Goldfinger (1964) Ian Fleming, Sean Connery, Gert Frobe & Honor Blackman

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are a clever, resourceful man, mister Bond. Thank you,
perhaps too clever. Twice our paths have crossed.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Let's leave it at that.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I should think our first meeting would have convinced you. Oh,
I see you worried about me not giving you a
return game. Both of us know perfectly well what we
are talking about, mister Bond, but I see that it
is necessary to remind you our job. Many people have
tried to involve themselves in my affairs unsuccessfully.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Remarkable.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
But what does the club secretary have to say? Own nothing,
mister Bond. I own the club. I assume you want
to check me that to cash that would be perfectly satisfactory. Goodbye,
mister Bomb.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh I believe this is yours.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Be to the Q, the the the Gorn section, Oh
my gosh.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Welcome everybody. This is book versus movie the podcast. We
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bit chick. Hi, everyone, how much have you been listening

(01:54):
to Shirley Bassey this week?

Speaker 6 (01:58):
I have a I want to the led Zeppelin documentary
that came out, and Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones
were in the studio for that recording in nineteen sixty four,
before there was a led Zeppelin, for there was a Yardbirds.
They were studio musicians and they were in there.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yep, that's amazing. Well, we'll talk about that when we
get to the film. But by the way, I dropped
a video. I just dropped a video in the Facebook
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(02:36):
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Speaker 5 (05:47):
So we've talked about if you're brand new, you love Goldfinger,
you're a diehard, you're like Sean Connery is the only
bond for you. Welcome, But we've talked about this is
not gonna be the first time we've talked about Ian Fleming,
who perhaps is best known as the author of Chitty
Chitty Bank Bank, but you would be surprised to know
he also wrote some spy novels. Margo, Yeah, and that's

(06:10):
what we heard. We've covered a few of them. I'm
just looking at the list here. We've done Casino Royale.
Did we do Diamonds Are Forever? I don't know.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
We haven't done Diamonds Are Forever.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
We've done The Spy Who Loved Me. By the way,
don't bother reading that book. It's maybe the worst book
I've ever read. It's one of the worst, but the
movie's great. On Her Majesty's Secret, Surface Service? Surface Service?
Did we do for your Eyes Only?

Speaker 6 (06:39):
I know it's on the list?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Ah, what's the other one? Didn't we do one of them?
That was? Uh?

Speaker 6 (06:48):
When was George Lasimbie?

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (06:51):
And then but and then maybe that's on our magacies. Sorry, guys,
we're not bond experts. This is a this is a
time for us to tell you that we're experts on
books and movies. It's sort of it's a hobby for us,
and that's we kind of become mini experts as we go.
But as we said, we've been doing this for ten years,
so sometimes the episodes get very very I was convinced,
like a couple of weeks ago, I told Margot we

(07:12):
need to cover the Killers with Ava Gardner and she's like,
we just did that last year, like, oh my god, yes,
so you.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
Know, and I often think that we've covered something that
we haven't covered, and then I go back. Fortunately, we
have a super fan, Thaddeus in the Facebook group, and
he keeps a very accurate list of what we actually
have covered over the years, and I can always go
and check his list, and yeah, sometimes I'm wrong. But

(07:41):
let's talk about Ian Fleming just the broad strokes. We're like,
we're not going to get into the whole thing. Yeah,
talked about me so many times, but there's some things
you need to know about Ian Fleming.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
He was born in Mayfair, London, England, in nineteen oh eight.
He lived to be fifty six. I know that's rather young.
He was kind of a heavy drinker. He wore a
hard liver. He was a hard liver. He did actually
get to visit the set for the movie that we're
talking about today, so we did get to see James
Bond become movies I think Goldfinger and from everything I'm seeing,

(08:13):
you know, listening to from their Bond experts, like this
is the movie that really set the standard for a
Bond film. It's the one that is lampooned the most
and honored the most, I think, but he was Actually
he worked in naval intelligence during the Second World War
came he was very good friends with people like other
writers like Rual Dahl, who were also worked in espionage

(08:37):
and also were writers, and he began these this James
Bond series. And the what's very funny is that the
James Bond from the books, and we've talked about this,
the books book Bonds are not nearly as fun as
these movie Bonds. It's very funny how they managed to
take these books that were very popular, I mean James,

(08:57):
I mean yeah, President Kennedy was a huge fan of them,
read every single one of them. But when you read them,
and maybe it could be just the time that we're
looking at it fifty plus years hence I mean since
they came out. But the book Bond was based on
I think Audie Murphy or it was based on World Go.
He looks like Hogy kar Myke Hagey Carmike. Great, thank you,

(09:18):
that's the person.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
You know what, Hogy Carmichael looks like Hoy Cargle, kind
of looks like vile love it not even maybe too
old and a reference that's still people gonna be struggling
with that. But it doesn't look like Daniel Craig or
Sean Connery, right, And he was a guy that's a drinker,
a very very heavy drinker, and we talk about we'll
talk about that with this chapter, like the first beginning

(09:40):
of this novel, that Bond is like blitzed.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
I would think, I'm constantly he's not that tall, he's
not that handsome. He's very smart, but he makes mistakes.
And then there's a lot of the Bond where he's
like behind a desk and he's just doing his job.
So Bond is kind of a working spy. And then
and these movies come out and it's Sean Connery and

(10:03):
it's the director we'll talk about today. But yeah, he
also did cover Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Rual Dahl
also covered the script for that, and that's our number
one episode for any show we've ever done. And Disney
movies always do well for us. Marilyn Monroe does well
for us, and Bond does well for the Ian Fleming
does well for us. People just have a big fascination

(10:23):
with his work. They're just fun. They are They're great fun.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
But you're right, there's a big difference between book Bond
and movie Bond. Yeah, book Bond is and the other
thing that they talk about in the books that they
don't because the movies come a bit later than the
book series, there's always a bit of a lag. I
think in this case, we have like a ten year
lag between when the book comes out and when the

(10:50):
movie comes out. Ish. And one of the things about
Bond in the books that you don't really get in
the movie, and actually in this book they don't. They
talk about it a bit is that we're still dealing
with Bond is. Bond is very weary because like he's

(11:10):
been spying since World War Two, and so in the
books there's a lot of stuff like residual on we
stuff from World War Two that he's kind of never
really resolved, and like you know, and so he he
doesn't have the tools like we would say today to
process like all the stuff that he saw and did

