Is the title of The Man With the Golden Gun deliberately deceptive, or is something missing from the adaptation?
In 'Goldfinger' Auric Goldfinger is last seen shooting at James Bond with a golden pistol.
However, the villain in the later film, 'The Man With the Golden Gun', is not Goldfinger as might have been implied by the title.
I don't know if the title was deliberately, and misleadingly, hinting that Goldfinger was back in the later film or hinting at a connection between the two books that was cut from one or both of the films?
Which is it?
Best Answer
I don't believe there was any intended deception.
The films were adapted from two separate novels with those respective titles, which had two distinct villains. For Goldfinger, they chose to simplify the details of 'Operation Grand Slam' including not involving the Mafia and the Spangled Mob that Scaramanga worked for. Goldfinger and Scaramanga both wield gold-plated guns, but they are distinctly different weapons.
Scaramanga is the one known for killing with a golden gun, while Goldfinger, in the movie, simply has one because of this themeing.
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Answer 2
The title is a deliberate riff on The Man With The Golden Arm . I don't think there was ever any intent to tie it back to Auric G, but rather to create an "in-joke" in the title. Fleming did seem to have a 'thing' for gold here and there in his novels in general.
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