Influence & homage

In the Richard Maibaum script, the primary villain was to be Goldfinger's twin brother, back for revenge. When Tom Mankiewicz came on board, the storyline changed, influenced by a dream of Cubby Broccoli's. Broccoli dreamt that he'd gone to visit his old friend Howard Hughes, but when he called out Hughes's name, the man who turned around was a total stranger. Using that idea as a launching point, the producers decided to bring back Bond's arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is impersonating a Howard Hughes-type industrialist.

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This was with kind of the ambient lighting. He said, you know, we don't really need any. And of course, when you look around down in that place when they were doing the car chase, there's still crowds of people watching. There's nothing you could really do about it. The part of the chase scene that takes place in the parking lot was filmed at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Director Guy Hamilton remembers the inspiration for the parking lot sequence.

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The tunnel which Wint and Kidd drive through was inspired by a real location, as Guy Hamilton recalls. Yes, Hoover Dam. It was a tunnel at Hoover Dam which I had a look at. Obviously, that was a possible Bondian set that we never found anything interesting to do with Hoover Dam, but we used that, then built a little bit of set here just to release them back into the desert.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Obviously, Johnny Fontane was inspired by a kind of Frank Sinatra characters. And my impressions of the young Frank Sinatra was of, you know, girls screaming when he crooned. And so I had the teenagers jumping up and down and screaming while the scene was going on. But again, I remind you that the shot of Al and the shot of Kay were shot at night and just lit to match with the party. Gordon did a very

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Francis Ford Coppola

culminates in his massacre at the toll gates and you know it's no secret that this scene really was inspired by Arthur Penn and his wonderful movie Bonnie and Clyde at the end of that film when Bonnie and Clyde are are killed and I'm a big admirer of Arthur Penn and you know as my dad used to say steal from the best and

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Nick Pinkerton

homage, Douglas Sirk's 1955 film Captain Lightfoot, an adventure movie concerning early 19th century highwaymen in the foothills near Dublin, Ireland, starring Rock Hudson as Michael Martin, a.k.a. Lightfoot, and Jeff Morrow as John Doherty, same name as the Eastwood character here, a.k.a. Captain Thunderbolt. The source material was a book by W.R. Burnett, though Martin lore had a real historical basis. Michael Martin

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Nick Pinkerton

Grilling him is Rhode Island-raised soul singer Claudia Lennear, a former Ikette who was on the road with Ike and Tina Turner. She was apparently the inspiration for both the Rolling Stones' 1971 Brown Sugar and David Bowie's 1973 The Lady Grinning Soul. And in the year after the release of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot appeared in a Playboy pictorial titled Brown Sugar, her lone solo album, Phew!,

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The sound man is right at Warren's feet there, you know. Right. With the mic, directional mic. So, you know, he's crouched underneath the overhang of the dashboard. And I'm there somewhere. I'm in that car. Coming up is my homage to Hitchcock, which is the kind of, you know, foreboding...

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Dr. Gerd Naumann

And of course that was much more strongly influenced by the last Tango by Bertolucci than by Nachbottier.

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which is a 19th century mansion that sort of overlooks the Hudson in a neighborhood called Riverdale. Probably the inspiration for Riverdale on the Archie Comics universe. But yeah, they used Wave Hill as the interiors for Gracie Mansion, which I didn't know, and I was very surprised. But Riverdale is a neighborhood in the north...

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He takes his time. He does some thinking. This scene I also like very much. This odd hallway in Pernštejn Castle. It is very unusual to see black on black in the darkness like this. The networks would not accept something like that anymore. The movie lives through the interaction of light and darkness. For this, the scene by Murnau was recreated identically. For example, the way the vampire holds his hands was copied almost exactly. There are some very clear references to Murnau where I quote him directly. And that is the case here? I don't remember exactly. I would not call this a remake but an homage to Murnau. For me he was much more important than Fritz Lang.

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This next sequence coming up, which we called the Space Gate or Stargate Room at the time, it was kind of an homage of mine to one of my favorite pictures, of course, which was 2001. Me too. It was a great picture and probably what got me into filmmaking. And I always wanted to duplicate that effect of the glowing walls. And so...

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