James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun

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Movie
German title James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun
Original title The Man with the Golden Gun
Logo tmwtgg de.svg
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1974
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Guy Hamilton
script Richard Maibaum
Tom Mankiewicz
production Albert R. Broccoli
Harry Saltzman
music John Barry
Theme Song: Lulu
camera Ted Moore
Oswald Morris
cut Raymond Poulton
John Shirley
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die

Successor  →
James Bond 007 - The Spy Who Loved Me

James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun (Original title: The Man with the Golden Gun ) is the ninth film by Eon Productions Ltd. produced James Bond series. In this English feature film, released in 1974, Roger Moore takes on the role of the British secret agent for the second time. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming , which has also been released in German-speaking countries under the title James Bond and the Golden Gun . The film opened in German cinemas on December 19, 1974.

action

James Bond is supposed to collect information about the Solex generator, a highly effective device that is needed to generate electricity from solar energy. Shortly after the start of his mission, a gold pistol bullet, the trademark of the contract killer Scaramanga, engraved with "007" reaches the British secret service. The MI6 now believes that Scaramanga's mission is to kill Bond. He then goes in search of Scaramanga. He follows the trail of the golden ball back and finally passes through Macau to Hong Kong . There he involuntarily witnesses how Scaramanga shoots the inventor and owner of the Solex, the scientist Gibson, and Scaramanga's diminutive assistant Schnickschnack steals the Solex generator.

Bond now suspects that Scaramanga was aiming at Gibson and the Solex generator and that the threat to himself was only a deception. He's now given the job of getting the generator back. Together with the secret service employees Hip and Mary Goodnight, he identifies the industrialist Hai Fat in Bangkok as the client. Bond's attempt to impersonate Scaramanga and thus get close to Hai Fat fails. But he survived the trap set for him, whereupon Hai Fat panics and wants to flee. Scaramanga takes advantage of the situation, shoots Hai Fat and thereby becomes the owner of the Solex device.

Bond now meets Scaramanga's former ally Andrea Anders again, who has already involuntarily helped him find Scaramanga. She admits she sent the 007-engraved gold ball to induce Bond to kill Scaramanga. Bond promises her protection and demands the Solex generator in return. Although Scaramanga kills Anders, the handover is initially successful. But then Scaramanga manages to kidnap Bond's clumsy ally Goodnight along with the Solex generator. Bond follows him with a small seaplane to his private island, from where Scaramanga wants to sell the new solar technology, including a super weapon in the form of a laser , in a monopoly manner . Scaramanga challenges Bond to a pistol duel, but then disappears and lures Bond into his maze of mirrors, where Bond manages to shoot Scaramanga through a deception. He can then recover the Solex generator shortly before the factory facilities are destroyed by an explosion. Goodnight and Bond manage to escape, whereupon they are attacked by frills. Bond can win the fight and has successfully completed his mission.

production

script

As with Live and Let Die , Tom Mankiewicz was commissioned to write a screenplay. As in the previous films, he took over very little of the plot from Fleming's novel of the same name and developed a new story that was essentially about Bonds' duel with Scaramanga. Mankiewicz was inspired by the film My Great Friend Shane .

Even before Mankiewicz had finished work on the script, there was a disagreement with director Guy Hamilton. Both disagreed on the further development of the script, which led to Mankiewicz leaving the project.

Thereupon Richard Maibaum was hired again to revise and complete the existing script, although there had already been tensions between Maibaum and Harry Saltzman in the past. In 1970 it was Mankiewicz who was hired to rework Maibaum's script for Diamond Fever . Both Mankiewicz and Maibaum are named as screenwriters in the film titles .

title

Scaramanga's pistol

The title of the film was taken from Ian Fleming's novel The man with the golden gun (original title: The man with the golden gun ).

The original title actually means "The man with the golden pistol" ( English gun "pistol", "firearm"). In fact, the chief villain Scaramanga uses a gold pistol ( caliber 4.2 mm) that can be dismantled and built specially for him , with which only one shot can be fired without reloading and which he uses from a fountain pen (barrel) before the next murder Assembled cigarette case (handle), a lighter (cap) and a cufflink in front of the eyes of its unsuspecting victim. In order to imitate the sound of the original title, in which the word gun consists of only one syllable, the word Colt was used in the German translation , although it is not a weapon manufactured by the Colt company . Another reason could have been the novel that served as a model, in which Scaramanga uses a golden Colt Single Action Army .

occupation

James Bond actor Roger Moore
Scaramanga actor Christopher Lee

When Roger Moore became the new James Bond actor in August 1972, he signed a contract for three films and was therefore also available for The Man with the Golden Gun .

