James Bond 007, The Man with the Golden Gun. Declassification of the 9th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• an assassin is seemingly paid by Nick Nack to kill Scaramanga, but, after being lured into Scaramanga's funhouse of mirrors, illusions and wax figures of Westworld, Mafia hitmen and Bond himself, he ends up shot in the forehead by Scaramanga and his golden gun, who had set up the elaborate training exercise with Nick Nack

Title Song/Credits

• "The Man with the Golden Gun" by Lulu
• naked women and a golden gun behind rippling water and a naked silhouetted woman dancing in front of sparks

Villains

• Francisco Scaramanga, assassin with three nipples, a golden gun, golden bullets and a million-dollar price, set on controlling the world energy market with his efficient solar energy converter (Christopher Lee)
• Nick Nack, Scaramanga's midget assistant (Hervé Villechaize)

Girls

• Mary Goodnight, Bond's sexy but bumbling aid (Britt Ekland)
• Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's mistress (Maud Adams)
• Saida, belly dancer who was with agent Fairbanks when he was assassinated by Scaramanga and who dances with the golden bullet as a charm in her navel (Carmen Sautoy)
• Chew Mee, skinny dipper at Hai Fat's home (Francoise Therry)

Gadgets

• AMC Matador that converts to an airplane when a button is pressed to rotate its dashboard to aeronautic instruments and wings are affixed to its roof
• Solex agitator that converts radiation from the sun into electricity with 95% efficiency
• solar energy station with liquid-helium-cooled superconductivity coils for storing energy and solar reflection panels that rise out of an island rock
• solar ray gun that uses harnessed, concentrated energy, which Scaramanga demonstrates by destroying the sea plane Bond arrived on
• solid gold gun that can be disassembled into a cuff link, cigarette lighter, pen and cigarette case
• magnetic homing device
• dress with homing device button
• membrane imitation nipple

Chases

• car chased by car and police cars through streets of Bangkok, featuring a 180-degree turn from reverse to forward and a barrel roll jump over a river
• motorboat chased by motorboat, ending with the enemy's boat being run in half by Bond's boat

Binds

• fighting with bouncers in Saida's dressing room, sprays perfume in their eyes to get the upper hand
• seemingly about to be sniped crossing the street by Scaramanga, Scaramanga snipes Gibson on the sidewalk instead, giving Bond the new knowledge that Scaramanga does not have a hit out on him as he thought
• needing to get to Hai Fat on his heavily guarded grounds, removes his shirt, revealing a fake third nipple and convincing Hai Fat that he is Scaramanga
• being bear hugged to death by a sumo wrestler, grabs and turns the knot of his mawashi and gives him a wedgie
• to be killed in a fair fight with martial arts expert Chula, holds his own, makes a run for it and is aided by Hip and his two nieces, who turn out to be quite proficient in karate
• choosing the road on the wrong side of the river while chasing Scaramanga, finds an old broken down bridge on which to get enough air to jump over the river
• trapped in a gunfight with Scaramanga in his funhouse of mirrors and illusions and running out of bullets, climbs down on the behind-the-scenes scaffolding where the cameras can't see him and unknowingly takes the place of his wax double, fooling Scaramanga and allowing him to get the winning, deadly shot
• with the sun about to reemerge from behind a cloud and about to be pierced by a solar energy beam, gets the Solex and out of the way of the beam just in time
• with the solar energy station destructing, escapes with Goodnight on Scaramanga's sailing ship
• with Nick Nack throwing bottles at him, uses a trunk as a shield, opens it, moves toward Nick Nack, encases him in the trunk and disposes of him

One-liners

• "Not from where I'm standing," to Saida after she says she's lost her charm
• "You're quite right, an inch too low," to Lazar after scaring him with a shot below his groin with his rifle custom-made for a man with only three fingers
• "A water pistol?" to Miss Anders after she pulls a gun on him from in her shower
• "He must have found me quite titillating," explaining to Hip how he got invited to dinner by Hai Fat as he removes his fake third nipple
• "And everything else warm I trust," to Goodnight after she says she'll keep the wine properly chilled for when he gets back
• "Grizzlyland," upon seeing the warrior statue scenes on the way into dinner with Hai Fat
• "Heaven, definitely heaven," as he is tended to by two women at Hai Fat's martial arts school
• "What you might call a Mexican screw-off, gentlemen," to martial artists as he fends them off with the propeller of a running boat engine
• "I'm afraid I'll have to owe you," to kid salesman after promising to pay him handsomely if he can make the boat go any faster, and he does simply by turning the knob on the gas line
• "I approve," after the waiter pours a bottle of Phuyuck '74 for him and Goodnight, but he then clarifies that he meant her tight-fitting top, not the wine
• "I was trained to expect the unexpected, but they never prepared me for anything like you in a nighty," to Goodnight after she changes her mind and shows up in Bond's room
• "At last you're starting to tell the truth," after Miss Anders says she's not unattractive
• "A gun and a bag of peanuts, how original - what will they think of next?" after he turns to see Nick Nack has a gun in his back and is snacking on peanuts at the same time
• "This should run a few electric toothbrushes," after Scaramanga shows him the solar energy station on his island
• "Aren't we a little overdressed, Goodnight?" after she arrives for dinner wearing a bikini
• "There's a useful four-letter word, and you're full of it," to Scaramanga after he suggests he and Bond are the same - assassins
• "I doubt if you'll qualify on that score," when Scaramanga proposes a mano-a-mano gunfight - the only true test for gentlemen
• "I've never killed a midget before, but there can always be a first time," after Nick Nack wishes him good shooting in his gunfight with Scaramanaga
• "Flat in his coup de grâce," after shooting Scaramanga and Goodnight asks where he is
• "We should get to Hong Kong in about eight hours, give or take a little," suggestively to Goodnight on Scaramanga's sailing ship
• "She's just coming, Sir," and "Goodnight, Sir," to M on the phone after he calls while they are in bed, Bond leaves the phone on the bed and M asks repeatedly "Goodnight?"

Locations

• Khow Ping Khan Island, Thailand
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Hong Kong, China
• Macau, China

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