Was Goldfinger evil or misunderstood?

I first saw Goldfinger at age seven when it came out. Goldfinger, the character, terrified me and seemed, even at my tender years, the embodiment of evil. Nothing I have seen in the intervening half century has made me change that opinion. He shows absolutely no traces of kindness, empathy or humanity in this movie and in fact is a textbook psychopath. To him, murder, whether a huge section of the population, a roomful of gangsters or an individual soldier at point blank range, is a perfectly normal way of acquiring wealth, more wealth than he could ever possibly need.



I'm a Prick With a Fork.

Wow, I bet Goldfinger was really vexed when he learned that all his gangster guests had been gassed to death without his knowledge!




I'm a Prick With a Fork.

Well if his gold obsession's "misunderstood" then he should have explained his Fort Knox plans to the authorities more clearly and in greater detail. I'm sure they'd understood him eventually.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

And when I say "the tubby man in the movie", I mean the Caucasian one.



No Guru, No Method, No Teacher.

I think the OP is evil.

You took this from a Chuck episode.

He's quite mad, you know.