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The theories of Bond films! Why did OddJob smash the car with the gold in GF?

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  • thedovethedove hiding in the Greek underworld
    Posts: 5,638
    Lets stay in the 60's and consider another action that a character took.

    Mr. Solo has decided to not join in on Operation Grand Slam. OddJob is tasked with driving him to the airport. But as all the other gangsters have been eliminated the same fate must happen to Solo too. OddJob uses a gun and kills Mr. Solo in the back seat of the car. Understanding that Goldfinger doesn't wish for dead bodies on his stud farm OddJob must dispose of the body. He promptly drives to a car wrecker and proceeds to smash the car and the gold bullion in the trunk.

    Why? Why not remove the gold from the trunk and then smush the car? Why a car wrecker at all? Does Goldfinger own the wreckers and they are following orders?

    So many questions here, would love to hear some theories on why OddJob smashes the car at the wreckers?

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited March 12 Posts: 14,905
    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    Homing bullet. SPECTRE have their own Q-Branch, you know.
    How bullets work. And "George".
    Crossroads
    Songwriters: Tom Waits / William S. Burroughs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHgqSCS6tY&list=RDUUHgqSCS6tY&start_radio=1

    Now, George was a good straight boy to begin with,
    but there was bad blood In him; someway
    he got into the magic bullets and that leads
    straight to Devil's work, just like marijuana leads to heroin;

    you think you can take Them bullets or leave 'em, do you?
    Just save a few for your bad days
    Well, now, we all have those bad days when you can't shoot for shit.
    The more of them magics you use,
    the more bad days you have without them

    So it comes down finally to all your days
    being bad without the bullets
    It's magics or nothing
    Time to stop chippying around and kidding yourself,
    Kid, you're hooked, heavy as lead

    And that's where old George found himself
    Out there at the crossroads
    Molding the Devil's bullets
    Now a man figures it's his bullets, so it will
    Hit what he wants to hit
    But it don't always work that way
    You see, some bullets is special for a single aim
    A certain stag, or a certain person
    And no matter where you are, that's where the bullet will end up
    And in the moment of aiming, the gun turns into a dowser's wand
    And point where the bullet wants to go
    ...
    I guess old George didn't rightly know what he's getting himself into
    The fit was on him and it carried him
    right to the crossroads

    Nice one @RichardTheBruce. Love me a bit of Tom Waits. A bit of 'What's He Building Down There?'; a bit of 'Downtown Train.' Don't think I'd heard Crossroads though.
    thedove wrote: »
    How did Mi6 arrange the "killing" of Bond in YOLT?
    Maybe they were all in on it. Even the shooters. Even the duck. More homing bullets, but these ones avoid Bond and hit the wall behind him.

    Oddjob just liked to crush things, be it cars or balls. But especially balls.

    Also known for crushing cats, between the chompers.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    Posts: 4,759
    I mean, Goldfinger could have just left Solo in the room as they were all going to be murdered anyway (for what I must say are unclear reasons, at least beyond being a script device to give us some exposition of the plan).
  • TripAcesTripAces Universal Exports
    Posts: 4,629
    thedove wrote: »
    Lets stay in the 60's and consider another action that a character took.

    Mr. Solo has decided to not join in on Operation Grand Slam. OddJob is tasked with driving him to the airport. But as all the other gangsters have been eliminated the same fate must happen to Solo too. OddJob uses a gun and kills Mr. Solo in the back seat of the car. Understanding that Goldfinger doesn't wish for dead bodies on his stud farm OddJob must dispose of the body. He promptly drives to a car wrecker and proceeds to smash the car and the gold bullion in the trunk.

    Why? Why not remove the gold from the trunk and then smush the car? Why a car wrecker at all? Does Goldfinger own the wreckers and they are following orders?

    So many questions here, would love to hear some theories on why OddJob smashes the car at the wreckers?


    The car (and the gold) are smashed into a cube and loaded in the back of an El Camino. That would be especially heavy...the El Camino's shocks and tires would not be able to deal with that load. In any case...I assumed Odd Job didn't want to be seen taking the gold out, not on the side of the road and not at the wreckers site. Given that gold melts at a lower temperature than steel and glass, all they had to do was heat the cube to the temperature that gold will melt and it will simply pour out and be easily collected...and well after Solo has turned to ash and withered away.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,173
    English as a second (and unspoken) language confused the original instructions.

    Plus to be fair Oddjob was distracted by something he saw back at the stud farm. Just couldn't get it out of his mind.


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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,905
    "Ahhh."

    Translation: "Just popping down to the scrapyard for a quick snack."
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