Why is it that Goldfinger feels more dated,

Why is it that Goldfinger feels more dated, Jun 21, 2017 4:11:49 GMT Salzmank likes this

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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 21, 2017 4:11:49 GMT

Jun 20, 2017 20:21:48 GMT Salzmank said:

@joetorrence

I agree completely with mikef6 on the "dated" question, but one reason you may feel that, Joe, is that From Russia with Love is more of a general "spy story" than Goldfinger, which is more specifically "Bondian." That is to say, if you had any spy in FRwL, it would still work. (And I don't mean that as a criticism: the book is my favorite of the Bond books, and I think the movie is the best Bond movie.) As this website put it:

Remove Blofeld and SPECTRE, and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE would simply be a spy story about an English agent trying to steal a Russian decoder.

Thus FRwL may be, in effect, more generally timeless, whereas Goldfinger is bound by its time and place--and its series. (Not my reaction to the films, but perhaps a reason why...)

FRWL is my #27 all time. I think its 007 dna does add tangible intrigue, involving characters & lexicon on a macro scale.
Having said all that, I wasn't alive to discover it during its initial run. I dug around the franchise & discovered the earlier ones were finer films. I might've seen FRWL after 6-7 later Bond movies, thereby retroactively graphing its dna & whatnot into the Instanbul spy yarn.