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5 unusual facts about Goldeneye


IBM ThinkPad Butterfly keyboard

An IBM Thinkpad 701 is briefly seen being used by James Bond in the film GoldenEye.

Judith Halberstam

To illustrate a cultural mechanism of subordinating alternative masculinities, Halberstam brings up James Bond and Goldeneye as an example, noting that gender performance in this film is far from what is traditional: M is the character who “most convincingly performs masculinity,” Bond can only perform masculinity through his suave clothing and gadgets, and Q can be read “as a perfect model of the interpenetration of queer and dominant regimes.”

Omega Seamaster

An Omega Seamaster typically has a stainless steel case and bracelet (Bond style with Omega symbol clasp), screw-in crown and caseback, engraved with the Omega hippocampus logo, up to 1200-metre water resistant, phosphorescent hands, unidirectional bezel, blue, silver or black dial with orange accents, sapphire crystal (anti-reflective) and helium release valve.

Rare Ltd.

Rare gained more international recognition with the release of GoldenEye 007, a Nintendo 64 first-person shooter based on the film GoldenEye that is often credited for having revolutionized the genre.

The Juvenile

It was originally written in 1995, as the proposed theme song to the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, but Arista Records pulled the band out of the project.


Alek Wek

She first received attention when she appeared in the music video for "GoldenEye" by Tina Turner, in 1995 and from there entered the world of fashion as one of its top models.

Bungee jumping

Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect).

Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani

In the chapter "Goldeneye" from the book "Travels with myself" (from Tahir Shah), the author narrates a visit to Saud's home and his magnificent art collection.

TimeSplitters

In February 1999, several members of the GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark development team — including David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate — left Rare Ltd. to form their own company based in Nottingham, England called Free Radical Design.


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