James Bond 007 - Goldeneye
James Bond 007 - GoldenEye (Original title: GoldenEye ) is the 17th from Eon Productions Ltd. produced James Bond - movie . Pierce Brosnan slipped into the role of MI6 agent for the first time. The New Zealander Martin Campbell directed the film .
Due to legal and artistic differences between the producers Albert R. Broccoli , Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli on the one hand and United Artists and their parent company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the other, this Bond only appeared in the series after a six-year break Cinemas. Tina Turner sang the title track GoldenEye . The film was released in Swiss cinemas on December 15, 1995, in German cinemas on December 28, 1995 and in Austrian cinemas on December 29, 1995.
action
The film begins at the time of the Cold War : 007 James Bond and his partner 006 Alec Trevelyan are supposed to destroy a Soviet chemical weapons factory in Arkhangelsk . Both plant timed bombs to blow up the factory, but 006 is suddenly arrested to force Bond to give up. 006 asks Bond "for England" not to surrender, and he sets up a time fuse and takes up the fight. In front of Bond's eyes, Colonel Ourumov appears to be executed in 006. Bond then manages to escape from the factory by plane.
Nine years later - after the end of the Cold War - Bond tracks down pilot Xenia Onatopp in Monaco . This has contacts to the Russian terrorist organization Janus , named after the Roman god Janus with two faces. Without Bond being able to prevent it, she steals a Tiger helicopter during a test demonstration in the harbor , which can withstand the strongest electromagnetic radiation . Xenia murders an admiral and the two helicopter pilots for this.
With the help of the helicopter, Onatopp and Ourumov steal the secret Russian weapon system GoldenEye . GoldenEye is a satellite system in which an atom bomb is detonated in the upper atmosphere of the earth , thus triggering a nuclear electromagnetic pulse that destroys all electronic devices in the vicinity of the targeted target. Ourumov and Onatopp kill almost all employees of the GoldenEye satellite control center " Severnaya " in Siberia , only Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova, a programmer, and the traitor Boris Grischenko who gave Janus access to GoldenEye survive. To cover up the trail of their theft, Ourumov and Onatopp destroy the control center with one of the two GoldenEye satellites. They escape with the (electromagnetically protected) Eurocopter Tiger helicopter, three Russian MiG-29 fighter planes, which were supposed to investigate the proceedings in the GoldenEye satellite control center, crash.
The events in Siberia are observed by MI6 via satellite. The stolen helicopter is discovered and Natalya is seen escaping from the ruins of the control center. Because Bond suspects that she can identify the traitor, he sets off for Saint Petersburg . There he meets his contact from the CIA , Jack Wade. With his help, Bond contacts the former KGB agent Valentin Zukovsky, who, despite old hostility to Bond, arranges a meeting with Janus for money . Bond learns that agent 006, Alec Trevelyan, believed to be dead, is behind this organization. The whole company is his personal revenge on Britain , which he blames for the death of his parents. As a Lienz Cossack (falsely in the film as "Linzer Cossacks" synchronized) Trevelyan's parents were by the British after World War II with 25,000 other Cossacks at Lienz to Stalin were delivered and its firing squads; Trevelyan's parents survived but later committed suicide out of shame. Trevelyan tries to kill 007 and Natalya in the now disused helicopter. Bond was able to prevent this at the last second, but both were arrested by the Russian military and taken to the Ministry of Defense.
There they are interrogated by the defense minister, but while they are almost able to convince him of the facts, General Ourumov suddenly appears and shoots the minister with Bond's service weapon in order to accuse him of the murder and thus to kill him with good reason. Bond escapes again, but has to leave Natalya behind. Ourumov then flees with Natalya to a missile transport train from Trevelyan. Bond chases them both in a T-55 tank across Saint Petersburg and eventually derails the train outside of town . Bond storms the train to save Natalya. He kills Ourumov, but Trevelyan and Onatopp, who is also present, escape. Trevelyan tries again to kill Bond and Natalya by locking them up in the armored train and now in turn attaching a briefly set time fuse, but again both just manage to escape.
Natalya has since found out that Cuba is the target of Trevelyan's and Onatopp's escape. Natalya and Bond temporarily become lovers. In Cuba, Bond locates Trevelyan's secret base. He and Natalya are able to kill the Onatopp that is on them and storm the base. Here they finally find out the plan of 006: He wants to first transfer funds to his accounts with the help of the hacker Grischenko and then use GoldenEye to plunge the entire London financial world into chaos and delete all data in order to cover his tracks.
