James Bond, GoldenEye. Declassification of the 17th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• bungee jumps off dam, uses a retractable-cord piton gun to reel himself down, uses laser gun to penetrate metal wall, teams with agent 006 to set bombs in Russian chemical weapons facility and escapes by riding a motorcycle off the end of a runway, freefalling to catch a plummeting, pilotless plane and pulling up on the controls to redirect plane just before it would have impacted the ground

Title Song/Credits

• "GoldenEye" by Tina Turner
• naked silhouetted women moving gracefully on water, statues and pistols in front of smokey backdrop and a blinking golden eye

Villains

• Alec Trevelyan, son of a Russian betrayed by the British government who grew up undercover as MI6 agent 006, but who is really head of Russian organized crime group Janus plotting to rob British banks with the help of the GoldenEye electromagnetic pulse space weapon (Sean Bean)
• Colonel Ourumov, head of Soviet space weapons division who oversees GoldenEye and commandeers it for use in Alec's plan (Gottfried John)
• Xenia Onatopp, former Soviet fighter pilot who kills her victims by squeezing them between her thighs (Famke Janssen)
• Boris Grishenko, computer hacker employed in Alec's plan (Alan Cumming)

Girls

• Natalya Simonova, level two programmer for the Severnaya Space Control Center (Izabella Scorupco)
• Caroline, Bond's psychiatrist (Serena Gordon)
• Xenia Onatopp, former Soviet fighter pilot who kills her victims by squeezing them between her thighs (Famke Janssen)
• Irina, Zukovsky's mistress and club singer (Minnie Driver)

Gadgets

• GoldenEye electromagnetic pulse space weapon
• massive satellite dish camouflaged under a lake
• Tiger helicopter with cabin eject and impervious to radar and electromagnetic radiation
• armored train with retracting-roof helicopter car
• Aston Martin DB5, car with champagne bottle cooler, photo printer and radio transmitter
• BMW Z3, car with all-points radar
• class four grenade pen
• metal-cutting laser gun
• metal-cutting laser watch
• retractable-cord piton gun
• piton gun belt with 75-foot rappelling cord
• night scope super zoom camera
• x-ray scanning serving tray

Chases

• chase on foot down runway after taxiing plane while pursued by guards on motorcycles
• cat and mouse with Bond's Aston Martin and Xenia's Ferrari down winding mountain roads
• car chased by tank through streets and alleys of St. Petersburg, with tank crushing many walls, cars, a truck and a statue
• chase on foot by Alec along satellite dish transmitter apparatus with gunplay back and forth

Binds

• cornered by guards in chemical weapons facility, uses rack of explosive gas canisters as a shield to cross room, activate conveyor belt and escape on his back while shooting out bindings to send hundreds of canisters rolling onto guards
• chased by guards down runway, rides motorcycle off end of runway, freefalls to catch plummeting, pilotless plane and pulls up on the controls to redirect plane just before it would have impacted the ground
• being squeezed to death between Xenia's thighs, slams her against wall and hot sauna rocks and then flips her onto the floor
• bound with Natalya in Tiger helicopter about to be struck by its own missiles, presses cabin eject button with his head and parachutes to safety as remainder of helicopter is destroyed
• under interrogation by Mishkin in cell, shoots his way out after Ourumov kills Mishkin and Bond creates a disturbance
• being shot at by Ourumov and his men, uses piton gun belt and cord to swing across study hall and out window
• with Ourumov getting away with Natalya in a car, steals tank and chases them through city streets, crushing anything in his way
• with Alec, Ourumov and Xenia getting away with Natalya on an armored train, stops tank on tracks ahead of train, fires canon on train as it approaches, gets out of tank and derails train as it slams into tank
• with Alec and Xenia at gunpoint, but Ourumov with a gun to Natalya's head, spins around to kill Ourumov, but Alec and Xenia get away
• locked in train car with only three minutes until detonation, uses laser watch to cut a hole in the floor and escape just before train car explodes
• being squeezed to death between Xenia's thighs, uses Natalya's distraction to attach helicopter rappelling cord to the back of Xenia's belt and shoots at helicopter, causing helicopter to pull away, pull Xenia to her death between a fork in a tree and totter exploding into the ground
• caught by Alec's guards in satellite control center, shoots holes in fuel tanks to cause a leak, watches Boris fidget with his confiscated grenade pen until it activates and then knocks it from his hand to begin the explosive destruction of the control center
• with Boris having broken Natalya's codes and satellite transmitter repositioning, wedges metal pole in gears to jam transmitter position
• hanging by one hand from the end of satellite dish transmitter service ladder, knocked to the tip of the transmitter stem by Alec and fighting with him, pushes Alec over the edge to his death in the well of the dish below, then jumps onto rails of helicopter that Natalya has hijacked to get away just before transmitter explodes

