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Goldfinger is a novel by Ian Fleming featuring James Bond, later made into a film starring Sean Connery. The novel was published in 1959 and the film was released in 1964 and is the third installment of the film in the James Bond series.
The eponymous villain of both the novel and the movie is one Auric Goldfinger, the world's top gold smuggler (the name was inspired by the name of architect Ernö Goldfinger). In the movie version ( 1964), Bond discovers a sinister plot by Goldfinger and his organization and the forces of communist China to steal all the gold from Fort Knox. It is later revealed that it is not Goldfinger's intention to steal the gold, but to destroy it by detonating a nuclear bomb in the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, contaminating the United States gold reserve and thereby dramatically increasing the value of his own gold. It should be noted that in the original novel, Goldfinger really does plan to steal the gold, but this plan is completely infeasible and was later altered for the film.
The most famous scene in the film — arguably the most famous scene in any Bond film — is the one in which Goldfinger has the recalcitrant Bond tied down in the path of a laser beam:
This scene, too, differs from the corresponding scene in the book (where Goldfinger used a buzz saw, not a laser, and spared Bond not because of his claimed knowledge of "Operation Grand Slam" but in acceptance of Bond's offer to work for Goldfinger!).
In addition, in the book, Bond was issued with a car with few modifications like revolving license plateA license plate (or licence plate , number plate or registration plate is a small plate attached to a vehicle. On many vehicles, they appear in pairs, with one attached to the front and another attached to the rear, although certain jurisdictions and vehis. The film greatly expands on the idea with the spy getting an Aston MartinAston Martin is a manufacturer of exclusive luxury automobiles. Up to 2002, a total of 16,000 cars had been built by Aston Martin. History Aston Martin was founded in 1914 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The two had joined together the previous year packed with special functions like forward machine gunA machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. Overview M2 machine gun surrounded by spent shell casings Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per bullet fired, a machine gun wills, oil slick, smokescreen, bullet-proof shield, telescoping tire slashers and most famously, a passenger ejector seatF/A-22 Raptor ejection seat test using a mannequin. In (mostly military) aircraft, the ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew in the event of the aircraft becoming unflyable. In most designs, the seat is propelled out of the a for the removal of unwanted passengers. The popularity of this car in the film led to the increasing inclusion of spectacular gagetry including other special vehicles.
Author Ian Fleming also contributed to the original draft for the television series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.The Man from U. was a popular American television series that ran on NBC from September 22 1964 to January 15 1968. The show revolved around a fictional Secret International Law-Enforcement Agency, the U nited N etwork C ommand for L aw E nforcement; it w, in which one of the heroes was named "Napoleon Solo". The name originally came from the book version of Goldfinger: Napoleon Solo is one of the crime bosses Goldfinger invites to participate in his scheme to steal the gold from Fort Knox (in the film he is called simply "Mr. Solo"). Viewers of the film will remember him as the fellow who "had a pressing engagement."
In addition, Goldfinger set the tone for future James Bond films, starting with (in certain movies) a teaser sequence followed by the opening credits.
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