GoldenEye ( film)
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan / Janus
Izabella Scorupco - Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova
Famke Janssen - Xenia Zirgavna
Onatopp
Joe Don Baker - Jack Wade
Judi Dench - M
Gottfried John - General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov
Robbie Coltrane - Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky
Alan Cumming - Boris Grishenko
Tchéky Karyo - Defense Minister
Dmitri Mishkin (as Tcheky Karyo)
Desmond Llewelyn - Q
Samantha Bond
- Miss Moneypenny
Michael Kitchen - Bill Tanner
Serena Gordon - Caroline
Simon Kunz - Severnaya Duty Officer
Pavel Douglas
- French Warship Captain
Olivier Lajous - French Warship Officer (as Cmdt.
Olivier Lajous)
Billy J. Mitchell - Admiral Chuck Farrell
Constantine Gregory - Computer Store Manager
Minnie Driver
- Irina
Michelle Arthur - Anna
Ravil Isyanov - MiG
Pilot
Vladimir Milanovich - Croupier
Trevor Byfield - Train Driver
Peter Majer - Valentin's Bodyguard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paul Bannon - Russian Scientist (uncredited)
Martin Campbell
- Cyclist (uncredited)
Simon Crane - Tiger Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
Max Faulkner - Guard at Helicopter Show (uncredited)
Derek Lyons - Casino Guest (uncredited)
Wayne Michaels - Tiger Helicopter
Pilot / Mr. Gone to Heaven (uncredited)
Michael G. Wilson - Russian Security
Council Member (uncredited)
GoldenEye, released in 1995, is the seventeenth spy film of the British James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Unlike previous James Bond films, it was not related to the works of novelist Ian Fleming, although the name "GoldenEye" was taken from his estate in Jamaica. The original story was conceived and written by Michael France, with later collaboration by several other writers, and was directed by Martin Campbell. In the film, Bond fights to prevent an arms syndicate from using the GoldenEye satellite weapon against London in order to cause a global financial meltdown.
GoldenEye was released in 1995 after legal disputes forced a six-year hiatus in the series, during which Timothy Dalton resigned from the role of James Bond and was replaced by Pierce Brosnan. M was also recast (last played by Robert Brown in Licence to Kill) with actress Judi Dench, becoming the first female to portray the character. GoldenEye was the first Bond film made after the downfall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, which provided a background for the plot.
The
film was lauded by most critics and performed well at the box office, considerably
better than Dalton's films, without taking inflation into account. Some critics
viewed the film as a modernisation of the series, and felt Brosnan was a definite
improvement over his predecessor. It also received two BAFTA nominations –
"Best Achievement in Special Effects" and "Best Sound".
Plot
In the prologue, MI6 agents James Bond and Alec Trevelyan infiltrate an illicit Soviet chemical weapons facility at Arkhangelsk and plant explosive charges. During the operation, Trevelyan is captured and shot by Colonel Arkady Ourumov, while Bond steals an airplane and escapes the exploding facility.
Alec Trevelyan
and James Bond infiltrate the Arkhangelsk facilityNine years later, Bond arrives
in Monte Carlo to follow Xenia Onatopp, a suspected member of the Janus crime
syndicate. The next day, she and Ourumov (now a Russian general) steal a French
Tiger helicopter and fly it to a bunker in Severnaya, where they massacre the
staff and steal the control disk for the GoldenEye satellite weapon. The two program
Goldeneye to target and destroy the complex with an electromagnetic pulse, while
they escape with programmer Boris Grishenko, another Janus operative. Natalya
Simonova, the lone survivor and witness to the massacre, later escapes from the
ruins and arranges to meet Grishenko in St. Petersburg, where he betrays her to
Janus agents.
In London, M assigns Bond to investigate the attack, and he flies to St. Petersburg to meet CIA agent Jack Wade, who drives him to meet Valentin Zukovsky, a local Russian Mafia head. Zukovsky arranges a meeting between Bond and Janus, who reveals himself as Trevelyan. A Lienz Cossac, Trevelyan faked his death at Archangelsk and vows revenge against Britain for their involvement in his family's death. Trevelyan captures Bond and ties him up with Simonova in the Tiger helicopter, now programmed to self-destruct, which the two narrowly escape using its ejection system. Bond and Simonova are immediately arrested by the Russian police and interrogated by the Minister of Defence, Dmitri Mishkin. Just as Simonova reveals Ourumov's involvement in the massacre at Severnaya, Ourumov bursts into the room, shooting Mishkin and dragging Simonova into a waiting car.
