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GoldenEye is the seventeenth James Bond film and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Fleming's British secret service agent, James Bond. Made by Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions (though listed as "Albert R. Broccoli presents") it was the second official James Bond film not produced by Broccoli himself. While undergoing heart surgery, Broccoli entrusted the making of the film and the forthcoming generation of James Bond films to his daughter Barbara Broccoli and stepson Michael G. Wilson, both of whom had been executive producers of previous James Bond films. GoldenEye was released in 1995 and was directed by New Zealander Martin Campbell. Campbell will also direct 2006's Bond film Casino Royale
.

Goldeneye

While GoldenEye is technically the third original James Bond movie that doesn't contain any reference to an Ian Fleming novel or short story, the title comes from Fleming's Jamaican estate he dubbed "Goldeneye" where he wrote all the Bond novels. The estate could have been named "Goldeneye" for a number of reasons. The first is that the estate is located in Oracabessa, which is Spanish for 'golden head'. Fleming is also reported to have read Carson McCullers' novel Reflections In A Golden Eye around the time he had his house built in Jamaica. More notably, Fleming was in charge of the defence of Gibraltar during the Second World War; the operation dubbed by Fleming, Operation Goldeneye.

In the film, "GoldenEye" is the code name of a secret Russian military satellite program, based in two nuclear warhead equipped satellites named Petya and Mischa, which use their nuclear explosion's electromagnetic pulse to disable electronic devices in a 30 mile radius target. A square shaped disk with a transluscent golden sphere in the center authorizes the GoldenEye system to set a trajectory and target for each satellite.

Overview

GoldenEye is considered an important film in the Bond series in that it was successful in reviving interest in a character that many critics had suggested had become an anachronism in the post-Cold War world.

The previous film, Licence to Kill
, had been released in June 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although it was financially successful and critically acclaimed, it was not as popular as previous Bond films, suggesting interest in the series was waning at that point.

Judi Dench, the newly cast M, describes Bond as a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur. A relic of the Cold War." This unusual candor, combined with a generally well-received performance by Brosnan as the new James Bond, helped to revitalize the franchise.

Plot summary

The story's beginning shows James Bond, agent 007, and his friend Alec Trevelyan, agent 006, infiltrating a Soviet chemical weapons factory in Arkhangelsk, USSR, now Russia. Trevelyan is captured and shot by Colonel Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, but Bond escapes.

Nine years later, after the collapse of the USSR, a prototype attack helicopter, the Eurocopter Tiger, is stolen from the French frigate La Fayette. Former Soviet fighter pilot Xenia Onatopp, whom Bond was investigating following a chance encounter, made that possible by seducing and killing a Canadian Admiral. She accomplished this by crushing his chest with her thighs during sex, thus allowing her male accomplice to impersonate the admiral at the Tiger's demonstration flight the following day. She also shoots and kills two of the helicopter's pilots. Xenia's yacht, the Manticore moored off Monte Carlo, was identified by MI6 as leased to a front company of the Russian crime ring, the Janus Syndicate.

Bond discovers the dead Admiral, but is too late to stop the theft of the Tiger. The helicopter is tracked by a British spy satellite when it lands at a supposed disused satellite control center in Severnaya, Russia (depicted as being in central Siberia). Moments later, Bond, M, and Chief of Staff Bill Tanner witness the sudden electromagnetic pulse explosion that disables their satellite and severs their visual link to the Russian satellite control centre. Ourumov, by now a general, and Xenia Onatopp detonated one of two GoldenEye satellites, Petya, over Severnaya to use the electromagnetic pulse to hide their theft of the GoldenEye disk and keys, which would be used to eventually control the second GoldenEye satellite, Mischa. They escape from the control centre in the stolen Tiger helicopter, which was designed to withstand the electromagnetic pulse, produced when they detonated the GoldenEye satellite. A female computer programmer, Natalya Fyodorovna Simonova (surname pronounced Sim-yo-no-va) is the only innocent survivor of the attack on Severnaya; Simonova becomes a target for Janus when Gen. Ourumov learns she survived.

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