One-liners

• "Beg your pardon - forgot to knock," to guard sitting on toilet as guard moves the newspaper he is reading to reveal Bond hanging there upside down from the air vent above
• "I had to stop in the bathroom," after agent 006 tells him he's late
• "How original," after Colonel Ourumov tells him to come out with his hands above his head
• "More often then you'd think," to Caroline's "James, is it really necessary to drive quite so fast?"
• "The next girl," to Caroline's "I enjoy a spirited ride as much as the next girl, but... Who's that?" when Xenia pulls alongside in her Ferrari
• "Here we are having a pleasant drive in the country, and you have to bring psychology into it," after Caroline says he's just trying to show off the size of his ego
• "As you can see, I have no problem with female authority," after Caroline insists he stop the car at once and he does by pulling the hand break at high speed
• "Let's toast to your evaluation, shall we - a very thorough evaluation," as he breaks out the champagne and kisses Caroline
• "One rises to meet a challenge," after losing a hand to Xenia and her saying she hopes their third common passion (sex, after motoring and baccarat) is where his real talent lies
• "The very words I live by," to Xenia's "Enjoy it while it lasts"
• "I like a woman who enjoys pulling rank," after Xenia points out her escort's admiral status outranks his commander status
• "Hope springs eternal," after Miss Moneypenny points out that James has never had her
• "Excellent, just the thing for unwinding after a rough day at the office," after Q shows him the stinger missile headlights in his new car
• "They always said the pen was mightier than the sword," after Q shows him the grenade pen
• "The writing's on the wall," after Q blows up a mannequin with the grenade pen
• "That depends on your definition of safe sex," after Xenia tells him he doesn't need the gun
• "No more foreplay," after he recovers his gun and points it at Xenia after she almost squeezes him to death between her thighs
• "You'll understand if I don't call," to Xenia after she takes him to the leader of Russian organized crime group Janus
• "I'm a little tied up," after Natalya urges him to get them out of danger but his wrists are bound to arms of chair
• "Ah, the things we do for frequent flyer mileage," after parachuting safely to the ground in ejected Tiger helicopter cabin
• "What, no small talk? No chitchat?" to Mishkin after he asks by which means he should execute Bond
• "Standard operating procedure," when Natalya asks if he destroys every vehicle he gets into
• "Thousands, but I only pay them lip service," as he kisses Natalya after she asks suggestively if there are any other standard operating procedures she should be aware of
• "It's what keeps me alive," to Natalya after she asks how he can be so cold and live this way fighting and killing and before she suggests it's what keeps him alone
• "Yes, basic rule - always call their bluff," to Natalya teasingly after she asks if he meant it when he told Alec she meant nothing to him
• "She always did enjoy a good squeeze," to Natalya looking at Xenia hanging dead between the fork in a tree
• "We aim to please," to Alec's "James, what an unpleasant surprise"
• "No, for me," to Alec's "For England, James?" just before Bond lets go of his foot for his fall to his death from the transmitter stem into the well of the dish
• "Darling, what could possibly go wrong, eh?" after Natalya refuses to get into ally marine helicopter with Bond to be taken to safety

Locations

• Puerto Rico
• Monte Carlo
• France
• Russia
• Switzerland

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