(11:32):
in the war. And now he's in a completely different
kind of war. He's in the Cold War. And in
the books there is this organization that almost never gets
a mention in the movies except very obliquely called Smirsh
and Smirsh Remember Smirsh smirshes. Smirshes like, no, you do it,

(11:54):
you just but they just they never bring it up
in the in the In the film, however, directly, Smirsh
is like an evil. It's like the Axis Powers but
in the Cold War. Okay, so there it's all it's
like the the Soviets and the Chinese and like all
the you know, it's the East versus West thing, and

(12:16):
they're there. Smirsh is always like trying to undermine the
West and capture James Bond and all of these villains
that he deals with in the novels have some sort
of affiliation with Smirsh, and sometimes he's really in the
trenches with Smirsh and fighting them, and sometimes he's not,
Like Goldfinger, Goldfinger has he's got some affiliation with Smirsh,

(12:42):
but we're not. It's never completely kind of laid out
for us in the book what it is. I would
I would propose that in approaching this that maybe we
might do a mashup instead of going through the book
and then going through because the movie, the first part
of the movie is the book, and it's pretty accurate

(13:06):
to the book, and then it starts to go Hollywood
on us, and then we get a lot of extra
stuff that gets put in there, and you know, lots
of fun plot holes to explore, and yeah, I just
think I just think it is so. But the first
part of the movie is very, very true to the book.
So let's talk about let's I'm just john I'm just

(13:30):
glanced at my notes. I was, Johnny. I don't always
jot down notes out watching the film, but I was.
I couldn't. I had to grab a notebook and a pen,
and I have two notes that just caught my eye.
The first one says Terry cloth onesie shorts, and then
I have another one that says gas not deadly pussy. Well,

(13:56):
what's just so the Dawes spoil everything.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
Everybody boil the details. And we're not experts. Those are
two things to keep in mind. We're movie buffs, we're
book buffs. This book comes out in nineteen fifty nine
and the movie comes out in nineteen sixty four. This
is the third Bond film, and you know Bond in
the novel and is more of like I said, he's

(14:20):
rather morose. He's in Latin America or Mexico.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
He's he's in Mexico. So there are prologue, and this
is true in the movie. Although they don't like, they
don't hit you over the head with the details of
where we are and what's going on. And that's one
thing I will say about this this Bond book. I
like it, and I also don't like it.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
You know, the Bonds.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
The Bond books are very inconsistent in my opinion. We've
read some like Casino Royale is great. Casino Royale, like
is a real page churener, And I also like her
to See Secret Service. I think that's a really great one.
And then we've you know, we've some of the other
ones are just kind of up and down, with absolutely

(15:09):
worst of the worst being The Spy Who Loved Me, Like,
seriously unreadable, it's disgusting, don't read it. But this one,
this one isn't oh sad as that, but it has
good moments. But after a while I sort of felt
like I sort of felt like he was trying to, like,

(15:36):
I must get seventy thousand words.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
It feels like, yes, he was going for seventy thousand,
and if he had done forty or fifty thousand, it
would have been much better. It's better as a novella.
I think oh much. It would be so much better
because the germ of the ideas of everything he's doing
is great, are great. I mean, I yeah, you know,
Goldfinger is a great villain. I mean it's and it's

(15:59):
agree and it's really a fun villain. I think for
as far as you know, the Bond villains are all fun,
but this one is sort of he has more of
a sense of humor and they kind of played with
each other a little bit. But the bond in this
story is some he wants to steal all the gold
in Fort Knox.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yes, so, so we have our prologue. And again, in
terms of like back to this whole seventy thousand words thing,
the prologue, which feels very tacked on, is that's because
it's tacked on. It was originally a short story that
he'd written and he just like slapped it into the
beginning of Goldfinger. So we're in Mexico. It has like

(16:40):
almost nothing to do with the actual story. He's in Mexico.
He's breaking up a heroin smuggling ring and he kills
this heavy you know, drug guy, drug runner guy, who
is identified as the Mexican It's very racist. There was

(17:04):
a lot of racism and that of racism. Yes, this
one is heavy on the racism for sure. Yes, I'm sorry,
I'm looking at So then then we're in Miami, and
in Miami in the book this is different than in
the movie. And again it's so lengthy, like the descriptions
of everything is just the goal.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
So there's a gol Miami.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
And he runs, Yeah, but he runs into this guy
that we know. He's like just it's kind of like
an extra in Casino Royale, mister DuPont, no relation to
the Delaware DuPonts, but he just happens to also be
called DuPont. And he's also a wealthy guy. And DuPont
is like, oh, Bond, how awesome to run into you. Listen,

(17:53):
can I hey, can I get you? Can of hire
you to do me a favor? And Bond's like, sure,
I could use an extra buok. And so mister DuPont
hires James Bond to observe while he plays it's like
cribbage or something. He's playing cards with this guy who's

(18:16):
at this resort, mister Goldfinger, and he is mysterious. He's wealthy.
Is he British? We're not sure he seems like he is,
but he also seems like he isn't I think.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
So.

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, It's like it's not poker, is what I'm saying.
Like it's a it's like a very kind of order
mary game. And anyway, mister Goldfinger is playing people at
the resort and just he wins every single time, and
he's just taking everybody's money and he doesn't need their money.
He's very wealthy. It's just for funsies for him. He

(18:49):
likes take separating people from their money. And mister DuPont
is like, I know he's cheating. I can't prove it.
Mister Bond, can you please just just just keep an
eye on this and see if you can see if
he's cheating. And so James Bond very quickly figures out
that Goldfinger, who by the way, is named named after

(19:12):
he's named after a London a British an architect who
was working in Britain at the time. And you know,
after the war, after the Blitz, when they rebuilt Britain,
there was a lot of rebuilding to do, and so
people fought over like they had this opportunity. They saw
it to rebuild a newer, better, more modern London. And

(19:36):
so you have these different schools of architecture that rise up,
and one of them is called brutalism, and if architects
love it, and people who live in those buildings hate it.
And one of these brutalist architects was mister Goldfinger, and
he did not take kindly to being just to give

