Critic Roger Ebert once described Brosnan’s Bond as a combination of both Sean Connery and Roger Moore’s styles. I must confess that originally, he did not strike me as possessing his own originally style to portray Bond. The man had the talent and the presence to pull off the job. Brosnan’s introduction as the British agent proved to be a major success. Needless to say, ”GOLDENEYE” proved me right. I felt certain that he would be the right man for the job.
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As much as I had grown to love Dalton’s interpretation of Bond, I had always been a Brosnan fan since his four-year stint as TV detective, ”REMINGTON STEELE”. I was quite prepared to dislike ”GOLDENEYE”, until I heard that Pierce Brosnan had took over the Bond role. Needless to say, a lengthy lawsuit and Dalton’s reluctance to return to the role had put an end to my hopes. I thought he could have done at least one or two more Bond films in the 1990s. To be frank, I did not want them to give up on Dalton.
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And the movie also proved to be a first Bond film for director Martin Campbell, who will return eleven years later to direct 2006’s “CASINO ROYALE”.Īfter 1989’s ”LICENSE TO KILL”, I found myself frustrated by talk that it was time for EON Productions to give up on Timothy Dalton as Bond and find a new actor. “GOLDENEYE” also turned out to be Dame Judi Dench’s first time portraying Bond’s MI-6 boss, “M”. The movie happened to be Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as James Bond.
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There was no room for doubt and thus any room for brattish, illogical emotional responses which ended up driving the plot of Goldeneye also should have evaporated with it.What can I say about 1995’s “GOLDENEYE”? For one, it marked a series of firsts for the Bond franchise. His won field training should have told him that Bond would do whatever it took to escape once he knew the outcome of 006 being shot, and Trevelyan made sure the General shot him point blank in the head. And then even more crucially, Trevelyan's issue with Bond shortening the countdowns in order to cover his escape is illogical based on the fact that he'd just convincingly been killed. It was either a blank weapon or it wasn't. Impressively, this isn't even the only plot-hole in the scene: there's also the issue of Ourumov's magic gun, which fires a blank when shot at Trevelyan but which then fires a real bullet at the Soviet soldier who accidentally shoots at the barrels hiding Bond. Bond barely escapes with his life, after all. Trevelyan's entire plot to defect is needlessly complex: if he wanted Bond to escape to pass on news of his death, there was no need to make it so difficult to achieve. There are simply too many possible fail points. For any of that to have been Trevelyan's actual plan would require a stunning leap of disbelief. If it hadn't, Trevelyan would have made his escape a lot simpler than having to drive off a cliff and climb into a nose-diving plane: film directors account for spectacle, Bond villains don't tend to care so much. So why was that necessary at all? A faked death is only important in the interest of theatrics and theatrics only matter if you plan for them to be seen and reported, but Trevelyan's plan included killing Bond to cover his defection. So the shooting was faked - which is why it wasn't successful. Given that he starts harboring specific feelings of vengeance against Bond after he changes the timer to blow up the facility quicker, there would be no time for that consideration if not prior to a planned defection. Though there is some speculation that 006 turns after he is shot, that simply cannot hold weight, because Trevelyan talks about the consideration to invite Pierce Brosnan's Bond to join his scheme. It's a far more noble inspiration than most Bond villains, avoiding the cliches of empty power grabs that can signal a lack of true depth and substance. When Britain handed them over, the Cossacks paid in blood and inspired in Trevelyan a long-gestating desire to get revenge.
He turned on MI6 because the British government betrayed his parents during World War II, selling them out to Stalin after the Cossacks had turned on the Red Army, defecting to fight alongside the Nazis.
Trevelyan's plan comes down to more than your typical Bond villain (and draws him in line with the best MCU villains), because he seeks more than power, he seeks vengeance. The shock opening salvo of the death of Sean Bean's 006 agent, Alec Trevelyan doesn't stand up to serious scrutiny and it threatens to derail an otherwise perfect opening. Goldeneye's opening sequence, starting with James Bond's stunning bungee dive off the dam at the Soviet Arkhangelsk facility may be one of the best sequences in 007 movie history, but it hides a problem.
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