Bond and Natalya can ultimately thwart Trevelyan's plans: At the showdown , Trevelyan and Bond end up fighting man against man on a satellite dish: Ultimately, Bond lets his adversary fall to his death with the words "for me" (and not "for England"). The traitor Grischenko, who believes he has already been saved, is shock-frozen by a surge of liquid nitrogen .
Bond and Natalya let a US rescue helicopter fly out to Guantanamo Bay .
production
Litigation delays and new lead actors
Already in the spring of 1990, following the release of License to Kill , Eon Productions began pre-production of the 17th James Bond film, which was due to appear in 1991. James Bond was to be played again by Timothy Dalton , whose contract provided for another film.
Due to legal disputes between Eon Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artist (MGM / UA), the film was repeatedly postponed in the following years. Although these were not yet cleared, MGM / UA wanted to continue the bond series in 1992, but with a new leading actor, which Broccoli refused. It was only a year later that the newly appointed top management agreed to respond to Broccoli’s wishes. On August 6, 1993, Timothy Dalton announced in an interview with the Daily Mail that Michael France was writing the script and that filming should begin in January or February 1994.
But the deadline passed, and on April 12, 1994 Timothy Dalton announced that he did not want to make another James Bond film. The producers began looking for a new lead actor and tested ten candidates in screen tests. The role got Pierce Brosnan , who was given the news on June 1, 1994. Actually, Brosnan should have played the bond role in The Living Daylights. However, the large media presence due to his casting as 007 caused interest in the Remington Steele series , for which he was still under contract, to rise again, and the television producers had more episodes produced. As a result, Brosnan was not available in time for The Living Daylights to start and had to give up the role. On June 8, 1994, Pierce Brosnan was officially introduced as the new James Bond, he signed a contract for three films.
script
Dalton's statement that Michael France was writing the script was correct. France had drafted a draft that was revised by Jeffrey Caine when Brosnan was identified as the new Bond. Caine kept many elements from Frances design, but also added new ones. The prologue, which takes place nine years before the actual plot of the film, was Caine's idea. The third author was Kevin Wade , who revised the script and made minor changes. Other small changes were made by Bruce Feirstein. Officially, Caine and Feirstein were credited with the script and France with the story. Wade was not credited, but the character of CIA agent Jack Wade was named after him.
title
The film's title, GoldenEye , pays homage to Ian Fleming's home in Jamaica , which bears that name. Fleming went there for a few months each year to write a new James Bond novel. Fleming had taken the name from Operation Golden Eye , an assignment he had led the Navy Intelligence Service during World War II.
occupation
When the script was finished, the search for a director and actors began. Martin Campbell was hired as the director .
Sean Bean was signed as Agent 006 after auditioning for the lead role as James Bond.
Izabella Scorupco appears as Bond girl Natalya Simonova . Her opponent Xenia Onatopp is played by Famke Janssen .
In GoldenEye , the role of the Russian Valentin Zukovsky is introduced and cast with Robbie Coltrane, who was already successful in For All Cases Fitz . In addition, Bond is supported for the first time by Jack Wade, played by Joe Don Baker, who returned to this role in the next film. Joe Don Baker played in The Living Daylights , but played Bond's opponent Brad Whitaker.
For the first time, "M" is played by a woman, Judi Dench. This decision was the last major change to the script and was only made by Bruce Feirstein and director Martin Campbell. Miss Moneypenny is first portrayed by Samantha Bond . Desmond Llewelyn took over the role of "Q" for the 15th time.
Title design
Maurice Binder , who had been responsible for the design of almost all the title sequences in James Bond films, had died in 1991, and this time Daniel Kleinman was commissioned with this work. In 1989 he had already recorded the music video for Gladys Knight's theme song for License to Kill .
In the title sequence of GoldenEye , Kleinman integrated elements from the film's plot, for example a woman with two faces appears as an allusion to the god Janus , the namesake of the crime organization featured in the film. The film titles also feature a number of scantily clad women who destroy Soviet or communist symbols. As a result, the title sequence closes the time gap between the opening sequence, which takes place in the Cold War, and the framework story, which takes place after the collapse of the Soviet Union .
A classic sans serif font in a yellow hue was used in the title sequence. However, the film title GoldenEye is being used for the first time since Dr. No shown in a special font that was also used on posters and other merchandising material.
