JAMES BOND 007 MAGAZINE | MAIN TITLE MAN

*The following part of the interview took place while viewing the GoldenEye* credit titles...**
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...in order to get that change in the reflections as he walks in we re-did this so it's all a bit crisper. This is 3D animation coming down the tunnel, just trying to start with a bang.
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This sort of opening bit I was trying to think of all the colours of the titles - You Only Live Twice which was the volcano... Feel his breath - I had to make that... smoke of the gun coming out of her mouth.
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Was that cigarette smoke she held in her mouth?
Yes, she had to hold it there for ages, poor girl, but she smoked quite heavily so... This is all just starting with the Communist images, the fall of Communism. Obviously before the title sequence is in the height of Communism and after the title sequence it's 9 years later, so I wanted you to feel this is the Soviet regime crumbling and falling to bits.
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The girls were all superimposed they're not actually in the mask at all that's completely shot separately.
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All these flags get blown away - each one, each flag, each girl is shot individually, each gun is shot individually and the smoke separately, so there are probably 15 or 20 images there.
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Now this is the Soviet regime brought to its knees, by girls in lingerie. The girls were shot separately. The statues were all built, they were quite big actually.
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This image is my favourite one, it sums up Communism destroying itself from within - the hammer and sickle, and the hammer is smashing the sickle to pieces with the eye in the background and turns into the gun and the eye is the satellite which destroys the... and you get shot out of the dream world and into reality. The other things about working on the computer screen is that as the little girls that climb out of the destroyed mask come out of the mouth on the screen, here they're a quarter of an inch tall, but when they're projected they're bigger than life size and its something you have to bear in mind when you're doing it that it's very small, minute detail.

The storyboard sequence for the GoldenEye main titles


1. We take over the explosion in the final shot of the pre title sequence	2. The ball of fire follows us as we pull away down a dark tube	3. We come out of the end of the tube

4. The tube is revealed to be a gun barrel	5. The ball of flame bursts from the end	6. A bullet suddenly bursts through the ball of flame and comes towards us at great speed

7. We whip pan around	8. The bullet flies away from us	9. It disappears into darkness

10. A liquid explosion of colour reveals women in silhouette. One has golden eyes. We track past them	11. The sculptural women are reflected on a surface	12. A woman's head turns. She twists a cigar in her mouth

13. Bond enters in silhouette	14. Bond fires his own gun the woman exhales smoke	15. The image seamlessly becomes a reflection in a golden eye

16. The eye blinks	17. Bond is now reflected in the eye	18. The eye turns red

19. The red is a billowing flag that blows away	20. The flag reveals a large silhouette graphic woman	21. As we pan away the woman turns towards us and opens her eyes.

22. Billowing Soviet flags enter	23. The flag blows away	24. Soviet stars and Soviet imagery fall They tear the flags

25. Soviet sickles enter	26. Sickle and stars fall	27. A man's figure follows a woman around the sickle

28. A giant Soviet star falls through the frame	29. We cut to the star crashing to the ground and track to a landscape of broken Soviet imagery	30. Women create graphic shapes on the stars, the shape of a girls face reveals a golden tear

31. Another large Soviet star wipes through the frame...	32. ...revealing a liquid explosion of colour	33. The explosion seamlessly becomes an eye

34. The eye has a clock reflected in it counting down to zero	35. The eye fades to a dark colour	36. A gunshot fires a slow ball of flame which lights up the shapes of women

37. Another gunshot	38. Creates smoke	39. Through the smoke a giant Soviet statue emerges

40. There are many statues with small figures on them	41. One statue falls	42. We cut to it crashing to the ground A hollow bronze Soviet head is in the foreground

43. Women's silhouettes climb through the eyes and mouth	44. A gold laser light blazes through the eye of the statue	45. It reveals a woman's head with a red glowing mouth

46. The head turns, it has two faces and the glowing mouth was a cigar	47. The woman removes the cigar and opens her mouth as a guns come out	48. They fire, the smoke is a female form

49. The smoke drifts upwards	50. Large heads appear	51. Guns float upwards

52. Women emerge from the gun barrels	53. The guns wipe through frame	54. A giant foot steps in

55. A tank rolls past the foot	56. We track to women demolishing something	57. Cut wide to see a landscape of broken statues

58. We track from the statues	59. A lone tank exists on the horizon	60. The horizon becomes the slit of a giant golden eye that opens

61. The eye becomes the barrel of a gun that comes towards us	62. We travel down the gun barrel at speed	63. We exit into the main film, a shot speeding down a road...