Notes on GoldenEye

[rfmcdonald]

• Note to self: Whenever I become hegemon of a declining paranoid superpower, make sure that I do not leave any dangerous weapons of mass destruction just lying around, ready for ambitious generals in one or more of the shatter-states to take over and use.



"Gosh, what did you do with the EMP-generating satellite in orbit?"
"Me? I thought you were decommissioning that satellite?"
::lights flicker::



• How on Earth did Natalya Semyonova manage to escape from Severnaya, in the middle of northern Siberia, to St. Petersburg, in the space of a few days with only the scanty clothes on her back in winter? And how did she know about the CIA's secret transmitters in New Zealand if she was just a second-level programmer?


• The events referred to by Alec Trevelyan--the betrayal of the Lientz Cossacks who had fought for the Nazis by the British, and their mass deportation to the Soviet Union where they were executed--really did happen. There were even suicides, just like those committed by Trevelyan's parents. Nikolai Tolstoy wrote a book on the deportations, by the Allies, of Soviet citizens in central Europe to their deaths in Stalin's Russia. It wasn't a good chapter in history.

A very good film, incidentally.