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Actors: Roger Moore, Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Man With the Golden Gun |
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As the ninth film in the longest-lasting series in film history begins, James Bond (Roger Moore) receives a bullet cast from solid gold and enscribed with his number: 007.
The bullet appears to be from Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), also called "The Man with the Golden Gun," the world's best and, at $1 million a hit, best-paid assassin.
Traveling to Macao to confront the man who made the bullet, Bond is led to Andrea Anders (Maud Adams), Scaramanga's lover, and from there to a Hong Kong nightclub where he sees Scaramanga murder a scientist who has just invented a 95% efficient solar power cell.
Teaming up with a beautiful and thoroughly ditzy agent named Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) and a local police detective (Soon-Tek Oh), Bond investigates a multimillionaire tycoon named Hai Fat (Richard Loo), who intends to use the generator to create a global monopoly on electricity.
Things go slightly awry, however, when Scaramanga and his vertically-challenged assistant Nick Nack (Herve Villechaize) doublecross Hai Fat, murder him and Andrea, and steal the power cell (and Goodnight along with it)!
Now, Bond must team with his old "friend" Sheriff J.W. Pepper (James Clifton) to battle karate black-belts, Hong Kong policemen, sumo wrestlers, and knife-toting midgets to rescue Goodnight and prevent Scaramanga from cornering the worldwide energy market...
--James Craver, Resident Scholar
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James Bond receives a golden bullet, a threat, from world-renowned assassin Francisco Scaramnaga, aka "The Man With The Golden Gun". Bond's search to find Scaramanga leads him to his mistress, a beautiful British agent, and the sought after solar powered Solex Agaitator. Bond follows Scaramanga from Beirut to Hong Kong to Thailand and to Scaramanga's privite island. When Bond arrivies, he is challanged to a duel against Scaramanga and they are soon in a funhouse duel to the death.
--Matthew W. Kresal, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Part of a series?
- James Bond
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
- finding an assassin
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- very skinny (man)
- very skinny (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- skinny (man)
- average (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Southeast Asia
Island?
Yes
Island:
- Mean guy who wants to hunt/mutate
- Pacific Island
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
- fort/military installation
- scientific labs
- building
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 5 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- frozen
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
- Occasional swearing
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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