Christopher Lee was hired as Bond's opponent. The first choice for the role, however, was Jack Palance , who had already starred in My Great Friend Shane , from whom Mankiewicz drew inspiration for the basic structure of the plot. Guy Hamilton, however, spoke out in favor of Lee, who was more than happy to take on the role as he feared he would be locked into horror film roles, after all he had appeared in a number of successful British Hammer Studios films. Lee had been a distant cousin of Bond writer Ian Fleming, who had once mentioned to him that he had modeled the character of Dr. No have created.

Britt Ekland auditioned for the role of Scaramanga's lover, but Hamilton was so convinced of her that he offered her the larger role of Mary Goodnight.

The Swedish model Maud Adams was engaged for the role of Scaramanga's lover Andrea Anders. Adams was the only woman to star twice in a Bond film here, and nine years later in Octopussy . She also made an unnamed guest appearance on In the Face of Death .

Scaramanga's servant Schnick Schnack (in the original: Nick Nack) is played by the short actor Hervé Villechaize.

Clifton James repeats his comedic Life and Let Die role as Sheriff JW Pepper.

Cast replaying their recurring roles on the Bond franchise in The Man with the Golden Gun included Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny, Bernard Lee as M, and Desmond Llewelyn as Q.

Filming

Filming began on November 6, 1973 in Hong Kong with recordings on the wreck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth . Roger Moore's scenes were filmed with a double, and he himself only began filming in April 1974.

Others

For the first time, James Bond kills his main opponent with a gun. Only in The Spy Who Loved Me and The World Is Not Enough 007 shoots his main opponent with a pistol more times.

Khao Ta-Pu, the famous rock needle, which is in front of Scaramangas Island ( Khao Phing Kan ).

Locations

The film was shot in the following countries:

Film music

After John Barry for Live and Let Die for the first time in the Bond series had not participated in the production, this time he again took over the composition of the film music. The theme song The Man with the Golden Gun was composed by Barry, texted by Don Black and interpreted by Lulu.

Alice Cooper's song Man with the Golden Gun was originally intended as the theme song. It appeared on Cooper's album Muscle of Love .

The soundtrack was first released on LP in 1974 by United Artists Records . In 1988 EMI released the first CD pressing. After the 40th James Bond anniversary, a new revised version was released by Capitol Records in 2003.

Original edition
  1. The Man with the Golden Gun (Main Title) (02:37) sung by Lulu
  2. Scaramanga's Fun House (04:40)
  3. Chew Me In Grisly Land (04:02)
  4. The Man with the Golden Gun (Jazz Instrumental) (02:33)
  5. Getting the Bullet (02:46)
  6. Goodnight Goodnight (05:25)
  7. Let's Go Get 'Em (03:45)
  8. Hip's Trip (03:22)
  9. Kung Fu Fight (01:58)
  10. In Search of Scaramanga's Island (02:32)
  11. Return to Scaramanga's Fun House (06:30)
  12. The Man with the Golden Gun (End Title) (03:06) sung by Lulu

synchronization

Ultra Film Synchron, Munich.
Dialogue book: Niels Clausnitzer

role actor German voice actors
James Bond Roger Moore Niels Clausnitzer
Scaramanga Christopher Lee Herbert Weicker
Goodnight Britt Ekland Dagmar Heller
Andrea Maud Adams Helga Trümper
Frills Hervé Villechaize Kurt Zips
Sheriff Pepper Clifton James Benno Hoffmann
Hai Fat Richard Loo Paul Bürks
Hip Soon-Tek Oh Jürgen Clausen
M. Bernard Lee Wolf Ackva
Lazar Marne Maitland Franz Rudnick

premiere

The Man with the Golden Gun premiered on December 18, 1974 in London's Odeon Leicester Square in the presence of Prince Philip . Of the actors, Roger Moore, Herve Villechaize, Maud Adams and Britt Ekland were present. On December 19, 1974, the film ran simultaneously in British, US and German cinemas.

The film ran for the first time on German television on April 3, 1988 at 8:15 pm on ARD.

Aftermath

Financial success

The first box office results were impressive, but the audience numbers dropped very quickly. In the US, only 10.25 million viewers went to the cinemas - as few as any previous Bond film. In Germany, the film had 3 million viewers, the predecessor Live and Let Die still had 5 million viewers. In 2012, global box-office income was reported as an inflation-adjusted US $ 448 million, placing the film in 17th place out of 23 Bond films. Of the Bond films released before The Man with the Golden Gun , only Dr. No less one.

