{"id":28066,"date":"2021-08-14T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28066"},"modified":"2021-08-14T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:27:15","slug":"goldfinger-behind-the-scenes-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28066","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Goldfinger&#8221; &#8211; Behind the Scenes Trivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z081321slystallone_1_6decades.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z081421goldfinger_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matthew Jackson, at Mental Floss, came up with some really great trivia items in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/649325\/goldfinger-james-bond-movie-facts\">18 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About<em> Goldfinger<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Before you click over here are three of my favorites and my thoughts on each&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong> THERE ARE KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE BOOK VERSION OF GOLDFINGER AND THE MOVIE.<\/strong>\u00a0 (In the novel Goldfinger plans to steal all the gold from Fort Knox.\u00a0 In the movie he plans to set off a dirty bomb in Fort Knox making the gold there unusable.\u00a0 The movie version is a cleverer idea and aligns more with what a Bond villain would do. &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GOLDFINGER ESTABLISHED MANY JAMES BOND FIRSTS.<\/strong>\u00a0 (There are things we expect to see in every Bond film and <em>Goldfinger<\/em> established many of them: a cold open with Bond on an unrelated mission; an opening theme performed by a popular recording artist; and established the relationship between Bond and Q. &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>GOLDFINGER\u2019S<\/em> FAMOUS LASER BEAM SCENE CAUSED A HEADACHE FOR THE VISUAL EFFECTS TEAM.<\/strong> (This is perhaps the most iconic scene between Bond and a villain and it is interesting to read how the scene was created and why the sweat we see on Connery&#8217;s face is real as the laser beam inches towards his crotch. &#8211; Craig)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Jackson, at Mental Floss, came up with some really great trivia items in his 18 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Goldfinger.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28067,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions\/28067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}