Hi.In the movie " Goldfinger" , who is lying on the floor in the airplane after Auric Goldfinger has gone out the window.....? best regards jimmy
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Silhouette ManThe last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 9,329MI6 Agent
edited June 2021
It's the uniform of one of Goldfinger's guards who you see on the plane as Goldfinger comes through the curtain with his golden gun. Here's a screenshot of the moment you see a brief glimpse of the guard:
Presumably the guard was knocked unconscious or killed during the turbulence in a pressurised plane caused by the bullet going through the window.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Yes, it could well be. It was (perhaps necessarily) a rather truncated version of what happened on the plane in the original novel. The scene in the novel was much longer with Oddjob being sucked out of the window and Goldfinger meeting a different end at Bond's hands than in the film version. There could well have been a slightly longer sequence in the original edit of the film which had to be cut to better meet the running time. The guard suddenly being seen lying on the floor points strongly to this possibility. Perhaps one of the many books on the Bond films could provide us with a definitive answer?
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
IMO the henchman would have heard the fight and joined in and Bond dealt with him - obviously before Goldfinger was killed. For what ever reason that part of the scene was removed. It's a shame.
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It's the uniform of one of Goldfinger's guards who you see on the plane as Goldfinger comes through the curtain with his golden gun. Here's a screenshot of the moment you see a brief glimpse of the guard:
Presumably the guard was knocked unconscious or killed during the turbulence in a pressurised plane caused by the bullet going through the window.
So maybe a longer fight scene once existed? Peter Hunt being a bit over censorious with his editing ?
Yes, it could well be. It was (perhaps necessarily) a rather truncated version of what happened on the plane in the original novel. The scene in the novel was much longer with Oddjob being sucked out of the window and Goldfinger meeting a different end at Bond's hands than in the film version. There could well have been a slightly longer sequence in the original edit of the film which had to be cut to better meet the running time. The guard suddenly being seen lying on the floor points strongly to this possibility. Perhaps one of the many books on the Bond films could provide us with a definitive answer?
IMO the henchman would have heard the fight and joined in and Bond dealt with him - obviously before Goldfinger was killed. For what ever reason that part of the scene was removed. It's a shame.