What was the point of that? Odd Job had shot him so why not just dispose of the body. Makes more sense to take the body to a crusher, crush the whole car then drive it back to the ranch on a pick up truck where they can get their Gold back from the crushed lump!
DOH! No wonder Bond always beats these dimwits lol!
Keef, trying to make sense out of chaos!
They got away with the murder, so who are you to complain about it? This scene has NOTHING to do with the defeat of Goldfinger by Bond.
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
This scene has NOTHING to do with the defeat of Goldfinger by Bond.
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It also has nothing to do with common sense!
Keef, trying to make sense out of chaos!
...with the gold in it and then have to take the block apart to get the gold which was also smashed.
Also, it's obvious that there was no body in the car when it was dropped in the crusher.
Like many of the plot devices, it seems to exist so Bond can learn about it. Otherwise, he'd believe that the CIA would follow the homing device and get his note. This way he now knows he failed.
shareI'm still trying to figure out the OP's correlation between Oddjob taking the car to get it crushed and Goldfinger being defeated by Bond.
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
This made no sense. Why not simply remove the gold before the car was crushed. Furthermore why even bother driving across town at all, it would have made more sense for Goldfinger to tell Solo to wait a moment while he got the gold, then step out of the room and gas Solo like the rest of the gangsters.
Not to mention the fact that they somehow dropped a 5,000lb Lincoln into the back of a little Falcon Rancharo. That whole scene was a predecessor to the absent minded writing of many 007 movies to come.
shareWhy not simply remove the gold before the car was crushedIt WAS removed before the car was crushed. In the car crushing scene, the trunk pops open to show that it's empty. No gold there, not even a papier mache block of something filling the trunk. An empty trunk.
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Get over it and get a clue already. The OP is simply referring to Goldfinger's bizarre methodologies, a lack of intellect, and how it COULD lead to further mistakes, not a DIRECT correlation between the car crushing and the defeat of Operation Grandslam.
NOT that difficult to understand.
You realize if a real body was crushed in a car along with gold bars there would be a bloody mess oozing out of that bale when it came out. But to address your question, I think it was done because Solo was a mafia guy, so he got a mafia-type execution. But yes, as one earlier poster said, it let Bond know his message didn't get through to the CIA.
"Klaatu barada nikto"
"What was the point of that?"
Because it looked cool. That's the motivation behind just about anything in a Bond movie. If there is a mundane way of doing something and a cool way, the producers will always opt for the cool way.
You've got to understand that when Goldfinger orders these jobs done, 1/3 of the time there is gold in the teeth of the victim, which will more than make up for the fee of crushing the car and seperating the Gold later, if his scheme gets pulled off.
You have spunk! I hate spunk!
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How was Solo planning on boarding a plane with $1M in gold bars? (I know, I know, another plot hole...)
sharePeople actually complained because the thought it was a nice car.
shareAlso with crushing there should have been gasoline, coolant, transmission fluid, rear end oil with radiator, gas tank, etc. being ruptured. Bed of Ranchero was dry as a bone. All four tires on Ranchero should have blown with excess weight of Lincoln, but that's another story.
shareYeah, people weren't complaining about that. They were complaining at seeing the American dream get destroyed.
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