Odd Job is supposedly taking the FBI agent to the airport. Instead, he shoots him and then has the car with his body crushed into a small cube. How is it that some of him didn’t squeeze out like toothpaste? This is important in case there’s a remake and the future director is among us.
If any of the dead guy did leak out, it would mix with the gasoline, coolant, oil, and hydraulic fluid that would also be released when crushing a car. I’m not sure the bits of dead guy would be distinguishable amidst the general ooze.
What I never got is why bother doing all that why didn’t Goldfinger just gas him along with the rest of the mobsters
There’s a lot of things wrong with that scene. or Goldfinger in general.
You can’t crush an engine block that small. And yet, he expects to get the gold out. I guess and bits 'o guy will burn off during the melting.
I think that was just a disposable car. The Rolls Royce was made of gold.
Solo was paid with gold. A bar? IIRC. Goldfinger wanted that back.
Though why Odd Job didn’t just take it and save the trouble, I guess that’s the Rule Of Cool.
Nitpick: He wasn’t in the FBI. He was a gangster who thought it was crazy to try robbing Fort Knox and tried to wiggle out of Goldfinger’s scheme.
If the story were set in Russia, he’d have been pushed out a window on the 20th floor of a skyscraper.
Yeah, it’s definitely a fool that goes looking for logic in a Bond movie. Admittedly, the movie is actually less crazy than the Goldfinger novel, for no other reason than that, in the novel, Auric Goldfinger really is planning to steal all the gold out of Fort Knox. The producers thought this so far-fetched that they not only dropped the idea from the film, but wrote in the scene where Bond points out the sheer infeasibility of trying to do this.
What would’ve happened if he’d said ‘no’ to Max Zorin?
He’d have been shown the door and told to kindly wait outside.
Well, that is a shame. I was going to say that the guy didn’t ooze out because the FBI have procedures to stop any leaks but you have ruined that.
Yes, Oddjob could have taken the gold out before having the car crushed. Take that thinking a step further, and you have to ask why they crushed the car at all. It makes sense to the viewer; Bond has slipped a tracking device and a note into the gangster’s pocket, and Felix is following. Crushing the car disables the tracking transmitter, and throws the Feds off Oddjob’s trail. The thing is, he didn’t know there was a transmitter or that he was being followed. Crushing the car fixes a problem he didn’t know he had.
Taking the gold may be implausible, but nuking it is totally out of character for Goldfinger. He doesn’t love gold because of what he can buy with it, he just loves gold, itself. He welcomes any enterprise that will increase his stock. (I think that’s how he phrases it.) Nuking Fort Knox will increase the price of gold, but Goldfinger won’t have any more of it. Quite the reverse, in fact; driving up the price of gold will make it harder for him to acquire more.
As has been noted, you can’t crush an engine block in one of those car presses – they use to take out a lot of the hardware before using that crusher to compress the bodywork. But it’s an impressive as hell scene, which is the only reason they do it. This is the only part of the entire movie that my mother remembers, so it made quite an impression on her.
And, of course, it would have made a lot more sense to take the gold bars out of the trunk before squishing the car (I’ll bet they wouldn’t have behaved well in the car crusher), and there’s nothing gained by crushing Mr. Solo with the car.
As for Goldfinger and setting off the nuke, as I hav remarked many times before on this Board it is unbelievable that Goldfinger would not have taken one or two bars away before setting it off. Heck, he could live for years on the glory of possessing the only un-irradiated gold from Fort knox. He wouldn’t be able to resist pointing this out to everyone.
Just remembered the silliness of the entire fort pretending to be gassed and falling down. The commandant issuing the order could be a skit. “We’re going to do what??”
As I recall, producer Cubby Broccoli was frustrated by not being able to come up with a cool way of getting rid of a body. He mentioned this to a writer (I don’t remember which one) who’d wandered into his office and had just read an article about mobsters doing so by putting a victim into a car and then crushing it. Broccoli loved the idea, incorporated it into the script, and the writer walked out with some cash in his pocket.
Considering the small containers the gas was in, it must have been really potent to knock out all those GIs. It also spread over the fort instantaneously. I can imagine the director saying “Right, the plane is overhead, so DROP!”
People actually believe this is true. Look at chemtrail conspiracists.They “get sick” as soon as they see a contrail. They have no idea how long (if ever) an aerosol takes to fall 37K feet. If the plane dropped a water bottle on their head, it would still take over 3 minutes to get there.
Still, I often wonder how the franchise survived such a silly movie. Rule of cool, I guess.
And then they loaded the cube of crushed metal into the bed of a Falcon-based Ford Ranchero. That cube still weighs the same as a full size 1960s American car! There’s no way that compact car based pickup could carry it, at least not without the rear springs seriously sagging.
The planes that dispersed the nerve gas were flying very low, a couple hundred feet. The soldiers passed out (or pretended to) as the plane passed overhead. Those planes have pretty poor visibility looking downward or back. The pilot wouldn’t see the collapsed soldiers until they’d flown around a bit, so that wouldn’t really give away that they were faking.
The thing that I notice is that no one reacts to the plane, except by falling down. I don’t know what rules were in place in the mid-'60s for civilian aircraft flying low over an army post, but I’d think there’d be some sort of response. I don’t know that they’d shoot it down at first sight, but it seems like there would have been some response. In the movie, no one even looks up. That’s kind of a giveaway that they were prepared in advance to ignore the planes.
~5000 lbs! That Lincoln was heavy even by the standards of the day. Even a modern F350 might no be able to carry it, at least safely.