(19:57):
you a little idea about Ian Fleming. Goldfinger, the real Goldfinger,
threatens to sue Ian Fleming.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Like so he had just it bo paused for a second.
He didn't take kindly.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
To He didn't like having the villain of this story
named after Oh, okay, that's good to So he says
to Ian Fleming like, hey, I'm going to sue you.
You got to get my name out of your mouth, basically,
and Ian Fleming just to give you an idea of
what kind of a character Ian Fleming is. Ian Fleming goes, okay,
oh that's fine, No, I will definitely. Here's what I'm

(20:32):
gonna do. I'm going to change the name of my villain,
Goldfinger to gold Prick, and then I'm going to put
a piece of paper in every single book and explain
why I did that, that it was originally called Goldfinger,
but I had to change it because you made me,
and that's why he's now called gold Prick, and Goldfinger
was like, fine, okay, just call him Goldfinger. So Bond

(20:57):
figures out that Goldfinger is getting a signal from somewhere
in the resort, and turns out Goldfinger has like a
personal secretary, who, of course is absolutely gorgeous, and she
is watching the game with binoculars. It's very like, it's
not very sophisticated. She's up in the room, she's watching

(21:17):
with binoculars. And then she says into a microphone like, oh,
he's got a ten of clubs, and Bond gets on
the mi you know, stops the whole operation, gets on
the microphone, tells Goldfingered like, hey, you're gonna pay mister
DuPont back all of the money you owe him, and hey,
you're gonna give me some money too, and you're gonna
get out of here. And what happens is he leaves

(21:44):
with this woman.

Speaker 7 (21:46):
What's her name, Oh, Jill, Jill Masterson, Yes, yeah, Jill
Masters It is the secretary, And so he leaves with
Jill Masterson.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Of course they have sex. She goes a sex slave. Right,
He like takes her with him. He takes her with
him as like a sex hostage, right, mister Bond, Yeah, okay,
and he uh, I forget what the circumstances is, but
basically he finds her dead. She's been painted all over

(22:20):
in gold. She's been suffocated in gold. Now here's the
reason that we get this whole backstory in the book
that we don't get in the movie, that we frankly
we don't need, but I'm gonna give it to you anyway.
Here it is. I mean, this is what I mean
about this book. It goes to all these lengths. So
so we get this whole rigamarole about Joe. Masterson says

(22:43):
to Bond that Goldfinger is a bit of a bit
of a purvy freak. I mean, not to kink shame,
but his thing is he gets once a month he
pays a woman to have sex with him. But before
for he does that, he has her painted all over
in gold because he's obsessed with gold. Right, yeah, everything

(23:05):
has to be gold, like a certain somebody, we know,
everything has to be gold. And so he has a
woman once a month painted all over in gold except
for her spine. So they keep her spine unpainted because
that way her skin, which is an organ, right, the
skin can still and she won't she won't die. And
so this is all and he's like, oh, that's interesting,

(23:27):
like this whole thing, like like we know this is
gonna come up. So sure enough, guess how Joe Masterson dies.
She gets painted all over in gold and including her spine,
and she dies and and just like and and so
but I love that in the film we do away
with all of this, like a stupid exposition about mister

(23:50):
DuPont and the poker game and Casina Royale and the
woman once a month and first of all, it's like gross,
and you know, we don't need it, and and you
just Bond, Like Bond is a smart guy. He knows,
oh she's suffocated. He could tell, which I think that also,
that's not really a thing. You know, her mouth and

(24:10):
nose aren't glued shut. She can open her mouth and
her nose she could still like actually breathe, right.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Yeah, No it can't, yeah it can. I mean, like, well,
the actress has is painted in gold, I mean the
in the in the movie, so it doesn't kill you,
but I mean it's not a good thing to do.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
No, it looks really cool in the movie.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Looks great in the movie. I mean, but it's yeah,
it's not healthy for your skin, but you can do it.
But also he has like a whole room full of
porno magazines. I mean it's a whole it's a whole
gross thing.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, it is gross.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
There's a whole scene where there's a golf game between
Goldfinger and Bond and in the movie, which is the
clip we just showed you, which is just like, it's quick, quick, quick,
and then you give it to odd job and then
he crushes the golf ball. You understand everything in a book,
it goes pair pages after pages, and.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
It's so t I just like watching a golf game.
If I want to watch a golf game, I'll watch
a golf game. I do not need Ian Fleming to
describe it blow by blow. It's very tedious, so long. Yeah,
it's very tedious. So but so it's yeah, it's not
all of that has done so much better in the
film and also in the in the book, you know,

(25:21):
you have that scene where Bond is strapped to the
table and no, mister Bond, I expect you to die.
In the book, it's like a circular saw which makes
a very badman. And then in the movie it's you know,
we've have the technology to have it be a laser.
So oh, and I'm sorry we lost right over. Sean
Connery is amazing. Well, let's talk about our Let's talk
about our cast of the film before we go any farther.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Hold on, let me bring that.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
It's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
No, we have Sean Connery. We have I'm sorry, it's
taking me a minute to get back to okayeen fifty four.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
Our director is Guy Hamilton, who.

Speaker 6 (25:59):
Does a fan fantastic job. By the way, I mean it's.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
It's very well directed.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
I will say it is really well directed. I'm sorry,
I'm trying to bring up my cast. We have Sean
Connery's Bond Honor Black Men as. We have a girl,
a woman in this movie who's a lead, and her
name is Pussy Galore, and that is from the book.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
And she is from the book.

Speaker 6 (26:21):
That's from the book, and she's queer by the way, and.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
In the book she leads.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
In the book, she leaves yes, Well, I think in
the movie there's a there's a point where she says, like.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
You can hinting, it's coded.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
It's coded. I mean she says. He says, uh, you know,
she says to him, it's it's I'm immune to this,
and I think, like that's just what it's supposed to be.
And they're they're called the cement mixers. It's it's it's
a group of of lesbians that, oh god, this book
is just Ridiculouskay, So we get through the cast first, quest.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
I know, let's go through the cast.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
Gert Frobe as or like Goldfinger, who's fantastic. He's German actor.
He showed up and that when he first got the
role and he meets Sean Connery. It's just sort of
an informal event. He goes, hello, it's very nice to
meet you, and Sean Connery started talking to him, and
then they realized, oh, he really can't speak English. So
they hired an actor named Michael Collins. And Michael Collins

