Ian Fleming Biopic Movie 'Goldeneye' | Starring Charles Dance | Review
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So this film is basically the We Have GoldenEye at Home version
Honestly I can’t read that without thinking Rogue Agent.
Fuck me that joke has been done to death
When you order Goldeneye from Wish
It's strange seeing For Your Eyes Only alumni Charles Dance playing the writer of the book
I laughed out loud when I saw the sub “sink”. It looks like a cardboard cutout getting blown over in the wind. The fact that it completely undermines the illusion that the rest of the submarine is submerged beneath it just adds to the unintentional comedy value.
Wow, what a bonkers film. I have to say, though, that Charles Dance is 100% perfect casting as Fleming.
Charles Dance is THE perfect Ian Fleming casting!! Just such a shame he got saddled with this film. Still, it's the best Ian Fleming biopic I've seen, which is a pity.
To be fair, the background exposition dump that Dance makes about his character on the raft,-packed with unusual colourful details-is very reminiscent of Fleming writing the backstory of the villains in the Bond novels.
AS A 90YR OLD NEW YORK NATIVE, I CAN CONFIRM BRINGING CATS TO BARS WAS VERY FASHIONABLE BACK IN THE DAY
I feel like Charles Dance could've been a proper Timothy Dalton-like Bond after watching this. I'm shocked that it never came into my mind before.
Dance would have been a bit old at the time no?
@@nifralo2752 Yes, unfortunately, but I like anything he's in. He could have probably played Bond back in the seventies.
@@thursoberwick1948 did they ever ask Vincent Price to play a bond villian?
@@nifralo2752 I find it difficult to think who he would play. Maybe Largo?
@@thursoberwick1948 Kammal Khan I'd say.
Well, Flemming did provide Bond with a 1st edition copy of You Only Live Twice in 1964, signed "To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity", which was auctioned off in 2008 for $84K. Fleming also offered Bond to name "some particularly horrible species of bird" after him. 😉
She is supposed to be Fleming's then girlfriend Muriel Wright who was actually killed in her apartment when a piece of masonry that was blown through her bedroom window during an air raid.
If I might, I present the theme song for this film:
Golden Eye, Cal found its weakness.
Golden Eye, Had a crap screenplay.
Golden Eye, No Time for Pathos,
Which is probably why it won no Emmys.
The answer’s no: I’ve not watched this as an adult or as a child.
I’ll give it a go, if I am in the right state of mind.
It’s a rather average film, about the man who writes.
Charles Dance, is pure bliss, Christoph Waltz who’d guess?
But on the whole it’s just all right,
That’s Golden Eye!
Two words: Golden Eye.
One word GoldenEye
Has that Brosnan guy.
YES YES YES!!! Who needs Bono and/or The Edge!?
@@calvindyson That was pure genius!
@@calvindyson I think this is one of your best videos. Brilliant, very funny, good one!!!
@@calvindyson ua-cam.com/video/j2c_Ppcb_jM/v-deo.html I am not sure if you have watched this you may like it. Ian Flemming Bondmaker
Here's a fun fact: Ian Fleming's James Bond is not the original fictional James Bond. In 1934, Agatha Christie published a collection of short stories called The Listerdale Mystery. The protagonist in the story 'The Rajah's Emerald' was also called James Bond.
A Rudyard Kipling had short story called 007!
JK's Harry Potter isn't the original either. Troll features a character by the same name.
@@thursoberwick1948 The novel The Day Of The Locust (1939) features a character called Homer Simpson.
@@davidjames579 Not all these things are coincidence although I believe Matt Groening named his characters after his own close relatives.
@@thursoberwick1948 I love that movie!!!! Party hearty, Harry. ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣
Charles Dance is much better as Fleming than Jason Connery and Dominic Cooper, sure, but he can't beat sock puppet Calvin Dyson in perfect capture of the essence of the man.
There is a great line in the Dominic Cooper one where Eve Fleming asks Ian what he is going to do with his life and he replays "f***ked if I know" the flicker in her eye of annoyance and shock is pure gold.
@@andrewfellows2154 Cooper is too good looking and athletic for Fleming (there is a big biopic argument on people if the actor being like the person detracts from the acting if he/she/they just look naturally like the real people and so is more good casting than good acting but I think if the actor does not look like the person that detracts too much since we may never stop thinking it is an actor acting the whole time), of course, but he sure got the gaze of the man and his attitude in plenty of scenes, for sure.
