Movie Review—
GoldenEye (1995): Bond Film #17
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Emerging from this to sunlight for
the climax, Bond both prevails and seizes the ultimate choice in how to
finish things with his adversary. Trevelyan, now immobilized, is held by
his boot in the grip of 007, dangling high above the unforgiving surface
of his satellite dish. Now he looks to Bond and recasts his question
from the pre-title sequence of GoldenEye: Will you kill me, "for
England, James?"
"No. For me," Bond responds,
substantively. Agent 007 has come full circle, and this time both
internalized his answer, and delivered it without need of cliché.
The final transformation in the James
Bond character arc here comes again with Natalya, when she rescues him
in the helicopter gunship she's commandeered. Accepting this, Bond leaps
to her for escape, just before the platform on which he is perched comes
crashing down.
Contradicting his earlier statement
to Natalya on the beach, he could not have kept "alive" here if he had
truly been "alone."
GoldenEye (1995),
Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli. Martin
Campbell, director. Starring Pierce Brosnan (James Bond, Agent 007),
Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan, Agent 006), Izabella Scorupco (Natalya
Simonova), Gottfried John (General Ourumov), and Famke Janssen (Xenia
Onatopp).
