SEAN BEAN GOLDENEYE SERIES
Goldeneye is by no means the best of the Bond series, but one has to be thankful to it for getting the dormant series up and running once more.
The Bond girls are very good in this one - Scorupco plays a pleasingly resourceful character, while Famke Janssen has great fun as a female baddie who crushes victims between her thighs. Tina Turner's powerful theme song is very good, but the incidental scoring by Eric Serra has a tinny, tacky feel to it that makes one long for John Barry! As the bad guy, Sean Bean is effective enough even if he never quite matches the memorableness of the all-time great Bond villains (eg Dr No, Oddjob, Blofeld, Francisco Scaramanga). Brosnan is OK as Bond, though I still feel Sean Connery and Roger Moore were slightly better suited to the role. This dumb but enjoyable scene sets the tone for the rest of the film - very much a tongue-in-cheek, improbable, action-orientated romp. Goldeneye begins with a truly outrageous stunt involving Bond freefalling in pursuit of an unpiloted, plummeting airplane. The trail leads to Cuba, where Trevelyan has a secret lair from which he is on the very brink of unleashing chaos upon the world. Bond teams up with a Russian computer programmer, Natalya Semyonova (Isabella Scorupco) and pursues Trevelyan around the globe in an effort to stop his sinister scheme. It emerges that his parents were Liensk Cossacks, brutally killed by the British when he was a boy, and he has long plotted a way to have his revenge. Trevelyan's plan is to get control of a powerful satellite called the Goldeneye and to use it to destroy a designated target on Earth - in this case, London. When Bond investigates, he discovers to his surprise that the plot involves his old colleague Alec - who is very much alive, having faked his death in the earlier exchange. Several years later, a state-of-the-art helicopter is stolen from the West by some Russian spies and used to destroy a Siberian satellite station. During the mission, Alec is apparently killed by the enemy forces but Bond manages a miraculous escape. James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and his secret agent colleague Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) infiltrate a Russian military installation on a sabotage mission. But then Goldeneye came along, with Pierce Brosnan as Bond - it went on to become a commercial hit, propelling its star into the A-list and reinvigorating the entire series.
Too much time had gone by, they said, no-one was interested any longer in the character or the stories.
SEAN BEAN GOLDENEYE MOVIE
Six long years went by without a Bond movie and many insiders predicted an end for the British super-spy and his outrageous screen adventures. The box office returns of that film were disappointing the then-Bond actor Timothy Dalton was axed the film itself was presented in a grittier, more adult style than fans were accustomed to and various legal wranglings put the Bond character into limbo. Then, in 1989, with the release of Licence To Kill the series seemed to die. There followed a Bond movie every couple of years or so (the longest gap between two 007 films was the three-year-hiatus separating The Man With The Golden Gun - 1974 - and The Spy Who Loved Me - 1977). Seriously, there’s a point where Trevelyan sneers at Bond about finding forgiveness in the arms of willing women “for all the ones you’ve failed to protect.” I feel like it’s an especially cutting dig because Trevelyan most certainly would’ve known about Bond’s wife so this perhaps is a way that we’re getting an oblique reference to James Bond’s dead wife Tracy.Įither way, Trevelyan isn’t playing fair.The James Bond franchise, in cinematic terms, began in 1962 with Dr No.
It’s such a mess.Īdd to that how Trevelyan is certainly dealing with jealousy of Bond and you’ve got this tangled web of emotions and everyone’s inability to communicate before going off to enact their massive plans for revenge. He has the requisite tragic backstory (the death of his parents at his father’s hand in what Trevelyan sees is a direct relation to British betrayal of the Lienz Cossacks to the Russians after World War II.)įollowing the dramatic reveal that Trevelyan is in fact alive and well, James Bond feels betrayed because his close friend not only faked his death, but also has decided to betray the country that they grew up in. He first became well known for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the long-running British television series Sharpe, before appearing as Boromir in Peter Jackson s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. This week’s Bond Girl post is about my favorite Bond film in Pierce Brosnan’s run: GoldenEye.Īlec Trevelyan betrays Bond (and MI6) while his own feelings of betrayal drive him.
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