Dance is decent in just about everything he does - even crap like the Golden Child. Jason was never as good as his dad, but is okay in certain contexts.
Noel Coward doing the theme song at the end is so weird. Technically, this would make him some sort of omnipresent fortune teller who could see into the mind of John Barry 😂
Dark Oaks - Ian Fleming asked his old friend and fellow Jamaica resident, Noel Coward, to play Dr No. Fleming received a note saying, “No!”
Great video! ^_^
So, when the "James Bond" character shows up near the end of the film, is he asking Ian Fleming to sign *Ian's* own copy of his book to take away with him?
That's quite a move!
The WORST guest ever. Shows up unannounced, ruins the days plans and steals thing.
@@calvindyson But Fleming did steal his name.
God, I love Charles Dance.Tywin Lannister was my favourite GoT character. He even made The Crown watchable for me with his delivery of Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay!
Least Waltz got to play a better Bond villain at some point amiright
Wow!
Compared to Spymaker starring Jason Connery (Yes, Sean’s son) and Fleming The Man Who would be Bond starring Dominic Cooper… this is probably the version of Fleming's biography I would watch.
If you can find it, I'd probably suggest Ian Fleming: Bond Maker. It was better than the others, from what I can remember of it?
Cooper is okay, and Connery jr within certain roles, but Charles Dance is by far the best of the three.
@@thursoberwick1948 Ben Daniels was pretty good too, he's who played him in Bond Maker.
Charles Act is a wonderful dancer!
Kudos for taking shots from what looka like a Polish eagle embalmed shot glass.
Very good spot! A gift from a Polish friend of mine!
I’m guessing Wren Lieutenant is meant to be Muriel Wright, a dispatch rider during WWII who was one of Ian Fleming’s girlfriends who was killed in an air raid. Apparently after she died Fleming regretted the poor way he had treated her, and Bond scholars have theorised she was inspiration for the Bond Girl archetype. Not sure why they don’t use her real name, I think other Fleming biopics have. Issues with her estate maybe? I doubt the production of this film has been well documented so I’ll guess we’ll never know.
“Wren” is a slang term for women who served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS). Now since defunct cause women have been allowed in the Navy itself since 1993.
Also “Loo-tenant”?! Sheeh, Calvin, you’re not American, it’s “lef-tenant” over here! I’m very annoyed about this!!
(I’m not really :) )
The reminds me of how for the longest time I would pronounce 'aluminium' and 'a-loo-minium' because the only time I would ever hear the word used was from documentaries about the Wizard of Oz and how the aluminium dust they used for the Tinman make up gave the original actor an allergic reaction!
There are so many people in Fleming's life who were apparently the inspiration for his characters [Moneypenny in particular] that it's hard to know how accurate the reports are.
I don't even think Lieutenant is the correct rank. I believe WRNS used First Officer.
@@calvindyson The other woman on the telephone says "Lieutenant Fearing" or at least it sounds like Fearing. That would be a reference to Pat Fearing in Thunderball....take another shot.
@@calvindyson Both 'aluminum' and 'aluminium' are scientifically correct. Strange, but true.
I remember Charles Dance playing one of the baddies in For Your Eyes Only
Klaus!
Beat me to it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The beach scene when bronsnans real life wife dies
I just remember his evil eyes following Bond as he makes his way to the top of the Ski Jump.
Someone out there make a videogame adaptation of this Goldeneye just to piss off MGM
I think Dance would have made a great M, villain or mentor older agent. He's maybe a little old now.
7:19, Damn, they went full 'Licence to Kill' with the Hong Kong ninja.
The guy bizarrely stroking the white cat in the bar looks more like Fleming than Charles Dance does!
I saw this on TV in the early ‘90s, late at night on a syndicated New York station. This presentation was hosted by none other than George Lazenby! Still handsome in a tux, he walked onto the set - a study - reading the opening paragraph of “Casino Royale,” the actual introduction to James Bond. During commercial breaks, short commentaries were provided by Maud Adams, Tanya Roberts, and a couple of others - I don’t remember offhand.
Charles Dance was well-cast as Fleming, although the script could have been better. He was, sorry to say, superior to Jason Connery.
