GOLDFINGER

Genres: Drama, Adventure
Sub-genre: Espionage, Action

INTRODUCTION (VEDANT)
The New Wave
Goldfinger, British spy film, released in 1964, that made James Bond an international icon of action
cinema.
Much was changing as the new decade dawned. The US had a dynamic new leader, John F. Kennedy, and
in Europe, more liberated attitudes to sex, fashion, and politics filtered into books, art, and movies. In the
film world, the first rumblings of change came about in France with the New Wave, whose influence
reached as far as Hollywood.
From the mid-1960s, the traditional picture palace with one auditorium was largely replaced by multiplex
movie theaters. These comprised a single utilitarian building divided into a number of theaters and about
six to eight screens (most of them smaller than the old auditoria). Ostensibly, this gave distributors a
wider choice of outlets, and audiences a wider choice of films and times
Goldfinger is a 1964 spy film and the third instalment in the James Bond series produced by  directed
by Guy Hamilton, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the 1959
novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Goldfinger was the first Bond film to win an Oscar (for Best
Sound Editing) and opened to largely favourable critical reception. The film was a financial success.
The film's plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and eventually
uncovering Goldfinger's plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
Summary (VEDANT)
British secret agent James Bond is tasked by the Bank of England and Mi6 to investigate gold magnate
Auric Goldfinger, who they suspect is building up a vast inventory of gold bars. At first, nothing seems
all too special about the gold obsessed tycoon, but after Bond gains knowledge of a secret scheme
involving Goldfinger which is about to be initiated; codename "Operation Grand Slam", he realizes that
the fate of the entire western economy may be at stake if the bullion dealer is not stopped.
SYNOPSIS AND KEY EVENTS of goldfinger (KIAN)
The film begins with Bond defeating a drug gang in Latin America before heading to Miami for what he
thinks will be a holiday. However, when he gets in Miami, his associate, Felix Leiter, informs him that he
has a new mission spying on Auric Goldfinger, a gold bullion dealer who is staying at the hotel.
Bond visits Goldfinger's room, where he discovers Jill Masterson, a gorgeous woman who is spying on
Goldfinger's gin rummy game on the patio and sending him tips over a speaker. Before going off with his
new companion Jill to his room for a night of lovemaking, Bond gets on the speaker and tells Goldfinger
to lose.
Bond is knocked unconscious by Goldfinger's assistant Oddjob as he goes to retrieve a cool bottle of
champagne from the fridge. When Bond wakes up, he discovers Jill dead on the bed, choked by gold
paint.
Back in London, Bond's boss, M., clarifies that he wants Bond to look into how Goldfinger is smuggling
gold, and a member of the British Board of Finance provides Bond with a block of gold melted in Nazi
Germany to use to entice Goldfinger into his company. At a golf club, Bond and Goldfinger wager on a
game of golf, with a brick of Nazi money as the stakes. 
Oddjob kills Tilly with his blade-brimmed bowler hat and catches Bond, bringing him into the plant and
strapping him to a table when they are discovered in the woods behind the plant.
Goldfinger threatens to murder Bond with a massive laser, but Bond tells him that he is aware of
Operation Grand Slam and has informed other agents, implying that Goldfinger should keep him around.
Bond is brought to Goldfinger's stud farm near Fort Knox, Kentucky, where the US gold depository is
located. Bond is imprisoned at the property, but he manages to escape and listen in on a meeting between
Goldfinger and a gang of mobsters. He learns about Operation Grand Slam while eavesdropping that it is
a plan to take gold from Fort Knox by releasing Delta 9 nerve gas across the entire facility. Goldfinger
uses nerve gas to kill the mobsters after revealing his scheme.
When Bond is discovered by Pussy Galore, the pilot, and taken to Goldfinger, Bond informs Goldfinger
that his scheme will not work since transferring that much gold would take too long. The goal, Goldfinger
admits, is to blow a nuclear bomb on the premises at Fort Knox, rendering the gold there radioactive and
destabilising the entire Western economy.
The following day, They rise up and attack Goldfinger's guys once Goldfinger has infiltrated the
depository. Bond manages to free himself from his handcuffs when trapped in the depository with the
bomb and the murderous Oddjob. After a fight, Bond electrocutes Oddjob to death. With only 7 seconds
remaining, a CIA official enters the repository and detonates the explosives.
Bond is put on a plane to meet with the president in the White House, but Goldfinger appears from the
back of the plane with a gold revolver. The two men are fighting when the gun suddenly fires through a
window, causing the cabin's air pressure to rise and dragging Goldfinger out the window to his death. The
plane crashes, but Pussy and Bond survive, and the movie concludes with them embracing beneath a
parachute in a clearing.
FILM CRITICS (KIAN)
In Guide for the Film Fanatic, Danny Peary wrote that Goldfinger is "the best of the James Bond films
starring Sean Connery ... There's lots of humor, gimmicks, excitement, an amusing yet tense golf contest
between Bond and Goldfinger, thrilling fights to the death between Bond and Oddjob and Bond and
Goldfinger, and a fascinating central crime ... Most enjoyable, but too bad Eaton's part isn't longer and
that Fröbe's Goldfinger, a heavy but nimble intellectual in the Sydney Greenstreet tradition, never
appeared in another Bond film." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times declared this to be his favorite
Bond film and later added it to his "Great Movies" list.
The film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives a 99% rating and an average score of 8.6/10 based on
69 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Goldfinger is where James Bond as we know him comes into
focus – it features one of 007's most famous lines ('A martini. Shaken, not stirred') and a wide range of
gadgets that would become the series' trademark". Goldfinger is the highest-rated Bond film on the site.