(27:15):
is the voice that you hear. And this happened all
the time in the movies. Oh he's dub he is dumb. Yeah,
this is true. It's very good.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
It's still a good performance.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
It's you can't tell. I mean, it's really really well done.
Shirley Eaton is our Jill Masterson she's the one at
the top, Tilly. Her sister is Tanya Malay, who I
just love. Harold Sakata is odd job. He is a
Japanese actor. He's playing a Korean villain. Bernard Lee as
m is a fan. They really just fantastic. Martin Benson

(27:49):
as mister Solo sec Linder, I think it's sec. It's
Cec as Felix. There's a different Felix and all the
movies for some reason, there's Austin Willis has Mister Simmons,
I mean Lois Maxwell's Miss Moneypennies and a bunch of
the movies. It's it's a q Is Desmond Llewellyn and

(28:11):
and I love Q in this movie. I mean they
just they He's kind of like he's making we actually obligatory.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Yeah, we have the obligatory scene where they're making the gadgets.
That none of that is in the book, by the way,
you would think he would have put that in the book.
He was trying to meet his seventy thousand words. But
but it's still fun. You know, it's we see the car,
the Aston Martin and then Miss Moneypenny and all. That's
really fun, right, So that those are our main people?

(28:40):
So should we play the trailer? Yeah, let's play the trailers.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Stop. Look he's gunning for trouble. Double O seven, it
spells go on. He's the idol of every woman. Who

(29:15):
are you? James Bond?

Speaker 8 (29:19):
The envy of every man? The nemesis of the treacherous
mister Goldfinger. Oh Singer, Goldfinger, I try have been throw

(29:41):
leaving Cinema Entertainment.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Three time winner for flinging sequin eton.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Double o Sammon, who are you?

Speaker 5 (29:55):
My name is pussy Galore?

Speaker 8 (29:59):
Isn't it custom ready to grant the condemned man his
last request?

Speaker 2 (30:03):
You asked this, Come and per over.

Speaker 8 (30:08):
Anna Blackman as Pussy Galore, the female who is all Feline,
also starring Gert Roper as Goldfinger, International cheat, International menace.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Here's a man, Oldinger? Why what we told the New
York and the West cast word on this fellow?

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Finger?

Speaker 2 (30:25):
I made a delivery? Where is my money? And you
owe me one million bucks? Goldfinger? The man with a
finger in.

Speaker 8 (30:33):
Every pie is gold Foot Knox, the world's biggest bank
His enemy Double O seven, the world's windiest, toughest gentleman
agent with a licensed to kill.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Double O seven It.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
Spells Bond, James Bond, mixing business with girls and thrills, girls.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
And funds, girls and danger. The heart of the danger,
the cooler he takes it. I think you've made your point, Goldfinger.
Thank you for the demonstration.

Speaker 8 (31:11):
Choose your next witticism carefully, mister Bond, it.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
May be your last. Do you expect me to talk?

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Now? Who is the bon? I expect you to BUYE.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Who wouldn't want to see this movie?

Speaker 5 (31:51):
It's a great trailer. It's fantastic and one of the
things I hadn't noticed until just now that I think
is so smart. Bassie's song is not in this trailer.
So when you see the trailer and you go to
the movies to watch the film, that song like when
it comes in, Oh, it must have been very exciting.

Speaker 6 (32:12):
It's yeah, it just and it is a very exciting song.
She's she's super talented.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Oh okay, So where to begin? Where to begin? I
have again I'm looking at my notes. It says destabilize
the US by destabilize the US by making our gold radioactive.
That's cute, bry gutting medicare I?

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (32:43):
So here's the plot, such as it is in the
book and the movie. It's basically the same plot, just
the way that the players are in there are a
little bit different. We have this guy, Goldfinger, who claims
to be British by all by way of Jamaica. So
he has this like is he like an import export guy,

(33:05):
but also he seems to have ties to smirsh which
are very it's very vague the reference in the film.
In the In the book it's a little more direct,
so you know where he gets his money from is
a little bit strange. But more than that, the guy
is a kinky freak. He is obsessed with gold. He

(33:25):
has gold to wear, everything is everything is gold. The
women he sleeps with are painted with gold, as we
just said, and his whole he has this old Rolls Royce,
antique Rolls Royce that is entirely lined with gold, and
gold is super heavy. So his his Rolls Royce in

(33:46):
the book, and we go into great detail about how
he had to re engineer the rolls Royce to hold
the weight of all the gold, and oh my gosh,
it's so detailed. It's tedio. We really don't care. It's fine.
He likes gold and so his he's he's formulating this

(34:06):
plot called Operation Grand Slam, and Bond is trying to
get to the bottom of it. That one that poor
woman is dead, the woman from the hotel, Jill Masterson,
has died. He also feels kind of guilty about that,
not too guilty because he's James Bond. You know, women
get just get killed. Why would any woman get involved

(34:29):
with James Bond.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
Well, she didn't mean to. She was involved with Goldfinger.
But I have to say, like James Bond, with which
Connery is James Bond, he's very you know, he's very roguish.
He comes in, he goes for her, he goes for
the kiss right away. He always gets consent. When she dies,
he finds her in the and it's a very iconic
scene of her, you know, in the gold his face
changes and he's and he's very upset, like, you know,

(34:53):
he didn't want her to die. He liked her. I mean,
it's it's just for a second he realizes, Oh, I'm
really dealing with a monster here. And this is a
He is a fantastic actor. And I was looking at
some old clips of him when they were doing from
the set, and all these reporters were asking him about
what he thought of the Bond books, and he goes, well,
I read this one in that one, but I didn't
really read Goldfinger, and they said, really, goes nah, I

(35:14):
get the idea of what he's going for. But so
he and the director just came up with these ideas
of like, this is what Bond should be. This is
shorthand what Bond should be. He should be Bond, James Bond, shaken,
not stirred. He should have an Aston Martin.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
That's all the movie.

Speaker 6 (35:28):
That's all the movie, and it's it's basically it's the director,
and it's also Connery really gave a lot of these
ideas of like he this is what's gonna work, this
is what would sway me. I'm your audience, basically, and.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
There's this scene early on, just to give you an idea.
There's a scene maybe it's the prologue, where he's sneaking
into this place. I think it might be the prologue,
and it's dark, so he's wearing these dark coveralls, you know,
and he does the d eat and kill the guy

(36:00):
and gets the information and then he takes off his
dark coveralls and all dirty now and underneath he is
wearing an immaculate white dinner jacket. Not a single Crease
whips the whips the red rose out of the pocket
of the overalls and tucks it into the lapel of
this absolutely perfectly pressed white jacket that he presumably has

(36:24):
been climbing walls doing summersauce. Yes, it's there's not He
has never wrinkled, and for all of his stunts, he
never gets wrinkled.

