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Goldfinger
(1964)
In director Guy Hamilton's first Bond action film
- the third James Bond film in the long-running series:
- the pre-title credits opening scene in which non-chalant
007 agent James Bond (Sean Connery) removed his wet-suit gear (after
setting charges along a set of NITRO tanks) and was revealed to
be wearing a white dinner jacket with a red flower
- the striking image of the naked corpse of Jill Masterson
(Shirley Eaton) lying on Bond's hotel suite bed; she was the mistress-escort
of the film's gold-obsessed villain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe);
she had become an unfortunate victim of skin asphyxiation or suffocation
by gold paint as retaliation for her betrayal of Auric - ("She's
covered in paint. Gold paint")
- Bond's amazing Aston-Martin DB5 vehicle with oil slick,
machine guns and passenger ejection seat
- Oriental henchman Oddjob's (Harold Sakata) razor-sharp,
lethal boomeranging bowler hat demonstration at the golf club
- the sequence leading to the death of Tilly (Tania
Mallet), the ill-fated sister of Jill Masterson, who went on a killing
spree to avenge her sibling's death; she eventually admitted to Bond
that she sought vengeance against Auric: "I want him dead. He
killed my sister"; as Bond and Tilly fled from Auric's Korean
henchmen and she ran for cover in the woods, she was hit in the neck
by Oddjob's lethal-rimmed bowler hat and instantly killed
- the sequence of a captured Bond lying spread-eagled
on a gold tabletop with an industrial red laser beam inching towards
his crotch as Bond quipped about the torture: "Do you expect
me to talk?" and Goldfinger's famed reply: "No, Mr. Bond,
I expect you to die!"
- Bond's introduction to Goldfinger's improbably-named
personal jet pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), who made a memorable
entrance by blurringly appearing above him - he had been tranquilized,
but awakened on Goldfinger's jet on its way from Europe to Baltimore
enroute to Kentucky:
- Bond: "Who are you?"
- Pussy: (purring)
"My name is Pussy Galore."
- Bond: "I must be dreaming. (pause) I thought I'd wake up dead."
- Goldfinger's plan was to have Pussy and her five-person
fleet of planes (all-female pilots in Pussy Galore's Flying Circus)
spray deadly, invisible Delta-9 nerve gas (in gas canisters) over
Fort Knox (a life-sized replica of the real thing) to induce unconsciousness
for 24 hours
- the scene of Bond - during a tour of Goldfinger's
Kentucky stud farm compound, wrestling with Pussy in the hay in one
of the horse stables, eventually she succumbed and he was able to
lower himself down on her and kiss her
- the climactic Fort Knox assault and the one-on-one
fight between Bond and Oddjob in the locked gold vault inside of
the depository
- the shocking demise of Oddjob inside Fort Knox's vault
when he grabbed for his bowler hat stuck in metal bars and was electrocuted
("He blew a fuse")
Two Demises
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Oddjob
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- the final sequence of Goldfinger's death when he
was sucked out of a shot-out airplane window in the depressurized
jet cabin; in the cockpit, Bond joked with Pussy that gold-obsessed
Goldfinger was "playing his golden harp"
- in the predictable conclusion, after Goldfinger died
in a hijacked plane piloted by Pussy, she couldn't bring the plane
under control, so the two parachuted together to safety before it
crashed due to rapid decompression; on a tropical island, Bond told
her that she shouldn't signal for help from a search helicopter as
he pulled her onto the ground: "Oh no, you don't! This is no
time to be rescued" - he covered the two of them with the parachute
- for privacy's sake, for more kisses
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The Naked Gold-Painted Corpse of Jill Masterson
Demonstrating Oddjob's Lethal Bowler Hat
The Death of Tilly
Bond's Laser Torture
Pussy Galore (Bond: "I must be dreaming")
Wrestling with Pussy and Kissing Her in the Hay in the
Horse Stables
Bond Parachuting to Safety with Pussy
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