The Gunbarrel-Sequence (Eng. Pistol barrel sequence) was carefully modernized by Kleinman. With each new leading actor a new version was created, but the actual pistol barrel always remained the same. It had thus remained the longest unchanged graphic element of the James Bond films. Kleinman added reflections and movement to the pistol barrel with the help of CGI in order to reinforce the impression of a three-dimensional pistol barrel, but retained the original characteristics.
Filming
Filming of the 17th Bond film GoldenEye began on January 16, 1995 and ended on June 6, 1995.
After the filming was finished, Derek Meddings died , who, like many of the previous Bond films, was responsible for the special effects in the field of model making. GoldenEye was therefore dedicated to him with the words "to the memory of Derek Meddings" in the credits.
Locations
The film was shot in the following countries:
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United Kingdom
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London
- Draper's Hall on Throgmorton Street
- Leavesden Studios, Leavesden
- Epsom Down Racecourse
- St. Sofia's Greek Cathedral
- St Pancras train station
- Langham Hilton Hotel
- The Chapel
- Courtyard of Somerset House
- Vauxhall Bridge
- Outside London
- Nene Railway, Peterborough
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London
- France
- Monaco
- Switzerland
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Puerto Rico ( US suburb )
- Arecibo Observatory , Arecibo
- Laguna Tortuguero, Manatí
- Playa Mar Chicita, Manati
- Russia
Others
Aside from License to Kill , this is the only Bond film that wasn't shot at Pinewood Studios .
After the film was released , a commercial bungee jumping facility was built on Lago di Vogorno , where the opening scene with the bungee jump was filmed.
The aircraft in the opening scene is a Pilatus PC-6 .
Xenia Onatopp ( Ferrari F355 GTS ) and James Bond ( Aston Martin DB5 ) host an impromptu street race when they meet on a mountain road above Monte Carlo.
In this film, Bond drives a BMW for the first time , namely a Z3 , which can only be seen in two scenes . BMW also represents the Bond car in the two following films with the 750iL in Tomorrow Never Dies and the Z8 in The World Is Not Enough . With the exception of a short scene in Tomorrow Never Dies , in which Bond drives up to MI6 headquarters in a DB5 , he doesn't drive an Aston Martin again until another day in Die Another Day in the V12 Vanquish .
In the attack helicopter in the film is one EC665 Tiger who used therein escape pod , however, is invented.
The scene at the end of the film, when Bond falls off the ladder of the satellite system, was played by Brosnan himself. Something went wrong, so that Brosnan almost injured himself on the ladder while catching the fall - the sound of pain in the film is therefore real.
The special edition of the film on VHS as well as on DVD was shortened by 14 seconds in order to obtain FSK approval for ages 12 and over. The Ultimate Edition, on the other hand, is unabridged and has an FSK-16 approval.
In a short scene in the casino, the daughter of Eunice Gayson appears, who played Sylvia Trench , the friend of James Bond, in the first two Bond films .
Gadgets
- A grenade with a time fuse built into a ballpoint pen
- A belt from the buckle of which you can fire a thin rope with a hook
- A BMW Z3 with stingers and the usual gadgets already known from other Bond films (the rockets were not used this time)
- A clock with an integrated laser that can be used, for example, to cut steel plates. (A similar model appeared in the 1983 film Never Never Say, not produced by EON , as well as an exploding pen. However, it was a fountain pen that was shot down like a rocket.)
- X-ray document scanner that is integrated into a silver tray
Film music
The score was composed by Éric Serra.
The title track GoldenEye was composed and written by Bono and The Edge and interpreted by Tina Turner . It could not place in the US charts, in the UK it reached number 10.
The credits include the song The Experience of Love , written by Éric Serra and Rupert Hine and interpreted by Éric Serra. The film also features the well-known song Stand By Your Man , which Minnie Driver sings in Zukovsky's nightclub.
The piece A Pleasant Drive In St. Petersburg was composed by Eric Serra for the tank chase , but the producers replaced it in the film with an arrangement by John Altman .
The soundtrack was first released on CD in 1995 by Virgin Records . After the 40th James Bond anniversary, an extended version of the soundtrack was released by Capitol Records in 2003, which is a few seconds longer. The piece A Pleasant Drive In St. Petersburg is not heard in the film.
