Yeah, the entire plot happens because he’s a gold-obsessed maniac.
Diamonds are Forever was the first Bond film that I saw on its initial release (I had watched all of the others in theatrical re-releases before then, in those pre-VCR days, except for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service). So I could see how awful it was. There was enough good stuff to keep my interest, but it was no Thunderball or Goldfinger (which it was clearly trying to be). But the cheesiness (a secret car exit under and obviously fake cactus??), the logical lapses (Gas James Bond and stick him in a pipe being laid underground – that’s a Death Trap? I’m surprised they didn’t notice the body when they were heaving the pipe into place. God knows what other stuff got incorporated into that pipeline if they missed that on even a cursory inspection. Or the whole thing with Plenty O’Toole – they cut out all the scenes that explained why the hell she ended up dead in the pool), and the comic-book villains (The mobsters in Dick Tracy are more realistic; and Bambi and Thumper gave up WAY too easily. They literally kicked James Bond in the balls) all made me stop and think too much during the film. If there’s one thing a Bond film shouldn’t do, it’s give you an opportunity to think and realize how ludicrous it all is.
right, because everybody knows that those are just lead-bars painted with gold!!! …
do your own research!
sorry to say, but I am not buying your math here, unless you are saying that a team of committed auditors cannot audit more than 100 gold bars per day (pick up, check serial number, weigh, lay down). Granted, gold bars are heavy, but so are many other materials that routinely get moved from A to B (whilst checked their serial numbers) …
there may be other reasons, but logistics/bookeeping isn’t really limiting things …
A car with boy parts:
I know it is just a typo, but a hilarious one.
“Goldmember, he’s the man
The man with the golden dick
A leaden touch
Such a cold member”
That would seem to be a car with girl parts.
But I agree that was a great typo and I applaud your creativity in your follow-up. Well done Good Sir!
Obviously Mr G-Finger knew all about weight as he had his Ford Falcon Ranchero specially modified to carry a Lincoln Continental filled with a million dollars of gold. From the factory it could only carry 800 lbs.
I always wondered how his crew built the gold limousine. People seem to think the fenders and other parts were cast but I think they rolled out the gold into heavy sheet metal and hammered and dollied them into shape as was traditionally done with custom cars. Whatever method they used it was a lot of work.
I was referring to Trump, not to Goldfinger.
Sorry – I misunderstood.
But surely the man who has a gold toilet (among a great many other things) has handled Krugerrands and other forms of bulk gold, and ought to know that it’s unexpectedly heavy.
You think he lifts the lid himself?
Plus sheet gold has no strength. At normal sheet metal thicknesses, you could dent the fenders with hand pressure.
Maybe every metal body part was 1/2 inch thick. Could be!
Solid gold is heavy. Gilt can be as light as you’d like.
And colloidal gold is purple. Well, brownish-purple. Though I have no idea what I’d try to hide it as.
Yes, but Krugerrands aren’t gilt.
But to return to the original issue -
I guess option 1 is the gold all vaporizes. (How much energy to vaporize a bar of gold?)
Option 2 is that the blast is enough to melt (or hammer) into a coating the shape of the vault some of it. then how does it become radioactive? Would enough neutrons passing though actually make the whole radioactive through and through? Or is gold aslo useful -like lead -for shielding? Would there be a radioactive surface layer that could be machined off, then the inner core would be non-radioactive?
Yeah I would assume the body panels were quite thick compared to steel sheet metal. But gold does harden as it is worked. It has to be annealed many times when rolling a thin sheet.
But if you have ever seen the process of using an English Wheel to form sheets into fenders you can see it would be damn tough to do. The craftsmen have to pull the panel back and forth under the wheels for a long time to form it into complex curves. A normal fender might weigh 10 lbs. but a heavy gauge gold panel is another story.
Yes to both. Shielding protects what’s behind it. It doesn’t protect itself. Stopping radiation means interacting with it, and interacting with neutron radiation often means being transmuted into something radioactive.
To me, that’s where the movie fails. Goldfinger doesn’t love gold because he can buy things with it; he loves gold just for its own sake. He estimates that blowing up Fort Knox will make the price of gold go up 10x, but that should be the last thing he wants. His gold will become more valuable, but that doesn’t matter. All he’s going to accomplish is to make it that much harder for him to get more gold.
He’s great in the film, a cheerful smile with murder behind the mask. I was disappointed to learn all of his dialog was overdubbed as his accent too heavy.
He also didn’t speak very much English, and apparently didn’t really understand the plot of the film, having never seen a Bond movie. (To be fair, this was only the third Bond movie, and the first to get much distribution outside of the the UK and United States.)
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If I absolutely had to remake a Bond film, I’d remake Goldfinger. It’s one of the best Bond films, and yet if you redid it right, you could make it significantly BETTER, somehow. Unlike many Bond films it’s a reasonably compelling story.
And yeah, this is something I’d change, to make the plot make more sense. If you had a great Goldfinger, a perfectly cast guy, the part where he tells Bond of COURSE it’s not gold I love, it’s MONEY and POWER, that’d be terrific.