“Tomorrow Never Dies” is almost twice as long as “Goldfinger.” In this sequence James Bond is at a terrorist arms bazaar spying on the terrorists. Back at HQ an admiral sends a message to his ship asking its captain to send a missile into the terrorist arms bazaar. After the missile is launched James bond AKA Pierce Brosnan notices a plane with two nuclear missiles attached to it. James knows that if the missile hits, the nuclear missiles will blow up half the country as well. It’s too late to call off the missile so James attempts steal the nuclear missiles. He climbs in the plane and knocks out the man in the back seat. He flies off just as the missile hits. But he is being followed by a terrorist in another plane. The man in the back of James’s plane wakes up. He attempts to strangle James with a piece of wire. James’s plane disappears, as the man in the other plane looks for it James’s plane comes up from underneath. James pushes the ejector seat button for the man in the seat behind. The man flies through to the back seat of the other plane and it explodes. James Bond flies off saying, “Back Seat Driver.”
Seeing as James Bond is played by two different actors in each film, there has to be differences in the character. Sean Connery plays James Bond as a sleek womanising spy, but Pierce Brosnan plays the character as more of a spy than a womaniser. But even with both films having different actors starring as James Bond there are things of the character that are shown by both character, for example the wittiness of the character is evident by actors Sean Connery says “shocking,” because of two things one being the man he electrocuted in the bath and the other because a woman went against him and James Bond doesn’t have that happen often. Pierce Brosnan comes up with “backseat driver” because of the guy trying to kill him while he was flying the plane.
In each film women are shown differently. In “Goldfinger” the woman is shown purely as a sex symbol, but in “Tomorrow Never Dies” the woman “M” is an authority figure. The same is done with ethnic minorities. Again in “Goldfinger” there are no ethnic minorities playing major parts in the film. Whereas in “Tomorrow Never Dies there is a black man that has authority, he keeps in contact with James Bond and no one sees him as being just a black man he is seen as a person.
There is a major difference with the special effects in each film. “Goldfinger” has really got a harpoon being shot, an electrical fan in the bath and a bomb blowing up. In “Tomorrow Never Dies” the special effects are far greater it has, explosions, a missile being fired, planes, ejector seats and a lot more. The differences between the two films effects is mainly put down to the fact that “Goldfinger” was made over forty years ago and “Tomorrow Never Dies” only a few years ago. Technology has changed a lot in forty years and the budget on films when “Goldfinger” was made was a lot less than when “Tomorrow Never Dies” was made.
The as with special effects can be said with the camera work in “Goldfiger it is one camera following James Bond around. In “Tomorrow Never Dies” there are a number of different cameras, with James bond, at HQ and following the boat and its missile all using different angles.
With music there is a slight difference both sequences open with the same James Bond theme tune. In “Goldfinger” the music is quiet because James Bond is sneaking around a lot. “Tomorrow Never Dies” has loud music while James Bond is attacking the terrorist arms bazaar.
In conclusion the differences are mainly because of times the films were made was a lot more in “Tomorrow Never Dies than in “Goldfinger.” The effects have definitely changed due to improvements in technology. The roles of women and ethnic minorities have changed as in society (they are shown in more powerful roles). James himself has stayed practically the same suave sophisticated and a woman lover.
