Goldfinger Review by B Movie Ben (4 Stars) | MatchFlick

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Starring:
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Frobe, Shirley Eaton, Harold Sakata, Cec Linder, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Nadja Regin

Directed By:
Guy Hamilton

Written By:
Paul Dehn, Richard Maibaum

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Goldfinger (1964)

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Movie Review by B Movie Ben

May 6th, 2007

Certainly better bred than the owner.

Yes, Bond is misogynistic, but that is the genre of writing from whence it came. That has to be overlooked to truly enjoy the film. This was one of the better bred Sean Connery films. No, I'm a Brosnan fan and I think he did the best job, but you cannot deny Connery's appeal.

This film had Q and the comic repartee between Bond and he is born. There was also a lot a double entendres and witticisms in this one; certainly something that the Daniel Craig Bond lacks.

Gert Fr�be was a formidable villain as Auric Goldfinger; Honor Blackman was great as the lesbian seduced by Bond (They couldn't play that up in 1964); and Shirley Eaton looked fabulous in gold.

You have to watch them all to get the full flavor. This is a great Connery example.

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	Jessica Film Junkie May 6, 2007 6:08 PM also wrote a review of Goldfinger
There are plenty of films before and after this that treated women with respect. To brush off the misogyny of this film by claiming it was 'just how they did it back then' is simply a failure to recognize the achievements made in the name of women previous to this and it is letting the filmmakers of this horrifyingly offensive film off far too easy.

	B Movie Ben May 7, 2007 8:13 AM
One does not deny the improvements in filmmaking and the creation of strong roles for women. However, I do not see any improvement in the Bond films. - even the latest. The fact that we can now recognize the imperfections of the period is progress, but we still have to look at the films in the context of the period in which they were made.

	Jessica Film Junkie May 7, 2007 2:00 PM
I think that Eva Green's character in 'Casino Royale' is a huge step forward for them. When we look at the period? Women were better represents in many films between 1920 to Goldfinger and beyond. The filmmakers are too lazy and sexist throughout the Bond franchise and I see no good excuse.

	B Movie Ben May 7, 2007 2:47 PM
I am just talking about the Bond films.

	Jessica Film Junkie May 7, 2007 4:34 PM
You said we have to look at the films in the context of the period and the context of that period is that they were going out of their way to offend the growing feminist movement and reverse the trend of strong women in cinema that had been present since Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis.

	B Movie Ben May 7, 2007 5:49 PM
I think you might be giving them too much credit. There were a lot of cold war books in the period and the Bond films come from some of them. They pretty much made films of many of the others too. I don't think they were purposefully trying to subjugate women; I just think that was the mindset of the writers and movie makes of the time. Now, if you want to see current misogyny, then you only have to look at the work of Judd Apatow. There is only a sampling on Matchflick, but that is enough to see someone who likes to get laughs at the expense of women.

	Jessica Film Junkie May 8, 2007 4:46 AM also wrote a review of Goldfinger
I love Apatow. I think he is hilarious, and he was a producer on 'Freaks and Geeks' which had one of the best female protagonists in the history of TV.

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