History Film / GoldFinger

* RevealingHug: In TheTeaser, James Bond is making out with a BellyDancer in his room just as a hidden assassin emerges with a truncheon and sneaks up on him. We, and Bond then see her oddly calm reaction to the assassin's appearance (as well as the reflection of the assassin in her eyes) revealing that they are working together. Fortunately, Bond catches on, and it does not end well for either of them.

* CoolGuns:
** A cartel guard has a DWM Luger in his holster.
** The American soldiers wield M-14s.
** Goldfinger's henchmen carry MP-40s, including a little old lady.
** Palmer Cap-Chur Short Range Projectors are used by Bond and Kisch, the former firing a grappling hook from it and the latter firing a tranquilizer dart from it.
** Auric Goldfinger wields a gold-plated Colt Official Police as his sidearm, although he uses a gold-plated Colt 1908 in the book. He and Bond struggle over later on his plane during the climax. The gun eventually fires, breaking a window and sucking Goldfinger out. One of Goldfinger's guards also pulls one on Bond when Bond escapes from his cell.
** Pussy Galore wields a Smith and Wesson Model 22 .45ACP revolver, a serious handgun for a serious woman.

* IdiotBall:
** Bond actually spends much of the film screwing up, but some fans actually like this since it makes him more flawed, human and realistic and ultimately more sympathetic. For example, it was seriously idiotic of Bond to stay at the hotel, in the same room, right after forcing Goldfinger to lose a bunch of money in cards. In fact, this decision leads directly to Jill's death.[[note]]In fairness, Bond probably never expected Goldfinger to go to the extreme of murder over a card game, and this action informed Bond's assessment of the danger he posed over the rest of the film.[[/note]]
** Neither the British nor American governments had any idea that Goldfinger was planning to break into Fort Knox. If he hadn't dabbled with the relatively penny-ante crime of smuggling gold, he would never have drawn their attention and brought Bond down on his head, though he may have been stepping up his attempts to gain gold considering he intended for the price to shortly shoot up.

* PinballProtagonist: James Bond himself. Ignoring the ColdOpen, he causes the death of two sisters on the way to know the villain's plan — which only occurs after he's captured by the villain, and his attempts to both escape and warn his allies of the scheme fail. The only things Bond do that help foil Operation Grand Slam are seducing Pussy Galore and killing TheDragon. Even when the villain returns, he's killed by accident.

* UselessProtagonist: Aside from seducing Pussy Galore - ensuring the army was still alive to foil Goldfinger - and killing Oddjob, 007 gets foiled at every turn. And regarding the villainous plan, the nuclear bomb is stopped by an anonymous armyman, and Goldfinger causes his own death by firing a gun inside an airplane (which in the book, was done by Bond himself).

** Goldfinger's first name, Auric, is the Latin word for "gold".

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Pussy Galore tells Bond he's Goldfinger's guest. Later, Goldfinger serves Bond a mint julep, explains his plan and has Pussy give him a tour. Trope namer, [[JustForPun more or less]].

* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: Goldfinger and his bodyguard, Oddjob. Goldfinger has also several Asian men working for him, implied to have been given by his Chinese backers.

* BulletproofVest: An Q-Branch agent gives one a test with an assault rifle. Pretty advanced stuff, though Q says it's not perfected yet.

* InstantSedation: Kisch uses a tranquilizer dart gun on a helpless Bond after Goldfinger decides to keep him alive.

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** {{Subverted}} and [[DefiedTrope defied]] in the main plot. Bond figures out Goldfinger is lying to his mob backers when he stops to think about his "plan" and realizes that carting all the gold out of Fort Knox is not only difficult, it would also massively devalue the currency against him. Goldfinger than reveals his actual plan: by nuking Fort Knox, it would create artifical scarcity and jack up the value of his personal gold even more. It should be noted that this is a case of AdaptationDistillation: in the original novel, Goldfinger was planning to steal all the gold. The makers of the film changed it as they knew Goldfinger would need more manpower to do so.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The guards at Auric AU, who are supposed to be Korean if going by the novel, are shouting in ''Cantonese'' according to the [=Bluray=] subtitles.

* BadLiar: Tilly tells Bond that her name is Tilly Soames and she's in Geneva to ice skate. Bond sees right through it by noticing her attache case which has T.M. on it.

* ChekhovsGun

** {{Subverted}}. 007 ''thinks'' that Goldfinger hasn't thought his plan through, and points out to him that even if he used his nerve gas on the whole population of Fort Knox, he'd never have enough time to transport the gold from the vaults before military reinforcements came. What he doesn't know is, as Goldfinger explains to him, stealing it isn't part of the plan; his true goal involves detonating a bomb to render the gold in Fort Knox radioactive and unusable, thereby making the value of ''his'' personal foreign holdings in gold skyrocket. (In short, Goldfinger's scheme was intended to be an insider trading scam, taken up to eleven.)

