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As the second unit worked on the Tank chase on the Leavesden backlot in early May, the main unit filmed the climactic fight between Bond and Trevelyan on an interior mock-up of the Arecibo antenna dish starting on May 10, 1995. Director Martin Campbell wanted to pay homage to the brutal Sean Connery-Robert Shaw fight in From Russia With Love (1963), although the resulting Pierce Brosnan-Sean Bean punch-up fell foul of the US censor and alternate less-bloody shots were used in the final edit. Other violent shots from fight scenes featuring Famke Janssen were also toned down. The climactic fight sequence was completed with a combination of green-screen filming and enhanced with digital effects supervised by Mara Bryan. A total of 140 digital effects shots were used on GoldenEye (1995). Pierce Brosnan’s last day of filming was June 1, 1995, and principal photography wrapped on June 6th, although a handful of additional scenes were shot over the following week. Veteran British editor Terry Rawlings (1933-2019) had already got to work on assembling the footage into an unfinished print which was previewed at the ODEON Wimbledon on July 19, 1995. The screening was also attended by executives from the US and UK distributors. |
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The incomplete ‘first cut’ was met with a favourable reaction by the focus group comprising 548 audience members aged between 14 and 49, with many response cards comparing Pierce Brosnan with Sean Connery. EON Productions, and their new UK distributor United International Pictures, pulled out all the stops with an unprecedented advertising campaign reminding audiences that although the world had changed in the six-years since the last James Bond film was released, a new 007 was about to make his debut. The marketplace was flooded with special trailers, teaser posters and TV advertising. “You know the name. You know the number” played on audience familiarity with the character, but the new campaign also carried the tag-line “No Limits. No Fears. No Substitutes.” as if to cast aside memories of the action heroes who had taken Bond's place in the years the character was absent from the screen. Like Roger Moore before him, Pierce Brosnan appeared in early teaser trailers, and broke the fourth wall by directly addressing the audience with the words “You were expecting someone else?” |
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Post-production continued ahead of the scheduled New York World Premiere, with French composer Eric Serra who had enjoyed huge success with his scores for the films of Luc Besson, brought on board to score GoldenEye after John Barry declined to return to the franchise. For the title song British Rock band The Rolling Stones also turned down EON Productions, and instead the Producers turned to U2 band members Bono and The Edge to write the main theme. Legendary performer Tina Turner agreed to sing ‘GoldenEye’ and the song became a chart hit in Europe and reached number ten in the UK ahead of the film’s release. For the orchestral score Eric Serra produced a more electronic modern-sounding avant-garde soundtrack than had been used in previous Bond films. It met with mixed reviews from film critics and fans. While Serra's score was seen by some as highly innovative and in keeping with Pierce Brosnan’s more modern portrayal of 007, many highlighted the lack of the classic, instantly recognizable Bond leitmotif originally created by Monty Norman and John Barry. The producers later hired British composer John Altman to re-score the tank chase sequence, which incorporated a more traditional arrangement of ‘The James Bond Theme’. Serra’s original version of ‘A Pleasant Drive in St. Petersburg’ was retained for the original soundtrack album. Eric Serra also wrote and performed ‘The Experience of Love’ heard over the end credits, which was another controversial choice that divided fans. |
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With the death of long-time Main Title designer Maurice Binder in 1991, the Producers remembered the work of Daniel Kleinman, who had provided “Binder-esque” visuals to accompany Gladys Knight’s music video for ‘Licence To Kill’ in 1987. Kleinman was hired to design the Main Titles for GoldenEye which perfectly blended with Tina Turner’s vocals to create a new but familiar look to open the film. The Soviet iconography and Cold War themes give audiences a foretaste of the storyline in the same way Maurice Binder often used plot devices in his titles. Kleinman also took the opportunity to redesign the traditional Gun Barrel sequence (originally created by Binder), which was enhanced with computer generated imagery to give a more three-dimensional effect as the reflections within the barrel create movement, and give a much smoother look than the composited elements combined with an optical printer. |
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