Q”, was then granted about five minutes to present its products for every film. When the spin-up button was presented (“Don’t press!”), As a viewer, you already counted the minutes and viewed possible scenes until the point would finally break the ban on Q.
James Bond got it to do with Oddjob
But the opponents were also well prepared. Lotte Lenya’s shoe with a knife, as he was still used in “From Russia with Love”, was nothing against the new Armada, with the Auric Goldfinger and Co. The economic criminals worked with laser weapons, his henchman Oddjob had a melon with built -in round blade, the sharpness of which tried the silent Koreans of stone statues, which he regularly headed to the dismay of villa owners.
The first big bond opponent was also created with gold finger: highly intelligent, lurking, but also very choleric, he was able to break pencils with one hand. One of the few antagonists in the series who were at eye level with the agent. Gert Fröbe, previously not an international star, was to define the pattern for many years, which was intended for German in Hollywood: always the bad games. In 1964, from 1945, the end of the Second World War, was not yet very far away.
This German was a danger to the world
This German was a danger to the world. The most legendary “gold finger” scene not only shows the impending castration of the Englishman Bond by a new weapon (a laser beam); The British Understatement is also parodied with the choice of Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Die.” This spectacle is only surpassed by the final when the American wants to pack the eggs: if it would have been more sophisticated if Even somewhat unrealistic attack plan on the gold reserves in Fort Knox (contaminate the entire gold stock there so that it has the sole gold power), the superpower USA would economically cope with the downfall.
One of the pilot who is supposed to switch off Fort Knox’s guards by means of anesthetic gas is Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman). She is the first woman in a bond film that cannot be clapped on her butt by the agent (as Connery shows at a random victim at the beginning). The two ranges in the hay, and Blackman can record it with Bond. In the mid-1980s, the musicians Jon Spencer, Cristina Martinez and Neil Hagery were so impressed by the name and effect of this woman that they should name their New York band Pussy Galore according to this figure.
Benchmark for every bond presentation
The birth of the classic bond song by a soul singer was also heralded: Shirley Bassey intoned John Barry’s melody a dramatic orchestral piece that became a benchmark for every Bond presentation. Almost 50 years later, this it was the turn of Adele with “Skyfall”, it was not possible to copy it.
James Bond was of course flat after “Goldfinger”. Perhaps it can be explained in such a way that the agent in the successor “Thunderball” (1965) spends the first third of the film to regenerate in a clinic. So many “gold finger” scene still provides conversation material today. This is also shown by the regular questions in the “Is that really?” Cubs of various magazines.
No, both scenes were pure filmmaker fantasies and would not work in real life: that poor woman would not suffocate just because she was covered with gold color; And a person, as Auric Goldfinger happens, is not sucked out of the aircraft window in the air if you shoot the disc.
However, both deaths looked quite spectacular.