BEST 15 MIN OF THE MOVIE

In the movie Goldfinger (1964) halfway through the movie, there is a 15-minute scene where the
protagonist who is 007 gets a beeping marker on the GPS map in his spy Aston martin car. He proceeds to
go to the location which is the auric enterprise's factory. Auric enterprises is a Swiss metallurgical and
engineering company owned by billionaire Auric Gold finger who is also the antagonist in the film. Bond
zooms while using his binoculars and spots Mr gold finger getting out of his car to go inside the factory.
He waits until the sun sets so he can slip inside the factory without anyone noticing in classic James bond
fashion. James then slips past several security guards and factory workers making sure no one notices
him. He then finds a window from which he sees factory workers taking apart a rolls Royce and melting
the parts in furnaces to make gold ingots as the bodywork of the whole car was made in gold. Bond overs
a conversation between Mr ling and Goldfinger who says That this is an art form of smuggling almost 2
tonnes of gold. Later bond tries to escape the factory and ends up setting off a security alarm and meets a
lady who was there to kill Mr Goldfinger. They plan to get out of there together but the guards spot them.
After a car chase eventually, the lady gets killed and bond tries to escape in his car during this time a very
iconic feature of the 007 Aston martin is showcased that is the passenger release where on press on a
button the passenger flies out of the seat. Bond ends up crashing his car into a wall and is then taken by
Goldfinger's men. In the next scene, bond is strapped to a table with an industrial laser which can project
a spot on the moon or cut through solid metal according to Mr Goldfinger. He later demonstrates the laser
cutting through metal as he turns it on on the table on which bond is strapped to while the laser was set to
go from the bottom all the way to bonds head eventually killing bond. Though also in classic James bond
fashion he somehow convinces Goldfinger to keep him alive as he has information about grand slam
which was a scheme seemingly kill the military guards and government personnel by spraying gas over
Fort Knox later bond is tranquilised by Goldfinger's men

TECHNOLOGY CHANGES

Bond's gadgets add to the fantasy element of his story. He's given wild devices that exist just
within the realm of believability, but he still manages to impress audiences with their cool factor.

Goldfinger's technology arguably outpowers Bond's: his laser can cut through anything, after all.
So Bond has to pick up the slack with his sheer wit. It's not necessarily the technology that
matters, but how you use it.

Some of Goldfinger's legacy can be attributed to its ambitious filmmaking. Its $3

million budget was the same as his other films Dr. No and From Russia with
Love combined, and the greatly increased budget certainly shows on the screen. The
sets are bigger and more expansive, the action sequences are far more ambitious and
more magnificent, and the camera work is commendable.

film related techniques

 i) Establishing shot
A shot, often a long shot, usually placed at the beginning of a scene to establish the general location of
the specific action to follow. This shot is also known as an Extreme Long Shot.

ii) Dollying or Dolly shot

A shot in which the camera moves horizontally either toward or away from its subject, or right or left
in relation to the subject. Traditionally dolly shots are filmed from a camera dolly but the same motion
may also be performed with a Steadicam, gimbal, etc. A dolly shot is generally described in terms of
"dollying in" or "dollying out". Also known as trucking in and out, or right and left.
iii)  high-angle shot 
is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle and the point of focus
often gets "swallowed up".
High-angle shots can make the subject seem vulnerable or powerless when applied with the correct mood,
setting, and effects. In film, they can make the scene more dramatic. If there is a person at high elevation who
is talking to someone below them, this shot is often used
iv) tracking shot also called following shot
Is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded.
This technique is often used to follow a subject that would otherwise leave the frame (ergo, it is often
called a following shot), such as an actor or vehicle in motion.

CONCLUSION
Goldfinger's script became a template for subsequent Bond films. It was the first of the series showing
Bond relying heavily on technology, Goldfinger has been described as perhaps "the most highly and
consistently praised Bond picture of them all “and after Goldfinger, Bond "became a true phenomenon. it
has been said that Goldfinger was the cause of the boom in espionage films in the 1960s.