Speaker 6 (36:34):
Somebody I wanted the YouTube clips and I wish I
could could could give the person credit. But one of
them said that Archer is really more like the original
Bond than the Bond from the movies, because he's like
the heavy drinker. But but they do have those touches
in there that like, he always looks great. But that's
what that's what he wants you to like. This is
what makes you want to go to a movie. I

(36:54):
want to see somebody gorgeous, like of course I want
him in a tux underneath and other Crease. Absolutely it's
a movie.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
Listen that the little terry short Onesie shorts. I love
a gold choice. But you can't argue with success.

Speaker 6 (37:09):
He looks great in everything. That's another part of it.
He looks he could wear anything. He literally can wear anything.
And he looks. There's a movie called zod or something
where he's it's a Zoldt, it's a z sound at
Sean Connery. It's one of those famous stinkers. But he's
in like a caveman kind of outfit and he looks great.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
He's James Bond. I mean so so. Mister Goldfinger, as
we've established, is a lunatic, and his plan is well
what he says his plan is in the book and
in the film, So then the whole first part of
the film is basically what's in the book, but told better, leaner, faster.

(37:50):
He's assembling a bunch of American crime family heads at
his place, his place in the United States and in Kentucky.
He's raising horses, that's his front, and he invites them
all in and he's like, Okay, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna steal all of the Golden Fort Knox there

(38:14):
and all of them. But one is like yeah, great,
thanks Goldfinger, this is awesome. One of them is like, yeah,
I don't think so, I'm not doing that, and gold
Fingers like, no, no worries. Fine. In the book, he
just kind of does what you would do. He quietly
kind of kills him in another room and then comes
back and says to the people who are still there, like, oh, hey,

(38:37):
so the guy that said no, yeah, he's not around anymore.
So you know, just so you know, we're all in
this now basically, and this is where the movie really
departs from the book. So in the film the film,
Goldfinger somehow at his ranch in Kentucky has constructed this

(38:58):
vast like wreck room with everything's automated. And first he
like automatically shuts the lights and draws the blackout drapes,
and already the gangsters are like, whaw hey, Lissa, I
don't like they all talk at once, like a family
guy or something. It's just and here's the thing. So,

(39:21):
I mean, here's where we start with a plot hole.
So there's huge screen comes down and he's showing you
an aerial view of Fort Knox or something like that,
and then the floor opens up and this giant it
must have taken like three years. This absolutely perfectly true,
just in scale replica of Fort Knox with the fences

(39:45):
and the shrubs and the whole thing totally unnecessary. Maybe
we're showing like what this is just showing us that
he's not somebody with a grip on reality. But it
seems a little like excessive literally pulled down a projection screen.
You could have all had this like as a as
an animated zeal like we didn't need to have the
floor open up and all that.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
Supposedly add four knocks. They kept that they have that
they should Yeah, cool, look that's awesome, I mean yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
And James Bond, of course is like eavesdropping on this
on the the monologuing it's next level. So what he
tells them is, here's the plan. Is I have this.
We're going to kind of cover the atmosphere around Fort Knox,
all the military base, all the military uh guards there

(40:36):
are going to be sprayed with Are they going to
be In the book, it's a little bit different, but yeah,
basically we're gonna we're going to put them to sleep
for a little while and then we sneak in steal
the gold, and then we leave and everybody's rich. And
in the book, Pussy Galore is one of those crime heads.

(40:58):
She doesn't work for Goldfinger. In the book, she, as
Margot says, bear with us. She is the leader of
a gang of criminal lesbian acrobats. Yes, it's fine. It's
fine Cement mixers. That's what they're called, The Cement I

(41:18):
loved that name. I was like, that's a great band name.
I don't know, good name. Yeah, so's she's one of
them that are that's part of this plot. Now, okay,
I have to mention this because it is gross. That's
just to give you an idea of like so in
the book, as I recall, oh so, we also have

(41:42):
Jill Masterson, the girl who died being pain called. She
has a sister, Tilly, Tilly who looks just like her,
and James Bond. Just like in the film, James Bond
runs into Tilly, who is also spying on Goldfinger, and
he's like, what are you doing here? And she's like, no, no, no,
it's not I'm not Jill, I'm her sister, Tilly. I'm

(42:04):
out for revenge because he killed my sister. I don't
know how she knows that, but okay, fine, Tilly is
also a lesbian. But James Bond has magic in his pants.
I don't know if you're aware about He's magic pants

(42:26):
and what's in them can turn any any lady, any
lesbian lady into a no longer lesbian lady. So he
has a thing. I think he has a thing with both.
But Tilly has a thing for pussy Galore, That's what
I'm saying. And she sort of is trying to turn
She's really the one who's sort of in the book

(42:47):
is trying to turn pussy Glore over to the good side,
whereas in the movie, like that's not really a factor. Eventually,
Chilly also gets killed by Goldfinger and odd Job. So
in the movie, pussy Galore is not a gang leader.
She is Goldfinger's personal pilot, and she her gang quote

(43:10):
unquote is a group of very hot blonde aba trixes.
We have a clip. We have a clip here. It is.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Well dress rehearsal and like a dreams goopper good.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
You'll get your final briefing tonight.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
That'll be all for now. Is I can't I'm suddenly
forgetting in the morass of the book. Is it is
pussy Galore the one that like she tells the story
about her uncle.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
Yes, that's why she so yeah.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
In the book.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
Also once again, I mean should be like an essay
warning because in the book she says it's because my uncle,
I'll be sorry trigger war. But her uncle molested her,
and that's why she's a lesbian, which is what people thought, like,
there must have been something damaged about you, that's why
a man must have done something to you that you
don't want to And to gay men, this was also

(44:19):
like someone must have done that to you, that that's
why you are the way you are, and it's like, no,
she is who she is because she right in the movie,
you know, she very coldly tells James like she's always
has gun on him, and I love her. She's like
totally smart and very.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
I really like her in the film a lot. It's
such a better character favorite in the book The Best
Bond Woman. She's really really strong, but she even says like,
I'm immune to whatever you're doing.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Because she's a lesbian. In the movie, there's a scene
where they're wrestling and he overpowers her and then all
of a sudden they make out, and then we're supposed
to understand that then now she's also like because of
what he has, she's now because he has magic pants.
He has magic let's just say magic pants. We're a

