Viewings for project: Goldfinger [001]

Rough notes, taken during first project viewing

  1. Gunbarrel
  2. Pre-title: Establishing context, “clever” w/ bird on water gear. Quickly dispatches guard, then on to mission, confidently; clever access to enclosure. Sets explosives. White evening jacket under wetsuit: Adds red carnation. Casually checks watch with flame from cigarette lighter in nightclub; dancer. Makes contact. Ref Illegal drug operation. Goes for nightclub dancer before heading to his flight. Reflection of bad guy in eye of woman while kissing. Kills bad guy with space heater in bathtub. “Shocking. Positively shocking.”
  3. Opening music
  4. [Entire?] movie reflected in gold-colored women throughout opening credits; prior film footage included
  5. Nice transition to Miami Beach — aerial to diving board, to diver, to pool, to Felix Leiter
  6. Dink? relationship; treatment of women
  7. Felix sets up mission
  8. “Bond, James Bond” introduction to girl in Goldfinger suite; 007 them comes up. Clever, simplistic card-cheat scam.
  9. Bond in bed, his room, with Jill Masterson; phone call from Felix Leiter: Pushed girl in face, back onto bed?
  10. Introduction to Oddjob
  11. Woman killed, covered in gold paint
  12. Reported to MI6, London; meeting with M
  13. Friction between M and 007
  14. Repartee with Moneypenny
  15. Expert setup — over dinner, establishes concern about Goldfinger, caper; elitist tastes, drinks
  16. Q-Branch: Interaction, relationship with Q
  17. Aston Martin DB5 introduced
  18. Golf game: Metaphor? over-the-top conflict?
  19. Tailing Goldfinger, in Aston Martin DB5, homer
  20. “Discipline, Double-O Seven. Discipline.”
  21. Tilly Masterson
  22. Surveilling “Auric Enterprises”
  23. “Operation Grand Slam” first referenced; Rolls Royce 18 carat gold
  24. Car chases; ejector seat payoff
  25. Agent 007 on laser table
  26. Pussy Galore, airplane
  27. Call between M and Leiter: Reminder of infrastructure, w/o being intrusive. Auric Stud, Bond to lock up
  28. “Hoods Convention,” all elements in pool table room
  29. Over-the-top gadgetry: “Trick pool table,” window coverings; screen, Fort Knox: Diorama from floor
  30. Clever taunt to guard; escape
  31. Bond inside diorama; eye looks out from Fort Knox model
  32. Mr Solo – en route to crusher
  33. Drinks on porch: Pussy Galore, Goldfinger; James Bond — Goldfinger enjoys cat-and-mouse with Bond, as 007 at first “figures out the plan,” then marvels at its brilliance; appreciates risk (Goldfinger in front of all of it), followed by “inevitability” of what is to come for 007
  34. Bond and Pussy Galore in hay
  35. The caper; assault on Fort Knox
  36. Bond lowered into gold vault, with nuclear device; Leiter et al assault upon operation; Oddjob trapped within
  37. One-on-one fight, Bond vs Oddjob (Oddjob electrocuted)
  38. Countdown to detonation
  39. Final showdown between Bond and Goldfinger, on Jet Star; plane crash
  40. Helicopter search; “Oh, now you don’t. This is no time to be rescued.” Pull parachute over, kissing (mutual embrace). “The End of ‘Goldfinger’ But James Bond Will Be Back in ‘Thunderball'”

Running time, one hour, fifty minutes; Took me from 3:47pm to 5:57pm to watch it for these notes.

 

By Dell Deaton

Internationally recognized expert on James Bond watches. Authoritative feature articles in "Revolution," "WatchTime," and "WristWatch" magazines, in multiple language. Curator of two galleries and three themed exhibits, 2010 to present at National Watch & Clock Museum. First accepted as professional member by American Marketing Association in 1991.