Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOLDFINGER. James Bond again, with Ian Fleming's hero smoothly travestied by Actor Sean Connery who destroys criminals, devastates their ladies, and saves the gold at Fort Knox...
...that they did not seem to know how. Intent on blunting the new majority's power, Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller quickly summoned a special session of the old legislature, forced through a reapportionment bill favoring Republicans and two measures that put $617 million of the state's bond reserves out of Democratic reach. Said Lame Duck Rochester Republican Assemblyman Eugene Goddard: "It's a common practice when you're about to be taken over by the Huns to change the locks on the doors...
...real hero is Bond's car, a gleaming Aston-Martin. The only character with class in the movie, it boasts a fantastic equipage including dual machine-guns beneath the headlights, razor-sharp hub caps to shred a pursuer's tires, and a passenger seat which ejects its occupant if he happens to look like an ex-member of the Viet Cong, work for Goldfinger, and be holding a pistol to Bond's throat...
...Knox is gassed to death or whether Goldfinger does finally break the bank. Will the scene be more spectacular than the gilded ladies, golden Rolls-Royces, and pernicious laser rays which preceded it? Since the answer is no, the movie ends with an anti-climatic thud (or, rather, rustle; Bond and girl assume their usual, final positions beneath a parachute...
...would be nice to give the Goldfinger people credit for clever parody. However that form depends on a recognizable model and only the two previous Bond movies are effectively ridiculed. This is incestuous and--if that's not the right word given 007-ludicrous. Although the movie starts out as an enjoyably satiric melodrama, it is so lacking in character or conflict that melodrama too soon becomes no drama at all. A parody of a parody is too much...