Catching GOLDFINGER's Sixtieth Anniversary
“This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love with its colour… its' brilliance, its' divine heaviness.”
2024 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the film that arguably changed not just Bond. Director Guy Hamilton's 007 debut GOLDFINGER also changed action cinema. Almost singlehandedly, GOLDFINGER and 1964 lent a new gait, poise and pace to adventure cinema. It was an instant phenomenon that changed the scope of how films were constructed, how Bond was branded, how Bond was embellished and designed, how Bond was cast, how Bond was scored, and how escapist 007 could be in a moddish era. GOLDFINGER was when the Bond series starting moving. GOLDFINGER represents movement - the sets, the cars, the titles, the story, and the soundtrack. With the previous DR. NO (1962) and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) being cut from a Kennedy era, late 1950s cloth, the cinematic Sixties starts with GOLDFINGER.
GOLDFINGER also represents the moment was forever gilded with a new sense of sadism, death and kink. It is when the Bond series knew to show itself as much as tell itself. It is also one of the defining visual beats of cinema, the 1960s, pop-culture and Bond.
2024 marks the sixtieth anniversary of this gilded classic where the DNA of Bond created a web of spin and a timeless midas touch.
Happy sixtieth birthday to the timeless midas touch that is GOLDFINGER and its web of Bond spin.
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