(45:05):
family show here, so so yeah, that's that's what it
is yeah, it's look, it's it's very outdated. It's it's
it's not what we would do now. But this was
just sort of like it was of the times. I
mean yeah.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
And also compared to the book, the movie is is
way less racist. I mean it's very it's racist.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
It's yeah, just in.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Sex is some misogynistic, but compared to the book, it
is extremely tame, right right, So so in the film,
then so now we have instead of again, so the
way that the whole plot kind of gets carried out, we
learned that it was never the So he gases all
of these crime I don't know, so he apparently we're

(45:51):
to understand that he uses all of these crime families
to get the information he needs to kind of set
up this whole operation, and then he kills them all.
He kills them all, right there, He gasses them and
they are now dead, which is a lot to clean up.
It's a he's very messy full finger. There's also this
whole sequence. So instead of just like doing what you

(46:13):
would do, he just like the guy that doesn't want
to participate in the book, he like I said, he
just gets taken out of the room and killed and
then Goldfier coming back is like, hey, I just killed
that guy, So if anybody else is thinking of leaving,
you know, think twice in the movie he in the movie,
he goes through this whole rigamarole of he says to
the guy like, oh, well, I respect your decision. Okay,

(46:35):
here's your goal back, and he gives him like a
suitcase of gold bars that odd Job puts in the
trunk of the guy's car. The guy's car does not
like sink at all under the weight of a suitcase
full of gold bars. Okay, fine. Then odd Job is
supposed to be driving him like to the airport, but

(46:55):
instead odd Job drives him in broad daylight, drives him,
they get pulled over off the road, He shoots him
dead again in broad daylight on a road, and then
drives the car to a junkyard where we're to presume
the car with the man and the gold inside of
it gets crushed into a cube. And then odd Job

(47:17):
shows up with the truck and brings the cube back
to gold Finger so they can unmash the cube and
extract the gold. Why did he not take the gold
out of the car before he mashed it into a
cube and Also, when the car gets put into the masher,
you have a very long, clear view of the back

(47:38):
seat where the corpse of this man, and it's empty.
He's not in there. Where did he get please? He's
not in there. The door the trunk opens up, like
he can't move the body from the car into the truck.
It is broad daylight, so it's just the first thing
at the back seat for a long time, is what
I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (47:57):
I think the first half of the movie is very
sharp and very quick, and I think the second half drags.
I mean because it's very mess It goes on and
on because we're driving in the car all the way
to the thing to the thing to the thing, long drive.
And when they put the movie together and showed it
to the studio, they were hoping to get another week.
They were asking for another week because they wanted more
time to edit. But the movie studio was like, this

(48:20):
is perfect, let's just send it now, and I could
use a little more. We could have used like fifteen
minutes or so off of it. Yeah, so okay, but
the cube.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
Now you're going to open up this cube of corpse
and guts and yield, all right, I guess I'm getting
maybe like maybe we're tracking it up to showing this
is how not attached to reality. Mister Goldfinger is okay, fine,
so now we are going to have the big operation
Grand Slam. And oh and we've since learned that that

(48:50):
was never The plan was never to steal the gold.
Gold is heavy, we don't have enough time to steal
the gold. And also that gas that mister Goldfinger says
he's going to use is not just put them to
sleepy time, it's kill people. So the Goldfinger is going
to kill However, many troops are guarding Fort Knox. Yes,
he's going to gass them. And his plan was never

(49:12):
to take the gold. His plan was to set off
a nuclear device inside Fort Knox, which would then radioactivate
the gold. So the gold is now radioactive and the
US can't use it, so it's no longer it's worthless.
So that's somehow it's going to be stabilize our economy.
Little did he know, Like all you need to do

(49:33):
is some jerrymandering.

Speaker 6 (49:35):
And also it's not even like literal golds that we're
talking about. It's the money attached to the value of
the gold, right, So it's not even like right, it
makes no sense.

Speaker 5 (49:47):
And also so, but but the upshot of all of
this is then the gold that Goldfinger does own now
becomes much more valuable. So that's the whole point, is
for his own gold to be way more valuable and
the US to be a little less stable. And and it's
very exciting in the film, like we're in Fort Knox,

(50:07):
there's gold, and like people are shooting each other and
running around and that's fine. We also have like this
is weird. So so pussy Galore, thanks to James Bond's
magic pants, is now one of the good ones. And
then but you the audience, what you see is her
pilots go up in the air and start gassing people,

(50:30):
and you're like, walk, I thought she was one of
the good ones. You see all of these troops and
it's I'm sorry, it's not very well acted. All of
these the people that faint and die, all of these
and over over and over a very long sequence of
a bunch of men in uniform like standing there. And
then they're like, oh, and if they made it quicker

(50:53):
and tighter, you wouldn't notice exactly, you wouldn't notice how bad, like, oh,
that guy's still moving and so we're we the audience
are supposed to be believing that this is gas, that
is that they're dying. We're supposed to believe that this
is fatal gas. It turns out it's not. It is
the sleepy time gas. But my point is, you see

(51:16):
Pussy Galore's team of pilots gassing all of these people,
and the planes are weaving over and around each other.
They're doing like acrobatics in the air with the planes
as they're gassing all the people below, all around each other.
They're flying. The planes are flying all around each other,
pouring out this poisonous gas that puts people to sleep.

