Title Sequences: GoldenEye

13th March 2013

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.

 

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.

 


GoldenEye - Title Credits
ALBERT R. BROCCOLI
presents

PIERCE BROSNAN

as
IAN FLEMING's
JAMES BOND
007
in

GoldenEye

starring
SEAN BEAN
IZABELLA SCORUPCO
FAMKE JANSSEN
JOE DON BAKER
ROBBIE COLTRANE

TCHEKY KARYO
GOTTFRIED JOHN

ALAN CUMMING
MICHAEL KITCHEN
SERENA GORDON

DESMOND LLEWELYN
SAMANTHA BOND

and
JUDI DENCH
as 'M'

Associate Producer
ANTHONY WAYE

Financial Controller
DOUGLAS NOAKES

Assistant Director GERRY GAVIGAN
Camera Operator ROGER PEARCE
Sound Recordist DAVID JOHN
Script Supervisor JUNE RANDALL
Electrical Supervisor TERRY POTTER
Second United Assistant Director TERRY MADDEN

Production Manager PHILIP KOHLER
Unit Manager IRIS ROSE

Location Production Managers
SERGE TOUBOUL
VALERY YERMOLAEV
ELLEN GORDON
LEONARD GMÜR
STEPHAN ZÜRCHER

Makeup Supervisor LINDA DEVETTA
Hairdressing Supervisor COLIN JAMISON
Wardrobe Supervisor JOHN SCOTT
Stills Photographer KEITH HAMSHERE
Publicity and Marketing GORDON ARNELL
Car Chase Stunts REMY JULIENNE

Supervising Art Director
NEIL LAMONT

Set Decorator
MICHAEL FORD

Construction Coordinator
TONY GRAYSMARK

Property Master
BARRY WILKINSON

Model Unit Art Director
MICHAEL LAMONT

Modeller Head of Department
BRAIN SMITHIES

Main Title Designed by
DANIEL KLEINMAN

Visual Effects Photography PAUL WILSON
Supervising Sound Editor JIM SHIELDS

Stunt Coordinator
SIMON CRANE

Casting
DEBBIE McWILLIAMS

Special Effects Supervisor
CHRIS CORBOULD

Miniature Effects Supervisor
DEREK MEDDINGS

Second Unit Director
IAN SHARP

Second Unit Cameraman
HARVEY HARRISON

Additional Unit Directed and Photographed by
ARTHUR WOOSTER

Costume Designer
LINDY HEMMING

Editor
TERRY RAWLINGS

Director of Photography
PHIL MEHEUX

Production Designer
PETER LAMONT

Music by
ERIC SERRA

'GOLDENEYE'
Performed by TINA TURNER
Written by BONO and THE EDGE
Produced by NELLEE HOOPER

Executive Producer
TOM PEVSNER

Screenplay by
JEFFREY CAINE and BRUCE FEIRSTEIN

Story by
MICHAEL FRANCE

Produced by
MICHAEL G. WILSON and BARBARA BROCCOLI

Directed by
MARTIN CAMPBELL

 

 

MI6 Commentary
As the last outing that Cubby Broccoli would live to see released, this title sequence is the last to open in this fashion, future sequences begin "Albert R. Broccoli's EON PRODUCTIONS Presents".

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The film's logo starts to be incorporated into the title sequence. Previously the font of the title simply matched the rest of the credits.

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"GoldenEye" marked the first appearance of Michael Kitchen as Tanner, although curiously he is not billed with his MI6 colleagues, Moneypenny and Q.

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Robert Brown, who previously played "M" was not credited as such in the titles of the Timothy Dalton adventures, although this treatment did extend to the original "M", Bernard Lee.

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Remy Julienne previously drove for and coordinated "Licence To Kill", "The Living Daylights", "A View To A Kill", "Octopussy", and "For Your Eyes Only". The Bond films were among his only English language productions and the driver spoke little to no English.

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Production design and art direction on the Bond films has regularly included several generations of Lamonts. Peter, arguably the most well-known, designed for 007 between "For Your Eyes Only" and "Casino Royale", but had been in the art department much longer. His brother Michael and son Neil also worked on "GoldenEye".

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Having served as a stunt double for Timothy Dalton in "Licence To Kill", Simon Crane returned to the 007 franchise for his first Bond as Coordinator.

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Shortly after completing his work on "GoldenEye" the legendary special effects and miniature effects supervisor, Derek Meddings, passed away after suffering from cancer. This would be his last ever film credit.

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Before signing David Arnold, and with John Barry focusing non-soundtrack projects, the Bond franchise turned to French composer Eric Serra. He had credits on a dozen or so films with "Léon: The Professional" bringing him to the attention of the English-speaking film industry.

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Michael France was initially given the task of penning Bond's latest adventure, then it was handed on to Jeffery Caine, who Barbara Broccoli had worked with beyond Bond. The original France draft captured the basic story but lacked the classic Bond elements.

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