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synchronization
Dialogue director: Thomas Danneberg
| role | actor | German voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| James Bond | Pierce Brosnan | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Alec Trevelyan | Sean Bean | Norbert Langer |
| Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova | Izabella Scorupco | Bettina White |
| General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov | Gottfried John | Gottfried John |
| Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp | Famke Janssen | Martina Treger |
| Jack Wade | Joe Don Baker | Klaus Sunshine |
| M. | Judi Dench | Gisela Fritsch |
| Valentin Dimitrovich Zukovsky | Robbie Coltrane | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Dmitri Mishkin | Tchéky Karyo | Joachim Kerzel |
| Boris Grishenko | Alan Cumming | Santiago Ziesmer |
| Q | Desmond Llewelyn | Manfred Schmidt |
| Miss Moneypenny | Samantha Bond | Anita Lochner |
| Bill Tanner | Michael Kitchen | Klaus-Dieter Klebsch |
| Caroline | Serena Gordon | Cornelia Meinhardt |
The synchronization contains a mistake: When Alec Trevelyan mentioned to James Bond that he was a descendant of Lienz Cossacks , the German synchronization incorrectly speaks of Linz Cossacks.
premiere
GoldenEye premiered in New York on November 13, 1995, released in theaters in the United States on November 17, 1995, in London on November 22, and two days later throughout the United Kingdom. The film opened in Germany on December 28, 1995.
Aftermath
Financial success
The budget was an estimated $ 58 million. The film was a worldwide commercial success, grossing nearly $ 100 million in the United States by January 1996 and over £ 17 million in the UK. The worldwide box office result is around 351 million US dollars, in Germany over 60 million marks. In Germany, over 4 million people saw the film in cinemas, in the United States 24.45 million. The magazine Stern states that worldwide box office earnings are inflation-adjusted US $ 530 million, which as of 2011 is the twelfth-highest grossing result for a Bond film. The number of visitors in Germany is given with 5.5 million, that is the fourth most of a Bond film in Germany.
Contemporary criticism
The reviews at the time of publication were mixed.
Entertainment Weekly ruled in November 1995 that the film was "a mediocre contribution to the Bond series", which was nevertheless "tempting [d]". Variety ruled in the same month that Brosnan was making a “solid debut” in one of the “better of the 17 Bond films”. The New York Times wrote that the script was "nothing but shallow exchanges and desperate tributes to Fleming's style," and that Brosnan was "not the most believable in the action scenes." Time wrote that the "established conventions" of the Bond series were in GoldenEye on "shaky knees", and Brosnan play the James Bond on "middle level" between Connery, Moore and Dalton. Roger Ebert rated GoldenEye three out of four stars in the Chicago Sun-Times and described it as a "modern Bond according to a well-known scheme." He found Brosnan in the role of Bond as "completely appropriate".
Hellmuth Karasek criticized in Der Spiegel that in GoldenEye “ James Bond has become a comic book hero. And so, despite all the efforts, he fell out of time. ” Norbert Grob wrote in Die Zeit , in GoldenEye “ the extensive display values are slowly becoming a problem. If nothing works except the thrill of the bumbum, in the end all that remains is smoke and mirrors. ”He spoke out in favor of“ reinstalling ”the James Bond series and added:“ Pierce Brosnan would have what it takes. ”
Later evaluation
In retrospect, GoldenEye is regarded as one of the most important James Bond films, as it was the successful relaunch of the Bond series six years after the license to kill , which in the eyes of some critics enabled the entire series to continue.
Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked the James Bond films in 2006, with GoldenEye ranked 8th out of 21 films and named Brosnan's “by far the best and most understandable” film. In the same year, the employees of the multimedia website IGN rated the Bond films and voted GoldenEye 5th.
Between 2011 and 2012, visitors to the James Bond fan site MI6-HQ.com voted for the best Bond films, with GoldenEye ranking 5th out of 22 films. In this vote, it was the best film with Brosnan in the leading role and was ahead of all the wacky films with Roger Moore.
In 2012, the Bond films were also rated by readers of 007 Magazine , with GoldenEye finishing 9th out of 24 spots. In a likewise 2012 published list of Rolling Stone takes GoldenEye but a place only 19 of 24 James Bond films. In the 2012 special issue published 50 years James Bond of the star is rated the film 4 out of 5 stars ( "good").
Awards
BAFTA Award 1995
- Nominated for Best Sound for Jim Shields, David John, Graham V. Hartstone, John Hayward, Michael A. Carter
- Nominated in the "Best Visual Effects" category for Chris Corbould, Derek Meddings, Brian Smithies
- Award in the "BMI Film Music Award" category for Éric Serra
Golden Canvas 1996
- 3 million moviegoers in 18 months
- Nomination in the category "Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film"
- Nomination in the “Best Actor” category for Pierce Brosnan
- Nomination in the "Best Fight Scene" category for Pierce Brosnan and Famke Janssen
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.