(51:38):
These women are not wearing gas masks. No, they're not
in like airtight planes. No, but somehow they're not affected
by this gas in any way. They're fine. It's fine.
We're not worrying about it. So Goldfinger gets away in
the In the movie, James Bond kills Odd Job inside

(52:02):
Fort Knox and then follows Goldfinger onto Goldfinger's plane. They
have a fight, right James Bond shoots one of the
airplane windows and Goldfinger gets sucked out of the window,
and James Bond and Pussy Galore land the plane or
they parachute out of the plane and happily ever after.
In the book they are on the plane, but it's

(52:25):
going and odd Job are both on the plane. Odd
Job is the one that gets sucked out of the window,
not Goldfinger, so we have the same trick. The window
gets shot, odd Job gets sucked out the window, and
then we have this long scene where James Bond punches
and then just strangles the life out of Goldfinger right

(52:50):
the end. So yeah, it starts off really well.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
And like I'll say this again, if they took a
good fifteen minutes out of this movie.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
It just needed a tighter edgit.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
It would have been so much tighter and we wouldn't
be picking this stuff. But they do kind of everything
in Kentucky gets really dragged out. I find it's so
much more for the way too long. Wait, yeah, the
first half when they're in Europe, which is beautiful with
the cars. I mean that the car sequence is like
this credible.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
That's a great sequence, and yeah, it just needs to
be Yeah, it just needs a tighter edit. Really, the
backdrops gorgeous. I love Kentucky as a backdrop, like if yeah, cool,
they make it look really beautiful. Goldfingers House is amazing
that the all of the stuff in Europe is so great.
And of course we go the whole thing of like

(53:43):
going to the headquarters and all of that scene is
really great. And the costumes, I mean, the Wenesie is
a choice and he's in it for like a long time,
and they are very very short shorts. They leave very
little to the imagination. It's nineteen six four of Bargo.
The Beatles are popular. You know, everything's chance, yeah, and

(54:07):
it's it's all really. I love every outfit. Pussy Gloor
is like she's so love love love, and I love
all of Goldfingers outfits. They're all really good. The lighting
is good and the score is excellent. When you get
through that first cold open where he kills the Mexican

(54:30):
and then that song comes in over the opening credits,
it might be my favorite Bond. It's either this. It's
a tie for me between this one and Diamonds Are Forever.
I think those are my two favorite Bond themes. I
think I like The Spy Who Loved Me. The beginning
of Spider Love Me is with the Union Jack. I
love that sh Yeah, that's a great one, but surely

(54:51):
bassis like explosive vocals, and then the callback of it
throughout the film in the score I think is really
well done. Yeah, it's just too messy with the edit.
Is all it needed in a little more time in
the edit. I was watching a thing about about the
recording of that song, Shirley Bassie talking about it, and

(55:15):
she was saying that, so when she records it, as
you were saying it was, who was in it? From
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, It's amazing And that's
how they became friends, by the way, And then a
few years later, John Paul Jones was like looking for
a gig and Jimmy Page just happened to be putting
together Led Zeppelin and says, Oh, do you need a bassist?

Speaker 6 (55:37):
And he goes, yeah, actually I need a bassis. I
have a good you have a vocalist, and I have
a drummer. Do you want to join any Wow? He
immediately joined.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
So Shirley Bassie, they bring her in to record this song. Oh,
first of all, they play her this song when she
first she said, when she first hear hears it, she
and her manager, I forget who the composer is.

Speaker 6 (55:58):
Of whole Oh, I had it in the note.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
So they're invited over to his house, John Barry, John Barry.
They're invited over to his house and he's like, Okay,
I'm working on the song for Goldfinger. We don't really
have the lyrics yet, but it's going to go like this,
and he plays the first three songs, the first three notes,
da da da, and Shirley Bassie and her manager both

(56:24):
go moon River because it's the same exact notes as
moon River, which was a hit. Right at this moment
when John Barry's writing this song, and John Barry's like,
oh and so. But then when they bring her into
record it like if you I would, I would encourage
you instead of reading the book. Read the lyrics to

(56:46):
the song Goldfinger. They are silly, but the orchestration and surely,
surely Bassie is should be playing. Surely BASSI this, yes,
but I just want to set up. They bring her
in to record it. They've got an orchestra of eighty
plus musicians in the room. It must have been incredible,

(57:08):
and she said she's recording as they often do when
they score a film. They're showing these opening credits. Wow,
you know, as they're playing, so they could be playing
in time, adding little flourishes that go along with the
action and stuff like that. And so they told, surely,
you know when you get to the end and you're like,

(57:30):
he loves gold, he loves gold, she's like, they say,
just keep singing till the end of the credits, and
she's like, okay, great. So she's singing, and if you've
ever heard this song, at the end, she's like, he
loves gold, he loves gold. And she's like she's looking
at the thing and it's not ending, like the credits
are going on and on. She's like, only gold. And
then she's just like okay. So she finishes on that

(57:51):
famous high note and she's she's like, he loves gold,
and she's holding this high note and she's watching these
credits and they're not ending, and the directors like, keep
holding it, keep holding that note. She's like, oh my god,
I'm gonna pass out. And so that's where it just
sounds like she's singing to she's she is the one
who's like adding all of this drum. It is amazing.

(58:12):
And every time she performs this song, this extremely silly song,
I get goosebumps. I just ladies and gentlemen. Shirley Bassie,
let's go going. He's a man, a man with a mine.

Speaker 9 (58:52):
Using can do to Andrew's word, But don't worry.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
In your ear, but I last can't.

Speaker 9 (59:21):
It's nice what you feel?

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Who no, let me kiss up.

Speaker 5 (59:30):
It's a kiss of from mister girl.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
That's nineteen seventy four at the Royal Albert Hall. I ned,
what's better than that?

Speaker 5 (59:47):
Really? Bassie is Welsh? Yes, And I always when I
hear Shirley Bassie to me like I hear that, like
I don't know what it is about Welsh, About the Welsh,
there's this just the like gravitas and the just the power.

(01:00:07):
And yet you know she she brings it up, she
brings it down and very much like the other famous
Welsh singer, Tom Jones.

Speaker 6 (01:00:14):
I was just gonna say, is Tom Jones from Wales?

Speaker 5 (01:00:17):
He is, and he's the He is the singer of
the next Bond film in the series, Thunderball, And I mean,
just what what? She has no idea what this film
is about and look at her go yeah, just amazing.

(01:00:38):
I freaking love that woman. And Diamonds Are Forever is
a wonderful song. It just Oh, she's so good. She's
so good. It just that's why this Bond film I
think everybody talks about so much. It's it is the
one where all of the elements kind of come together.
Not that the themes in the other previous films aren't

(01:00:59):
great Bonds. They're always a good theme, almost always, with
very few exceptions, right most of them. It's always going
to be a great theme. It's always going to be
a good score. But this is definitely the one that
people kind of quote the most, Like the way that
her song, the way that the song just like blast
sets you out of the darkness. You know, I'm sure

(01:01:20):
people will just like jumped in their seats and the
whole like all the quotable lines, like he electrocutes the
guy and he's like shucking and like all of the
quotable lines.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
I expect you to die, mister Bond. I mean, what's
better than that? I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
It's very, very fun, and it is that it's the films.
The thing about the films is it does bring that
element of campiness. It's there later than the books, so
the technology is a little bit farther along than they
are in the books, which is cool because the books
are still full of the gadgets and all of that

(01:01:58):
and some of the witty repartee but not like in
the movies. The movies they really really crank it up.