* DoubleEntendre

* EmptyQuiver: {{Inverted}}, the bomb is a purposely 'dirty' one and is meant to ''contaminate'' the gold as any that survives the blast would be radioactive for decades. Thus causing a massive financial panic making Goldfinger's own gold reserves multiply in value instantly, but also causing chaos and upheaval on behalf of the Chinese Communists who supplied the nuke.

* EveryCarIsAPinto

* {{Foreshadowing}}

* HeelFaceTurn

* HollywoodDensity

* JustBetweenYouAndMe: {{Subverted}} and {{inverted}}.

* OhCrap

* TakeThat

* TropeCodifier
** Pick a TuxedoAndMartini SpyFiction cliche -- chances are good that it was popularized by this movie.

* VillainRespect: InvertedTrope. Bond is forced to give Goldfinger props when he realizes the man's plan isn't to steal the gold stored in Fort Knox (which would be logistically impossible). It's to nuke Fort Knox and thus increase the value of his own gold reserves tenfold.

* WireDilemma: {{Subverted}}: James Bond only has seconds to defuse a nuclear bomb in Fort Knox, and the best thing he can think of is to attempt to pull out a mass of wires and hope it does ''something''. However, just when he makes the attempt, Felix Leiter arrives with a bomb expert who brushes away Bond and simply hits the off switch for the bomb to stop its countdown. With "007" on the timer.

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** Pussy Galore weilds a Smith and Wesson Model 22 .45ACP revolver, a serious handgun for a serious woman.

** Tilly Masterson has learned that Auric Goldfinger has killed her sister Jil and decides she wants some revenge. To do this, she decides to take him out by stalking him in Switzerland, where he has his base of operations, and shooting him with a rifle. Instead of doing a little bit of research, the very least of which being learning how to shoot properly, she rushes off to Switzerland with an [=AR7=] a .22 calibre rifle with pitiful stopping power and range, and is such a horrible shot that she nearly shoots James Bond, who is man standing several hundred feet away and up from her target, causing him to think that she was targeting him instead. She tries to do it ''again'' later, when Bond is trying to infiltrate Goldfinger's smuggling facility. In her idiocy, she stops just short of advertising her position on a neon sign and trips an alarm wire, compromising Bond's infiltration attempt and leading them both into a chase that ultimately leads to her death at the hands of Oddjob.

* TheSpeechless: Oddjob doesn't speak English so he never talks, the only thing he ever says is "Ah, Ah!" when notifying Goldfinger during their golf game. And the only other sound he makes is him screaming as he's electrocuted while holding trying to grab his metal hat when he tries retrieving it from metal bars that's it's stuck in as bond electrocutes the metal bars. In the novel, the reason he cannot speak is because he has a cleft palate.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Music/ShirleyBassey Pretty girl beware of this heart of gold\\
This heart is]] '''[[Music/ShirleyBassey COOOOOOOOOLD!!]]''''']]

[[caption-width-right:300:''[[Music/ShirleyBassey This heart is]] '''[[Music/ShirleyBassey COOOOOOOOOLD!!]]''''']]

Has several famous scenes that have been subjected to countless parodies, including: Goldfinger threatening to cut Bond in half with a laser... slowly -- upward, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to ''die''", Bond's high-stakes golf game, and the death of Goldfinger's [[HeelFaceTurn traitorous employee]] Jill Masterson, her naked body sprawled across her bed and [[BodyPaint painted gold]].

--->'''James Bond:''' My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit.[[note]]This is also an example of CriticalResearchFailure, since good, vintage Champagne should be served at around 54-57 °F. To serve an expensive and rare Champagne as cold as 38 degrees Fahrenheit would be a complete waste of money.[[/note]] That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

* PlayingGertrude: Varley Thomas, who played the old lady, was only fifty at the time of the filming.

** Bond actually spends much of the film screwing up, but some fans actually like this since it makes him more flawed, human and realistic and ultimately more sympathetic. For example, it was seriously idiotic of Bond to stay at the hotel, in the same room, right after forcing Goldfinger to lose a bunch of money in cards. In fact, this decision leads directly to Jill's death.

* RareGuns: Tilly Masterson uses an Amarlite AR-7 for a failed assassination attempt on Goldfinger to avenge her sister.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: The iconic opening shot of Bond emerging from a [[DressedInLayers tuxedo beneath a wet suit]] was inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tazelaar Peter Tazelaar]], a member of the Dutch resistance and a British Intelligence agent during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Tazelaar had [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7601274/The-secret-war-mission-that-inspired-Goldfinger-scene.html a mission]] to infiltrate a German-occupied castle in Scheveningen during a reception. He drove to the location aboard a dinghy wearing a wet suit, removing it after landing to reveal formal evening wear underneath. Tazelaar went on to be one of the initial inspirations for Bond, and the scene was added to the film by script doctor Paul Dehn, who knew him during the war. Also, ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' proved that it’s possible.

* DeathBySex:
** Jill Masterson, murdered by Oddjob on Goldfinger's orders after having sex with Bond.
** In the book, her sister Tilly dies because she had become sexually obsessed with Pussy Galore.