History Awesome / Goldfinger

!!The Film

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[[caption-width-right:350:{{This is gonna suck}} for Bond.]]

* Bond using his wits to defeat Oddjob, rather than brute force.
** [[TheDragon Oddjob]] himself is completely awesome. And Bond hardly uses his wits until that final, desperate improvisation. What really makes it so awesome is that Connery's Bond is clearly scared shitless by Oddjob's apparent invulnerability, every blow proceeding through fists to wooden clubs to ''freakin' bars of solid gold'' doing nothing. It's rare to see Bond scared, and almost always awesome when he is. Plus, a villain who can be that scary without even saying a word is quite awesome.
*** Also a real one for Harold Sakata, who was badly burned by the pyrotechnics but still held on until he heard the director yell "Cut!" to end the take.

[[caption-width-right:350:This is gonna suck, for Bond.]]

* Goldfinger (the person, not the movie) was awesome for the simple reason that he was smarter than most Bond villains. To wit:

* Bond gives Goldfinger a quick rundown of the logistical problems of removing the gold, ending with an amusing prediction that when reinforcements show up within a couple of hours, they'll make Goldfinger put everything back. Goldfinger's response: "[[WhamLine Whoever mentioned anything about]] ''[[WhamLine removing]]'' [[WhamLine it?]]" Followed by a very subtle OhCrap moment from Sean Connery as a hoary movie cliche is neatly avoided as Bond figures out the actual, genuinely brilliant plan, which Goldfinger confirms. He then implicitly threatens to nuke a even more significant American asset (Cape Kennedy, The White House, etc.) should the authorities try to locate his atomic device before it reaches Fort Knox.

* A meta one for how the novel and its villain were named. Fleming had a long-standing grudge against architect Erno Goldfinger, who had demolished some old Victorian houses in the '30s to build a proto-brutalist mansion for himself. Fleming had remembered this in the '50s when he created Auric Goldfinger. The real-life Goldfinger was incensed and threatened to sue Fleming for libel, to which [[DeadpanSnarker Fleming]] replied [[RefugeInAudacity "I'll change the name to Goldprick".]] The notoriously testy Goldfinger backed down, and the rest is history.
** The response is even more HilariousInHindsight since 2002, when the Bond-mocking comedy ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'' hit theaters.

* Bond gives Golddfinger a quick rundown of the logistical problems of removing the gold, ending with an amusing prediction that when reinforcements show up within a couple of hours, they'll make Goldfinger put everything back. Goldfinger's response: "[[WhamLine Whoever mentioned anything about]] ''[[WhamLine removing]]'' [[WhamLine it?]]" Followed by a very subtle OhCrap moment from Sean Connery as a hoary movie cliche is neatly avoided as Bond figures out the actual, genuinely brilliant plan, which Goldfinger confirms. He then implicitly threatens to nuke a even more significant American asset (Cape Kennedy, The White House, etc.) should the authorities try to locate his atomic device before it reaches Fort Knox.

[[caption-width-right:350:That gold bar doesn't do shit to [[ImplacableMan Oddjob]].]]

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* Bond gives Golddfinger a quick rundown of the logistical problems of removing the gold, ending with an amusing prediction that when reinforcements show up within a couple of hours, they'll make Goldfinger put everything back. Goldfinger's response: "[[WhamLine Who said anything about]] ''[[WhamLine removing]]'' [[WhamLine it?]]" Followed by a very subtle OhCrap moment from Sean Connery as a hoary movie cliche is neatly avoided as Bond figures out the actual, genuinely brilliant plan, which Goldfinger confirms. He then implicitly threatens to nuke a even more significant American asset (Cape Kennedy, The White House, etc.) should the authorities try to locate his atomic device before it reaches Fort Knox.

* Bond gives Golddfinger a quick rundown of the logistical problems of removing the gold, ending with an amusing prediction that when reinforcements show up within a couple of hours, they'll make Goldfinger put eveerything back. Goldfinger's response: "[[WhamLine Who said anything about]] ''[[WhamLine removing]]'' [[WhamLine it?]]" Followed by a very subtle OhCrap moment from Sean Connery as a hoary movie cliche is neatly avoided as Bond figures out the actual, genuinely brilliant plan, which Goldfinger confirms. He then implicitly threatens to nuke a even more significant American asset (Cape Kennedy, The White House, etc.) should the authorities try to locate his atomic device before it reaches Fort Knox.

* The golf match between Bond and Goldfinger is probably the best example of Fleming's beloved "Bond plays a supposedly friendly game with the villain" after [[Literature/CAsinoRoyale baccarat with Le Chiffre]] and [[Literature/{{Moonraker}} bridge with Hugo Drax]]. Tense and thrilling even for non-golfers, and Bond and Hawker's cooperation to bring down the dirty cheat Goldfinger is heartwarming.

** "[[WhamLine Who said anything about]] ''[[WhamLine removing]]'' [[WhamLine it?]]" Followed by a very subtle OhCrap moment from Sean Connery as a hoary movie cliche is neatly avoided as Goldfinger describes his genuinely brilliant plan.
*** He doesn't really even say much, mostly just confirming what Bond is just now figuring out. The only time he goes out of his way to reveal anything is when he implicitly threatens to nuke a even more significant American asset (Cape Kennedy, The White House, etc.) should the authorities try to locate his atomic device before it reaches Fort Knox.