Fun fact: Charles Dance was born in 1946, but his father served as a sergeant during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). His father was over 70 when he was born.
Reg Gadney, the writer, described himself as "The Fifth James Bond".
As silly as it's portrayed, the scene where Fleming fails the "kill the enemy" test is mostly true--or at least based on an incident long believed to be true. According to John Pearson's Life of Ian Fleming, T.G. Drew-Brook of Canadian WWII intelligence claimed the secret service actually had an instructor who was so good at dodging bullets they let test subjects go at him with live ammunition and Fleming was sent to a Toronto hotel room to "assassinate" an "enemy agent". Drew-Brook later claimed there was a misunderstanding, and that live ammo was never used outside the training grounds and that the hotel room was actually a mock-up in their training center 30 miles outside the city.
Why do I immediately think of the words "jump to the left" when I see the words "Charles" and "Dance" together
Why did Bond want Fleming to sign his own copy of the book??
Not only that, it was Fleming’s own copy that Bond basically stole!
@@calvindyson Exactly, it makes zero sense 😂
@@Zeppelin180 I've a feeling this bit is supposedly based on what actually happened when the two met
@@Zeppelin180 I feel they were searching for a dramatic high point to end on.
20:05 is pureeeeeee gold !!! Holy cow that made me laugh!! 😂😂
That opening part talking about Ian Flemmings role in the secret service reminded me of a fun little fact about Bond; He was not a Secret Agent.
A secret agent is someone who gathers intel and then hands it off to another member of the secret service, in other words an agent for the secrets. Bond however, is the person those secrets would be handed of to, that being an "intelligence officer"
Now it is true that bond has done some Secret Agent work, but 90% of the time he is taking the role of an intelligence officer who uses the information gathered to enact sabotage and assassination missions for the secret service.
I saw it back on TV in the day and remember the movie lost all credibility in my eyes as a serious Fleming biopic as soon as the "Chinese assassin" started doing kung fu movie style flips to avoid the bullets.
When we got to the ninja slow motion backflip scene, I thought you'd accidentally spliced in footage of Cato from the Pink Panther series.
You need to review North Sea Hijack (Roger Moore plays a special forces operative who retakes a hijacked oil rig for Her Majesty's Government)
I was in tears of laughter during this review, great stuff mate!
Thanks, James! Happy to hear 😁😁
Charles Dance was perfect casting he certainly delivered as Fleming. The overall production doesn't hold together too well it did feel like a mini series that wasn't edited into one episode. You're right. I forgot Blofeld was in this one. As a piece of entertainment I prefer Spymaker with Jason Connery.
Dance in every post-GoT interview ever: You spend a lot of time trying to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.
This movie: Aww he still remembers me.
Good evening, Mr Dyson. Yes, I've heard Ian Fleming live at the house called Goldeneye but this looks interesting. Thank you.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
You've done it again sir. Taken one for the team and suffered this so the rest of us don't have to 😁
I really did think that there were deleted scenes of Charles Dance from the real Goldeneye 😂
Phyllis Logan was the best Moneypenny there never was!
The actress who played his wife was in Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes show funnily enough.
"Mrs Hughes, why are involving yourself with that mountebank writer?"
She's also in Lovejoy which starred Ian McShane of Deadwood fame.
Happy July 4th Calvin from Boston MA USA.
A really fascinating video Calvin! I am always very greatful too you for these top rate videos.
James Bond should have decked Fleming and started yelling at him for being the reason he gets laughed at every time he tries to book a taxi or order a takeaway.
That would have been a MUCH better ending!
Tony Hawk (bare with me) said he's often had hotel bookings etc. cancelled on him because staff thought his name was added as a joke. Considering just HOW popular James Bond became, I can only imagine the author James Bond must have had a similar experience x1000.
@@kingofpointless I believe there was a Homer Simpson who sued Fox because he said the show ruined his life. Couldn't call anyone without them thinking he was a prank caller and hanging up. The show itself satirised the incident with the episode where Homer has to change his name to Max Power.
@@craigcharlesworth1538 Oh that poor guy.
I went to school with a guy named Will Smith his parents must have been evil he was born in the year the second season of Fresh Prince was out they knew what they were doing.