Contemporary criticism

Hans C. Blumenberg called the film "boring" at the time . James Bond is "just a pale imitation of himself", the director is "unimaginative" and Roger Moore is "hopelessly miscast".

Nora Sayre of the New York Times certified the film a "fundamental lack of intelligence". The main actor “just misses his predecessor” and fans of the early Bond films should “leave it out”.

The film service complained about a lack of "original action and tension".

Later evaluation

The retrospective reception of the film is also largely negative. Even Albert R. Broccoli said in 1982 that The Man with the Golden Gun was the film from the James Bond series, which in retrospect he would partially implement differently. Raymond Benson called the film in his The James Bond Bedside Companion, first released in 1984, a "low point of the series". In the book The Background Story to 25 Years of Bond , published in 1987, the authors describe the film as "a great disappointment".

Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked James Bond films in 2006. The man with the golden gun came 18th out of 21 films, the "measly" plot was criticized.

Between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with The Man with the Golden Gun reaching number 18 out of 22 films.

In 2012, the Bond films were rated by the readers of 007 Magazine , with The Man with the Golden Gun taking 17th out of 24 places. In a 2012 published list of the best Bond films of the Rolling Stone takes The Man with the Golden Gun 14th of a 24th In the 2012 special issue published 50 years James Bond of the star is rated film 1 out of 5 stars ( "miserable").

After The Man with the Golden Gun , producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman went their separate ways. In addition to personal differences about the design of the James Bond films, Saltzman's financial difficulties were one reason for this. He sold his share in Danjaq SA (later renamed Danjaq LLC.) And its subsidiary Eon Productions Ltd. (which produced the James Bond films) to United Artists .

radio play

The label Europa released the revised soundtrack of the film as a radio play on music cassette. The narrator that does not exist in the film is spoken by Norbert Langer .

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: The Man with the Golden Gun  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Man with the Golden Gun. jamesbondfilme.de, accessed on February 24, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 118.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Production Notes - The Man With The Golden Gun at mi6-hq.com (English), accessed December 20, 2012.
  4. ^ A b Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 119.
  5. ↑ Production Notes - Live And Let Die at mi6-hq.com , accessed December 11, 2012.
  6. ^ A b Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 120.
  7. ↑ a b c Trivia - The Man With The Golden Gun at mi6-hq.com (English), accessed December 20, 2012.
  8. ^ Siegfried Tesche: The great James Bond atlas. Wissen Media Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07305-9 .
  9. ↑ German synchronous files
  10. ↑ a b The Man With The Golden Gun Premiere. from: mi6-hq.com , accessed December 21, 2012.
  11. ↑ Start dates for The Man with the Golden Gun on imdb.de , accessed on December 21, 2012.
  12. ↑ YEAR 1980–2000. Retrieved February 18, 2018 .
  13. ↑ a b box office results worldwide. In: Stern Edition 2/2012. Pp. 72-73.
  14. ↑ Hans C. Blumenberg : "The man with the golden gun" by Guy Hamilton . Film tips. In: The time . No. 53 , December 27, 1974 ( online ).
  15. ^ Nora Sayre : The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Film: James Bond and Energy Crisis: 'Man With Golden Gun' at Several Theaters The Cast Roger Moore Lacks Connery's Impudence. In: New York Times . December 29, 1974, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ The Man with the Golden Gun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  17. ↑ Benson, Raymond: The James Bond Bedside Companion. , Crossroad Press, 2012
  18. ↑ Steve Rubin, Siegfried Tesche: The background story to 25 years of Bond. Kino Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89324-026-8 , p. 122.
  19. ↑ Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films on ew.com (English), accessed on December 26, 2012.
  20. ↑ Best Bond Film Results. from: mi6-hq.com , accessed December 26, 2012.
  21. ↑ 007 MAGAZINE readers vote On Her Majesty's Secret Service as greatest ever Bond film! at: 007magazine.co.uk , accessed December 26, 2012.
  22. ↑ James Bond's Best and Worst: Peter Travers Ranks All 24 Movies. from: rollingstone.com , accessed December 21, 2012.
  23. ↑ A direct hit and a blown gun: all Bond missions in the maneuver criticism. In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 50 years of James Bond. Pp. 64-71.
  24. ↑ The Man with the Golden Gun. James Bond radio plays. In: jamesbondfilme.de. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .
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