Fridge examples for Goldfinger.
Fridge Brilliance
- In the novel, Goldfinger describes Koreans as "the cruellest people in the world". Bear in mind that the book was written in 1958 and the Korean War was still fresh in people's minds.
- Doubled down when you realize that Korea had just gone through a series of horrifying regimes, including decades of colonialism under Imperial Japan only to be split between an dictatorial faux-republic in the South and something even worse in the North, with the North in particular attracting infamy for the atrocities its troops carried out during the Korean War. Add this to how Goldfinger is working with Red China and how Oddjob is likely from the North....
- Bond dispatches Oddjob the same way he kills the villain in the Action Prologue. As the villain goes to retrieve a weapon, Bond improvises and electrocutes them just in time.
- In the novel, Goldfinger actually robs Fort Knox, using the Cement Mixer gang to haul away the gold. In the film Bond points out that the gold is much to heavy to simply move and Goldfinger says he took 15 years to plan Operation Grand Slam. Goldfinger realized that the gold is too heavy to move so he took the time to secure a 'dirty nuke' for a If I Can't Have You… operation. Blow up and ruin the gold in the vaults to increase the value of his own holdings