When I was a kid my childhood was scarred somewhat by the Charles Dance miniseries "First Born". He played a genius scientist obsessed with creating a human/ape hybrid. The last scene scared the crap out of me. Probably a load of old tosh now but blimey back in the day it was quite the thing to watch.
I first saw him in "White Mischief" and he was breathtaking.
I'VE NEVER CICKED ON SOMETHING AS FAST
- does the face-
7:42 I noticed Dance delivers this dialogue much like Daniel Craig would, coincidence I'm sure
Love your channel, Calvin. Thank you for digging out Bond related stuff i'd never know about.
My pleasure! And thank you very much!
@@calvindyson ❤❤
More like Fredrick Forsyth Presents than a serious biopic
If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, the James Bond Jr TV show beat Pierce Brosnan's movie to incorporating the name Goldeneye into the narrative. In the episode Ship of Terror, a Prince that Bond Jr guards wears a pendant called 'The Goldeneye'.
I remember seeing this dvd on my dads shelf, but have never seen it and after watching this I don’t think I want to 😂. I don’t know how you sat though it 🤣 definitely a good idea to start drinking.
IIRC, this was shown in syndication in the U.S., which included an introduction with George Lazenby.
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but I think the "wanting to meet you" line is meant as a sort-of joke with Fleming meaning 'his' James Bond. As always, excellent way of keeping a review of a weird piece of movie history nice and light-hearted Calvin!
20:05 - play this at my funeral
I remember sending a Link to you Calvin, about this on Patreon a while ago.
I really like this, it is brilliant, keep up the good work Calvin!!!
Thanks, Callum! Indeed I've been meaning to get around to making a video on this for some time and it was very unlike what I thought it was going to be!
I think you should review the Anthony Horowitz JB books, they are supposed to be very good and work well with Fleming's continuity (As do solo and devil may care).
Man, I always got stuck on the submarine level of Goldeneye C64. I was impressed at how the Commodore managed to capture the essence of the scene with the angry husband, though.
Great review Calvin!
This film seems to typify my dislike for biopics. I don't mind if a film focuses on one incident or theme, but condescending a whole life into a couple of hours like it's a Greatest hits album is just insipid. It's probably untrue, but I always thought the Fleming and Alastair Crowley relationship would be an interesting dramatisation.
You know Charles dance was in for your eyes only
Gotta love how this film about Ian Fleming constantly makes reference to the films based on his novels rather than his novels themselves.
Though one note, if they’d wanted to do some proper Ian Fleming style Bond movies, Charles Dance would have been perfect casting in the 90s. He just looks like it.
There was a 2015 release in Germany in modern quality when Spectre came out, this 1989 biopic is great, Dance is a perfect choice
Charles Dance is a seriously good actor, so that's a major plus point before I've even seen the thing.
We have something linking the two Goldeneye's! Both have the same Associate Producer, Anthony Waye, who previously was an Assistant Director on For Your Eyes Only (featuring Charles Dance) and Octopussy.
Fantastic!!! I want to see this. I love Charles Dance! What an actor!!
Would love him to play M.
@@davidjames579 yeah! But he's so good that he may upstage Bond!!
You had me as soon as the drinking game started ❤️
Hilarious Calvin... I've become a subscriber. Continued success!
Jesus you couldn't have gotten anyone better than Charles Dance to play Ian Fleming.
He's suave as f**k.
Yes, just with the right amount of menace...
7:20 ah yes I believe this is the Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes adaptation of Ian Fleming's life 😂
Okay I thought the man with the cat was David Lynch for a second.
Thanks for that. I totally agree that Charles Dance makes a perfect Ian Fleming. However, I feel no desire to ever seek out this particular production. 😁
I recorded on VHS, the original U.S. airing of this film which was hosted by George Lazenby. It included short commercial break segments with Maud Adams and Tanya Roberts. In addition, the title sequence was more Binder influenced on the US TV version. Wish I still had that tape. Oh, well. Weird film, though. I like it , but there are odd moments scattered throughout. For instance that odd bondage bit where Fleming is sporting a mustache.
great review
Thank you very much!
@@calvindyson are you going to review spy maker
Cristoph Waltz! Omg! And I've been to those bathhouses in Budapest!
Only just finding out now that you have Letterboxd. Look forward to following your reviews on there!