James
Bond and Natalya Simonova in Cuba.Bond steals a T-55 tank and audaciously pursues
Ourumov through St. Petersburg to Janus' train, where he kills Ourumov as Trevelyan
escapes, locking Bond in the train with Simonova. As the train's self-destruct
countdown begins, Bond slices through the floor with his laser watch while Simonova
locates Grishenko's satellite dish in Cuba. The two escape just before the train
explodes.
In Cuba, Bond and Simonova fly a plane over the jungle before they are shot down. As they stumble out of the wreckage, Onatopp rappels down from a helicopter and attacks, knocking out Simonova and torturing an already enfeebled Bond, who resists and narrowly kills her. Minutes later, he and Simonova watch a lake being drained of its water, uncovering Grishenko's satellite dish. They infiltrate the control station, where Bond is captured by Trevelyan, who reveals his plan of stealing money from the Bank of England before destroying it with the GoldenEye, concealing the theft and destroying England's economy.
Xenia Onatopp fighting James Bond in the Cuban jungle.Meanwhile, an unnoticed
Simonova programs the satellite to initiate atmospheric reentry and destroy itself.
As Trevelyan captures Simonova and orders Grishenko to save the satellite, Bond
triggers an explosion with his Parker Jotter pen grenade and escapes to the antenna
cradle with Simonova, followed by Trevelyan. Bond sabotages the antenna, preventing
Grishenko from regaining control of the satellite, before turning and facing Trevelyan.
In the ensuing fight, Bond shoves Trevelyan off the antenna and into the dish
hundreds of feet below, before escaping aboard a helicopter commandeered by Simonova.
The cradle malfunctions and collapses, crushing Trevelyan and rupturing liquid
nitrogen tanks in the station that freeze Grishenko to death. Meanwhile on the
surface, while finding solace in each others arms, Bond and Simonova are rescued
by Wade and his platoon of US Marines
GoldenEye is
the soundtrack to the 17th James Bond film of the same name and was composed by
Éric Serra. It was released by EMI on November 14, 1995.
The theme song, "GoldenEye", was written by Bono and The Edge, and was performed by Tina Turner. The Swedish group Ace of Base were also involved at one point, producing a song also called "GoldenEye". This song was later released with slightly revised lyrics as The Juvenile on their 2002 album Da Capo. In addition to the Bondian bass line, it seems that the lyric 'The Juvenile' simply replaced 'The Goldeneye'. The other lyrics, most notably the line "Tomorrow's foe is now a friend" obviously refer to the plot of this film.
The film features the song "Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette. The song is sung in the film by Minnie Driver in the scene in which Bond confronts Zukovsky. Intended to be a comic moment, Driver intentionally sings the song off-key in an exaggerated Russian accent.
The soundtrack was composed by Éric Serra. Serra's score is often criticized by Bond fans and is considered the farthest departure from a traditional Bond score in the series history. The producers later hired John Altman to provide the music for the tank chase in St. Petersburg. Serra's original track for that sequence can still be found on the soundtrack as "A Pleasant Drive In St. Petersburg". The incidental music for the film has thus far been the only collaboration on a James Bond film. Parisian Éric Serra composed and performed a number of synthesizer tracks, including the version of the James Bond Theme that plays during the gun barrel sequence, while John Altman and David Arch provided the more traditional symphonic music.
Track
listing
"GoldenEye" - Tina Turner
"GoldenEye Overture: (Pt.1)
Half of Everything Is Luck (Pt.2) The Other Half is Fate"
"Ladies
First"
"We Share the Same Passions: (Pt.1) the Trip to Cuba (Pt.2)"
"Little Surprise for You: (Pt. 1) Xenya (Pt.2) D.M. Mychkine"
"Severnaya
Suite: (Pt.1) Among the Dead (Pt.2) Out of Hell (Pt.3)"
"Our Lady
of Smolensk"
"Whispering Statues: (Pt.1) Whispers (Pt.2) Two Faced"
"Run, Shoot, and Jump"
"Pleasant Drive in St. Petersburg"
"Fatal Weakness"
"That's What Keeps You Alone"
"Dish
Out of Water: (Pt.1) a Good Squeeze (Pt.2) the Antenna"
"Scale to
Hell: (Pt.1) Boris and the Lethal Pen/(Pt.2) I Am Invincible"
"For
Ever, James"
"Experience of Love"
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