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Gold / View to a Kill

posted 15 years ago by jockledoodledoo
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Did anyone else think that Gold and View to a Kill, both obviously with Roger Moore, had several similarities? Namely, the obvious corrupt mine connection, the flood and then the black comrade (the bloke in Gold, and then Grace Jones in ...Kill) sacrificing themselves, at the end.

I would be very surprised had the writers of View to a Kill not had parts of Gold at the backs of their minds - also seeing as it is over ten years older, and Gold wasn't exactly a smash hit, they thought no one would notice....just a thought.

[–] s007davis 15 years ago

Indeed. I noticed the connection the first time I saw Gold. A View To A Kill's director John Glen had served as editor and 2nd unit director on Gold, so I'm sure he was somewhat "inspired" by the earlier film. A villainous plot to flood a South African gold mine and kill many working miners so its owners could make a killing in the gold market struck me as eerily prescient to AVTAK's villain's plan to flood the mines and kill his own men as part of his criminal scheme to make a killing in the microchip industry. I consider AVTAK the weakest of the Roger Moore Bond films but it would make a good double feature with Gold.

[–] vpilutis 13 years ago

Right when the wife and I saw it the title was just GOLD and BTW when we saw it it was by itself at this point the double feature was on its last legs.
However here in NYC and I guess maybe other cities when Never Say Never Again came out, some places had a double bill of "From Russian with Love" and Moonraker
both films have scenes in Venice.

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[–] christomacin (4529) 2 years ago

It seemed like a mashup of Goldfinger and Gold.