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MI6 examines the anatomy, style and contents of the 'GoldenEye' title and credit sequence
"GoldenEye" marked the arrival of Daniel Kleinman as 007's latest title designer. Taking over from the legendary but aloof Maurice Binder would be no easy task. Kleinman had been called upon to produce the music video for "Licence To Kill", which accompanied 007's 16th adventure of the same name. Producers of the upcoming Bond film were impressed with his work and hired him for "GoldenEye".
Kleinman set about harnessing the motifs of a fallen Soviet Union, which had collapsed in the late 1980s but formally dissolved in 1991. After fading out on the explosion at a Soviet chemical weapons factory and rolling into a gun barrel that announces this is an Albert R. Broccoli presentation, the titles start to show off the obligatory silhouetted dancing girls as the principal cast are named.
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The iconic Communist hammer and sickle soon takes precedence, oversized with more glamorous ladies walking on the sickle blade. A sequence that foreshadows the location at which Alec Trevelyan and James Bond are reunited shows degradated statues of once-great men, Lenin included. A janus-faced lady smokes a cigar in one mouth and a handgun grotesquely emerges from the other mouth. Girls stand poised on the barrels of guns and others, armed with hammers, beat at the rock formations, sickles and fallen statues to complete the sequence.
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GoldenEye - Title Credits PIERCE BROSNAN as GoldenEye starring TCHEKY KARYO ALAN CUMMING DESMOND LLEWELYN and Associate Producer Financial Controller Assistant Director GERRY GAVIGAN Production Manager PHILIP KOHLER Location Production Managers Makeup Supervisor LINDA DEVETTA Supervising Art Director Set Decorator Construction Coordinator Property Master Model Unit Art Director Modeller Head of Department Main Title Designed by Visual Effects Photography PAUL WILSON Stunt Coordinator Casting Special Effects Supervisor Miniature Effects Supervisor Second Unit Director Second Unit Cameraman Additional Unit Directed and Photographed by Costume Designer Editor Director of Photography Production Designer Music by 'GOLDENEYE' Executive Producer Screenplay by Story by Produced by Directed by
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