Adaptations
literature
GoldenEye was the second and final Bond film for which John Gardner wrote a novel based on the script. The book, published in 1995, adheres closely to the template, but at the beginning, before the bungee jump, it inserts a few fight scenes that also appear in the computer game GoldenEye 007 .
In 1996 the first part of a planned three-part comic version was published. Parts two and three, however, never appeared.
Computer games
In 1997, the first-person shooter GoldenEye 007, the first computer game based on the film, was released, a remake of which was released in 2010 and a modernized new edition for different platforms in 2011 . The version for the Nintendo 64 is considered to be one of the best games for this platform.
The first-person shooter GoldenEye: Rogue Agent , published in 2004, has no direct relationship with the movie, apart from the appearance of Xenia Onatopp, rather the title was probably chosen to win the numerous fans of the original GoldenEye 007 as buyers.
publication
The film was first released on VHS by Warner Bros. in Germany in 1996. The VHS had a reversible cover to match the Classic Bond Collection released in 1995 . From 1999 the marketing rights changed to 20th Century Fox Entertainment. The first DVD version was released in 1998 along with the successor Tomorrow Never Dies . At that time still in the jewel case box, later in the Amaray case that is still common today. It was released as Blu-Ray for the 50th anniversary.
The film ran for the first time on German free TV on January 2, 1999 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF.
Web links
- James Bond 007 - Goldeneye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- James Bond 007 - Goldeneye at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- James Bond 007 - Goldeneye at Metacritic (English)
- James Bond 007 - Goldeneye in the online movie database
- James Bond 007 - Goldeneye in the German dubbing file
- GoldenEye on Cinema and Science
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 - FSK 16 , BBFC 12 - FSK 16 by James Bond 007 - Goldeneye at Schnittberichte.com
- Christofer Jost: GoldenEye . In: Song Lexicon . Retrieved March 10, 2014.
Individual evidence
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- ↑ James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design . On: artofthetitle.com (English). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
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- ^ Siegfried Tescher: The great James Bond atlas. Wissen Media Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07305-9 , pp. 48/49
- ↑ 1964 Aston Martin DB5 in "Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997". Internet Movie Cars Database, accessed August 13, 2010 .
- ↑ James Bond 007 - Goldeneye in the German dubbing index
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- ↑ Box office results worldwide In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 , pp. 72–73.
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- ↑ Goldeneye - review by Roger Ebert on rogerebert.suntimes.com (English), accessed on December 26, 2012.
- ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : 007 in free flight. In: Der Spiegel No. 51. December 18, 1995, accessed on March 15, 2013 : "And thus, despite all efforts, it has fallen out of time."
- ↑ Norbert Grob : Greetings from Duckburg. In: The time . December 29, 1995, accessed on March 15, 2013 : “So the extensive display values are slowly becoming a problem. If nothing works except the thrill of the bumbum, all that remains is smoke and mirrors. The clock for 007 is running out. Which could also mean: Everything would have to be reinstalled - with an umbrella, charm and even more irony. Pierce Brosnan would have what it takes. "
- ↑ a b Without 'Goldeneye' There Would Be No 'Skyfall' on filmschoolrejects.com , accessed December 26, 2012.
- ↑ Bond-a-Thond # 17: 'GoldenEye' on moviesblog.mtv.com (English), accessed December 26, 2012.
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- ↑ James Bond's Top 20 - Ranking 007's films from worst to best. On: ign.com (English). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ Best Bond Film Results. from: mi6-hq.com , accessed December 26, 2012.
- ↑ 007 MAGAZINE readers vote On Her Majesty's Secret Service as greatest ever Bond film! at: 007magazine.co.uk , accessed December 26, 2012.
- ↑ James Bond's Best and Worst: Peter Travers Ranks All 24 Movies at rollingstone.com (English), accessed December 22, 2012
- ↑ A direct hit and a blowout: all Bond missions in maneuver criticism In: Stern-Edition 2/2012 50 years of James Bond , pp. 64–71.
- ↑ James Bond 007 - Goldeneye on fbw-filmbeval.com
- ↑ Comic - GoldenEye 1 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . at: bondpix.com (English). Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ↑ Best Nintendo 64 Video Games of All Time. In: Metacritic . Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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