Great find mate!!!
Never heard of this. Great video.
Also this confirms Damian Lewis would be a great Bond 😜
Great video calvin keep it up! Also, has any of your opinions changed at all on your James Bond ranking video?
I weirdly remember this movie but only two distinct scenes and while watching this review it all coming flooding back to me! I was really young when I caught this on tv and the bit where the "inspiration to Moneypenny" get's killed in an explosion just walking down the street, which really confused me at the time "Wait is there a war going on?" and the second is the final scene where the real James Bond rolls up on Ian Fleming and is all, "It Me!" Like the dumb kid I was I genuinely that that this must have happened in real life. It's based on a true story after all! haha... thanks for reminding me of this weird movie I thought I dreamt.
Thx for the vid
Thank YOU for watching!
Could swear there was a special presentation with George Lazenby hosting.
Pretty decent movie about the life of Ian Fleming, and Charles Dance was perfect in the rol.
You should have taken a shot for the eye looking through the hole - recreating the For Your Eyes Only cover.
It's really cool to see the life Ian Fleming had lived being introduced in this movie
Now that's what I call an 'emerging from the sea' shot!!!
I know it's a TV movie, and compromises were made, but I'm still gonna to watch this. Great, boozy review!
Oh, that assassin scene was hilarious!!
Two Goldeneye movies by date: 1950s or 60s plus 1995. I love the 1995 movie better. What do you think?
Wasn’t operation mincemeat one of Flemmings operations and no mention?
Does Christoph Waltz give a better performance here or in Spectre?
Based on the clip here, I'd say Goldeneye is a better performance.
He was the best thing about Spectre though.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer You're the first person in history to say that!
@@MarvellousLookingBeggar I mean, I liked him.
I mean, maybe not the best thing. All the Q stuff is always good, and Bond telling the guy at the health place to tip his drink down the toilet to "cut out the middle man".
Calvin, I'm David Zaritksy's same age, and a life-long Bond fan, and I was born in England too, yet I'd never heard of this thing! You are plumbing the depths, sir! Well done. I adore your channel.
Thank you very much! Fleming biopics are like an odd little cottage industry all to themselves and I have a few more in the pipeline to look at soon! 😁😁
The Birds of the West Indies" author, James Bond, who Fleming took the name from, was interviewed and said he hated the books because everywhere he went then people would be all "Aaah! James Bond, wheeey!" I doubt he'd have wanted to meet Fleming, I'm almost certain if he had that it would be popular knowledge and even if he did I very much doubt he would have gone on some epic pilgrimage to break into Fleming's property and ask for his autograph.
Pointless bothering to point out flaws in this though really, as it seems the entire thing is basically nonsense. But just an extra note, the Walther PPK reference is another movie reference that had nothing to do with Fleming. He gave Bond a weird and very particular .25 Beretta that he had sawn the end of the barrel off, filed down the sights and swapped the gip plates for a bit of black tape. It was quite a few novels in when Major Boothroyd contacted Fleming to suggest Bond would more likely use something like the PPK, so Fleming bowed to the man's superior knowledge, created the character of Boothroyd in his name who, along with M, strip Bond of the dodgy little purse gun and issue him the PPK along with a Smith & Wesson revolver "for bigger jobs".
"Wren Lieutenant" was based on Muriel Wright, Fleming's girlfriend before Ann, as I recall, whom he apparently wanted to marry. The scene of her death in the movie is nothing like how she really died, though.
I saw it on VHS about 25 years ago and remember thinking it was pretty classy... but I think I was primarily comparing it to Spymaker. ;)
I saw this on transmission and all I remember was Charles Dance, the name, that the name was the house, the 1007 bit and then Fleming’s visit from James Bond the ornithologist at the end.
The reason I’m typing this is that I’m currently at the point of the video with the “assassin” leaping around his hotel room which - despite immediately following the 1007 bit and being ludicrous - never made its way into my long-term memory.
You should check out - if you haven't already - the adaptation of Gavin Maxwell's The Secret Servant. It stars Charles dance as SAS Major Harry Maxim who is brought in to help with a government protection detail and things go south from there!
It looks so bad but by heavens, I have to try and find a copy just for the cheese factor.
Some decent actors though.
''HA HA HA FOR THE PIGGLY WIGGLY!!''