Speaker 6 (01:02:04):
Yeah there, it's nowhere near that. In the movies they
really they just yeah, that's why they're memorable.

Speaker 5 (01:02:10):
Yeah, so book for some movie. Movie movie of course,
Dan's down movie movie. So fun, so much fun. I loved.
I forgot how much I enjoyed this film, even though,
like I said, it is it does drag a bit
in Kentucky and it is, it does get a little
bit messy, but it's still super fun.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
Like, for instance, this is another like weird plot hole.
But when when Goldfinger, Oh my gosh, this movie so
as I say, Goldfinger has the whole scene where he's
monologuing about the evil Plan with the model that comes
up out of the floor and the screen the projection.

(01:02:56):
James Bond, super spy with access to all of the
gadgets and gizmos that could come from the imagination of Q.
He's eavesdropping on the on the plan and what is
he reached for a pencil and a scrap of paper, okay,

(01:03:21):
and he writes it down, like, oh, let me get
this down. He writes down the plan and he wraps
it around a transmitter that he he knows that the
CIA is locked in on that they can trace it, right,
So he wrap wraps his note about the plan like
they have the technology to but he could have been

(01:03:42):
transmitting the whole thing straight from but okay, he's writing
on it with a pencil. He wraps it around the
the transmitter and then he tucks.

Speaker 6 (01:03:53):
That goes nowhere. But I'm sorry, you take what happened? Sorry,
he tucks it. He tucks it where.

Speaker 5 (01:04:02):
Smashed in the cube. Okay, so it so it doesn't
go anywhere. It's a plot thing that doesn't go anywhere
in the book. He does write. He also writes a
note and he he hides it in the toilet, right,
he hides it in the remember and the note says

(01:04:27):
something like, you know, make sure like you will get
a reward if you turn this into the CIA, and
like a janitor finds it and that's how the CIA
gets tipped off to gold fingers in the book. So
it's like mm hmm, so it's much more style, you know,
everything is the style is way cranked up in this film.
So yeah, definitely, definitely the movie. I wouldn't even I

(01:04:50):
don't know that I would recommend reading the book. I
didn't find like I listened to.

Speaker 6 (01:04:54):
The audio books in the film and it was very tiresome. Yeah,
oh yeah, read Casino Reale.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
I mean it is so good. Infinitely a movie. Yeah, yeah, yes, Yeah,
that's a fun one. So that was super fun. Very
much enjoyed the whole. I always enjoy revisiting James Bond.
Let's we're doing something a little different next week. Let's

(01:05:22):
talk about it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
Yeah, we're gonna be Yeah, this is a little different.
I believe this is on our Patreon wall, so we're
gonna be talking about Saturday Night Fever next. It is
based on a magazine article from Nick Cone, New York Magazine.
The article comes out in seventy six. The movie Saturday
Night Fever comes out in nineteen seventy seven. We did
a whole. Like I said, it's on our Patreon when
we've covered in the past. The thing is is, I've

(01:05:44):
written a book about Saturday Night Fever, and it's called Fever,
A Complete History of Saturday Night Fever. It's coming out
at the end of August. So Margo is going away
at the end of the week. She's going away for
a vacation. Her birthday's coming up. So we decided that
we're going to do We're going to talk about my book,
and we're going to talk about how the article became

(01:06:04):
a movie. And I interviewed over seventy people to about
Saturday Night Fever. I've got the tea, I got the goss,
i got the behind the scenes like that's never been
out before, and I cannot wait to talk about it.
So Margo's going to interview me basically, and we're going
to play clips and I hope you enjoy it. And

(01:06:26):
the book is available on pre order right now. I
think there's going to be an audiobook as well Kindle.

Speaker 5 (01:06:32):
That's so exciting. So yeah, I'm very excited to interview
my friend about this book that I have been waiting
to get my hands on and also to talk about,
not just because we did talk about some of it
when we talked about the episode originally, well however long
ago that was, but also how the ripple effect of

(01:06:55):
this film, you know, as it went on in the culture.
The dance saying you know is something that really changed
things for quite a while in our in our culture,
things became very dancy there for a minute, and and
we'll talk about all of that. I'm very very excited.
So tell people where they can find you and find
out about this book online.

Speaker 6 (01:07:16):
Well, I'm at Brooklyn Fitchick. I'm on Threads and Instagram
at Brooklyn Fitchick. I'm at Brooklyn Margo for Blue Sky
and TikTok and my YouTube is if you're watching this now,
maybe you're maybe you're watching mine, maybe you're watching Margos,
But it's at my name, Margot Donahue. It's it's Penguin,
Kensington Citadel, it's you know, the publishing houses have all

(01:07:37):
been there, but it's it's available for pre order right now,
and I'm really proud of it, and I'm really excited,
so thank you. I can't wait to talk about it
with y'all and we're gonna have a good time talking
about it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
It's I'm very very excited. It's going to be super fun,
so please don't miss it. You can find me online
at coloniabook dot com. On my social media call us
are at Cheese, not your Mama, and get you your
boogie shoes. Go get you a couple of hands of
paint so you can just like walk down the street
swinging them along as you go. Because we're going to

(01:08:10):
be talking about Saturday Night Fever next. Y'all, Well, what
should we do for our outro?

Speaker 6 (01:08:15):
I think I think you must you die, mister Pond.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Yeah, let's send it with some classic dialogue from this
film by everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
This is gold, mister Bond, all my life. I've been
in love with its color. It's brilliant, stevine, neviness. I
welcome any enterprise that will increase my stock put you contendable.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
I think you've made your point, Goldfinger. Thank you for
the demonstration.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Choose your next witticism carefully, mister Bond. It may be
your last. The purpose of our two previous encounters is
now very clear to me. I do not intend to
be distracted by.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
Another Good night, mister Bond. Do you expect me to
talk now?

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Who? Mister Bond?

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
I expect you to die. There is nothing you can
talk to me about it I don't already know.

Speaker 10 (01:09:29):
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